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NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Logistics Market size is expected to grow by USD 33.64 billion with a YOY growth of 6.11% during the forecast period. One of the key factors driving the healthcare logistics market growth is the growing global pharmaceutical sales. The report offers an up-to-date analysis of the current market scenario and information from several leading manufacturers.
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This market research report extensively covers Healthcare Logistics Market segmentations by the following:
- Product- Pharmaceutical products and medical devices
- Pharmaceutical products will gain a large proportion of the healthcare logistics market. Branded medications, generic drugs, and vaccines are all examples of pharmaceutical products. The demand for pharmaceutical logistics is likely to rise as the number of new medicine approvals rises. As a result, logistics companies can easily adapt or set up their existing logistics or warehousing units for new items in response to pharmaceutical manufacturers' needs.
- Geography - APAC, North America, Europe, South America, APAC, North America, Europe, and South America
- APAC will account for 43 percent of market growth. In APAC, China is the most important market for healthcare logistics. The market in this region will increase at a quicker rate than the market in other regions. The expected increase in healthcare spending may present numerous chances for pharmaceutical manufacturers and healthcare logistics suppliers, enhancing healthcare logistics demand in APAC throughout the forecast period.
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Healthcare Logistics Market Dynamics
Market Driver
Global pharmaceutical sales are one of the primary drivers driving the healthcare logistics market forward. Prescription pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter drugs make up the worldwide pharmaceutical market, which is predicted to rise significantly over the forecast period. The market is being driven by the expanding elderly population as well as new product launches by pharmaceutical companies.
Market Trend
An increasing number of initiatives to promote cold chain logistics are also propelling the healthcare logistics industry forward. In nations like Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, the cold chain market is still in its early stages. As a result, international regulatory agencies and governments from many nations have created several legislations focusing on food and medicine safety in order to support cold chains.
Market Challenge
One of the major issues impeding the growth of the healthcare logistics industry is the increased complications caused by time-bound deliveries and supply chain customization. Customers desire shorter lead times, while logistics organizations strive to maintain operational costs as low as possible. Selecting or constructing the correct supply chain model is a significant and critical job. Topography, technological advancements, and region/country-specific legislation and policies all influence logistics difficulties. This makes developing an effective supply chain model difficult for logistics service providers.
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Healthcare Logistics Market Segmentation
- Product
- Pharmaceutical Products
- Medical Devices
- Service
- Transportation
- Warehousing
- Geographic
- APAC
- North America
- Europe
- South America
- APAC
- North America
- Europe
- South America
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Healthcare Logistics Market Vendor
The growing competition in the market is compelling vendors to adopt various growth strategies such as promotional activities and spending on advertisements to improve the visibility of their services. Some vendors are also adopting inorganic growth strategies such as M&As to remain competitive in the market.
The report analyzes the market's competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors, including:
- Air Canada
- AmerisourceBergen Corp.
- CEVA Logistics AG
- Cold Chain Technologies LLC
- Continental Cargo OU
- DB Schenker
- Deutsche Post AG
- FedEx Corp.
- Kuehne + Nagel International AG
- United Parcel Service Inc.
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Product Insights and News
- Air Canada - The company offers a wide range of healthcare logistics services which includes air freight services, ocean freight services, ground transportation, contract logistics, and supply chain solutions for pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
- AmerisourceBergen Corp - The company offers a wide range of healthcare logistics services which includes air freight services, ocean freight services, ground transportation, contract logistics, and supply chain solutions for pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
- CEVA Logistics AG- The company offers a wide range of healthcare logistics services which includes air freight services, ocean freight services, ground transportation, contract logistics, and supply chain solutions for pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
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Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 01: Parent market
- Exhibit 02: Market characteristics
- 2.2 Value chain analysis
- Exhibit 03: Value chain analysis: Air Freight and Logistics Market
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 04: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 05: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2020
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2020 - 2025
- Exhibit 06: Global - Market size and forecast 2020 - 2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 07: Global market: Year-over-year growth 2020 - 2025 (%)
4 Five Forces Analysis
- 4.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 08: Five forces analysis 2020 & 2025
- 4.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 09: Bargaining power of buyers
- 4.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 10: Bargaining power of suppliers
- 4.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 11: Threat of new entrants
- 4.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 12: Threat of substitutes
- 4.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 13: Threat of rivalry
- 4.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 14: Market condition - Five forces 2020
5 Market Segmentation by Product
- 5.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 15: Product - Market share 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.2 Comparison by Product
- Exhibit 16: Comparison by Product
- 5.3 Pharmaceutical products - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 17: Pharmaceutical products - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 18: Pharmaceutical products - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.4 Medical devices - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 19: Medical devices - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 20: Medical devices - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.5 Market opportunity by Product
- Exhibit 21: Market opportunity by Product
6 Market Segmentation by Service
- 6.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 22: Service - Market share 2020-2025 (%)
- 6.2 Comparison by Service
- Exhibit 23: Comparison by Service
- 6.3 Transportation - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 24: Transportation - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 25: Transportation - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 6.4 Warehousing - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 26: Warehousing - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 27: Warehousing - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 6.5 Market opportunity by Service
- Exhibit 28: Market opportunity by Service
7 Customer landscape
8 Geographic Landscape
- 8.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 30: Market share by geography 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 31: Geographic comparison
- 8.3 APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 32: APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 33: APAC - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.4 North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 34: North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 35: North America - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.5 Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 36: Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 37: Europe - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.6 MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 38: MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 39: MEA - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.7 South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 40: South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ billion)
- Exhibit 41: South America - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.8 Key leading countries
- Exhibit 42: Key leading countries
- 8.9 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 43: Market opportunity by geography ($ billion)
9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 9.1 Market drivers
- 9.2 Market challenges
- Exhibit 44: Impact of drivers and challenges
- 9.3 Market trends
10 Vendor Landscape
- 10.1 Overview
- Exhibit 46: Vendor landscape
- 10.2 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 47: Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 48: Industry risks
11 Vendor Analysis
- 11.1 Vendors covered
- 11.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 50: Market positioning of vendors
- 11.3 Air Canada
- Exhibit 51: Air Canada - Overview
- Exhibit 52: Air Canada - Business segments
- Exhibit 53: Air Canada - Key offerings
- Exhibit 54: Air Canada - Segment focus
- 11.4 AmerisourceBergen Corp.
- Exhibit 55: AmerisourceBergen Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 56: AmerisourceBergen Corp. - Business segments
- Exhibit 57: AmerisourceBergen Corp. – Key news
- Exhibit 58: AmerisourceBergen Corp. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 59: AmerisourceBergen Corp. - Segment focus
- 11.5 CEVA Logistics AG
- Exhibit 60: CEVA Logistics AG - Overview
- Exhibit 61: CEVA Logistics AG - Business segments
- Exhibit 62: CEVA Logistics AG - Key offerings
- Exhibit 63: CEVA Logistics AG - Segment focus
- 11.6 Cold Chain Technologies LLC
- Exhibit 64: Cold Chain Technologies LLC - Overview
- Exhibit 65: Cold Chain Technologies LLC - Product and service
- Exhibit 66: Cold Chain Technologies LLC - Key offerings
- 11.7 Continental Cargo OU
- Exhibit 67: Continental Cargo OU - Overview
- Exhibit 68: Continental Cargo OU - Product and service
- Exhibit 69: Continental Cargo OU - Key offerings
- 11.8 Deutsche Post DHL Group
- Exhibit 70: Deutsche Post DHL Group - Overview
- Exhibit 71: Deutsche Post DHL Group - Business segments
- Exhibit 72: Deutsche Post DHL Group – Key news
- Exhibit 73: Deutsche Post DHL Group - Key offerings
- Exhibit 74: Deutsche Post DHL Group - Segment focus
- 11.9 FedEx Corp.
- Exhibit 75: FedEx Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 76: FedEx Corp. - Business segments
- Exhibit 77: FedEx Corp. – Key news
- Exhibit 78: FedEx Corp. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 79: FedEx Corp. - Segment focus
- 11.10 Kuehne + Nagel International AG
- Exhibit 80: Kuehne + Nagel International AG - Overview
- Exhibit 81: Kuehne + Nagel International AG - Business segments
- Exhibit 82: Kuehne + Nagel International AG – Key news
- Exhibit 83: Kuehne + Nagel International AG - Key offerings
- Exhibit 84: Kuehne + Nagel International AG - Segment focus
- 11.11 Schenker AG
- Exhibit 85: Schenker AG - Overview
- Exhibit 86: Schenker AG - Business segments
- Exhibit 87: Schenker AG – Key news
- Exhibit 88: Schenker AG - Key offerings
- Exhibit 89: Schenker AG - Segment focus
- 11.12 United Parcel Service Inc.
- Exhibit 90: United Parcel Service Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 91: United Parcel Service Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 92: United Parcel Service Inc. – Key news
- Exhibit 93: United Parcel Service Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 94: United Parcel Service Inc. - Segment focus
12 Appendix
- 12.1 Scope of the report
- 12.2 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 95: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 12.3 Research methodology
- Exhibit 96: Research Methodology
- Exhibit 97: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 98: Information sources
- 12.4 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 99: List of abbreviations
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — (AP) — Widespread flooding in the South American country of Suriname has isolated communities, devastated crops and shuttered schools and businesses, according to authorities.
Heavy rains in recent days battered the country’s interior and southern regions, where farms and electrical and water purification infrastructures are under water, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency said late Thursday.
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DUBLIN, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "E-bikes Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report by Propulsion Type (Pedal-assisted, Throttle-assisted), by Battery Type, by Power, by Application, by Region, and Segment Forecasts, 2022-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The global e-bikes market size is anticipated to reach USD 52.37 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 13.5% over the forecast period. Electric bikes are considered an eco-friendly and flexible mode of transportation. They are an ideal substitute for public transport, scooters, and smart cars as they help avoid traffic jams and achieve high speed with minimal effort. Moreover, they enable riders to maintain a healthy lifestyle through increased physical activity. These factors are contributing to the growth of the global market.
The declining consumer inclination toward cars owing to increased traffic on streets and growing urbanization is expected to offer lucrative growth opportunities for the market across the globe. Additionally, governments of several countries, including India, U.K., and Canada, are focused on developing infrastructures for bicycles owing to the growing consumer preferences for electric bikee-bikes. For instance, in 2017, Bikeep, a commercial bike parking systems and bike racks manufacturer, introduced a smart bicycle rack solution that offers electric bicycle charging. The solution is designed to cater to various popular electric bicycles.
Key players in the market are focused on strategies such as new product launch and geographic expansion to enhance their business operations and product offerings. For instance, in October 2020, Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. announced the launch of a full-composite trail bike, Trance X Advanced Pro 29. The bike is equipped with an updated Maestro rear suspension and flip-chip feature that permits riders to modify the frame geometry. Similarly, in October 2020, Pedego Electric Bikes opened a new store in Boca Raton, Florida. The store offers a full range of electric bikes for rental and sale, along with related accessories and services.
E-bikes Market Report Highlights
- The pedal-assisted segment is expected to dominate the market over the forecast period owing to the rising demand for pedal-assisted e-bikes among the youth and elderly population.
- The lead-acid battery segment dominated the market with a 45.5% market share in 2021, owing to benefits such as low cost and robustness. However, the share is anticipated to decline as a result of a significant rise in demand for Li-ion batteries.
- The Asia Pacific is expected to become the largest regional market over the forecast period owing to significant investments in the vehicle charging infrastructure and government subsidies for battery-powered vehicles.
Key Topics Covered:
Chapter 1. Methodology & Scope
Chapter 2. Executive Summary
Chapter 3. Market Variables, Trends, and Scope
3.1. Penetration & Growth Prospect Mapping
3.2. Industry Value Chain Analysis
3.3. Market Dynamics
3.3.1. Market Driver Analysis
3.3.2. Market Restraint Analysis
3.4. Market Analysis Tools
3.4.1. Industry Analysis - Porter's Five Forces Analysis
3.4.2. PEST Analysis
3.5. Company Ranking Analysis, 2021
3.6. Impact of COVID-19 on the E-bikes Market
Chapter 4. E-bikes Market: Propulsion Type Outlook
4.1. Market Size Estimates & Forecasts and Trend Analysis, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.1. Pedal-assisted
4.1.1.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
4.1.2. Throttle-assisted
4.1.2.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
Chapter 5. E-bikes Market: Battery Type Outlook
5.1. Market Size Estimates & Forecasts and Trend Analysis, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
5.1.1. Lithium-ion Battery
5.1.1.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
5.1.2. Lead-acid Battery
5.1.2.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
Chapter 6. E-bikes Market: Power Outlook
6.1. Market Size Estimates & Forecasts and Trend Analysis, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
6.1.1. Less Than or Equal to 250W
6.1.1.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
6.1.2. Above 250W
6.1.2.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
Chapter 7. E-bikes Market: Application Outlook
7.1. Market Size Estimates & Forecasts and Trend Analysis, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
7.2. City/Urban
7.2.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
7.3. Trekking
7.3.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
7.4. Cargo
7.4.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
7.5. Others
7.5.1. Market Estimates and Forecasts by Region, 2018-2030 (USD Million)
Chapter 8. E-bikes Market: Regional Outlook
Chapter 9. Competitive Landscape
9.1. Accell Group N.V.
9.1.1. Company Overview
9.1.2. Financial Performance
9.1.3. Product Benchmarking
9.1.4. Recent Developments
9.2. Aima Technology Group Co. Ltd.
9.2.1. Company Overview
9.2.2. Financial Performance
9.2.3. Product Benchmarking
9.2.4. Recent Developments
9.3. Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
9.3.1. Company Overview
9.3.2. Financial Performance
9.3.3. Product Benchmarking
9.3.4. Recent Developments
9.4. Merida Industry Co., Ltd.
9.4.1. Company Overview
9.4.2. Financial Performance
9.4.3. Product Benchmarking
9.4.4. Recent Developments
9.5. Pedego Electric Bikes
9.5.1. Company Overview
9.5.2. Financial Performance
9.5.3. Product Benchmarking
9.5.4. Recent Developments
9.6. Pon.Bike
9.6.1. Company Overview
9.6.2. Financial Performance
9.6.3. Product Benchmarking
9.6.4. Recent Developments
9.7. Rad Power Bikes Inc.
9.7.1. Company Overview
9.7.2. Financial Performance
9.7.3. Product Benchmarking
9.7.4. Recent Developments
9.8. Trek Bicycle Corporation
9.8.1. Company Overview
9.8.2. Financial Performance
9.8.3. Product Benchmarking
9.8.4. Recent Developments
9.9. Yadea Group Holdings Ltd.
9.9.1. Company Overview
9.9.2. Financial Performance
9.9.3. Product Benchmarking
9.9.4. Recent Developments
9.10. Yamaha Motor Company
9.10.1. Company Overview
9.10.2. Financial Performance
9.10.3. Product Benchmarking
9.10.4. Recent Developments
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many voters in heavily Democratic Los Angeles are seething over rising crime and homelessness and that could prompt the city to take a turn to the political right for the first time in decades.
One of the leading candidates for mayor is Rick Caruso, a pro-business billionaire Republican-turned-Democrat who sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and is promising to expand spending on police, not defund them.
At another time, the high-end mall and resort developer would seem an unlikely choice to potentially lead the nation’s second-most populous city, where democratic socialist Bernie Sanders was the runaway winner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. A progressive City Hall has embraced so-called sanctuary city protections for people who entered the U.S. illegally and “Green New Deal” climate policies.
But these are fraught times in Los Angeles, with more than 40,000 people living in trash-strewn homeless encampments and rusty RVs, distress over brazen smash-and-grab robberies and home invasions while inflation and taxes are gouging wallets — gas in a region built on car travel has cracked $6 a gallon. Rents and home prices have soared.
Caruso is spending millions of his estimated $4.3 billion fortune to finance a seemingly nonstop display of TV and online ads to tap into voter angst. At issue is whether enough people will embrace his plans to add 1,500 police officers and promises to get unhoused people off the streets, while not recoiling from his vast wealth.
Twelve names are on the ballot for the primary election that ends June 7, though several candidates have dropped out and the race is shaping up as a fight between Caruso and Democratic U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, who was on then-President elect Joe Biden’s shortlist for vice president.
If no candidate clears 50% — which is likely with a crowded ballot — the top two finishers advance to a November runoff. Bass could become the first woman to hold the office and the second Black person.
Bass and Caruso are not well known in a city that can be notoriously indifferent to local politics.
“Part of this is going to be how people feel about them as they get to know them better. We don’t know the answer to that,” said veteran Democratic consultant Bill Carrick, who thinks voters are looking for solutions for homelessness and crime, not obsessing with past political affiliations. The contest is technically nonpartisan.
Bass, 68, is a favorite of the party’s progressive wing, while Caruso, 63, is a political shape-shifter who calls himself a “centrist, pro-jobs, pro-public safety Democrat.”
According to government records, he was a Republican for over two decades before becoming an independent in 2011. Caruso changed back to Republican in 2016 — a year when he served as California campaign co-chair for Republican John Kasich’s presidential bid — and then to independent again in 2019. He became a Democrat shortly before entering the mayor’s race in February.
He’s donated to candidates in both parties, which has led to criticism from Democrats who point to his financial support for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, among others. And he’s been routinely attacked for an opulent lifestyle, including owning a 9-bedroom yacht.
The mayor’s race is one of several competitive contests in the state’s primary where political loyalties are being tested by questions about the direction of California’s dominant Democratic Party, which holds every statewide office and commanding margins in the Legislature and congressional delegation.
Voters in San Francisco are considering whether to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a Democrat who critics say has failed to prosecute repeat offenders, while Democratic state Attorney General Rob Bonta is facing several challengers who assert he favors criminal justice reform over crime victims, which he disputes.
A looming question in Los Angeles is who will show up. About 80% of voters didn’t cast ballots when outgoing Mayor Eric Garcetti was reelected in 2017.
There is a deep dismay with government across Los Angeles. A major challenge for Caruso, Bass and other rivals — including city Councilman Kevin de Leon, a former Democratic leader in the state Senate — will be convincing voters change is possible.
A case in point: Gas station owner Wignesh Kandavel. He says his complaints have gone unheard for years about homeless people setting up campsites around a freeway overpass just steps from his pumps and convenience market.
Sagging tents and trash are cleared from time to time, only to have homeless people return again. He says drug use is rampant, shoplifting a constant problem and panhandling at the freeway exits a daily routine.
The Nigerian immigrant and registered Republican who came to the U.S. in search of a better life has lost interest in the election and doesn’t see any candidate as credible.
“The whole system is gone,” Kandavel said.
Caruso’s ascendancy in the race — polls show him closely matched with Bass — has alarmed longtime Democrats who are attacking him as a poseur trying to buy the job. His campaign has raised about $30 million, most of it his money.
There is the expected competition over celebrity endorsements — Earvin “Magic” Johnson is backing Bass, while Caruso has Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow behind him. Already, the rivalry is taking on a nasty edge, particularly in ads from groups supporting the candidates.
Bass’ commercials recall her work as a physician’s assistant during the crack epidemic and her time in Congress and the Legislature. But the police union that endorsed Caruso is running ads that attempt to link Bass to a federal corruption case involving her longtime friend, suspended city Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas. She calls the ads lies.
Caruso’s advertising touts his immigrant grandparents, philanthropic endeavors and promise to work for $1 a year. But ads being run by an independent group backing Bass and funded by unions and former Disney studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg depict Caruso as an L.A. version of former President Donald Trump who is attempting to conceal an “extreme” record.
Retired public defender Paul Enright said he was undecided in the mayor’s race but turned off by Caruso’s spending spree that totals more than the other candidates combined. A Democrat who supports public financing for campaigns, he is leaning toward Bass or de Leon.
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DALLAS, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globally, more than 800 million women and girls are stigmatized, excluded and discriminated against simply because they menstruate. An additional 500 million lack access to basic period products and facilities needed for menstrual hygiene management.
As a result, these women and girls end up missing school and work, and they often become the target of gender-based violence due to misunderstanding and stigma.
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To date, Kimberly-Clark, Kotex®, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation, and various non-profit collaborators have made tremendous strides to elevate menstrual health and hygiene around the world.
Promoting a Global Conversation about Periods
Normalizing periods starts by promoting a global conversation around the need for education and the stigmas surrounding menstruation, and Kimberly-Clark's brand teams are delivering against this objective in a variety of ways that directly engage consumers.
In Brazil, Kimberly-Clark and Plan International partnered on a campaign to create highway signs, social media content and other media touchpoints to bring awareness to period stigmas, ultimately reaching hundreds of thousands of people in the city of Teresina.
Kotex® Taiwan invited 2020 Tokyo Olympic Gold Medalist Kuo Hsing-chun, current world record holder in the women's weightlifting category, to share her period stories with young college students – both women and men – to ignite healthy and open conversations around periods among the younger generation.
In South Africa, Kimberly-Clark's Kotex® brand partnered with well-known music artist and megastar Boity Thulo to invite South Africans to submit lyrics addressing period stigma. With more than 500 lines of lyrics submitted by both women and men, the 'She Can Anthem' hit the #19 spot on South Africa's music charts.
"Period stigma is not a new problem, but we must continue to bring new solutions to solving it," said Morne Van Emmenes M, Marketing Director for Kimberly-Clark South Africa. "With this campaign, we showed the value of experimenting with new ideas to integrate menstrual hygiene education into pop culture in a way that would reach a wide and diverse audience. Boity Thulo was an enthusiastic and supportive collaborator who was instrumental in our success in reaching both women and men."
Championing Her Progress
Since its launch in 2020, the Kotex® She Can initiative has worked to champion women's progress by fighting the barriers caused by period stigmas, promoting access to education in schools and communities, and by helping to open doors so women gain equal opportunity.
This year, the She Can initiative is launching a new partnership with Girl Up in Chile and Argentina. This partnership supports Girl Up's work as a global leadership development initiative that positions girls to serve as leaders in the movement for gender equality.
"At Girl Up, our mission is to advance girls' skills, rights, and opportunities to be leaders," said Melissa Kilby, Executive Director of Girl Up. "Around the world, access to menstrual hygiene and products is a barrier for girls to attend school and become leaders. We're excited to partner with Kotex® and the Kimberly-Clark Foundation to help remove those barriers and help more girls achieve their full potential."
Together, Girl Up and the Kimberly-Clark Foundation will provide leadership training and tools for participants to become gender equality advocates and activists for education around period poverty and period stigma. Through the partnership with Girl Up, Kimberly-Clark expects to positively impact more than 80,000 lives over the next three years.
"Unlocking doors for women requires all of us to share our voices and advocate for the women and girls in our lives," said Jenny Lewis, Vice President of the Kimberly-Clark Foundation. "Our work is critical to creating a more equitable world for women and girls. Because when women thrive, we all thrive."
Making a Positive Social Impact Through Education
Around the world, the Kotex® She Can initiative provides compelling educational resources that help girls, boys and parents understand period basics and abolish period stigma before it starts.
In 2021, the cumulative impact of Kimberly-Clark's various social impact programs reached more than 8.7 million women, girls, men and boys, and focused on menstrual health management.
Included in last year's social impact were eight projects supported by the Kimberly-Clark Foundation and Plan International that focused on creating a learning environment where women and girls have the confidence, knowledge, skills, materials and facilities necessary to overcome the persistent barriers to menstrual health education. These efforts led to a positive impact for over one million people in eight countries including Brazil, China, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Nigeria, Peru and Vietnam.
Building on consumer insights, the Kotex® She Can initiative created innovative new ways to deliver menstrual hygiene education, including a collaboration with popular YouTube and Instagram influencer Simone Giertz to help young women demystify the menstrual cycle in her trademark style that blends education and humor.
Addressing Access to Products and Sanitation
Access to menstrual hygiene products, as well as period-friendly sanitation facilities, remain a significant challenge for millions of women and girls each day.
"It's not enough to strive for awareness – we must fight for access to menstrual hygiene products if we have any chance of making a real impact for the countless women and girls in need of support," said Mustafa Kudrati, Plan International USA President & CEO. "The COVID-19 pandemic was a temporary roadblock to our success, but I'm proud to say we worked together to pivot our approach and deliver the critical everyday necessities needed by women and girls – not just menstrual hygiene products, but soap, water and food as well."
In fact, roughly one in three women in the U.S. struggles to afford period products. In response, Kimberly-Clark and its U by Kotex® brand became the founding sponsor of the Alliance for Period Supplies (APS) in 2018, and since then, they have donated more than 50 million period products through APS to women in need.
Additionally, one in five students in the U.S. struggle to afford period products, and report missing classes due to a lack of access to period products. This year, U by Kotex® provided additional funding to APS to administer a series of grants in the U.S. focused on advancing efforts in schools and benefitting school-aged girls. Recipients include Sisters on the Street for its work to provide free menstrual products in female and all-gender restrooms across its three existing partner high schools in Southern California, and Giving the Basics Wichita to advance its distribution efforts of period supply products to more than 51,000 people monthly and 130+ schools in Kansas.
To further address access to period products for students, Thinx, Inc. will donate 10,000 pairs of reusable period underwear for teens to APS. Thinx is the leader in the reusable period and incontinence underwear category, and Kimberly-Clark announced a majority investment in the company earlier this year.
"Period poverty is a solvable issue. By prioritizing menstrual equity, we're recognizing that access to period products should no longer be a barrier to an education, and through this donation, we're making a positive impact for thousands of young people who want to focus on school and activities that help them reach their full potential," said Meghan Davis, Chief Executive Officer of Thinx, Inc. "Sustainable menstrual equity is a key mission of Thinx, and we're proud to join with Kimberly-Clark and the Alliance for Period Supplies in the fight to eliminate period poverty in the United States."
Around the world, Kimberly-Clark's brand teams are working at the local level to improve access to products. Across Australia and New Zealand, Kimberly-Clark has developed and distributed resource kits and Kotex® product samples to educate students about menstrual health. In Korea, Kimberly-Clark has donated more than one million menstrual health products to low-income women and girls since 2016.
Educating Men about Periods is Key to Unlocking Equity
To unlock doors and build a better world for women and girls, Kimberly-Clark and its brands are working in innovative ways to build advocates among men to address period stigmas by educating men and boys about menstrual hygiene management.
A recent campaign in Vietnam, supported by the Kimberly-Clark Foundation in partnership with Plan International, reached more than 81,000 men through campaigns including the "Confident Puberty" initiative. Adolescents, fathers and community members were educated through a series of outreach programs to help promote education around menstrual health management, creating a stronger culture of acceptance for women and girls.
In India, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation supported educational activities led by Plan International that reached thousands of adolescents with menstruation information, and more than 30 percent of participants were male.
"It is not just the job of women to educate on the importance of menstrual hygiene and health, nor should women and girls be the only focus of educational efforts," added Pelaez. "Men and boys need equal education to ensure we're creating a world in which people who menstruate aren't stigmatized or treated any differently. Menstruation is a component of everyday life and should not have to be hidden away."
A unique partnership in Korea led the Kotex® brand to collaboration with the Korea Consumer Agency and the Korean Health Teachers Association on consumer education to move beyond teenage girls to educate their male peers and parents. This collaboration includes in-school programs as well as gift packages and educational materials to celebrate a girl's first period.
Normalizing Periods by 2030
In commemoration of Menstrual Hygiene Day, Kimberly-Clark is partnering with WASH United and encouraging employees, partners, consumers and customers to show support by wearing the annual Menstrual Hygiene Day Menstruation Bracelet that's available via digital and social assets or printable paper versions.
The bracelet is made of 28 elements, with five of them red, representing the menstrual cycle.
"By wearing the Menstruation Bracelet or posting the digital and social assets, everyone can show that periods are nothing to hide and help push back taboos and stigma, one bracelet at a time," said Thorsten Kiefer, Co-Founder and CEO of WASH United. "It's time to normalize menstruation and by doing so help millions of women and girls to reach their full potential. Menstrual Hygiene Day and Kotex® are committed to ending period stigma. Are you with us?"
About Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what's important to them. Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries. We use sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, build stronger communities, and ensure our business thrives for decades to come. To keep up with the latest news and to learn more about the company's 150-year history of innovation, visit kimberly-clark.com.
About WASH United
A unique crossbreed between an advocacy NGO and a creative agency, WASH United works to build a world in which all people benefit from safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), including menstrual hygiene. Our focus is on innovative solutions for advocacy and education. WASH United is behind Menstrual Hygiene Day, the global campaign to end period stigma.
About Plan International USA
Powered by supporters, Plan International USA partners with adolescent girls, young women and children around the world to overcome oppression and gender inequality, providing the support and resources that are unique to their needs and the needs of their communities, ensuring they achieve their full potential with dignity, opportunity and safety. Founded in 1937, Plan is an independent development and humanitarian organization that is active in 78 countries. For more information, and to learn about our commitment to safeguarding, please visit www.PlanUSA.org.
About Girl Up
Girl Up is a movement to advance girls' skills, rights, and opportunities to be leaders. Founded by the United Nations Foundation in 2010, Girl Up's leadership development programs have impacted 125,000 girls through 5,600 Clubs in 130 countries and all 50 U.S. states, inspiring a generation of girls to be a force for gender equality and social change.
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KINETIC Group (OTC:KNIT) ("KNIT") Acquires GSS Infrastructure LLC in an All Stock Transaction
Orlando, Fla., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KINETIC GROUP (USOTC: KNIT) ("KNIT") today announced that it has signed a binding Letter of Intent ("LOI") with GSS INFRASTRUCTURE ("GSSI") www.gssinfrastructure.com to acquire a 100% interest in GSSI. The Transaction remains subject to certain conditions being met and completion of definitive documentation.
Under the terms of the LOI signed on May 18, 2022 KNIT will acquire GSSI in an all stock purchase. As a result of the acquisition, KNIT will acquire all of GSSI's assets, including the binding LOI signed between GSSI and NTEC on March 31, 2022. At the closing of the GSSI-NTEC transaction KNIT will effectively own and operate 50 telecom tower sites, 187 equipment overlays and 267km of fiber. KNIT would also acquire three separate long term contracts with Telefonica Ecuador (OTECEL) to operate active and passive telecom infrastructure in Ecuador.
Ana María Méndez, KNIT's CEO stated, "The acquisition of GSSi provides KNIT with an important foothold in Latin America to expand our presence in the wireless infrastructure space. We strongly believe the region has additional long term opportunities and given GSSi's experienced management team we will be able to continue our growth strategy. Undoubtedly, the rapid expansion of 5G in the region will provide enormous opportunities for KNIT revenue and footprint expansion."
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The new president of the Italian Conference of Bishops on Friday said he would launch an independent inquiry on sex abuse by Catholic clergy in Italy, but the announcement disappointed victims advocates because it will only go back 20 years.
The Italian church is coming under mountain pressure to confront its legacy of clerical sexual abuse. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who was appointed this week by Pope Francis, said the investigation will limit its scope to two decades in order to be “more accurate and accountable.”
Zuppi promised a report would be delivered by Nov. 18 by a panel of independent experts selected among university professors.
“We are starting from them (the victims),’’ Zuppi told a news conference. “It is clear that their suffering drives us, and it should stimulate us to give responses that are trustworthy and serious.”
Victims’ advocates say the initiative does not go far enough. They want investigations to span 50 years, and they want to be directly involved in drafting the report.
Francesco Zanardi, founder of Rete L’Abuso (Abuse Network), one of Italy’s main victims’ advocacy groups, said most of the victims report the abuse only after decades have passed.
“The maturation of a trauma takes between 30, 35 or 40 years, when it goes well,’’ Zanardi told reporters in Rome. “I, for example, spoke about my trauma (when I was) 40 years old … more than 30 years went by … this says that 20 years is not enough.”
The Italian Catholic Church is one of the few in Western Europe that has not opened its archives to independent researchers to establish the scope of abuse and cover-up in recent decades.
Whether by government mandate, parliamentary investigation or church initiation, such reports in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France have shown systematic problems that allowed thousands of children to be abused by Catholic priests. The churches in Spain and Portugal have recently agreed to launch similar investigations.
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"ABBA Voyage" is certainly a trip.Four decades after the Swedish pop supergroup last performed live, audiences can once again see ABBA onstage in an innovative digital concert where past and future collide.The show opens to the public in London on Friday, the day after a red-carpet premiere attended by superfans, celebrities and Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. The guests of honor were pop royalty — the four members of ABBA, appearing in public together for the first time in years.They were in the audience, though. Onstage at the specially built 3,000-seat ABBA Arena next to east London's Olympic Park were a 10-piece live backing band and a digital ABBA, created using motion capture and other technology by Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects firm founded by "Star Wars" director George Lucas.The voices and movements are the real Agnetha Faltskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — choreographed by Britain's Wayne McGregor — but the performers onstage are digital avatars, inevitably dubbed "ABBA-tars." In unsettlingly realistic detail, they depict the band members as they looked in their 1970s heyday — beards on the men, flowing locks on the women, velour pantsuits all around.The result is both high tech and high camp, a glittery supernova of stupefying technology, 1970s nostalgia and pop music genius.For many in the audience, it was almost like being taken back in time to watch ABBA perform classics including "Mamma Mia," "Knowing Me, Knowing You," "SOS" and "Dancing Queen." The peppy 90-minute set also includes tracks from "Voyage," the reunion album the band released last year.It's a fusion of tribute act and 3D concert movie that transcends that description. At times it was possible to forget this wasn't a live performance, though when the backing singers stepped forward to belt out "Does Your Mother Know," a surge of live-music energy shot through the arena. The four band members — two married couples during ABBA's heyday, though now long divorced — got a rapturous ovation when they took a bow at the end of Thursday's show, 50 years after they formed ABBA, and 40 years after they stopped performing live.Watching one's younger self perform must be a strange sensation, but the band members, now in their 70s, said they were delighted by the show."I never knew I had such amazing moves," Ulvaeus said.Lyngstad agreed: "I thought I was quite good, but I'm even better."Ulvaeus said the audience reaction was the most gratifying part of the experience."There's an emotional connection between the avatars and the audience," he said. "That's the fantastic thing."Producers bill the show as "revolutionary." Time will tell. Like the first audiences to watch a talking motion picture a century ago, attendees may leave wondering whether they are watching a gimmick, or the future.The Times of London reviewer Will Hodgkinson judged the show "essentially an ABBA singalong with added sound and light show," though he called the effect "captivating." Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis called the concert "jaw-dropping" and said "it's so successful that it's hard not to imagine other artists following suit."Gimmick or genius, "ABBA Voyage" is booking in London until May 2023, with a world tour planned after that.The fans who attended Thursday's show are just delighted ABBA is back."I'm so excited," said Kristina Hagman, a Swede who has been a fan since the 1970s."I was bullied so much because you were not allowed to like ABBA at that time, because it was so commercial," she said. "But now we are taking revenge."
LONDON — "ABBA Voyage" is certainly a trip.
Four decades after the Swedish pop supergroup last performed live, audiences can once again see ABBA onstage in an innovative digital concert where past and future collide.
The show opens to the public in London on Friday, the day after a red-carpet premiere attended by superfans, celebrities and Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. The guests of honor were pop royalty — the four members of ABBA, appearing in public together for the first time in years.
They were in the audience, though. Onstage at the specially built 3,000-seat ABBA Arena next to east London's Olympic Park were a 10-piece live backing band and a digital ABBA, created using motion capture and other technology by Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects firm founded by "Star Wars" director George Lucas.
The voices and movements are the real Agnetha Faltskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — choreographed by Britain's Wayne McGregor — but the performers onstage are digital avatars, inevitably dubbed "ABBA-tars." In unsettlingly realistic detail, they depict the band members as they looked in their 1970s heyday — beards on the men, flowing locks on the women, velour pantsuits all around.
The result is both high tech and high camp, a glittery supernova of stupefying technology, 1970s nostalgia and pop music genius.
For many in the audience, it was almost like being taken back in time to watch ABBA perform classics including "Mamma Mia," "Knowing Me, Knowing You," "SOS" and "Dancing Queen." The peppy 90-minute set also includes tracks from "Voyage," the reunion album the band released last year.
It's a fusion of tribute act and 3D concert movie that transcends that description. At times it was possible to forget this wasn't a live performance, though when the backing singers stepped forward to belt out "Does Your Mother Know," a surge of live-music energy shot through the arena.
The four band members — two married couples during ABBA's heyday, though now long divorced — got a rapturous ovation when they took a bow at the end of Thursday's show, 50 years after they formed ABBA, and 40 years after they stopped performing live.
Watching one's younger self perform must be a strange sensation, but the band members, now in their 70s, said they were delighted by the show.
"I never knew I had such amazing moves," Ulvaeus said.
Lyngstad agreed: "I thought I was quite good, but I'm even better."
Ulvaeus said the audience reaction was the most gratifying part of the experience.
"There's an emotional connection between the avatars and the audience," he said. "That's the fantastic thing."
Producers bill the show as "revolutionary." Time will tell. Like the first audiences to watch a talking motion picture a century ago, attendees may leave wondering whether they are watching a gimmick, or the future.
The Times of London reviewer Will Hodgkinson judged the show "essentially an ABBA singalong with added sound and light show," though he called the effect "captivating." Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis called the concert "jaw-dropping" and said "it's so successful that it's hard not to imagine other artists following suit."
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Members of ABBA, from left, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson arrive for the ABBA Voyage concert at the ABBA Arena in London, Thursday May 26, 2022.
Gimmick or genius, "ABBA Voyage" is booking in London until May 2023, with a world tour planned after that.
The fans who attended Thursday's show are just delighted ABBA is back.
"I'm so excited," said Kristina Hagman, a Swede who has been a fan since the 1970s.
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CUMMING, Ga., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2021 our Legends 115 Wheated Bourbon won the Double Platinum award and was then voted Best in Category making it the Best Wheated Bourbon in the Country.
After the award show wrapped up, Ascot Award founder and highly praised competition judge, Fred Minnick, urged all his followers to seek Legends and this lead to the 115 Wheated Bourbon selling out at the distillery and multiple stores across Georgia.
This spring, Legends Distillery decided to enter our Vodka, 115 Wheated Bourbon and Single Barrel Bourbon into the 2022 Ascot Awards with the goal of retaining our title and the results were amazing. Our vodka received a Platinum award and both our 115 Wheated Bourbon and Single Barrel Bourbon received Double Platinum!
Now we wait to see if we go back to back with the Best in Category Award which will be in June but until then we are celebrating our Ascot Awards and are honored by the judges feedback.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nearly 20 officers stood for about 45 minutes in the hallway outside the adjoining Texas classrooms where the gunman killed students and teachers this week before U.S. Border Patrol agents unlocked the door to confront and kill him, authorities said Friday.
At least some of the 911 calls made during the Tuesday attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde came from inside the connected classrooms where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was holed up, Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said during a contentious news conference.
The commander at the scene believed Ramos was barricaded inside and that the children were not at risk, McCraw said.
“It was the wrong decision,” he said.
McCraw released new details about the attack in which Ramos killed 19 children teachers, though his motive remains unclear.
The Border Patrol agents eventually used a master key to open the locked door of the classroom where they confronted and killed Ramos, he said.
There was a barrage of gunfire shortly after Ramos entered the classroom where officers eventually killed him, but that shots were “sporadic” for much of the 48 minutes when officers waited in the hallway, McCraw said. He said investigators do not know if or how many children died during that time.
Throughout the attack, teachers and children repeatedly called 911 asking for help, including a girl who pleaded: “Please send the police now,” McCraw said.
Questions have mounted over the amount of time it took officers to enter the school to confront the gunman.
It was 11:28 a.m. Tuesday when Ramos’ Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped out carrying an AR-15-style rifle.
Twelve minutes after that, authorities say, Ramos entered the school and found his way to the fourth-grade classroom where he killed the 21 victims.
But it wasn’t until 12:58 p.m. that law enforcement radio chatter said Ramos had been killed and the siege was over.
What happened in those 90 minutes, in a working-class neighborhood near the edge of the town of Uvalde, has fueled mounting public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement’s response to Tuesday’s rampage.
“They say they rushed in,” said Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, and who raced to the school as the massacre unfolded. “We didn’t see that.”
Friday’s briefing came only after authorities spent three days providing often conflicting and incomplete information.
According to the new timeline provided by McCraw, After crashing his truck, Ramos fired on two people coming out of a nearby funeral home, officials said.
Contrary to earlier statements by officials, a school district police officer was not inside the school when Ramos arrived. When that officer did respond, he unknowingly drove past Ramos, who was crouched behind a car parked outside and firing at the building, McCraw said.
At 11:33 p.m., Ramos entered the school through a rear door that had been propped open and fired more than 100 rounds into a pair of classrooms, McCraw said.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Travis Considine said investigators haven’t yet determined why the door was propped open.
Two minutes later, three local police officers arrived and entered the building through the same door, followed soon after by four others, McCraw said. Within 15 minutes, as many as 19 officers from different agencies had assembled in the hallway, taking sporadic fire from Ramos, who was holed up in a classroom.
Ramos was still inside at 12:10 p.m. when the first U.S. Marshals Service deputies arrived. They had raced to the school from nearly 70 miles (113 kilometers) away in the border town of Del Rio, the agency said in a tweet Friday.
But the police commander inside the building decided the group should wait to confront the gunman, on the belief that the scene was no longer an active attack, McCraw said.
The crisis came to an end after a group of Border Patrol tactical officers entered the school at 12:45 p.m., said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. They engaged in a shootout with the gunman, who was holed up in the fourth-grade classroom. Moments before 1 p.m., he was dead.
Ken Trump, president of the consulting firm National School Safety and Security Services, said the length of the timeline raised questions.
“Based on best practices, it’s very difficult to understand why there were any types of delays, particularly when you get into reports of 40 minutes and up of going in to neutralize that shooter,” he said.
The motive for the massacre — the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago — remained under investigation, with authorities saying Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history.
During the siege, frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the school, according to witnesses.
“Go in there! Go in there!” women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who watched the scene from outside a house across the street.
Carranza said the officers should have entered the school sooner: “There were more of them. There was just one of him.”
Cazares said that when he arrived, he saw two officers outside the school and about five others escorting students out of the building. But 15 or 20 minutes passed before the arrival of officers with shields, equipped to confront the gunman, he said.
As more parents flocked to the school, he and others pressed police to act, Cazares said. He heard about four gunshots before he and the others were ordered back to a parking lot.
“A lot of us were arguing with the police, ‘You all need to go in there. You all need to do your jobs.’ Their response was, ‘We can’t do our jobs because you guys are interfering,’” Cazares said.
Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, which works to make schools safer, cautioned that it’s hard to get a clear understanding of the facts soon after a shooting.
“The information we have a couple of weeks after an event is usually quite different than what we get in the first day or two. And even that is usually quite inaccurate,” Dorn said. For catastrophic events, “you’re usually eight to 12 months out before you really have a decent picture.”
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Bleiberg reported from Dallas.
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At long last, jury gets closing arguments in Depp-Heard trial
Johnny Depp’s lawyers asked a jury Friday “to give Mr. Depp his life back” by finding that his ex-wife, Amber Heard, committed libel.
Heard “ruined his life by falsely telling the world she was a survivor of domestic abuse at the hands of Mr. Depp,” lawyer Camille Vasquez told the jury in closing arguments.
Depp is hoping the six-week trial will help restore his reputation, though it has turned into a spectacle of a vicious marriage, with broadcast cameras in the courtroom capturing every twist to an increasingly rapt audience as fans weighed in on social media and lined up overnight for coveted courtroom seats.
“This case for Mr. Depp has never been about money,” said Depp lawyer Benjamin Chew. “It is about Mr. Depp's reputation and freeing him from the prison in which he has lived for the last six years.”
Heard’s lawyer, J. Benjamin Rottenborn, said the lawsuit is not about Depp’s reputation but is part of an ongoing smear campaign Depp launched after Heard filed for divorce.
“In Mr. Depp’s world, you don't leave Mr. Depp,” he said. “If you do, he will start a campaign of global humiliation against you.”
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million in Virginia's Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.
Heard filed a $100 million counterclaim against Depp after his lawyer called her allegations a hoax.
Depp says he never struck Heard and that she concocted the abuse allegations to gain an advantage in divorce proceedings. He has said he was often physically attacked by Heard.
“There is an abuser in this courtroom, but it is not Mr. Depp,” Vasquez said.
Heard testified about more than a dozen episodes of physical and sexual assault that she said Depp inflicted on her.
Vasquez, in her closing, noted that Heard had to revise her testimony about the first time she said she was struck. Heard said Depp hit her after she inadvertently laughed at one of his tattoos. Heard initially said it happened in 2013 — after a fairy-tale year of courtship and romance — but later corrected herself to say it happened in 2012, very early in their relationship.
“Now in this courtroom she has suddenly erased an entire year of magic,” Vasquez said.
Jurors have seen multiple photos of Heard with marks and bruises on her face, but some photos show only mild redness, and others show more severe bruising.
Vasquez accused Heard of doctoring the photos and said evidence that Heard has embellished some of her injuries is proof that all her claims of abuse are unfounded.
“You either believe all of it, or none of it,” she said. “Either she is a victim of ugly, horrible abuse, or she is a woman who is willing to say absolutely anything.”
In Heard's closing, Rottenborn said the nitpicking over Heard's evidence of abuse ignores the fact there's overwhelming evidence on her behalf and sends a dangerous message to domestic-violence victims.
“If you didn’t take pictures, it didn't happen,” Rottenborn said. “If you did take pictures, they’re fake. If you didn't tell your friends, they're lying. If you did tell your friends, they’re part of the hoax.”
When the jury deliberates, it will have to focus not only on whether there was abuse but also whether Heard's op-ed piece can be considered legally defamatory. The article itself focuses mostly on policy questions of domestic violence, but Depp's lawyer point to two passages in the article, as well as an online headline that they say defamed Depp.
In the first passage Heard writes that “two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath.” Depp's lawyers call it a clear reference to Depp, given that Heard publicly accused Depp of domestic violence in 2016 — two years before she wrote the article.
In a second passage she states “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.”
The online headline reads “Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath.”
“She didn't mention his name. She didn't have to,” Chew said. “Everyone knew exactly who and what Ms. Heard was talking about.”
Heard's lawyers Heard can't be held liable for the headline because she didn't write it, and that the two passages in the article are not about the abuse allegations themselves but how Heard's life changed after she made them. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/closing-arguments-depp-heard-trial/40122870 | 2022-05-27T18:04:53 | en | 0.983429 |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A documentary about discrimination within the ranks of Dutch police has sparked a national conversation in the Netherlands about racism, with many officers and others hoping it will finally bring about change.
“The Blue Family,” or “De Blauwe Familie” in Dutch, discusses a culture of bullying and fear in the national police force. It premiered on Dutch television Monday, timed around the second anniversary this week of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police.
“There is no way back,” Peris Conrad, one of the officers featured in the film, told The Associated Press.
Born in the former Dutch colony Surinam, Conrad dreamed of being a police officer as a child. He moved to the Netherlands when he was 4 years old, and after a stint in the military, became a security guard.
While in that job, he had an encounter with police officers who were looking for information about crime in the Surinamese community. The officers encouraged him to join the force himself, which he did, ultimately spending 26 years in service.
But Conrad, who is Black, recalled how in his first year at the police academy, colleagues hung a picture of him with cell bars drawn on it. The caption read: “Our monkey in a cage.”
Police leaders received an early showing of the film and promised action.
“The personal stories make it painfully clear how great the impact is (of the racism), and how long it will last,” Police Chief Henk van Essen said in a statement. “We all have something to do; not just executives, but all 65,000 colleagues. Because safety outside starts with safety inside.”
“There is no room for racism and discrimination in our police,” Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgöz told Dutch talk show “RTL Boulevard.”
The Dutch parliament voted by a large majority this week to place police leaders under stricter supervision, citing the suicides in recent years of three officers who had complained about discrimination.
Last year, a Dutch newspaper published messages from police group chats that showed officers making racial slurs and joking about killing non-white people. “One less Turk” one officer wrote, in response to the slaying of a 16-year-old girl who was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend in her high school’s bicycle shed.
As in other countries, the problems in the Netherlands have a long history. A 1998 report by the Ministry of Internal Affairs said discrimination was driving out police officers with a “migration” background – defined as having at least one parent born abroad.
While 24% of the Dutch population meets that definition, only 14% of the police force does. The National Police Corps employs some 65,000 people, and around 40,000 work as officers.
Margot Snijders has spent 30 years on the national force, including a number of years working on diversity and inclusion efforts. After years of frustration, she took a step back from that role.
“People don’t trust us, and they don’t want to work for us,” Snijders, who also appears in “The Blue Family,” told The Associated Press.
George Floyd’s death in the U.S. two years ago prompted protests against racial injustice in the Netherlands and around the world. Controle Alt Delete, an advocacy organization that pushes for better law enforcement practices, wanted to highlight problems within the Dutch police force.
The group brought on board filmmakers Maria Mok and Meral Uslu to direct and produce the documentary, which was backed by Dutch public broadcaster KRO-NCRV.
Problems with racism, as well as discrimination against women and members of the LGBTQ community, are widespread and systemic within police ranks, said Jan Struijs, the chairperson of the country’s largest police union.
Struijs also took part in the film. “I hope this is a historic turning point,” he told the AP.
The first article of the country’s constitution, which is displayed on posters in every police station, outlaws discrimination against any group. The Dutch consider themselves to be some of the most open-minded, tolerant people in the world.
There’s been no significant criticism of the “The Blue Family,” those involved in the documentary welcomed the response to it.
“I have been saying the same things for years, only now do they get a positive reaction,” Snijders said.
The Dutch police union is calling for better mental health counseling for officers and more accountability for ones who make racist jokes.
Conrad sees a need for widespread change, both in policy and leadership.
In the meantime, he’s forbidden his 20-year-old son from joining the force.
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BANGALORE, India, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marketing Automation Market is segmented By Type - Campaign Management, Email Marketing, Mobile Application, Inbound Marketing, Lead Nurturing and Lead Scoring, Reporting and Analytics, Social Media Marketing, Others, By Application - Large Enterprises, Small and Mid-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It is published in Valuates Reports under the Software Utilities Category.
The global Marketing Automation market size is projected to reach USD 4697.1 million by 2028, from USD 2745.6 million in 2021, at a CAGR of 7.9% during 2022-2028.
Major Factors Driving The Growth of The Marketing Automation Market are
The rising internet penetration, digitization of industries, and extensive use of mobile devices have necessitated the need for automated marketing solutions. In the era of personalized advertising, the need for retention of users and businesses focus on marketing spending to acquire customers.
Furthermore, the rise of big data analytics and accelerated adoption due to covid 19 impact will significantly boost the growth of the market during the review period.
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TRENDS INFLUENCING THE GROWTH OF THE MARKETING AUTOMATION MARKET
The shorter attention span, the rapid pace of digitalization, extensive use of mobile phones, and tighter budgetary control are forcing companies to reinvent the way of marketing and selling products. Personalized content, instant product recommendations, and chatbots are further stimulating the market. The emergence of smart SEO tactics and digital marketing tools will positively impact the marketing automation market during the forecast period.
Enterprises are investing in multi-channel marketing arenas to reach their ideal customers. The huge volume of data and content generated by users help marketers in communicating with the customers by understanding their brand preference. Organizations are using cross-channel, multi-channel networks, email marketing, social media platforms, websites, display ads, etc to improve effectiveness and increase ROI. Routine tasks are automated through this software. These factors will surge the growth of the marketing automation market.
Due to covid 19 impact, many large and small scale enterprises have consolidated and increased their marketing spending. Businesses are reevaluating their advertising, promotional, and media expenditures to maintain a steady flow of revenue. Automation is expected to expand and evolve along with capturing the entire marketing spectrum. This will positively impact the marketing automation market in the near future.
Automated marketing is set to take the digital marketing space by storm. New forms of AI, machine learning, and big data analytics will help in creating better ad campaigns by forecasting trends and predictive analysis. Website chatbots are becoming popular with easy integration and quick capturing of consumer data. Companies will continue to invest in marketing automation tools that will further boost the growth of the market during the review period.
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Based on type, email marketing will dominate the marketing automation market share with a 32.39% penetration.
Based on application, the large scale enterprises will grow the highest. However, the small and medium scale enterprises will grow the fastest as SMEs are integrating automated tools into their existing systems to reach their ideal customers.
Based on region, North America is expected to maintain the lead in the marketing automation market share due to the presence of social media platforms and rising investments. The US is the biggest market taking up 53.95% of the global share while Europe comes second at 23.84%. However, the Asia-pacific region will grow the fastest due to the rising manufacturing sector, structural changes in digital advertising, and increasing use of smartphones in emerging economies such as China, and India.
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- Asia-Pacific
- Latin America
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- HubSpot
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- Act-On Software
- Salesforce
- Adobe Systems
- Oracle
- Infusionsoft
- IBM
- Cognizant
- ETrigue
- GreenRope
- Hatchbuck
- IContact
- LeadSquared
- MarcomCentral
- Salesfusion
- SALESmanago
- SAP
- SAS Institute
- SharpSpring
- Aprimo
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- The global Multichannel Campaign Management market size is projected to reach USD 5118.3 million by 2028, from USD 2425.3 million in 2021, at a CAGR of 10.8% during 2022-2028.
- The global Marketing Automation Tools market size is projected to reach USD 9204.6 million by 2028, from USD 3293 million in 2021, at a CAGR of 15.6% during 2022-2028.
- The global Marketing Automation Solutions market size is projected to reach USD 9204.6 million by 2028, from USD 3293 million in 2021, at a CAGR of 15.6% during 2022-2028.
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KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia-backed separatists claimed they captured a railway hub in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces pushed to gain more ground Friday by pounding another Ukrainian-held area where authorities say 1,500 people have died since the war’s start.
With Russia’s offensive in Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region showing incremental progress, Ukrainian officials characterized the battle as grave and renewed their appeals for more sophisticated Western-supplied weaponry. Without that, the foreign minister warned, Ukrainian forces won’t be able to stop Russia’s advance on the east.
Some European leaders sought dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin toward ending a war — now in its 93rd day — with global economic repercussions, while Britain’s foreign minister worked to rally the West’s continued support for Ukraine.
“There should be no talk of cease-fires, or appeasing Putin. We need to make sure that Ukraine wins. And that Russia withdraws and that we never see this type of Russian aggression again,” U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.
But in Ukraine’s east, Russia does have the upper hand. The fighting Friday focused on two key cities: Sievierodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk. They are the last areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk, one of two provinces that make up the Donbas and where Moscow-backed separatists have controlled some territory for eight years.
“Massive artillery shelling does not stop, day and night,” Sievierodonetsk Mayor Oleksandr Striuk told The Associated Press. “The city is being systematically destroyed — 90% of the buildings in the city are damaged.”
At least 1,500 people have died in Sievierodonetsk because of the war since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, he said. About 12,000 to 13,000 people remain in the city — down from a pre-war population of about 100,000, he said. Those remaining are huddled in shelters, largely cut off from the rest of Ukraine.
Volunteers hoped to evacuate about 100 people Friday from a smaller city just to Sievierodonetsk’s south. It was a painstaking process: Many of the evacuees from Bakhmut were elderly or infirm and needed to be carried out of apartment buildings in soft stretchers and wheelchairs.
Minibuses and vans zipped through the city, picking up dozens for the first leg of a long journey west by car or train.
“Bakhmut is a high-risk area right now,” said Mark Poppert, an American volunteer working with British charity RefugEase. “We’re trying to get as many people out as we can.”
In Donetsk, the other Donbas province, the Russia-backed rebels said Friday they took over Lyman, a large railway hub north of two more key cities still under Ukrainian control.
“We lost Lyman,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich acknowledged Thursday night. However, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson reported Friday that its soldiers countered Russian attempts to push them completely out of the city.
Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said Russian forces have taken advantage of delays in Western arms shipments to step up their offensive in the east, bringing in up to a dozen additional battalion tactical groups.
Throwing so much muscle at the offensive, though, could backfire by seriously depleting Russia’s arsenal. Echoing an assessment from the British Defense Ministry, Zhdanov said Russia was deploying 50-year-old T-62 tanks, “which means that the second army of the world has run out of modernized equipment.”
Mykola Sunhurovskyi, an analyst at Kyiv’s Razumkov Center, said that going forward, “It is in Putin’s interests to solidify the situation that has developed today at the front, biting off from Ukraine what there is still strength for, and secure this line of contact as a position in (eventual) negotiations.”
As Ukraine’s hopes of stopping the Russian advance faded, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba pleaded with Western nations: “We need heavy weapons. … Without artillery, without multiple launch rocket systems we won’t be able to push them back.”
In his nightly address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had some harsh words for the European Union, which has not agreed on a sixth round of sanctions that includes an embargo on Russian oil. Hungary, one of Moscow’s closest allies in the EU, is obstructing the deal.
“Every day of delay, weakness, various disputes or proposals to ‘appease’ the aggressor at the expense of the victim is (results in) new killed Ukrainians,” he said. “And new threats to everyone on our continent.”
Zelenskyy said Russia’s offensive in the Donbas could leave its communities in ashes, and he accused Moscow of “an obvious policy of genocide” through mass deportations and killings of civilians.
On Thursday, Russian shelling of Kharkiv, a northeastern city that has been under assault while Ukrainian forces keep the invading troops out, killed nine people, including a father and his 5-month-old baby, the president said.
AP reporters saw the bodies of at least two dead men and four wounded at a central subway station, where the victims were taken as shelling continued outside.
To the north, neighboring Belarus announced Friday that it was sending troops toward the Ukrainian border, raising concerns in Ukraine’s military command. Russia used Belarus as a staging ground before it invaded Ukraine.
European leaders have been speaking with Putin about easing the growing global food crisis exacerbated by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other agricultural products while under attack.
Italian Premier Mario Draghi said there were no breakthroughs during his Thursday conversation with Putin about unblocking Ukrainian ports.
“If you are asking me if there are openings for peace, the answer is no,” Draghi told reporters.
Moscow has sought to shift the blame for the food crisis to the West, calling upon its leaders to lift existing sanctions.
Putin told Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Friday that Ukraine should remove Black Sea mines to allow safe shipping, according to a Kremlin readout of their conversation; Russia and Ukraine have traded blame for the mines near Ukraine’s ports.
Nehammer’s office said the two leaders also discussed a prisoner exchange and that Putin indicated efforts to arrange one would be “intensified.”
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and AP journalists around the world contributed.
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Federal judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against New York AG, allowing investigation to continue
A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
In a 43-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes said she based her decision on case law that, in most cases, bars federal judges from interfering in state-level investigations.
Sannes’ ruling came a day after a New York appeals court ruled that Trump must answer questions under oath in James’ probe, upholding a lower-court ruling requiring him to sit for a deposition.
"In a big victory, a federal court has dismissed Donald Trump’s baseless lawsuit to stop my office’s investigation into his and the Trump Organization’s financial dealings," James said in a tweet. "Frivolous lawsuits won’t stop us from completing our lawful, legitimate investigation."
A message seeking comment was left with Trump's lawyers.
Trump sued James in December, just after she issued a subpoena for his testimony, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy in an attempt to end the three-year investigation.
Through his lawyers, the Republican former president alleged that the probe was political in nature and that James, a Democrat, had violated his constitutional rights in a "thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates."
James responded that Trump’s lawsuit was a sudden "collateral attack" on her investigation and that there was no legal basis for it and no evidence to support his claim that the probe is purely political.
At a May 13 hearing that precipitated Sannes' ruling Friday, a lawyer for James' office said the probe is winding down and that evidence from it could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.
The lawyer, Andrew Amer, said "there's clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding," although a final determination on filing such an action has not been made.
Amer, a special litigation counsel in James' office, said the office is "nearing the end" of the civil investigation, which James has said uncovered evidence Trump's company misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for more than a decade. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit/40128366 | 2022-05-27T18:05:04 | en | 0.979785 |
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school said she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.
Miah Cerrillo, 11, told CNN that she and a friend called 911 from her dead teacher’s phone Tuesday and waited for what felt like, to her, three hours for officers to arrive at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
The 18-year-old shooter, Salvador Ramos, was inside the school for more than an hour before he was shot to death by Border Patrol tactical officers. That’s according to top law enforcement officials who provided new details Thursday of a confusing and sometimes contradictory timeline that has angered and frustrated the parents and onlookers who had urged police to charge into the school.
The children who survived the attack, which killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers, described a festive, end-of-the-school-year day that quickly turned to terror.
Samuel Salinas, 10, told ABC’s “ Good Morning America ” that he and other classmates pretended to be dead after Ramos opened fire on the class. Samuel was struck by shrapnel in his thigh.
“He shot the teacher and then he shot the kids,” said Samuel, who was in Irma Garcia’s class. Garcia died in the attack and her husband, Joe Garcia, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack.
Gemma Lopez, 10, was in a classroom down the hall when Ramos entered the building. She told “Good Morning America” that a bullet came through her classroom wall before any lockdown was called.
Her best friend, Amerie Garza, died in the rampage.
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Modulaire Group Annual Report for the period ended 31 December 2021
- Group strategy continuing to deliver strong revenue and margin growth
LONDON, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modulaire Group ("Modulaire" or "Group"), Europe and Asia Pacific's leading business services company specialising in modular services and infrastructure, is pleased to announce publication of its annual report for the period ended 31 December 2021 along with a pro-forma business review as per the FY21 trading update published on 7 February 2022.
Modulaire's continued execution against its strategy delivered another strong financial performance over the year. Through a focus on the day-to-day business performance, efficiency improvements, disciplined capital deployment, and accretive M&A, the Group continued to build momentum, delivering strong growth in revenue and both gross and EBITDA margin over the period.
On June 27 2021, Modulaire announced that its shareholders entered into an agreement to sell the Group to investment funds managed by Brookfield Business Partners L.P. The transaction successfully closed on 15 December 2021.
Mark Higson, Modulaire Group's Chief Executive Officer, said: "Our relentless focus on executing against our strategy continues to drive strong operational and financial performance. We were particularly pleased to see all geographic segments of the Organic business reporting growth in underlying EBITDA for FY21 versus FY20."
Modulaire will announce its First Quarter FY22 financial results on 14 June 2022. Management will host a conference call for investors on 15 June 2022, details of which will be available at https://www.modulairegroup.com/investors/financial-reports.
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Modulaire is a leader in European modular services and infrastructure. We create smart spaces for people to work, learn and live. Our business is designed to help customers find the right space solution, no matter what their requirements. Modulaire has operations in 25 countries with over 290,000 modular space and portable storage units and 4,400 remote accommodations rooms. The company operates as Algeco in Europe, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, Advanté in the United Kingdom, BUKO Huisvesting, BUKO Bouw & Winkels and BUKO Bouwsystemen in The Netherlands, Tecnifor and Locabox in Italy, Ausco in Australia, Portacom in New Zealand, and Algeco Chengdong in China.
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Turn your yard into an outdoor oasis this Memorial Day, saving big in the process.The best patio dining tables are the ones that perfectly fit your outdoor space while providing seating for every member of your household. And there are plenty of options this weekend.Memorial Day is one of the best times of the year to save big. Some of the nation's biggest retailers are offering big discounts on outdoor sectionals, lounge chairs, tables, lighting, seating and more.Below, we break down some of the best deals right now and in-store for Memorial Day weekend.Can't see the below deals? Click here.WAYFAIRWayfair is offering Memorial Day savings of up to 70% off some items, including outdoor furniture. Click here to view all of Wayfair's Memorial Day sales.The retailer is offering discounts on outdoor furniture and accessories to fit almost any outdoor space. Some of the highlights include:Save $200 on the Merton Wicker/Rattan 6 - Person Seating Group with CushionsNearly 50% off this Hogans Wicker/Rattan 4 - Person Seating Group with Cushions Lounge in style with this Hartington Plastic Folding Adirondack Chair, now listed at 34% off Save 23% on this Rectangular 6 - Person 32.25'' Long Dining Set with CushionsThis massive Nyasia 180'' x 108'' Rectangular Market Umbrella is now listed at only $151.99 Click here to view all Memorial Day deals from Wayfair on outdoor furniture.AMAZONRetail giant Amazon is also offering Memorial Day deals on pretty much everything under the sun — including outdoor and patio furniture. Click here to view all of Amazon's Memorial Day deals. Hammocks, seating groups, outdoor rugs and sofas are on sale, many with big savings this weekend. Big savings on seating sets, including this 28'' Round Glass Metal Table with Gray Rattan Edging and 2 Gray Rattan Stack Chairs Save $50 on this set of two rocking chairs with side tableLooking for outdoor storage? Get big savings on this 20 gallon plastic deck box, perfect to store anythingLooking for something a bit more modern? Save $75 on this Flash Furniture modern patio chair with cushionsClick here to view all Amazon deals on outdoor furniture and accessories. HOME DEPOTHome Depot has some amazing savings for Memorial Day weekend on outdoor furniture -- in some cases cutting prices in half! Click here to view all Memorial Day deals from Home Depot.Save $741 on the New Vultros Gray 7-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Seating Set with Blue CushionsSave $360 on the Megon Holly Gray 5-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Seating Sofa Set with Denim Blue CushionsSave $90 on the New Vultros Gray 5-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Seating Set with Blue CushionsSave $801 on the Megon Holly 6-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Fire Pit Seating Sofa Set with Denim Blue CushionsSave $790 on the Deep seating High End 8-Piece Gray Wicker Outdoor Sectional Set with Extra Thick Gray CushionsWALMARTWalmart has an entire selection of outdoor furniture, with deep discounts on Memorial Day.Click here to view all Memorial Day deals on patio furniture. Fire pits, sectionals, pillows and more are all on sale.
Turn your yard into an outdoor oasis this Memorial Day, saving big in the process.
The best patio dining tables are the ones that perfectly fit your outdoor space while providing seating for every member of your household. And there are plenty of options this weekend.
Memorial Day is one of the best times of the year to save big. Some of the nation's biggest retailers are offering big discounts on outdoor sectionals, lounge chairs, tables, lighting, seating and more.
Below, we break down some of the best deals right now and in-store for Memorial Day weekend.
Can't see the below deals? Click here.
WAYFAIR
Wayfair is offering Memorial Day savings of up to 70% off some items, including outdoor furniture.
Click here to view all of Wayfair's Memorial Day sales.
The retailer is offering discounts on outdoor furniture and accessories to fit almost any outdoor space. Some of the highlights include:
Wayfair Memorial Day deals: Outdoor furniture
H4-Person Seating Group
wayfair.com
$214.99
Hogans Wicker/Rattan 4 - Person Seating Group with Cushions [variation_tag_Cushion Color:Brown]
6 -Person Seating Group
wayfair.com
$709.99
Espresso Frame/Cream White Cushion Merton Wicker/Rattan 6 - Person Seating Group with Cushions
6 -Person Dining Set with Cushions
Black Hartington Plastic Folding Adirondack Chair
Rectangular Market Umbrella
wayfair.com
$151.99
Nyasia 180'' x 108'' Rectangular Market Umbrella
Bistro Set with Cushions
wayfair.com
$344.99
Round 2 - Person 27.5'' Long Bistro Set with Cushions
Foxborough Chaise Lounge Set
wayfair.com
Foxborough Chaise Lounge Set with Cushions and Table
Jonathon 3 Pieces Dining Set
Click here to view all Memorial Day deals from Wayfair on outdoor furniture.
AMAZON
Retail giant Amazon is also offering Memorial Day deals on pretty much everything under the sun — including outdoor and patio furniture.
Click here to view all of Amazon's Memorial Day deals.
Hammocks, seating groups, outdoor rugs and sofas are on sale, many with big savings this weekend.
Amazon Memorial Day sales: Outdoor furniture
28'' Round Glass Metal Table 2 Gray Rattan Stack Chairs
2 Rocking Chairs with Side Table
amazon.com
Flash Furniture Winston Set of 2 Rocking Chairs with Side Table - Black Poly Resin - Weather Resistant
Flash Furniture 120 Gallon Plastic Deck Box
amazon.com
Flash Furniture 120 Gallon Plastic Deck Box - All-Weather Patio Storage and Organization for Throw Pillows, Pool Toys or Garden Tools
Flash Furniture Modern Patio Chair With Cushions
amazon.com
$448.79
Flash Furniture Modern Patio Chair With Cushions - Contemporary Black Frame and Teak Accented Arms - Beige Cushions - Zippered Removable Covers
Flash Furniture Charlestown Poly Resin Adirondack Chair
amazon.com
$210.10
Flash Furniture Charlestown Poly Resin Adirondack Chair - Slate Gray - All Weather - Indoor/Outdoor
Vivere Double Polyester Hammock
amazon.com
Vivere Double Polyester Hammock with Space Saving Steel Stand, Techno (450 lb Capacity - Premium Carry Bag Included)
Outdoor Porch Swing, 2 Seater with Stand, Natural
amazon.com
Furinno Tioman Hardwood Patio / Garden / Outdoor Porch Swing, 2 Seater with Stand, Natural
Keter 2 Pack Alpine Adirondack Resin Outdoor Furniture Patio Chairs
amazon.com
$323.99
Keter 2 Pack Alpine Adirondack Resin Outdoor Furniture Patio Chairs with Cup Holder-Perfect for Beach, Pool, and Fire Pit Seating, Dark Grey
Click here to view all Amazon deals on outdoor furniture and accessories.
HOME DEPOT
Home Depot has some amazing savings for Memorial Day weekend on outdoor furniture -- in some cases cutting prices in half!
Click here to view all Memorial Day deals from Home Depot.
Home Depot Memorial Day sales: Outdoor furniture
7-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Seating Set
homedepot.com
$1,283.99
New Vultros Gray 7-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Seating Set with Blue Cushions
Gray 5-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Set
homedepot.com
$879.00
Megon Holly Gray 5-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Seating Sofa Set with Denim Blue Cushions
5-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Set
homedepot.com
$879.99
New Vultros Gray 5-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Conversation Seating Set with Blue Cushions
Megon Holly 6-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Fire Pit Seating Sofa Set
homedepot.com
$1,289.00
Megon Holly 6-Piece Wicker Outdoor Patio Fire Pit Seating Sofa Set with Denim Blue Cushions
Deep seating High End 8-Piece Gray Wicker Outdoor Sectional Set with Extra Thick Gray Cushions
11 ft. Round Solar LED Aluminum 360-Degree Rotation Cantilever Offset Outdoor Patio Umbrella with Base in Gray
homedepot.com
$569.99
11 ft. Round Solar LED Aluminum 360-Degree Rotation Cantilever Offset Outdoor Patio Umbrella with Base in Gray
WALMART
Walmart has an entire selection of outdoor furniture, with deep discounts on Memorial Day.
Click here to view all Memorial Day deals on patio furniture.
Fire pits, sectionals, pillows and more are all on sale.
Walmart Memorial Day sales: Outdoor furniture
4-Piece Wood Conversation Set
walmart.com
$998.00
Better Homes & Gardens Braxton 4-Piece Wood Conversation Set
4-Piece Sectional Sofa Set
walmart.com
$449.00
Mainstays Asher Springs Outdoor 4-Piece Sectional Sofa Set
Mainstays Zero-Gravity Steel Porch Swing - Red/Black
Better Homes & Gardens Harbor City Patio Fire Pit Dining Table
Outdoor Wood-Burning Fire Pit
walmart.com
$22.00
Mainstays 26" Metal Round Outdoor Wood-Burning Fire Pit
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(NEXSTAR) – Americans on the move are largely heading to the South and West, especially to areas in Texas and Arizona, newly recently data from the Census Bureau has found. Yet while many cities and towns were growing, some of the nation’s largest were suffering population losses.
Between the summers of 2020 and 2021, Census data found cities in these regions – eight in the West, seven in the South – had the greatest rate of population growth. Seeing the largest increase was Georgetown, Texas, with a rate of 10.5%. Found about 30 miles north of Austin, Georgetown’s population could double in less than seven years if its growth continues at the same rate, researchers found.
Roughly 12 miles west of Georgetown is Leander, the country’s second-fastest-growing city. A third Texas city, New Braunfels, which is found between Austin and San Antonio, also landed in the top five fastest-growing.
Five Arizona cities ranked in the top 15 fastest-growing, while Idaho, Texas, and Florida each had three.
Here are the 15 fastest-growing cities in the U.S.:
When comparing the total number of people moving in, the Census Bureau found cities in the South and West still had the greatest increase. Again, a Texas city topped the list: San Antonio, with an increase of 13,626 people. Close behind was Phoenix at 13,224.
Seven cities had both high rates of growth and numeric growth: Port St. Lucie, Buckeye, New Braunfels, Georgetown, Meridian, Leander, and Fort Myers.
These 15 cities welcomed the most new residents between 2020 and 2021:
Among the nation’s most populous cities, more than half saw their population decrease between 2020 and 2021: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, and Indianapolis.
New York City, which suffered the greatest population decrease at 305,465, still held onto its title as the most populous. The Big Apple edged out Los Angeles and Chicago, with the rankings throughout the list remaining the same as they were in 2020.
Here are the U.S.’s 15 most populous cities:
Seven U.S. cities surpassed a major milestone in 2021 and recorded a population of 50,000 or more. Among those are three from Texas – Kyle, Burleson, and Little Elm. Also in that select group are the Indiana cities of Westfield and Jefferson, as well as Lincoln, California, and Newark, Ohio. Another six cities saw their population surpass 100,000 in 2021. Among those are Bend, Oregon; Fishers and Carmel in Indiana; and three in Arizona – Tuscaloosa, Goodyear, and Buckeye.
The majority of cities and towns in the U.S. have a population under 5,000, according to Census data, yet they are home to less than 1% of Americans. Cities with a population of 50,000 and more – of which there are less than 800 – hold more than 60% of the country’s people.
Reasons for population changes vary from city to city, driven by housing costs, jobs, births and deaths. The pandemic and the lockdown that followed in spring 2020 made living in a crowded city less appealing for a time, and those who could leave — workers who could do their jobs remotely, for example — sometimes did.
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NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PowerToFly, the leading platform for diversity recruiting and retention, is honored to announce Richard Lui, MSNBC and NBC News journalist, filmmaker, and author, as the first Resident DEIB Research Fellow at PowerToFly, effective June 1st, 2022.
Of the appointment, PowerToFly's Senior Director of DEIB, Sienna Brown, said, "We're thrilled to have Richard Lui join us as our first DEIB Research Fellow; his advocacy in the AAPI community and his expertise in both storytelling and research will be pivotal in continuing to elevate the voices of underrepresented communities."
Lui was the first Asian American Pacific Islander to anchor a daily cable news show and is a vocal advocate for issues related to Communities of Color, including the AAPI, Black, Latino, and Native American communities. He has covered racial conflict for over 25 years. He is the author of the book Enough About Me. It is an autobiographical analysis and critique of racism and political divisiveness that offers a modern take on the age-old value of thinking of others as a solution.
As Resident DEIB Research Fellow, Lui will host a series of free conversations with game changers in business, policy, and beyond through the lens of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The conversations will reach millions of users worldwide.
Lui's conversations will be part of PowerToFly's Diversity Reboot Summit Series, which has featured speakers such as Arianna Huffington, Ai-jen Poo, and Rep. Mark Takano.
Lui will also collaborate with PowerToFly to research and identify key areas for action and conversation in the DEIB space, while challenging the narratives that slow progress.
"It's an honor to be named a PowerToFly DEIB Research Fellow," said Lui. "The opportunity to dig into data and ideas to affect the way business thinks about inclusion is exciting — it can benefit top and bottom lines with relevant ROI. But there are long-standing misunderstandings on why we should do this stuff: what feels right versus the real data that shows it actually is right for EBITDA. My research will focus on the practical meat on the bone to bridge these narrative gaps."
About PowerToFly
PowerToFly was founded in 2014 and currently has a team of over 150 people in 27 countries. It is a women-led company focused on empowering underrepresented talent across all races, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities, veteran statuses, and gender identities.
SOURCE PowerToFly | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/msnbc-journalist-richard-lui-named-first-resident-deib-research-fellow-at-powertofly-301556713.html | 2022-05-27T18:05:15 | en | 0.948718 |
NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest market analysis report titled "Music Production Software Market by Type, End-user, and Geography - Forecast and Analysis 2022-2026" has been added to Technavio's catalog. The report predicts the market to witness an accelerating growth momentum at a CAGR of 7.31% from 2021 to 2026. The music production software market potential growth difference of USD 369.87 million will be recorded during the projected period.
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Music Production Software Market Vendor Insights
- The market is fragmented, and the degree of fragmentation will accelerate during the forecast period. Competitors have to focus on differentiating their product offerings with unique value propositions to strengthen their foothold in the market. Market vendors also have to leverage the existing growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.
- Ableton AG, Acon AS, Acoustica Inc., Adobe Inc., Apple Inc., Avid Technology Inc., Bitwig GmbH, Cockos Inc., GoldWave Inc., Image Line Software NV, iZotope Inc., MAGIX Software GmbH, MakeMusic Inc., MOTU Inc., MuTools, NCH SOFTWARE Pty Ltd., PreSonus Audio Electronics Inc., Reason Studios AB, Serato Ltd., and Yamaha Corp. are among some of the major market participants.
- To make the most of the opportunities and recover from post pandemic impact, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments. Ableton AG offers Live 10 which is a music production software with three versions, including Intro, Standard, and Suite. The company makes Live, Push, and Link unique software and hardware for music creation and performance. The products that they provide are used by a community of dedicated musicians, sound designers, and artists from across the world.
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Music Production Software Market Revenue-generating Segments
- End-user
- Professionals: The professionals end-user segment will account for the highest music production software market share in 2021. The segment will continue to dominate the market share throughout the forecast period. The demand for music production software is increasing, owing to the increasing number of audio and video contents of large length.
- Non-professionals
- Geography
- North America: 42% of the market's growth will originate from North America during the forecast period. The US is the key market for music production software in North America. Market growth in this region will be faster than the growth of the market in South America, Europe, and MEA. The significant increase in the adoption of music production software by professionals such as musicians and music production companies will facilitate the music production software market growth in North America over the forecast period.
- Europe
- APAC
- South America
- Middle East And Africa
- Type
- Editing
- Mixing
- Recording
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Music Production Software Market Scope
Technavio presents a detailed picture of the market by the way of study, synthesis, and summation of data from multiple sources. The music production software market report covers the following areas:
- Music Production Software Market Size
- Music Production Software Market Trends
- Music Production Software Market Industry Analysis
Music Production Software Market Takeaways
- CAGR of the market during the forecast period 2022-2026
- Detailed information on factors that will assist music production software market growth during the next five years
- Estimation of the music production software market size and its contribution to the parent market
- Predictions on upcoming trends and changes in consumer behavior
- The growth of the music production software market
- Analysis of the market's competitive landscape and detailed information on vendors
- Comprehensive details of factors that will challenge the growth of music production software market, vendors
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Table of Contents:
1 Executive Summary
- 1.1 Market overview
- Exhibit 01: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Overview
- Exhibit 02: Executive Summary – Data Table on Market Overview
- Exhibit 03: Executive Summary – Chart on Global Market Characteristics
- Exhibit 04: Executive Summary – Chart on Market by Geography
- Exhibit 05: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by End-user
- Exhibit 06: Executive Summary – Chart on Market Segmentation by Type
- Exhibit 07: Executive Summary – Chart on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 08: Executive Summary – Data Table on Incremental Growth
- Exhibit 09: Executive Summary – Chart on Vendor Market Positioning
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 10: Parent market
- Exhibit 11: Market Characteristics
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 12: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 13: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2021
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2021-2026
- Exhibit 14: Chart on Global - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 15: Data Table on Global - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 16: Chart on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 17: Data Table on Global Market: Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
4 Five Forces Analysis
- 4.1 Five forces summary
- Exhibit 18: Five forces analysis - Comparison between 2021 and 2026
- 4.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 19: Chart on Bargaining power of buyers – Impact of key factors 2021 and 2026
- 4.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 20: Bargaining power of suppliers – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 21: Threat of new entrants – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 22: Threat of substitutes – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 23: Threat of rivalry – Impact of key factors in 2021 and 2026
- 4.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 24: Chart on Market condition - Five forces 2021 and 2026
5 Market Segmentation by End-user
- 5.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 25: Chart on End-user - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 26: Data Table on End-user - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.2 Comparison by End-user
- Exhibit 27: Chart on Comparison by End-user
- Exhibit 28: Data Table on Comparison by End-user
- 5.3 Professionals - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 29: Chart on Professionals - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 30: Data Table on Professionals - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 31: Chart on Professionals - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 32: Data Table on Professionals - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.4 Non-professionals - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 33: Chart on Non-professionals - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 34: Data Table on Non-professionals - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 35: Chart on Non-professionals - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 36: Data Table on Non-professionals - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 5.5 Market opportunity by End-user
- Exhibit 37: Market opportunity by End-user ($ million)
6 Market Segmentation by Type
- 6.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 38: Chart on Type - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 39: Data Table on Type - Market share 2021-2026 (%)
- 6.2 Comparison by Type
- Exhibit 40: Chart on Comparison by Type
- Exhibit 41: Data Table on Comparison by Type
- 6.3 Editing - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 42: Chart on Editing - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 43: Data Table on Editing - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 44: Chart on Editing - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 45: Data Table on Editing - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 6.4 Mixing - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 46: Chart on Mixing - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 47: Data Table on Mixing - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 48: Chart on Mixing - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 49: Data Table on Mixing - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 6.5 Recording - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 50: Chart on Recording - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 51: Data Table on Recording - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 52: Chart on Recording - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 53: Data Table on Recording - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 6.6 Market opportunity by Type
- Exhibit 54: Market opportunity by Type ($ million)
7 Customer Landscape
- 7.1 Customer landscape overview
- Exhibit 55: Analysis of price sensitivity, lifecycle, customer purchase basket, adoption rates, and purchase criteria
8 Geographic Landscape
- 8.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 56: Chart on Market share by geography 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 57: Data Table on Market share by geography 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 58: Chart on Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 59: Data Table on Geographic comparison
- 8.3 North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 60: Chart on North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 61: Data Table on North America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 62: Chart on North America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 63: Data Table on North America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.4 Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 64: Chart on Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 65: Data Table on Europe - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 66: Chart on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 67: Data Table on Europe - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.5 APAC - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 68: Chart on APAC - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 69: Data Table on APAC - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 70: Chart on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 71: Data Table on APAC - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.6 South America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 72: Chart on South America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 73: Data Table on South America - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 74: Chart on South America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 75: Data Table on South America - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.7 Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 76: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 77: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 78: Chart on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 79: Data Table on Middle East and Africa - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.8 US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 80: Chart on US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 81: Data Table on US - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 82: Chart on US - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 83: Data Table on US - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.9 China - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 84: Chart on China - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 85: Data Table on China - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 86: Chart on China - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 87: Data Table on China - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.10 UK - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 88: Chart on UK - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 89: Data Table on UK - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 90: Chart on UK - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 91: Data Table on UK - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.11 Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 92: Chart on Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 93: Data Table on Germany - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 94: Chart on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 95: Data Table on Germany - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.12 France - Market size and forecast 2021-2026
- Exhibit 96: Chart on France - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 97: Data Table on France - Market size and forecast 2021-2026 ($ million)
- Exhibit 98: Chart on France - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- Exhibit 99: Data Table on France - Year-over-year growth 2021-2026 (%)
- 8.13 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 100: Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 9.1 Market drivers
- 9.2 Market challenges
- 9.3 Impact of drivers and challenges
- Exhibit 101: Impact of drivers and challenges in 2021 and 2026
- 9.4 Market trends
10 Vendor Landscape
- 10.1 Overview
- 10.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 102: Overview on Criticality of inputs and Factors of differentiation
- 10.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 103: Overview on factors of disruption
- 10.4 Industry risks
- Exhibit 104: Impact of key risks on business
11 Vendor Analysis
- 11.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 105: Vendors covered
- 11.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 106: Matrix on vendor position and classification
- 11.3 Ableton AG
- Exhibit 107: Ableton AG - Overview
- Exhibit 108: Ableton AG - Product / Service
- Exhibit 109: Ableton AG - Key offerings
- 11.4 Adobe Inc.
- Exhibit 110: Adobe Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 111: Adobe Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 112: Adobe Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 113: Adobe Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 114: Adobe Inc. - Segment focus
- 11.5 Apple Inc.
- Exhibit 115: Apple Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 116: Apple Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 117: Apple Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 118: Apple Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 119: Apple Inc. - Segment focus
- 11.6 Avid Technology Inc.
- Exhibit 120: Avid Technology Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 121: Avid Technology Inc. - Business segments
- Exhibit 122: Avid Technology Inc. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 123: Avid Technology Inc. - Segment focus
- 11.7 Cockos Inc.
- Exhibit 124: Cockos Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 125: Cockos Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 126: Cockos Inc. - Key offerings
- 11.8 Image Line Software NV
- Exhibit 127: Image Line Software NV - Overview
- Exhibit 128: Image Line Software NV - Product / Service
- Exhibit 129: Image Line Software NV - Key offerings
- 11.9 MAGIX Software GmbH
- Exhibit 130: MAGIX Software GmbH - Overview
- Exhibit 131: MAGIX Software GmbH - Product / Service
- Exhibit 132: MAGIX Software GmbH - Key offerings
- 11.10 PreSonus Audio Electronics Inc.
- Exhibit 133: PreSonus Audio Electronics Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 134: PreSonus Audio Electronics Inc. - Product / Service
- Exhibit 135: PreSonus Audio Electronics Inc. - Key offerings
- 11.11 Reason Studios AB
- Exhibit 136: Reason Studios AB - Overview
- Exhibit 137: Reason Studios AB - Product / Service
- Exhibit 138: Reason Studios AB - Key offerings
- 11.12 Yamaha Corp.
- Exhibit 139: Yamaha Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 140: Yamaha Corp. - Business segments
- Exhibit 141: Yamaha Corp. - Key news
- Exhibit 142: Yamaha Corp. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 143: Yamaha Corp. - Segment focus
12 Appendix
- 12.1 Scope of the report
- 12.2 Inclusions and exclusions checklist
- Exhibit 144: Inclusions checklist
- Exhibit 145: Exclusions checklist
- 12.3 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 146: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 12.4 Research methodology
- Exhibit 147: Research methodology
- Exhibit 148: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 149: Information sources
- 12.5 List of abbreviations
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LONDON (AP) — When Mick North’s 5-year-old daughter was gunned down at her school, he vowed through his grief that it must never happen again.
And it hasn’t — in Britain, at least. The 1996 massacre of 16 elementary school students in Dunblane, Scotland led to a ban on owning handguns in the U.K. While Britain is not immune to gun violence, there have been no school shootings in the quarter century since.
The United States’ deep-rooted gun culture makes similar action unlikely in the wake of the killing of 19 students and two teachers by an 18-year-old gunman in Uvalde, Texas.
North, who helped set up Britain’s Gun Control Network after his daughter Sophie was killed, said his reaction to the Uvalde killings was “shock, but no surprise.” He knows like few others just what the Uvalde families are going through, but says “my sympathy is not going to make them feel better. And it’s just dreadful. It’s just dreadful.”
North’s life was shattered on March 13, 1996, when 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton entered the gym at Dunblane Primary School in central Scotland, where a class of 5 and 6-year-olds was assembled. The 43-year-old former Scout leader killed 16 children and a teacher with four handguns before shooting himself. Another 12 children and two teachers were wounded.
Public horror at the slaughter, and campaigning by bereaved families that put pressure on politicians, brought about rapid change to Britain’s gun laws.
Soon after the carnage, a small group of local mothers launched what became the “Snowdrop Campaign” — named after the only flower in bloom at that time of spring — and began a petition demanding a ban on the private ownership of handguns.
The movement quickly gained momentum across the country, and campaigners eventually took boxes full of paper signed by some 750,000 people to politicians in London.
“I think our strength was in numbers,” said Rosemary Hunter, one of the campaign’s founders. Her 3-year-old daughter was at nursery in Dunblane when the shooting occurred. Hunter said “the mood in the country was so overwhelmingly in support of the change that it was not difficult to overcome” opposition from gun advocates.
“I don’t know how you translate that to a country where there are more guns than people,” Hunter said of the United States. “In many ways it’s quite overwhelming to think that people are going through what we went through here in our town. And it’s happened so, so many times.”
Like Uvalde, Dunblane is a small town, where many of the 9,000 residents know one another. For those who lived there in 1996 — including tennis star Andy Murray, then a 9-year-old pupil at Dunblane Primary School — the pain has never completely faded. Murray responded to the Texas shooting with a tweet labelling it “madness.”
The year after the shooting, and with the support of both Conservative and Labour politicians, Parliament passed new laws to ban private ownership of almost all handguns in Britain. Gun owners surrendered more than 160,000 weapons under a government buyback program.
Britain had banned semiautomatic weapons a decade earlier after a 1987 shooting rampage in Hungerford, England that left 16 adults dead. People can still own shotguns and rifles with a license.
Other countries have also responded to mass shootings by toughening laws. Canada imposed stricter checks on gun buyers and clamped down on military-style weapons — though did not ban them — after the 1989 slaying of 14 female students by a misogynist killer at L’Ecole Polytechnique engineering school in Montreal.
A month after Dunblane, a gunman armed with two semiautomatic assault rifles killed 35 people and wounded another 23 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Within two weeks, Australia’s federal and state governments had agreed to standardize gun laws with a primary aim of getting rapid-fire weapons out of public hands.
In the decade before the Port Arthur massacre, there had been 11 mass gun homicides in Australia, defined as at least four dead victims. Since then, there have been three such shootings.
But for the pain in Texas to translate into a national reckoning with gun violence would take a major political shift in the United States, where the right to bear arms is embedded in the Constitution and efforts to tighten laws after past massacres have foundered.
“Nothing has happened (in the U.S.) since Columbine and the other school shootings that followed shortly after Dunblane, when we started being asked, ‘Well, what would you recommend Americans do?’” North said. “We thought, well, follow our example. Try and change and tighten gun legislation after a tragedy. But it never happened.”
While President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws — with Biden stating that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” — Republican politicians and the National Rifle Association say issues such as mental health are the problem, not access to firearms.
Jack Crozier, 28, lost his sister Emma in the Dunblane attack and now campaigns for gun control. He has traveled to the U.S. to meet American activists and thinks change will have to come from young people, like the survivors of a 2018 school shooting that killed 14 students and three staff in Parkland, Florida.
“Kids are not willing to grow up like this and go to school in fear anymore,” he said. “The kids in Parkland are now studying in universities and college, and they are the youth campaigners that can change things.”
He said the families in Uvalde “have the support of every single family in Dunblane.”
“The people of Dunblane stand with you.” | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/uks-dunblane-grieves-for-uvalde-fears-nothing-will-change/ | 2022-05-27T18:05:21 | en | 0.978688 |
NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre
The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to "reflect on" — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Former President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans are scheduled to address the three-day firearms marketing and advocacy event, which is expected to draw protesters fed up with gun violence.
Some scheduled speakers and performers have backed out, including two Texas lawmakers and "American Pie" singer Don McLean, who said "it would be disrespectful" to go ahead with his act in the aftermath of the country's latest mass shooting.
While President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws, NRA board member Phil Journey said the focus should be on better mental health care and trying to prevent gun violence. He said he wouldn't support banning or limiting access to firearms.
The NRA said in an online statement that people attending the gun show will "reflect on" the Uvalde school shooting, "pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members, and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure."
People planning to attend picked up registration badges Thursday and shopped for NRA souvenirs, such as T-shirts that say "Suns Out Guns Out." Police already had set up metal barriers across the street from the convention center, at a park where protesters are expected to gather Friday.
Gary Francis traveled with his wife and friends from Racine, Wisconsin, to attend the NRA meeting. He said he opposed any gun control regulations in response to the Uvalde shooting.
"What happened there is obviously tragic," he said. "But the NRA had nothing to do with it. The people who come here had nothing to do with it."
Texas has experienced a series of mass shootings in recent years. During that time, the Republican-led Legislature and governor have relaxed gun laws.
There is precedent for the NRA to gather amid local mourning and controversy. The organization went ahead with a shortened version of its 1999 meeting in Denver roughly a week after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. Actor Charlton Heston, the NRA president at that time, told attendees that "horrible acts" shouldn't become opportunities to limit constitutional rights and he denounced critics for casting NRA members as "villains."
Rocky Marshall, a former NRA board member, said that although the tragedy in Uvalde "does put the meeting in a bad light," that's not a reason to cancel it. Marshall said gun-rights advocates and opponents can perhaps reduce gun violence if they focus on factors such as mental illness or school security.
"Throwing rocks at the NRA, that doesn't solve the next mass shooting," he said. "Throwing rocks at the people that hate guns, that doesn't solve the next mass shooting."
But country music singer Larry Gatlin, who pulled out of planned appearance at the event, said he hopes "the NRA will rethink some of its outdated and ill-thought-out positions."
"While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction," Gatlin said.
Country singers Lee Greenwood and Larry Stewart also withdrew, Variety reported.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the NRA's leaders "are contributing to the problem of gun violence and not trying to solve it." She accused them of representing the interests of gun manufacturers, "who are marketing weapons of war to young adults."
Two Republican Texas lawmakers who had been scheduled speak Friday — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw — are no longer attending due to what their staffs said were changes in their schedules.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was slated to attend, will instead address the convention by prerecorded video, his spokesman told The Dallas Morning News.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was listed as a speaker, and Trump said Wednesday that he still intends to attend. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, also is sticking to her plans to speak Friday at the NRA event.
Though personal firearms are allowed at the convention, the NRA said guns would not be permitted during the session featuring Trump because of Secret Service security protocols.
Several groups have said they planned to stage protests outside of the convention center.
"This is not the time or the place to have this convention," said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of FIEL, a Houston-based civil rights group that plans to participate in protests. "We must not just have thoughts and prayers from legislators, but rather we need action to address this public health crisis that is affecting our communities."
Democrat Beto O'Rourke, who is challenging Abbott in the 2022 Texas governor's race, said he would be attending a protest outside the convention Friday.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, said the city is obligated to host the NRA event, which has been under contract for more than two years. But he urged politicians to skip it.
"You can't pray and send condolences on one day and then be going and championing guns on the next. That's wrong," Turner said.
Shannon Watts, the founder of gun-control group Moms Demand Action, said she was not surprised the NRA is not canceling its meeting.
"The real question now is which elected officials will choose to side with violence and go kiss the ring in Houston this weekend instead of siding with communities crying out for public safety," Watts said.
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David A. Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Missouri. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/nra-convention-texas-school-massacre/40122760 | 2022-05-27T18:05:25 | en | 0.980962 |
National Road Safety Foundation Partners With SADD To Help Young Drivers Make This "The Safest Summer Ever"
Summer Months Bring a 21 Percent Increase in Teen Traffic Deaths
NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The period between Memorial Day and Labor Day is often referred to by traffic safety experts as "the 100 deadliest days," since the summer months usually bring a dangerous spike in teen traffic fatalities. During summer months, an average of seven people are killed every day in teen driver-related crashes – an increase of nearly 20 percent over year-round figures. Each year an average of 2,100 teen drivers are involved in fatal crashes, with 30 percent occurring during the 100 deadliest days.
In response, thousands of young people active in SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) are partnering with The National Road Safety Foundation to instead make it "The Safest Summer Ever." The two groups are mounting a massive social media campaign to call attention to a range of safe driving issues from distracted and drowsy driving, along with an effort to empower passengers to speak up when in a vehicle that's being driven dangerously. The campaign will have different safe driving messages posted on social media every week, with those posts amplified by shares and re-posts by SADD chapters and members nationwide.
"By mobilizing the tens of thousands of student safety advocates in the SADD community at the middle school, high school and college level, we hope to make this the safest summer ever, not only for teens on the road, but for all drivers and passengers," said SADD President and CEO Rick Birt. "Young people will help spread important safe driving messages to their peers, friends and family at a time when teens are most at risk on the road."
"The messages being shared by our friends in SADD can help save lives," said Michelle Anderson, Director of Operations at The National Road Safety Foundation, a non-profit that promotes safe driving behavior and a longtime SADD supporter and program partner. "Our hope is that these messaging efforts will have an impact that brings a decline in teen crashes to make this the safest summer ever."
Messages will include material from the Passport to Safe Driving, created by the National Road Safety Foundation and SADD students to engage teens and adults on the driving skills they need to be safe. Safest Summer Ever posts can be seen throughout the summer at #SADD and #NRSForg. Messaging will also encourage passengers to speak up when in a vehicle that is being driven unsafely, since passengers of all ages account for about 62 percent of traffic fatalities nationwide.
This year's campaign comes on the heels of new record-breaking crash statistics released by the Governors Highway Safety Association. A new GHSA report shows traffic fatalities last year hit a 16-year high of 42,915, an increase of 10.5 percent from 2020, while pedestrian fatalities have skyrocketed to a 40-year high of 7,485, an 11.5 percent increase over the previous year.
About SADD: For almost 40 years, SADD, the nation's premier youth health & safety organization has worked to empower teens, engage parents, mobilize communities, and change lives around the issues of traffic safety, substance abuse, and personal health and safety. Through a national network of peer-led chapters in middle schools, high schools and colleges, SADD equips our students with the resources they need to advocate for change on their campuses and in their communities. Join the movement by visiting www.sadd.org, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.
About The National Road Safety Foundation: The National Road Safety Foundation (NRSF), a non-profit organization in its 60th year, creates driver safety programs for free distribution to teachers, police, traffic safety agencies, youth advocacy groups and others. NRSF has programs on distracted driving, speed and aggression, impaired driving, drowsy driving and other traffic safety issues. NRSF also sponsors national contests for teens in partnership with SADD and FCCLA and regional contests partnering with auto major shows. To view free programs and for more information, visit www.nrsf.org.
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SOURCE The National Road Safety Foundation | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-road-safety-foundation-partners-with-sadd-to-help-young-drivers-make-this-the-safest-summer-ever-301556671.html | 2022-05-27T18:05:28 | en | 0.953229 |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Several public school teachers in Rochester were put on leave after exchanging text messages that made “racist and demeaning” references to students, officials said Friday.
The Democrat and Chronicle reported the teachers worked at Enrico Fermi School 17, which has a large percentage of Black and Hispanic students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.
“I am horrified at the racist and demeaning references and language used to describe children … our children! The staff members have been put on leave and the District will use all forms of available discipline up to and including termination,” Rochester City School District Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small said in a prepared statement.
Students discovered a series of texts, including one containing an obscenity that wished one girl would beat another up. Another obscene text suggested an automated call that insulted children and their parents, according to the newspaper.
The discovery comes weeks after Rochester school officials said they were investigating allegations that a white teacher told his seventh-grade class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery.
Rochester Teachers Association President Adam Urbanski said he did not know how many teachers had been accused in this latest episode.
“I want to make it clear that we strongly believe that everyone, and especially our students, are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect,” he said. “We are also committed to fairness and due process and the investigation is still ongoing.” | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/upstate-new-york-teachers-put-on-leave-after-offensive-texts/ | 2022-05-27T18:05:29 | en | 0.979668 |
HUNTINGTON, Ind., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc., (OTCQB: NIDB), the parent company of First Federal Savings Bank, have both been recognized for their performance.
First Federal Savings Bank (FFSB) has been named to American Banker Magazine's Top 200 Community Banks for the 11th consecutive year for 2021. The magazine qualifies banks for this listing if they have less than $2 billion in total assets and are publicly traded. FFSB came in at #62 on this year's list of the top 200 publicly traded community banks. This is a 16-spot improvement from #78 in 2020. The magazine ranked the institutions based on the profitability metric, Return on Average Equity, over a 3-year period. Only 12 banks from the state of Indiana made this elite list and First Federal Savings Bank ranked 4th in the State.
Michael Zahn, President and CEO of First Federal Savings Bank, states, "It is an honor to be recognized by American Banker Magazine for the 11th year in row. Embracing our role as a community bank while providing exceptional customer service from our dedicated team has led to our financial success."
In addition, Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank, maintained its position on the Dividend Champions List. To achieve Champion status, a company must increase its dividend payments to its shareholders for 25 consecutive years. Northeast Indiana Bancorp is one of 141 companies in the United States to achieve this status and one of four companies from Indiana. Currently Northeast Indiana Bancorp has increased dividends 27 years in a row.
Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc. is headquartered at 648 N. Jefferson Street, Huntington, Indiana. The company offers a full array of banking and financial brokerage services to its customers through its main office in Huntington and six full-service Indiana offices in Huntington (2), Warsaw (2) and Fort Wayne (2). The Company is traded on the OTC Markets Group, Inc. (www.otcmarkets.com) utilizing the OTCQB platform under the symbol "NIDB". Our web site address is www.firstfedindiana.bank.
SOURCE Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Inc. | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/northeast-indiana-bancorp-inc-and-first-federal-savings-bank-recognized-301556689.html | 2022-05-27T18:05:34 | en | 0.942724 |
Warning: The details in this story may be upsetting to some. Discretion is advised.An 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend's blood and played dead.Miah Cerrillo spoke exclusively to CNN about her horrific experience that day inside the classroom where the mass shooting took place that killed 19 of her classmates and two of her teachers.Miah said she and her classmates were watching the movie "Lilo and Stitch" in a classroom shared by two teachers, Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia. The students were finished with their lessons when the teachers got word there was a shooter in the building, she told CNN's "New Day."One teacher went to lock the door, but Miah says the shooter was already right there — and shot out the window in the door. She described it all happening so fast — her teacher backed into the classroom and the gunman followed. She told CNN he made eye contact with one of the teachers, said, "Goodnight," and then shot her.He opened fire, shooting the other teacher and many of Miah's friends. She said bullets flew by her, and fragments hit her shoulders and head. The girl was later treated at the hospital and released with fragment wounds; she described to CNN that clumps of her hair were falling out now.Miah said after shooting students in her class, the gunman went through a door into an adjoining classroom. She heard screams, and the sound of shots in that classroom. After the shots stopped, though, she says the shooter started playing loud music — sad music, she said.The girl and a friend managed to get her dead teacher's phone and call 911 for help. She said she told a dispatcher, "Please come ... we're in trouble."Miah said she was scared the gunman would return to her classroom to kill her and a few other surviving friends. So, she dipped her hands in the blood of a classmate — who lay next to her, already dead — and then smeared the blood all over herself to play dead.Miah said it felt like three hours that she lay there, covered in her classmate's blood, with her friends.She told CNN she assumed at that point the police hadn't arrived on the scene yet.She said afterward, she overheard talk of police waiting outside the school. As she recounted this part of the story to CNN, she started crying, saying she just didn't understand why they didn't come inside and rescue them.Miah's mother said her daughter is traumatized and can't sleep. The child's parents have started a GoFundMe specifically to pay for her therapy.In an effort to keep herself covered, Miah sat for the interview wrapped in a blanket, despite the warm temperatures.A cellphone alarm accidentally went off during the interview, and Miah was visibly unnerved by the noise. Her mother said that's been happening a lot, and described an earlier incident where they were at a car wash and the sound of the vacuum cleaner "completely set her off."Miah was too scared to speak on camera, or to a man, because of what she experienced, but she told CNN she wanted to share her story so people can know what it's like to live through a school shooting. She says hopefully it can help prevent a tragedy like this from happening to other children.Already a 'miracle baby'Miah's mother said she was born with a tumor in her abdomen and wasn't expected to live much past her birth. She underwent extensive surgery to remove the tumor at age three; her mother already called her a "miracle baby" and said that's even truer now.Her mother also told CNN that the morning of the shooting, Miah had an earache and she took her out of school to go to the doctor. On the way back, they stopped at Starbucks for a treat and her mother offered to let Miah skip school the rest of the day since it was one of the last days of classes before summer break and they were just watching movies.But Miah insisted that she wanted to return to school to see her friends, so her mother dropped her back off at school — about an hour before the shooting.
Warning: The details in this story may be upsetting to some. Discretion is advised.
An 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend's blood and played dead.
Miah Cerrillo spoke exclusively to CNN about her horrific experience that day inside the classroom where the mass shooting took place that killed 19 of her classmates and two of her teachers.
Miah said she and her classmates were watching the movie "Lilo and Stitch" in a classroom shared by two teachers, Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia. The students were finished with their lessons when the teachers got word there was a shooter in the building, she told CNN's "New Day."
One teacher went to lock the door, but Miah says the shooter was already right there — and shot out the window in the door.
Miah Cerrillo family photo
Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend’s blood and played dead.
She described it all happening so fast — her teacher backed into the classroom and the gunman followed. She told CNN he made eye contact with one of the teachers, said, "Goodnight," and then shot her.
He opened fire, shooting the other teacher and many of Miah's friends. She said bullets flew by her, and fragments hit her shoulders and head. The girl was later treated at the hospital and released with fragment wounds; she described to CNN that clumps of her hair were falling out now.
Miah said after shooting students in her class, the gunman went through a door into an adjoining classroom. She heard screams, and the sound of shots in that classroom. After the shots stopped, though, she says the shooter started playing loud music — sad music, she said.
The girl and a friend managed to get her dead teacher's phone and call 911 for help. She said she told a dispatcher, "Please come ... we're in trouble."
Miah said she was scared the gunman would return to her classroom to kill her and a few other surviving friends. So, she dipped her hands in the blood of a classmate — who lay next to her, already dead — and then smeared the blood all over herself to play dead.
Miah said it felt like three hours that she lay there, covered in her classmate's blood, with her friends.
She told CNN she assumed at that point the police hadn't arrived on the scene yet.
She said afterward, she overheard talk of police waiting outside the school. As she recounted this part of the story to CNN, she started crying, saying she just didn't understand why they didn't come inside and rescue them.
Miah's mother said her daughter is traumatized and can't sleep. The child's parents have started a GoFundMe specifically to pay for her therapy.
In an effort to keep herself covered, Miah sat for the interview wrapped in a blanket, despite the warm temperatures.
A cellphone alarm accidentally went off during the interview, and Miah was visibly unnerved by the noise. Her mother said that's been happening a lot, and described an earlier incident where they were at a car wash and the sound of the vacuum cleaner "completely set her off."
Miah was too scared to speak on camera, or to a man, because of what she experienced, but she told CNN she wanted to share her story so people can know what it's like to live through a school shooting. She says hopefully it can help prevent a tragedy like this from happening to other children.
Already a 'miracle baby'
Miah's mother said she was born with a tumor in her abdomen and wasn't expected to live much past her birth. She underwent extensive surgery to remove the tumor at age three; her mother already called her a "miracle baby" and said that's even truer now.
Her mother also told CNN that the morning of the shooting, Miah had an earache and she took her out of school to go to the doctor. On the way back, they stopped at Starbucks for a treat and her mother offered to let Miah skip school the rest of the day since it was one of the last days of classes before summer break and they were just watching movies.
But Miah insisted that she wanted to return to school to see her friends, so her mother dropped her back off at school — about an hour before the shooting. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/uvalde-texas-robb-elementary-11-year-old-survivor-story-details/40128172 | 2022-05-27T18:05:35 | en | 0.991096 |
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — Voters in an Oregon county where a ballot-printing error delayed primary results for nearly two weeks have elected the same county clerk five times in the past 20 years despite missteps that impacted two previous elections and cost taxpayers at least $100,000.
Opponents have repeatedly tried to unseat Clackamas County Clerk Sherry Hall, who was first elected in 2002, following elections errors in 2004, 2010 and 2011 and a state vote-tampering investigation in 2012. Hall makes $112,600 a year in the nonpartisan position overseeing elections, recording property transactions, keeping public records and issuing marriage licenses. She is running for a sixth four-year term in November in the suburban county south of Portland.
The latest scandal in Oregon comes against the backdrop of a polarized political landscape in which vote counts are increasingly scrutinized. Races for local elections clerks — who until recently toiled in obscurity and relative anonymity — are getting new attention, particularly from right-wing voters who deny that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Local elections chiefs are the first line of defense for elections integrity, but most voters don’t know who their county clerk is, or even what they do, and are likely to skip over the nonpartisan race on Election Day, or simply pick the incumbent. Some county clerks are appointed, but in many counties in Oregon and elsewhere they are beholden to the whims of voters who may not be paying attention, said Christopher McKnight Nichols, an associate professor of history at Oregon State University.
There’s a “myopia and invisibility about this sort of office in American public life,” he said.
The situation in Oregon’s third-largest county underscores the importance of such contests.
In the current election, tens of thousands of ballots sent out with blurry barcodes were rejected by a vote-counting machine. The issue affected Democratic and nonpartisan ballots more than Republican ones, state officials have said. The fiasco forced the county to shift nearly 200 county employees to vote tabulation duties; county officials don’t yet know the full cost of the cleanup job.
For days, workers have been transferring each voter’s intent from spoiled ballots to fresh ones, by hand using purple markers, in a painstaking process that might not be complete for more than two more weeks. More than 81,000 ballots out of more than 116,000 had been counted by early Friday, and nearly 35,000 spoiled ballots remained to be duplicated, according to county tallies.
The outcome of the Democratic primary for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District — a close race between a seven-term centrist incumbent and a progressive challenger — was delayed more than a week by the blunder. The AP called the race for challenger Jamie McLeod-Skinner on Friday.
The results of several other contests remained undecided as the county struggled to meet daily vote-counting benchmarks laid out in a corrective plan submitted to the state.
“This affects all of us. This is voter integrity,” said Janet Bailey, a Republican voter who protested outside the Clackamas County election offices Thursday with about a dozen others. “We, in Oregon, a week ago we had our primary, and we still don’t know the results.”
Hall knew of the problem with the ballots on May 3, but did not take significant action until after the election on May 17, when it became clear the vote tally was substantially delayed. The Oregon Secretary of State has said Hall refused offers of help from the state; at least one Democratic state lawmaker has demanded a legislative inquiry into the ballot fiasco.
Some voters seized on the county’s problems to demand an end to Oregon’s trailblazing vote-by-mail system and the use of electronic machinery to count votes.
“Our votes have to count,” said Cindy Hise, a Clackamas County voter who wants the entire primary redone. “This has been going on for days. We’re past all hope of it being a true vote.”
Hall declined a phone or in-person interview with The Associated Press for this story but said in response to emailed questions Thursday that she would cooperate with any investigation. She said she has no comment on calls from some for her resignation.
She also addressed numerous 2020 contributions she made to national Republican causes, saying in a brief email that she “maintains neutrality.” The donations to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and to WINRED, a Republican Party fundraising platform, were all $100 or less.
“I have the right as a private citizen to exercise free speech and association. I do give small contributions to a large number of organizations,” she wrote. “I do not accept endorsements of any kind.”
Controversy isn’t new to Hall, who has overseen the county’s elections since she took office in 2003.
— In 2004, the county excluded three annexation questions on ballots mailed to 300 voters and didn’t alert the public for 10 days.
— In 2010, a county commission race was listed on the primary ballot when it should not have been. The ballots were reprinted at a cost of more than $100,000. Hall later filed a complaint with state elections officials saying the episode, including press “leaks” and public criticisms of her by county officials, cost her primary votes and forced her into a November runoff.
— In 2012, an elections worker was caught tampering with two ballots and was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
— In 2018, Hall placed her name and the county clerk title on the ballot return envelopes and on voter information pamphlets while also seeking reelection to the post, a decision critics called egregious self-promotion in a tight race.
Hall said in her email that all the elections incidents “did happen under my watch” and that she or those in her office “took appropriate steps as needed.”
Pamela White, who challenged Hall in 2018 and lost by fewer than 6,000 votes, said even with such missteps it seemed impossible to defeat Hall. In that election, more than 52,000 voters skipped the county clerk race altogether despite persistent criticisms of Hall’s elections oversight and White’s endorsement by Hall’s recently retired elections manager.
White spent $100,000 on the race, including $25,000 of her own money, and campaigned for two years, she said.
“I worked very hard,” she said. “I knew what I was doing, but that down-ballot thing is an issue even in your own party. It just takes all the air out of the room.”
Steve Kindred, the former elections manager who endorsed White, said his relationship with Hall soured after a 2014 incident in which she asked him to do work on her reelection campaign during office hours without telling him what it was for. She was later fined $100 by state elections officials for the lapse. Kindred retired early.
Kindred said seeing the ballot fiasco now after experiencing the ballot-tampering probe in 2012 was like a “punch to the gut.”
“We had a couple of hell elections, not nearly as bad as this one,” he said. “It’s almost like she’s frozen, like a deer in the headlights.”
For now, the county is focused on getting the votes counted by June 13, the state’s election certification deadline.
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Cline reported from Portland. Associated Press writer Andrew Selsky in Salem and AP investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/oregon-ballot-fiasco-spotlights-clerks-troubled-20-year-run/ | 2022-05-27T18:05:36 | en | 0.976588 |
Sands China Assembles 2,600 Food Kits for Caritas Macau in First Annual Sands Cares Food Kit Build
More than 200 team member volunteers work together to help address food security issues in Macao
MACAU, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sands China team members volunteered to assemble 2,600 food kits Friday for Caritas Macau as part of the Sands Cares Food Kit Build, a global volunteer initiative being held at Las Vegas Sands properties in Macao and Singapore.
The more than 200 volunteers from Sands China, including Sands Cares Ambassadors, gathered at The Venetian® Macao's Cotai Expo to assemble the food kits, which contain a total of 18 food items, including staple foods like oil, rice, milk, macaroni, canned food, biscuits, and others. The completed kits, 24 tons in total, will go to local nongovernmental organisation Caritas Macau, who will distribute them to beneficiaries that include households facing financial difficulties and families affected by pandemic pay cuts. Sands Cares Ambassadors will help deliver some of the kits to households residing in buildings without elevators, which primarily consists of elderly residents.
"This first annual Sands Cares Food Kit Build has brought together our team members and community partners with those at our sister property at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore for a mass effort to get food resources to people in need," said Dr. Wilfred Wong, president of Sands China Ltd. "It was a great success and a complement to our long-standing community support efforts in Macao. We are pleased to be able to assist the vulnerable amid this challenging time and we are thankful for all of the team members who gave their time and energy to support this valuable initiative and for the collaboration of Caritas Macau."
Addressing food security issues and supporting disadvantaged people are two primary focus areas of the global Sands Cares community engagement programme. In line with these priorities, Sands China decided to partner with Caritas Macau to help alleviate hunger and poverty in Macao for this initiative. Additionally, Sands China is donating surplus bread items to local green enterprise Macau ECOnscious in support of its Macau Community Fridge initiative.
Paul Pun Chi Meng, secretary-general of Caritas Macau, said: "The pandemic has had a severe impact on the income of many families. We are therefore very grateful to Sands China for organising this important event to provide food resources to vulnerable groups and help them navigate these challenging times."
The new Sands Cares Food Kit Build is the third global Sands Cares initiative along with the Sands Cares Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World and the Sands Cares Accelerator, a programme that helps advance non-profit organisations to achieve greater community impact. Together, these programs unite Sands properties in addressing key priorities such as food security, disaster response and preparedness, and non-profit capacity building to better meet the needs of Sands communities around the world.
Sands China Ltd. considers initiatives like the Sands Cares Food Kit Build as central to its commitment toward social causes and community involvement. The company's community work is part of Sands Cares, the global corporate citizenship programme of parent company Las Vegas Sands Corp.
About Sands China Ltd.
Sands China Ltd. (Sands China or the Company) is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability and is listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx: 1928). Sands China is the largest operator of integrated resorts in Macao. The Company's integrated resorts on the Cotai Strip comprise The Venetian® Macao, The Plaza® Macao, The Parisian Macao and The Londoner® Macao. The Company also owns and operates Sands® Macao on the Macao peninsula. The Company's portfolio features a diversified mix of leisure and business attractions and transportation operations, including large meeting and convention facilities; a wide range of restaurants; shopping malls; world-class entertainment at the Cotai Arena, The Venetian Theatre, The Parisian Theatre, the Londoner Theatre and the Sands Theatre; and a high-speed Cotai Water Jet ferry service between Hong Kong and Macao. The Company's Cotai Strip portfolio has the goal of contributing to Macao's transformation into a world centre of tourism and leisure. Sands China is a subsidiary of global resort developer Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS).
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Key areas of Sands Cares in Macao include the Sands Cares Ambassador programme for volunteering in the local community; charitable contributions to NGOs and community organisations; and sponsorship of community events.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Seven-term U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader has been ousted in a Democratic primary in Oregon by progressive challenger Jamie McLeod-Skinner.
The vote count in the state’s 5th Congressional District was significantly delayed due to ballots with blurry bar codes in Oregon’s third-largest being rejected by vote-counting machines. Workers in Clackamas County had to transfer votes by hand to fresh ballots so they could be tallied.
McLeod-Skinner had the backing of the local Democratic parties in all four counties covered by the redrawn 5th Congressional District seat. She had urged stronger action to combat climate change and complained that Schrader was too conservative.
McLeod-Skinner will face Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer in November. Chavez-DeRemer is the former mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon. She has said she will support businesses and police and address “the crisis on our southern border.”
Schrader, a moderate, had the support of President Joe Biden, who made the congressman his first endorsement of the year. Schrader has voted against some of Biden’s priorities, including a money-saving plan to let Medicare negotiate the price it pays for prescription drugs.
Schrader has faced mounting criticism from progressive Democrats. A year ago, he was one of only two members of his party to vote against a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill because, among several reasons, he did not support including an increase to the minimum wage.
The newly-drawn 5th District stretched from the Portland-area southeast into rural communities in the central part of the state. While Democrats have held the seat since 1997, there are concerns by some in the party that a more progressive candidate would face a tougher time getting elected in the region after it was changed following redistricting. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/biden-backed-schrader-ousted-in-oregon-primary/ | 2022-05-27T18:05:43 | en | 0.98017 |
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DETROIT (AP) — Fire destroyed a landmark restaurant and brewpub Friday in Midtown Detroit, but spared the neighboring Third Man Records store owned by musician Jack White as well as Shinola's flagship watch store.
No one was inside Traffic Jam & Snug when the blaze happened, according to fire officials.
“Such sad news. The Cass Corridor institution ‘Traffic Jam and Snug Restaurant’ suffers a total loss fire,” White, a singer and songwriter wrote Friday on Instagram. “My heart and support goes out to them and their workers for this loss."
The Detroit-born performer founded The White Stripes. He opened the Third Man Records store in 2015 and launched a vinyl record pressing plant there in 2017. The blaze did not spread to the record store, the Shinola store or other nearby businesses.
Detroit Fire Community Relations Chief James Harris said firefighters were called to the restaurant before 2 a.m., The Detroit News said. No injuries were reported and the cause wasn’t immediately known.
“It took us a couple of hours to contain the fire and we’re conducting a thorough investigation into how it started and where it started," Harris said.
Traffic Jam was established 1965, according to its website. Owner Scott Lowell told the newspaper that he was on a humanitarian mission at the border between Poland and Ukraine and that he was trying to return to Detroit.
“I’ve been watching it on the news and videos," Lowell said. "I don’t really have much to say. It just feels like a bad dream. I’ve watched it and I just feel helpless from here.” | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Blaze-destroys-landmark-restaurant-in-Detroit-s-17203397.php | 2022-05-27T18:05:47 | en | 0.977813 |
Judge Denies Haart's Claims to 50% Ownership of Scaglia Companies & Property
"It's time for Ms. Haart to acknowledge her lies regarding 50% ownership," Davis said. "She must retract all inaccurate statements made to the media and business community that she owned 50% of Freedom, EWG or associated properties." Scaglia's attorney Lanny J. Davis said. "We also plan to challenge Netflix's right to continue filming My Unorthodox Life in what is now proven company property – which I believe Ms. Haart is no longer entitled to use."
NEW YORK , May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Renowned tech entrepreneur and global talent agency chairman Silvio Scaglia received a major win in Delaware when a judge ruled Scaglia to be the controlling owner of Elite World Group ("EWG") and its parent company, Freedom Holding, Inc. This decision comes in response to a petition filed by Julia Haart, Scaglia's estranged wife, on February 11, 2022, claiming equal ownership of the company – just two days after being terminated as CEO of EWG.
"I always had faith that 'fake it till you make it,' would not hold up in a court of law," Scaglia said. "The challenge to my ownership of Freedom and EWG was always based on lies, and I'm happy to have this behind me."
Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn ruled on May 26, 2022, in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, in a final order, "Haart is therefore not entitled to the relief she seeks in Counts I, II, III, and IV" – i.e., the four counts relating to her lie about owning 50% of all of Scaglia's properties and businesses.
"It's time for Ms. Haart to acknowledge her lies regarding 50% ownership," Davis said. "She must retract all inaccurate statements made to the media and business community that she owned 50% of Freedom, EWG or associated properties. Even after Vice Chancellor Zurn's final order, Ms. Haart could not resist trying to 'fake it,' saying that the court's decision wasn't 'final.'"
The Hon. Vice Chancellor Zurn wrote that her forthcoming memorandum opinion would include the "reasons detailed" for the final order rejecting Haart's four false claims that she owned 50% of Scaglia's companies and property. Vice Chancellor Zurn also wrote she "has made her key factual findings and legal conclusions," and issued the order to "expedite finality and steady Freedom and EWG."
Additionally, Mr. Davis plans to challenge Netflix's right to continue filming My Unorthodox Life at 70 Vestry Street. "The apartment is in what is now proven company property – which I believe Ms. Haart is no longer entitled to use," Davis said. "She signed a contract with Netflix, saying that she 'owned' the apartment – a lie." Davis had previously sent a cease-and-desist demand to Netflix and its producers, asking them to stop filming the series My Unorthodox Life at 70 Vestry Street.
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) — President Joe Biden told Naval Academy graduates Friday that they will be “representatives and defenders of our democracy,” as free societies are under threat from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to China’s maritime expansion.
Delivering a commencement address to more than 1,000 newly commissioned ensigns and second lieutenants at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Biden said the Western response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brutal” war in Ukraine shows the world is aligning not on geography, “but in terms of values.”
He called the invasion, “A direct assault on the fundamental tenets of rules-based international order,” adding, “that’s the world you’re graduating into.”
“The actions taken by Putin were an attempt, to use my phrase, to Finland-ize all of Europe, to make it all neutral,” Biden said. “Instead, he NATO-ized all of Europe.”
Biden told graduates that while they will learn to fly the most advanced planes, staff cutting-edge ships and utilize novel technologies, “The most powerful tool that you’ll wield is our unmatched network of global alliances and the strength of our partnerships.”
The president told graduates that they will “defend the international rules of the road,” particularly in the Indo-Pacific region where they will be called on to “ensure freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and beyond.”
“These longstanding maritime principles are the bedrock of a global economy and of global stability,” he said. “You’re going to help knit together our allies in Europe with our allies in the Indo-Pacific.”
Biden did not address two mass shootings in as many weeks in his remarks. He, along with first lady Jill Biden, will visit Uvalde, Texas on Sunday to console grieving families after Tuesday’s shooting at an elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, the White House said.
Biden’s remarks to the Naval Academy marked his first commencement address of the year. He is also set to deliver remarks at Saturday’s graduation ceremony at the University of Delaware, his alma mater.
The president opened his speech by paying tribute to the class of 2022’s resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and with a customary pardoning of any minor infractions made by midshipmen during their time in the academy.
He also paid tribute for former Republican Sen. John McCain, who is interred on the grounds of the academy, saying, “Being here I can’t help think of John and how the naval academy meant so much to him.” | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/biden-to-address-naval-grads-amid-texas-ukraine-backdrop/ | 2022-05-27T18:05:52 | en | 0.959977 |
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CANNES, France (AP) — “Shoplifters” director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the Cannes Film Festival with “Broker,” another tale of misfits from society’s margins.
This time, the film centers on the use of a “baby box,” a controversial method of anonymously dropping off newborns to be cared for by others used in Japan, South Korea and other parts of the world.
“In Japan, the biggest criticism was that the baby box was making it too easy for the mothers to give up on their responsibility to raise the child. But, on the other hand, some people said that these boxes were actually saving lives because otherwise, the children might die,” he said. “I just thought that was an interesting argument to base a film on.”
The director says his interest in the issue dates back to 2013. “When I was making ‘Like Father, Like Son.’ I researched the Japanese adoption system and it was then that I learned that Kumamoto Prefecture had Japan’s only baby box. So I got interested in that and started to research it. And I learned that Korea had the same kind of baby box, but that they had about 10 times as many babies put in baby boxes in Korea as in Japan,” he said.
“And then in 2016, I came up with the idea for a short plot based on the Korean baby box with Song Kang-ho, starring as a broker.”
Alongside Song (“Snowpiercer,” “Parasite,” “The Throne”), the South Korean drama also stars Bae Doona (“The Host,” “Jupiter Ascending,” “Cloud Atlas”), Gang Dong-won (“Secret Reunion,” “The Priests”), and South Korean singer-songwriter Lee Ji-eun, known as IU.
“Broker” marks the director’s sixth time competing for the Palme d’Or. He was first nominated for Cannes’ top prize in 2001 for “Distance,” then again in 2004 for “Nobody Knows,” in 2013 and for “Our Little Sister” in 2015.
The Japanese director won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2013 for “Like Father, Like Son” and won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 festival for his highly-acclaimed movie, “Shoplifters.”
Single mothers have long faced stigma in South Korea because pregnancy when out of wedlock is considered inappropriate. They are often pressured and shamed into giving up their children because of deeply sexist and conservative culture, birth registration laws stacked against them, and a largely privatized adoption industry.
“They can find themselves disadvantaged by the system,” he said. “And the mother is the easiest one to criticize because the father isn’t there anymore. So he escapes the criticism.”
When asked whether the film poses a question about what it means to be a family today, Kore-eda called the tale “the story of a pseudo-family.”
“But more important in this case is the two women who have chosen not to be mothers. They are at the center of the story, as well as this life that has been thrown away. So, for me, in this case, life was more central to the film than the family.”
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For more Cannes Film Festival coverage, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/cannes-film-festival. | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Director-Kore-eda-returns-to-Cannes-with-film-17203526.php | 2022-05-27T18:05:53 | en | 0.976208 |
DUBLIN, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Spain Embedded Finance Business and Investment Opportunities Databook - 50+ KPIs on Embedded Lending, Insurance, Payment, and Wealth Segments - Q1 2022 Update" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
According to the Q4 2021 Embedded Finance Survey, the Embedded Finance industry in Spain is expected to grow by 34.7% on annual basis to reach US$3,349.4 million in 2022.
The embedded finance industry is expected to grow steadily over the forecast period, recording a CAGR of 20.6% during 2022-2029. The embedded finance revenues in the country will increase from US$3,349.4 million in 2022 to reach US$9,224.5 million by 2029.
This report provides a detailed data centric analysis of market opportunity across 50+ segments in embedded finance industry covering lending, insurance, payment, and wealth sectors.
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The report provides in-depth, data-centric analysis of Embedded Finance industry in Spain. Below is a summary of key market segments:
Spain Embedded Finance Market Size and Forecast
Spain Embedded Lending Market Size and Forecast
Embedded Lending by Consumer Segments, 2020 - 2029
- Business Lending
- Retail Lending
Embedded Lending by B2B Sectors, 2020 - 2029
- Embedded Lending in Retail & Consumer Goods
- Embedded Lending in IT & Software Services
- Embedded Lending in Media, Entertainment & Leisure
- Embedded Lending in Manufacturing & Distribution
- Embedded Lending in Real Estate
- Embedded Lending in Other
Embedded Lending by B2C Sectors, 2020 - 2029
- Embedded Lending in Retail Shopping
- Embedded Lending in Home Improvement
- Embedded Lending in Leisure & Entertainment
- Embedded Lending in Healthcare and Wellness
- Embedded Lending in Other
Spain Embedded Insurance Market Size and Forecast
Embedded Insurance by Industry, 2020 - 2029
- Embedded Insurance in Consumer Products
- Embedded Insurance in Travel & Hospitality
- Embedded Insurance in Automotive
- Embedded Insurance in Healthcare
- Embedded Insurance in Real Estate
- Embedded Insurance in Transport & Logistics
- Embedded Insurance in Others
Embedded Insurance by Insurance Type, 2020 - 2029
- Embedded Insurance in Life Segment
- Embedded Insurance in Non-Life Segment
Embedded Insurance by Type of Offering, 2020 - 2029
- Embedded Insurance in Product Segment
- Embedded Insurance in Service Segment
Spain Embedded Payment Market Size and Forecast
Embedded Payment by Consumer Segments, 2020 - 2029
- B2B
- B2C
Embedded Payment by End-Use Sector, 2020 - 2029
- Embedded Payment in Retail & Consumer Goods
- Embedded Payment in Digital Products & Services
- Embedded Payment in Utility Bill Payment
- Embedded Payment in Travel & Hospitality
- Embedded Payment in Leisure & Entertainment
- Embedded Payment in Health & Wellness
- Embedded Payment in Office Supplies & Equipment
- Embedded Payment in Other
Spain Embedded Wealth Management Market Size and Forecast
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Majorities of U.S. adults think mass shootings would occur less often if guns were harder to get, and that schools and other public places have become less safe than they were two decades ago, polling shows.
Still, public attitudes on guns and gun policy are complicated, and the issue has seen little by way of federal legislative changes in more than a decade. In the wake of Tuesday’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Democratic governors and lawmakers are pleading for gun restrictions. Reforms will meet Republican resistance both in Congress and state legislatures and are unlikely to advance.
While it’s not unusual for polling to show higher support for restrictions among the general public after a mass shooting, attitudes on gun regulation are overall rather stable over time, said John Roman, senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago.
In 2020, about half of voters in the presidential election said U.S. gun laws should be made stricter, according to AP VoteCast, compared with about a third saying they should be left as they are and only about 1 in 10 saying they should be made less strict.
WHAT ELSE DO AMERICANS THINK ABOUT GUN LAWS?
In March 2019, an AP-NORC poll showed a majority of U.S. adults — 58% — saying they thought there would be fewer mass shootings in the U.S. if it were harder for people to legally obtain guns. Many specific measures that would curb access to guns or ammunition also get majority support, according to polls.
There is widespread agreement on one measure in particular: making private gun sales subject to background checks.
Attitudes on other gun policies vary starkly by partisanship. For example, new data from an AP-NORC poll conducted earlier in May shows 51% of U.S. adults favor a nationwide ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, while 32% are opposed. An additional 18% say they hold neither opinion. Seventy-five percent of Democrats but just 27% of Republicans were in favor.
Erica Martinez, a 37-year-old in Lincoln, Nebraska, said she was “horrified” and “irate” after Tuesday’s massacre and that there’s obviously a gun problem in this country. Laws need to be stricter, she said, and it should be harder for someone to get a gun.
“These school shootings are becoming more prevalent now, and there’s just too many innocent little lives that are lost because this 18-year-old kid was able to just go and buy a gun,” Martinez said. “I honestly and truly think that it could have been prevented.”
GUN OWNERSHIP IN THE U.S.
In April 2021, a Pew Research Center survey showed gun owners much more likely than those without guns to support expanding concealed carry and shortening waiting periods for legal gun purchases. Gun owners were much less likely to back bans on high-capacity ammunition magazines and assault-type weapons.
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults report living in a household with a gun, according to a March poll from NORC at the University of Chicago. Five percent said they purchased a gun for the first time during the pandemic, and those first time gun owners tend to share policy preferences with long term gun owners, NORC’s Roman said.
Federal data also shows gun sales rose significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The number one reason why somebody buys a firearm is they feel like it puts them at less risk,” said Roman. “When you have an event like COVID, where people feel like the world is very unsafe in general, you see big spikes in people buying one.”
Mike Miller, a 68-year-old conservative in Woodland Park, Colorado, said he owns guns for home defense, along with hunting.
“I think it’s in our constitution, and I think we have the right to have our weapons,” he said. “I don’t think that’s a problem with like the shooting that just happened. I think it’s bigger issues.”
WHO IS MORE MOTIVATED ON THE ISSUE?
Efforts to pass gun restrictions — even background checks — have been futile in Washington, met with opposition from Republican lawmakers.
Roman suggests people who own guns and oppose gun control have a louder voice in the political process because of their personal stake on the issue. Those who want stricter laws have strong opinions about the impact of guns on society, he said, but they often lack that personal connection.
“Your own costs and benefits are always more motivating, galvanizing, they create stronger preferences than the sort of conceptual, theoretical preferences,” he said.
The voices of those looking for restrictions tend to get louder after a mass shooting, Roman said, creating a window of opportunity for gun control policy before they recede again.
An AP-NORC poll conducted just after a shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan showed 24% of Americans — including 41% of Democrats — named gun laws in an open-ended question as a priority for the government for 2022, a sharp increase from just 5% for 2021 and 12% for 2020.
“Either there’s going to be a quick movement towards some gun regulation and new gun laws or this moment will pass and next year, we’ll be talking about something else,” he said.
MENTAL HEALTH
Many Republican lawmakers have focused on mental health as a key factor in preventing mass shootings at schools.
The 2019 AP-NORC poll showed bullying, along with the availability of guns, were considered most responsible for shootings in schools. About half of Americans said these were both “a great deal” to blame. In the poll, there was bipartisan agreement on bullying, but Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to blame the availability of guns.
Derek Lavarnway, a 44-year-old political independent in Chaumont, New York, said his main concern is mental health.
“I think there’s a balance between gun control and, you know, figuring out ways to get people feeling better about themselves and their lives,” he said. “We desperately need to somehow find a way for a society that creates individuals that don’t do these sorts of things.” | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/many-back-strict-gun-laws-but-opposition-tends-to-be-louder/ | 2022-05-27T18:05:59 | en | 0.97855 |
NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SpendEdge's procurement report on Helium market includes L'AIR LIQUIDE SA, Air Products and Chemicals Inc., and Iwatani Corp among the top most important suppliers for the market.
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- Market Insights
- Category Pricing Insights
- Cost-saving Opportunities
- Best Practices
- Category Ecosystem
- Category Management Strategy
- Category Management Enablers
- Suppliers Selection
- Suppliers under Coverage
- US Market Insights
- Category scope
- Appendix
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The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18, authorities say, when they bought the weapons used in the attacks — too young to legally purchase alcohol or cigarettes, but old enough to arm themselves with assault weapons.
The Buffalo suspect was taken to a hospital last year for a mental health evaluation, but the incident didn’t trigger New York’s “red flag” law and he was still able to purchase a gun. The Texas suspect’s mother told ABC he gave her an “uneasy feeling” at times and could “be aggressive … If he really got mad.” But authorities say he had no known criminal or mental health history. The state has no such red flag law.
They are just the latest suspected U.S. mass shooters whose ability to obtain guns has raised concerns. In some cases shooters got guns legally under current firearms laws, or because of background check lapses or law enforcement’s failure to heed warnings of concerning behavior.
After the shootings, which together left 31 people dead, President Joe Biden renewed calls for stronger gun laws and questioned whether people as young as 18 should be allowed to purchase firearms. In the past, Biden has called for banning assault weapons and expanding background checks. Many Republicans oppose the measures.
A look at how suspects in recent mass shootings obtained guns, based on police accounts, court documents and contemporaneous reporting:
UVALDE, TEXAS: MAY 24, 2022. 21 DEAD.
Salvador Ramos legally purchased two guns in the days before the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School — an AR-style rifle from a federally licensed gun dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. Ramos made the purchases just days after turning 18, the minimum age under federal law for buying a rifle. He also purchased several hundred rounds of ammunition. At least one of the rifles was a DDM4, made by Daniel Defense and modeled after the U.S. military’s M4 carbine rifle, though without the M4’s ability to switch to fully automatic or fire a three-round burst. “The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong,” Biden said hours after the shooting Tuesday. “What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?” Ramos was killed at the school by a Border Patrol team.
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BUFFALO, NEW YORK: MAY 14, 2022. 10 DEAD.
Payton Gendron legally purchased the Bushmaster XM-15 E2S used in the attack on Tops Friendly Market from a federally licensed gun dealer near his home in Conklin, New York, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Buffalo. In a personal, online diary that surfaced after the attack, Gendron said he bought the AR-15-style weapon in January, bought a shotgun in December and received a rifle as a Christmas present from his dad when he was 16. Last year, Gendron was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation under a state mental health law after writing “murder-suicide” in response to a teacher’s question. New York is one of 19 states with red flag laws that allow courts to take guns from people posing immediate danger, but that didn’t happen with Gendron, who was 17 at the time. State police described his threat as “general in nature” and said it didn’t “specifically mention shooting or firearms.” After the shooting, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order underscoring the need for red flag interventions and said she would seek to bar people under 21 from buying some semi-automatic weapons in the state. A similar law in California was ruled unconstitutional. Gendron is charged with murder.
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BOULDER, COLORADO: MARCH 22, 2021. 10 DEAD.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa bought a Ruger AR-556 pistol, a semi-automatic weapon with a capacity of up to 30 rounds, six days before the shooting at King Soopers grocery store, police said. Alissa was prone to sudden rage and was convicted of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to probation for attacking a high school classmate. Colorado has a universal background check law covering almost all gun sales, but that misdemeanor would not have prevented him from buying a weapon, experts said. Had it been a felony, federal law would’ve barred his purchase. Days before the shooting, a judge struck down city ordinances banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines in Boulder, citing a state law prohibiting local gun bans. The NRA backed the lawsuit challenging the ordinances. A judge ruled last month that Alissa is mentally incompetent to stand trial.
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ATLANTA: MARCH 16, 2021. 8 DEAD.
Robert Aaron Long purchased a 9 mm handgun just hours before going on a shooting rampage at three massage businesses in the Atlanta area, police said. A lawyer for the gun shop said it complies with federal background check laws. Georgia, like the majority of states, has no waiting period to obtain a gun. Long claimed to have a “sex addiction,” police said, and he spent time at an addiction recovery facility last year. Federal law bans guns for people who are “unlawful users of or addicted to a controlled substance” or who’ve been court-ordered to a mental health or substance abuse treatment facility, but doesn’t mention treatment for other compulsions as a barrier to ownership. Long is serving a sentence life without parole.
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MIDLAND, TEXAS, AUG. 31, 2019. 7 DEAD.
Seth Aaron Ator purchased an AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check, and fired it indiscriminately from his car into passing vehicles and shopping plazas. He also hijacked a mail truck, killing the driver. Ator had been blocked from getting a gun in 2014 after his background check was flagged because a court determined he was mentally ill, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter. Private sales, which account for up to 40% of all gun sales according to some estimates, are not subject to a federal background check and private sellers aren’t required to determine if a buyer is eligible to own a gun. Ator was killed by police.
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DAYTON, OHIO: AUG. 4, 2019. 9 DEAD.
Connor Betts’ classmates said he was suspended in high school for compiling a “hit list” and a “rape list,” but authorities said nothing in his background prevented him from purchasing the AR-15-style pistol used in the shooting at Ned Peppers Bar. Ohio law requires that sealed records of any juvenile crimes be expunged either after five years or once the offender turns 23. Betts, who was 24 at the time of the shooting, bought the gun online from a Texas dealer. It was then shipped to a Dayton-area firearms dealer, in accordance with federal law. Betts was killed by police.
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EL PASO, TEXAS, AUG. 3, 2019. 23 DEAD.
Patrick Crusius bought an AK-47-style rifle and 1,000 rounds of hollow-point ammunition online 45 days before he walked into a Walmart store and opened fire, killing 23 people and injuring two dozen others, before confessing that he had been targeting Mexicans, according to prosecutors. A Crusius family lawyer said his mother raised concerns about the purchase in a call to police on June 27. Police said she asked if Crusius, who was 21 at the time, was old enough to buy a gun. Police said she was assured he was and that he’d qualify if he passed a background check. Police said she expressed concern only about his safety and said she’d seen no recent change in his behavior. Crusius posted a racist screed online just before the attack and appeared to target Mexicans. He’s charged with capital murder in Texas and federal hate crimes and firearms offenses.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA: MAY 31, 2019. 12 DEAD.
Former Virginia Beach city employee DeWayne Craddock legally purchased six firearms in the three years before he opened fire on a municipal building, including the two .45-caliber pistols used in the attack. An independent review of the shooting, commissioned by the City of Virginia Beach, found that Craddock displayed no warning signs or “prohibited behaviors associated with a pathway to violence,” and that he had no known history of mental health treatment. Craddock was killed by police. ___
THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA: NOV. 7, 2018. 12 DEAD.
Ian David Long, a former Marine machine gunner who served in Afghanistan, used a legally purchased .45-caliber pistol with an extended magazine in the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill. California tried to outlaw high-capacity magazines, but a federal judge reversed that after a pro-gun group sued. Months before the shooting, sheriff’s deputies called to Long’s home found him acting irrationally, but a mental health specialist didn’t feel he needed to be involuntarily committed. California has a red flag law, but there’s no indication authorities sought a court order to take away Long’s guns. Long killed himself.
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PITTSBURGH: OCT. 27, 2018. 11 DEAD.
Robert Gregory Bowers had a carry license and legally owned the Colt AR-15 SP1 and three Glock .357 handguns police said he used to kill worshipers at Tree of Life synagogue. Bowers spent months posting rants against Jews on Gab, a social media site favored by right-wing extremists. He also posted photos of his “glock family.” Just before the attack, he posted a screed against a Jewish organization that resettles refugees, saying: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” None of the rhetoric appeared to raise red flags. His case is pending. ___
SANTA FE, TEXAS: MAY. 18, 2018. 10 DEAD.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student, used a shotgun and a .38-caliber handgun that his father purchased legally and stored in a closet at their home, authorities said. It wasn’t clear if his father knew he’d taken the guns. Prior to the attack, Pagourtzis posted a photo on social media of a T-shirt with the phrase “Born to Kill” and had writings indicating he planned to attack his high school. A judge sent him to a mental health facility after ruling he was incompetent to stand trial.
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PARKLAND, FLORIDA: FEB. 14, 2018. 17 DEAD.
Nikolas Cruz legally purchased a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle in February 2017 from a licensed dealer a few miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, authorities said. He’d been treated at a mental health clinic but hadn’t been there in more than a year. Federal law prohibits gun purchases if a court declares a person a “mental defective” or commits that person to an institution, but not if the person seeks treatment voluntarily. Cruz was 19 at the time of the shooting. He pleaded guilty in October and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. ___
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, TEXAS: NOV. 5, 2017. 25 DEAD.
Devin Patrick Kelley’s history of domestic abuse barred him from buying guns. He was able to because information about his crimes was never entered into a federal database used for background checks. The Air Force failed to follow rules requiring that it inform the FBI about his conduct. Kelley purchased four guns, including an AR-15-style rifle found at First Baptist Church, from licensed Texas and Colorado dealers over a four-year span. Kelley killed himself. ___
LAS VEGAS: OCT. 1, 2017. 58 DEAD.
Stephen Paddock purchased 33 of the 49 weapons found in his hotel room and at his homes in the year before he opened fire on a country music festival. Paddock passed all background checks. His gradual accumulation of guns went undetected because federal law doesn’t require licensed gun dealers to alert the government about rifle purchases. Paddock killed himself. ___
ORLANDO, FLORIDA: JUNE 12, 2016. 49 DEAD.
Omar Mateen purchased an AR-15-style rifle, a Sig Sauer MCX, and a handgun from a licensed dealer on separate days about a week before the Pulse nightclub attack. He passed a background check and had a security license that allowed him to be armed while on duty. The FBI investigated Mateen in 2013 and 2014 over co-workers’ concerns that he’d spoken about ties to terrorist groups. Neither inquiry led to charges. Even if he’d been placed on a terrorism watch list, Congress in 2015 rejected attempts to prevent people on the list from purchasing guns. Mateen was killed by police.
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SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA: DEC. 2, 2015. 14 DEAD.
Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, used weapons the FBI said his neighbor, Enrique Marquez, legally purchased from a licensed dealer in 2011 and 2012. Marquez pleaded guilty to charges he conspired to provide support to terrorists and made false statements to acquire a firearm. He told investigators Farook asked him to buy the weapons because he would draw less attention. Farook and Malik were killed by police.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON: OCT. 1, 2015. 10 DEAD.
Christopher Harper-Mercer and his family members legally purchased the handguns and rifle used in the Umpqua Community College shooting from a licensed dealer. Investigators found six guns at the college and eight at an apartment. Neighbors said Harper-Mercer and his mother went target shooting together. Harper-Mercer killed himself after he was wounded by police.
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CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: JUNE 17, 2015. 9 DEAD.
A drug arrest should’ve prevented Dylann Roof from purchasing the pistol he used at Emanuel AME Church, but a record-keeping error and background check delay enabled the transaction to go through. The FBI said a background check examiner never saw the arrest report because the wrong arresting agency was listed in state criminal history records. After three days, the gun dealer was legally permitted to complete the transaction. He was convicted and is on federal death row.
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WASHINGTON: SEPT. 16, 2013. 12 DEAD.
Aaron Alexis, a former reservist turned civilian contractor, passed background checks and legally purchased the shotgun used in the Washington Navy Yard shooting despite recent mental health treatment and a history of violent outbursts. He previously fired a gun in anger twice but wasn’t prosecuted in either case. Alexis was killed by police.
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NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT: DEC. 14, 2012. 26 DEAD.
Adam Lanza used his mother’s weapons, including a .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle, in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Lanza’s mother, whom he fatally shot before going to the school, also purchased the ammunition. Lanza killed himself. ___
AURORA, COLORADO: JULY 20, 2012. 12 DEAD.
James Holmes was receiving psychiatric treatment when he passed required federal background checks and legally purchased the weapons he used in his movie theater assault. As in the Parkland and Navy Yard cases, treatment alone did not prevent him from buying guns. He was convicted and sentenced to 12 life terms and thousands of years in prison.
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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 (Month, Date) 2019 :
TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS
1. Coldplay; $4,061,217; $77.19.
2. Bad Bunny; $3,378,811; $200.37.
3. Eagles; $2,673,361; $228.78.
4. Elton John; $2,411,978; $173.89.
5. Genesis; $2,131,832; $149.17.
6. Justin Bieber; $1,905,155; $148.90.
7. Morgan Wallen; $1,881,821; $156.86.
8. Billie Eilish; $1,784,012; $126.69.
9. Ed Sheeran; $1,772,452; $88.71.
10. John Mayer; $1,575,686; $132.33.
11. Eric Church; $1,463,913; $108.59.
12. Lady Gaga; $1,437,278; $280.01.
13. Dua Lipa; $1,353,793; $99.31.
14. New Edition; $1,258,339; $113.45.
15. Tool; $1,151,160; $103.25.
16. Journey; $1,046,302; $96.57.
17. Rauw Alejandro; $967,401; $73.26.
18. Imagine Dragons; $949,134; $91.66.
19. Tyler, The Creator; $919,943; $75.87.
20. Marc Anthony; $892,536; $109.39.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Day" game were:
02-03-04-09-12-13-14-15-17-18-21-24
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Recounting began Friday in the too-close-to-call Republican primary contest for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, with barely 900 votes separating celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
Montour County began the recount Friday, one of seven counties that said they would start right away. Most of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties have said they will begin next week, with a Wednesday deadline to start.
For less populated counties, the process could take a day. More heavily populated counties say they will need several days.
Counties have until June 7 to finish a recount and another day to report results to the state.
The initial result from last week’s primary election has remained elusive, since some counties were still tallying up hundreds or thousands of remaining ballots Friday, including write-in, provisional and absentee ballots from voters overseas and members of the military.
Oz, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led McCormick by just 923 votes, or 0.07 percentage points, out of more than 1.3 million ballots reported by the state Friday.
The race has triggered Pennsylvania’s automatic recount law, with the separation between the candidates inside the law’s 0.5% margin. The Associated Press will not declare a winner in the race until the recount is complete on June 8.
In a video statement declaring victory, Oz called himself “blessed to have earned the presumptive Republican nomination” and called it a “tough campaign.”
The winner of the GOP race will take on the Democratic nominee, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, in November’s midterm contest. Democrats see it as their best opportunity to pick up a seat in the closely divided Senate. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey is retiring after serving two terms.
McCormick’s campaign, meanwhile, has been waging a fight in court to scrounge for votes that might help him close the gap with Oz.
Oz, the Republican National Committee and the state Republican Party oppose McCormick’s quest to force counties to count certain mail-in ballots — ones without the voter’s handwritten date on the envelope — that might otherwise get thrown out on a technicality.
A separate case involving those ballots from last November’s election was expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied a motion to stay its earlier decision that such ballots should be counted, despite the state election law’s requirement that voters write a date on the return envelope.
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, said on Twitter Thursday that billionaires aren’t the bad guys.
Musk tweeted that it is “morally wrong & dumb” to use the word billionaire as a pejorative if that person is using their wealth to create products that make “millions of people happy.”
He added that if he could, he also would get rid of charitable deductions and class-action lawsuits.
Musk was replying to a tweet that said, “I feel like billionaires are most benign when trying to make money, and most nefarious when spending it trying to “do good.”
Musk ran a Twitter poll, asking his 95 million followers who they trust less: politicians or billionaires. As of midday Friday, three-quarters of the 2.8 million respondents said they had less trust for politicians.
He then tagged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who recently told Bloomberg she wanted to replace her Tesla with an EV made by a company that supports unionization. Musk dared the Democratic congresswoman to run the same poll with her own followers. Musk has largely opposed unionization for Tesla in the past.
“A union is just another corporation,” Musk said in another Tweet Thursday, which had gained 4,000 likes by midday Friday. “Far better for companies to compete for your skills, so that you have maximum optionality.”
Musk’s pro-billionaire tweets arrived as the World Economic Forum in Davos comes to a close. The annual gathering of millionaires and billionaires has routinely been met with criticism about the failure of the world’s wealthiest people to give significant sums to solve the world’s biggest problems – as vulnerable populations across the world are expected to face surging energy prices, extreme weather and soaring food prices this year.
Gabriela Bucher, the executive director of Oxfam International, told CNN Business at Davos this week that governments should tax wealth on the world’s wealthiest people.
This is hardly the first time Musk has opined on how billionaires should be spending their money. On Monday, David Beasley, the head of the U.N.’s World Food Program, gave the Associated Press an update on his spat with the billionaire, which was sparked when he said in a 2021 CNN interview that billionaires must step up to combat world hunger.
Beasley suggested that $6 billion, or 2% of Musk’s net worth at the time, could help solve the crisis.
“Musk put $6 billion into a foundation. But everybody thought it came to us, but we ain’t gotten any of it yet. So I’m hopeful,” Beasley told the Associated Press at Davos.
Musk then replied to Beasley, tweeting that he would sell Tesla stock “right now” if the food program could detail how $6 billion would solve world hunger. Beasley then replied with a 1,000 word “executive summary” that mapped out how the UN could utilize the money to feed more than 40 million people across 43 countries.
The WFP has received no funding from Musk. Although Beasley directly asked Musk for help when speaking to the Associated Press, he said he remains hopeful.
“I don’t know what it’s going to take,” Beasley said. “We’re trying every angle, you know: Elon, we need your help, brother.”
Last November, Musk donated roughly $5.7 billion worth of Tesla shares to an undisclosed charity, a donation that made him the second largest US donor in 2021, behind Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.
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Non-profit works to strengthen AAPI advocacy and community
CINCINNATI, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Foundation's Racial Equity Fund (the fund) announced today a $1 million grant to The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). As a convener, incubator and funder committed to accelerating opportunity and prosperity for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, TAAF's undertaking strongly aligns with the goals set forth in Kroger's Framework for Action: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
"The Kroger Foundation's generous commitment to the safety and well-being of AAPI communities is so important in this moment, both as anti-AAPI violence continues to surge, and as acts of violence targeting marginalized Americans are taking place at alarming rates," said TAAF CEO Norman Chen, "It was two years ago this week that George Floyd was murdered, one year ago that the Atlanta spa-shootings occurred, and still acts of mass violence that are leaving communities of color wondering if we'll ever feel safe in America — if we'll ever feel that we belong. At TAAF, we want to create that permanent sense of belonging that is free from discrimination, slander and violence, and so we are grateful to have The Kroger Foundation's support as we pursue that all-too-important mission."
Established in May 2021, TAAF is committed to serving AAPI communities by building the infrastructure needed to improve AAPI advocacy, power and representation. TAAF seeks to help fill critical gaps of support for AAPIs, as less than 0.5 percent of charitable giving from foundations goes to AAPI communities. TAAF wants to help be a catalyst for changing that history of underinvestment, and the organization is focused on a number of strategic priority areas including combating anti-AAPI hate, education, narrative change, cross-racial solidarity, and unlocking more resources for AAPI communities.
"TAAF's work is in lockstep with the Kroger Foundation's commitment to build more equitable, inclusive communities," said Keith Dailey, president of The Kroger Co. Foundation and Kroger's group vice president of corporate affairs. "The Kroger Foundation is proud to stand with TAAF in its mission to end the cycle of hate and create belonging in the AAPI community, and to increase awareness around anti-Asian bias, harassment and violence. Our Foundation is proud to play a small role in advancing their efforts."
The contribution was celebrated at an event sponsored by Kroger's Asian Associate Resource Group (ARG) to honor AAPI Heritage Month, featuring Kroger Board Director Secretary Elaine Chao. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Asian ARG was established by Kroger Asian associates with a to mission to recruit and retain Asian talent by providing belonging.
In 2021, as part of Kroger's Framework for Action: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Kroger allocated $5 million to The Kroger Co. Foundation to establish a new Racial Equity Fund with the vision to create more equitable communities by being the spark that ignites innovative solutions. In 2022, the company contributed an additional $5 million to the Fund to further advance race equity in America.
To learn more about these efforts, visit: TheKrogerCo.com/StandingTogether.
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About Kroger
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose: to Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of companies, nearly half a million associates who serve over nine million customers daily through a seamless digital shopping experience and 2,800 retail food stores under a variety of banner names, serving America through food inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn more about us, visit our newsroom and investor relations site.
About The Asian American Foundation
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is a convener, incubator, and funder committed to accelerating opportunity and prosperity for AAPI communities. TAAF supports advocates and organizations committed to AAPI causes so that together we can more effectively take action against hate and violence, and build the infrastructure needed to improve AAPI advocacy, power, and representation across American society. We were founded to solve for the longstanding lack of investment and resources provided to AAPI communities and we strive to be a catalyzing force for creating a permanent and irrevocable sense of belonging for the 23 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders living in the United States. For additional information about TAAF, please visit www.taaf.org.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
6-3-8-5, FIREBALL: 1
(six, three, eight, five; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
6-3-8-5, FIREBALL: 1
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign hid his partisan interests from the FBI as he pushed “pure opposition research” related to Donald Trump and Russia in the weeks before the election, a prosecutor asserted Friday during closing arguments of the attorney’s trial.
But Michael Sussmann’s legal team denied prosecutors’ claims that he lied. And even if jurors believed Sussmann did lie, the defense said the alleged false statement did not matter because he was presenting national security information that the FBI would have looked into no matter the source. At the time of Sussmann’s meeting in September 2016, the bureau was already investigating whether Russia and the Trump campaign were colluding to sway the election won by Trump that November.
“They wouldn’t have done anything different. And it makes sense: They were given actual data that had national security implications,” Sussmann lawyer Sean Berkowitz said.
The case is the first courtroom test of special counsel John Durham’s work since his appointment three years ago to search for government misconduct during the investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
A guilty verdict would be cheered by Trump and his supporters, who have looked to the Durham investigation to undercut the original Trump-Russia probe that have long seen as politically motivated. But the case against Sussmann is narrow in nature, involves a peripheral aspect of that probe and alleges misconduct by a tipster to the government rather than by anyone at the FBI.
Nonetheless, the two weeks of testimony in federal court in Washington have exposed the extent to which Democratic interests, opposition research, the media and law enforcement all came to be entangled in the run-up to the presidential election.
“It wasn’t about national security,” Jonathan Algor, a prosecutor on Durham’s team, said of Sussmann’s concerns. “It was about promoting opposition research against the opposition candidate, Donald Trump.”
Sussmann is charged with a single count of making a false statement. That charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, though if convicted, Sussmann is likely to get far less — if any — prison time. He did not take the stand during the trial.
The criminal case turns on a Sept. 19, 2016 meeting in which Sussmann presented the FBI’s top lawyer, James Baker, with computer data that Sussmann said suggested a secret communications back channel between a Russia-based bank and the Trump Organization, the candidate’s company.
Such a back channel, if it existed, would have been explosive information at a time when the FBI was examining links between Trump and Russia. But after assessing the data, the FBI quickly determined that there was no suspicious contact at all.
Prosecutors say Sussmann lied to Baker by saying he was not participating in the meeting on behalf of a particular client. They say he was actually there on behalf of the Clinton campaign and another client, a technology executive whom the Durham team says tasked researchers with looking for internet traffic involving Trump aides and Russia.
Sussmann lied about his clients, prosecutors allege, to give the material extra credibility and because he figured that the information would not be investigated if the FBI thought it was being pushed by the Clinton campaign.
“The defendant knew he had to hide his clients if there was any chance of getting his allegations into the FBI — and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the defendant lied,” Algor said.
Algor said the fact that Sussmann repeatedly billed the Clinton campaign for his work on the Alfa Bank matters is proof that he was acting on the campaign’s behalf when he met with the FBI. But Berkowitz noted that Sussmann billed his taxi ride to FBI headquarters for the meeting to his law firm, rather than the campaign.
Berkowitz also tried to cast doubt on what exactly was said in the meeting. Prosecutors showed jurors a text message Sussmann sent Baker the night before the meeting in which he requested a sit-down on a sensitive matter and said he would be coming by himself and not on behalf of a client.
But Berkowitz reminded jurors that the only false statement that was charged took place during the following day’s meeting and that no one can be sure exactly what was said because Baker and Sussmann were the only participants and neither took notes.
Berkowitz also suggested that it was technically accurate if Sussmann suggested he was not acting on behalf of a client because he never asked the FBI do anything with the information he was providing.
“When you go somewhere on behalf of a client, you’re advocating for a client, you’re asking for something,” Berkowitz said. “Mr. Sussmann didn’t ask Jim Baker for anything.”
Though Baker testified under questioning from a prosecutor that he was “100% confident” that Sussmann had told him that he was not acting on behalf of a client, Berkowitz cited 116 instances in which Baker suggested that he could not recall or remember the answer.
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The goal of $30,000 was quickly shattered.
After the death of her husband 48 hours later donations went up even higher.
BOCA RATON, Fla., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pulte Family, known in homebuilding for Bill Pulte's experience inside of Pulte Homes and PulteGroup Inc, and Twitter Philanthropy Teammates helped raise $1.9 million through Twitter Philanthropy for the brave teacher, Irma Garcia, in the Texas school shooting. After tweeting it to nearly 3.2 million followers, the GoFundMe shattered its $30,000 goal within minutes. Quickly, it began to skyrocket. After the death of Irma's husband, donations continued to pour in.
"This is an unthinkable tragedy, and in these tragedies, the teammates at Twitter Philanthropy come together because people want to help other people. Our teammates at Twitter Philanthropy banded together to help raise over $50,000 in just a few hours, after sitting idle at $12,000 for 10 hours. We also helped 10-year-old Texas School Shooting victim Tessa Mata's family by helping take it from a little over $1k to now over $93,000."
"Twitter Philanthropy is a movement to bring positivity to social media. There is a lot of hate and negativity on social media, but the goal behind Twitter Philanthropy is to do the opposite. We want to bring people together and help those in immediate need. When situations like this tragic shooting arise or there are cancer patients who cannot afford shelter, the team all comes together to help," said a spokesperson for The Pulte Family.
William J. "Bill" Pulte founded Pulte Homes, today PulteGroup Inc, in 1950 at age 18. Over the decades, Bill Pulte built Pulte Homes into The #1 USA Homebuilder. In 2016, after retiring the first time, William J. Pulte (1932-2018) and Bill Pulte (b. 1988), his grandson, successfully turned PulteGroup Inc around, even when non-business family members supporting the failed Dugas Management Team versus the Pulte Homes Founder William J. Pulte. Mr. Pulte (b. 1988) was a PulteGroup Director from 2016-2020. Bill Pulte's Twitter Philanthropy became a giant success starting in June 2019, helping thousands of people and inspiring millions of people worldwide. Even after the passing of William J. Pulte (1932-2018), their work together continues through a collection of Pulte founded organizations, including The Bill Pulte Foundation. The Pulte Family has multiple companies and investment vehicles.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
6-3-9-5, SB: 7
(six, three, nine, five; SB: seven)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
6-3-9-5, SB: 7
(six, three, nine, five; SB: seven) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17203633.php | 2022-05-27T18:06:24 | en | 0.897723 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. targeted two Russian banks Friday as part of new sanctions over alleged support for North Korea and its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The sanctions come after what the U.S. says were three new ballistic missile launches by North Korea on Tuesday, including one intercontinental ballistic missile.
The launches happened after President Joe Biden ended an Asian trip in which he stressed Washington’s commitment to defending allies from the North’s nuclear threat.
The U.S. says this week’s launches brought North Korea’s total for this year to 23, as the isolated country pushes to develop and expand the range of its nuclear and missile programs.
Friday’s sanctions targets include two Russian banks, Far Eastern and Sputnik, that the U.S. says do business with U.S.-sanctioned North Korean entities. Bank Sputnik also helped North Korea arrange payments for the use of Russian satellite services, the Treasury Department said in announcing the sanctions.
The new sanctions also target a Belarus-based North Korea man who the United States says was helping generate funding for the missile launches, and a trading company.
On Thursday, China and Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution sponsored by the United States that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea for its spate of intercontinental ballistic missile launches that can be used to deliver nuclear weapons.
Thursday’s vote represented the first serious division among the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N.’s most powerful body on a North Korea sanctions resolution. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/us-levels-new-sanctions-after-north-korea-missile-launches/ | 2022-05-27T18:06:24 | en | 0.955028 |
Truist CFO to present at the Morgan Stanley US Financials, Payments & CRE Conference
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced that Chief Financial Officer Daryl Bible will present at the Morgan Stanley US Financials, Payments & CRE Conference at 10:15 a.m. ET on Monday, June 13, 2022, in New York City.
A live audio webcast will be available the day of the event at ir.truist.com under Events & Presentations. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website for 30 days.
Truist Financial Corporation is a purpose-driven financial services company committed to inspiring and building better lives and communities. Truist has leading market share in many high-growth markets in the country. The company offers a wide range of services including retail, small business and commercial banking; asset management; capital markets; commercial real estate; corporate and institutional banking; insurance; mortgage; payments; specialized lending; and wealth management. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Truist is a top 10 U.S. commercial bank with total assets of $544 billion as of March 31, 2022. Truist Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at Truist.com.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
4-3-2, SB: 7
(four, three, two; SB: seven)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
4-3-2, SB: 7
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BEIJING (AP) — On a balmy Sunday night, residents of an upscale Shanghai compound took to the streets to decry lockdown restrictions imposed by their community. By the following morning, they were free to leave.
The triumphant story quickly spread on chat groups across the Chinese city this week, sparking one question in the minds of those who remained under lockdown: Shouldn’t we do the same?
By the end of the week, other groups of residents had confronted management in their complexes, and some had won at least a partial release.
While it’s unclear how widespread they are, the incidents reflect the frustration that has built up after more than seven weeks of lockdown, even as the number of new daily cases has fallen to a few hundred in a city of 25 million people.
They also are a reminder of the power of China’s neighborhood committees that the ruling Communist Party relies on to spread propaganda messages, enforce its decisions and even settle personal disputes. Such committees and the residential committees under them have become the target of complaints, especially after some in Shanghai and other cities refused to allow residents out even after official restrictions were relaxed.
More than 21 million people in Shanghai are now in “precaution zones,” the least restrictive category. In theory, they are free to go out. In practice, the decision is up to their residential committees, resulting in a kaleidoscope of arbitrary rules.
Some are allowed out, but only for a few hours with a specially issued pass for one day or certain days of the week. Some places permit only one person per household to leave. Others forbid people to leave at all.
“We have already been given at least three different dates when we are going to reopen, and none of them were real,” said Weronika Truszczynska, a graduate student from Poland who posted vlogs about her experience.
“The residential committee told us you can wait a week, we are going to reopen probably on June 1st,” she said. “No one believed it.”
Two days after the Sunday night breakout at the upscale Huixianju compound, more than a dozen residents of Truszczynska’s complex confronted their managers on a rainy Tuesday,
The residents, who were mostly Chinese, demanded to be allowed to leave without time limits or restrictions on how many per household. After the demands were not met, some returned to protest a second day. This time, four police officers stood watch.
On Thursday afternoon, community representatives knocked on the doors of each resident with a new policy: Write their name and apartment number on a list, take a temperature check, scan a barcode — and they were free to leave.
“We got the possibility of going out just because we were brave enough to protest,” Truszczynska said of her fellow residents.
The Shanghai lockdown has also prompted resistance from people being taken away to quarantine and workers required to sleep at their workplaces. Videos on social media showed what were said to be employees of a factory operated by Taiwan’s Quanta Computer Inc. trying to force their way out of the facility in early May.
The party’s strict anti-virus campaign has been aided by an urban environment in which hundreds of millions of people in China live in gated apartment compounds or walled neighborhoods that can be easily blocked off.
The front line for enforcement are the neighborhood committees that are responsible for keeping track of every resident in every urban household nationwide and enforcing public health and sanitation rules.
Many tend to err on the side of over-enforcement, aware of the example made of public officials who are fired or criticized for failing in their pandemic prevention duties.
The importance of neighborhood committees dwindled in the 1990s as the Communist Party relaxed restrictions on the movement of citizens, but they have been undergoing a resurgence in an ongoing tightening of societal controls under President Xi Jinping.
The incident at Huixianju prompted others to speak out. In a series of videos that circulated this week, about two dozen people march toward the Western Nanjing Road Police Station, chanting “Respect the law, give me back my life.”
Residents of a compound in Jing’an district saw the gates of neighboring compounds open over the past month — yet theirs remained locked. On Wednesday, about two dozen gathered at the gate, calling out to speak with a representative.
“I want to understand what are the neighborhood leaders planning?” one woman asks in a video of the incident. Another woman chimes in: “Are you making progress?” A third resident points out that they should be free by now, since the compound has been case-free for a while. “Didn’t they say on television that things are opening up? We saw it on television,” an older man says.
The next day, the community issued one-day passes — residents were allowed out for two hours on Friday, with no word on what would happen after that.
Shanghai authorities have declared a June target for life to return to normal. But some people aren’t waiting, pushing the boundaries bit by bit.
On Thursday night, more than a dozen young people gathered for a street concert in the same district where Sunday’s protest took place. Video of the last song, “Tomorrow will be better,” was shared widely on social media.
A police car parked nearby with its flashing red and blue lights and headlights on. As the final song drew to a close, an officer wearing a face shield strode toward the group and said, “OK you’ve had enough fun. It’s time to go back.” The crowd dispersed.
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Associated Press researcher Si Chen in Shanghai and writer Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed to this report. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/shanghai-lockdown-residents-demand-release-and-some-get-it/ | 2022-05-27T18:06:32 | en | 0.978477 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
5-6-8
(five, six, eight)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 3" game were:
5-6-8
(five, six, eight) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-3-game-17203590.php | 2022-05-27T18:06:36 | en | 0.939954 |
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MADRID (AP) — With one of Europe’s largest gay pride celebrations right around the corner, Spain’s LGBTQ community is worried that the outbreaks of monkeypox on the continent could lead to an increase in homophobic sentiment based on misunderstandings of the disease.
Spanish health authorities said Friday there were now 98 confirmed cases in the country, the highest number in Europe. The tally includes one woman, the region of Madrid said Friday. The World Health Organization has reported nearly 200 cases of monkeypox in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease.
Health authorities have centered their investigations on links between a Gay Pride event in the Canary Islands that drew 80,000 people earlier this month, and cases linked to a Madrid sauna.
But some people, particularly gay and bisexual men, believe there is a touch of homophobic hysteria in the wider public’s reaction to the rare outbreak outside of Africa, where it has long been endemic.
Most of the known cases in Europe have been among men who have sex with men, according to authorities in Britain, Spain, Germany and Portugal. A top adviser to the World Health Organization said the outbreak was likely triggered by sexual activity at two recent mass events in Europe.
The outbreak in Spain comes in the run-up to Madrid’s Gay Pride celebration in July. It is expected to draw large crowds, unlike the last two years’ events, which were scaled down or canceled because of COVID-19 restrictions. Organizers say the city’s last pre-pandemic Pride celebration, in 2019, drew roughly 1.6 million revelers, though police put the figure at around 400,000.
“Pride is a huge party, it is a moment to make our voice be heard, that brings lots of people together,” Mario Blázquez, coordinator of health programs for the LGBTQ group COGAM in Madrid, told The Associated Press.
Blázquez is worried that Pride celebrations could be endangered by overzealous restrictions driven in part by prejudice and in part by the fears of another public health emergency on top of the lingering COVID-19 pandemic.
“We don’t know what will happen. We don’t know what the level of transmission of the virus will be or what legal measures could be taken. And then what stigma could be generated by these legal measures that sometimes are discriminatory,” he said.
But beyond the Pride March, Blázquez is worried that society could make the same mistake it did at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, when the focus on the disease among gay men obscured its spread among the wider population.
“This is a disease that any member of the population can get,” Blázquez said. “We are facing an outbreak that unfortunately once again has hit LGBTQ people, and especially gay and bisexual men. What’s happening is somewhat similar to the first cases of HIV.”
Health authorities have reported cases in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia. It’s a surprising outbreak of a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, where it has remained a serious health threat since the first cases in human were discovered in the 1970s.
Experts say anyone can be infected through close contact with a sick person, their clothing or bedsheets. Most people recover within two to four weeks without needing hospitalization. However, the WHO says in recent times 3-6% of cases were fatal.
Health officials around the world are keeping watch for more cases because, for the first time, the disease appears to be spreading among people who didn’t travel to Africa. They stress, however, that the risk to the general population is low.
As of Thursday, Italy had confirmed 10 cases of Monkeypox, some but not all in people who had traveled to Spain’s Canary Islands.
“Regarding the question of sexual transmission, I believe that we cannot yet define this strictly as a sexually transmitted disease,” said Dr. Andrea Antinori, Director of Viral Immunodeficiencies at Spallanzani hospital in Rome. “So I would avoid identifying this disease as a sexually transmitted disease at the moment.”
“We are facing a new wave (of monkeypox) that is different from how we have historically known it,” Antinori added.
Spain’s health minister, Carolina Darias, said Wednesday that her government decided to opt into the European Union’s collective purchase of monkeypox vaccine, which like the COVID-19 vaccine will be distributed based on each participating country’s population. She said government health experts are considering how to use the vaccine once it is more widely available.
Amos García, president of the Spanish Association of Vaccinology, recommended that the vaccine should only be given to people who have had direct contact with an infected person and who are vulnerable to infection, not to the general population.
“We are talking about a disease that does not have a large potential to become an epidemic,” García said, adding that most Spaniards over 40 should be protected by smallpox vaccines that were regularly administered decades ago.
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Ciarán Giles in Madrid, Joseph Wilson in Barcelona and Trisha Thomas Rome contributed to this report. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/spanish-lgbtq-groups-wary-of-monkeypox-stigma-as-pride-nears/ | 2022-05-27T18:06:39 | en | 0.96941 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
5-5-8-7
(five, five, eight, seven)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
5-5-8-7
(five, five, eight, seven) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-4-game-17203545.php | 2022-05-27T18:06:43 | en | 0.931542 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A mother accused of killing her 6-year-old son in a particularly violent manner will not stand trial anytime soon.
Tasha Haefs, 35, is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of her son, Karvell Stevens.
Police found the little boy’s badly mutilated body inside a home near East 73rd Street and Indiana Avenue back in February.
Police say they had received a 911 call from a woman inside the house who claimed that, “the devil was trying to attack her.”
Court documents say that Haefs was covered in blood, and police recovered two knives and a screwdriver from the home.
According to prosecutors, Haefs admitted to police that she killed her son in the bathtub of the house.
After reviewing a mental health report ordered by the court, Judge Sarah Castle ruled on Friday that Haefs lacks the capacity to understand the criminal charges against her and cannot assist in her own defense.
The judge ruled that Haefs is incompetent to stand trial at this time. The Missouri Department of Mental Health will be charged with administering medication that may help Haefs understand the killing she’s accused of committing.
A hearing with the Department of Mental Health on Haefs’ case is scheduled to take place on June 9. | https://fox4kc.com/news/judge-rules-kansas-city-mother-charged-with-killing-son-incompetent-to-stand-trial/ | 2022-05-27T18:06:44 | en | 0.976487 |
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(NEXSTAR) – Daniel Defense, the company that manufactured the AR-15-style rifle used by the shooter at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has pulled out of this week’s NRA convention in Houston.
In a statement shared with Nexstar, the manufacturer said it didn’t feel the present time was “appropriate” to promote its guns.
“Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas where one of our products was criminally misused,” the company wrote. “We believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the NRA meeting.”
The company, founded in Savannah, Georgia, had earlier confirmed its belief that the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary had used a Daniel Defense firearm, Nexstar’s WSAV reported.
“We will cooperate with all federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities in their investigations,” the company said, while offering “thoughts and prayers” to the community in Uvalde.
Daniel Defense has also made its social-media channels private following criticism of a recent tweet which reportedly showed a young boy holding an AR-15-style, The Washington Post reported. Just eight days before the tragedy in Uvalde, Daniel Defense tweeted the photo along with a verse from the Book of Proverbs, which read, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” according to an archived version of the tweet shared by the outlet.
A Daniel Defense representative who shared a company statement with Nexstar on Friday morning did not respond to inquiries concerning the Twitter post.
In addition to Daniel Defense, several other guests and performers at the NRA convention in Houston have canceled their appearances, including “American Pie” singer Don McClean, who said it would be “disrespectful and hurtful” to perform. Joining him in canceling performances are “God Bless the U.S.A.” singer Lee Greenwood, as well as performers Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart. Danielle Peck and T. Graham Brown have also cancelled, Billboard reported, leaving Jacob Bryant as the only remaining performer as of Friday morning. Billboard reported that the NRA was expected to announce the cancellation of all concert activity sometime on Friday, citing a source with knowledge of the event.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has also canceled plans to attend the convention after facing criticism for his scheduled appearance in the wake of the school shooting. He and will instead hold a press conference in Uvalde, The Hill reported.
The NRA’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Exhibits will take place between May 27 and May 29 in Houston, Texas. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/state/company-that-made-uvalde-shooters-ak-15-style-rifle-pulls-out-of-nra-convention/ | 2022-05-27T18:06:46 | en | 0.968627 |
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
3-9-4-1
(three, nine, four, one)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
3-9-4-1
(three, nine, four, one) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17203523.php | 2022-05-27T18:06:49 | en | 0.916099 |
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — A new study, in collaboration with the Missouri Department of Conservation and A.T. Stills University-Health, is asking Missourians to mail in ticks they encounter throughout the state.
Researchers want to increase their surveillance of the summer time critters to gain a better understanding of the unique communities of ticks and the diseases they carry.
With the help if “citizen science”, it can help the team collect data and samples from a large area such as Missouri.
A submission form can be downloaded from the university website. It asks a few questions about where you found the tick and lists instructions for mailing it in.
Instructions
- Download, print and fill out submission form
- Place tick on a damp paper towel or cotton ball and place into a plastic zip lock bag.
- Fold that bag and place it into another zip lock bag.
- Fold it and place into an envelope and mail it
The study started last April and runs until September 2022.
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(The Hill) — An 11-year-old student who survived the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday says she covered herself in a classmate’s blood and played dead to protect herself from being shot.
Miah Cerrillo told CNN on Friday that she dipped her hands in the blood of a dead classmate after the shooter left her classroom and wiped it on herself to play dead in case he came back.
Cerrillo was treated in the hospital for wounds caused by bullet fragments, and her mother, Abigale Veloz, says the girl is “traumatized.”
Miguel Cerrillo, her father, confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that she has been discharged from the hospital, but added that she is “freaking out” after being in “survival mode” during the shooting.
The shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, walked into Miah’s classroom — where the fourth-grade students had been watching “Lilo and Stitch” — just as a teacher was walking toward the door to lock it.
Miah said that Ramos looked one of the teachers in the eye and said “Goodnight” before shooting her and then opening fire on the class.
Ramos allegedly then went into an adjoining classroom where Miah said she heard gunfire, screaming and downbeat music, which she described as “I want people to die” music.
The girl and a friend dialed 911 from the phone of their dead teacher and asked the police for help.
According to CNN, Miah began crying as she talked about the police waiting outside the school, saying she didn’t understand why the officers did not come inside and rescue them.
According to her aunt Blanca Rivera, Miah was deeply shaken when the reality of the shooting hit her on Tuesday night, hours after the incident.
“Around midnight, my sister-in-law called me and she was just crying like, ‘I think it just hit Miah. I think everything came to reality. We’re home, and she’s just crying and having a panic attack,’” Rivera told Click2Houston on Tuesday.
Miah asked not to speak on camera because of her trauma.
Veloz has organized a GoFundMe to pay for Miah’s medical expenses and therapy, writing, “she will need a lot of help with all the trauma that she is going through. my daughter is amazing person and is a very good sister to her siblings. we will need help with her medical expenses that were caused by the bullet fragment on her back.”
Rivera said, “At this point, we just have to pray and ask God to help us move forward through this situation. I know it’s traumatizing and having an 11-year-old go through this, I can’t imagine what she’s feeling.” | https://www.fox44news.com/news/state/uvalde-student-says-she-covered-herself-in-classmates-blood-played-dead-to-survive/ | 2022-05-27T18:06:52 | en | 0.987692 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
9-4-0, FIREBALL: 6
(nine, four, zero; FIREBALL: six)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
9-4-0, FIREBALL: 6
(nine, four, zero; FIREBALL: six) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17203627.php | 2022-05-27T18:06:55 | en | 0.868697 |
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. — The lines were long around the BMW Convenience gas station in Fredericktown Thursday afternoon. For 90 minutes, gas prices were $2.12 per gallon.
Lisa Hovis was one of the drivers who waited in line for what amounts to nearly a half-price tank of gas. The Marquand resident routinely drives to a St. Louis hospital for radiation treatments for cancer.
“It costs me anywhere from $100 to $120 a week just to do that,” said Hovis. “With the grocery prices too, you know it’s really bad.”
The gas discount event was organized by Americans for Prosperity. Jeremy Cady is the group’s Missouri state director. He was busy directing cars to open pumps once drivers finished filling up their tanks.
“They’re feeling it in their wallets,” said Cady. “They’re making tough decisions. They’re having to choose between food and everything that they need for their daily lives and gasoline.”
He said the discounted price of $2.12 a gallon equals what pump costs were when President Joe Biden was elected in 2020.
BMW Convenience owner Bryant Wolfin hopes customers realize gas station owners are not behind the rising prices.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers Friday in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf, officials said. The action appeared to be retaliation for Athens’ assistance in the U.S. seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker this week in the Mediterranean Sea over violating Washington’s crushing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
The raid marks the first major incident at sea in months as tensions remain high between Iran and the West over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers. As Tehran enriches more uranium, closer to weapons-grade levels than ever before, worries mount that negotiators won’t find a way back to the accord — raising the risk of a wider war.
The Guard issued a statement announcing the seizures, accusing the tankers of unspecified violations.
Greece’s Foreign Ministry said it made a strong demarche to the Iranian ambassador in Athens over the “violent taking over of two Greek-flagged ships” in the Persian Gulf. “These acts effectively amount to acts of piracy,” a ministry statement said.
The ministry called for the immediate release of the vessels and their crews, and said these acts would have “particularly negative consequences” in bilateral relations and in Iran’s relations with the European Union, of which Greece is a member.
The ministry’s statement said that earlier Friday, an Iranian helicopter landed on the Greek-flagged Delta Poseidon in international waters, some 22 nautical miles off the coast of Iran.
“Armed men then took the crew captive,” it said, adding that two Greek nationals were among the crew.
“A similar incident has been reported on another Greek-flagged vessel, that was carrying seven Greek citizens, close to the coast of Iran,” the ministry said.
A Greek official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the attack with a journalist, identified the second ship as the Prudent Warrior. Its manager, Polembros Shipping in Greece, earlier said the company was “cooperating with the authorities and making every possible effort to address the situation effectively.”
Greek officials did not identify the nationalities of the other crew onboard the vessels.
Both vessels had come from Iraq’s Basra oil terminal, likely loaded with crude, according to tracking data from MarineTraffic.com.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said it appeared the two ships had come close to — but not into — Iranian territorial waters Friday. After the hijacking, they drifted into Iranian waters. The ships also had turned off their tracking devices, another red flag, the official said. However, neither had issued a mayday or a call for help, the official said.
Iran had threatened to take “punitive action” earlier Friday over Athens being involved in the U.S. seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Greek waters.
Nour News, a website close to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, made the threat just as shipping news site Lloyd’s List said it believed two Greek tankers had been seized in the Persian Gulf. Quoting anonymous industry sources, Lloyd’s reported that the two ships had been boarded after Iranian military helicopters approached them on Friday afternoon.
The seizures came after Greece helped the U.S. seize crude oil aboard an Iranian-flagged tanker this week.
A Greek official said Thursday the move followed a “judicial intervention by U.S. authorities concerning the ship’s cargo.” The oil was “to be handed over” off the port of Karystos on the Aegean Sea island of Evia.
The official, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the case, did not provide further details. A Justice Department spokesman in Washington and the U.S. Embassy in Athens declined to comment Thursday.
Iran’s seizure on Friday was the latest in a string of hijackings and explosions to roil a region that includes the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all traded oil passes.
The U.S. Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.
Iranian hijackers also stormed and briefly captured a Panama-flagged asphalt tanker off the United Arab Emirates last year, as well as briefly seizing and holding a Vietnamese tanker in November.
Tehran denies carrying out the attacks, but a wider shadow war between Iran and the West has played out in the region’s volatile waters. Meanwhile, the Guard is building a massive new support ship near the strategic Strait of Hormuz as it tries to expand its naval presence in waters vital to international energy supplies and beyond, according to satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The owner of the largest natural gas utility in Alaska said it is selling the company to Canada-based TriSummit Utilities Inc. for $800 million.
AltaGas Ltd. announced Thursday that the sale includes Anchorage-based ENSTAR Natural Gas, associated pipelines and ENSTAR’s majority ownership in a gas storage facility, the Anchorage Daily News reported. AltaGas, also based in Canada, acquired Enstar in 2012.
TriSummit has about 133,000 customers in Canada. ENSTAR, which has about 150,000 customers in Anchorage and parts of south-central Alaska, has had about 1% annual growth in customers in recent years, AltaGas has reported.
AltaGas said the sale, in part, will allow the company to reduce debt and make “higher growth investments” in other operations, the company's president, Randy Crawford, said in a statement.
The sale is subject to regulatory approval. The companies expect it to close by early next year.
TriSummit in a statement said it plans to “retain all of ENSTAR’s dedicated employees and hire new Alaska employees to perform certain functions currently performed out of state.” ENSTAR Natural Gas has about 200 employees.
TriSummit President and CEO Jared Green once ran ENSTAR.
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(KTLA) — A man suspected of carjacking an 81-year-old woman who was feeding homeless people in California has been arrested, police said Thursday.
The incident was reported at about 3:30 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of a Stater Bros. store in Redlands.
Nina Steinman told Redlands police she had been in the parking lot to provide meals to homeless people in the area, something she’s been doing since January.
While Steinman was handing out the last of the food she’d made herself from her open trunk, the suspect allegedly forcefully took the keys from her and got into the driver’s seat of her vehicle, police said.
Video released by police showed that Steinman managed to open the door after the carjacker got in, but the man shut it and she was not able to open it again.
“Let me tell you, I’m not afraid,” Steinman told KTLA. “I was going to grab his shirt and just drag that little puppy right out of the front seat, but I couldn’t get the door open.”
The suspect then drove off while Steinman was still holding onto the driver’s door, and she was knocked to the ground.
She was not injured but was left with bruises on her arm and without her wallet and purse.
Steinman said she had to change her locks because she was afraid the man would break into her home.
The man was then seen entering the westbound 10 Freeway, with the rear hatch of the stolen vehicle still open, police said.
Los Angeles Police Department officers spotted the stolen vehicle, a 2015 Kia Sportage, in a parking structure in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.
The driver was identified as 24-year-old Roberto Carlos Sanchez Jr. and he was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a stolen vehicle, police said.
Redlands police later confirmed that Sanchez is suspected of a carjacking at the parking lot in Redlands.
He was transported to West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino, California, where he was being held on suspicion of carjacking and elder abuse. His bail was set at $250,000.
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LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as “containable” and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs available worldwide.
During a public briefing on Friday, the U.N. health agency said there are still many unanswered questions about what triggered the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox outside of Africa, but there is no evidence that any genetic changes in the virus are responsible.
“The first sequencing of the virus shows that the strain is not different from the strains we can find in endemic countries and (this outbreak) is probably due more to a change in human behaviour,” said Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO’s director of pandemic and epidemic diseases.
Earlier this week, a top adviser to WHO said the outbreak in Europe, U.S., Israel, Australia and beyond was likely linked to sex at two recent raves in Spain and Belgium. That marks a significant departure from the disease’s typical pattern of spread in central and western Africa, where people are mainly infected by animals like wild rodents and primates, and outbreaks haven’t spilled across borders.
Although WHO said nearly 200 monkeypox cases have been reported, that seemed a likely undercount. On Friday, Spanish authorities said the number of cases there had risen to 98, including one woman, whose infection is “directly related” to a chain of transmission that had been previously limited to men, according to officials in the region of Madrid.
U.K. officials added 16 more cases to their monkeypox tally, making Britain’s total 106, while Portugal said its caseload jumped to 74 cases. And authorities in Argentina on Friday reported a monkeypox case in a man from Buenos Aires, marking Latin America’s first infection. Officials said the man had traveled recently to Spain and now had symptoms consistent with monkeypox, including lesions and a fever.
Doctors in Britain, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere have noted that the majority of infections to date have been in gay and bisexual men, or men who have sex with men. The disease is no more likely to affect people because of their sexual orientation and scientists warn the virus could infect others if transmission isn’t curbed.
WHO’s Briand said that based on how past outbreaks of the disease in Africa have evolved, the current situation appeared “containable.”
Still, she said WHO expected to see more cases reported in the future, noting “we don’t know if we are just seeing the peak of the iceberg (or) if there are many more cases that are undetected in communities,” she said.
As countries including Britain, Germany, Canada and the U.S. begin evaluating how smallpox vaccines might be used to stem the outbreak, WHO said its expert group was assessing the evidence and would provide guidance soon.
Dr. Rosamund Lewis, head of WHO’s smallpox department, said that “there is no need for mass vaccination,” explaining that monkeypox does not spread easily and typically requires skin-to-skin contact for transmission. No vaccines have been specifically developed against monkeypox, but WHO estimates that smallpox vaccines are about 85% effective.
She said countries with vaccine supplies could consider them for those at high risk of the disease, like close contacts of patients or health workers, but that monkeypox could mostly be controlled by isolating contacts and continued epidemiological investigations.
Given the limited global supply of smallpox vaccines, WHO’s emergencies chief Dr. Mike Ryan said the agency would be working with its member countries to potentially develop a centrally controlled stockpile, similar to the ones it has helped manage to distribute during outbreaks of yellow fever, meningitis, and cholera in countries that can’t afford them.
“We’re talking about providing vaccines for a targeted vaccination campaign, for targeted therapeutics,” Ryan said. “So the volumes don’t necessarily need to be big, but every country may need access to a small amount of vaccine.”
Most monkeypox patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue. People with more serious illness may develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says its navy has seized 2 Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.
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(NEXSTAR) – Daniel Defense, the company that manufactured the AR-15-style rifle used by the shooter at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has pulled out of this week’s NRA convention in Houston.
In a statement shared with Nexstar, the manufacturer said it didn’t feel the present time was “appropriate” to promote its guns.
“Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas where one of our products was criminally misused,” the company wrote. “We believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the NRA meeting.”
The company, founded in Savannah, Georgia, had earlier confirmed its belief that the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary had used a Daniel Defense firearm, Nexstar’s WSAV reported.
“We will cooperate with all federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities in their investigations,” the company said, while offering “thoughts and prayers” to the community in Uvalde.
Daniel Defense has also made its social-media channels private following criticism of a recent tweet which reportedly showed a young boy holding an AR-15-style, The Washington Post reported. Just eight days before the tragedy in Uvalde, Daniel Defense tweeted the photo along with a verse from the Book of Proverbs, which read, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” according to an archived version of the tweet shared by the outlet.
A Daniel Defense representative who shared a company statement with Nexstar on Friday morning did not respond to inquiries concerning the Twitter post.
In addition to Daniel Defense, several other guests and performers at the NRA convention in Houston have canceled their appearances, including “American Pie” singer Don McClean, who said it would be “disrespectful and hurtful” to perform. Joining him in canceling performances are “God Bless the U.S.A.” singer Lee Greenwood, as well as performers Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart. Danielle Peck and T. Graham Brown have also cancelled, Billboard reported, leaving Jacob Bryant as the only remaining performer as of Friday morning. Billboard reported that the NRA was expected to announce the cancellation of all concert activity sometime on Friday, citing a source with knowledge of the event.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has also canceled plans to attend the convention after facing criticism for his scheduled appearance in the wake of the school shooting. He and will instead hold a press conference in Uvalde, The Hill reported.
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Which hardware wallet for altcoins is best?
While the debate over the virtues and life expectancy of the various mainstream forms of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherium continue to be endlessly debated, one thing we can all agree on is losing access to a fortune due to improper security measures is a tragic but easily avoidable fate. Rather than simply entrusting your main and altcoins to a solely digital wallet solution or directly on your own PC, investing in a hardware wallet can give you valuable peace of mind by providing physical storage for your coins while providing some truly impressive levels of security. With a slim and powerful unit like the Ledger Nano S Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet v1.4 keeping your cryptocurrencies safe, you can “HODL” to your heart’s content while ensuring that your precious coins remain exactly where you intend them to be.
What to know before you buy a hardware wallet for altcoins
Riskiness
First and foremost, it is important to note that this article should in no way be interpreted as legal or financial advice regarding the acquisition and storage of crypto assets, alternative or otherwise. Despite what some factions of true believers on the internet would have you believe, there is absolutely no such thing as a “guaranteed investment” and this is especially true of any speculative asset, no matter how anyone else refers to it.
Given that the value of single cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherium can vary as much as almost $65,000 USD for a single coin to just over $30,000 and finishing at $38,000 in the course of a single day, to say that the market is prone to volatility is something of an understatement. As stated previously, BestReviews.com cannot be held responsible for any changes to the prices of cryptocurrencies, outside market forces, government regulations, or other unforeseen events.
“HODL”ers
Though you might be forgiven for thinking that “HODL” was some strange misinterpretation of a much-beloved character from “Game of Thrones”, it is actually an acronym that many people in the crypto community hold as a lodestar and guiding principle. For those who are unfamiliar, “HODL” stands for Hold On (for) Dear Life, though it originated from a 2018 post on the online forum Bitcointalk by an enthusiastic and inebriated crypto trader determined to ride out any market fluctuations by “hodling on”.
Since that fateful post, “HODL”ing has spread far and wide across the internet with countless memes and high-profile advocates including entrepreneur Elon Musk. If you are genuinely invested in cryptocurrency as an enduring form of payment options, having the ability to safely store access to your coins and altcoins in a physical location with no internet access or intermediaries can save you incalculable amounts of stress and hassle.
What to look for in a quality hardware wallet for altcoins
Robust security
While it might seem like an overly simplistic solution to a complex problem, the best way to prevent valuable data from being hacked is not to put it on equipment that can be hacked in the first place. While some crypto traders are only comfortable with old-school paper receipts which are stored securely behind lock and key, a hardware wallet for altcoins provides a physical means of security with no independent means of connecting to the internet in any form.
In addition to preventing electronic access to your crypto assets in the first place, a hardware wallet can also allow you to safely retrieve your data or login credentials by following the manufacturer’s proprietary processes. One such process includes the creation of a twelve-word recovery sentence that will allow you to access your wallet, coins, apps, and more without having to compromise your incredibly important security keys. By giving you truly individualized methods to confirm your identity, you can recover all of your valuable data and assets in the event that your hardware wallet is stolen or becomes misplaced.
Compatibility with apps, coins, and operating systems
Being able to invest in the more well-known cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin is fairly easy as long as you have the money to invest, but what if you are more interested in taking a gamble on a more affordable but lesser-known altcoin? Purchasing hardware with the idea of investing in altcoins will require you to purchase a wallet that is capable of trading, storing, and retrieving not just the most well-known crypto assets but also those still trying to make a name for themselves.
In addition, your hardware wallet will hardly do you any good if you can’t even successfully make it connect to your PC and operating system of choice. As such, all of the selected models have been specifically chosen for their ability to plug and play with Windows, Mac and Linux PCs via USB-cable as well as being able to accept, store and trade hundreds and even thousands of different cryptocurrencies. Depending on the model of hardware wallet, users can install anywhere from three to twenty different apps to seamlessly control and manage their assets across multiple platforms for both security and convenience.
Bank-level security
Depending on how much of your personal wealth is tied up with “HODL”ing crypto assets, having the ability to instantly recover lost or stolen coins and even hardware wallets can make all the difference in protecting your financial solvency. As such, who on earth wouldn’t choose to buy a hardware wallet from a company that offers a 100% money-back guarantee in the event of some unforeseen catastrophe?
Furthermore, many hardware wallets insulate your coins from viruses and other malware by the simple virtue of not being connected to the internet as well as by providing multiple forms of authentication and account verification. Whether you are interested in “HODL”ing until you hopefully get rich or are engaging in a little speculative crypto day trading, having a hardware wallet for altcoins is truly the only sensible solution to keeping your assets safe and secure.
How much you can expect to spend on a hardware wallet for altcoins
Depending on your desired features as well as any budgetary considerations, a quality hardware wallet for altcoins can cost anywhere from $55-$69, and sometimes more.
Best hardware wallet for altcoins FAQ
Can my hardware wallet for altcoins be hacked by someone?
A. So long as your hardware wallet is safely stored in a location that can’t be physically accessed by others, it should remain impervious to electronic attacks. However, should you leave your hardware wallet in a position to be stolen, having physical access to the device could potentially lead to your data becoming compromised.
Can’t I just use a software wallet instead?
A. While many people chose to go with digital wallets because they are generally considered safer than cryptocurrency exchanges, they are still more vulnerable than hardware wallets. All someone needs to do to access your digital wallet, is compromise your internet security, install a keylogger, or other more conventional cybercrime techniques.
What’s the best hardware wallet for altcoins to buy?
Top hardware wallet for altcoins
Ledger Nano S Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet v1.4
What you need to know: A robust and reliable hardware wallet for altcoins with everything you need included.
What you’ll love: This unit offers support for over 1,250 altcoins such as XRP, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, and Stellar as well as being able to securely exchange, buy, sell and develop your crypto assets with ease. Users can install up to three crypto management apps depending on their file size along with their proprietary Ledger Live app, giving them the ability to confirm transactions and keep them secure.
What you should consider: Users have reported issues including a buggy user interface as well as problems following firmware updates.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top hardware wallet for altcoins for the money
KeepKey – The Simple Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
What you need to know: A super simple hardware wallet for altcoins that anyone could use with ease.
What you’ll love: This unit offers complete protection from all forms of viruses and malware by having no means of connecting to the internet as well as the ability to set a twelve-word sentence to retrieve data without compromising security codes, works on PC, Mac, Linux, and Android, a clear and easily-readable display and a keylogger-proof PIN system.
What you should consider: Users have reported issues with being unable to use non-KeepKEY crypto exchanges as well as issues with the app’s connectivity.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Trezor Model One Crypto Hardware Wallet
What you need to know: A dependable hardware wallet for crypto that lets you store, manage and sell assets with ease.
What you’ll love: This unit offers full compatibility with Windows, macOS, and Linux as well as a 120-MHz embedded ARM processor Cortex M3 which uses a custom operating system, the ability to connect your TREZOR to third-party wallets and services, a simple three-step setup process that doesn’t require registration and offers users a 100% money-back guarantee.
What you should consider: Users have reported issues such as being constantly spammed by ads on the wallet as well as significant issues after firmware updates.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Texas official: Commander made `wrong decision' not to breach classroom sooner because they thought no children at risk.
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(NEXSTAR) – Americans on the move are largely heading to the South and West, especially to areas in Texas and Arizona, newly recently data from the Census Bureau has found. Yet while many cities and towns were growing, some of the nation’s largest were suffering population losses.
Between the summers of 2020 and 2021, Census data found cities in these regions – eight in the West, seven in the South – had the greatest rate of population growth. Seeing the largest increase was Georgetown, Texas, with a rate of 10.5%. Found about 30 miles north of Austin, Georgetown’s population could double in less than seven years if its growth continues at the same rate, researchers found.
Roughly 12 miles west of Georgetown is Leander, the country’s second-fastest-growing city. A third Texas city, New Braunfels, which is found between Austin and San Antonio, also landed in the top five fastest-growing.
Five Arizona cities ranked in the top 15 fastest-growing, while Idaho, Texas, and Florida each had three.
Here are the 15 fastest-growing cities in the U.S.:
When comparing the total number of people moving in, the Census Bureau found cities in the South and West still had the greatest increase. Again, a Texas city topped the list: San Antonio, with an increase of 13,626 people. Close behind was Phoenix at 13,224.
Seven cities had both high rates of growth and numeric growth: Port St. Lucie, Buckeye, New Braunfels, Georgetown, Meridian, Leander, and Fort Myers.
These 15 cities welcomed the most new residents between 2020 and 2021:
Among the nation’s most populous cities, more than half saw their population decrease between 2020 and 2021: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, and Indianapolis.
New York City, which suffered the greatest population decrease at 305,465, still held onto its title as the most populous. The Big Apple edged out Los Angeles and Chicago, with the rankings throughout the list remaining the same as they were in 2020.
Here are the U.S.’s 15 most populous cities:
Seven U.S. cities surpassed a major milestone in 2021 and recorded a population of 50,000 or more. Among those are three from Texas – Kyle, Burleson, and Little Elm. Also in that select group are the Indiana cities of Westfield and Jefferson, as well as Lincoln, California, and Newark, Ohio. Another six cities saw their population surpass 100,000 in 2021. Among those are Bend, Oregon; Fishers and Carmel in Indiana; and three in Arizona – Tuscaloosa, Goodyear, and Buckeye.
The majority of cities and towns in the U.S. have a population under 5,000, according to Census data, yet they are home to less than 1% of Americans. Cities with a population of 50,000 and more – of which there are less than 800 – hold more than 60% of the country’s people.
Reasons for population changes vary from city to city, driven by housing costs, jobs, births and deaths. The pandemic and the lockdown that followed in spring 2020 made living in a crowded city less appealing for a time, and those who could leave — workers who could do their jobs remotely, for example — sometimes did.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 13-year-old arrested for having a loaded gun at a South Carolina mall apparently sneaked a second loaded weapon into the facility where he was taken, authorities said.
A Columbia Police Department spokesperson called the incident “an egregious failure on many levels,” WLTX-TV reported.
It started Tuesday when the boy and a relative were arrested for having guns at Columbiana Centre Mall. Police said officers did an initial search of the boy and confiscated a loaded, 9mm handgun but they missed another gun he was hiding.
Department of Juvenile Justice Director Eden Hendrick told the television station that when the teen was transferred to their custody hours later, he was patted down, showered and dressed in facility clothes but the second weapon went undetected. It was not until the next day that the second weapon was discovered and later recovered by facility staff, Hendrick said.
In a statement to WLTX, Columbia Police called the lack of a thorough search by officers “unacceptable” and a risk to public safety. The department says the arresting officers who missed the gun have been put on administrative duty pending completion of training programs.
“This incident represents an egregious failure on many levels, including a violation of policy and procedure,” the police department said in a statement. “This lack of a thorough search is unacceptable and risked public and officer safety.”
Hendrick also said the Department of Juvenile Justice will revamp its intake process and all staff will be retrained on intake, search, and other safety procedures. She added that employees involved in the initial search have been suspended.
In addition to the teen, police also arrested La’Kenyatta Moore-Rhodes, 40. Police said that after reviewing surveillance video, investigators discovered Moore-Rhodes initially had the gun and gave it to the teen.
Police charged the teenager with unlawful gun possession by a minor, unlawful carrying of a gun and pointing and presenting a gun, The State reported. Moore-Rhodes was charged with unlawful carrying, pointing and presenting a gun and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the newspaper reported.
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Which smart devices for dogs are best?
Dogs like to eat on a fixed schedule, and a smart device can help you feed your dog even if you need to stay late at work one night. There are plenty of smart devices for dogs on the market, and you need to consider a few criteria when choosing the right smart device for your furry friend. If you’re on the lookout for a first-class smart device for dogs, the PetSafe Smart Feed Automatic Dog and Cat Feeder is a satisfactory choice.
What to know before you buy a smart device for dogs
Understand what smart devices for dogs do
Smart devices for dogs let you either feed your dog on command or choose an automatic feeding schedule. You can also control portions and interact with or monitor your dog through the device’s app.
Are you using wet or dry dog food?
Most smart devices only let you use dry dog food, though a few can handle wet food.
What to look for in a quality smart device for dogs
Portion control
Many smart devices let you set the right portion amount for your dog, depending on their activity level, weight and age. Some even will suggest the right amount for you to provide.
Sound and video
You can find devices that let you interact with your dog through video, audio or both. The quality of the audio and video varies, so it’s important not to grab the first one you see.
Puzzles
You can also buy a smart device that engages your dog with games and puzzles while you’re out. When your dog solves the puzzle, they get a small treat. Some devices even let you download new games so your dog is constantly challenged.
Simplicity is key
It’s important to find a device that’s intuitive and easy to use, so you don’t need to spend hours figuring out how to use it.
How much you can expect to spend on a smart device for dogs
Smart devices for dogs vary in price from about $80 to $250. The most basic ones go for $80 to $125, while mid-range devices cost about $125 to $175. High-end smart devices for dogs range from about $175 to $250.
Smart device for dogs FAQ
Are smart devices for dogs suitable for feeding multiple dogs?
A. You could theoretically use a device to serve portions big enough for several dogs — but there’s nothing stopping one dog from eating all of the portions.
However, you can buy a smart device that reacts specifically to your dogs’ microchips. This means that when one dog approaches the device, the feeder will read the microchip and release their food, and it will do the same thing when another dog approaches the device. If the same dog approaches the device twice, the feeder will not release food, since it knows that dog has already been fed.
Do you need a Wi-Fi connection to use a smart device for dogs?
A. You usually need Wi-Fi to operate the device remotely, set it up and use any of the video or voice features. But most smart devices for dogs will still operate according to schedule even if the Wi-Fi is out.
How many meals fit in a smart device for dogs?
A. This depends on the amount your dog typically eats and the device’s capacity. A big device will hold about 20 meals for a small dog, while a small device might only hold about a day’s worth of food for a larger dog.
You should determine the capacity of the smart device in pounds and divide that by the amount of food in pounds your dog usually gets in a meal to figure out how many meals your smart device will hold. For example, if a smart device can hold up to three pounds of food and your dog eats a quarter-pound of food at each meal, then the smart device can hold up to 12 meals.
What are the best smart devices for dogs to buy?
Top smart device for dogs
PetSafe Smart Feed Automatic Dog and Cat Feeder
What you need to know: This smart dog-food dispenser comes in a big size and has modern features.
What you’ll love: It holds up to 24 cups of dog food and lets you set up to 12 of your dog’s meals in advance. It is safe for the top rack of your dishwasher and you can control your dog’s portions with an app.
What you should consider: There is no webcam on this device, and there are occasional reports of jams.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top smart device for dogs for the money
What you need to know: This budget-friendly device holds about 16 cups of food and comes with two power sources in case of emergencies.
What you’ll love: The device features an app that lets you control when your dog eats. And a personalized recording function lets you leave a message to be played when it’s feeding time so your dog doesn’t feel alone.
What you should consider: There are a few issues with the feeding app, according to some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This device has an incredible 29-cup capacity, as well as a camera and audio so you can interact with your dog.
What you’ll love: You can use the device’s smartphone app to keep your dog on their routine while you’re away. And you can record your interactions over the device with your dog, then share them directly to social media.
What you should consider: There are reports of connectivity problems.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(The Hill) — An 11-year-old student who survived the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday says she covered herself in a classmate’s blood and played dead to protect herself from being shot.
Miah Cerrillo told CNN on Friday that she dipped her hands in the blood of a dead classmate after the shooter left her classroom and wiped it on herself to play dead in case he came back.
Cerrillo was treated in the hospital for wounds caused by bullet fragments, and her mother, Abigale Veloz, says the girl is “traumatized.”
Miguel Cerrillo, her father, confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that she has been discharged from the hospital, but added that she is “freaking out” after being in “survival mode” during the shooting.
The shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, walked into Miah’s classroom — where the fourth-grade students had been watching “Lilo and Stitch” — just as a teacher was walking toward the door to lock it.
Miah said that Ramos looked one of the teachers in the eye and said “Goodnight” before shooting her and then opening fire on the class.
Ramos allegedly then went into an adjoining classroom where Miah said she heard gunfire, screaming and downbeat music, which she described as “I want people to die” music.
The girl and a friend dialed 911 from the phone of their dead teacher and asked the police for help.
According to CNN, Miah began crying as she talked about the police waiting outside the school, saying she didn’t understand why the officers did not come inside and rescue them.
According to her aunt Blanca Rivera, Miah was deeply shaken when the reality of the shooting hit her on Tuesday night, hours after the incident.
“Around midnight, my sister-in-law called me and she was just crying like, ‘I think it just hit Miah. I think everything came to reality. We’re home, and she’s just crying and having a panic attack,’” Rivera told Click2Houston on Tuesday.
Miah asked not to speak on camera because of her trauma.
Veloz has organized a GoFundMe to pay for Miah’s medical expenses and therapy, writing, “she will need a lot of help with all the trauma that she is going through. my daughter is amazing person and is a very good sister to her siblings. we will need help with her medical expenses that were caused by the bullet fragment on her back.”
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The biggest convoy of aid since Ethiopia’s government declared a unilateral “humanitarian cease-fire” in the country’s long-encircled Tigray region two months ago has departed for Tigray, a U.N. official told The Associated Press, as the conflict gripping Africa’s second most populous nation continued to ease.
A convoy of 215 trucks of food aid left the capital of the neighboring Afar region on Friday and is due to arrive in the Tigray capital on Saturday. An AP witness observed many of the trucks lining the road outside Semera on Thursday as they waited for clearance to leave.
But aid workers say much more is needed. The U.N. World Food Program estimates that 500 trucks a week are required to feed the 5.2 million people in Tigray who need food, medicine and other humanitarian assistance but have been largely denied it for almost a year.
Ethiopia’s government in March declared the humanitarian cease-fire to allow aid to reach Tigray, whose leaders have been engaged in a war against federal forces and their allies since November 2020, with thousands of people killed. In response, the Tigray forces said they would observe a cessation of hostilities.
Initially, aid was slow to arrive, with a handful of trucks reaching Tigray in the first weeks of the truce, prompting the Tigray side to accuse the government of reneging. But the number of aid trucks has increased sharply since the Tigray forces announced their withdrawal from parts of Afar in late April.
Humanitarian workers say federal authorities have now eased restrictions previously imposed on aid to the region. Tigray has been largely cut off from the world since Tigray forces recaptured the regional capital, Mekele, in June 2021, a situation the European Union’s humanitarian chief likened to a “siege.”
The United States has warned that 700,000 people in Tigray could face famine because of restrictions on aid. A survey by Tigray’s regional health bureau recently found that at least 1,900 children under age 5 died from malnutrition between June last year and April 1.
Tigray’s banking services, road links and telecommunications remain down.
But for humanitarian aid, the only delivery issues that remain are operational ones including the number of trucks available and how quickly partners can organize aid, the U.N. official said on condition of anonymity because the person wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.
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Which Wi-Fi thermostat is best?
Thermostats are a great way of setting and regulating the temperature at home, but traditional ones don’t always work consistently. If you want something convenient and reliable, a Wi-Fi thermostat is the way to go. You can set the heating or cooling based on a schedule that matches your preference and even control it from your phone. The best device that pairs well with any smart home is the Google Nest 3rd Generation Learning Thermostat.
What to know before you buy a Wi-Fi thermostat
Benefits
All thermostats can adjust the temperature in a home. But with one that runs on Wi-Fi, you also get the following benefits:
- Remote access: Since they’re connected to the internet, you can remotely access the device and make adjustments to the settings as needed.
- Home and HVAC monitoring: More advanced models can send alerts to your phone if they detect any changes or errors. They can also adjust the temperature automatically, which is handy if you’re not home a lot or don’t have time.
- Precision control: Modern thermostats, including those that run on Wi-Fi, usually have more precise temperature control than traditional ones. Some come with sensors you can install in different rooms to monitor the temperature.
- Cost reduction: Due to the remote access and precision temperature control, these devices can cut down on the electricity bill. If you’re gone longer than planned, you can turn off or adjust the thermostat while out.
- Virtual assistant connection: Many are compatible with virtual assistants, such as Alexa or the Amazon Echo. With these, you can make changes to the device using your voice or a computer, smartphone or tablet.
Installation
Each thermostat comes with instructions on how to install it. Usually, this requires you to do the following:
- Check if there’s a C-wire since this is necessary to connect the thermostat to the HVAC system. Most thermostats have five wires, located behind the cover of the device.
- Turn off the HVAC system using the breaker panel.
- Remove the cover and backplate of your old thermostat.
- Connect the new backplate in its stead.
- Reconnect the wires and attach the new faceplate.
- Connect the device to your current internet network.
Potential issues
As with any smart home device, Wi-Fi thermostats can have a few problems, such as:
- Wire incompatibility: Without the right wires, you won’t be able to properly connect the thermostat to the HVAC system.
- Software glitches: Sometimes, the associated software can glitch or display an error when accessing the device remotely. Also, if there’s a power outage, it can cause the device to stop working temporarily.
- Installation: Depending on the setup and how many wires it has, it can be tricky to install a Wi-Fi thermostat. When in doubt, hire a professional to do it for you.
Also, if you have a single-zone heating HVAC system, it can be hard to regulate the heating or cooling throughout the house. This can be an issue if certain rooms in the house are often hotter or colder than others. One solution to this is to use a multi-zoned HVAC system instead since these let you regulate individual rooms better.
What to look for in a quality Wi-Fi thermostat
Programming
Modern Wi-Fi thermostats are highly customizable, meaning you can program them to do the following things:
- Control, monitor and regulate the indoor temperature throughout the home or in specific rooms.
- Maximize energy efficiency to cut costs.
- Set an automatic schedule based on when you want the device to be on or off.
- Connect with virtual assistants or other smart devices.
- Monitor changes at home when you’re away.
Compatibility
Most Wi-Fi thermostats come with an app, such as the Nest app, which you can use on a smartphone or tablet. With an app, you can access the device remotely and make quick changes to the schedule or temperature without hassle.
Some thermostats are compatible with different smart home devices, which is convenient if you want to use all your devices at once. Others only work within their brands.
Design
Most Wi-Fi thermostats have a minimalistic design. They’re usually round or square and come in white or black, though some come in other colors, such as pink or blue.
These devices also have a digital screen, often a touchscreen, with an LCD display. If you have a larger thermostat, you can program it directly using the screen. For smaller ones, you might need to connect through an app.
How much you can expect to spend on a Wi-Fi thermostat
A standard one costs $50-$150 and has all the essential features, such as programmable buttons and a touchscreen. More advanced ones cost $150-$300 but can connect with virtual assistants, monitor your home and send important notifications directly to your phone or tablet.
Wi-Fi thermostats FAQ
How much can I save with a Wi-Fi thermostat?
A. This depends on the device, the temperature, the environment and your schedule. Using a Nest thermostat, for example, can save you $100-$150 a year in energy costs.
Is there a difference between Wi-Fi and smart thermostats?
A. Both are similar, but smart thermostats don’t always need an internet connection to function. Some smart thermostats are also better at monitoring your schedule and determining when you’re home.
What’s the best Wi-Fi thermostat to buy?
Top Wi-Fi thermostat
Google Nest 3rd Generation Learning Thermostat
What you need to know: This easy-to-use device is energy-efficient and lets you monitor your HVAC system remotely.
What you’ll love: Compatible with Alexa, this programmable thermostat is easy to install and features auto-scheduling. It can connect to a Nest temperature sensor for further temperature monitoring and control. This remote-controlled device also sends alerts if it detects any issues with your heating and cooling system.
What you should consider: The temperature you set it at can vary slightly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Kohl’s
Top Wi-Fi thermostat for the money
What you need to know: With a handy digital display and sleek design, this thermostat is perfect for those who want something simple and functional.
What you’ll love: This programmable device has a Quick Schedule feature that lets you make changes from anywhere using a smart device. It’s Energy Star-certified, so it can help reduce energy costs, too, and it also works without a C-wire in some homes.
What you should consider: It’s not compatible with all HVAC systems.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Honeywell Home Wi-Fi Smart Color Thermostat
What you need to know: This device is easy to use and has an easy-to-read display that indicates the indoor and outdoor temperature, as well as other things such as the current humidity level.
What you’ll love: It has a touchscreen, making it easy to adjust the settings. It’s energy-efficient, intuitive and works with heat pumps with electric backup, hot water and steam and forced air systems.
What you should consider: It requires a C-wire to function.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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Which hardware wallet for altcoins is best?
While the debate over the virtues and life expectancy of the various mainstream forms of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherium continue to be endlessly debated, one thing we can all agree on is losing access to a fortune due to improper security measures is a tragic but easily avoidable fate. Rather than simply entrusting your main and altcoins to a solely digital wallet solution or directly on your own PC, investing in a hardware wallet can give you valuable peace of mind by providing physical storage for your coins while providing some truly impressive levels of security. With a slim and powerful unit like the Ledger Nano S Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet v1.4 keeping your cryptocurrencies safe, you can “HODL” to your heart’s content while ensuring that your precious coins remain exactly where you intend them to be.
What to know before you buy a hardware wallet for altcoins
Riskiness
First and foremost, it is important to note that this article should in no way be interpreted as legal or financial advice regarding the acquisition and storage of crypto assets, alternative or otherwise. Despite what some factions of true believers on the internet would have you believe, there is absolutely no such thing as a “guaranteed investment” and this is especially true of any speculative asset, no matter how anyone else refers to it.
Given that the value of single cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherium can vary as much as almost $65,000 USD for a single coin to just over $30,000 and finishing at $38,000 in the course of a single day, to say that the market is prone to volatility is something of an understatement. As stated previously, BestReviews.com cannot be held responsible for any changes to the prices of cryptocurrencies, outside market forces, government regulations, or other unforeseen events.
“HODL”ers
Though you might be forgiven for thinking that “HODL” was some strange misinterpretation of a much-beloved character from “Game of Thrones”, it is actually an acronym that many people in the crypto community hold as a lodestar and guiding principle. For those who are unfamiliar, “HODL” stands for Hold On (for) Dear Life, though it originated from a 2018 post on the online forum Bitcointalk by an enthusiastic and inebriated crypto trader determined to ride out any market fluctuations by “hodling on”.
Since that fateful post, “HODL”ing has spread far and wide across the internet with countless memes and high-profile advocates including entrepreneur Elon Musk. If you are genuinely invested in cryptocurrency as an enduring form of payment options, having the ability to safely store access to your coins and altcoins in a physical location with no internet access or intermediaries can save you incalculable amounts of stress and hassle.
What to look for in a quality hardware wallet for altcoins
Robust security
While it might seem like an overly simplistic solution to a complex problem, the best way to prevent valuable data from being hacked is not to put it on equipment that can be hacked in the first place. While some crypto traders are only comfortable with old-school paper receipts which are stored securely behind lock and key, a hardware wallet for altcoins provides a physical means of security with no independent means of connecting to the internet in any form.
In addition to preventing electronic access to your crypto assets in the first place, a hardware wallet can also allow you to safely retrieve your data or login credentials by following the manufacturer’s proprietary processes. One such process includes the creation of a twelve-word recovery sentence that will allow you to access your wallet, coins, apps, and more without having to compromise your incredibly important security keys. By giving you truly individualized methods to confirm your identity, you can recover all of your valuable data and assets in the event that your hardware wallet is stolen or becomes misplaced.
Compatibility with apps, coins, and operating systems
Being able to invest in the more well-known cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin is fairly easy as long as you have the money to invest, but what if you are more interested in taking a gamble on a more affordable but lesser-known altcoin? Purchasing hardware with the idea of investing in altcoins will require you to purchase a wallet that is capable of trading, storing, and retrieving not just the most well-known crypto assets but also those still trying to make a name for themselves.
In addition, your hardware wallet will hardly do you any good if you can’t even successfully make it connect to your PC and operating system of choice. As such, all of the selected models have been specifically chosen for their ability to plug and play with Windows, Mac and Linux PCs via USB-cable as well as being able to accept, store and trade hundreds and even thousands of different cryptocurrencies. Depending on the model of hardware wallet, users can install anywhere from three to twenty different apps to seamlessly control and manage their assets across multiple platforms for both security and convenience.
Bank-level security
Depending on how much of your personal wealth is tied up with “HODL”ing crypto assets, having the ability to instantly recover lost or stolen coins and even hardware wallets can make all the difference in protecting your financial solvency. As such, who on earth wouldn’t choose to buy a hardware wallet from a company that offers a 100% money-back guarantee in the event of some unforeseen catastrophe?
Furthermore, many hardware wallets insulate your coins from viruses and other malware by the simple virtue of not being connected to the internet as well as by providing multiple forms of authentication and account verification. Whether you are interested in “HODL”ing until you hopefully get rich or are engaging in a little speculative crypto day trading, having a hardware wallet for altcoins is truly the only sensible solution to keeping your assets safe and secure.
How much you can expect to spend on a hardware wallet for altcoins
Depending on your desired features as well as any budgetary considerations, a quality hardware wallet for altcoins can cost anywhere from $55-$69, and sometimes more.
Best hardware wallet for altcoins FAQ
Can my hardware wallet for altcoins be hacked by someone?
A. So long as your hardware wallet is safely stored in a location that can’t be physically accessed by others, it should remain impervious to electronic attacks. However, should you leave your hardware wallet in a position to be stolen, having physical access to the device could potentially lead to your data becoming compromised.
Can’t I just use a software wallet instead?
A. While many people chose to go with digital wallets because they are generally considered safer than cryptocurrency exchanges, they are still more vulnerable than hardware wallets. All someone needs to do to access your digital wallet, is compromise your internet security, install a keylogger, or other more conventional cybercrime techniques.
What’s the best hardware wallet for altcoins to buy?
Top hardware wallet for altcoins
Ledger Nano S Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet v1.4
What you need to know: A robust and reliable hardware wallet for altcoins with everything you need included.
What you’ll love: This unit offers support for over 1,250 altcoins such as XRP, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, and Stellar as well as being able to securely exchange, buy, sell and develop your crypto assets with ease. Users can install up to three crypto management apps depending on their file size along with their proprietary Ledger Live app, giving them the ability to confirm transactions and keep them secure.
What you should consider: Users have reported issues including a buggy user interface as well as problems following firmware updates.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top hardware wallet for altcoins for the money
KeepKey – The Simple Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
What you need to know: A super simple hardware wallet for altcoins that anyone could use with ease.
What you’ll love: This unit offers complete protection from all forms of viruses and malware by having no means of connecting to the internet as well as the ability to set a twelve-word sentence to retrieve data without compromising security codes, works on PC, Mac, Linux, and Android, a clear and easily-readable display and a keylogger-proof PIN system.
What you should consider: Users have reported issues with being unable to use non-KeepKEY crypto exchanges as well as issues with the app’s connectivity.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Trezor Model One Crypto Hardware Wallet
What you need to know: A dependable hardware wallet for crypto that lets you store, manage and sell assets with ease.
What you’ll love: This unit offers full compatibility with Windows, macOS, and Linux as well as a 120-MHz embedded ARM processor Cortex M3 which uses a custom operating system, the ability to connect your TREZOR to third-party wallets and services, a simple three-step setup process that doesn’t require registration and offers users a 100% money-back guarantee.
What you should consider: Users have reported issues such as being constantly spammed by ads on the wallet as well as significant issues after firmware updates.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Legislation providing a possible path to freedom for people convicted of felonies by non-unanimous Louisiana juries has been shelved for the current legislative session.
The bill would have allowed those convicted by non-unanimous juries to apply for a review by a five-member board appointed by the governor. The board would decide whether the applicant should become eligible for parole. But The Advocate reports that Democratic Rep. Randal L. Gaines withdrew his measure Thursday because of disagreements on whether the board's decision had to be unanimous.
District attorneys raised safety concerns in insisting that a unanimous board vote should be needed in cases involving convictions for violent crimes such as murder or aggravated rape.
“We need to reassure victims and survivors of the integrity and finality of the crimes against the community," Loren Lampert, executive director of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, told the newspaper.
Gaines, a Laplace lawyer, had argued that no court in the federal or state system requires a unanimous vote of its panels of judges to decide an appeal.
“I understand their concerns,” Gaines said. “But the inconsistency; you can’t have an equitable system if it requires a unanimous vote to remedy a wrongful conviction from a non-unanimous jury.”
The commission envisioned in the bill would have included three retired appellate or Supreme Court justices, a retired district attorney and a retired public defender. The five would review the case file looking at factors such as the strength of the state’s case, the nature of the offense, the quality of counsel, any indications of racial animus, length of deliberations and whether the lack of unanimity was the result of jurors voting to acquit.
In 2018, Louisiana voters approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting non-unanimous verdicts in trials for crimes committed after Jan. 1, 2019. The vote followed a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of stories in The Advocate analyzing the origins of the law and the racial disparities in verdicts.
In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-unanimous verdicts were unconstitutional, broadening the effect of the state constitutional amendment.
But in 2021, the Supreme Court made clear that its decision against non-unanimous verdicts applied only to future cases and cases in which the defendants’ appeals had not been exhausted.
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Which satin pillowcases are best?
Satin pillowcases are a beneficial alternative to cotton. They work to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and creases in the skin and provide many hair and skin benefits.
Satin pillowcases are naturally moisture-wicking and the satin is specially stitched to prevent friction. These pillowcases are easy to clean and allow for a luxurious sleeping experience. When purchasing a satin pillowcase, consider its size, breathability and how it secures the pillow when closing.
If you’re looking for a luxurious, wrinkle-preventing and hair-detangling breathable and natural satin pillowcase, the Kitsch Satin Pillowcase is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a satin pillowcase
Closure
Before purchasing a satin pillowcase, consider its method of closure. A satin pillowcase with a zippered closure secures the pillowcase with no chance of it slipping out. If you toss and turn in your sleep, it’s in your best interest to purchase a satin pillowcase that features fold closure rather than a zipper. The folding closure doesn’t do as good of a job at securing the pillow inside the pillowcase, but it eliminates the chances of laying on the zipper in discomfort if the pillow is turned over during sleep.
Size
Pillowcases offer various sizes to fit different bedding. For example, if you have a queen-size bed and pillows, purchase queen-size satin pillowcases. Pillowcases that are too small won’t fully cover the pillow, while pillowcases that are too large cause the pillow to slip around and the case to slip off. The dimensions of the pillowcase should be listed in the product description. Users should know the measurements of their pillows before purchasing pillowcases to make sure they’ll be a good fit.
Breathability
The best satin pillowcases are breathable. If a specific pillowcase is breathable, it’s noted that it easily regulates temperature somewhere in the product description. Due to a polyblend mixture, satin typically provides a breathable space for your head to rest, unlike that of some cotton pillowcases. A satin pillowcase that’s breathable allows for the best sleep year-round.
What to look for in a quality satin pillowcase
Hypoallergenic
Hypoallergenic pillowcases are very common when searching for satin pillowcases. Not to be confused with silk, not all satin pillowcases are hypoallergenic. Depending on the blend of materials, satin pillowcases don’t work to eliminate allergens. Before purchasing a satin pillowcase, make sure the specific pillowcase you’re considering is hypoallergenic.
Skin and hair benefits
Satin pillowcases feature natural benefits for the skin and hair. The blend of materials is stitched in such a way so it works to detangle the hair and leave it feeling softer. Satin has also been known to prevent hair loss as well as benefit the skin. These pillowcases are said to reduce the look of wrinkles and may even help eliminate acne.
Moisture-wicking
Unlike cotton, satin pillowcases feature natural moisture-wicking properties that keep the natural balance of moisture in the skin and hair. This allows the pillowcase to be a breathable option that can keep the user cool when sleeping. Due to this natural ability, the friction of the pillow is reduced, allowing the hair to remain smooth rather than frizzy.
How much you can expect to spend on a satin pillowcase
A quality satin pillowcase costs anywhere from $8-$35, depending on the material quality and the size of the pillowcase. A hypoallergenic pillowcase made with high-quality material may be priced higher.
Satin pillowcase FAQ
Is silk better than satin?
A. There are many benefits to both silk and satin when discussing pillowcases. While silk is naturally hypoallergenic, satin is known to be softer. Though silk is more expensive, it’s the most natural, as satin often features a polyester blend of multiple materials. The best pillowcase for your needs depends on your preference.
What’s the recommended way to clean a satin pillowcase?
A. The best way to clean a satin pillowcase to preserve its quality and effectiveness is to wash it in cold water. When washing satin pillowcases, users should use gentle non-toxic detergent and dry on a low heat cycle.
What are the best satin pillowcases to buy?
Top satin pillowcase
What you need to know: This satin pillowcase comes in four colors and works to prevent hair frizz.
What you’ll love: This pillowcase is breathable and is naturally hypoallergenic. It includes one pillowcase per purchase and is mostly used to improve the texture of the hair. The pillowcase features a soft and luxurious feel. It’s known to reduce the formation of wrinkles.
What you should consider: Users have noticed the colors to be different in real life than on the website, and they’re easily damaged.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top satin pillowcase for the money
Shop Bedding Luxury Satin Pillowcases
What you need to know: These satin pillowcases come in multiple colors and sizes to fit your bed.
What you’ll love: These pillowcases are made with breathable fabric that can be used year-round to provide the optimal temperature. They’re soft, reduce wrinkles and work to smooth the hair. These pillowcases are machine-washable for convenience when cleaning. They feature a foldover zipper closure to keep the pillow securely in place and without causing discomfort.
What you should consider: Since these pillowcases are blended with polyester, they don’t feature the same skin benefits as an all-satin pillowcase would.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
Morning Glamour Satin Standard Pillowcases
What you need to know: These satin pillowcases come in a set of two and are available in many different color and pattern designs.
What you’ll love: These pillowcases are breathable and work to reduce friction in the hair, leaving it less frizzy. They reduce the formation of wrinkles and leave hair looking and feeling healthier. They’re soft, silky and lightweight. They feature a back flap that’s used to keep the pillow from moving around in the case, and they’re machine-washable.
What you should consider: Users have noted that the back flap doesn’t do as good of a job as containing and securing the pillow as an pillowcase with a zipper does.
Where to buy: Sold by Bed Bath & Beyond
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