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Irrfan Khan's Second Death Anniversary: Babil Khan Reminisces His Father And Pens An Emotional Note
- Bollywood’s iconic actor Irrfan Khan passed away in 2020 on this day and thus, his son Babil penned an emotional note reminiscing him!
- Even Pankaj Tripathi also spoke to the media and said that he misses Irrfan a lot!
The sudden demise of Irrfan Khan two years ago left many Bollywood actors and fans go shocked. He breathed his last on 29th April, 2020 as he was suffering from a rare disease. On the occasion of his second death anniversary, his son Babil Khan turned emotional and left a heartfelt post on his Instagram page…
Babil shared a throwback vacay pic of his father Irrfan and wrote, "Dear baba,
I'm trying to remember that perfume you wore, when we travelled north to watch lights dance in Norway. I remember exactly, the feeling of your smell, but I can't remember the materialism of it. I remember the sensation on my fingertips when you spread my palms to tell my fortunes but it frightens me to forget your playful pinch on my nostrils. I have begged, and I have cried to the heavens, to let not my body forget yet; for my soul is not ready to forfeit. I am not ready to move on, and I am alright with the idea that possibly I will never be, we were never governed by logic.
You and I, singular and cosmic.
Everything is, and yet it is not;
You're a perfect teardrop in my asylum.
I was mindful and yet I forgot,
my intonations of violence.
You still breathe, in my thoughts;
and our institutions of madness.
I miss that, what I fought;
your explorations of silence.
A creation of yours,
Babil".
Even Pankaj Tripathi also remembered Irrfan Khan on this special day and spoke to the media… He started off by saying, "Every actor from our generation, almost every actor, has been inspired by Irrfan. I get emotional every time I'm asked to talk about him. I'm not able to talk a lot about him."
He also added, "Be it for craft, intellect, on screen and off-screen behaviour, how to view acting, he has inspired everyone immensely. When he acted, it made us take note of how he did it. He was breaking the formula. I have only watched Irrfan's films."
Well, Irrfan Khan is always remembered and he will always stay alive in the hearts of the audience. He breathed his last on 29th April, 2020 battling with a neuroendocrine tumour. | https://www.thehansindia.com/cinema/bollywood/irrfan-khans-second-death-anniversary-babil-khan-reminisces-his-father-and-pens-an-emotional-note-740350 | 2022-04-29T13:40:20Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/cinema/bollywood/irrfan-khans-second-death-anniversary-babil-khan-reminisces-his-father-and-pens-an-emotional-note-740350 | true |
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Among the scathing findings of an investigation launched after the police killing of George Floyd is that Minneapolis police used covert or bogus social media accounts to monitor Black individuals and groups despite having no clear public safety rationale for doing so.
The report released Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights echoes numerous past revelations that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have — sometimes illegally — secretly surveilled prominent people and communities of color even though they weren’t involved in any criminal activity.
Overall, the two-year investigation found that the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least a decade, including stopping and arresting Black people at a higher rate than white people, more frequent use of force on people of color and a department culture that tolerated racist language.
Regarding social media, it spotlighted departmental abuses turned up in a review spanning activity between 2010 and 2020.
Officers used “covert, or fake” accounts to seek and gain access to the online profiles of Black individuals including an unnamed City Council member and a state elected official, the report said, as well as groups such as the Minneapolis NAACP and Urban League. The activity included friend requests, comments on posts, private messages and participation in discussions.
“When doing so, officers posed as like-minded individuals and claimed, for example, that they met the targeted person at a prior demonstration or protest,” the report said.
The report acknowledged that law enforcement can have legitimate reasons for tracking social media “if a clear investigative purpose to advance public safety exists,” and if clear procedures and accountability mechanisms are in place.
But Minneapolis police fell well short of those standards, investigators determined, improperly using the accounts “to surveil and engage Black individuals, Black organizations, and elected officials unrelated to criminal activity, without a public safety objective.”
The report doesn’t include enough details to support criminal charges against any specific officers or lawsuits by individuals who were targeted, but some observers say it seems likely the Human Rights Department has other information from the investigation that a lawyer could use to try to build a case.
Spokesman Taylor Putz said the agency was unable to release any information beyond what’s in the report because the case is still considered open while it works with the city to address the problems it identified.
Minneapolis police spokesman Howie Padilla said his department was still digesting the document and declined further comment.
Via Twitter, the Minneapolis NAACP expressed dismay over having spent years working with police to try to address problems “only for MPD to continue to stall efforts and turn around and surveil us.”
Andrew Ferguson, a law professor and expert on police technology and surveillance at American University, said that of the many examples of misconduct outlined in the report, “the abuse of social media raises a red flag for all police departments.”
“What is happening in Minnesota is happening in many jurisdictions, because there are few rules in place and no accountability,” Ferguson said. “Police rummage though social media without limits, turning our digital lives into sources of surveillance. It might feel less violent than some of the other police misconduct, but it is still violative and wrong.”
For Diala Shamas, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, the revelations are echoes of a covert FBI program from the 1950s to early ’70s, known as Cointelpro, that illegally conducted surveillance and sabotage against civil rights groups and other organizations, sowing paranoia, distrust and violence. Targets included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panthers, Malcolm X and many others.
The police actions in Minneapolis, Shamas said, amount to “Cointelpro tactics with a modern twist.”
Law enforcement agencies across the country have been using social media surveillance for years, however. A 2016 survey by the Urban Institute and the International Association of Chiefs of Police found that 70% of departments mined social networks during investigations.
But the rules governing how they do so are often opaque, vague or not a matter of public record.
In a study last year of every U.S. jurisdiction with at least 100,000 people, researchers at the Brennan Center for Justice found just 35 police departments had publicly available policies that in some way addressed the use of social media for collecting information. Of those, 15 had language setting some limits on undercover or covert online activity. But several were vague or set a low bar for authorization, simply requiring supervisor approval.
“I would say that very few if any of the policies really gave detailed, robust limitations on the use of undercover accounts,” said Rachel Levinson-Waldman, deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program.
Police misuse of social media has been uncovered in departments beyond Minneapolis, she noted.
In Tennessee, a lawsuit by the state chapter of the ACLU exposed the use of covert Facebook accounts by Memphis officers to target activists of color and community justice advocates. A federal judge determined that violated a longstanding consent decree barring the department from infringing on activities protected by the First Amendment.
And in California, the Brennan Center obtained records showing that third-party social media monitoring companies had pitched their services to the Los Angeles Police Department, including the ability to create furtive accounts for officers. While the city requires approval for some undercover online activity, Levinson-Waldman said, there are exceptions such as for threat assessments that allow officers to sidestep real oversight or accountability.
Facebook and its parent company warned both departments they had violated terms of service, she added. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter all have policies prohibiting the use of their data for surveillance, and Facebook’s guidelines for law enforcement specifically prohibit fake accounts.
Shamas, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said covert surveillance like that practiced in Minneapolis and elsewhere can have serious and chilling effects.
“The idea that you don’t know that the person you’re liaising with is undercover or an informant means you’re going to be less likely to explore new ideas for strategies and campaigns,” she said, “all the things that are important for a democratic society.”
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Associated Press reporters Doug Glass in Minneapolis and Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, contributed to this report. | https://www.wane.com/news/report-calls-out-abuse-of-social-media-by-minneapolis-police/ | 2022-04-29T13:42:10Z | https://www.wane.com/news/report-calls-out-abuse-of-social-media-by-minneapolis-police/ | false |
What are the best gifts for mothers who love crossword puzzles?
Are you trying to think of a gift that shows your mother how much you care? While that’s a nearly impossible task, moms will love anything that comes from the heart. However, that doesn’t mean you should wait until the last minute and grab a card from your local grocery store.
If your mother loves crossword puzzles, getting a related gift will demonstrate that you know her well. So whether she’s a crossword puzzle enthusiast or enjoys relaxing while completing her daily puzzle, here are the 10 best gifts for mothers who love crossword puzzles.
Tips for choosing a Mother’s Day gift
Choose your budget
While you can’t put a price on the love you have for your mother, she wouldn’t want you spending all of your money on her gift. So even though you think she deserves an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii, it’s the thought that counts.
Setting a budget will help you narrow down potential gift ideas and ensure you’re being financially responsible. Also, remember not to stress about what you can or cannot afford. After all, Mother’s Day isn’t about fancy things — it’s about being together.
Personal touch
Is your mom sentimental? Does she still have the handprint ornament you made for Mother’s Day in kindergarten? If so, you might consider a homemade gift, such as creating your own crossword puzzle. If you’re not crafty, a gift with a personal note is also a great touch. However, don’t be afraid of practical gifts. Many moms appreciate a useful gift.
Combine her interests
The best Mother’s Day gift is something that shows you’re thinking about her specifically, whether it’s homemade or store-bought. For example, if your mom likes crossword puzzles and reading, getting her a Kindle pre-downloaded with a book full of crossword puzzles is a great way to demonstrate that you pay attention to her interests. If she is competitive when it comes to her crossword puzzle, she might like a puzzle game that will give her a challenge.
Best gifts for mothers who love crossword puzzles
The Million Word Crossword Dictionary
With over one million words, this crossword dictionary will help her become a crossword puzzle pro. It includes slang terms, literary works, films, automobile models and famous people from all fields.
Sold by Amazon
Make sure your mom is comfortable while doing her daily crossword puzzle. This pillow measures 18 inches high by 15 inches wide and features two side pockets to keep a phone, a pen, glasses or remote control at your fingertips.
Sold by Amazon
“Curious History of the Crossword: 100 Puzzles from Then and Now”
Those who appreciate history will fall in love with this book that explores the past 100 years of the crossword puzzle (starting in 1913). Every chapter compares crossword puzzles from then to now and includes challenging puzzles.
Sold by Amazon
The Unemployed Philosophers Guild Crossword Puzzle Coffee Mug
Mothers who enjoy completing their crossword puzzle while drinking a steaming cup of coffee need this coffee mug and pencil. Plus, new puzzles are being added all the time, so you can wash off the old answers and begin a new puzzle.
Sold by Amazon
This custom crossword puzzle is ideal for sentimental moms. You get to choose a theme, the difficulty level and any words you want to be included, such as your mom’s favorite place, family names or occasions.
Sold by Etsy
Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light
If she’s too busy during the day to find time to complete the crossword puzzle, this neck reading light will help her finish it at night without disturbing anyone. It has three color temperatures and three brightness levels.
Sold by Amazon
This heated blanket will ensure she stays warm whether she’s doing the crossword puzzle or snuggling up to watch a movie. It features 10 heat settings and a 12-hour automatic shut-off to avoid overheating.
Sold by Amazon
Customizable Family Name Scrabble Wall Tiles
Mothers and grandmothers who appreciate a personal touch will love the thought put into this gift. The letters are carved and hand painted into actual wood tiles, so you know they will last for years.
Sold by Etsy
Royal Craft Wood Luxury Bathtub Caddy Tray
Whether she likes to do her crossword puzzle while relaxing in the bathtub or enjoys a nice soak now and then, this bathtub tray ensures she has everything she needs. It’s adjustable to fit your bathtub and made from sustainable premium bamboo.
Sold by Amazon
While these bookmarks are small, they’re one of the sweetest gifts for a mom who loves crossword puzzles. Plus, you can customize it with your favorite word or phrase.
Sold by Etsy
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Which Elf cosmetics are best?
With a full range of low-cost alternatives that give more expensive premium brands a run for their money, choosing the best Elf cosmetics can be a challenge. From longwear lipsticks to a wide range of eyeshadows, to everything you need to prep your skin, Elf Cosmetics has it all.
If you’re looking for the most popular Elf product no makeup bag should be without, Elf Cosmetics Poreless Putty Primer is the top choice.
What to know before you buy Elf cosmetics
Your makeup habits
Do you like to dab on a bit of color and go? Or do you prefer to put on a “full face,” complete with primer and setting spray? Do you put on makeup every day, or only for special occasions? Do you like having the go-tos you know look good on your skin, or do you need variety so you can be ready for any mood? Knowing your makeup habits will help you focus on the items that will help you achieve your preferred look with ease.
The occasion
Are you buying Elf cosmetics for everyday wear or for a special date with a promising someone? Is it formal or casual? Whether you want an everyday staple or an eye-catching lipstick that will put all eyes on you, knowing where you intend to wear your new cosmetics will help you focus on the right ones.
Length of wear
If you’re planning your look for a special event such as a prom or a wedding, you’ll want to pay special care to whether the cosmetic you’re looking at has extended-wear properties. This is particularly important in lipsticks. Because we talk, eat and inadvertently touch our fingers to our lips, lipstick is the cosmetic that wears off fastest. So be sure to look for a longwear option for those days and nights when you need the look to last.
What to look for in a quality Elf cosmetic
Versatility
If you’re packing light for a quick weekend trip, you’ll want cosmetics that will do double duty, like a sheer lipstick that can also be used to add a dab of color to cheeks or browbone, or a pore putty that will take the place of foundation and eye primer.
Sheer or highly pigmented
If you like a lighter wash of color on your face, Elf offers a great range of sheer colors in eyeshadows, lipsticks and blushes to liven up your look without being too heavy. If you like a more dramatic smoky eye or a bold lip for evening, they’ve got you covered as well.
Matte or shimmer
Daytime looks lend themselves well to softer mattes that emphasize your features. Opt for shimmery shades for an evening glow or a fun summery vibe.
How much you can expect to spend on Elf cosmetics
One of the key draws of Elf cosmetics is that they provide a full range of options for far less than you’d pay for prestige department-store brands, and even some drugstore brands. Their offerings range between $5-$20.
Elf cosmetics FAQ
Are Elf cosmetics safe?
A. Although Elf is known for its low-cost offerings, that doesn’t mean it skimps on quality. The company says it makes its cosmetics with nontoxic ingredients. What’s more, its formulas are cruelty-free, vegan and include some of the cleanest ingredients in cosmetics today.
Are Elf cosmetics fragrance-free?
A. If you’re sensitive to fragrances and other irritants, Elf has offerings for you. While not all of its cosmetics are fragrance-free, its Pure Skin line is. All Elf cosmetics are also free of sulfates, parabens and phthalates, common irritants found in many other brands.
What does E.L.F. stand for?
A. While you might think the company’s name is a whimsical nod to magical creatures, its initials stand for Eyes, Lips and Face. Despite this, it did once dabble in nail polishes, but those have been discontinued.
What are the best Elf cosmetics to buy?
Top Elf cosmetic
Elf Cosmetics Poreless Putty Primer
What you need to know: One of the most versatile items in Elf’s collection, this primer leaves your skin a smooth canvas for whatever you want to put on it next.
What you’ll love: In a pinch, this primer gives your skin a smooth glow that may let you forgo foundation for a casual day out. It feels smooth and light on skin and blurs many imperfections.
What you should consider: While it melts in to match many skin tones, it can look ashy on darker skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
Top Elf cosmetic for the money
What you need to know: This versatile, sheer lip color can double as cheek color in a pinch.
What you’ll love: The fresh color is non-oily, despite its name, and feels lightweight and moisturizing on the lips.
What you should consider: It comes in two colors, but both are unmistakably pastel, so if you’re looking for a more dramatic lip look, this won’t do the trick.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Elf Cosmetics Bite-Size Eyeshadow Palette, Cream & Sugar
What you need to know: Tiny and easy to pack, this will become your go-to when you need an eyeshadow palette that can travel anywhere.
What you’ll love: The array of shades gives you a crease color that can double as an eyeliner, plus a brow highlighter and some shimmer for your lid. It has everything you need for a complete eye look.
What you should consider: This is highly pigmented, so a little goes a long way.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
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Which lip stains are best?
Lip stains, those sheer longwear alternatives to lipstick, have been around for a while. But they recently came into their own for an unexpected reason: face masks. As any lipstick-wearing person can attest, putting on lipstick and then a mask can ruin your mask. Lip stains, on the other hand, provide the color of a lipstick with none of the smudge. Their easy low-maintenance application helps you put some color on your lips with a minimum of fuss.
If you’re looking for a longwear lip stain that makes your lips look great, Ulta Weightless Water Lip Stain is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a lip stain
Whether you want to wear lip stain on its own or pair it with lipstick
Lip stain, as the name suggests, creates a long-term “stain” on your lips, a wash of color that doesn’t come off like lipstick does as you drink or eat. For this reason, you can pair it with lipstick to create a base that makes lipstick appear to last longer. If you want to use lip stain this way, be sure to buy a well-matched lipstick, so that as your lipstick fades the stain looks natural under it. If you want to wear lip stain on its own, there’s no need to color-match it.
Your skin tone
As with any other lip color, the choice of color should be matched to your skin tone. Cooler skin tones look great in pinks and other cool colors, while warmer tones look great in warm reds and corals.
The condition of your lips
Because lip stains are basically an enhancement of your natural lips and are sheer, you’ll want to apply them only on well-exfoliated lips with no dead skin flakes or chapped spots. Take some time to gently scrub away any dry skin and apply lip balm the night before you apply a lip stain. A lip mask can also be a great idea.
Your preferred method of application
Lip stains come with a variety of applicators, such as a roll-on — a marker-like applicator you can use to draw it onto your lips — or a traditional sponge tip. Roll-ons can be fun and easy to control, while sponge tips and markers make precision application easier.
What to look for in a quality lip stain
Moisturizing ingredients
Just because lip stains aren’t overtly moisturizing (as lip glosses tend to be), that doesn’t mean they don’t contain hydrating ingredients. Look on the label for items such as squalene, coconut oil or apricot kernel oil.
Matte or shiny
While lip stains are never fully shiny (or else they would be lip gloss), there is some variation among them. Some go on shiny and fade to a tint over several hours. Others go on matte and stay that way. If you prefer a shiny look, you can can pair your lip stain with a clear gloss. The stain provides long-lasting color, while the gloss gives you that pouty shine.
Versatility
Some lip stains are formulated for use on other parts of your face, like cheeks and brow bones. If you want to travel light and carry fewer products, choose a lip stain that multitasks. Be aware, though, that just as it lasts for a long time on your lips, it will do the same on other parts of your face — so be careful about applying it smoothly and evenly.
How much you can expect to spend on lip stains
Lip stains range from $15-$20. Since lip stains are a relatively recent trend, there aren’t a lot of drugstore options at the moment. Expect that to change as word of their ease of use spreads and their popularity grows.
Lip stain FAQ
Do I need to use a different technique for applying lip stain vs. lipstick or gloss?
A. One key difference between lip stain and other lip products you may have worn in the past is that lip stain dries much more quickly. That means you have to work fast and be precise. The good news is that since it’s sheer, it’s easy to go over any spots you missed to even out your lines. Once it dries, it’s one even wash of color that lasts all day.
What’s the difference between lip stain and lip tint?
A. Both operate from a similar idea: color that lasts all day. Lip stains are more pigmented, and thus more noticeable. Lip tints are sheerer and closer to mimicking lips’ natural colors. While lip stains come in natural shades, they are also available in vivid reds, plums and browns.
What’s the best lip stain to buy?
Top lip stain
Ulta Weightless Water Lip Stain
What you need to know: This full-coverage, smooth lip stain from a premium department-store brand offers moisture and deep color.
What you’ll love: This show-stopping color is gorgeous, just the right balance between the brown and red that make up maroon.
What you should consider: You may need to reapply more frequently than you’d expect for a lipstick this pigmented.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
Top lip stain for the money
ColourPop Sonic Blooms Glossy Lip Stain
What you need to know: If you’re not sure whether lip stains are for you, this low-cost option is a great way to try one out.
What you’ll love: This cruelty-free color goes on shiny and stays glossier than the average lip stain, for all-day color with some sheen.
What you should consider: Many of the shades in this line are bright colors, some with pink undertones, so swatch them on your skin at the store before deciding if you like the look.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
Worth checking out
Yves Saint Laurent Tatouage Couture Liquid Matte Lip Stain
What you need to know: This upscale brand delivers intense color that lasts.
What you’ll love: Made in an array of stunning shades, this goes on smooth with a unique applicator that makes controlling the lip stain a breeze.
What you should consider: It has a strong aroma most consider pleasant, but if you’re sensitive to smells, test it before deciding.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
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High energy prices in the UK have led to the worst cost-of-living increases in decades— with economists warning inflation could breach 10% this year. Households faced a record energy bill spike of 54% at the beginning of April and are set to rise again in October. Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants more nuclear power generation. This is a right way to go – but it may be too little, too late, and too expensive to solve the immediate crisis.
While the Conservative Party has been reeling over Johnson’s recent fine after breaching pandemic restrictions and a Cabinet Office investigation into Downing Street leadership, it should not overlook high energy costs. They have both political and strategic meanings.
Energy prices began to rise last year after natural gas prices reached record highs across Europe. Russia limiting its gas exports to the EU and overall supply lag after pandemic easing led to increasing energy bills.
These factors impact the UK acutely because it relies heavily on natural gas to meet its energy needs, having fewer renewables and nuclear power generation than many EU countries. The country myopically closed its largest gas storage facility five years ago, leaving it with only twelve days’ worth of supply. Consequently, it is more dependent on purchasing gas through “spot markets,” which are more volatile in price and recently reflected exorbitant demand and high prices.
Electricity price hikes sent consumer prices skyrocketing. Prices of many goods, including clothing and furniture, rose at a double-digit rate. Manufacturers may further increase prices due to rising production costs. While price hikes for many households more than doubled, the increase for commercial premises and industries has been even higher. Experts warn that British households may face the steepest decline in living standards ever as real income shrinks at the sharpest rate since the 1950s.
In an attempt to remedy high energy prices, the government has proposed several solutions. Johnson unveiled a new energy security strategy to increase the UK’s energy independence and decrease its vulnerability to volatile energy markets. He committed the country to increasing offshore wind and nuclear power over the next several decades, alongside producing oil and gas domestically from new projects in the North Sea.
Notably, the strategy aims to increase the UK’s nuclear capacity with a target of 24 gigawatts by 2050— enough electricity to meet 25% of the country’s needs. Most of the UK’s nuclear fleet was decommissioned after decades of underinvestment. Currently, five out of the six existing reactors in the country are expected to be retired within a decade. The government plans to build up to eight new reactors on existing sites: one a year instead of once a decade.
The only new plant under construction presently is in South West England. Hinkley Point C, developed by French company EDF, is expected to be completed in 2026 and cost up to £23billion. The plant will use two EPR reactors— a third-generation design.
Wylfa in north Wales will likely be another site for a new power station. Previously, Horizon Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of Japanese company Hitachi, suspended its work at the site in Anglesey in 2019. The government is now speaking with two US companies, Bechtel and Westinghouse, both interested in building a plant there. Additionally, Rolls-Royce also sees construction at Wyfla as an opportunity to install its small modular reactors (SMRs). Last month, the company submitted its designs for review and is expecting approval by 2024. Each reactor is estimated to cost around £1.8 billion.
Despite plans to press ahead with nuclear power, there are reservations, even among Johnson’s own cabinet. Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is reportedly concerned about the cost of expanding the UK’s nuclear fleet during a period of high inflation. The government has already set aside hundreds of millions of pounds for new projects. The funding model being proposed by some developers is a government-led one where initial public funds attract further investors. Despite the Sunak’s misgivings, the Prime Minister has gone ahead with his push for nuclear.
The plan to boost nuclear is also coming under fire as a solution to current high costs, and for good reason. The increased share of nuclear energy is laudable, its emissions-free and highly reliable, but it is a long-term fix. According to the government’s assessment, it takes 13 to 17 years to complete a new nuclear plant project. And capital expenses for such projects are out of control as metals and other raw materials become more costly every day. To his credit, the PM himself admitted that nuclear energy is a long-term solution.
Regardless, prices continue to rise, and so should the Prime Minister’s worries. A recent YouGov poll revealed that 76% think he is mismanaging his response to inflation. He is not alone. Joe Biden’s popularity is plummeting as prices go up in the US. Johnson’s government is expected to introduce new energy legislation in the Queen’s speech on May 10th. Johnson is wise to boost the UK’s reliance on nuclear power, and support for it should be in new bills, but it offers little reprieve for today’s toxic cost-of-living crisis.
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Aviva Pinto is a CDFA, CDS and Managing Director and Wealth Manager at Wealthspire Advisors.
If you’re heading toward divorce, you probably know that you need an attorney to guide you through the many legal questions. But what about someone to guide you through the financial questions? If you weren’t the one handling the finances in the family, a certified divorce financial analyst (CDFA) can be an addition to your divorce team to help you navigate key questions and ensure an equitable settlement.
What does a CDFA do?
A CDFA is a specialist financial advisor who focuses on helping divorcing individuals create a financial plan. CDFAs will draw on knowledge of divorce and tax law, asset distribution and financial planning to understand the financial implications of the various ways of distributing marital assets in a divorce. They generally work hand in hand with your divorce attorney to pursue the best possible financial settlement in a divorce.
What are the qualifications?
Those taking the CDFA exam are required to have spent a number of years in finance, accounting or law. Since divorce is so emotionally fraught, the most successful CDFAs also have some knowledge of psychology and have a lot of compassion and empathy.
What can a CDFA do for a divorcing client?
A number of issues come up in a divorce that could impact your long-term financial future. A CDFA can help you and your matrimonial attorney evaluate marital support (aka alimony) and child support, determine what is personal property and what are marital assets, determine the current and future values of retirement funds, pension plans, stock options and private company shares, and evaluate the tax ramification of various settlement alternatives. They also take into consideration inflation, as well as your future health care needs, living needs, goals and wishes.
What’s the process of working with a CDFA?
A CDFA can add value in each of the three stages of divorce:
Stage One: One of the parties decides they want a divorce. At this stage, the CDFA will review your assets to understand what is owned jointly (and will be split) and what is owned by one party (such as a trust fund, inherited assets or assets titled in one person’s name only). They will also closely examine investment accounts, savings and checking accounts, real estate, retirement accounts, pension accounts, insurance policies, expected social security, future inheritances, art, jewelry, cars, valuables, as well as your expenses and any debt.
Stage Two: Filing for divorce. Once you have retained a divorce attorney, you’ll need to fill out and file a statement of net worth. At this stage, a CDFA can pull all the information collected above and look at the information filled in by the other partner. They can then help evaluate if there are hidden assets, tax implications, what an equitable settlement would be, what assets are more important to keep or give up, what the post-divorce lifestyle will look like, all based on both parties’ income, assets, liabilities and budget.
Stage Three: Divorce stipulation. In the final stage, the divorce stipulation is signed by the court, officially declaring the marriage to be over and spelling out the details of the settlement—who gets what, including custody of minor children, who pays marital support, who pays child support and the amounts they pay. A CDFA then works with the divorced spouse on a new budget, financial plan and invests the proceeds of the settlement.
One of the most valuable services a CDFA provides is to help create a realistic picture of what life will look like after divorce. Many people going through a divorce do not think about what it means that the resources that had been supporting one household now have to support two. Depending on the income and assets of the divorcing couple, maintaining the same lifestyle post-divorce may not be achievable. In that case, a CDFA can help determine a realistic budget and show the client whether they will have to earn more, go back to work, cut back on expenses or downsize.
Can I afford a CDFA in my divorce?
The divorce process is expensive. Some CDFA’s charge an hourly fee like an attorney. Others have a flat rate charge for their services. Others, like the wealth managers at Wealthspire, that work for a registered investment advisor (RIA) are only paid a percentage of assets under management if you invest with them after your divorce settlement. If you are not the one that handled the finances in a marriage, it is sometimes costlier not to hire a professional to help you. Mistakes in marriage settlements occur far too often if one person has the upper hand because the other is not well versed in the couple’s financial details. A CDFA can help you obtain the fairest division of assets and manage your expectation for what a court will decide if the divorce proceeds to trial.
You can find a CDFA by looking at the CDFA directory or at the National Association of Divorce Professionals website. Make sure you interview a few and find one that suits your temperament and understands what you need.
The information provided here is not investment, tax or financial advice. You should consult with a licensed professional for advice concerning your specific situation.
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Warren Buffett stands as one of history's most successful investors, and he's dispensed plenty of quotable wisdom in his decades of guiding Berkshire Hathaway to incredible returns. Perhaps his single-most-quoted bit of investing advice is that it pays to "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."
With uncertainty roiling the market recently, there's no shortage of companies that have seen their valuations slashed precipitously from previous highs. However, one company in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio stands apart as a particularly terrible performer as of late. Read on to see why Warren Buffett's worst-performing stock since the beginning of 2021 actually looks like a smart buy right now.
This beaten-down fintech has been Berkshire's biggest loser
StoneCo (NASDAQ: STNE) is a Brazil-based fintech that provides payment processing and credit services, mainly to merchants. While the stock enjoyed a run of success following its initial public offering in 2018, conditions have changed dramatically since the beginning of last year. Shares have gotten crushed due to a combination of inflation, other macroeconomic headwinds, and regulatory changes implemented by Brazil's government, basically cratering the company's credit business.
StoneCo's share price is down roughly 90% from its high, and the company is facing some big challenges. The chart below tracks StoneCo's legacy credit portfolio and its estimated fair value in Brazilian reals from the first quarter of 2021 through the first month of its current fiscal year.
StoneCo has managed to sell some distressed portions of its credit portfolio, but management still estimates that more than half its legacy portfolio is bad. Due to new regulatory standards, the company has suspended lending to small- and medium-sized businesses and, ultimately, could be on the hook for somewhere in the range of 450 million Brazilian reals (roughly $90 million) worth of loans that wind up not being repaid.
Down, but not out
StoneCo's credit segment is in bad shape. On the other hand, its payment-processing business has continued to onboard new merchant partners and increase total payment volume (TPV) at an encouraging clip. The charts below track StoneCo's merchant payments customers, TPV on its platform, and revenue over its past two years.
While StoneCo is still getting a small payment-volume boost from Brazil's coronavirus stimulus program, overall TPV has grown at an impressive clip over the past year, and growth looks even more impressive if contribution from the program is backed out. Even better, the total-active-client count for its payment-processing ecosystem more than tripled year over year (YOY) in last year's fourth quarter.
The company has also made a push into the enterprise and human-resource management software business with its acquisition of Linx. Revenue from Linx rose 17.7% YOY in the fourth quarter, and software services revenue outside the unit rose roughly 82% to push total software segment revenue up 26.4% YOY. Through a combination of synergies with Stone Financial Platform, integration of other software services with Linx, and increased discipline with expense management, the company sees the software segment's margins climbing substantially this year.
StoneCo's credit business clearly isn't in great shape, and the company is on track to take a significant write-down on bad loans. On the other hand, its payment-processing and enterprise software segments still have strong growth potential, and the stock looks conservatively valued at present.
StoneCo is cheap and could benefit from big trends
With roughly 215 million people, Brazil is Latin America's most populous country and largest economy. While Brazil has seen rapidly increasing adoption of e-commerce and card- and mobile-based payments in recent years, overall adoption for these services remains in the early stages compared to the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
After a precipitous sell-off, StoneCo now has a market capitalization of roughly $3 billion and is valued at approximately 1.6 times this year's expected sales and 26.5 times this year's expected earnings. With the shift to card- and app-based payments and the rise of e-commerce still heating up in Brazil and Latin America at large, this beaten-down fintech stock may have big upside at current prices.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s former economic development minister, the country’s highest-ranking official to be jailed in nearly two decades, has been granted parole after serving more than half of an eight-year sentence on a bribery conviction, Russian officials confirmed Friday.
Alexei Ulyukayev filed a petition for early release after serving more than five years. A court in the Tver region, some 140 kilometers northwest of Moscow, granted him parole on Wednesday, court officials told the Interfax news agency.
Ulyukayev may be released from prison as soon as mid-May, the officials said, if no appeal against the parole ruling is filed.
The former minister was detained in 2016 at the headquarters of Russia’s largest oil producer, state-owned Rosneft, after a sting operation by Russia’s main intelligence agency. Prosecutors say he accepted a $2 million bribe from Rosneft’s influential CEO, Igor Sechin, for giving the company the green light to privatize another oil firm.
The circumstances of the case sparked speculation that Ulyukayev was caught in a Kremlin power play involving Sechin, a longtime associate of President Vladimir Putin.
Ulyukaev went to Sechin’s office in November 2016 to discuss Rosneft’s affairs, and was arrested as he was leaving the building with a bag full of cash that Sechin had given him. Ulyukayev told the court that he thought the bag contained a bottle of wine and a basket filled with sausages.
In tapes played in court during the trial, Sechin was heard telling Ulyukayev to take the bag with the sausage. Russian media reported that Sechin has a tradition of gifting people baskets of sausages from his own butcher’s shop.
Shortly after the arrest, Ulyukaev was dismissed from his post. He has maintained his innocence throughout the trial and insisted Sechin had set him up. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/russian-ex-minister-jailed-for-bribery-granted-parole/ | 2022-04-29T13:51:12Z | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/russian-ex-minister-jailed-for-bribery-granted-parole/ | true |
KABUL (REUTERS) - A powerful blast hit a mosque in western Kabul during prayers on Friday (April 29), killing at least 10 and wounding 15, officials said, amidst a spate of attacks on Afghan places of worship and civilian targets during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.
Mr Besmullah Habib, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the blast had hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in western Kabul at around 2pm local time (1000 GMT).
One man, who was inside the mosque at the time, told Reuters a huge blast tore through the building during prayers, the explosion burning his feet and hands.
Mr Mohammad Sabir, a resident in the area, said he had seen people being loaded into ambulances after the explosion.
"The blast was very loud, I thought my eardrums were cracked," he said.
A nurse at a nearby hospital who declined to be named said they had received several injured people in critical condition from the attack.
Scores of Afghan civilians have been killed in recent weeks in blasts, some of which have been claimed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group.
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers say they have secured the country since taking power in August and largely eliminated ISIS's local offshoot, but international officials and analysts say the risk of a resurgence in militancy remains.
Many of the attacks have targeted the Shi'ite religious minority. However, Sunni mosques have also been attacked.
Bombs exploded aboard two passenger vans carrying Shi'ite Muslims in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, killing at least nine people.
Last Friday, a blast tore through a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers in the city of Kunduz, killing 33 people.
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe makes Chelsea takeover bid
Last updated on .From the section Chelsea
British billionaire businessman Sir Jim Ratcliffe has made a late bid of £4.25bn to buy Chelsea.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich put the club up for sale before he was sanctioned for his alleged links to Russian president Vladimir Putin following the invasion of Ukraine.
Three bidders were in the running to buy Chelsea for about £2.5bn.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said on Thursday that time was running out to complete the sale.
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Make 10 months internship compulsory for graduates, Jagan directs officials
Chief Minister also proposes to bring all government degree colleges under one university
Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has called upon the officials of the Higher Education Department to strive to increase the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) to beyond 80%. He also proposed to bring all government degree colleges under one university to add value to the degree courses.
Addressing a review meeting on higher education on Friday, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that the Jagananna Vidya Deevena and Vasathi Deevena schemes were being implemented on a saturation basis for the benefit of poor students in order to realise the GER goal.
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy ordered that internship for 10 months be made compulsory for graduates in order to make them worthy of being selected by prospective employers.
Communication skills
He said new courses that would equip the youth with skills required by the industries should be introduced and emphasis laid on improving the communication skills. Besides, he ordered that priority be given to imparting coaching for GRE and GMAT.
The Chief Minister advised the officials to also focus on getting the girl children educated, especially in the western parts of Kurnool and Chittoor and Prakasam districts.
He suggested that four or five universities in the State be chosen for the sake of developing them on a par with the country’s best institutions.
He said that each Assembly constituency should have a degree college, and top priority should be given to improving the standards of graduate courses and the skills of the students.
Nod for filling vacancies
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy gave the green signal for filling of teaching staff vacancies in the colleges, and insisted that there be no recommendations in the process of recruitment.
The establishment of IIITs in Ongole and Srikakulam should be completed at the earliest, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said.
Education Minister B. Satyanarayana, Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma, Principal Secretary (Higher Education) J. Syamala Rao, and State Council of Higher Education Chairman K. Hemachandra Reddy were among those present.
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. — The Gallery Sportsman Club and Range offers a restaurant and lounge within a firing range complex opens in Colorado.
The business features a restaurant, gun range, coffee bar, training center, and retail store.
Co-founders Megan Hymanson and David Grasa said they began thinking about starting this business years ago.
“We were at a friend's birthday party about two-and-a-half years ago, and we were at a shooting range. We didn't have the best experience and afterwards, we wanted a place to go have some drinks, have some food, but had to head all the way down the road,” Grasa said. “We just saw a spot in the market for it.”
Hymanson and Grasa said potential customers may be thinking: Alcohol and firearms don’t mix.
Hymanson said safeguards are in place.
“You surrender your ID to use the range, you get a badge that will allow you into the range. When you're done with the range, you get your ID returned to you,” Hymanson said.
The ID is also scanned to get a drink at the bar, before or after using the gun range. Hymanson said once a customer (or someone at the customer’s table) purchases an alcoholic beverage, that customer will be locked out of the range for 24 hours.
“It was a lot of work to build this place and we don't want to risk anybody’s safety,” Hymanson said.
The Gallery Sportsman Club has also partnered with mental health professionals who plan to use the business’s training center.
“Jefferson Center for Mental Health will be offering mental health first aid here,” Hymanson said. The Center will also provide suicide prevention training, a course Hymanson said all Gallery Sportsman Club employees have completed.
Hymanson said the reality is, people from all walks of life buy and try firearms.
“It doesn't need to be a political sport, it doesn't need to be only one type of person can shoot,” Hymanson said. “Maybe not everybody has a place where they feel comfortable that they can learn and get trained but they can do that here.”
Hymanson and Grasa said the Gallery Sportsman Club will offer memberships and discounts to first responders and essential workers.
Customers can also purchase hunting and fishing licenses from the business.
This story was first reported by Micah Smith at KMGH in Denver. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/gun-range-and-restaurant-concept-opens-under-one-roof-in-colorado | 2022-04-29T14:15:53Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/gun-range-and-restaurant-concept-opens-under-one-roof-in-colorado | true |
Move over Hollywood award shows: The highlight of men’s fashion this year was the NFL red carpet Thursday night. Las Vegas had no shortage of bright-colored suits, fresh kicks, and oh so much bling.
With no real fashion crimes to speak of, the only peccadillos were athletes playing it safe at an event that is now known almost as much for the surprise suit linings as it has for the hope these bright-eyed athletes will bring to their teams.
Still, in fashion, like in the NFL itself, there are winners and then everyone else. Here are some of our favorites and those we liked less
The winner? Color, color, color
Honestly, what a breath of fresh air to see men have fun with a color other than black.
But it was former Cincinnati cornerback Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner, drafted by the New York Jets with the fourth overall pick, who went above and beyond in this category. His powder blue suit with navy blue pick stitching was only topped by the inner lining, which appeared to feature images of Gardner’s own face in a video uploaded by Cincinnati.
Gardner’s accessories included not one, but two diamond-encrusted necklaces that paid homage to his nickname and some grillz. Shoes? Spiked and with a metallic sheen, obviously.
Though Georgia Linebacker Nakobe Dean, may not have been drafted Thursday, make no mistake, he was one of the best dressed. All blush everything was the theme of his attire. White Alexander McQueen sneakers with a blush accent in the back complemented his blush suit.
But the devil is in the details. Dean spruced up his suit with a white harness. Why? Because, of course.
“Nobody really doing the harness so I was like, I’ll try it out,” he told a reporter. It worked.
Dean said a dark caramel-colored wide brim hat with a blush band “put an exclamation point on the suit.”
To top it all off, his suit opened to lining that had #WBTG stitched inside for “will be the greatest.”
We agree.
Not falling behind were players like Jameson Williams, the Alabama receiver drafted by the Detroit Lions.
Williams made a bold statement with a handpicked red suit complemented with a crisp white shirt, white sneakers with red trim, and a diamond necklace with a dollar sign emblem.
“I chose white for [my parents] because it was a celebration,” he told a reporter. “But red is just my favorite color.”
A family man, we love to see it.
Finally, Ohio State’s Garrett Wilson, who went to the Jets, ditched the drab gray suit of yesterday for a Prada gray and white, color block number. He paired his modern outfit with three strings of pearls and black, military-style boots.
A night for accent colors, risks, and patterns
Listen, in this informal red carpet review, we’ll be rewarding the risk-takers and Eagles. Fashion is subjective and we (it’s just me) see the world through Kelly Green-colored glasses.
That said, one of the most controversial suits was worn by Jordan Davis, the defensive tackle from Georgia, and now-Eagle with the 13th pick in the draft.
One internet user said his black suit with red angular stripe made Davis look like a G.H. Mumm champagne bottle, another said he looked like a Red Stripe bottle. And while these are objectively fair comparisons, the suit, along with the matching red bow tie and pocket square are growing on me. Besides, he’s already said he’d be happy to change it to green. Go birds!
Ikem “Ickey” Ekwnu’s white suit with white floral details that could be missed from afar was also rather polarizing without some context. Mainly, people weren’t quite sure what to make of the green and white striped accents along the lapel and sleeves. No, he wasn’t going to the Jets as some had postured, the suit was a nod to his Nigerian ancestry. He added a chain that bore his nickname. No notes.
Make no mistake, Oregon edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux came very close to wearing your run-of-the-mill red carpet Dolce and Gabbana black suit and bow tie with shiny dress shoes “straight in from Italy.” But some ruby stones put the now-New York Giant above the pack.
New York Jet Jermaine Johnson said he didn’t have a “linear journey” to the NFL and he made sure he captured that when crafting his suit with Gentleman’s Playbook designer Tom Marchitelli, whose creations have been worn by athletes in the NFL and beyond.
The silky yellow jacket with a black floral pattern had the logos of his high school team, junior college team, Georgia, and his final stop, Florida State sewn inside.
The look was capped with a black shirt, pants, and velvet loafers.
We’re not mad, just disappointed
These suits aren’t bad by any means and in some cases still better than so many celebrities. But with so many of their peers stepping it up, we would have liked more pizzazz from these players and others.
Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson was dressed in a silky black patterned suit that made him look like a crooner ready to take up a Vegas residency singing Sinatra’s greatest hits before heading to the Detroit Lions. (He did include dog tags that paid homage to his grandfather and we loved that.)
A similar critique can be lobbed against Washington cornerback Kyler Gordon, who remains in the green room, opted for a patterned gray blazer with a silky black lapel that harkened a bygone era.
And while Notre Dame safety Kyle Hamiton looked amazing in his blue striped suit, he could also be confused for a hedge fund guy about to close what we’re sure would be a very big deal before making his way to the Baltimore Ravens. | https://www.inquirer.com/news/best-2022-nfl-draft-suits-fits-20220429.html | 2022-04-29T14:18:49Z | https://www.inquirer.com/news/best-2022-nfl-draft-suits-fits-20220429.html | true |
DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than a quarter-million Explorer SUVs in the U.S. because they can roll away unexpectedly while shifted into park.
The recall covers certain 2020 through 2022 Explorers with 2.3-liter engines, as well as 3-liter and 3.3-liter hybrids and the 3-liter ST. Also included are 2020 and 2021 Explorer Police hybrids and those with 3.3-liter gas engines.
Documents posted Friday by U.S. safety regulators say that a rear axle mounting bolt can fracture and cause the drive shaft to disconnect. If that happens, the SUVs can roll away even if they are placed in park gear, without the parking brake on.
The documents say Ford has 235 warranty claims due to the problem. The company says it knows of no crashes or injuries.
Depending on the model, dealers will replace a bushing and the axle cover, or they will update electronic parking brake software. Owners will be notified by mail starting June 6. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/ford-recalls-thousands-of-suvs-that-can-roll-away-while-parked/ | 2022-04-29T14:23:11Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/ford-recalls-thousands-of-suvs-that-can-roll-away-while-parked/ | false |
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — A call to police describing a suicide. A description from her brother that she was shot by someone outside. A shell casing on the floor outside her bedroom. These are some of the conflicting details in court documents that surround the death of a 12-year-old girl found Saturday in Hampton, Virginia.
Police said they were investigating the death Wednesday afternoon but released information later that day, saying the case was being investigated as a homicide.
A suspect is charged in the case, but police didn’t release his name. The 16-year-old suspect is charged with homicide, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a juvenile, obstruction of justice, and providing false information to police.
They are in custody and being held in Hampton on unrelated charges out of Norfolk.
Police say just before 11:30 a.m. Saturday, they got a call that a female had shot herself in the Avalon townhomes community. When they arrived at the home, the 12-year-old girl had a gunshot wound to the head.
Medics treated her but she was pronounced dead nine minutes later.
Hampton police say a 16-year-old male was there, and identified himself as the victim’s brother. He’s referred to in court documents as “DLC” and police say he said someone named “Junior,” who had dated the victim, had made a threatening phone call to him. Junior was in the neighborhood, DLC said.
Police say DLC initially told them he went out the back door of the townhome and Junior shot at him. DLC went back inside and upstairs to his sister’s bedroom. As brother and sister were looking out the window Junior fired again, this time striking the 12-year-old girl.
But police say DLC then changed that story.
This time, DLC told them he had fired at Junior when he was outside downstairs, not the other way around. According to police, DLC admitted to having a gun, threw it out the window before police arrived, and called a friend to come and pick it up.
The house is equipped with Ring cameras with audio and video. A police affidavit says a single shot was heard at 11:20 a.m., followed by “a female screaming as if in fear.” DLC and his sister are heard talking at 11:21 a.m. Minutes later, DLC exits the bedroom and a black and silver gun is lying on the floor. A cartridge casing is on the hallway floor that hadn’t been there before. Two minutes later, the call came in to Hampton police dispatch from a male that a female had shot herself.
Documents describe the shirt DLC was wearing as having blood spatter, and that he reportedly attempted to leave the scene. He was detained, and police say he began to have a panic attack and was transported for treatment.
The Hampton school division confirmed they are providing support and counseling to the girl’s school, but declined to confirm which school or the student’s identity.
Editor’s note: The video in the player below aired before police announced an arrest in the girl’s death. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/teen-charged-after-girl-fatally-shot-in-her-virginia-bedroom/ | 2022-04-29T14:23:36Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/teen-charged-after-girl-fatally-shot-in-her-virginia-bedroom/ | true |
Daytona’s first female UPS driver helps welcome 1,500 others into 25-year accident-free honor club
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – UPS is welcoming nearly 1,500 of its drivers worldwide into an elite group called the Circle of Honor, reserved for drivers who have not had a vehicle accident in 25 years.
At the end of March, UPS announced 1,495 of its drivers across four continents were inducted into the Circle of Honor.
One UPS driver who knows all too well about safe driving is Janis Bailey, the first female driver out of her center in Daytona Beach to join the elite group. She was inducted into the Circle of Honor a few years ago, but with that honor comes another – being a female trailblazer in the world of UPS.
When she joined UPS in 1989, Bailey wasn’t what customers were used to seeing in a male-dominated field. But she didn’t let that phase her.
At the time, she was working as a pharmacy technician when a customer who worked for job services offered to have her interview for UPS, because he knew of Bailey’s career goal to work for a good company.
She interviewed in April 1989, and after some time getting on her feet, she was asked to become a driver for peak season in late August.
“I just said yes. I don’t even know what I was saying yes to,” Bailey said.
But 32 years ago, the company looked much different. Bailey was one of the first female drivers in her area, only having two or three female coworkers at the time.
“I think when I started there were sort of doubts… even in supervision because they were mainly all male. My coworkers were mainly all male. I think at that time, you had to kind of prove yourself,” Bailey said. “I know I personally went way overboard, working really hard to prove that, ‘Hey, I can handle this, I can do this. And I can do this better than some of the guys.’ It was a time when I think you really, really did have to prove yourself.”
Among the few other women she worked with, Bailey said it was quite competitive amongst themselves – but now, things have changed.
“[UPS has] more female pre-loaders, more female drivers – twice the amount right now than I’ve seen in many years, maybe triple,” Bailey said. “The women have a camaraderie now.”
During her 32 years with UPS, Bailey managed to receive a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in criminal justice. But she hasn’t just been kept busy with work and school all these years – she’s also a mom of six.
Bailey said her youngest daughter, who is now 18, is starting to appreciate her mom’s go-getter attitude and never taking no for an answer.
“I’ve always just said [to my kids], ‘Don’t let anybody tell you no. You are you. Go do whatever it is that you want to do, and don’t let anybody tell you different,’” Bailey said.
She also advises that if you have the determination, you can juggle a career, school, and home life all at the same time.
“I’ve always told my children you can work and go to school at the same time. I earned two degrees while I was still employed at UPS. No matter what you’re doing at work, you can still balance your home life and school, it’s just your determination in doing that,” Bailey said. “Whatever you have your mindset to do, don’t let anybody tell you, ‘Well you’re married, you have a couple children, you can’t go to school.’ No, that’s not true. If you’re motivated to do that, you’re going to find a way to do that. A career is built on education, determination, integrity, work ethic, it’s all part of that.”
Perhaps the other 10,547 current Circle of Honor members feel the same, as driving accident-free for 25 years is no easy feat. Bailey considers being a part of the Circle of Honor, well, “an honor,” and she’ll continue to get a safe-driving patch of honor every five years, as long as her driving record stays clean.
“I think it’s inspirational, it gives motivation to other drivers,” Bailey said.
As far as how she did it, Bailey said focusing on safety first is truly the key to joining the Circle of Honor.
“Don’t be worried about the pressure of your time frame, safety is first. We all know time is important… we all care about production, but the safety is the first thing. Because once you get hurt, in a minute, all the rest of it’s over if you’re not safe first,” Bailey said. “I really appreciate our company now focusing on the safety about us driving… all of our training, we have so much training. It’s ingrained in me.”
So ingrained, in fact, that Bailey has passed down her safe driving skills to her six children and hopes to inspire other UPS drivers.
With April being Distracted Driving Awareness Month, UPS encourages all drivers to be more intentional about safe driving habits.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police on Friday detained two men on suspicion of helping two dozen Syrian asylum-seekers reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a rigid-hulled inflatable boat.
A court ordered the two men — aged 30 and 28 — held in police custody for eight days following their arrest a day earlier when the boat reached a small harbor on the island’s northeastern coast under escort by a police patrol vessel.
Police said the younger of the two men is suspected to be the boat’s driver. Both face charges including aiding and abetting in the unlawful entry of migrants into the European Union member country.
Police said authorities are processing the asylum requests for the 18 men, two women and six children.
Government officials say 5% of Cyprus’ current population are asylum-seekers — five times the EU average — and the country has the highest number of asylum applications per capita among the bloc's 27 nations.
The vast majority of migrants reach Cyprus from the ethnically split island’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north and traverse a United Nations-controlled buffer zone to seek asylum in the internationally recognized south.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that thousands of documents related to security during the construction of the heavily protested Dakota Access Pipeline are public and subject to the state’s open records law.
But the court in its ruling Thursday gave pipeline developer Energy Transfer an opportunity to make a case with state regulators that some of the records are privileged company documents that should remain private.
The Bismarck Tribune reports the decision ends a convoluted dispute over 16,000 documents that has dragged on more than a year and involved multiple entangled lawsuits.
The documents being held by the North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board relate to Energy Transfer, the Texas-based company that built the pipeline, and TigerSwan, the North Carolina company that Energy Transfer hired to oversee security during construction.
TigerSwan gave about 16,000 documents to the board during a two-year battle over whether the company operated illegally in the state in 2016 and 2017, when thousands of pipeline protesters gathered in southern North Dakota and law enforcement made hundreds of arrests. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/North-Dakota-Supreme-Court-DAPL-documents-are-17136318.php | 2022-04-29T14:29:12Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/North-Dakota-Supreme-Court-DAPL-documents-are-17136318.php | true |
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival launched its 2022 season with a pair of stunning, live (at long last, but still with audience masking) productions: the intense, intriguing drama “Unseen” in the intimate Thomas Theatre and the Tony Award-winning, vibrant musical “Once On This Island” in the spacious Bowmer venue.
Interestingly, both shows have near-identical running times of 1 hour and 40 minutes (“Unseen”) and “Island’s” 1 hour and 35 minutes — with no intermissions. That means that the artistic arc of the action isn’t interrupted for either the actors or the audience, making the overall impact of the performances even more involving.
The following review will be of the production I attended during its opening, matinee performance: “Unseen.” And, my review of “Once On This Island” (which I also saw later that evening during its opening show) will appear in next week’s “Urge.” So, be sure and read it then.
Let me mention now that what these extremely different productions share is their “time-traveling” from “the present” back to “the past” where many events and situations that previously occurred are explored by the often, multi-cast, fascinating characters.
But, some of what occurs in “Unseen” is so timely and gut-wrenching (in our current world’s unsettled circumstances) that there are some moments that are often almost too much to bear. But, they bear witness to what’s always omnipresent behind the people, places and events that others selectively choose to visually document and share with us from their own, personal perspectives and eventually define history.
Astutely directed in its West Coast premiere by Evren Oscikin, insightful playwright Mona Mansour’s shattering “Unseen” is a raw and poignant “ghost story” of suppressed, horrific memories that stubbornly cling to the tortured mind of crisis photographer, Mia (impressively portrayed by Helen Sadler), who is haunted by a gap in what she experienced while taking pictures of (the already dead or surely dying) victims in past war zones in Istanbul, Palestine, and Syria.(The play’s apartment locations include one in the U.S. as well.)
She “awakened” on the site of a massacre in Syria with no memory of what happened there. Obviously traumatized by subconsciously trying to repress any emotional connection” to those human subjects (or their surviving, devastated family members) of the photos that she (as a professional, conflict photographer on assignment) took for publication.
She also can’t deal with trying to forget that focusing her camera on just one detail of someone’s physical being, takes away their humanity and turns them into a nameless symbol of all wars’ always personal death and destruction.
I’m sure that many who attend the show will still have the too-recent, heartbreaking, close-up image of an innocent Ukrainian women’s lifeless hand taken during another unspeakable, senseless conflict, seared into their own memory. So, be aware that the play’s content could trigger emotions that could be difficult for some audience members to handle. (And if that’s you, then it’s best not to attend.)
However, when the audience initially meets Mia in the previously and still, on occasion, bombarded apartment of an older-than-Mia Turkish woman named Derya (who became her lover), we find out that their relationship (over a number of years) has become frayed and close to breaking completely due to Mia’s increasingly constant (and denied) drug abuse. Especially since she’s in denial about her addiction (supplied by a man we never meet).
Nora el Samahy gives understated power and depth to Derya. As well as strongly defining her two other roles as a stubborn Arab woman called Salima and Alissa, the devastated mother of a dead son, whose tattoo was the only part of his body photographed by Mia. She perfectly balances Sadler with her defined characterizations of these different women in Mia’s orbit.
And, completing the trio of terrific performers who so skillfully inhabit the play’s fascinating twists and turns is Caroline Shaffer, who brings some much-needed moments of lightness and levity as Mia’s visiting, endearing and somewhat clueless Californian mother, Jane.
She also appears as two other cameo characters, Marian and Nancy, who have interacted with Mia during her uneven life’s journey and still don’t understand why Mia does what she does when she could be “safe at home.”
However, mentally and emotionally, Mia can’t cope. Not until she can finally go back and confront what she couldn’t revisit, no matter how painful the still-hidden images are. She can never unsee what she has seen. It was her job to document what remained of lives that were tragically taken so that others would be able to see. And remember. And grieve.
There are many, sudden flashbacks that come and go (with no apparent order) as the play progresses. Sometimes underscored with music and startling sound effects that shake the venue, and others accompanied by vivid lighting changes that illuminate specific areas on either side of the stage.
One side continues the interior of the main apartment’s outside wall and doors and the other side encloses a bleak landscape starkly dominated by a leafless tree. A killing field.
There are also rear projections of various locations that melt in and out of scenes and a moving line of text messages that can flow across the top of the canopy that frames both sides of the stage when Mia is in contact with her drug supplier.
At all times the audience — seated on both sides of the open space of the scenic design — can see right through it. Like a roll of undeveloped film that’s constantly changing and coming into view.
But, would she (or we) ever see the pictures left behind in Mia’s lost camera that would finally answer her question? What surrounding, unseen things happened during and after the massacre she witnessed that her camera kept taking photos of without being her choice of images? And did she, herself become part of them instead of being the “unseen” one behind the lens?
“Unseen’s” marvelous, eclectic scenic design was created by Mariana Sanchez (who previously designed two of my all-time favorites at OSF for “Manahatta” and “The River Bride”). And projection designer Kaitlyn Pietras was behind more of the company’s best ever for “How to Catch Creation,” “Mother Road,” “Mojada” and “Unison.” So, they can now add their stellar, artistic contributions for this outstanding production to their resumes.
However additional credit for the play’s overall, technical success goes to lighting designer, Solomon Weisbard (assisted by Matt Hammers); composer and sound designer Avi Amon; and costume designer Dina El-Aziz, as well as dramaturg Sonia Fernandez; assistant director, Arabic translator and consultant, Hala Baki; intimacy director Charlie Baker; fight director U. Jonathan Toppo; and voice and text director, Rebecca Clark Carey.
“Unseen’s” superb casting was done by Joy Dickson and JZ Casting (Geoff Josselson, CSA & Katja Zarolinski, CSA). The lead producer is Ken Savage; support producer, Liz Lanier; production manager, Rachel Maize; production assistant, Hal Day; production stage manager, Wesley Apfel; and assistant stage manager, JuanCarlos Contreras, a 2015 theater, film and dance graduate from Humboldt State University (now Cal Poly Humboldt) in his OSF debut in this position.
Since OSF’s must-see “Unseen” only runs through July 31, be sure and make your plans ASAP to reserve tickets well in advance (and the 2022 ticket prices are now more affordably-priced, so rejoice). Call 800-219-8161 or go to boxoffice@osfashland.org.
For complete season 2022 information, visit www.osfashland.org. And, remember, masks are still required to be worn inside the performance venues; you must also bring and show proof of your
COVID-19 vaccinations at the door to be admitted.
Tune in next week for my take on OSF’s musical, “Once On This Island.” | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/04/28/theater-review-osf-opens-2022-with-2-must-see-productions/ | 2022-04-29T14:31:34Z | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/04/28/theater-review-osf-opens-2022-with-2-must-see-productions/ | true |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, April 29, 2022
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RED FLAG WARNING
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service El Paso TX/Santa Teresa NM
742 AM MDT Fri Apr 29 2022
...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY FOR LOW HUMIDITY AND
STRONG WINDS...
.Very dry air remains in place, and breezy winds will return this
afternoon. Thus elevated fire weather is expected across much of
south-central New Mexico and far west Texas. Breezy winds and
critically dry fuels will increase the risk for rapid fire spread.
...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM
MDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE
WEATHER ZONES 056, 112, AND 113...
* AFFECTED AREA...Fire weather zone 112 and 113 in south-central
and southwest New Mexico. Fire weather zone 056 in far west
Texas.
* WIND...West winds between 15 and 25 mph with occasional gust to
30 mph.
* HUMIDITY...5 to 11 percent.
* IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of
strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can
contribute to extreme fire behavior.
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MDT
THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONE 055, El Paso County in Far West Texas...
The National Weather Service in El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa has
issued a Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 11 AM this
morning to 8 PM MDT this evening.
* WIND...West winds between 15 and 25 mph with some gusts to 30
mph.
* HUMIDITY...5 to 8 percent.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo says that both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to attend the G20 summit to be held in Bali in November.
Widodo, the current chair of the G20 group, made the remarks in a televised statement on Friday in which he said that he had telephone conversations this week with Zelenskyy and Putin. He said he urged both leaders of Ukraine and Russia to end the war through negotiations.
“I reiterated the importance of ending the war immediately,” he said. “I also emphasized that peaceful efforts should continue and Indonesia is ready to contribute to these peaceful efforts.”
He said that he invited Putin and Zelenskyy to the G20 summit as the war in Ukraine has a major impact on the global economy.
“We understand that the G20 plays the catalyst role in the recovery of the global economy,” Widodo said.
Widodo said that he has rejected the Ukrainian leader’s request for arms but instead will send humanitarian aid.
“The mandate of Indonesia’s constitution and the principles of our foreign policy prohibit us from providing arms assistance to other countries,” Widodo said. “However, we are ready to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine.”
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Ukraine slams Kyiv attack amid new Mariupol rescue effort
— 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
— After a rocket: 'One second and you are left with nothing'
Follow all AP stories on Russia's war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian men’s national soccer team will return to the field for the first time since the Russian invasion when it plays a friendly against German club Borussia Mönchengladbach on May 11 ahead of a crucial World Cup qualifier.
The Ukrainian soccer association said Friday it will assemble the team for a training camp in Slovenia starting Monday.
Bundesliga club Gladbach said the proceeds from the game would go to charity efforts focused on Ukraine and Ukrainians abroad and that citizens of the country would get free entry.
Ukraine's national team hasn’t played since November and had to postpone its World Cup qualifying playoff game against Scotland from March to June 1 because of the war. The winner will face Wales on June 5 for a place at this year’s World Cup in Qatar.
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MADRID — The Spanish government said Friday that its largest shipment of military equipment to Ukraine so far is on track for delivery after a ship carrying 200 tons of material has docked at a port in Poland.
Spain’s defense ministry confirmed the ship’s arrival in Poland. Spanish newspaper El País, citing Polish port authorities, said the vessel had docked at the port of Gdynia, where the material would be unloaded and transported some 700 kilometers (435 miles) to a logistics base in Ukraine.
The shipment includes 30 trucks, several special heavy transport vehicles and 10 smaller vehicles that will be used to transfer the military material to Ukraine, according to Spain’s prime minister.
The shipment to Ukraine on the Spanish ship Ysabel, a 149-meter (489 feet) vessel, was announced last week by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a visit to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “This is the largest shipment made up to now, more than doubling what we have sent so far,” he added.
Prior to the shipment on the Ysabel, Spain had sent 1,370 anti-tank grenade launchers, 700,000 machine-gun cartridges as well as an armored ambulance and medical material to Ukraine.
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WARSAW, Poland — Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, says that the war has not changed her husband, but only revealed his qualities, including a determination to prevail, to the world.
Zelenska, speaking in an interview with the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita published Friday, also says she has not seen her husband President Volodymr Zelenskyy since Russia invaded Ukraine.
“Since February 24, I have been seeing my husband just like you — on TV and on video tapes of his speeches,” she said.
She accused Russia of trying to carry out a genocide against the Ukrainian people, expressed her sympathy with all those who have been forced to flee their homes.
“I wish I could hug each of them. It is easy to imagine the difficult path they went through, escaping from basements or bunkers in Mariupol, from firing from Kharkiv, from the occupied Kyiv region, and even from Lviv or Odesa, which were also under fire from Russian missiles,” she said in the interview.
The newspaper, making clear that it interviewed Zelenska remotely and not revealing her location, asked her if the war had changed her husband.
“The war has not changed him,” she replied. “He has always been a man you can rely on. A man who will never fail. Who will hold out until the end. It’s just that now the whole world has seen what may not have been clear to everyone before.”
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LONDON — Tens of thousands of troops from NATO and other north Atlantic nations will take part in a series of military exercises across Europe in the coming weeks as western countries seek to deter Russian aggression.
The exercises, backed by aircraft, tanks, artillery and armored assault vehicles, will take place in Finland, Poland, North Macedonia and along the Estonian-Latvian border. They will include troops from NATO and the Joint Expeditionary Force, which includes non-NATO members Finland and Sweden.
“The scale of the deployment, coupled with the professionalism, training and agility of the British Army, will deter aggression at a scale not seen in Europe this century,” Lt. Gen. Ralph Wooddisse, commander of the U.K.’s field army, said in a statement.
The deployments will begin this week in Finland, where troops from the U.S., Britain, Estonia and Latvia will participate in Exercise Arrow to improve their ability to work alongside Finnish forces.
Also this week, some 4,500 troops will take part in Exercise Swift Response, which will include parachute drops and helicopter-borne assaults in North Macedonia. The operation will include forces from U.S., Britain, Albania, France and Italy.
Next month, 18,000 NATO troops, including forces from Britain, France and Denmark, will take part in Exercise Hedgehog along the Estonia-Latvia border.
In late May, about 1,000 British soldiers will join troops from 11 other nations for Exercise Defender in Poland.
“The security of Europe has never been more important,” U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said. “These exercises will see our troops join forces with allies and partners across NATO and the Joint Expeditionary Force in a show of solidarity and strength in one of the largest shared deployments since the Cold War.”
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BERLIN — The German government has strongly criticized the Russian missile strike on Kyiv during the U.N. secretary-general’s visit to the Ukrainian capital Thursday.
Germany “condemns the Russian missile attack on Kyiv, while Secretary-General (Antonio) Guterres was there simultaneously for talks, in the sharpest possible manner,” government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner told reporters in Berlin on Friday.
The attack “reveals before the eyes of the world community once more that Putin and his regime have no respect whatsoever for international law,” he added.
The US-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty says one of its journalists was killed by the Russian missile strike. Ten people were wounded in the attack, including at least one who lost a leg, according to Ukraine’s emergency services.
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The US-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty says one of its journalists was killed by a Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, Thursday night.
Vira Hyrych died when the building she lived in was hit and her body was found in the building’s rubble Friday, Radio Free Europe said. Hyrych had worked for the broadcaster’s Ukrainian-language service since 2018, Radio Free Europe said in a statement.
Ten people were wounded in the attack, including at least one who lost a leg, according to Ukraine’s emergency services.
Describing the attack, Russia says it “destroyed production buildings” at a defense factory in Kyiv. Russia used “high-precision, long-range weaponry” to hit the Artem factory in the Ukrainian capital, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday.
The spokesman appeared to be referring to strikes on Kyiv that took place on Thursday evening, shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said cruise missiles were used in the attack and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was killed and four hospitalized when a residential building was hit.
Konashenkov also said Russia had destroyed a missile launch site that Ukraine had used to strike the Russia-held Ukrainian city of Kherson. ___
LONDON — Britain is sending a team of experts to Ukraine to help local authorities investigate reports of war crimes, including sexual violence, committed by Russian troops.
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the team, including experts in conflict-related sexual violence, will arrive in Poland in early May and meet with representatives of international agencies, non-governmental organizations, refugees and the Ukrainian government to determine what assistance it can provide.
“Russia has brought barbarity to Ukraine and committed vile atrocities, including against women,’’ Truss said in a statement. “British expertise will help uncover the truth and hold Putin’s regime to account for its actions. Justice will be done.”
Truss plans to meet with the president of the International Criminal Court, Judge Piotr Hofmanski, on Friday in the Hague, where she will reaffirm Britain’s support for the investigation and prosecution of war crimes in Ukraine.
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LVIV, Ukraine — A British aid group says it believes two Britons have been abducted by Russian forces in southeastern Ukraine.
The British Foreign Office said it is “urgently seeking more information” about the two men’s case.
Dominik Byrne, the co-founder and chief operating officer of the Presidium Network, told The Associated Press on Friday that the men were last heard from on Monday.
Byrne said the men were taken while trying to carry out an independent evacuation in Dniprorudne, near the city of Zaporizhzhia, some 470 kilometers (290 miles) southeast of Kyiv.
Byrne said the family that the two men had been trying to evacuate later were interrogated by Russian forces, who asked them about the “British spies.” Bryne said the family later escaped to Poland.
Byrne identified the men as Paul Urey and Dylan Healy. He said they had been operating on their own in the war zone and hadn’t been associated with any aid group.
The British Foreign Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia hasn’t acknowledged taking the men.
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STOCKHOLM - The Swedish capital will rename part of a park near the Russian Embassy to Fria Ukrainas plats (Swedish for Free Ukraine Square) to show “Stockholm’s solidarity with the Ukrainian people,” the mayor said Friday.
Stockholm’s planning department has decided to rename part of Mariebergspark, with the Stockholm mayor Anna König Jerlmyr calling it on Facebook “an important mark l against the actions of the Russian regime.”
Several European cities have renamed streets. One of the first was Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where a quiet alley where the Russian Embassy in the Lithuanian capital is located, changed its name to “Heroes of Ukraine street” in March.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A 25-year-old Dane was allegedly killed in Mykolajiv on April 26 while fighting with the International Legion Ukraine, a unit for foreigners who want to join the fight against Russia, according to Danish broadcaster TV2. The man’s name was not given.
In a statement to Danish media, the Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen said it could not confirm the report and was in contact with Ukrainian authorities.
“It may therefore take time before the details are clarified” because the war creates “extremely difficult conditions,” the statement read.
The Jyllands-Posten daily, one of Denmark’s largest newspapers, said up to 100 Danes have traveled to Ukraine to fight Russia, citing Ukraine’s Embassy in Denmark.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The British Defense Ministry says Russia’s focus in its war on Ukraine remains the Donbas region.
In an update Friday, the British military said heavy fighting had been seen around Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. The British said they believe Russia is trying to attempt an advance south from Izium toward Slovyansk.
The British military said in a tweet: “Due to strong Ukrainian resistance, Russian territorial gains have been limited and achieved at significant cost to Russian forces.”
The British military has been offering daily public reports on the fighting since the start of the war in February.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia pounded targets from practically one end of Ukraine to the other Thursday, including Kyiv, bombarding the city while the head of the United Nations was visiting in the boldest attack on the capital since Moscow’s forces retreated weeks ago.
Ukrainian emergency services said 10 people were wounded when a Russian missile hit a 25-story apartment building in Kyiv on Thursday evening and set off a fire, which partially destroyed the first and second floors.
The bombardment came barely an hour after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a news conference with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, who said Ukraine has become “an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain.”
A spokesperson said Guterres and his team were safe.
Meanwhile, explosions were reported across the country — in Polonne in the west, Chernihiv near the border with Belarus, and Fastiv, a large railway hub southwest of the capital.
The mayor of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, said rockets were intercepted by air defenses.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had “very substantive and warm talks” on energy and defense cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov during his visit to Kyiv on Thursday.
Zelenskyy said they agreed that damaged Ukrainian military equipment could be repaired at Bulgarian plants and then sent back to Ukraine.
“Another issue we agreed on was the supply of Ukrainian electricity to Bulgaria and the joint use of the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline” to diversify energy supplies in the region,” Zelenskyy said late Thursday in his nightly video address to the nation.
Russia this week cut off natural gas supplies to Bulgaria and also to Poland, two NATO members which have been among the strongest European supporters of Ukraine in the war.
Although Bulgaria gets over 90% of its gas from Russia, the cutoff does not immediately put the country in dire trouble because of other potential suppliers. The Trans-Balkan gas pipeline runs from Greece through Bulgaria and Romania to Ukraine.
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy was one of at least three people wounded in what emergency officials are calling the first Russian strike in a residential area of the southern city of Zaporizhzhia since Russia’s invasion began.
The city has been a crucial waypoint for tens of thousands of people fleeing the besieged southern port of Mariupol.
The rocket strike came Thursday as parts of southern Ukraine prepared for a further onslaught by Russian forces who seek to strip the country of its coastline.
Residents said at least eight homes in the modest neighborhood were damaged or destroyed.
Glass shards cut the boy’s right leg to the bone. The injured boy’s father, Vadym Vodostoyev, said “it just takes one second and you’re left with nothing.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday evening.
At least one person was killed and several were injured, including some who were trapped beneath the rubble, according to rescue officials. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the Shevchenkivskyi district in the northwestern part of the city was hit twice, causing fires in at least two high-rise buildings.
The explosions, which sent plumes of black smoke into the air, came just shortly after the two leaders held a press conference in which Guterres condemned the atrocities committed in towns like Bucha, where evidence of mass killings of civilians was found after Russia retreated. Authorities said the U.N. chief and his team were safe.
Appearing to be one of boldest attacks on Kyiv since Russian forces retreated from around the capital weeks ago, the explosions came as residents have been increasingly returning to the city. Cafes and other businesses have reopened, and a growing number of people have been out and enjoying the spring weather.
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Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia tried to humiliate UN with Kyiv attack
Ukraine’s leader accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by secretary-general Antonio Guterres, an attack that shattered the capital’s tentative return to normality as the focus of the war moved east.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine’s forces were holding off Russia’s attempted advance in the south and east, as efforts continued to secure safe passage for residents trapped in Mariupol, which has been largely reduced to rubble in a two-month-long siege.
An official in the president’s office did not rule out an evacuation as soon as Friday.
Russia pounded targets all over Ukraine on Thursday, including the attack on Kyiv that struck a residential high-rise and another building.
US-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said its journalist Vira Hyrych, who lived in one of the buildings hit, died. Her body was found in the rubble on Friday.
Ten people were wounded in the attack, including at least one who lost a leg, according to Ukraine’s emergency services.
In an apparent reference to the same strike, Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday that it had destroyed “production buildings” at the Artem defence factory in Kyiv.
The attack on Kyiv came barely an hour after Mr Zelensky held a news conference with Guterres, who toured some of the destruction in and around Kyiv and condemned attacks on civilians during his visit.
“This says a lot about Russia’s true attitude towards global institutions, about attempts of Russian authorities to humiliate the UN and everything that the organisation represents,” Mr Zelensky said in an overnight video address to the nation.
“Therefore, it requires corresponding powerful reaction.”
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko derided the attack as equivalent to Russian President Vladimir Putin showing Mr Guterres “his middle finger”.
The strikes were the boldest Russian bombardment of the capital since Moscow’s forces retreated weeks ago following their failure to take the city in what they hoped would be a lightning offensive.
Instead, stiff Ukrainian resistance, bolstered by Western arms, stalled Mr Putin’s advance and forced his troops to pull back to regroup.
Some have now started to push into the country’s eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas, which Moscow now says is its focus.
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.
Both Ukraine and the Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east also have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.
But so far, Russia’s troops and the separatist forces appear to have made only minor gains, and the UK’s Ministry of Defence said on Friday that those have been achieved at significant cost to Russia’s forces.
One aim of Mr Guterres’ visit was to secure the evacuation of people from the ruined southern port city of Mariupol, including a shattered steelworks where Ukrainian defenders are holed up and hundreds of civilians are also sheltering.
Previous evacuation attempts have collapsed.
“I cannot confirm the exact details of the operation to make sure it is done with safety for our people and for civilians stranded in Mariupol,” said Saviano Abreu, a spokesperson for the UN’s humanitarian office.
An official in Mr Zelensky’s office said negotiations were under way with UN mediation, and did not rule out an evacuation of the plant happening Friday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Mariupol has seen some of the most dramatic suffering of the war.
Under siege since the early days of the invasion, many of its residents became trapped with scarce access to food, water, medicine or electricity.
An estimated 100,000 people are believed to still be in the city, and the city council warned that a lack of safe drinking water or a working sewer system could lead to outbreaks of deadly diseases such as cholera and dysentery.
It added that bodies lay decaying under the rubble.
Russian forces largely control the city, but some 2,000 Ukrainian fighters are holed up at the steel plant, the last known pocket of resistance.
About 1,000 civilians are with them, and the fighters said recent concentrated bombings killed and wounded people.
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 operating room, killing an unspecified number of people.
The video could not be independently verified.
Russia’s invasion of its neighbour on February 24 upended the post-Cold War security order.
Mr Putin, long irked by Nato’s expansion to eastern Europe, says the operation seeks the “demilitarisation” of Ukraine, aims to protect people in the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas and ensure Russia’s own security.
One of Moscow’s demands has been that Ukraine drop its bid to join the western Nato alliance.
Ukraine and the West say it was an unprovoked and illegal invasion launched to topple the government in Kyiv.
Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Friday on Twitter that a “security vacuum” had led to the war.
“We have then been knocking on Nato’s door, but it never opened,” he wrote.
“The world owes Ukraine security, and we ask states to decide which security guarantees they are ready to provide.”
A day after Russia pounded a wide area of Ukraine, the governor of Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Reznichenko, said two towns there were hit by Russian Grad rockets on Friday.
There was no immediate word on casualties or damage.
Separately, the governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that a border post came under mortar fire from Ukraine and that Russian border forces returned fire.
He said there were no casualties on the Russian side.
Thursday’s explosions in northwestern Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky district shook the city and flames poured out the windows of the residential high-rise and another building.
The capital had been relatively unscathed in recent weeks, and cafes and other businesses have started to reopen, while a growing numbers of people have been out and about, enjoying the spring weather.
The terrible human cost of the war, which has driven more than 11 million Ukrainians from their homes, continues to climb.
In Lyman, a town in Donetsk where Russian forces are reportedly trying to advance as part of their Donbas push, shells rained on Tatiana Maksagory’s home this week, devastating her family.
Ms Maksagory’s 14-year-old grandson, Igor, was declared dead after emergency services drove him to the hospital.
Her daughter was in serious condition and her son-in-law was also killed.
“Grandma, will I live?“ she said Igor asked her when they were in the basement waiting for help.
“I said that he would live.
“But look what happened, I betrayed him.”
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Business News of Friday, 29 April 2022
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Every child dreams of doing something or becoming someone great in future. Some dream of becoming pilots, lawyers, bankers, engineers, journalists among others.
For eighteen-year-old Obed Obeng Danso, he dreamt of becoming a car manufacturer one day. Eighteen years down the line, Obed has manufactured his first car, making his dream come true.
Speaking on GhanaWeb TV’s BizTech, Obed said because he had that dream of manufacturing a car one day, he started doing miniature cars with milk tins as a child.
The eighteen-year-old Auto Mechanic student of the Tarkwa Community Development Vocation and Technical Institute (COMVOTECH) metamorphosed from making miniature cars to making his first automobile made from “aboboya” parts.
“I went to a scrap yard and bought the aboboyaa parts after I had some money from savings, I made out of the pocket money my parents gave me. The back axle. Water tank, radiator tank, engine are all aboboyaa parts except the front hub, steering system and front tires”, he said.
Even though he was not taught how to make a car in school, Obed studied the 'Aboboya' system and realized that he could transfer that system to make a moving vehicle.
After conceiving the idea and getting proper drawings of it, he went to a welder to help him put the drawing on paper into a reality that lasted for seven months.
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EC Says Will Analyze Situation On G20 Summit After Getting Response From Participants
Muhammad Irfan Published April 29, 2022 | 06:40 PM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 29th April, 2022) Indonesia as current holder of G20 presidency and the host of November G20 summit in Bali is a sole decision-maker concerning the issue of sending invitations to the meeting, and the European Commission (EC) will analyze the situation after the summit participants' response, the EC said on Friday.
Earlier in April, US President Joe Biden, along with some other world leaders, demanded that Russia be removed from the group of 20 major economies. The United States is among the countries urging Indonesia as host to invite Ukraine to the summit as a guest.
"Of course, it is up to Indonesia to issue and set out the invitations, all I can say now, (it) is up to Indonesia to send out the invites for G20, and the participation will be up to member states," EU spokesperson Nabila Massrali told the EC midday briefing.
The EC is set to analyze the situation after obtaining a response from the involved parties, European Commission Chief Spokesman Eric Mamer said.
"When it comes to the participation of the commission, we will come back to this issue later on. First of all, sending out the invitation is one thing, but then we have to see what the response of the individuals concerned is going to be, and then we ourselves will be analyzing the situation," Mamer told the briefing.
Earlier in the day, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that Jakarta, as this year's chair of the G20, wants to unite its participants and opposes any split within the group, calling on the states to refrain from creating a fracture.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The longest-serving member of the Alabama House of Representatives, Rep. Steve McMillan of Foley, died Thursday after being diagnosed with brain tumors. He was 80 years old.
The Alabama House of Representatives announced his death in a statement Thursday night.
McMillan's longevity gave him the unofficial title of “dean of the House." He was first elected as a Democrat in 1980 to succeed his twin brother, John McMillan, who had been appointed to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. He switched to the Republican Party in 1993.
McMillan announced in January that he had been diagnosed with three brain tumors and would be undergoing treatment.
“Because of his experience in the House, Steve was a mentor to many members through the years and he was a close friend and trusted advisor to me,” House Speaker Mac McCutcheon said in a statement. “He wasn’t afraid to take unpopular stands as long as it benefited or protected the people in his district."
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Giovanni Van Bronckhorst: Rangers are in much better shape to face Celtic now
By PA Staff published
Giovanni Van Bronckhorst insists Rangers have learned from their beating by Celtic at Parkhead as they prepare to return on Sunday.
The Light Blues were brushed aside 3-0 at Celtic Park in February before they went down 2-1 in the next game at Ibrox, with Rangers seeing off the Hoops 2-1 in the Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park earlier this month.
Rangers are in recovery mode from the 1-0 Europa League semi-final defeat to RB Leipzig on Thursday night but boss Van Bronckhorst insists his side, six points behind cinch Premiership leaders Celtic, are in a good place as they look forward to the final Old Firm game of the season
The Dutchman told Sky Sports: “I think we have learned, of course. The two Old Firms after that were different from the one we played in February.
“On Sunday, we have to see, we will prepare for the game well and the team will go out and make sure we do everything we can to get a good result.
“I think the players and the team have developed from that moment. I think we are in much better shape and momentum now.”
Van Bronckhorst believes Rangers can draw on the positivity of the 2-1 extra-time win over Celtic at Hampden Park – which set up a Scottish Cup final meeting with Hearts next month – when they make their way to the east end of Glasgow although he recognised the significance of the game.
The former Rangers player said: “Well of course it was a big result for us to reach the cup final.
“All we can do is prepare well and show we are 100 per cent on Sunday.
“We have the belief. This year it’s in the balance, two wins and two losses but we are six points behind.
“They have the advantage and we have to make sure we do everything we can on Sunday to get the difference back to three.
“Otherwise it will be very difficult for us to become champions.”
Van Bronckhorst remains confident that Rangers can overcome RB Leipzig next week.
He said: “I’ve had more hours to think about the game.
“The overall feeling straight after the game was over was about the disappointing goal we had against us so late.
“But overall I’m quite pleased with the performance of the players.
“I think we played really well in making sure Red Bull didn’t have a lot of chances to score.
“You know, away from home in Europe, with the quality they have in the team, they will always create something.
“But to take a 1-0 defeat back to Ibrox gives us a very good opportunity to reach the final. We know the game at home at Ibrox will give us a lot of energy and also belief that we can reach the final.
“We will give it our all and do everything we can to be in Seville after the game.”
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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A jury has convicted a Missouri man of first-degree murder in the death of his pregnant wife whose battered body was found about a week after she was reported missing in 2019.
In addition to the murder count, Beau Rothwell, 31, Creve Coeur, was found guilty Thursday of tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Rothwell admitted killing his wife during his trial, but denied the killing was premeditated and sought conviction on a lesser manslaughter count. He testified during the trial that he bludgeoned 28-year-old Jennifer Rothwell to death with a mallet at their home on Nov. 11, 2019, during a heated argument over his affair with another woman.
Beau Rothwell testified that he hit his wife in the head from behind with a mallet, followed her as she stumbled toward the garage door and hit her again.
He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole when he’s sentenced July 8.
Prosecutors painted Beau Rothwell as a meticulous planner and showed the jury his texts with the other woman, as well as a list of pros and cons he made for leaving his wife. He had reported his wife missing, and police later found bottles of bleach in the home and a wet, blood-stained carpet. Investigators said the blood was his wife's.
Jennifer Rothwell also had looked up “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant” on her cellphone before she went missing, police said. Her body was found about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of her home and authorities said she was about six weeks pregnant when she died. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Missouri-man-convicted-of-killing-pregnant-wife-17136433.php | 2022-04-29T14:56:43Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Missouri-man-convicted-of-killing-pregnant-wife-17136433.php | false |
War in Ukraine shows `no substitute for credible defence´ - Prince of Wales
The war in Ukraine is a “stark reminder” there is “no substitute for credible defence”, the Prince of Wales said.
Charles, who has been “shocked by the images” of the conflict, said “the return of war to Europe” has also “highlighted the importance of alliances”.
He spoke at a Combined Graduation parade of RAF aviators also attended by the chief of the defence staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin.
The prince, as marshal of the Air Force, gave a speech at the RAF’s Cranwell College near Sleaford in Lincolnshire on Friday.
His comments came after watching more than 500 servicemen and women parade for the first time in front of 1,500 family members.
A fly-past of a Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker and two Typhoon fighter jets opened proceedings, which featured graduates from RAF College Cranwell and Halton.
He said: “In the past two months, we have witnessed the return of war to Europe.”
“The conflict in Ukraine is a stark reminder that there is no substitute for credible defence.
“We are all shocked by the images of war in our continent and the effects of air-delivered weapons.
“For air forces, the fighting in Ukraine has clearly demonstrated that despite technological complexity of modern aerial warfare, having highly motivated and well-trained people remains critical to operational success.”
Speaking from the parade dais while wearing full ceremonial dress and sword, he said: “You are joining a service that, from its infancy, has been inherently joint – working alongside the Royal Navy and Army – but working closely with our allies and partners abroad.
“These close working relationships will be vital to secure our peace and freedom, both now and in the future.”
The prince added: “It is evident, therefore, that owing to the many daily threats and stresses we face at home and abroad, much will be asked of you in the years ahead, particularly as the service begins to shift its weight increasingly towards space, cyber, data and information warfare.”
Charles spent 15 minutes reviewing the ranks and later joined about 100 aviators and their families at a post-event reception.
He was expected to sign the visitors’ book and be shown photographs of his own time at the college, where he graduated in 1971.
The prince touched briefly on his time in training during his speech, saying: “It is frankly somewhat alarming to think that it is over 50 years ago that I was standing where you are.”
Turning to the impact of the pandemic, he said: “I am all too aware, having attended the graduation ceremony in July 2020, that up until now you have not been able to celebrate this notable achievement in the way you would have wished, owing to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic.
“As such, it is wonderful to see so many of your family and friends here today to share in this moment – albeit long overdue.”
He joked: “In fact, I suspect many of them may have been starting to question whether you had actually completed your training.”
The prince spoke of being “immensely impressed” the graduates had finished their courses, adding it “will not have been easy”.
The prince referenced the RAF’s current roles “in Mali, Syria and Iraq” and praised the force’s work on the airlift from Afghanistan, last year.
He said: “As you join the service in its second century, the Royal Air Force has never been more relevant or in more demand in the modern era around the world.” | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10767657/War-Ukraine-shows-no-substitute-credible-defence--Prince-Charles.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-29T14:56:46Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10767657/War-Ukraine-shows-no-substitute-credible-defence--Prince-Charles.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Nashik sees one COVID-19 case, no death; active tally now 10
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The COVID-19 tally in Nashik increased by one to touch 4,76,052 on Friday, while the death toll remained unchanged at 8,899, an official said.
So far, 4,67,143 persons have been discharged post recovery, including four during the day, leaving the district with 10 active cases, he added.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Record French inflation adds to pressure on Macron
By Leigh Thomas
PARIS, April 29 (Reuters) - French inflation jumped to a record high in April, driven by surging energy prices, preliminary data showed on Friday, putting pressure on newly re-elected president Emmanuel Macron to enact anti-inflation measures promised during his campaign.
The INSEE statistics agency said consumer prices rose 0.5% in April, for an annual rate of 5.4%, the highest since France began using European Union methodology in the early 1990s. Inflation had been 5.1% in March.
The increase, boosted by 26.6% yearly increase in energy prices but also higher prices for services and manufactured goods, beat average expectations in a Reuters poll of 17 economists for inflation to remain unchanged.
The surge is bad news for Macron as he prepares for legislative elections in May, having won a second term this month after a campaign that focused on the rising cost of living as prices outstrip wages.
Macron's government has so far managed to keep inflation lower than any other euro zone country apart from Malta thanks to a 25 billion euro ($26 billion) package to help consumers cope with rising prices, largely through caps on energy price increases.
The head of the hardline CGT union, Philippe Martinez, told Reuters: "The government has got to deal with the purchasing power problem by raising wages."
Macron signalled during his campaign that he wanted to deliver an anti-inflation law this summer that would increase handouts for low-income households to cope with rising fuel and food prices, as well as raise pensions.
With inflation eroding households' purchasing power, France's economic growth unexpectedly ground to a halt in the first quarter due to a sharp drop in consumer spending, INSEE said in a separate GDP report.
In its monthly inflation report, INSEE said annual inflation as measured by France's national consumer price index rose to 4.8% in April from 4.5% in March, hitting its highest since November 1985. Economists polled by Reuters had expected 4.5% on average in April.
The national index is more closely followed in France, while the EU-harmonised index is used abroad to compare inflation rates among countries using the euro. ($1 = 0.9523 euros) (Reporting by Leigh Thomas and additional reporting by Caroline Pailliez; editing by John Stonestreet) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10767683/Record-French-inflation-adds-pressure-Macron.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-29T14:59:47Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10767683/Record-French-inflation-adds-pressure-Macron.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State hired Boston College athletic director Patrick Kraft to be its next AD on Friday.
Kraft, 43, will take over for the retiring Sandy Barbour on July 1 after the Penn State Board of Trustees approved an agreement that had been in the works for several days.
“The University is world class, rich with tradition and has passionate fan support, and we will never stray from what has made the program great," Kraft said in a statement. “My focus will be to provide the best experience for our student-athletes and staff, continue to grow our sports programs, and to enhance the best atmosphere in the Big Ten for our community and fans.”
The former Indiana football player has been leading Boston College’s athletic department for almost two years. Previously, he was athletic director at Temple for five years after serving two years at the Philadelphia school as a deputy AD.
“Along with having a bold vision for excellence and an impressive record of achievement, Pat values teamwork and cares above all about the success and development of student-athletes and coaches on and off the field," Penn State president-elect Neeli Bendapudi said. "With Pat at the helm of our athletics department, the possibilities of what we can accomplish ahead are unlimited.”
Barbour, 62, announced in March that she would retire this summer after leading Penn State athletics for the past eight years. She also had previous stints as AD at Tulane and California during a long career in college sports.
Barbour took over as Penn State was emerging from the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
Kraft is the second consecutive athletic director at Boston College to hold the job for fewer than three years, following Martin Jarmond, who left in 2020 for the same job at UCLA.
Kraft takes over an athletic program that supports 31 sports and 800 athletes, with football as the centerpiece.
Before announcing her departure, Barbour gave coach James Franklin, coming off a 7-6 season, a new 10-year contract worth $85 million.
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Musk told banks he will rein in Twitter pay, make money from tweets -sources
By Krystal Hu and Anirban Sen
April 29 (Reuters) - Elon Musk told banks that agreed to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc TWTR.N that he could crack down on executive and board pay at the social media company in a push to slash costs, and would develop new ways to monetize tweets, three people familiar with the matter said.
Musk made the pitch to the lenders as he tried to secure debt for the buyout days after submitting his offer to Twitter on April 14, the sources said. His submission of bank commitments on April 21 were key to Twitter's board accepting his "best and final" offer.
Musk had to convince the banks that Twitter produced enough cash flow to service the debt he sought. In the end, he clinched $13 billion in loans secured against Twitter and a $12.5 billion margin loan tied to his Tesla Inc TSLA.O stock. He agreed to pay for the remainder of the consideration with his own cash.
Musk's pitch to the banks constituted his vision rather than firm commitments, the sources said, and the exact cost cuts he will pursue once he owns Twitter remain unclear. The plan he outlined to banks was thin on detail, the sources added.
Musk has tweeted about eliminating the salaries of Twitter's board directors, which he said could result in about $3 million in cost savings. Twitter's stock-based compensation for the 12 months ending Dec. 31, 2021 was $630 million, a 33% increase from 2020, corporate filings show.
In his pitch to the banks, Musk also pointed to Twitter's gross margin, which is much lower than peers such as Meta Platforms Inc's FB.O Facebook and Pinterest PINS.N, arguing this leaves plenty of space to run the company in a more cost-efficient way.
The sources requested anonymity because the matter is confidential. A Musk representative declined to comment.
Bloomberg News reported earlier on Thursday that Musk specifically mentioned job cuts as part of his pitch to the banks. One of the sources said that Musk will not make decisions on job cuts until he assumes ownership of the company later this year. He went ahead with the acquisition without having access to confidential details on the company's financial performance and headcount.
Musk told the banks he also plans to develop features to grow business revenue, including new ways to make money out of tweets that contain important information or go viral, the sources said.
Ideas he brought up included charging a fee when a third-party website wants to quote or embed a tweet from verified individuals or organizations.
In a tweet earlier this month he subsequently deleted, Musk suggested a raft of changes to the social media giant's Twitter Blue premium subscription service, including slashing its price, banning advertising and giving an option to pay in the cryptocurrency dogecoin. Twitter's premium Blue service now costs $2.99 a month.
In another tweet he deleted, Musk said he wants to reduce Twitter's dependence on advertising for much of its revenue.
Musk, whose net worth is pegged by Forbes at $246 billion, has indicated he will support the banks in marketing the syndicated debt to investors, and that he may unveil more details of his business plan for Twitter then, the sources said.
Musk has also lined a up a new chief executive for Twitter, one of the sources added, declining to name the identity of that person. He told Twitter's chairman Bret Taylor earlier this month that he does not have confidence in the San Francisco-based company's management. Parag Agrawal, who was named Twitter's chief executive in November, is expected to remain in his role until the sale of the company to Musk is completed.
TOO RISKY FOR SOME BANKS
Musk has been inundated with offers from potential equity partners to join him in the Twitter deal, and he will decide in the coming weeks if he teams up with someone, one of the sources said. It is unlikely that Musk would partner with a private equity firm given that the deal is not structured as a traditional leveraged buyout, the source added.
Musk disclosed on Thursday he sold $4 billion worth of Tesla shares, a move likely aimed at helping finance his deal for Twitter.
The Tesla chief executive also told the banks he will seek moderation policies on the social media platform that are as free as possible within the legal constraints of each jurisdiction Twitter operates, the sources said, a position that he has repeated publicly.
The $13 billion Twitter loan is equivalent to seven times Twitter's 2022 projected earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. This was too risky for some banks who decided to participate only in the margin loan, the sources said.
Another reason some banks opted out is because they feared Musk's unpredictability could result in an exodus of talent from Twitter, harming its business, according to the sources.
A Twitter spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Krystal Hu in New York and Anirban Sen in Bengaluru Editing by Greg Roumeliotis and Sam Holmes)
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NORTHERN STATES POWER CO Quarterly Report (Form10)
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Burglar is found guilty of killing pensioner, 71, who suffered heart attack just minutes after she broke into his house
- William Jackson was found unconscious at his home in Tyne and Wear last year
- Mr Jackson went into cardiac arrest at his Washington home when it was burgled
- The 71-year-old was known to have heart problems, diabetes and mobility issues
- Prosecutors alleged he died because he was subjected to 'that stressful ordeal'
- Sarah Daniel has been found guilty of manslaughter after the pensioner's death
A burglar has been convicted of killing a pensioner who suffered a heart attack just minutes after his home was raided.
William Jackson, also known as Billy, died at the Sunderland Royal Hospital last September after he was 'deliberately targeted' by criminals.
The 71-year-old, suffered from pre-existing health problems and was found unconscious by his neighbour after the break-in at his home in Washington, Tyne and Wear.
He was taken to hospital where he died after a series of further cardiac arrests.
Prosecutors said he died 'because of the stress caused by being the victim of the burglary'.
Sarah Daniel, 33, and David Bulmer, 20, were both charged with manslaughter following his death.
William Jackson, known as Billy, died after suffering several heart attacks after his home in Washington, Tyne and Wear, was burgled
They both admitted being at the house so Daniel could sell stolen goods to Mr Jackson but denied they were there to burgle him.
After a trial at Newcastle Crown Court, Daniel was convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to burgle him.
Bulmer, who said he did not know Mr Jackson and had gone along with the women to sell stolen goods but did not know there was to be a burglary, was cleared of both charges.
Leanne English, 39, who waited outside Mr Jackson's home while her partner Daniel went in, denied conspiracy to commit burglary against Mr Jackson but has now been found guilty.
Prosecutors said English was involved in the planning and aftermath of the raid.
Daniel and Bulmer were also convicted of an aggravated burglary at a different address the week before the tragedy.
Sarah Daniel, 33, has been convicted of his manslaughter after carrying out the raid on Mr Jackson's home in September last year
The court heard Mr Jackson was targeted because he was known to sell cigarettes and tobacco, which he kept in his home.
Prosecutor Jamie Hill QC told the court: 'Mr Jackson was 71 years of age and lived in the Concord area of Washington at Hertburn Gardens.
'He had a number of health issues, not least an advanced heart condition. He had diabetes and issues with mobility.
'Although he lived alone, he had a partner called Linda Ord and she would visit him daily.
'Mr Jackson was quite well known in the area, he sold tobacco and cigarettes from his flat.'
The court heard it was the cigarettes and tobacco that drew the attention to his flat on September 24.
Mr Hill said: 'As to what happened precisely in the flat only Bulmer and Daniel know as sadly Mr Jackson is no longer with us.
'He suffered a heart attack as the defendants left and he died a number of hours later in hospital.'
Mr Hill told the court that it was Mr Jackson's neighbour's dog who raised the alarm as he began barking and added: 'He (the neighbour) said he found him slumped on the kitchen floor and unconscious.
David Bulmer, was found not guilty of mansaughter and conspiracy to commit burglary against Mr Jackson, but was found guilty of aggravated burglary on a second victim
'He had suffered a cardiac arrest, he called 999.
'Eventually paramedics arrived and they managed to keep Mr Jackson alive until they reached the Sunderland Royal.
'He died in the early hours of the next morning after a series of further cardiac arrests.'
Mr Hill told jurors that it was the prosecution's case that the pensioner died because he was subjected to 'that stressful ordeal'.
Mr Hill said: 'He died because of the stress caused by being the victim of the burglary.'
Bulmer and Daniel had also denied but were convicted of aggravated burglary relating to a separate incident against a different victim, Barry Clark.
Daniel was convicted of two counts of fraud by false representation and English convicted of common assault against Mr Clark, who was a neighbour of Daniel and English.
Leanne English was found guilty of conspiracy to commit burglary against Mr Jackson and common assault of a second victim
The court heard that the women had originally befriended Mr Clark, who lived alone after he relocated to the region.
Mr Hill said that on on the evening of September 17, days before Mr Jackson was targeted, Bulmer and Daniel attended Mr Clark's address where they took cash, a mobile phone and a bank card while armed with a baseball bat, which they used to strike him on the leg.
The common assault charge against English occurred a few months prior, on June 18, after she held up Mr Clark's arm in a nearby underpass while Daniel stole his wallet.
She later used a card to withdraw £290 from a cash machine on two separate occasions.
Daniel, 33, of Waterloo Walk, in Washington, was convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to commit burglary against Mr Jackson, and aggravated burglary and two counts of fraud by false representation against Mr Clark.
Leanne English, 39, also of Waterloo Walk, in Washington, was convicted of conspiracy to commit burglary against Mr Jackson and common assault against Mr Clark.
David Bulmer, 20, of Bramston Way, in Washington, was found guilty of aggravated burglary against Mr Clark, but not guilty of manslaughter and conspiracy to commit burglary against Mr Jackson.
All three have now been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on July 8.
Judge Penny Moreland told the trio: 'I will sentence you for the offences which the jury have convicted you of on July 8.
'You are remanded in custody until that date.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10767715/Burglar-guilty-killing-pensioner-suffered-heart-attack-minutes-broke-house.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-29T15:19:36Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10767715/Burglar-guilty-killing-pensioner-suffered-heart-attack-minutes-broke-house.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Daytona’s first female UPS driver helps welcome 1,500 others into 25-year accident-free honor club
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – UPS is welcoming nearly 1,500 of its drivers worldwide into an elite group called the Circle of Honor, reserved for drivers who have not had a vehicle accident in 25 years.
At the end of March, UPS announced 1,495 of its drivers across four continents were inducted into the Circle of Honor.
One UPS driver who knows all too well about safe driving is Janis Bailey, the first female driver out of her center in Daytona Beach to join the elite group. She was inducted into the Circle of Honor a few years ago, but with that honor comes another – being a female trailblazer in the world of UPS.
When she joined UPS in 1989, Bailey wasn’t what customers were used to seeing in a male-dominated field. But she didn’t let that phase her.
At the time, she was working as a pharmacy technician when a customer who worked for job services offered to have her interview for UPS, because he knew of Bailey’s career goal to work for a good company.
She interviewed in April 1989, and after some time getting on her feet, she was asked to become a driver for peak season in late August.
“I just said yes. I don’t even know what I was saying yes to,” Bailey said.
But 32 years ago, the company looked much different. Bailey was one of the first female drivers in her area, only having two or three female coworkers at the time.
“I think when I started there were sort of doubts… even in supervision because they were mainly all male. My coworkers were mainly all male. I think at that time, you had to kind of prove yourself,” Bailey said. “I know I personally went way overboard, working really hard to prove that, ‘Hey, I can handle this, I can do this. And I can do this better than some of the guys.’ It was a time when I think you really, really did have to prove yourself.”
Among the few other women she worked with, Bailey said it was quite competitive amongst themselves – but now, things have changed.
“[UPS has] more female pre-loaders, more female drivers – twice the amount right now than I’ve seen in many years, maybe triple,” Bailey said. “The women have a camaraderie now.”
During her 32 years with UPS, Bailey managed to receive a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in criminal justice. But she hasn’t just been kept busy with work and school all these years – she’s also a mom of six.
Bailey said her youngest daughter, who is now 18, is starting to appreciate her mom’s go-getter attitude and never taking no for an answer.
“I’ve always just said [to my kids], ‘Don’t let anybody tell you no. You are you. Go do whatever it is that you want to do, and don’t let anybody tell you different,’” Bailey said.
She also advises that if you have the determination, you can juggle a career, school, and home life all at the same time.
“I’ve always told my children you can work and go to school at the same time. I earned two degrees while I was still employed at UPS. No matter what you’re doing at work, you can still balance your home life and school, it’s just your determination in doing that,” Bailey said. “Whatever you have your mindset to do, don’t let anybody tell you, ‘Well you’re married, you have a couple children, you can’t go to school.’ No, that’s not true. If you’re motivated to do that, you’re going to find a way to do that. A career is built on education, determination, integrity, work ethic, it’s all part of that.”
Perhaps the other 10,547 current Circle of Honor members feel the same, as driving accident-free for 25 years is no easy feat. Bailey considers being a part of the Circle of Honor, well, “an honor,” and she’ll continue to get a safe-driving patch of honor every five years, as long as her driving record stays clean.
“I think it’s inspirational, it gives motivation to other drivers,” Bailey said.
As far as how she did it, Bailey said focusing on safety first is truly the key to joining the Circle of Honor.
“Don’t be worried about the pressure of your time frame, safety is first. We all know time is important… we all care about production, but the safety is the first thing. Because once you get hurt, in a minute, all the rest of it’s over if you’re not safe first,” Bailey said. “I really appreciate our company now focusing on the safety about us driving… all of our training, we have so much training. It’s ingrained in me.”
So ingrained, in fact, that Bailey has passed down her safe driving skills to her six children and hopes to inspire other UPS drivers.
With April being Distracted Driving Awareness Month, UPS encourages all drivers to be more intentional about safe driving habits.
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Daytona’s first female UPS driver helps welcome 1,500 others into 25-year accident-free honor club
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – UPS is welcoming nearly 1,500 of its drivers worldwide into an elite group called the Circle of Honor, reserved for drivers who have not had a vehicle accident in 25 years.
At the end of March, UPS announced 1,495 of its drivers across four continents were inducted into the Circle of Honor.
One UPS driver who knows all too well about safe driving is Janis Bailey, the first female driver out of her center in Daytona Beach to join the elite group. She was inducted into the Circle of Honor a few years ago, but with that honor comes another – being a female trailblazer in the world of UPS.
When she joined UPS in 1989, Bailey wasn’t what customers were used to seeing in a male-dominated field. But she didn’t let that phase her.
At the time, she was working as a pharmacy technician when a customer who worked for job services offered to have her interview for UPS, because he knew of Bailey’s career goal to work for a good company.
She interviewed in April 1989, and after some time getting on her feet, she was asked to become a driver for peak season in late August.
“I just said yes. I don’t even know what I was saying yes to,” Bailey said.
But 32 years ago, the company looked much different. Bailey was one of the first female drivers in her area, only having two or three female coworkers at the time.
“I think when I started there were sort of doubts… even in supervision because they were mainly all male. My coworkers were mainly all male. I think at that time, you had to kind of prove yourself,” Bailey said. “I know I personally went way overboard, working really hard to prove that, ‘Hey, I can handle this, I can do this. And I can do this better than some of the guys.’ It was a time when I think you really, really did have to prove yourself.”
Among the few other women she worked with, Bailey said it was quite competitive amongst themselves – but now, things have changed.
“[UPS has] more female pre-loaders, more female drivers – twice the amount right now than I’ve seen in many years, maybe triple,” Bailey said. “The women have a camaraderie now.”
During her 32 years with UPS, Bailey managed to receive a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in criminal justice. But she hasn’t just been kept busy with work and school all these years – she’s also a mom of six.
Bailey said her youngest daughter, who is now 18, is starting to appreciate her mom’s go-getter attitude and never taking no for an answer.
“I’ve always just said [to my kids], ‘Don’t let anybody tell you no. You are you. Go do whatever it is that you want to do, and don’t let anybody tell you different,’” Bailey said.
She also advises that if you have the determination, you can juggle a career, school, and home life all at the same time.
“I’ve always told my children you can work and go to school at the same time. I earned two degrees while I was still employed at UPS. No matter what you’re doing at work, you can still balance your home life and school, it’s just your determination in doing that,” Bailey said. “Whatever you have your mindset to do, don’t let anybody tell you, ‘Well you’re married, you have a couple children, you can’t go to school.’ No, that’s not true. If you’re motivated to do that, you’re going to find a way to do that. A career is built on education, determination, integrity, work ethic, it’s all part of that.”
Perhaps the other 10,547 current Circle of Honor members feel the same, as driving accident-free for 25 years is no easy feat. Bailey considers being a part of the Circle of Honor, well, “an honor,” and she’ll continue to get a safe-driving patch of honor every five years, as long as her driving record stays clean.
“I think it’s inspirational, it gives motivation to other drivers,” Bailey said.
As far as how she did it, Bailey said focusing on safety first is truly the key to joining the Circle of Honor.
“Don’t be worried about the pressure of your time frame, safety is first. We all know time is important… we all care about production, but the safety is the first thing. Because once you get hurt, in a minute, all the rest of it’s over if you’re not safe first,” Bailey said. “I really appreciate our company now focusing on the safety about us driving… all of our training, we have so much training. It’s ingrained in me.”
So ingrained, in fact, that Bailey has passed down her safe driving skills to her six children and hopes to inspire other UPS drivers.
With April being Distracted Driving Awareness Month, UPS encourages all drivers to be more intentional about safe driving habits.
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American Olympic champion Hunter Armstrong has set a world record in the men's 50 metres backstroke.
Armstrong posted a time of 23.71 seconds in the non-Olympic event while competing on Thursday night in the International Team Trials at Greensboro, North Carolina.
The meet is selecting the US team to compete at this year's world championships in Budapest.
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The 21-year-old, who attends Ohio State, won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics last summer when swimming the backstroke leg in the prelims of the 4x100m medley relay.
Still, he was stunned by his time in the 50 back, which eclipsed the mark of 23.80 set by Russia's Kliment Kolesnikov in 2021.
Armstrong established an American record in the morning prelims, then went even faster in the evening.
"It was a complete shock," he said. "My best time before this was a 25.50 and in prelims I was able to throw down a 24.00 and that gave me hope.
"But Kolesnikov is one of the fastest backstrokers and freestylers in the world. To be up there with him is just incredible."
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Rating: Solid neighborhood option
The Hearthstone Bakery Cafe patio is an oasis tucked away on Harry Wurzbach Road near Fort Sam Houston. Beautiful oak trees cast a cooling shadow over the property, where you hear birds chirping and may even see a deer meander by.
For 38 years, the property was home to Crumpets restaurant. Owner Jason VandeBerg moved his restaurant there in 2019 after more than 15 years in previous locations in Olmos Park and The Forum at Interstate 35 and Loop 1604. Both were closed to concentrate on the new property.
“The patio is by far where people want to eat,” said general manager Gary Castilleja, who has worked with VandeBerg for 11 years. “This is a building that has some history in this neighborhood, and we’re proud to call it home.”
Hearthstone delivers a tremendous menu of 22 sandwiches, as well as soups, salads, wraps and breakfast. And while the bread is outsourced, the bakery makes all the cookies and desserts.
All the sandwiches come with a pickle spear and the choice of either a bag of chips or cookie. Pasta or potato salad, a fruit cup, soup or a side salad can be swapped out for an upcharge.
The menu is a little confusing. When you order a sandwich, the server asks if you want the half or full sandwich. Both are the same price, because a half sandwich comes with soup or salad, or the upgraded sides.
Best sandwich: The menu says the turkey artichoke panino ($10.29) on ciabatta bread is the No. 1 seller, and I can see why. Briny artichoke hearts star with dual roles as a topping and blended with spinach in a sandwich spread. A generous amount of juicy, chopped roasted turkey held its own against the artichoke with support from a few thick slices of tomato and melted mozzarella cheese.
Other sandwiches: Weird menu items draw attention, and the Reuben the Loaded ($13.29) is certainly that. It’s a classic Reuben on marbled rye with corned beef and tart sauerkraut, but it also gets a heaping scoop of the creamy, whipped, loaded potato salad as a spread. It worked the same way as coleslaw on barbecue sandwiches.
For a good taste of New Orleans, the Hearthstone Lotta Muffaletta ($9.59) won’t let you down, delivering that classic flavor. It starts with two thick slices of sesame seed bread, then adds the customary ham, salami, provolone cheese and an olive mix that makes the sandwich what it’s meant to be.
The Tony Montino panino ($10.99) takes a Cuban sandwich and adds pulled pork and cilantro sauce — but all I could taste was mustard. There was so little pulled pork, I was able to scoop it all up with a plastic spoon that had room to spare. The best thing about it was the side of traditional potato salad, which was so good I ate all of it despite all the other food on my tasting table.
The rations were also off in the Chicken Tuscanino panino ($9.99). The chicken slices were cut the same width as thick-cut bacon, and they were so dry that not even the cheese, grilled onions and the basil-pesto mayonnaise could revive them.
Still, there are 17 more sandwiches on the Hearthstone menu, and this was a trip with more hits than misses. I’ll eventually try more while relaxing on that patio, adding some soup and then hitting the desserts.
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Location:3920 Harry Wurzbach, 210-920-2600, hearthstonebakerycafe.com
Hours: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays | https://www.expressnews.com/food/article/San-Antonio-muffalettas-panini-sandwiches-17127827.php | 2022-04-29T15:24:13Z | https://www.expressnews.com/food/article/San-Antonio-muffalettas-panini-sandwiches-17127827.php | true |
By AMANDA SEITZ and HANNAH FINGERHUT
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. Even well-meaning, everyday social media users have fallen victim to the falsehoods, accidentally sharing or liking posts and images that turned out to be inaccurate.
About three-quarters of the American public fault the Russian government for advancing misinformation around the war, while many also blame social media users, tech companies and the news media. Far fewer place a great deal of blame on the Ukrainian or U.S. governments.
Russia’s falsehoods about the war are finding millions of eyeballs across social media and in state-media reports. Earlier this month, for example, a chorus of Kremlin media reports, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and Telegram channels tried to refute photographs and satellite images of bodies left by Russian soldiers in the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, by calling the images a “hoax.”
“Russia’s reach is broad,” said Darren Linvill, a Clemson University professor who studies disinformation. “They have a lot of different outlets that they use — everything from state media, in Russian, English and especially Spanish.”
The poll shows a majority of U.S. residents, about 57%, say they think Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed Russian troops to commit war crimes, while 6% say they think he has not done so. An additional 36% say they don’t know enough to say.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the AP and the PBS series “Frontline” have verified evidence of 178 potential war crimes.
The poll shows about 6 in 10 Americans say social media users have significant responsibility for the spread of misinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Roughly half also fault social media companies and the news media.
Retiree Kellie Carroll, 58, who lives outside Fresno, California, said she is sometimes frustrated by social media users who share posts about the Russia-Ukraine war but don’t cite the source of their information.
“You’ll see things that people are stating as fact, like they are there,” Carroll said of posts she’s seen on social media around the war.
Carroll, who watches local news and listens to conservative talk radio, added that she, too, finds fault with news reporting on the war. She described it as difficult to find news reports around the war that are not injected with opinion.
“I don’t want the opinions, I just want the facts,” she said.
Half of Americans also blame the Chinese government, which has refused to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine, for spreading misinformation around the war.
Indeed, China’s state-run media outlets have made at least 74 English-language Facebook posts referencing a conspiracy theory that the U.S. is running secret biological warfare labs in Ukraine that have intentionally released deadly viruses, according to a new report from NewsGuard, a technology firm that monitors misinformation. (The U.S. runs biolabs in Ukraine. It’s not a secret, and they’re not crafting bioweapons there.)
“A lot of this is definitely geared toward the United States,” said Jack Brewster, an analyst for the firm. “They’re echoing the same talking points that Russia is.”
Somewhat fewer blame the spread of war misinformation on U.S. politicians, with 44% saying they bear significant responsibility and 32% saying the same about the U.S. government.
Roger Beaulieu, a 66-year-old New Yorker, said the Russian government is responsible for much of the misinformation around the war. But he’s been surprised when he reads The New York Times or watches MSNBC or CNN to see what he describes as misinformation coming from some Republican lawmakers about the war. Beaulieu specifically mentioned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who last month said that Ukraine invited Russia’s invasion by “poking the bear.”
“It just seems that there’s more support for Russia than I can possibly understand,” Beaulieu said.
Large majorities of Democrats and Republicans say Russia has a large share of responsibility for spreading misinformation, and 70% of Democrats along with 55% of Republicans say Putin has directed Russian troops to commit war crimes. About a quarter of Democrats and roughly a third of Republicans say they don’t know.
But Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say social media companies (63% vs. 50%), the news media (61% vs. 38%) and politicians in the U.S. (52% vs. 38%) also bear a significant amount of blame for misinformation about the war.
About a quarter of Americans overall said the Ukrainian government is significantly responsible for the spread of misinformation. Republicans were more likely to say the Ukrainian government had significant blame for spreading misinformation than Democrats, 32% to 15%. About 4 in 10 Americans say the Ukrainian government has little responsibility for the spread of misinformation.
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The AP-NORC poll of 1,085 adults was conducted April 14-18 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points. | https://www.news-herald.com/2022/04/28/most-in-us-fear-ukraine-war-misinformation-ap-norc-poll/ | 2022-04-29T15:24:57Z | https://www.news-herald.com/2022/04/28/most-in-us-fear-ukraine-war-misinformation-ap-norc-poll/ | false |
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GENEVA- Ukraine, backed by dozens of other countries, has written to the World Health Organization's regional chief calling for an urgent meeting on the impact of Russia's invasion on health and healthcare, a letter obtained by Reuters on Friday showed.
The letter, sent this week by Ukraine's diplomatic mission in Geneva, Switzerland, where the WHO is headquartered, is signed by some 38 other members of the agency's European region, including France, Germany and Britain.
Addressed to Europe regional director Hans Kluge, it urged him to convene a meeting "no later than 9 May" and referred to attacks on health facilities, disrupted vaccination campaigns and concerns about the risk of radiological and chemical events.
The letter also suggested that Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus address the matter at a meeting of the World Health Assembly in May, when the body's 194 member states are set to decide on key reforms to prepare for future pandemics.
The WHO did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters is also seeking comment from Russia, which is one of 53 members of the WHO's European region.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and protect it from fascists. Ukraine and the West say the fascist allegation is baseless and that the war is an unprovoked act of aggression.
The WHO has recorded some 177 attacks on healthcare facilities and infrastructure in Ukraine resulting in 73 deaths since the start of Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, without assigning responsibility.
"These attacks deprive people of urgently needed care, endanger healthcare providers, and undermine health systems," the WHO said in a report on Ukraine on Thursday.
In the same report it said the health system in hard-hit eastern Ukraine had collapsed, adding that nearly all clinics and hospitals in the Luhansk region were damaged or destroyed.
(Additional reporting by Jennifer Rigby in London; Editing by Catherine Evans and Gareth Jones) | https://www.zawya.com/en/special-coverage/russia-ukraine-crisis/ukraine-seeks-urgent-who-meeting-on-impact-of-invasion-on-health-ytm3zty0 | 2022-04-29T15:28:37Z | https://www.zawya.com/en/special-coverage/russia-ukraine-crisis/ukraine-seeks-urgent-who-meeting-on-impact-of-invasion-on-health-ytm3zty0 | false |
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Hotels and restaurants are hoping for a cash boost as the City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival returns.
There will be more than 400 performances at the event, which was held virtually for the past two years. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-61275740 | 2022-04-29T15:30:10Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-61275740 | false |
Covid in Scotland: Estimated infection rate falls sharply
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Covid infections in Scotland have dropped sharply, according to the latest estimates by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Weekly sampling indicates that one in 25 people in the country had Covid in the week ending 23 April, down from one in 19 the previous week.
That would suggest about 218,000 Scots had the virus last week, a fall of 63,000 from the previous estimate.
It is the fifth week in a row that infections in Scotland have dropped.
The weekly ONS sampling is regarded by many experts as the most accurate method of gauging the prevalence of the virus, as not all positive lateral flow results are reported.
It also picks up asymptomatic infections among people who would not normally seek a test.
The research broadly corresponds with Public Health Scotland testing figures, which suggest case numbers have been falling steadily since mid-March.
On Wednesday it emerged the number of people admitted to hospital in Scotland with the virus has almost halved over the last four weeks.
The one in 25 estimate published in the latest ONS Coronavirus Infection Survey is the lowest for Scotland since February.
It compares with a record high of one in 11 for the week ending 20 March.
One in 25 people were also thought to have had the virus in England and Northern Ireland, while the figure was one in 18 in Wales.
Across the UK, 2.9 million people are thought to have had the virus recently, down from 3.8 million the previous week.
While the figures suggest the surge in Covid-19 driven by the Omicron BA.2 variant is now receding, prevalence remains high by historical standards.
The ONS data covers people in private households and does not include those in hospitals, care homes and other communal establishments.
New guidance
The improving picture will see self-isolation guidance end this weekend for people in Scotland who have Covid-19 or symptoms of the virus.
From Sunday, public health advice will change to a "stay at home" message for people who feel unwell or have a fever.
They will no longer be advised to take a PCR test and all contact tracing will end.
A leading public health expert welcomed the move and said Scotland was now treating Covid-19 like any other virus.
But Prof Linda Bauld told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland the pandemic was not yet over.
And she warned measures may need to be reassessed if a new variant "really challenged" the progress made.
Prof Bauld, of the University of Edinburgh, said: "Essentially we are moving to a stage now where we are less worried about infection and what we're focusing on is trying to find people who have the virus, who need support or are supporting those who are most vulnerable.
"It means that self-isolation for many people will not be required or expected in the way it was before unless they feel really unwell, for example, they have a high fever."
From the end of Saturday the NHS will also be taken off an emergency footing.
But those who work in health or social care sectors and those visiting hospitals and care homes will still be able to access Covid testing. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61273383 | 2022-04-29T15:35:49Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61273383 | false |
Guernsey Covid isolation guidance changed
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Isolation guidance for islanders who test positive for Covid-19 will be reduced to six days on 1 May.
All legally enforced Covid-19 restrictions for the Bailiwick of Guernsey ended in February.
The new guidance is asymptomatic adults can stop isolating on day six but until day 10 should wear face coverings in enclosed or poorly ventilated areas.
Under-18s will be advised to isolate for three days and allowed to return to education on day four if asymptomatic.
The difference is due to "some evidence that children have a shorter duration of illness compared to adults".
Face coverings will only be a requirement in clinical settings, with public health still advising the use of them to reduce "the risk of spread".
Islanders with Covid can take "unlimited outdoor exercise" during the first five days, but should stay away from others.
Medical officer of health Dr Nicola Brink said: "Reported case numbers have continued to come down since our last wave and hospital admissions remain very low, so it is right for us all to continue moving forwards with a reduction of measures.
"We will continue to keep our guidance under review and provide further updates, with the further scaling back of mitigations, as appropriate."
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Philadelphia (WPHL)- Philadelphia Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman made a blockbuster trade at the NFL draft Thursday night, trading for star receiver A.J. Brown from the Tennessee Titans for a first and third-round pick.
The Eagles also extended Brown’s rookie contract. According to Philadelphia Inquirer beat writer Jeff McLane, Brown and the Eagles agreed to a four-year, $100 million contract that includes $57 million guaranteed.
Philadelphia fans seem excited on social media, but most fans never watched a Titans game because the games are not televised in the Philadelphia region.
In Brown’s first two seasons, he had over 1,000-yards receiving with a 91-yard reception and a 73-yard reception. Brown had 63 catches for 869 yards and five touchdowns in 13 games last season.
Pro Football Focus ranked Brown the 14th best receiver last season. Over Terry McLaurin, Deandre Hopkins, Keenan Allen, and Mike Evans. The rankings PFF are solely analyzing the performance and impact of every receiver in the NFL from the 2021 regular season.
“Brown was again one of the most productive wide receivers in the league, said PFF. His 2.50 yards per route run ranked inside the top 10 among qualifying wide receivers in the regular season. Brown was actually one of eight receivers to record over 2.0 yards per route run in the slot and out wide this season. And he did all that while battling injuries at four different points from the preseason to the regular season’s end.”
Some reporters say Brown had a down season in 2021 compared to his first two seasons in the league. However, Brown dealt with a very limited QB with a run first and second offense.
Seriously, the game plan for the Titans was to feed star running back Derrick Henry and run QB Ryan Tannehill second. Henry only played eight games and finished with 937 rushing yards, which is excellent. Tannehill was second in rushing touchdowns for the team with seven. When the Titans were forced to throw, Tannehill threw three interceptions in the playoffs as the Titans lost to the Cincinnati Bengals. It was quickly Tannehill’s worst game of the season.
The Eagles faced this same problem with Jalen Hurts. However, the offense did show potential in the passing game. Besides DeVonta Smith, no other wideout on the Eagles was consistent in catching the ball or getting open. The Eagles had critical drops in close games by WRs that fans remember.
With Brown now joining the Eagles, Hurts have two legit options at WR that he can rely on. It’s all up to Hurts now on his development as a passer.
The NFL Draft continues at 7:00 pm with rounds two and three. The Eagles have the No. 51 and No. 83 pick tonight. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/sports/what-a-j-brown-will-bring-to-the-philadelphia-eagles/ | 2022-04-29T15:40:26Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/sports/what-a-j-brown-will-bring-to-the-philadelphia-eagles/ | false |
Nicola Sturgeon: How can small countries have a global impact?
Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode What Leadership Looks Like.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon shares ideas on leading Scotland, from her approach to climate change and wellness, to the challenges she's faced as a female leader.
About Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon is the first female First Minister of Scotland.
Prior to joining the government, Sturgeon worked at a law firm in Glasgow as a solicitor. She always had an interest in politics; when she was 16 she joined the Scottish National Party, and in 1992 she was the youngest candidate for parliament at the age of 21. She became a regional Member of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Sturgeon is currently a Member of Scottish Parliament representing Glasgow Southside after having represented Govan between 2007 and 2011, prior to boundary changes. She became leader of the Scottish National Party in November, 2014, when she was also sworn in as First Minister. She was re-elected in 2021.
Sturgeon studied law at the University of Glasgow.
This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Katie Monteleone and edited by Katie Simon. You can follow us on Twitter @TEDRadioHour and email us at TEDRadio@npr.org. | https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1094942180/nicola-sturgeon-how-can-small-countries-have-a-global-impact | 2022-04-29T15:44:30Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1094942180/nicola-sturgeon-how-can-small-countries-have-a-global-impact | false |
A hot-headed restaurant boss who called a kitchen porter a "donkey," manhandled him in front of staff and treated him "like a slave" at his steakhouse restaurant.
The restaurant boss faced a damages pay-out for workplace harassment today.
In scenes worthy of the film "Boiling Point," Gurhan Mustafa, 45, humiliated EU migrant Dimitar Dimov on a regular basis.
Mustafa condemned him to work seven days a week and even left him with no time to wash his single-issue uniform ahead of shifts.
On one occasion, Mustafa grabbed Mr Dimov by the throat leaving him with red marks on his neck for not boiling a pan of peas.
On another he held him by his shirt and pushed him against the wall whilst calling him a "pig" and a "f*****g idiot " after the hapless assistant turned up for work with an open can of soft drink.
He also paid Mr Dimov less than the minimum wage and when asked why by another employee said: "I you don't like it, pay him yourself."
Mr Dimov eventually left his job in November 2019 after three years, telling Mustafa in a text: "I quit. I will no longer work for you.
"I wish you luck. I'm sorry."
He later sued for racial discrimination.
At an employment tribunal in Croydon, Smith London, Turkish Cypriot father-of-one Mustafa was found to have subjected Mr Dimov to harassment on the basis of his race and of unlawfully deducting his pay.
Mr Dimov who spoke little English had initially started working at Mr Mustafa's café Mambocino in Erith near Charing Cross in August 2016 after arriving in the UK from his native Bulgaria.
But he ended up working every day at the café before working the evening shift next door at the Riverside Fish and Steakhouse which Mr Mustafa runs with with his partner Edita Joinatyte.
During his period of employment, Mr Dimov claimed he was assaulted four times and said he was "treated like a slave" because he is Bulgarian.
He described being "laughed at and humiliated" - adding he was paid less than the national minimum wage throughout and not given holiday.
Tribunal chairman Judge Lise Burge said: "The Claimant worked at Mambocino every day and assisted with tasks such as washing up, taking out the refuse and recycling, collecting and unpacking deliveries, food preparation and general cleaning.
"He would go and make himself food, go outside and eat to have a lunch break, but after a while Mr Mustafa would shout at him and say "why are you sitting down go and work".
The Claimant then started to work in the evenings at Riverside Fish and Steak House which was being set up.
"This was a new business for Mr Mustafa and his partner Ms Joinaitis was the manager.
"Witnesses said said the Claimant worked all day at Mambocino and in the evening at Riverside.
"One said the Claimant worked seven days a week and would also leave work to carry out his personal tasks such as hairdressing, going to the post office and bank.
"There were hygiene issues for the Claimant as he worked all day at Mambocino and then at Riverside and he only had one Mambocino T-shirt.
"He did not wash it often as he did not have much time off to be able to wash.
"The Claimant's evidence changed about what hours he started and finished, although he consistently said that he worked all the time.
"There were a few rare occasions when he would not work on a day.
"The tribunal found the Claimant worked seven days a week at Mambocino for five hours a day on average with his start and end times ranging from 7am- 6.30pm.
"He would then go and work in Riverside in the evenings.
"The Claimant never received holiday pay. Mr Mustafa frequently behaved in an abusive and offensive way towards the Claimant.
"The Claimant was overworked and subjected to humiliation, threats, curses, swearing, maltreatment being called idiot, animal, pig, donkey, cow and gypsy.
"The Claimant experienced this unwanted treatment as hostile, degrading humiliating and offensive."
The hearing was told Mr Dimov was advised he would be paid minimum wage but received just £300 cash in hand per week when he ended up worked shifts at both Mambocino and Riverside.
When challenged by another employee on why Mr Dimov's pay was so low Mr Mustafa retorted: "have unlawfully deducted'
In his evidence Mr Dimov said he would often be called a "fing Bulgarian" whilst a colleague told how Mr Mustfa would swear
at him and call him a "fing idiot" and use Turkish words that meant "cow, donkey and gypsy."
One witness said Mr Mustafa was a "bad employer who mistreated staff in different ways" and said Mr Dimov was "very overworked."
She said Mr Mustafa shouted at "everyone" but mainly his outbursts were aimed at Mr Dimov if he made mistake.
During the hearing two witnesses were compelled to attend - one claiming she was afraid of what Mr Mustafa "would do in retaliation" should she testify whilst another asked for cash to give evidence.
Mr Mustafa himself denied being abusive and said Mr Dimov would be rebuked for being "messy" and "smelly".
He further accused him of picking up mashed potatoes with his hand and putting them on a plate to serve to a customer.
But when giving evidence, the boss repeatedly lost his temper and was said to have treated Mr Dimov's representative Gina Pratt, with "disdain" saying he never trusts a "church person" and claiming she was a "bad person."
In conclusion Judge Burge added: "The Claimant was treated very badly throughout his employment. He was overworked, underpaid and he was subjected to verbal abuse, and on two occasions, to physical abuse - he was pushed against a wall and grabbed by the throat. Mr Mustafa would swear at the Claimant and use words in English or Turkish meaning idiot, animal, pig, donkey, cow and gypsy.
"This behaviour was unwanted it not only violated the Claimant's dignity but also was experienced by the Claimant as creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for him.
"Given the extent of the mistreatment, the Tribunal concludes that it was reasonable for the conduct to have that effect.
"The Claimant was vulnerable because he had come to England shortly before he started working for the tespondent with no family and he could not speak English.
"He got a job washing up and working as a general help at Mambocino but he did not know about the rights that he had and what his pay should be.
"When asked why he did not get help or go to the police he answered that he could not speak the language and so would not be able to get any help.
"All of these vulnerabilities were intrinsically connected to his nationality and Mr Mustafa took advantage of him because of them.
"There were a variety of nationalities working at Mr Mustafa's businesses. Mr Mustafa sometimes treated others badly.
"But it was the Claimant who he treated very badly, not only by over working and underpaying him but abusing him verbally and also physically twice.
"The language that he used showed a contempt for him personally."
A further hearing will likely be held to establish how much Mr Mustafa compensation must pay to Mr Dimov.
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Couple playing lottery since first date wins millions 3 decades later
MINNESOTA (Gray News) – A married couple in Minnesota hit the Mega Millions jackpot earlier this month, but their lottery story doesn’t begin there.
The pair chose the cash option of $66.9 million – the largest prize claimed so far under Minnesota’s new anonymity law.
The couple shared a pizza and played scratch tickets on their first date in 1990, which also happened to be the day the first scratch tickets were sold in Minnesota, according to Mega Millions.
They have been playing the same numbers for more than three decades, only changing a number or two on occasion.
Ms. Lottery Winner said she recognized the winning Mega Million numbers instantly after the drawing on April 12: 2-8-14-20-31, Mega Ball 17.
After a few hours of sleep, the couple went to work the next day. Ms. Lottery Winner said she only got about five minutes of work done before they started making plans for the future, teaming up with lawyers and a financial advisor.
The pair said their immediate plans are “typical,” with the desire to travel and buy a house and a car.
This is Minnesota’s first Mega Millions jackpot winner since Minnesota joined the game in 2010.
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Katie Taylor has been a torch-bearer for women’s boxing, an inspiration to so many kids and the major reason women’s boxing was embraced by at the Olympic Games.
After a glittering amateur career that included five world championships and an Olympic gold medal, it is entirely fitting she should be involved in the first female pro bout to top the bill at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The defence of her lightweight titles against Amanda Serrano on boxing’s hallowed stage is a measure of how far women’s boxing has come. It is also the hardest fight of her professional career so far.
Though Serrano is coming up from featherweight she is arguably the most talented fighter in women’s boxing. Her punches are hard and accurate and she has been a pro much longer. I don’t know that Taylor’s style has changed that much since the amateurs and of late she has shown signs of slowing.
Taylor throws in bunches but does not place her shots with power. Only six stoppage wins in 20 bouts is proof of that. That’s the big difference in the pros. In any combination one punch has to have the money on it. Because of her long career in the amateurs I don’t think she has ever quite got that. In the last couple of fights it seems to me that opponents have worked her out. She is not hurting them like Serrano does and is more hittable.
This fight has come at the perfect time for Serrano, whereas for Taylor it coincides with the onset of decline. Taylor still has a great chin and is super fit, but looks predictable all of a sudden. Even legends start to tire. Because of Serrano’s natural power and speed I fear this could be one fight too many for Katy. What she has achieved as an amateur will never be forgotten nor repeated. I hope I’m wrong but I think Serrano wins.
Over in boxing’s modern capital, Las Vegas, Shakur Stevenson meets Oscar Valdez in a super featherweight unification cracker. Stevenson is a major talent. He has the skills of Sugar Ray Leonard but I don’t know if he has the same visceral hunger for the fight. Valdez is lucky to be in a ring after his drug violations.
He should have suffered greater penalties. However he will come for Stevenson and that should make it a classic. Stevenson can really fight but if he is to fulfil his potential he needs to open up and take risks. Hopefully Valdez will really bring out the fight in him. Stevenson for me, most likely on points. | https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/other-sport/boxing/katie-taylors-madison-square-garden-26834340 | 2022-04-29T15:49:16Z | https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/other-sport/boxing/katie-taylors-madison-square-garden-26834340 | false |
Roy Keane brutally mocked the suggestion that Manchester United could sign Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger, claiming he turned down a move to 'win some trophies.'
The German centre-back is out of contract at Stamford Bridge in the summer and Thomas Tuchel has recently announced Rudiger will be departing the capital upon the expiry of his current deal. United have shown some interest in a move for the 29-year-old after suffering defensively this season.
Captain Harry Maguire has come under fire for his performances at the heart of the United defence, with Keane a regular critic of the England international this season. The Manchester Evening News understands that a defensive addition is one of the targets this summer with interest in Pau Torres reignited earlier this month.
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Prior to Chelsea's draw at Old Trafford with United, Keane summarised the recent decline when discussing his former club's efforts to sign high-profile names. "I guess they probably did try to approach him," he said on Sky Sports after he was asked whether he'd like to see Rudiger with United.
"I think they have done but he’s thought, ‘no, I want to win some trophies,'" he added. La Liga champions-elect Real Madrid are reportedly in pole position to sign Rudiger with United expected to look elsewhere in the summer market.
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BEIJING (AP) — Tesla has recalled 14,684 Model 3s due to a software glitch that could cause collisions, China’s market regulator said Friday, in its second recall in the country this month.
The State Administration for Market Regulation said the recall affects both imported vehicles and those made in China.
The cars being recalled don’t display the unit, such as miles or kilometers per hour, for their speed when in Track Mode, which in extreme cases could lead to collisions, it said.
Earlier in April, the administration said Tesla was recalling 127,785 Model 3s due to potential problems with semiconductors that also could cause accidents.
This latest recall affects 1,850 imported Model 3s and 12,834 of the same model made in China, manufactured from Jan. 12, 2019-March 25, 2022.
The notice said Tesla Motors (Beijing) and Tesla (Shanghai) will upgrade software of the vehicles within the recall’s scope for free using an over-the-air (OTA) technology, enabling owners of the cars to complete the process. The company will contact owners of vehicles that cannot be upgraded that way so the upgrades can be done at Tesla service centers.
In June 2021, Tesla recalled more than 285,000 vehicles, including most of those made in China, to fix a software problem. That was followed by a recall of nearly 200,000 in December.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, April 30, 2022
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RED FLAG WARNING
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Norman OK
954 AM CDT Fri Apr 29 2022
...Critical to Extreme Fire Weather Conditions Likely Friday...
A combination of very dry air, hot temperatures, and gusty
southwest winds will lead to the potential for dangerous fire
weather conditions on Friday.
...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT FOR VERY DRY, WINDY, AND HOT CONDITIONS FOR
WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...
* TIMING... Friday afternoon through midnight.
* WINDS...Southwest 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 5 percent.
* TEMPERATURES...Mid to upper 90s
* IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of
strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures will
contribute to extreme fire behavior.
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Yoga Day-2022: Delhi’s top Ayush officials visit Mysuru
Two senior officials from the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, were in Mysuru on Friday to explore the possibility of holding the main event of International Day of Yoga-2022 in the Mysuru Palace surroundings or any other suitable venue in Mysuru, on June 21.
Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of Ayush, New Delhi and Kavita Garg, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Ayush conducted a meeting here at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in connection with the IDY-2022. Senior officials including the Ayush Commissioner Ramachandra, Deputy Commissioner Bagadi Gautham, District Ayush Officer Seethalakshmi and other top officials from the district were present.
The visit gained significance as Mysuru MP Pratap Simha and Uttara Kannada MP Ananth Kumar Hegde had recently urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the IDY-2022 main event in Mysuru on June 21. In this connection, the need was felt to find the feasibility of holding the main event of IDY observation in Mysuru, and therefore the top Ayush Ministry officials from New Delhi came to Mysuru.
The officials conducted the meeting to discuss venues, the main mass yoga demonstration, availability of infrastructure, transportation facilities, accommodation, weather, event management, security etc.
The Ayush officials, accompanied by the Deputy Commissioner and others visited the palace premises, which had earlier hosted mega yoga sessions. They also visited other locations, including the Mysuru Race Course where the mega Yoga Day events had been conducted in the past before COVID-19.
The 8th IDY on June 21 is being planned to be a massive physical event after two successful virtual events due to COVID-19. A series of high-level meetings involving Ministers from various departments has decided to celebrate this year’s IDY with greater enthusiasm, with the country celebrating its 75 th anniversary of independence.
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TROY, Ind. (AP) — An Indianapolis man who lost control of his SUV along a southern Indiana highway died when it crashed into a sheriff's deputy's vehicle, police said.
Phillip Everett Brown Jr., 61, was traveling east on State Road 66 in Spencer County early Thursday when he drove off the roadway for unknown reasons, overcorrected and crashed into a westbound police vehicle driven by a county sheriff's deputy, state police said.
Brown was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash along the scenic Ohio River highway about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) east of Evansville near the town of Troy.
The deputy, 27-year-old Ronald Wayne Harper Jr. of Tell City, was flown to a hospital in Louisville for treatment of injuries that police said were not believed to be life threatening.
Drugs and alcohol were not believed to be factors in the early morning crash, police said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Indianapolis-man-killed-in-collision-with-17136595.php | 2022-04-29T16:01:05Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Indianapolis-man-killed-in-collision-with-17136595.php | true |
LONDON (AP) — A lawmaker from Britain’s governing Conservative Party has been suspended after colleagues alleged he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber.
The party’s whips — officials responsible for enforcing discipline — said Friday that Neil Parish was suspended from the Conservative group in Parliament while the House of Commons Standards Committee investigates. He will remain a lawmaker but sit as an independent.
Parish, 65, has represented a district in southwest England in the lower chamber of Parliament since 2010 and heads the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
The allegations against him are the latest sexual misconduct claims in British politics. Long known for its boozy, macho atmosphere, Parliament is now a more diverse place, but lawmakers and staff say bullying, harassment and inappropriate behavior still are rife under a system that largely allows legislators to regulate themselves.
Earlier this week, female lawmakers reacted with outrage after a newspaper quoted an unnamed Conservative legislator who accused Labour Party Deputy Leader Angela Rayner of trying to “distract” the prime minister during debates by crossing and uncrossing her legs.
In addition to Paris, three other Conservative members of Parliament are currently suspended by the party over sexual misconduct claims.
The allegations of sexism and misbehavior involving Conservatives are further trouble for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose job is on the line after he was fined by police for attending a party in 2020 that broke government-imposed coronavirus lockdown rules.
Local elections across the U.K. on Thursday will give voters a chance to show their feelings about the governing party. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/UK-Conservative-lawmaker-suspended-over-17136597.php | 2022-04-29T16:01:41Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/UK-Conservative-lawmaker-suspended-over-17136597.php | false |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday released its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, citing the toll on Black smokers and young people.
“The proposed rules would help prevent children from becoming the next generation of smokers and help adult smokers quit,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, in a statement.
He added that the ban would also be an “important step to advance health equity” by reducing disparities in tobacco-related diseases.
The Food and Drug Administration said eliminating menthol cigarettes could prevent between 300,000 and 650,000 smoking deaths over 40 years.
Menthol accounts for more than a third of cigarettes sold in the U.S, and the mint flavor is favored by Black smokers and young people. Menthol’s cooling effect has been shown to mask the throat harshness of smoking, making it easier to start and harder to quit.
The FDA said it will also seek to ban menthol and dozens of other flavors like grape and strawberry from cigars, which are increasingly popular with young people, especially Black teens.
The agency’s proposals on both cigarettes and cigars are only initial drafts and are unlikely to be finalized before next year. Companies would then have one additional year to phase out their products. Tobacco industry lawsuits could delay the prohibition for several more years, according to experts. For now, FDA leaders said they will take comments for two months and then proceed “as expeditiously as possible.”
Altria, which sells menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, said it disagreed with the ban.
“Taking these products out of the legal marketplace will push them into unregulated, criminal markets,” the company said in a statement. “We will continue to engage in this long-term regulatory process.”
The FDA has attempted several times to get rid of menthol but faced pushback from Big Tobacco, members of Congress and competing political interests under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Regulators have been under legal pressure to issue a decision after anti-smoking and civil rights groups sued the FDA for “unreasonably” delaying action on earlier requests to ban menthol.
Menthol is the only cigarette flavor that was not prohibited under the 2009 law that gave the FDA authority over tobacco products, an exemption negotiated by industry lobbyists. The act did, though, instruct the agency to continue to weigh a ban. To date, the FDA has yet to eliminate any traditional tobacco product, though it has had that authority for over a decade.
Last April, the Biden administration pledged to try to ban menthol within the year, responding in part to African American groups who say menthol has led to lower quit rates and higher rates of death among Black people. Menthols are used by 85% of Black smokers.
“Black folks die disproportionately of heart disease, lung cancer and stroke,” said Phillip Gardiner of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council. “Menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars are the main vectors of those diseases in the Black and brown communities, and have been for a long time.”
In 2020, Gardiner’s group and several others sued to compel the FDA to make a decision on a ban.
More than 12% of Americans smoke cigarettes, with rates roughly even between white and Black populations.
In 2019, more than 18 million Americans smoked menthol cigarettes, with higher rates among young people, African Americans and other racial groups, according to the FDA. Menthol smoking declined among white teenagers between 2011 and 2018, but not among Black and Hispanic youth, the agency noted.
Thursday’s proposals would not apply to electronic cigarettes, including leading brands like Juul and Vuse, which come in menthol. The FDA has been conducting a separate review of vaping products and has so far authorized a handful of tobacco-flavored products from smaller manufacturers.
The FDA made several efforts to begin eliminating menthol cigarettes under both the Obama and Trump administrations, but had never previously released a formal roadmap of how to accomplish the ban.
“This is the first time there’s been support from an administration,” said Mitch Zeller, who recently retired after nine years leading FDA’s tobacco center. “If these rules are finalized they become the law of the land and it becomes illegal for menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars to be sold.”
In recent weeks, dozens of interest groups — for and against the ban — met with Biden administration officials to try and influence the proposed rules, which would wipe out billions in tobacco sales. Conservative and civil rights groups that accept tobacco funding warned officials that banning could menthol could result in increased policing in Black communities.
While acknowledging those concerns, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf stressed that the agency’s rules would target companies, not smokers.
“These measures and related enforcement would be on the tobacco industry, not individuals who possess or use these products,” Califf told reporters.
For decades, tobacco companies focused menthol advertising and promotions in Black communities, sponsoring music festivals and neighborhood events. Industry documents released via litigation show companies viewed menthol cigarettes as a good “starter product” because they were more palatable to teens.
Menthol’s elimination would be a huge blow to tobacco companies, including Reynolds American, which sells the leading menthol brands, Newport and Kool. With the slow decline of smoking, tobacco companies have been diversifying into alternative products, including electronic cigarettes and tobacco pouches. But those ventures still account for a tiny slice of industry sales.
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Ghost of Kyiv 'is killed': Ukrainian fighter ace who shot down more than FORTY Russian aircraft 'dies in battle against overwhelming enemy forces'
- Major Stepan Tarabalka, 29, became a legendary figure in Ukraine's defence
- He shot down as many as 40 Russian aircraft but there were doubts if he was real
- Sources confirmed his death last month after he was surrounded by Russians
The legendary 'Ghost of Kyiv' fighter pilot who shot down more than 40 Russian aircraft died in battle last month, it has been revealed.
Major Stepan Tarabalka, 29, a father of one, was flying a MiG-29 when it was shot down on March 13 battling 'overwhelming' enemy forces.
He quickly gained worldwide fame after shooting down six Russian aircraft on the first day of the invasion, as the Ukrainian government tweeted a video of the claims.
Major Stepan Tarabalka, 29, a father of one, was flying a MiG-29 when it was shot down on March 13 battling 'overwhelming' enemy forces
He quickly gained worldwide fame after shooting down six Russian aircraft on the first day of the invasion, as the Ukrainian government tweeted a video of the claims
But speculation then grew that he was a Ukrainian myth designed to inspire bravery in the ranks of their defiant fighters.
Now, sources have confirmed his identity and his death to The Times.
His helmet and goggles are now expected to go on sale at an auction in London.
After his initial success, the Ukrainian government said: 'People call him the Ghost of Kyiv. And rightly so — this UAF [Ukrainian Air Force] ace dominates the skies over our capital and country, and has already become a nightmare for invading Russian aircraft.'
Speculation grew that he was a Ukrainian myth designed to inspire bravery in the ranks of their defiant fighters
He has been posthumously awarded the country's top medal for bravery in combat, the Order of the Golden Star, and has been given the title Hero of Ukraine.
Two days before his death, Ukraine's General Staff shared a photo of the legendary fighter sitting in the cockpit.
They captioned it: 'Hello, occupier, I'm coming for your soul!'
Tarabalka was born into a working class family in the village of Korolivka in the west of Ukraine.
He attended Kharkiv National University of the Air Force and leaves behind his wife Olenia and son Yarik, eight.
Local accounts say he is personally responsible for downing 40 Russian aircraft, and possibly more.
His mother Nahtalia said he used to watch MiG jets flying over their home and always dreamed of being a fighter pilot.
She said: 'He would always watch the paratroopers in their air exercises. And he would run in their direction to try to see where they landed. Since early childhood, he always dreamed of the sky, about flying higher than the clouds.'
Once qualified, he would regularly fly over their village and tilt the wings of his jet as a salute to the family. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10768131/Ghost-Kyiv-fighter-pilot-killed-shooting-FORTY-Russian-aircraft.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-04-29T16:13:53Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10768131/Ghost-Kyiv-fighter-pilot-killed-shooting-FORTY-Russian-aircraft.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
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How to Reset Root Password in Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux | Mark Ai Code
It does happen. Yes, it is possible to lose track of your passwords, including the root password, which is required to conduct root-privileged actions. This can happen for a variety of reasons, including not signing in as a root user for an extended length of time or having a complicated root password – in which case you should consider using a password manager to properly store your password.
Don’t worry if you’ve forgotten your root password and have nowhere to go for it. If you have physical access to your server, you may easily reset your lost root password.
Follow along as we demonstrate how to reset a lost root password in Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux.
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Btrfs for mere mortals: inode allocation | Marcos' Blog
It’s known that btrfs behaves differently from other Linux filesystems. There are some fascinating aspects of how btrfs manages its internal structures and how common tools are not prepared to handle it.
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Deleting a Twitter account is quick and easy. You can do it from a PC or through the mobile app. Just take these steps: [...]
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Using sed for Find and Replace
You need the ability to search and manipulate text on the command line, especially when performing repetitive tasks. This is what makes sed, or stream editor, so valuable. sed is a Unix text processing and manipulation CLI tool. A stream editor takes in text from an input stream and transforms it into a specified output according to instructions. The input stream could be from pipelines or files.
sed reads input text from files or stdin, then edits the text line by line according to the provided conditions and commands. After sed performs the specified operation on each line, it outputs the processed text to stdout or a file, then moves on to the next line.
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Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS: Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS
In the first article in this series, we concentrated on selecting suitable hardware for your FreeBSD and OpenZFS-based NAS. We’re taking a build-up approach, where we first walk you through the hardware steps, and now we’re bringing up the next layer in our step-up – setting up your FreeBSD operating system. In this article we take a closer look at the operating system and the configurations, both during and after installation, to fine-tune the system for OpenZFS storage.
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Are Investors Undervaluing SpartanNash (SPTN) Right Now?
While the proven Zacks Rank places an emphasis on earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find strong stocks, we also know that investors tend to develop their own individual strategies. With this in mind, we are always looking at value, growth, and momentum trends to discover great companies.
Considering these trends, value investing is clearly one of the most preferred ways to find strong stocks in any type of market. Value investors use tried-and-true metrics and fundamental analysis to find companies that they believe are undervalued at their current share price levels.
In addition to the Zacks Rank, investors looking for stocks with specific traits can utilize our Style Scores system. Of course, value investors will be most interested in the system's "Value" category. Stocks with "A" grades for Value and high Zacks Ranks are among the best value stocks available at any given moment.
One company value investors might notice is SpartanNash (SPTN). SPTN is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy) and an A for Value.
Investors should also recognize that SPTN has a P/B ratio of 1.61. Investors use the P/B ratio to look at a stock's market value versus its book value, which is defined as total assets minus total liabilities. This stock's P/B looks attractive against its industry's average P/B of 2.33. SPTN's P/B has been as high as 1.65 and as low as 0.88, with a median of 1.08, over the past year.
Value investors also love the P/S ratio, which is calculated by simply dividing a stock's price with the company's sales. This is a prefered metric because revenue can't really be manipulated, so sales are often a truer performance indicator. SPTN has a P/S ratio of 0.14. This compares to its industry's average P/S of 0.36.
Finally, our model also underscores that SPTN has a P/CF ratio of 7.61. This metric takes into account a company's operating cash flow and can be used to find stocks that are undervalued based on their solid cash outlook. SPTN's current P/CF looks attractive when compared to its industry's average P/CF of 9.88. SPTN's P/CF has been as high as 7.79 and as low as 4.04, with a median of 5.32, all within the past year.
These are only a few of the key metrics included in SpartanNash's strong Value grade, but they help show that the stock is likely undervalued right now. When factoring in the strength of its earnings outlook, SPTN looks like an impressive value stock at the moment.
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Zelensky, Putin invited to G20 summit: Indonesian leader
President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, which holds the G20 presidency this year, has been under pressure from the West to exclude Russia following its invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been invited to the G20 summit in November, which will also be attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the leader of host nation Indonesia said Friday.
Indonesia, which holds the G20 presidency this year, has been under heavy pressure from the West, led by the United States, to exclude Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, but Jakarta has argued it must remain "impartial".
"I have invited President Zelensky to attend the G20 summit," said President Joko Widodo, suggesting a compromise had been reached following pressure from US President Joe Biden and others to allow Ukraine's participation to strike a balance.
Putin confirmed in a phone call with Widodo that he will attend the summit, to take place on Bali island, the Indonesian leader said in a livestreamed address.
Russia is a G20 member, while Ukraine is not.
Zelensky had announced in a tweet that he was invited to the summit by Indonesia on Wednesday, following a call with Widodo.
Widodo met with the Russian president on Thursday, saying, "Putin thanked Indonesia for the invitation to the G20 summit and said he would attend."
During the conversation, Putin wished Indonesia's G20 presidency "success", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
But "for the time being, it is premature to communicate the modalities of Russian participation", he said, leaving the format of Moscow's participation in doubt.
The West has attempted to diplomatically isolate Russia since the beginning of its military offensive in February.
A meeting of G20 finance ministers in April in Washington illustrated the deep divisions in the group of the world's major economies, with the US and several allies boycotting talks to protest Russian participation.
But Indonesia, like most major emerging economies, has tried to maintain a neutral position.
Widodo said on Friday that Indonesia would not send weapons to Ukraine in response to a request from Zelensky, instead offering humanitarian aid.
The war in Ukraine was again a major talking point on Friday when Widodo spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
The Indonesian president called for an immediate end to hostilities and stressed the need for a "peaceful solution".
Kishida agreed that the violence must end but used stronger language to describe the conflict.
"An infringement on sovereignty and territorial integrity through the use of force and intimidation, as well as an attempt to unilaterally change the status quo by force, are unacceptable in any region," he said.
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Women’s real wages will fall by almost £40 a month this year, according to new research.
The TUC said women were already being hit by the “squeeze” in public sector pay, estimating they are earning £90 a month less in real terms than a year ago.
With rising inflation, women working in the public sector will see their pay packets cut even more this year, said the union organisation.
Its analysis showed that nurses’ real wages are down more than £2,700 since a year ago, and local government care workers’ pay is down by £1,600.
The TUC is calling on the Chancellor to announce an emergency Budget to help families through the cost-of-living crisis.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “Women already suffer from the punishing gender pay gap and will now see their wages fall off a cliff this year.
“The Government cannot look on as women across Britain are pushed deep into the red.
“The Chancellor must come back to Parliament with an emergency Budget.
“The longer ministers wait to deal with this living standards emergency the more damage will be done.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/business-environment/business/3243617/womens-spending-power-dented-by-public-sector-squeeze-unions-say/ | 2022-04-29T16:24:47Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/business-environment/business/3243617/womens-spending-power-dented-by-public-sector-squeeze-unions-say/ | false |
Sickness absence increased last year following the end of the furlough scheme, new Covid variants and the decline in homeworking, official figures show.
The sickness absence rate rose to 2.2%, from a record low of 1.8% in 2020 – the highest since 2010, when it was also 2.2%.
An estimated 149.3 million working days were lost because of sickness or injury last year, equivalent to 4.6 days per worker, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The most common reason for sickness absence included accidents, poisonings, diabetes and coronavirus.
The ONS reported a record low absence rate in 2020, with Covid measures such as furloughing, social distancing, shielding and increased homeworking helping to reduce other causes of absence.
Covid-19 accounted for nearly one in four of all sickness absence in 2021, up from 13.9% in 2020.
The groups with the highest rates included women, older workers, those with long-term health conditions, part-timers and people working in caring, leisure and other service occupations.
The relaxation of coronavirus restrictions during periods of 2021 and less requirement to work from home, may have contributed to an increase in sickness absence in 2021, said the ONS.
The report added that the sickness absence rate generally declined through the 2000s and has remained relatively flat throughout the 2010s, dropping to a record low in 2020.
In 2021, as in previous years, workers living in Wales had the highest sickness absence rate (2.8%), while those in London had the lowest (1.7%).
The report said this can be largely explained by the younger age profile of people and workers living in London and the types of jobs they have.
Tina McKenzie from the Federation of Small Businesses said: “The average cost of sickness absence, including finding cover, stands at more than £3,000 a year for small employers, equating to £5 billion across the small business community as a whole.”
She said that, with operating costs “surging”, small firms “need more financial assistance to go on doing right by their staff when they’re unwell.”
She added: “On the day that the Government has announced yet more help for big energy intensive companies, we’re asking policymakers to take forward our joint proposal with the TUC for a small business sick pay rebate which will help those who have received no help whatsoever with utility bills.
“Allowing small community businesses to recover sick pay costs will give them that much more space to invest, recruit and retain staff, spurring our economic recovery from the grass roots up.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/business-environment/business/3244877/sickness-absence-rate-increased-last-year-official-figures-show/ | 2022-04-29T16:25:43Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/business-environment/business/3244877/sickness-absence-rate-increased-last-year-official-figures-show/ | false |
Which waterproof eyeliner is best?
We’ve all been there: You take your time getting your makeup perfect for a special event, and about an hour in, you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and discover your eyeliner is in smudgy puddles at the outer corners of your eyes.
Whether you’re preparing for an important event or a hot day, waterproof eyeliner is a must-have for certain occasions. If you’re looking for one that lasts and doesn’t break the bank, Benefit Cosmetics Badgal Bang! 24-Hour Waterproof Eyeliner is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a waterproof eyeliner
The look you want to achieve
Liquid eyeliner comes in pencil and liquid forms. Liquid makes sharp lines that are great for cat eyes and other dramatic looks, while pencil is more blendable and lends itself to smoky eye looks.
Shimmer vs. matte
Waterproof eyeliners, especially liquid ones, come in both finishes, and each achieves a distinct look. Shimmery eyeliner gives your eye makeup some whimsy and flair, while matte can serve as the foundation for a more subtle, blended look. Whichever you choose, remember that in choosing waterproof eyeliner, you’re creating a look that lasts.
The condition of your eyelashes
Although waterproof eyeliner goes on your lids, not your lashes, it still gets close enough that, with regular wear, it could affect your lashes’ condition. The chemical used to make eyeliner waterproof is often dimethicone, which can have a drying effect on lashes. If you tend to have fragile lashes that fall out or break easily, be sparing in your use of waterproof eyeliner and diligent about removing it gently at the end of the day.
Applicator types
Liquid eyeliner wands can create a precise line if you’ve got a steady hand. But most of us have had the experience of having our hand jerk during application, creating a squiggle of liquid liner that seems impossible to correct.
- If you don’t want to have to start over, consider an eyeliner stencil as you apply liquid (even a piece of dampened clear tape will do).
- If you like to control the liquid’s consistency and its saturation on the applicator, choose a pot of gel you can apply with a brush.
- If you find liquid opens up too much margin for error, opt for a pencil applicator instead.
What to look for in a quality waterproof eyeliner
Color saturation
Waterproof eyeliners tend to be solid and opaque, but not all are. If you want a softer look, you may want to find a liner with some transparency for ultimate blendability. If, on the other hand, you want a dramatic look, be sure to find a deeply color-saturated liner.
Drying time
Waterproof eyeliner gives you a window of time after application in which you can correct mistakes and even out lines.
- If you want to apply it and go, look for a quick-dry liner.
- If you prefer more blendability and the opportunity to fix any smudges, look for a liner that takes longer to dry.
- If you do get the slow-dry variety, note that you’ll have to avoid touching the area for longer, or blot it once you’re done.
The ability to keep up with your lifestyle
Not all waterproof eyeliners are created equal. Some stand up to natural use, like the heat and grease created near your eyes during a hot day. A few are truly waterproof, the kind you can wear while you swim. These are more durable but also harsher on the eyes, so figure out just how much staying power you need to keep your look fresh.
How much you can expect to spend on waterproof eyeliner
The selection of waterproof eyeliners is broad. You can pay as little as $8 for a drugstore brand. A premium department-store variety with moisturizing ingredients can cost $20-$30.
Waterproof eyeliner FAQ
How do I remove waterproof eyeliner?
A. Removing waterproof eyeliner is key to keeping the skin around your eyes and lashes healthy. Because its waterproof consistency is achieved with strong chemicals, you don’t want to fall asleep with waterproof eyeliner on. And because it’s waterproof, it will take more than a simple face-washing to get it off.
The key to removal is an oil-based product. Choose a special makeup remover or micellar water and a cotton pad. You may need to rub the area to get all the eyeliner off, but be gentle. After you’ve removed all the liner and the makeup around it, wash the area to get off any remover residue.
My waterproof eyeliner still smudges. How do I stop that?
A. Because the only thing that removes waterproof eyeliner is an oil-based product, any oil it comes in contact with may cause it to run. It’s waterproof, not oil-proof. To keep this from happening, be sure to apply it on clean, recently-washed skin without an oil-based primer. Dry thoroughly upon application. If you really need it to last, consider a setting spray, which will seal in the color.
What’s the best waterproof eyeliner to buy?
Top waterproof eyeliner
Benefit Cosmetics Badgal Bang! 24-Hour Waterproof Eyeliner
What you need to know: This full-coverage truly waterproof eyeliner goes on smoothly and stays put.
What you’ll love: The deep color saturation lets you achieve the look you want. It comes in four color options (pitch black, deep brown, dark purple and midnight blue), offering versatility for the looks you want.
What you should consider: Because this is not a liquid, creating a truly sharp line for a cat eye may require a steady hand.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top waterproof eyeliner for the money
Elf Cosmetics Intense H20 Proof Eyeliner Pen
What you need to know: This truly waterproof option gives you the control of a liquid eyeliner.
What you’ll love: This deep, matte color goes on thick and dries relatively quickly for the perfect cat eye.
What you should consider: This waterproof eyeliner takes its job seriously, making it tough to remove. If you choose it, be sure you’ve got a good makeup remover.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This prestige brand creates beautiful shades and quality products, and this gel pot of eye color lives up to the brand’s standards.
What you’ll love: A pot of color you apply with a brush, this gel gives you the long wear of a waterproof eyeliner with a softer, silkier feel that doesn’t feel wet like liquid liner.
What you should consider: These colors can also double as eyebrow gel, although the selection of hues only makes that an option for people with darker brows (or who want a dramatic dark-brow look).
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
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Two new COVID-19 cases in Coimbatore
Coimbatore district reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Friday.
The Health Department said that the district had 12 active cases. The toll remained as 2,617 as no new deaths were reported.
Tiruppur district did not report any new COVID-19 cases on Friday. The overall toll remained as 1,052 as no new deaths were reported by the Health Department and the district had one active case..
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Which 32-inch computer monitor is best?
The 32-inch class of PC monitor is increasing in popularity as displays get better-looking and more reliable with more advanced features and higher resolution. While such a large display might seem like it takes up a lot of space at first glance, you’ll quickly fall in love with how much screen real estate you have and how easy everything is to see.
While 32-inch monitors used to be somewhat hard to come by, there a quite a few options to choose from today. The best overall in terms of pure image quality is the Gigabyte M32U due to its 4K resolution, wide color gamut and high refresh rate.
What to know before you buy a 32-inch computer monitor
Will you be using it for gaming or for work?
Gaming monitors are relatively specialized pieces of equipment that boast premium features meant for smooth gameplay. If you’re not a gamer or not accustomed to premium visual fidelity, you can probably get by with a more business-focused model.
With that said, the impressive technology behind gaming monitors can improve everyday productivity. High resolutions make it easier to scale content and multitask using multiple windows, and high refresh rates make for a smoother experience overall with less stuttering. If you’re working with photos and videos, visual quality and color accuracy are of prime importance.
How far will you sit from it?
A 32-inch monitor is pretty big. If you get one with a resolution lower than 4K and you sit at a small desk, you might find yourself uncomfortably close. To mitigate this, consider a monitor stand or arm that mounts to the desk and gets the display farther from your face.
If you’re looking for a 4K monitor, it’s still worth taking desk space into account. Your face should be about 2 feet away to get the most from the display without missing out on some of the field of view. With the higher resolution, though, you’ll be unlikely to make out individual pixels, even from that close. The same can’t be said of 1440p or 1080p monitors.
What to look for in a quality 32-inch computer monitor
Resolution
The best resolution for a 32-inch monitor is 4K. Under no circumstances should you get anything less than a 1440p resolution. Anything lower starts to look blocky from across a normal-size desk.
Refresh rate
For gaming, higher refresh rates are always better. You don’t need 144 hertz for general use, though. If you’re not playing high-intensity games, a 75-hertz refresh is fine for a smooth experience without any stutter.
Color gamut
Most programs and images use the relatively thin sRGB color gamut. Today’s advanced monitors are often measured using the much wider DCI-P3 gamut, which is what the movie industry uses. Consider a DCI-P3-rated monitor to ensure you’re getting good color depth.
How much you can expect to spend on a 32-inch computer monitor
The cheapest 32-inch monitors run about $200 and don’t have advanced features or a wide color gamut. At the top end, you can spend upward of $1,000, but most users will be satisfied with a monitor between $400-$700.
32-inch computer monitor FAQ
Are AdobeRGB color gamut monitors worth it?
A. Only certain photo and video professionals or hobbyists need to worry about the AdobeRGB color space. It’s wider than sRGB, less common than DCI-P3 and not something the average consumer will ever deal with.
Are there any ultrawide 4K monitors?
A. Technically, no, but there are 21:9 and 32:9 ultrawides with similar pixel densities. The issue with ultrawide monitors is that they’re usually expensive and huge to the point where they’re too big and too costly for most users.
What’s the best 32-inch computer monitor to buy?
Top 32-inch computer monitor
What you need to know: While technically a gaming monitor, it uses some of today’s best display technology to improve the work and play experiences.
What you’ll love: Its 4K resolution and 144-hertz refresh rate are basically second to none, resulting in a clear image with no jagged lines or stuttering. If you’re a gamer, you’ll be happy to know that it works swimmingly with AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync variable refresh rate technologies. There’s a DisplayPort, two HDMI 2.1 inputs and 4 USB ports (one of which is Type-C) that serve as a low-latency USB hub. If you frequently work on two things simultaneously using a split screen, this one’s a great choice.
What you should consider: It costs quite a lot, and the advanced features are overkill for some users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 32-inch computer monitor for the money
What you need to know: It’s a budget-friendly curved display from a respected provider of midrange and high-end monitors.
What you’ll love: Despite its low price, it delivers the dependability and performance you’d expect from Dell. Its 4K panel is clear and easy to read with a flicker-free operation and a blue light filter that minimizes eye fatigue. Its 1800R curvature helps ensure you can see everything on the screen equally without any washout or color shift near the corners or edges. Its three-way stand adjustability makes it suitable for all-day use in the office without hurting your back or neck.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have advanced gaming features, such as variable refresh rate support or a fast pixel response time, so dedicated gamers should look elsewhere.
Where to buy: Sold by Dell
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Its pedestrian design and moderate price hide a high-performing 4K business monitor.
What you’ll love: There’s a lot to like about this LG aside from just its 4K resolution. It boasts 95% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space that modern movies are tuned to, so you know you’ll get excellent color depth with any type of content. While it can’t deliver a true HDR experience, it does an excellent job of simulating it and can use variable refresh rates if your graphics output drops below 60 frames per second. The colors are accurate out of the box, and the automatic black stabilizer ensures you get a cinematic experience without missing highlights in dark scenes.
What you should consider: It is limited to a 60-hertz refresh rate and doesn’t have the best peak brightness.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Foodbank bosses in Dundee have issued a plea to people to keep donating what they can as the cost of living bites.
Soaring fuel and food prices could see more people in the city going hungry, says manager Ken Linton.
While the number of people seeking help from the foodbank has actually fallen in the last couple of years, Ken fears that could change come the autumn.
And he recognises struggling families could stop making regular donations as they too are hit with rising bills.
The Dundee and Angus Foodbank is the second outlet in Tayside and Fife to speak out about the issue this week.
On Thursday, Kirkcaldy Foodbank revealed it had been forced to start offering a choice between fresh and tinned food rather than both amid soaring demand.
And it may soon stop including toiletries in its packages as food costs increase.
Ken said: “We know things are going to get tougher for people.
“It will also be tougher to donate food because everybody is going to be hit.”
‘We expect demand to ramp up’
New figures released by the Trussell Trust show 12,751 food parcels were delivered to people in Dundee in 2021-22.
Almost 4,500 of those went to children.
Two years ago, 15,337 people were helped but the Trust says the decrease does not mean demand has fallen.
Rather, alternative support was provided during the Covid lockdown.
Ken said: “We deliver 200 parcels a week in Dundee and Angus.
“But with a second electricity hike coming in October, we expect demand to ramp up.
“Not only are people going to be hit with a rise in electricity costs but the clocks change and it will be colder and darker.
“It will be very much a heating or eating scenario then.”
He added: “It’s important that people to continue to donate.
“I would encourage them to donate what they can.”
Dundee Foodbank has donation points across the city.
Alternatively, you can donate money to help volunteers buy food.
‘It’s only set to get worse’
The Trussell Trust says the situation is replicated nationally and one in three people on universal credit are already skipping meals.
The Trust provided almost 200,000 meals across Scotland in the last year, a 30% increase on five years ago.
More than 70,000 of those were for children.
It says 90% of the food provided is donated by the public.
Polly Jones, the Trussell Trust’s head in Scotland said: “Foodbanks in our network are telling us this is only set to get worse.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/3241595/dundee-foodbank-donations/ | 2022-04-29T16:30:46Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/3241595/dundee-foodbank-donations/ | false |
Investigator describes South Carolina woman’s ‘gruesome’ dog attack injuries during owner’s hearing
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ABBEVILLE COUNTY, South Carolina (WYFF) — A man who owned the dogs that brutally attacked an Upstate woman last month, critically injuring her and forcing the amputation of her arms, appeared in court Thursday.
Justin Minor is charged with three counts of owning dangerous animals attacking a human, a rabies violation and allowing dangerous animals off his property unrestrained in the March 21 attack on Kyleen Waltman.
Investigators said three dogs mauled Waltman as she walked along Ball Road in Honea Path.
Waltman suffered critical injuries, including having both arms amputated up to the shoulder, her colon removed and has undergone numerous skin grafts, all of which her family is documenting on a GoFundMe page.
During the preliminary hearing, Minor sat with his attorney, Charles Gross, often with his elbows on a table and his hands clasped, covering his mouth.
The only person to testify during the hearing was Abbeville County sheriff’s investigator Lt. Jeffrey Hines, who described what deputies saw at the scene the day Waltman was found in a ditch, severely mauled.
Hines said the man who called 911 about the attack was riding his tractor up to his cows and saw Waltman being attacked by three dogs. He said the witness got off his tractor and tried to help Waltman and one of the dogs tried to attack him, so he fired a shot with his pistol to scare off the dogs. The dogs ran away after that, Hines said.
Hines said the witness did not see how the attack started.
Minor’s attorney Charles Gross asked Hines if they spoke with any witnesses who saw the beginning of the attack, to which he answered no.
Hines said deputies arrived at the scene and saw Waltman “badly bitten” on the side of the dirt road across from Minor’s home.
He said emergency medical service workers later arrived and treated Waltman at the scene before taking her by ambulance to the hospital.
Hines said he went to the hospital a couple of days after the incident after he said Waltman had several surgeries.
He took pictures in the intensive care unit and described both her arms were “amputated off completely all the way up to the shoulders,” he said. “She had bites from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet, including her whole entire body. It was one of the more gruesome animal attacks that I’ve ever seen in my career.”
Hines said when Minor arrived, he told deputies he was at work when he got a call about the attack.
Minor told deputies they could take the dogs and put them down, Hines said.
Animal control officers said previously they took a total of 11 dogs from Minor’s property.
According to Hines, Minor told deputies he wanted to put the dogs down after they killed his chickens, but his wife was against it. Minor told deputies that his wife thought they could be trained.
Minor told deputies that “once a dog tastes blood, that’s it,” Hines said in court.
Hines testified that the witness described the dogs that attacked Waltman to Minor, who retrieved the dogs and signed them over to Abbeville County Animal Control.
Hines said dispatchers told deputies a man had reported a previous attack involving Minor’s dogs on Christmas Eve 2021, when a person was bitten, but animal control officials said no animals were taken in that incident and the sheriff’s office was not notified.
He said the person who reported the incident said he was attacked by two pit bull mix dogs.
Hines said none of Minor’s dogs were vaccinated for rabies “or anything else.”
Hines testified that a neighbor told deputies he felt unsafe to go outside of his home because Minor’s dogs would come near him and growl at him. He said he had to carry a stick whenever he did have to go outside, Hines said. The neighbor said he was told by Minor a few days before the attack, “those dogs will bite anyone.”
Hines describes Minor’s property, saying there was no fencing around the property. He says there were some kennels outside with some dogs inside, but he says others were roaming around the property.
Hines said both responding deputies were equipped with body cameras but said the first deputy to arrive did not immediately start the camera. Hines said he didn’t know why, but offered that it could have been the stress of the situation, “seeing this lady viciously attacked,” or because the deputy’s first priority was to give aid to Waltman.
Hines described to the court what he later saw on the body camera footage that he reviewed. The video showed Waltman being carried on a stretcher with “her whole tricep removed and nothing but the bone on her left arm.”
Gross asked the court for the charges to be dismissed, saying testimony did not satisfy all the requirements for probable cause.
“There’s been no connection made as far as whether these were the same dogs from the Christmas Eve incident,” Gross said.
Gross also said no testimony presented in court offered evidence that the attack was unprovoked.
“While this is a tragic situation, it does not necessarily mean that it’s a criminal situation, and I would just ask everybody to remember the presumption of innocence,” Gross said.
In the end, the judge ruled there was enough probable cause to move forward with the charges.
Waltman’s mother and sister were in the courtroom, emotional at times during the hearing. Her family declined to comment following the hearing.
The next court date has not yet been set.
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Ukraine has exported 763,000 T of grain so far in April, ministry says
KYIV, April 29 (Reuters) - Ukraine's grain exports have reached 45.709 million tonnes so far in the 2021/22 July-June season, the agriculture ministry said on Friday as it resumed publishing grain export data.
The ministry said the volume included 763,000 tonnes exported in April but gave no comparative figures. Senior agriculture officials said this month that Ukraine exported up 300,000 tonnes of grain in March.
Ukraine exported up to 6 million tonnes of grain a month before Russia invaded the country.
"We have already agreed with Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania and in parallel we are actively negotiating the use of port infrastructure of these countries for the export of Ukrainian products," Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal told a televised government meeting.
The ministry said the 2021/22 export volumes included 18.5 million tonnes of wheat, 21.1 million tonnes of corn and 5.7 million tonnes of barley.
April's exports included 115,000 tonnes of wheat, 622,000 tonnes of corn and 25,000 tonnes of barley.
The ministry did not clarify how grain was delivered.
Ukraine, a major agricultural producer, used to export most of its goods through seaports but has been forced by Russia's invasion to export by train via its western border or via its small Danube river ports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Ukraine and Bulgaria had reached an agreement on transporting Ukrainian grain via the Bulgarian port of Varna.
Agriculture and transport officials have said Ukraine aims to boost export capacity at Danube river ports, which would allow grain to be shipped to Romanian Black Sea ports.
A cargo carrying more than 71,000 tonnes of Ukrainian corn finished loading in the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta on Thursday, the first since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, port operator Comvex's manager said. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk Editing by David Goodman and David Evans) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10768037/Ukraine-exported-763-000-T-grain-far-April-ministry-says.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-29T16:31:24Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10768037/Ukraine-exported-763-000-T-grain-far-April-ministry-says.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
British Virgin Islands should be temporarily returned to UK rule, inquiry says
MIAMI, April 29 (Reuters) - The British Virgin Islands should have its constitution suspended, its elected government dissolved and effectively be ruled from London, according to a highly critical inquiry into governance in the British overseas territory released on Friday.
Queen Elizabeth's representative on the island, Governor John Rankin, had ordered the inquiry in 2021 to investigate "the corruption, abuse of office, and other serious dishonesty" in the territory's governance.
Its report found that millions of dollars of state funds were spent each year by politicians and ministries without proper process, along with serious dishonesty in relation to sales of public property and widespread abuse of appointments.
The report is not directly linked to the arrest on Thursday of the islands' elected premier, Andrew Fahie, on charges of money laundering and conspiring to import cocaine. But British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the arrest demonstrated the importance of the Commission's work.
The inquiry was led by British judge Gary Hickinbottom.
"He has concluded with a particularly heavy heart that unless the most drastic and urgent steps are taken, the current situation with elected officials deliberately ignoring the tenets of good governance will go on indefinitely," Rankin told a news conference.
"He notes that the people of the BVI deserve better, and that the UK government owes them an obligation to protect them from such abuses and assist them to achieve their aspirations for self-government as a modern democratic state."
Any decision to suspend parts of the constitution would fall to the British government, which said it was sending a minister to the BVI before announcing a path forward.
In a statement, Truss said that the report "shows clearly that substantial legislative and constitutional change is required to restore the standards of governance that the people of the British Virgin Islands are entitled to".
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Telangana State records 32 new Covid cases
The Telangana State on Friday reported 32 new positive cases, taking the total number of Covid infection cases to 7,91,978.
Hyderabad: The Telangana State on Friday reported 32 new positive cases, taking the total number of Covid infection cases to 7,91,978. No deaths were reported bu the total fatalities due to infections stands at 4,111, as per the health bulletin released.
The health department held 13,797 Covid tests on Friday out of which 473 sample results are awaited. 22 individuals had recovered on Friday with a recovery rate of 99.44 per cent while the number active infections in Telangana are at 306.
So far, the health department has held 3,46,20,644 Covid-19 tests in the State out of which 7,91,978 have tested positive and 7,87,561 persons recovered completely. | https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/telangana-state-records-32-new-covid-cases-740360 | 2022-04-29T16:34:41Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/telangana-state-records-32-new-covid-cases-740360 | true |
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Willie Nelson is celebrating his 89th birthday today — and also tomorrow.
Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, just north of Waco on April 29, 1933. But as he’s explained in the past, he observes his birthday on the 30th, too.
During one of his SiriusXM radio shows in 2018, Nelson told listeners that he was indeed born on April 29, albeit very late at night.
“But it didn’t get registered in the county courthouse until the next day, the 30th,” he said. “So, it went out officially as the 30th. So I just do both days.”
To coincide with his actual April 29 birthdate, Nelson released his 17th album, “A Beautiful Time.” It features five songs with longtime collaborator and friend Buddy Cannon, as well as covers of Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song” and The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends.”
It’s Nelson’s third album release in just over a year. Nelson released two albums in 2021 (in February and November), and one of them — “That’s Life,” his tribute to Frank Sinatra — was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award. “That’s Life” also debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s jazz charts.
Nelson will celebrate with thousands in Austin. He’s joining fellow Texan George Strait for the grand-opening celebration of Moody Center. The event marks only the second time Strait and Nelson have shared a stage in their careers.
“I’m so glad I’ll get to ‘sing one with Willie,’ and I can’t think of a better place to do it than Austin, Texas,” Strait said in a release at the time of the announcement.
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NEW YORK, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising-- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Natera, Inc.
("Natera" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NTRA) and certain of its officers, on behalf of shareholders who purchased or otherwise acquired Natera securities between Febraury 26, 2020, and April 19, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/ntra.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, the Defendants misrepresented and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Panorama was not reliable and resulted in high rates of false positives; (2) Prospera did not have superior precision compared to competing tests; (3) as a result of Defendants' false and misleading claims about Natera's technology, the company was exposed to substantial legal and regulatory risks; (4) Natera relied upon deceptive sales and billing practices to drive its revenue growth; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' statements about the company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint you can visit the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/ntra or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Investor Relations Analyst, Yael Nathanson of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 212-697-6484. If you suffered a loss in Natera you have until June 27, 2022, to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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SYDNEY, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA; ASX: KZA), an oncology-focused drug development company, today announced that final data from its phase II study of paxalisib in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma will be the subject of a poster presentation at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
The ASCO Annual Meeting will take place virtually and in person from 3-7 June 2022 and will be held in Chicago, IL.
Abstracts from the meeting are expected to be released from 5pm, ET, on 26 May 2022, and the poster will be made available by ASCO and via the Kazia website shortly after presentation.
POSTER PRESENTATION
Title: Paxalisib in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma with unmethylated MGMT promoter status: Final phase 2 study results.
Date and Time: Sunday, 5 June 2022 – 8am – 11am, CDT
Session: Central Nervous System Tumors
Abstract ID: 2047
About Kazia Therapeutics Limited
Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA; ASX: KZA) is an oncology-focused drug development company, based in Sydney, Australia.
Our lead program is paxalisib, a brain-penetrant inhibitor of the PI3K / Akt / mTOR pathway, which is being developed to treat glioblastoma, the most common and most aggressive form of primary brain cancer in adults. Licensed from Genentech in late 2016, paxalisib commenced recruitment to GBM AGILE, a pivotal study in glioblastoma, in January 2021. Seven additional studies are active in various forms of brain cancer. Paxalisib was granted Orphan Drug Designation for glioblastoma by the US FDA in February 2018, and Fast Track Designation for glioblastoma by the US FDA in August 2020. In addition, paxalisib was granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Orphan Designation by the US FDA for DIPG in August 2020.
Kazia is also developing EVT801, a small-molecule inhibitor of VEGFR3, which was licensed from Evotec SE in April 2021. Preclinical data has shown EVT801 to be active against a broad range of tumour types and has provided compelling evidence of synergy with immuno-oncology agents. A phase I study commenced recruitment in November 2021.
For more information, please visit www.kaziatherapeutics.com or follow us on Twitter @KaziaTx.
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Investigator describes South Carolina woman’s ‘gruesome’ dog attack injuries during owner’s hearing
By Janice Limon
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ABBEVILLE COUNTY, South Carolina (WYFF) — A man who owned the dogs that brutally attacked an Upstate woman last month, critically injuring her and forcing the amputation of her arms, appeared in court Thursday.
Justin Minor is charged with three counts of owning dangerous animals attacking a human, a rabies violation and allowing dangerous animals off his property unrestrained in the March 21 attack on Kyleen Waltman.
Investigators said three dogs mauled Waltman as she walked along Ball Road in Honea Path.
Waltman suffered critical injuries, including having both arms amputated up to the shoulder, her colon removed and has undergone numerous skin grafts, all of which her family is documenting on a GoFundMe page.
During the preliminary hearing, Minor sat with his attorney, Charles Gross, often with his elbows on a table and his hands clasped, covering his mouth.
The only person to testify during the hearing was Abbeville County sheriff’s investigator Lt. Jeffrey Hines, who described what deputies saw at the scene the day Waltman was found in a ditch, severely mauled.
Hines said the man who called 911 about the attack was riding his tractor up to his cows and saw Waltman being attacked by three dogs. He said the witness got off his tractor and tried to help Waltman and one of the dogs tried to attack him, so he fired a shot with his pistol to scare off the dogs. The dogs ran away after that, Hines said.
Hines said the witness did not see how the attack started.
Minor’s attorney Charles Gross asked Hines if they spoke with any witnesses who saw the beginning of the attack, to which he answered no.
Hines said deputies arrived at the scene and saw Waltman “badly bitten” on the side of the dirt road across from Minor’s home.
He said emergency medical service workers later arrived and treated Waltman at the scene before taking her by ambulance to the hospital.
Hines said he went to the hospital a couple of days after the incident after he said Waltman had several surgeries.
He took pictures in the intensive care unit and described both her arms were “amputated off completely all the way up to the shoulders,” he said. “She had bites from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet, including her whole entire body. It was one of the more gruesome animal attacks that I’ve ever seen in my career.”
Hines said when Minor arrived, he told deputies he was at work when he got a call about the attack.
Minor told deputies they could take the dogs and put them down, Hines said.
Animal control officers said previously they took a total of 11 dogs from Minor’s property.
According to Hines, Minor told deputies he wanted to put the dogs down after they killed his chickens, but his wife was against it. Minor told deputies that his wife thought they could be trained.
Minor told deputies that “once a dog tastes blood, that’s it,” Hines said in court.
Hines testified that the witness described the dogs that attacked Waltman to Minor, who retrieved the dogs and signed them over to Abbeville County Animal Control.
Hines said dispatchers told deputies a man had reported a previous attack involving Minor’s dogs on Christmas Eve 2021, when a person was bitten, but animal control officials said no animals were taken in that incident and the sheriff’s office was not notified.
He said the person who reported the incident said he was attacked by two pit bull mix dogs.
Hines said none of Minor’s dogs were vaccinated for rabies “or anything else.”
Hines testified that a neighbor told deputies he felt unsafe to go outside of his home because Minor’s dogs would come near him and growl at him. He said he had to carry a stick whenever he did have to go outside, Hines said. The neighbor said he was told by Minor a few days before the attack, “those dogs will bite anyone.”
Hines describes Minor’s property, saying there was no fencing around the property. He says there were some kennels outside with some dogs inside, but he says others were roaming around the property.
Hines said both responding deputies were equipped with body cameras but said the first deputy to arrive did not immediately start the camera. Hines said he didn’t know why, but offered that it could have been the stress of the situation, “seeing this lady viciously attacked,” or because the deputy’s first priority was to give aid to Waltman.
Hines described to the court what he later saw on the body camera footage that he reviewed. The video showed Waltman being carried on a stretcher with “her whole tricep removed and nothing but the bone on her left arm.”
Gross asked the court for the charges to be dismissed, saying testimony did not satisfy all the requirements for probable cause.
“There’s been no connection made as far as whether these were the same dogs from the Christmas Eve incident,” Gross said.
Gross also said no testimony presented in court offered evidence that the attack was unprovoked.
“While this is a tragic situation, it does not necessarily mean that it’s a criminal situation, and I would just ask everybody to remember the presumption of innocence,” Gross said.
In the end, the judge ruled there was enough probable cause to move forward with the charges.
Waltman’s mother and sister were in the courtroom, emotional at times during the hearing. Her family declined to comment following the hearing.
The next court date has not yet been set.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new government watchdog report finds that while most Americans are eligible to file their taxes for free, only a fraction use the services provided through the government.
Instead, many taxpayers utilized other methods, “which they may have paid to use,” according to a new U.S. Government Accountability Office study on the 2020 tax filing season.
The GAO report, issued Thursday, found that while 70% of taxpayers were eligible for the Internal Revenue Service’s free-filing program, only 3%b of taxpayers actually use the service.
IRS’ free file program consists of a public-private partnership of tax software companies that offers free services to tax payers outside of the IRS website.
Taxpayers whose incomes are below a certain threshold can use the free file program — which this season accounts for any person or family with an adjusted gross income of $73,000 or less in 2021.
One suggested recommendation on how to improve taxpayer usage of free tax services — that the IRS consider developing a new public option, was rejected by the agency due to the IRS’ funding concerns.
“If new legislation and funding were approved, then the IRS would expect to assess the feasibility and utility of offering additional tax preparation and filing options,” wrote Douglas W. O’Donnell, deputy commissioner for services and enforcement in an April 11 letter to the GAO.
The agency is battling a backlog of millions of tax returns, and struggles to modernize its computer systems.
And while the agency’s workforce is the same size it was in 1970, IRS this year is facing its biggest backlog in history. At the end of the 2021 filing season, the agency had 35.3 million returns waiting for processing.
The GAO report finds that the “IRS may be understating its potential to improve certain aspects of the taxpayer experience,” and that it would “not necessarily need to develop new filing options on its own.”
Though the agency announced plans in March to hire at least 10,000 more workers to help process returns, administration officials say the IRS is in desperate need of more funding, as its budget has fallen over the last decade. | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/most-americans-could-file-their-taxes-for-free-but-dont/ | 2022-04-29T16:42:11Z | https://www.koin.com/news/politics/most-americans-could-file-their-taxes-for-free-but-dont/ | false |
Americans are facing soaring rental prices
(CNN) - Americans already feeling the sting of inflation now have to deal with skyrocketing rental prices.
Prices have increased 20% from just two years ago, and it is forcing some people to leave their homes.
Laura Guilmain and her daughter, Karson, have 30 days to find a new home.
Guilmain said she has looked into thousands of properties and still cannot find an affordable one.
For three years, she has been paying $2,100 a month for a three-bedroom residence in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Last month, she got a letter from her landlord that said her new rent would be $3,200 a month. An attorney for her landlord said that rising property taxes and mortgage rates are to blame.
“I freaked out. We can’t afford it. We can’t do it,” Guilmain said.
There is a housing affordability crisis in the U.S. With home prices sky high, Americans are being forced into a competitive rental market.
Guilmain is a single mother and disabled veteran. She is reliant on rental assistance from Housing and Urban Development. She said she already had fewer options, but now the landlords looking to capitalize on rising rents are less willing to accept the strict guidelines of her rental voucher.
Guilmain said that without the rental assistance, she would be “homeless.”
Rents are rising across the country and are up nearly 20% in two years. In cities like Memphis, Tampa and Riverside, California, prices are up nearly 40%. The Miami area is up 58%.
“When there’s a hurricane, it’s illegal for gas stations to jack up the prices. Why is there not a cap in the state of Florida?” Guilmain said.
In Florida, it is illegal to impose rent controls.
Florida renter Sara Espinoza said it gives her “a lot of anxiety.” She is facing a 106% increase in her rent in Coral Gables, Florida.
For 22 years, she has lived in a three-bedroom home. She raised her son there.
The $1,700 she pays in rent is below market value, but the $3,500 that her new landlord is charging is out of her budget.
“It’s not reasonable at all. I guess right now, everybody’s just price-gouging because people need somewhere to live,” Espinoza said.
She set a new budget of $2,800 and found an apartment right next door. It is smaller and over her budget by $400.
“I just think it’s very unfair. It makes me upset,” she said.
Guilmain’s search for a new home for her and her daughter continues with no prospects in sight.
The city of Miami just passed a new law that requires landlords give tenants a 60-day notice if they plan to raise the rent more than 5%. While that gives people more time, it still does not help them find an affordable place to live.
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A staple event in downtown Phoenix is expanding and moving to a new location this May, but it's not going far.
The Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market, which is managed by nonprofit Community Food Connections and sees an estimated 3,000 visitors weekly, is holding its last event this Saturday at its usual Central Avenue and McKinley Street location.
The market, which has nearly 150,000 followers on its social media platforms, has been part of downtown Phoenix for nearly 20 years and supports urban farmers and businesses that foster a sustainable food system and produce healthy products for the local community.
Starting May 7, the nonprofit organization will hold its weekly event with nearly 100 farmers and vendors at the Phoenix Bioscience Core, a growing research and innovation center just a few blocks away at 720 N. Fifth St. from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. | https://www.abc15.com/news/business/longtime-valley-farmers-market-moving-to-innovation-core-in-phoenix | 2022-04-29T16:51:28Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/business/longtime-valley-farmers-market-moving-to-innovation-core-in-phoenix | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, seeking to recover nearly $3 million from undeclared foreign bank accounts.
Manafort was convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Trump later pardoned Manafort.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, asks a judge to force Manafort to pay fines, penalties and interest after prosecutors say he failed to disclose more than 20 offshore bank accounts he ordered opened in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The lawsuit charges the money was related to consulting work in Ukraine with his deputy Rick Gates and an associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, who were both key figures in Mueller's investigation.
Manafort’s lawyer was critical of the lawsuit.
“Today’s civil lawsuit seeks a money judgment against Mr. Manafort for simply failing to file a tax form,” Jeffrey Neiman said in a statement obtained by CNBC. “Mr. Manafort was aware the Government was going to file the suit because he has tried for months to resolve this civil matter. Nonetheless, the Government insisted on filing this suit simply to embarrass Mr. Manafort.” | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/feds-seek-nearly-3m-from-manafort-over-undisclosed-accounts | 2022-04-29T16:51:52Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/feds-seek-nearly-3m-from-manafort-over-undisclosed-accounts | true |
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A teenager who authorities said came back to intentionally kill two men he had wounded in a shootout has been charged with murder.
Ahmik Coleman, 17, was a passenger in a car on a Rock Hill street Tuesday night when two men fired into the vehicle, police said.
Coleman who was hit in the hand in the shooting, fired back, wounding the men who shot at him, Rock Hill police said in a statement.
Coleman initially fled the shooting, but “the defendant then returned to the scene and executed them,” Rock Hill Police Detective Tayler Tucker said at a bond hearing
Kam’ran Brevard, 16, and Evanta Hart, 17, were killed in the street, while the driver of the car Coleman was in, 16-year-old O’Marian Small, also died from a gunshot, the York County Coroner's Office said.
Coleman and his lawyer both didn't talk about the charge during Thursday's hearing. | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Detective-Teen-executed-wounded-men-who-had-shot-17136790.php | 2022-04-29T16:55:08Z | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Detective-Teen-executed-wounded-men-who-had-shot-17136790.php | false |
It’s first-quarter earnings call season, nerds. These calls offer a cornucopia of data for fast food industry obsessives, highlighting the highs, lows, and tragic failures of the industry on a quarterly basis. Chipotle’s first-quarter call occurred Wednesday, April 27, and CEO Brian Niccol shared one intriguing takeaway: the company is once again looking to invest in a dessert offering. As an industry obsessive (am I pathetic???), I’m taking this to mean one thing: consumers are ready to slow down and dine again.
Chipotle is ready to give dessert another go
Per CNN Business, Niccol told analysts that “dessert is an area where we see opportunity.” This is excellent news for the Takeout team, as we prefer to be surrounded by desserts at all times. This isn’t the first time Chipotle has considered a dessert debut; Takeout managing editor Marnie Shure reported on this last fall, explaining that the chain has “tested a handful of dessert items, however, nothing has passed the stage-gate process for a national rollout.” Defeated desserts include a Mexican Chocolate Shake. Hello, Chipotle? This is destiny calling. The people demand the shake.
Fortunately, it seems like the chain’s CEO seems bent on releasing a permanent dessert item. But why now?
Higher foot traffic = more dessert opportunities
Like I mentioned above, it seems that consumers are ready to slow down and dine again. This isn’t just a Lillian Stone Conspiracy Theory; there’s data to back it up. Foot traffic analytics firm Placer.ai told The Takeout that Chipotle has seen visit levels “exceed pre-pandemic levels every week this year” up until the firm’s data collection period ended during the week of April 11. Per Placer.ai, foot traffic at Chipotle was up 12.7% during the week of April 11, 17.8% during the week of April 4, and 11.7% during the week of March 28, compared to the same weeks in 2019.
Meanwhile, stocks are extremely volatile for food delivery giants like Just Eat Takeaway, GrubHub’s parent company, as well as European delivery service Delivery Hero. Per Reuters, services like GrubHub and DoorDash are facing “stiff competition and a fading pandemic boost.”
My theory? Consumers are burnt out on high delivery costs, long waits, and the general strangeness of a faceless, delivery-focused food economy. If Placer.ai’s Chipotle foot traffic data is to be believed, consumers are skipping the drive-thru and flocking back to quick-service restaurants (QSRs), potentially in an effort to return to sit-down dining. With that, it makes sense that Chipotle is considering investing in a dessert option. Short of a Jollibee hand pie, super-speedy dining doesn’t lend itself to the dessert experience. Now that customers are creeping back into restaurant dining rooms, companies have more room to run in terms of innovative menu offerings. Will that come in the form of a Mexican Chocolate Shake? We’ll just have to wait and see. | https://thetakeout.com/what-chipotle-s-upcoming-dessert-menu-means-for-fast-fo-1848859240 | 2022-04-29T16:55:57Z | https://thetakeout.com/what-chipotle-s-upcoming-dessert-menu-means-for-fast-fo-1848859240 | false |
Thomas Frank has admitted Brentford strode on to the Premier League stage with “zero experience” of what to expect.
Last season’s Sky Bet Championship play-off winners returned to the top flight after an absence of 74 years but from the moment they launched their campaign with a 2-0 victory over Arsenal, they have more than made a fist of life among English football’s aristocrats.
They will head into Monday night’s clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford with 40 points already banked and all but mathematically safe and given where they started from, that represents a significant achievement in Frank’s book.
The Dane told the club’s official website: “When you go into a Premier League season as a promoted team, you don’t know exactly what to expect.
“It was even less for us as not one staff member had worked at a Premier League club before and not one player had played either – two minutes from Ivan Toney and two minutes from Sergi Canos don’t count.”
In-season signings Christian Eriksen, Mathias Jorgensen and Jonas Lossl were familiar with the Premier League but Frank continued: “When we played the first game it was with zero experience.
“What did we expect? I don’t exactly know, but I do know that we wanted to aim as high as possible, try to attack and be an asset to the league.
“I had huge belief that we could do something. That was the message to the players.”
If the Bees have enjoyed a successful campaign, this weekend’s opponents have nowhere near lived up to their own expectations.
Such have been United’s difficulties that they dispensed with the services of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in November, although Frank knows they will still be formidable opponents.
He said: “The club is maybe the biggest in world football with what they have created over the years.
“The team is obviously struggling in terms of their ambitions – I can say that without any disrespect. They have had a tough season.
“It is always not good when you have to sack a head coach because something is not right. I’m pretty sure that their expectations were to be higher.
“It is still a team of world-class players – [Jadon] Sancho, [Cristiano] Ronaldo, [Bruno] Fernandes and [Marcus] Rashford are among the best offensive players in the league on their best day.
“It is a huge challenge. We are looking forward to it.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3246062/we-had-zero-experience-thomas-frank-hails-brentfords-premier-league-debut/ | 2022-04-29T16:56:33Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3246062/we-had-zero-experience-thomas-frank-hails-brentfords-premier-league-debut/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Research confirms what dog lovers know — every pup is truly an individual.
Many of the popular stereotypes about the behavior of golden retrievers, poodles or schnauzers, for example, aren’t supported by science, according to a new study.
“There is a huge amount of behavioral variation in every breed, and at the end of the day, every dog really is an individual,” said study co-author and University of Massachusetts geneticist Elinor Karlsson.
She said pet owners love to talk about their dog’s personality, as illustrated by some owners at a New York dog park.
Elizabeth Kelly said her English springer spaniel was “friendly, but she’s also kind of the queen bee.” Suly Ortiz described her yellow Lab as “really calm, lazy and shy.”
And Rachel Kim’s mixed-breed dog is “a lot of different dogs, personality wise — super independent, really affectionate with me and my husband, but pretty, pretty suspicious of other people, other dogs.”
That kind of enthusiasm from pet owners inspired Karlsson’s latest scientific inquiry. She wanted to know to what extent are behavioral patterns inherited — and how much are dog breeds associated with distinctive and predictable behaviors?
The answer: While physical traits such as a greyhound’s long legs or a Dalmatian’s spots are clearly inherited, breed is not a strong predictor of any individual dog’s personality.
The researchers’ work, published Thursday in the journal Science, marshals a massive dataset to reach these conclusions — the most ever compiled, said Adam Boyko, a geneticist at Cornell University, who was not involved in the study.
Dogs became humanity’s best friend more than 14,000 years ago, as the only animal domesticated before the advent of agriculture.
But the concept of dog breeds is much more recent. Around 160 years ago, people began to selectively breed dogs to have certain consistent physical traits, like coat texture and color and ear shape.
The researchers surveyed more than 18,000 dog owners and analyzed the genomes of about 2,150 of their dogs to look for patterns.
They found that some behaviors — such as howling, pointing and showing friendliness to human strangers —do have at least some genetic basis. But that inheritance isn’t strictly passed down along breed lines.
For example, they found golden retrievers that don’t retrieve, said co-author Kathryn Lord, who studies animal behavior with Karlsson.
Some breeds, such as huskies and beagles, may show a greater tendency to howl. But many of these dogs don’t, as both the owner survey and genetic data showed.
The researchers could find no genetic basis for aggressive behaviors nor a link to specific breeds.
“The correlation between dog behavior and dog breed is much lower than most expected,” said Jeff Kidd, a geneticist at the University of Michigan, who had no role in the research. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/your-dogs-personality-has-little-to-do-with-its-breed-study-says/ | 2022-04-29T16:56:54Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/your-dogs-personality-has-little-to-do-with-its-breed-study-says/ | false |
Which 4K gaming monitor is best?
Just a few years ago, high-refresh-rate gaming in 4K was a pipe dream. But hardware has improved to the point where it’s no longer a fantasy. The latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles have made Ultra HD gaming even more convenient, allowing casual and competitive gamers to enjoy high resolutions without a high-end PC.
The best overall 4K gaming monitor is the Gigabyte M32U because of its complete feature set, wide color space, great motion handling and reasonable price.
What to know before you buy a 4K gaming monitor
You need a powerful graphics card or console
If you have anything older than a 2000-series Nvidia RTX GPU, you’ll have a hard time playing recent games at 4K with a reasonable frame rate. If you’re using a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, you can’t take advantage of most premium 4K displays.
While this requirement was once troublesome, it’s reasonable for an everyday gamer to access a new console or graphics processing unit. The availability of better hardware plus several new 4K gaming monitor releases makes this a great time to buy.
Input lag vs. response time
Input lag, or latency, is how much time it takes the display to register and reproduce input from your keyboard, mouse or controller. Response time, on the other hand, is how much time it takes each pixel to change from one color to another. While the names sound similar, they’re not directly related. A low pixel response time, such as a one-millisecond gray-to-gray time, usually results in smooth motion with minimal artifacts and image doubling.
Monitors vs. TVs
TVs used to lag a bit behind monitors, especially with gaming features, but that’s not the case anymore. A PC monitor is your best bet if you’re on a budget. But if you want a large, versatile display, it’s worth considering a full-size TV. The LG C1 OLED TV, for example, is fully equipped for pristine gaming. Alternatively, you can get marginally higher performance from some gaming monitors, but those tend to be even more expensive than 4K TVs of the same size.
What to look for in a quality 4K gaming monitor
HDMI 2.1 connectivity
Unless you can only afford a budget-friendly gaming system, you’ll want HDMI 2.1 to ensure your setup is future-proof. The increased bandwidth allows for 4K resolution at 60 frames-per-second, and the built-in features make it convenient and reliable for computers and consoles.
Variable refresh rate
Make sure your display supports FreeSync variable refresh rates. Otherwise, you’ll experience screen tearing and stuttering. Certified G-Sync displays work a little better with Nvidia GPUs, but they are also more expensive.
HDR performance
If you’re investing in a premium gaming setup, consider the display’s HDR performance. Native contrast ratio, color gamut and local dimming are all important for a high dynamic range experience. To get the best possible HDR playback, consider getting a 4K TV with local dimming zones or individually lit OLED pixels.
How much you can expect to spend on a 4K gaming monitor
The most affordable 4K monitors for gaming cost around $300, but these often lack high refresh rates and advanced features. You can spend well over $1,000 on the absolute best, but the most cost-effective models are in the $700-$900 range.
4K gaming monitor FAQ
Do FreeSync-enabled displays support G-Sync variable refresh rate technology?
A. Yes, almost all of them do. This wasn’t always the case, but now it’s rare to find a gaming monitor limited solely to AMD FreeSync.
What is a DisplayHDR certification?
A. A DisplayHDR certified monitor meets several requirements, including 10-bit color processing, high peak brightness, effective local dimming and a wide color gamut. For example, you’ll have great results if you opt for a monitor with DisplayHDR 1000 certification or better.
What’s the best 4K gaming monitor to buy?
Top 4K gaming monitor
What you need to know: Its pristine image and ample motion handling make it look just as good as more expensive options.
What you’ll love: At 32 inches, it delivers an excellent field of view, with a low pixel response time that ensures smooth motion and minimizes ghosting. It can produce up to 144 frames per second and supports the FreeSync variable refresh protocol. It’s also compatible with Nvidia G-Sync. There are several connectivity options, including a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports and a USB-C connector. It also offers 10-bit color and has a wide color gamut.
What you should consider: The only minor drawback is a moderate restriction on HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, but it only limits image clarity slightly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 4K gaming monitor for the money
What you need to know: While this isn’t necessarily a gaming monitor, it’s an affordable 4K option from one of the most respected PC display manufacturers in the industry.
What you’ll love: It delivers a clear and crisp image, even if you disable potentially resource-hogging graphics options. It offers two-way stand ergonomics and a slim build that won’t take up too much desk space. It even supports 65W USB-C Power Delivery, allowing it to serve as a docking station as well.
What you should consider: It’s limited to a maximum refresh rate of 60 hertz. But it does support AMD FreeSync to minimize tearing.
Where to buy: Sold by Dell and Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is one of the top TVs overall, making it one of the best gaming display options available.
What you’ll love: It sports a low input lag plus VRR capability, and its motion handling and color gamut are superior to LCD technology. Its nearly full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 connectivity is perfect for PC and console gaming, and the Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos support make it perfect for a cinematic experience.
What you should consider: Aside from the high cost, it’s potentially susceptible to long-term burn-in. However, if you watch and play a wide variety of content, you won’t have to worry about it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Ukraine: Coaches bring 91 refugees to Kent
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Ninety-one Ukrainian refugees with UK visas have arrived in Kent on private coaches as part of a community initiative.
The coaches were booked from Kent with a Polish coach firm, with funds donated by local businesses.
Volunteers helped contact and organise some refugees. Other Ukrainians fleeing the conflict contacted the Coaches 2 Ukraine project themselves on Facebook.
The refugees arrived in Hartley, Kent, from Warsaw, Poland.
Organiser Malcolm Palmer said more needed to be done to coordinate the transportation of refugees.
The Department for Levelling Up said advice for travel was on the Homes for Ukraine website.
Among the options for travel, airline Wizz Air offers free flights to Ukrainians with UK Visas in bordering countries, and Eurostar and Stenaline also offer free travel for Ukrainians seeking safety.
The Department for Levelling Up said out of 86,000 approved visas, 27,000 Ukrainians were now in the UK.
Yulia Hampshire, who lives in Medway but is originally from Ukraine, will be hosting a friend and her ten-year-old son who fled Kyiv and got a place on the coach.
"The mum is very nervous and the child will probably need counselling," she said.
"The last few weeks were fine because they were in Warsaw, but it's the beginning of the war that really damaged them."
The coaches will now travel to Poland's border with Ukraine to deliver supplies, including sleeping bags, socks and first aid. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-61272149 | 2022-04-29T17:06:26Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-61272149 | true |
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of 5/2/2022 :
TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS
1. Coldplay; $4,061,217; $77.19.
2. Bad Bunny; $3,218,291; $196.08.
3. Elton John; $2,528,962; $180.78.
4. Genesis; $2,433,613; $160.21.
5. Eric Church; $1,656,917; $115.23.
6. John Mayer; $1,595,512; $130.89.
7. Billie Eilish; $1,575,505; $121.54.
8. Dua Lipa; $1,382,736; $101.82.
9. Tool; $1,282,897; $111.93.
10. New Edition; $1,234,265; $112.23.
11. Marc Anthony; $939,871; $115.15.
12. Maxwell; $784,534; $103.65.
13. Luke Bryan; $682,927; $180.18.
14. Ana Gabriel; $675,841; $101.14.
15. Sebastian Maniscalco; $619,959; $101.16.
16. Ricardo Arjona; $565,296; $124.14.
17. Chris Tomlin / Hillsong United; $436,078; $47.93.
18. Nicky Jam; $410,661; $86.86.
19. Jo Koy; $387,721; $67.18.
20. Ghost / Volbeat; $384,650; $70.11.
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Charity regulator investigates Social Bite complaints
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A Scottish charity which has enjoyed the support of celebrities and royalty is under investigation after complaints were made against it.
OSCR, the Scottish charities regulator, confirmed it had been contacted about Social Bite, which runs cafes supporting homeless people.
The charity counts George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex among its supporters.
The charity is headed by co-founder Josh Littlejohn.
An OSCR spokesperson said: "We have received concerns about this charity, which are currently being examined in the usual way according to our published policies."
Sleep outs
Mr Littlejohn, 35, helped launch the Social Bite café in Edinburgh in 2012. The focus on homelessness came when a young homeless man went into the café one day to ask for a job.
The organisation then offered more jobs to people experiencing such problems.
In 2018, Social Bite also staged large outdoor sleep outs to raise money for the homeless.
The events were held in Aberdeen's Duthie Park, Dundee's Slessor Gardens, Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park and Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens.
Mr Littlejohn was made an MBE in 2017 for services to social enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Social Bite employs more than 100 people and distributes about 140,000 items of food to homeless and vulnerable people yearly.
The charity's annual report shows Mr Littlejohn stepped back as a director on subsidiary boards at the charity's latest AGM.
At the time, Social Bite said it was part of a wider restructuring of the group, and part of an ambitious three-year plan which would see the group expand into new areas.
'Developing growth opportunities'
In a statement it said: "Josh's new role allows him to focus on developing strategic growth opportunities, leaving the day to day running of the organisation to the operational team. This change has no material impact on Josh's role or on the running of Social Bite."
In the charity's Trustees' Report for the year to 31 May 2021, it said: "A number of trustees stepped down after approving the prior year group accounts at the AGM on 17 May 2021."
The report showed that four trustees resigned on that day, with another one leaving on 21 May and one more leaving on 23 August the same year.
Chairwoman Rosalind Cuschieri, Kent Mackenzie, Morag McNeill, and Ellie Murphy resigned as Social Bite trustees on 17 May. Marjory Rodger MBE, a business consultant, resigned on 23 August.
Jane Bruce, the former chief executive officer for Social Bite in Scotland, made an internal report under the charity's whistleblowing policy to Social Bite Trustees in June 2020 and then to OSCR in August 2020.
On Friday, Sir Andrew Cubie, the chairman of Social Bite told BBC Scotland: "We can confirm that we are in communication with OSCR relating to concerns they have received. In line with OSCR's policy we are unable to provide any further information at this time.
"Under my chairmanship, Social Bite adheres to the highest levels of governance. In spite of the global pandemic, the charity has gone from strength to strength.
"As an organisation we remain focused on delivering vital projects to the highest standards, so we can ultimately achieve our aim of helping the most vulnerable people in society and ending homelessness."
He said that Mr Littlejohn had worked tirelessly to end homelessness, helping thousands of vulnerable individuals off the streets.
'Well respected'
He added: "For everyone who has ever met Josh, they will know how passionate he is about ending homelessness and helping individuals fulfil their potential. He's incredibly well respected and well-liked by the Social Bite team, partners and the homeless community."
In a statement, Josh Littlejohn said: "As the charity has matured, it is only right that it becomes less reliant on its founder. For the last few years I've been working with our board to put in place a new structure which allows me to focus on my passion for developing new and innovative projects to help homeless people.
"It is a privilege to do what I do and, with the support of our Chair, Trustees and the dedication of our team, we remain focused on our goal of ending homelessness at a time when help is needed more than ever."
- 5 December 2019
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# Anita Loayzat M.D S.H.S ’A11:2/PMC ’\n\nSeni Kuli Lahat Sisyal Aparthiedalah. SENAKAL SHEIK BALONG TABIB MANTINING SEDUNIA ANTIA Loaizat PASUNAK ASSI MAENYEH MUDAN ASSISTANT YOGE BUDHE NAPOK GE GDF1PW 211 Lamp/Sol \nPLEASE CONTAET TELL\nCOOL TO A RIVOR ON THE DEAR OF THE SLEET OR A DECTOP OF JOES WINGS RIPE DELI. RIFORTH O\nON I DT.\nCANAD PIC SINALADEL ON DEAR CITL \nTO EACAPLE OR R\n Another complaint has been lodged in the highly contentious Democratic primary race for state treasurer.
A day after outgoing state Treasurer Tim Eichenberg was accused of misusing the powers of his office to promote the candidacy of Heather Benavidez, his chief of staff, a complaint was filed Thursday against Benavidez.
The complaint alleges Benavidez has been campaigning on state time.
It includes screenshots from her social media accounts showing her campaigning — including attending political events, tweeting and collecting voter signatures for her nominating petitions — and time sheets showing she logged eight hours on days she was campaigning. The time sheets don’t show which hours Benavidez worked, just the total number of hours she claimed.
Nonetheless, the complaint alleges Benavidez has been cheating taxpayers.
“Comparing the time sheets to her political activities shows that she campaigned on state time, in violation of law, by attending events and tweeting from her campaign account,” the complaint states.
Benavidez said in a brief telephone interview she was unaware of the complaint and would let the process play out. She declined an offer to receive a copy of the complaint to review the allegations against her.
“I’m going to wait until I receive it through the proper channels and then I can review it and address anything that I think needs addressing at that time,” she said.
The complaint was filed by Karen Schafer of Sandoval County. Her attorney, Ken Stalter, also represents a Roswell man who filed Wednesday’s complaint against Eichenberg.
Stalter said Schafer, a longtime Democrat and co-founder of the nonprofit Feed Rio Rancho Kids, became concerned about the direction of the race when the other candidate, Laura Montoya, came under attack. Last month, Eichenberg sent a letter to the secretary of state, attorney general and New Mexico Ethics Commission accusing Montoya of wrongdoing.
“Karen comes from a perspective of, ‘We’re all Democrats. We should be respectful in the primary and remember who the real adversaries are.’ ”
Stalter said it’s “certainly unusual” for a state treasurer’s race to get so heated in a Democratic primary.
“It’s unfortunate that there’s been this acrimony in the primary,” he said. “That said, I think people should pay a lot more attention to the state treasurer’s race because it’s an extremely important position, the person entrusted with safeguarding the health of the state’s finances.” | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/state-treasurer-candidate-accused-of-campaigning-while-working-at-state-job/article_c06bac10-c702-11ec-9d98-83237e55a5f4.html | 2022-04-29T17:11:47Z | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/state-treasurer-candidate-accused-of-campaigning-while-working-at-state-job/article_c06bac10-c702-11ec-9d98-83237e55a5f4.html | true |
MIAMI (AP) — The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the Caribbean territory’s ports were scheduled to appear in federal court in Miami on Friday after their arrest on drug smuggling charges in a sting set up by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were taken into custody by DEA agents at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and launder money, according to a criminal complaint. Maynard’s son, Kadeem Maynard, faces the same changes in the alleged scheme, according to the court filings.
“Anyone involved with bringing dangerous drugs into the United States will be held accountable, no matter their position,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a statement. “Today is yet another example of DEA’s resolve to hold corrupt members of government responsible for using their positions of power to provide a safe haven for drug traffickers and money launderers in exchange for their own financial and political gain.”
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Fahie and Oleanvine Maynard had been at the airport to meet Mexican drug traffickers, who in reality were undercover DEA agents, to see a shipment of $700,000 in cash the British territory officials expected to receive for helping smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Miami and New York, the complaint said.
A DEA confidential source had previously met with Maynard and her son after being introduced by a group of self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah operatives, according to the complaint. After Fahie became involved, it said, the British territory officials agreed to let the smugglers bring the cocaine through the port at Tortola before continuing on to the U.S.
Britain’s top diplomat said she had spoken with BVI Gov. John Rankin, who told her they would be holding an emergency meeting on Friday, and that the results of a separate investigation that was meant to focus on governance and corruption would be published urgently.
“I am appalled by these serious allegations. This arrest demonstrates the importance of the recently concluded Commission of Inquiry,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.
Rankin also released a statement clarifying that Thursday’s arrests in Miami were not connected to the Commission of Inquiry, an independent probe ordered by the governor last year to establish whether there's evidence of corruption. That probe, which has been led by a senior judge, was not a criminal investigation into the illegal drug trade, Rankin said.
It isn’t known whether the commission had found any suspected wrongdoing by Fahie or Maynard, but Rankin said he expects to have the results published urgently to avoid unnecessary speculation.
The British Virgin Islands is a U.K. overseas territory of about 35,000 people east of Puerto Rico with limited self-governance under a locally elected parliamentary government. The governor is the territory’s ultimate executive authority as the representative of Queen Elizabeth. The premier is the elected head of government.
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Amazon's stock plummeted after the company reported on Thursday slowing growth and higher costs in its latest quarter and offered a disappointing revenue outlook.
The tech giant said revenue grew 7% from the same period last year to $116.4 billion, slightly beating analyst forecasts but slower than the 9% growth in the final months of last year. The company forecast that revenue growth would slow further next quarter, anticipating a growth rate of between 3% and 7%.
Amazon reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the quarter ended March 31, a sharp drop from the same period last year, when it made an $8.1 billion profit. It was also a big miss from the $4.4 billion profit that analysts surveyed by Refinitiv had forecast.
The company attributed the loss largely to a $7.6 billion loss from its investment in electric automaker Rivian Automotive. Rivian, into which Amazon led a $700 million investment in 2019, has seen its stock plummet more than 75% since its blockbuster November 2021 IPO.
The Amazon loss came the day after Ford, another early investor in Rivian, took a $5.4 billion pre-tax charge related to that investment, resulting in Ford reporting a $3.1 billion net loss for the first quarter.
Excluding the Rivian loss, Amazon would have made a profit of $3.8 billion, which still would have fallen short of analyst expectations, per Refinitiv.
Amazon shares sank more than 12% on Friday.
"The pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine have brought unusual growth and challenges," Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement.
Jassy referenced Amazon's breakneck growth in its consumer business during the pandemic, and the "doubling" of the company's fulfillment network in the last two years.
"Today, as we're no longer chasing physical or staffing capacity, our teams are squarely focused on improving productivity and cost efficiencies throughout our fulfillment network," he added. "This may take some time, particularly as we work through ongoing inflationary and supply chain pressures, but we see encouraging progress on a number of customer experience dimensions."
The company also announced that Prime Day, its annual sales bonanza, will take place this July in more than 20 countries.
In an earnings call, Amazon's chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky, said higher inflation, fuel prices and labor constraints added $2 billion to costs compared to last year.
"The cost to ship an overseas container has more than doubled compared to pre-pandemic rates," he said. "The cost of fuel is approximately one and a half times higher than it was even a year ago."
The rise of the Omicron variant towards the end of 2021 led to "a substantial increase" in employees going on leave, prompting Amazon to increase hiring to make up for the absences, Olsavsky said. But as workers returned when the variants subsided, "we quickly transitioned from being understaffed to being overstaffed," he added. That resulted in "lower productivity" adding another $2 billion in costs, he said.
Amazon's earnings hit comes as the company continues to face pressure from its warehouse employees over issues such as pay and working conditions. Workers at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse voted to form the e-commerce giant's first-ever US labor union earlier this month. Amazon has since filed an appeal, calling for a do-over of the entire vote.
A separate Amazon union election in Bessemer, Alabama, also concluded recently with the results too close to call.
Both union efforts grew from worker frustrations with Amazon's treatment of workers amid the pandemic and were also motivated in part by increased national attention to racial justice issues and labor rights.
Amazon subsequently announced it would conduct a racial equity audit led by former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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Since they first started breaking the internet with their hyperarticulate strain of beat music, DOMi and JD Beck have gradually burrowed their way into the jazz mainstream. Or maybe it's that the mainstream has sidled up to them? However you want to put it, there's no doubt that DOMi, the ponytailed keyboard savant born Domitille Degalle (in Metz, France) and Beck, the mop-headed drum virtuoso (born and raised in the suburbs around Dallas, Texas) are now turning heads beyond the funhouse perimeter of viral stardom.
"SMiLE" is the first single from their full-length debut as a joint release from Blue Note and Anderson .Paak's label, APES*** INC. It's a sharp distillation of the DOMi & JD Beck ethos, which skews toward a technical aplomb so nonchalant as to feel cocky, and a youthful insolence that might be offensive if it weren't so obviously playful. DOMi's synth melody, with its blippy Nintendo flair, melds seamlessly with Beck's drumming, on the slouchy end of the pocket, à la J Dilla. A video for the tune — directed by .Paak, who puts in a cameo — imagines Mac DeMarco as a profanely cantankerous 100-year-old jazz legend. You'd think Beck and DOMi would approach him with all due irreverence, but what's on display is a form of love: not a smirk, but a smile.
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