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Residents of a housing estate in Exeter believe they are being evicted so that their homes can be converted into student accommodation.
Around 60 tenants of Rosebarn Park in Stoke Hill, Exeter were handed 'no fault' evictions earlier this month. It followed a change of landlord to London-based firm Sophomore Property 1 Ltd established in April this year. Trinova, which oversees management of the estate, told BBC Spotlight that properties were to undergo refurbishments that are "essential and significant in nature and regretfully cannot be carried out with the existing tenants in situ."
Section 21 allows landlords to evict tenants without justification. However, it was recently announced that Section 21 is soon to be outlawed.
Earlier this week, resident of a Rosebarn Park property showed DevonLive around his home. He told us he was puzzled by the 'essential' refurbishments as "There's just nothing wrong with it." It was later discovered that builders on the site were adding units including downstairs lavatories and studies to vacant properties.
One tenant claims they were told the updates were being made to suit a 'different demographic' of tenant. The tenant, who does not wish to be named, says some of her neighbours believe they have seen University of Exeter students being shown around some of the empty properties on the estate.
According to a resident, the refurbishment project is being managed by a separate company, Tribell, which was previously listed under the name Trinova Residential Ltd, according to Companies House. A job advert reads; "Tribell is a lively and informal investment and asset management company, which has developed and now operates over £100m of student accommodation across the UK. Founded this year from a joint venture between Trinova Real Estate and Campbell Property UK we are a small team of positive and proactive people, striving towards providing the best accommodation and student experience possible."
In 2019, data showed that 1 in 14 properties in Exeter was a student home. In the same academic year (2019/20), the student population totalled 25,263 and the total number of University of Exeter students has grown by 33% from 2017 to 2021.
Michael Grant and other tenants have told DevonLive that the companies involved are difficult to get hold of. One tenant said: "Our current issue is that we cannot get in touch with Atwell Martin (the estate agents) to get the official notice letter. They are ignoring all the residents and their families. Without this letter some tenants cannot apply for housing and every day is precious and adds to their worry, taking a massive toll on their health."
Residents have described the situation as 'devastating' as they search for new homes in 'an already tight housing market'. Rosebarn Park is home to a number of elderly and vulnerable people, many of whom have lived on the estate for over a decade.
Whilst contact details are unavailable for Sophomore Property 1 Ltd, Trinova has been approached for comment.
A previous statement issued by Trinova said: "Trinova is working sympathetically with the 60 or so residents of the affected properties who are on periodic or fixed-term tenancies to achieve vacant possession.
"Their ongoing welfare is of course a priority - and needless to say, existing tenancy agreements are being honoured to the letter as this very necessary refurbishment project gets under way."
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With just two leadership candidates left in the race to be the Conservative Party leader, hustings will take place throughout July and August. The vote is expected to be confirmed by September 5, so both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will be trying to drum up as much support within the party as possible.
Twelve hustings will be held across the country, including one in Exeter on Monday (August 1) at 7pm. Tory party members in the area will be able to attend in person or online and put questions to the two party leader hopefuls.
Truss and Sunak will also appear in several televised debates between now and the results announcement.
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What are hustings?
The hustings are designed to allow as many of the roughly 200,000 Conservative party members to question the candidates on topics of interest. It's expected that the most prominent issues of discussion will be the economy, Brexit, and other topical subjects.
Apart from Exeter, the other locations where hustings will take place are Leeds, Cardiff, Eastbourne, Darlington, Cheltenham, Perth, Belfast, Manchester, Birmingham, Norwich, and London.
How to get involved in Exeter Tory hustings
Conservative party members can buy tickets for hustings across the country in order to hear directly from the two leadership candidates. In-person attendees can also ask the participants questions on the day.
Alternatively, you can also register for the online livestreams and will have the opportunity to submit questions ahead of time.
In-person tickets cost £5 and can be bought for Exeter here, with the website saying that the event only has its "last few tickets remaining". Sales will close 48 hours before the hustings kicks off.
Where is Exeter will the hustings take place?
At the moment, the venue has not been made public. However, previous hustings during elections have been staged at Exeter Cathedral.
Other possible venues include the Corn Exchange, Exeter University and Sandy Park's Conference Centre.
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ST LOUIS (AP) _ Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $409.5 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The St. Louis-based company said it had profit of $2.54 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and to extinguish debt, came to $2.67 per share.
The coal mining company posted revenue of $1.32 billion in the period.
Peabody Energy shares have more than doubled since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has declined 16%. The stock has more than doubled in the last 12 months.
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A woman has been airlifted to hospital after falling on cliffs in Paignton. Emergency services including an air ambulance, coastguard rescue helicopter, police, paramedics, coastguards and a lifeboat were all called to the scene at Roundham Head yesterday morning.
Emergency service vehicles were seen parked near the cliffs whilst the incident was ongoing from around 8am. Pictures from the scene show onlookers watching as the coastguard rescue helicopter winched the woman to safety.
An eyewitness at the time said: "The helicopter took off, hovered over the cliff edge, dropped a rope, and then a person came back up it with what looks like one of those horizontal carriers for an injured person."
Read more:Emergency incident at Paignton cliffs - updates
A spokesperson for Devon Air Ambulance has now confirmed the woman was transported to Derriford Hospital for further treatment. They said: "We were tasked yesterday at 8am to Paignton where an adult female was reported to have fallen on the cliffs.
"Our Exeter helicopter was deployed, and our crew treated the lady at the scene, she was then conveyed by the air ambulance to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth for further treatment."
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Mau district admin orders attachment of property belonging to Mukhtar Ansari's aide
The said property worth Rs 83 lakh was made using money earned from criminal activities. The order was issued under provisions of the Gangsters Act.Ansari is currently in jail.A special court for MPsMLAs has rejected discharge application of Ansari and his sons seeking clean chit in an evacuee property case.
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The district administration here has ordered the attachment of a plot of land worth Rs 83 lakh belonging to a close aide of mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, an official said on Thursday.
District Magistrate Arun Kumar said, ''Orders have been issued to attach properties of Anand Yadav, who is said to be close to Mukhtar Ansari. The said property worth Rs 83 lakh was made using money earned from criminal activities.'' The order was issued under provisions of the Gangsters Act.
Ansari is currently in jail.
A special court for MPs/MLAs has rejected discharge application of Ansari and his sons seeking clean chit in an evacuee property case. The court has fixed August 2 for framing of charges against them.
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RCI Announces Acquisition of Cheetah Gentlemen's Club in South Florida
HOUSTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RICK) today announced closing on the acquisition of the Cheetah Gentlemen's Club in Hallandale Beach, Florida and its associated real estate.
Eric Langan, RCI President & CEO, said: "Cheetah becomes our fourth adult nightclub in South Florida, 15th club acquisition this fiscal year, and 52nd club in our portfolio. We believe it should generate approximately $4 million in adjusted EBITDA."
Ed Anakar, President of RCI Management, said: "Cheetah fits perfectly with our renowned Miami area brands, each of which appeals to different market segments – the Tootsie's Cabaret mega club in Miami Gardens, the Scarlett's Cabaret party club in Pembroke Park, and the hot Playmates Club of Coral Gables."
RCI subsidiaries acquired the 14,000 square-foot Cheetah club and its 2.2-acre property at 100 Ansin Boulevard, Hallandale Beach, FL, for $10.0 million in cash and $15.0 million in two, 10-year, 6% seller financing notes.
Cheetah opened in 2002 and was named Best Strip Club of Broward-Palm Beach by the New Times in 2014. The club has been extensively remodeled, features a full kitchen, and offers lunch and dinner. Hours are 11:30 AM to 6 AM daily.
With more than 50 units, RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the country's leading company in adult nightclubs and sports bars/restaurants. Clubs in New York City, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Louisville, and other markets operate under brand names such as Rick's Cabaret, XTC, Club Onyx, Vivid Cabaret, Jaguars Club, Tootsie's Cabaret, Scarlett's Cabaret, Diamond Cabaret, and PT's Showclub. Sports bars/restaurants operate under the brand name Bombshells Restaurant & Bar.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those indicated, including, but not limited to, the risks and uncertainties associated with (i) operating and managing an adult business, (ii) the business climates in cities where it operates, (iii) the success or lack thereof in launching and building the company's businesses, (iv) cyber security, (v) conditions relevant to real estate transactions, (vi) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and (vii) numerous other factors such as laws governing the operation of adult entertainment businesses, competition and dependence on key personnel. For more detailed discussion of such factors and certain risks and uncertainties, see RCI's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2021, as well as its other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company has no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of future events or circumstances.
Gary Fishman and Steven Anreder at 212-532-3232 or [email protected] and [email protected]
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HATO REY, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Popular Inc. (BPOP) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $211.1 million.
The bank, based in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, said it had earnings of $2.77 per share.
The company that runs Banco Popular and other banks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. posted revenue of $729.2 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $691.3 million, which beat Street forecasts.
Popular shares have dropped slightly more than 2% since the beginning of the year. The stock has increased roughly 10% in the last 12 months.
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Biden begins fifth call with China's Xi, looking to tamp down Taiwan tension
Beijing has issued escalating warnings about repercussions should Pelosi visit Taiwan, a move that would be a dramatic, though not unprecedented, show of U.S. support for the island, which says it is facing increasing Chinese military and economic threats. Washington does not have official relations with Taiwan and follows a "one-China" policy that recognizes Beijing, not Taipei, diplomatically.
U.S. President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping began their fifth call as leaders on Thursday, as concerns mounted over a possible visit to Chinese-claimed Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The White House said the call began at 8:33 a.m. (1233 GMT) and U.S. officials said it would have a broad agenda, including discussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which China has yet to condemn.
At its core, U.S. officials see the exchange as another chance to manage competition between the world's two largest economies, whose ties have been increasingly clouded by tensions over democratically governed Taiwan, which Xi has vowed to reunite with the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing has issued escalating warnings about repercussions should Pelosi visit Taiwan, a move that would be a dramatic, though not unprecedented, show of U.S. support for the island, which says it is facing increasing Chinese military and economic threats.
Washington does not have official relations with Taiwan and follows a "one-China" policy that recognizes Beijing, not Taipei, diplomatically. But it is obliged by U.S. law to provide the island with the means to defend itself, and pressure has been mounting in Congress for more explicit support. "This is about keeping the lines of communication open with the president of China, one of the most consequential bilateral relationships that we have, not just in that region, but around the world, because it touches so much," White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday.
One person briefed on planning for the call said the Biden administration thinks leader-to-leader engagement is the best way to lower tensions over Taiwan. Some analysts believe Xi also has an interest in avoiding escalation as he seeks an unprecedented third term in office at a congress of China's ruling Communist Party expected in the fall.
Biden also wants to discuss climate and economic competition issues, the person briefed said, as well as the idea of placing a price cap on Russian oil to punish Moscow for its war in Ukraine, an issue Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raised with Chinese counterparts earlier in July. The Biden administration has been debating whether to lift some tariffs on Chinese goods as a way to ease soaring inflation, but U.S. officials have said a decision was not expected ahead of the call.
When Biden last spoke to Xi in March, he warned of "consequences" if Beijing gave material support for Russia's war, and the U.S. government believes that that red line has not been crossed in the months since. Taiwan has complained of stepped-up Chinese military manoeuvres over the past two years to try and force it to accept Beijing's sovereignty. Just ahead of Thursday's call, Taiwan's military said it fired flares to warn away a drone that "glanced by" a strategically located and heavily fortified island close to the Chinese coast that was possibly probing its defences.
TOXIC TIES The White House has reiterated that its "one-China" policy has not changed despite speculation over a possible trip by Pelosi, which the speaker has yet to confirm.
The last time a speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan was in 1997, and as a co-equal branch of government, the U.S. executive has little control over congressional travel. China has grown more powerful militarily and economically since, and some analysts worry such a visit at a time of fraught ties, could spur a crisis across the 100-mile (160-km) wide Taiwan Strait waterway separating China and Taiwan.
"The relationship is in such a toxic state. Mutual distrust is really at an all-time high. I think people don't realize how dangerous this particular moment is," said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She said Biden and Xi needed to focus their call on de-escalation, including possible mechanisms to reduce the risk of mishaps.
Kirby said the administration has been in touch with Pelosi's office to make sure she has "all the context" she needs to make decisions about her travel. China has given few clues to specific responses it might take if Pelosi, a long time critic of China, particularly on human rights issues, does go to Taiwan.
Martin Chorzempa, a senior research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said playing up the Taiwan issue could serve Xi as a domestic distraction from China's slowing economy, but "any reaction strong enough to trigger U.S. sanctions would create massive damage to China and the world economy." China's state media said on Thursday the country will try hard to achieve the best possible results for the economy this year, dropping previous calls that it will strive to meet its 2022 growth target. This followed a high-level Communist Party meeting chaired by Xi.
Scott Kennedy of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he did not believe the two sides were on the edge of a crisis, but "the risk of a major crisis is well above zero" and a Biden-Xi call was important to avoid an unwanted clash. "Beijing, Taipei and Washington are full of people steeped in how to send and interpret signals conveying threats and reassurance, and I’m sure no one wants a war right now."
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RCLCO acting as an advisor to the State of Utah's 600-acre development that will foster cutting edge technological innovation, support robust economic opportunity and offer a diversity of housing options
BETHESDA, Md., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of the recent announcement from The Point of the Mountain State Land Authority that a developer has been selected for Phase 1 at The Point, RCLCO Real Estate Consulting is pleased to share this significant project milestone with the rest of the project team.
"In our role as the state's real estate advisor, RCLCO has helped guide the site's planning with market, financial, and partnership analysis, and worked alongside DFCM in the developer solicitation process to identify and evaluate candidates. It's gratifying to see the project take a giant step towards implementation," said Erin Talkington, Managing Director of RCLCO. Going forward, RCLCO will continue to play a key role in negotiating the development agreement, advancing the public finance strategy, and ensuring the Hub development plan supports the broader site's goals.
Development strategy for public sector and non-real estate entities is a key focus area for RCLCO. RCLCO's team provides local governments, universities, family trusts, sports teams, and other similar entities with the same investment grade market, financial, economic, and development services expertise that has earned the firm a top-notch reputation in the private sector, and can help guide jurisdictions throughout the planning and implementation phases of their real estate initiatives.
"RCLCO's subject-matter expertise has proven invaluable to the Land Authority as we move forward with implementing a future-focused vision for America's newest 15-minute city right here in Utah," said Alan Matheson, The Point executive director. "Their team of national experts have helped us create in-depth market analysis, develop a robust public financing strategy and identify a well-known development partner. We appreciate their top-notch services and look forward to continuing to work with them."
The Land Authority announced earlier this month that Innovation Point Partners, led by national developer Lincoln Property Company with local partners Colmena Group and Wadsworth Development Group, have been selected to help build The Hub at The Point. Their announcement comes after a competitive selection process to identify a partner with experience building large-scale, sustainable communities.
"The Point represents the single largest and most significant development site in the country in recent years," said Abbey Ehman, vice president with Lincoln Property Company. "Lincoln and our partners are honored that the Land Authority has chosen our team to deliver an innovative, community-centric development that leverages sustainable, transit-oriented solutions and celebrates the area's natural beauty and wealth of outdoor opportunities."
The Point is centrally located in the heart of Utah's fast growing technology sector and between Utah's two most populous counties. It is well served by vital infrastructure and surrounded by more than 20,000 acres of undeveloped land in area communities. It is easily accessible via high-capacity roadways and planned future transit service. Widely recognized as one of the most significant qualities of life opportunities in Utah history, The Point will foster cutting edge technological innovation, support robust economic opportunity, offer a diversity of housing options and provide extensive parks and trails.
Since 1967, RCLCO has been the "first call" for real estate developers, investors, public institutions and non-real estate companies seeking strategic and tactical advice regarding property investment, planning, and development. RCLCO leverages quantitative analytics platforms and a strategic planning framework to provide end-to-end business planning and implementation solutions at an entity, portfolio, or project level. With the insights and experience gained over 50 years and thousands of projects – touching over $5B of real estate activity each year – RCLCO brings success to all product types across the United States and around the world. RCLCO is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, and has offices in Los Angeles, CA, Orlando, FL, Austin, TX, and Denver, CO.
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MIAMI (AP) _ Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) on Thursday reported a loss of $521.6 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Miami-based company said it had a loss of $2.05. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $2.08 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of $2.23 per share.
The cruise operator posted revenue of $2.18 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.16 billion.
For the current quarter ending in October, Royal Caribbean expects its per-share earnings to range from 5 cents to 25 cents. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $2.47.
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Sunday is a day many of us like to go to the pub for a roast dinner. But this Sunday is a special day – England women’s football team are playing in the Euro 2022 final.
Fortunately, Devon has plenty of pubs where you won’t have to choose one over the other. You can go to the pub and watch the game while you’re there, sharing the atmosphere with other fans.
The Lionesses booked their place in the final on Tuesday with an emphatic 4-0 win over Sweden, the second highest ranked team in the world behind the USA. It was the biggest ever semi-final victory in the history of the Women’s European Championships.
Read more: Pubs in Devon with fabulous beer gardens
They were boosted by the fact the tournament is taking place in England, with tens of thousands of fans turning out to cheer them on at full or near-full stadiums. The final is being held at London’s Wembley Stadium.
England, who are ranked eighth in the world, will face Germany, who are ranked fifth. Germany beat France 2-1 in their semi-final on Wednesday.
It will be England’s first appearance in a final since Euro 2009 and if they win, it will be their first ever major trophy. They were runners-up at Euro 1984 and 2009. They left the previous three major tournaments – the 2015 and 2019 World Cups and Euro 2017 – at the semi-final stage.
TV coverage of the final starts on BBC One on Sunday at 4pm, with kick-off at 5pm. The pubs listed in alphabetical order below regularly show sport on their screens – their inclusion here does not necessarily mean they have committed to showing the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 final, at the time of writing. Announcements may be made on the venues’ social media pages closer to the time.
Allstars Sports Bar, Exeter
This sports bar in Sidwell Street, Exeter, is likely to be showing the final, having shown England v Spain in the quarter-finals and England v Norway in the group stages. It has four big screens and 50 TVs showing live sport, and it serves food.
Alberts Bar, Torquay
Alberts Bar is connected to TLH Victoria Hotel in Belgrave Road, Torquay, but is also open to non-residents. It showed England’s semi-final so chances are good it will also show the final. Food is served till 9pm on Sundays and its pub grub includes vegan and gluten-free options.
Black Horse, Exeter
This pub in Longbrook Street is the fourth highest ranked Greene King pub in Devon on Tripadvisor and will definitely be showing the final. While you’re there, you can enjoy some traditional British pub food and a pint of cask ale.
Bull and Bear, Barnstaple
This sports bar in Boutport Street, Barnstaple, which has three separate TV areas, has confirmed it is showing the final on Sunday. The locally-owned bar and kitchen specialises in American comfort food and craft beers.
The Jube, Woolacombe
Formally known as The Jubilee Inn, this pub in South Street shows “all major sporting events.” It also has an extensive menu of bar meals.
Mount Radford, Exeter
This is another Greene King pub in Exeter that will be proudly showing the match and supporting the Lionesses. Find it in Magdalen Road.
The OId Engine House, Torquay
This Greene King pub in Newton Road will definitely be showing the match on Sunday. Its carvery is very popular. It’s the third highest ranked Greene King pub in Devon on Tripadvisor. Dogs are welcome in the bar area.
The Prince of Orange, Torquay
This pub in Barton Road has confirmed it will be showing the final, saying: “Let’s support our amazing ladies.” Not only has it shown England’s previous matches, it has also shown other matches from the Women’s Euro 2022 competition.
The Radway Inn, Sidmouth
This pub in Radway Place, Sidmouth, shows football matches on Sky Sports and BT Sport so is a pub to keep in mind once the Premier League starts again. However, it doesn’t offer food.
The Sports Bar, Tiverton
The Sports Bar at Ladysmead, Bolham Road, claims to be “ Tiverton’s number one sports bar and social destination.” It shows Premier League and European football as well as other sports.
The Sports Lounge, Paignton
This sports bar at Manor Corner, Paignton, covers all live sporting events and it showed England’s semi-final against Sweden. It recently launched a new menu featuring burgers, fries and nachos. It serves food from 5pm.
The Sportys, Torquay
Sportys in Belgrave Road describes itself as a “fun pub showing the best of all sports on multiple widescreen TVs.”
The Stand Off, Exeter
This sports bar and restaurant in Longbrook Street shows live sport on Sky Sports and BT Sport. It showed England women’s Euro semi-final and had two-for-one on Prosecco and a bucket of four beers for £10 to celebrate.
Waterside Inn, Paignton
This Greene King pub at Goodrington, Paignton, is definitely showing the final. It has screens in all sections of the pub so no matter where you’re sitting, you’ll be able to keep up with the action. It’s the second highest ranked Greene King pub in Devon on Tripadvisor. Dogs are welcome in the bar area.
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Retail Expert, Christine Russo Joins Forces with Brightpearl to Offer Industry Expertise to New Fastest Growing E-Commerce Competition
Brightpearl's Lightning 50 competition has launched for the first time in the US and is currently open for e-commerce businesses to enter for the chance to be recognized for their pandemic-era growth and success.
Retail expert Christine Russo has teamed up with Brightpearl, a leading retail operating system, to offer her expert commentary on the finalists.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forbes contributor and MarketScale "What Just Happened" podcast host Christine Russo will be giving her invaluable industry insights on the finalists of the Lightning 50 competition, which ranks the fastest growing e-commerce brands over the past 12 months.
With years of experience in the retail space, working both in-house for retail brands such as J. Crew and Kenneth Cole; in academia as a graduate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and finally as a retail consultant for her own agency, Russo is well-versed in both the retail and e-commerce spaces.
She will be reviewing and commenting on the Lightning 50 finalists and examining the factors that may have attributed to their success as well as the current state of e-commerce.
"It has been a non-traditional year for e-commerce, with challenges such as supply chain delays, inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, so acknowledging success in this space despite these challenges is particularly important right now. E-commerce businesses should capitalize on the opportunity for this recognition by entering Brightpearl's Lightning 50 competition," said Russo.
The Lightning 50 is a concept from Brightpearl, a retail operating system based in Austin, TX. The company works with thousands of merchants across the globe, providing them with innovative business intelligence solutions and retail automation so they can grow fearlessly.
To recognize the success of up-and-coming e-commerce businesses, Brightpearl has launched their inaugural Lightning 50 competition in the US, following the success of the program in the UK last year.
"We want to use the Lightning 50 to both celebrate and shine a light on some of the incredible work online firms have been doing throughout the pandemic and despite all the numerous challenges they have faced in the last few years," said Brightpearl CMO, Sara Arthrell. "The Lightning 50 only considers one metric when scoring businesses – growth. We encourage any high growth brand to enter so they can get the recognition they deserve."
Sara added: "We are delighted to be partnering with Christine on the Lightning 50 initiative; her expertise will be invaluable to uncovering the common factors which are powering e-commerce growth over the past year."
To enter Brightpearl's Lightning 50, visit brightpearl.com/lightning-50 and submit your application by August 12, 2022. To be eligible, businesses must have annual turnovers between $1M-250M and submit two full years of revenue data for 2020 and 2021. Entering the Lightning 50 is free of charge.
Brightpearl's US headquarters is in the heart of downtown Austin with a global headquarters in Bristol, UK. You can connect with them on Twitter (@BrightpearlHQ), LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/Brightpearl), and Facebook (facebook.com/brightpearl).
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Five killed, 25 wounded in Russian missile strike in central Ukraine - governor
Russian missiles hit hangars at a flight school in the central Ukrainian city of Kropyvnytskyi on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 25, the regional governor said.
Andriy Raikovych, the governor of the Kirovohrad region, told a briefing that those killed including one member of the military.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) _ Schneider National Inc. (SNDR) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $129.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based company said it had net income of 73 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 72 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 68 cents per share.
The trucking company posted revenue of $1.75 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Fourteen analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.67 billion.
Schneider National expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.60 to $2.70 per share.
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SFS Signs Strategic Agreement with Refinitiv® for Quantitative Analytics
BOSTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SFS announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Refinitiv Quantitative Analytics, that will reduce data wrangling with seamless integration of financial data into Python and financial analytic modules with Quotient™ from SFS.
The agreement brings together Refinitiv's Quantitative Analytics solution and SFS's Quotient's intuitive graphical user interface and Python-based toolset. This allows Quants and data scientists to spend less time gathering, cleansing, and normalizing data from multiple sources before it can be used.
SFS is a Boston-based FinTech company that builds intuitive financial analysis platforms utilizing Alternative Datasets and Machine Learning, and Refinitiv®, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) business, is one of the world's largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure.
"We are excited to embark on this agreement with Refinitiv," said Pete Millington, Founder and CTO of SFS. "We offer Refinitiv clients and prospects much more simplified access to Refinitiv fundamental and technical data sets directly in Python."
Refinitiv® customers will now be able to:
- Spend more time focusing on building models and solving problems. Retrieve Refinitiv data items in a non-coding drag and drop user interface.
- Create complex derived data items, factors or features, with minimal Python
coding. No SQL code required. - Benefit from flexible data integration tools to tie in additional data including portfolio accounting data, traditional fundamental data, technical data and alternative data from a number of data sources, including SQL, and Snowflake databases.
"We appreciate all the hard work that SFS has put into developing Quotient™," said Juan Zamudio, Quant and Feeds Partnerships Manager, Refinitiv. "We believe that Quotient™ offers a nice suite of tools that complements Refinitiv Quantitative Analytics."
Scientific Financial Systems, Inc., a Boston-based financial technology company, developed Quotient™, an advanced analytical and data management tool enabling the institutional investment community (quants) to improve their performance.
Quotient's quantitative portfolio management platform provides an intuitive user interface to a comprehensive Python toolset for utilizing vendor and proprietary data.
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Turkey stoking tensions in eastern Med, say Greece, Cyprus
Greece and Cyprus accused rival Turkey on Thursday of stoking tensions as Ankara prepared to dispatch a drill ship to the Mediterranean next month in a search for natural gas.
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Greece and Cyprus accused rival Turkey on Thursday of stoking tensions as Ankara prepared to dispatch a drill ship to the Mediterranean next month in a search for natural gas. Relations between Athens and Ankara are strained over a raft of issues ranging from overflights to disputed waters.
Cyprus, split along ethnic lines for nearly five decades, is a key point of division, deepened in recent years by overlapping and competing claims over offshore waters believed to contain large quantities of natural gas. Turkey is set to send a drillship into the Mediterranean in early August in search of gas.
"We expect it to come," Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides told journalists after meeting his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Nicosia. "We discussed (taking) certain actions in the hope that this would avert the creation of any tensions in our exclusive economic zone." Nicosia would act in concert with its EU partners on the best course of action, Kasoulides said.
There was, he said, a "crescendo of harsh and provocative rhetoric" from Ankara, adding: "We are keeping the tone down." Cyprus was partitioned in 1974 when Turkey invaded its northern third in response to a brief Greek-inspired coup. Both Greece and Turkey are guarantor powers of Cypriot independence, along with Britain.
Seeds of division were sown earlier, when a partnership of Greek and Turkish Cypriots in government crumbled three years after the former British colony gained independence. Both Kasoulides and Dendias compared events in Cyprus to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but Dendias said the comparison ended there.
"Forty-eight years ago the international community did not respond to the invasion in Cyprus in the way it should have," said Dendias. "And we have to remind all that the invasion of Ukraine is not the only case of invasion in Europe."
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KFAR-SAVA, Israel (AP) _ Silicom Ltd. (SILC) on Thursday reported net income of $4.5 million in its second quarter.
The Kfar-Sava, Israel-based company said it had net income of 67 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, came to 70 cents per share.
The provider of servers and network computing appliances posted revenue of $34.2 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in October, Silicom said it expects revenue in the range of $38 million to $40 million.
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Securities & Exchange Commission Approved the Plan of Distribution for the S&P Dow Jones Indices Fair Fund
BEAVERTON, Ore., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by Epiq, the Fund Administrator appointed in the administrative action noted below.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING
File No. 3-20310
In the Matter of
S&P DOW JONES INDICES LLC,
Respondent.
TO: Individuals and entities, or their lawful successors, who purchased and/or held VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETNs linked to the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index due December 4, 2030, listed on a U.S. exchange and registered with the Commission and traded under the symbol XIV ("XIV" or "Security") during the period between 4:09:40 p.m. and 5:09 p.m. on February 5, 2018 ("Relevant Period").
PLEASE READ THIS PLAN NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY.
YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A DISTRIBUTION PAYMENT FROM THE S&P DOW JONES INDICES FAIR FUND.
THIS PLAN NOTICE CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE S&P DOW JONES INDICES FAIR FUND AND THE CLAIMS PROCESS.
On May 17, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") issued an Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings, Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933, Making Findings, and Imposing a Cease-and-Desist Order (the "Order") against the Respondent, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. In the Order, the Commission found that S&P, which publishes an index that measures the return from a rolling long position for certain VIX futures contracts, failed to disclose the existence of a feature in this index that kept securities prices static during a period of unprecedented volatility. As a result of this undisclosed feature, values being published and disseminated to the market were not based on the real-time prices of certain VIX futures contracts. The Commission ordered S&P Dow Jones to pay a $9,000,000 civil money penalty to the Commission.
Without admitting or denying the allegations, Respondent consented to the entry of an order alleging violations of Section 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933. The Commission established a Fair Fund pursuant to Section 308(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, so that the $9 million in civil money penalties paid by the Respondent could be distributed for the benefit of the harmed investors (the "S&P Dow Jones Indices Fair Fund"). The assets of the S&P Dow Jones Indices Fair Fund are subject to the continuing jurisdiction and control of the Commission.
The Commission approved the proposed Plan of Distribution (the "Plan") on May 12, 2022. You can review the Plan, available at www.SPDowJonesIndicesFairFund.com for more information and for the definitions of the capitalized terms.
To qualify for a payment from the Fair Fund, you must have purchased and/or held VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETNs linked to the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index due December 4, 2030, listed on a U.S. exchange and registered with the Commission and traded under the symbol XIV during the Relevant Period.
Your approved transactions must calculate to a Recognized Loss as calculated under the Plan and your Distribution Payment must equal or exceed $10.00.
You must complete and sign the Claim Form and submit it to the Fund Administrator so that it is postmarked (or if not sent by U.S. Mail, received) no later than November 9, 2022, at the address listed below in order to be considered for eligibility to receive a distribution payment from the S&P Dow Jones Indices Fair Fund:
S&P Dow Jones Indices Fair Fund
c/o Fund Administrator
P.O. Box 5429
Portland, OR 97228-5429
If you have questions, or if you would like to receive a Claim Form in the mail, you may call the S&P Dow Jones Indices Fair Fund's toll-free number at 855-604-1705, send an email to [email protected], or visit www.SPDowJonesIndicesFairFund.com.
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GLEN HEAD, N.Y. (AP) _ The First of Long Island Corp. (FLIC) on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings of $12.5 million.
The bank, based in Glen Head, New York, said it had earnings of 54 cents per share.
The holding company for The First National Bank of Long Island posted revenue of $35.9 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $32.7 million, exceeding Street forecasts.
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SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Purcell & Lefkowitz LLP Is Investigating Snap Inc. for Potential Breaches of Fiduciary Duty By Its Board of Directors
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Purcell & Lefkowitz LLP, a class action law firm dedicated to representing shareholders nationwide, is investigating a potential breach of fiduciary duty claim involving the board of directors of Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP).
If you are a shareholder of Snap Inc. and are interested in obtaining additional information regarding this investigation, free of charge, please visit us at:
You may also contact Robert H. Lefkowitz, Esq. either via email at [email protected] or by telephone at 212-725-1000. One of our attorneys will personally speak with you about the case at no cost or obligation.
Purcell & Lefkowitz LLP is a law firm exclusively committed to representing shareholders nationwide who are victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty and other types of corporate misconduct. For more information about the firm and its attorneys, please visit http://pjlfirm.com. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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Ex-journalist fined again for discrediting Russian army over Ukraine
Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova was fined 50,000 roubles ($820) on Thursday after being found guilty of discrediting the country's armed forces in social media posts condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine. The ruling was passed after a short hearing in a Moscow administrative court.
Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova was fined 50,000 roubles ($820) on Thursday after being found guilty of discrediting the country's armed forces in social media posts condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine.
The ruling was passed after a short hearing in a Moscow administrative court. Ovsyannikova rejected the proceedings against her as "absurd". "The evidence confirms Ovsyannikova's guilt. There is no reason to doubt its authenticity," the judge said.
Ovsyannikova gained international attention in March after bursting into a studio of Russian state TV, her then employer, to denounce the Ukraine war during a live news bulletin. At the time she was fined 30,000 roubles for flouting protest laws. Thursday's hearing was over subsequent social media posts in which she wrote that those responsible for Russia's actions in Ukraine would find themselves in the dock before an international tribunal.
Russia passed a law against "discrediting" the armed forces, with a sentence of up to 15 years, in early March, soon after President Vladimir Putin launched what he calls his "special military operation" against Ukraine. In court, Ovsyannikova repeated her protest and said she would not retract her words. She said she did not understand why she was there and what she was being judged for.
"What's going on here is absurd," she said. "War is horror, blood and shame." She went on: "Your accusations are like accusing me of spreading monkeypox," she said. "The purpose of the trial is to intimidate all the people who oppose the war in the Russian Federation."
She described Russia as an aggressor country, saying: "The beginning of this war is the biggest crime of our government." A lawyer for Ovsyannikova said she had the right to speak out under Article 29 of the Russian constitution which protects the right to freedom of expression, but the judge dismissed the lawyer's arguments.
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) _ TowneBank (TOWN) on Thursday reported net income of $46.5 million in its second quarter.
The bank, based in Portsmouth, Virginia, said it had earnings of 64 cents per share.
The community bank posted revenue of $177.8 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $167 million, topping Street forecasts.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: SSD), an industry leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, today announced that on July 27, 2022 the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") declared a regular quarterly dividend of 26 cents per share on the Company's common stock. The dividend is payable on October 27, 2022, to stockholders of record on October 6, 2022.
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc., headquartered in Pleasanton, California, through its subsidiaries, including Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc., designs, engineers and is a leading manufacturer of wood construction products, including connectors, truss plates, fastening systems, fasteners and shear walls, and concrete construction products, including adhesives, specialty chemicals, mechanical anchors, powder actuated tools and reinforcing fiber materials. The Company primarily supplies its building product solutions to both the residential and commercial markets in North America and Europe. The Company's common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSD."
CONTACT:
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Solana Spaces Unveils Retail Venue to Bring an Immersive Educational Blockchain Experience to the Mainstream
First permanent physical location is opened at The Shops at Hudson Yards, New York
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solana Spaces today announced the opening of the world's first permanent physical retail, educational, and community space dedicated to Web3 at The Shops at Hudson Yards on Level 2, in Manhattan, New York.
Solana Spaces was founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco. Spaces, created in collaboration with The Solana Foundation, who funded and incubated the store, introduces an immersive consumer experience for Web3, specifically the Solana blockchain and its ecosystem. The founding team is a group of retail designers and engineers that also founded b8ta, the innovative and award-winning electronics retailer.
Within the space, visitors will find a variety of tutorials on programming and experiences for new entrants into the crypto-technology industry, often offering unique rewards for participation. Highlighted experiences upon launch include the following:
- User onboarding with Phantom Wallet, Solana's largest self-custody wallet app
- Digital tutorials in partnership with Orca, STEPN, Solana Pay, Metaplex, and Magic Eden
- Solana Saga, Solana's flagship Web3 mobile phone, for customers to preview in person
- Interactive art installation that features a data visualization of what is happening on the Solana Blockchain in real time
- Solana 101, an educational presentation on Solana's technology
- NFT Gallery and limited-edition merchandise featuring new collections every month, starting with Degenerate Ape Academy, one of the most iconic NFT collections on the Solana blockchain
- Full retail store with exclusive merchandise and NFT collection drops
"Solana has the most active and fastest growing ecosystem of developers in Web3 today, showcased in part by its large number of daily active users. Even with this in mind, we won't rest until everyone is onboarded into the space," said Vibhu Norby, CEO of Solana Spaces. "We've collaborated with some of Solana's top projects and creators to design an introduction to crypto-tech that is open and accessible. It's an experiment that we think a lot of people will love." According to data provided by CoinMarketCap, in May 2022, the number of daily active wallets on Solana was 37M, up from an average of 20M in Q1 2022.
"Solana Spaces is creating a truly immersive experience that will help people learn about Web3 in a fun and interactive way," said Brandon Millman, Phantom CEO and Co-Founder. "Education and discovery is a completely different experience in-person. We are thrilled to be the featured wallet partner for Solana Spaces and look forward to welcoming so many more people into the crypto ecosystem."
Solana Spaces also plans to feature a roster of new products and collaborations with brands that will frequently be updated. During opening week, the location will exhibit a limited-edition physical and digital shoe designed in collaboration with Blanksoles, as well as NETGEAR's Meural Digital Canvas will allow users to connect their Phantom Wallet to project their own Solana NFTs onto the display.
All store merchandise is available for purchase via credit card. However, shoppers who opt to use Solana Pay, Solana Labs' instant payments product, receive steep discounts and special merchandise like branded bags. Solana Spaces is open to the public every day at The Shops at Hudson Yards from Monday to Saturday at 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m-7 p.m.
About Solana Spaces
Solana Spaces is a set of retail venues that provide an immersive educational experience for people interested in the Solana blockchain and web3. Spaces is a collaboration with the Solana Foundation, who funded and helped incubate the store. The founding team is a group of retail designers and engineers that also founded b8ta, the innovative and award-winning electronics retailer. Spaces was born in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) _ TriMas Corp. (TRS) on Thursday reported profit of $19.9 million in its second quarter.
The Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based company said it had profit of 47 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 60 cents per share.
The maker of packaging materials, aerospace components and other engineered parts posted revenue of $237.7 million in the period.
TriMas expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.25 to $2.35 per share.
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2020 Delhi riots: Mere membership of WhatsApp group can't make Khalid criminally liable, HC told
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- India
Former JNU student Umar Khalid, arrested in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020, Thursday told the Delhi High Court that mere membership of a WhatsApp group cannot make him criminally liable when nothing objectionable has been attributed to him.
“Is it illegal to be a member of a WhatsApp group unless you commit any illegality?, his counsel asked before a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar which was hearing a plea by Khalid who has challenged a trial court's March 24 order dismissing his bail application in the case.
Khalid's counsel said out of five WhatsApp groups cited by the prosecution, he was a member of two groups in which also he remained silent and only posted four messages in one of the groups.
“The fact that I was part of two WhatsApp groups, out of five cited against me in which I remained silent, cannot make me criminally liable. I am not saying there was anything criminal in those groups,” he argued.
He further said, “I am not an administrator, I am merely a member of the group. Admins are someone else. There was nothing else objectionable attributed to me. If someone else has said something, that cannot be put at my door.” The counsel said the mere membership of a WhatsApp group has been held as an incident of conspiracy or illegality against Khalid.
As the counsel for Khalid concluded his submissions, the court listed the matter for hearing arguments of the public prosecutor on August 1. The court also asked Khalid's counsel to file written submissions.
When the court asked what were the allegations placed at Khalid's door, the counsel said, “Silent whisper. There is no direct act attributed to me, except for the speech.” The high court had earlier questioned Khalid for using certain objectionable words against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speech in Amravati on February 21, 2020.
Khalid was arrested on September 13, 2020, and has been in custody since then.
Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the ''masterminds'' of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.
The violence had erupted during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens.
The Delhi Police has opposed the bail plea, saying the narratives sought to be created by Khalid cannot be looked into as his defence at this stage and the trial court refused to release him by a well-reasoned order which suffers from no illegality.
Besides Khalid, activist Khalid Saifi, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, Jamia Coordination Committee members Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and several others have also been booked under the stringent law in the case.PTI SKV RKS RKS
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ATLANTA, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stord, the Cloud Supply Chain leader, expands its Cloud Supply Chain offering with Stord One Commerce, a vendor- and sales channel-agnostic software platform that helps brands connect, orchestrate, and optimize their entire supply chains.
Most brands still struggle to piece together disparate logistics solutions and disconnected technology across providers, resulting in siloed data, costly software implementations, and complex integrations. Stord One Commerce connects to brands' existing systems through a marketplace of 100+ standard integrations, from ERPs and online marketplaces to retail partners and warehouse management systems, providing an unmatched ability to analyze and optimize their processes from one platform.
Specifically, B2B, B2C, and omnichannel brands now benefit from deep order management and orchestration, inventory management and planning, business intelligence and analytics, and system connectivity capabilities, all in one system. The Stord One Commerce software acts as the digital glue that connects all elements of a brand's supply chain and also acts as a control tower, giving brands a consolidated view of their operations, no matter where they sell, how they run their logistics, or which systems they leverage today.
"Better logistics alone will not solve today's supply chain woes," said Sean Henry, CEO and co-founder of Stord. "Physical logistics capabilities across transportation, warehousing, and fulfillment have been around since the dawn of retail. You won't find a single brand that doesn't have some way of handling these pieces today, but nonetheless, supply chain remains a massive challenge for most brands and consumers. Since starting Stord, we've talked to thousands of brands, and while each is unique, the common pain points that inevitably come up are around disconnected systems, access to actionable data insights, and the inability to efficiently orchestrate and optimize supply chain operations. That's why we built Stord One Commerce."
Stord One Commerce is also the technological underpinning of Stord's Cloud Supply Chain offering, combining scalable, reliable port-to-porch physical logistics with the speed, flexibility, and optimization of the cloud. With the software's extensive functionality, brands no longer need to license, implement, and maintain disparate stand-alone systems. Stord One Commerce does this via four fully-featured software components:
- Visibility: Delivers unparalleled visibility into orders, inventory, and shipments supported with extensive operational metrics and dashboards.
- Orchestration: Manages the full order lifecycle from incoming sales channels to fulfillment channels while intelligently automating order routing across multiple locations, with analytics to manage performance both inside and beyond the warehouse.
- Optimization: Powers smarter business decisions by maximizing inventory ROI and optimizing fulfillment across multiple channels.
- Connectivity: Easily connects all of a brand's disparate systems from ERPs and warehouse management systems to online marketplaces and retail partner systems in a single platform.
"We started building this technology a few years back to support our own massively-complex, intricate supply chain network of both partner and first-party facilities enabling B2B, B2C, and omnichannel port-to-porch fulfillment," shared Jacob Boudreau, CTO and co-founder of Stord. "After battle testing our platform with customers like BODYARMOR, Advance Auto Parts, Thrasio, and Dollar General, we decided to make it available for all brands, regardless of whether they partner with us for logistics."
"Prior to using Stord, I always felt like we were operating in the dark—with no single source of truth as to what's going on with our supply chain," said Gary Boisvert, President of Sturbridge Yankee Workshop. "Stord One Commerce sheds light on our full operations and makes it possible to enact meaningful change that benefits our bottom line."
Today's announcement underscores Stord's continued momentum and comes on the heels of increasing its network capacity, expanding to include temperature-controlled logistics through a partnership with Fresh Del Monte, and extending its Series D round to over $200M in funding at a valuation of $1.3B with a new investment led by Franklin Templeton. To learn more about Stord's Cloud Supply Chain approach, visit stord.com.
Stord is the leading Cloud Supply Chain provider enabling companies to compete and grow with world-class logistics—including warehousing, freight, and fulfillment—in a single, integrated platform that's available exactly when and where they need it. Hundreds of B2B and B2C companies like BODYARMOR, Native, Tula, Advance Auto Parts, Thrasio, and Dollar General use Stord to make their supply chains perform with the speed, flexibility, and ease of the cloud. Led by former operators from Amazon, XPO, and Manhattan Associates, Stord is headquartered in Atlanta and backed by leading investors, including Kleiner Perkins, BOND, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, D1 Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Susa Ventures, and Lineage Logistics.
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ West Bancorp Inc. (WTBA) on Thursday reported earnings of $12.7 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the West Des Moines, Iowa-based company said it had profit of 75 cents.
The holding company for West Bank posted revenue of $31.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $26.5 million.
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Justice Khanwilkar was part of verdicts upholding SIT's clean chit to Modi in Guj riots, decriminilasing gay sex
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Supreme Court judge Justice A M Khanwilkar, who is set to retire on Friday, has been part of several path-breaking verdicts including in the Aadhaar case and the one upholding SIT's clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots.
Justice Khanwilkar, who penned the verdict upholding the Enforcement Directorate's powers to arrest, attachment property, search and seize under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, was part of several constitution benches of the apex court which delivered important judgements.
One of the landmark verdicts was the September 2018 judgement in which the top court held as ''irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary'' section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that criminalised consensual gay sex. The constitution bench, which held consensual sex among adult homosexuals or heterosexuals in private space is not a crime, had struck down part of the British-era law that criminalised it on the ground that it violated the constitutional right to equality and dignity.
Justice Khanwilkar was also part of a constitution bench which declared the Centre's flagship Aadhaar scheme constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions, including linking it to bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
In a verdict delivered last month, a bench headed by Justice Khanwilkar upheld the SIT's clean chit to Modi and 63 others in the 2002 Gujarat riots and said there is no ''tittle of material'' to support the allegation that violence after the Godhra incident was a ''pre-planned event'' owing to the conspiracy hatched at the highest level in the state.
Elevated as an apex court judge in May 2016, Justice Khanwilkar was part of a constitution bench which had ruled adultery is no longer a crime in India and struck down section 497 of the IPC dealing with offence of adultery and section 198 of the Code of Criminal Procedure which dealt with prosecution of offences against marriage.
He was on the five-judge constitution bench, which in its 4:1 verdict, paved the way for entry of women of all ages into the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in Kerala.
A five-judge constitution bench, of which Justice Khanwilkar was part, had delivered a landmark verdict which recognised that a terminally-ill patient or a person in persistent vegetative state can execute an ''advance medical directive'' or a ''living will'' to refuse medical treatment.
The bench had said the right to live with dignity also includes ''smoothening'' the process of dying.
A constitution bench, which also comprised Justice Khanwilkar, had unanimously held that Delhi cannot be accorded the status of a state but clipped the wings of the Lieutenant Governor (LG), saying he has no ''independent decision making power'' and has to act on the aid and advice of the elected government.
He also played an important role in the verdict that imparted transparency to the functioning of judiciary by allowing live streaming of court proceedings of cases of constitutional and national importance, saying this openness was like ''sunlight'' which is the ''best disinfectant''.
Justice Khanwilkar was also part of a constitution bench which decided to leave it to Parliament to ''cure the malignancy'' of criminalisation of politics by enacting a law to ensure that those facing serious criminal cases do not enter the political arena.
A bench headed by Justice Khanwilkar had delivered a verdict in April this year in which the apex court upheld the validity of certain amendments to the provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, which came into effect in September 2020, saying the strict regime had become essential because of the past experience of ''abuse and misutilisation'' of foreign contribution.
Born on July 30, 1957 in Pune, Justice Khanwilkar did L.L.B. from a law college in Mumbai.
He was enrolled as an advocate in February, 1982 and later appointed an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000.
He was appointed the Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh on April 4, 2013 and later the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court on November 24, 2013.
Justice Khanwilkar was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court and he assumed charge on May 13, 2016.
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Rapid Peer Exchange and Networking Event Sponsored by Intel and Western Digital
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Flash Memory Summit (FMS) along with two of their leading sponsors, Intel and Western Digital, is excited to host the fourth annual SuperWomen in Flash event at Flash Memory Summit 2022. This year's event will include a rapid Peer Exchange – covering everything from Flash technologies to career lessons from the pandemic. Kicking off the session will be the SuperWomen in Flash Leadership Award winner, bringing her perspectives on women in the industry and driving more top talent to address the pressing needs of the data driven economy.
During the Peer Exchange, you are guaranteed to meet new, super talented women and men and gain exciting insight to build on your business and career. Participants are paired up for quick, ten minute discussions per topic and then rotate to meet with the next group to continue networking and gathering more knowledge.
The event will be held Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm PT at the Hyatt Regency next to the Santa Clara Convention Center. Come early to enjoy a happy hour and networking. The event is complementary and open to all (and we definitely encourage ALL genders to join).
"The FMS event is a fabulous vehicle for gathering and sharing knowledge. The SuperWomen in Flash builds on its success with executives and up-and-comers sharing their experiences in the industry," says Camberley Bates, Managing Director, Evaluator Group and founder of SuperWomen in Flash. "The ultimate goal is to encourage and help more women to enter and succeed in our marketplace."
The SuperWomen in Flash event presents an excellent opportunity to network, enjoy food and libations, and then explore the Flash Memory Summit exhibit hall to discover the latest advances in Flash memory technology.
Registration not required but appreciated.
Evaluator Group Inc. is dedicated to helping IT professionals and vendors create and implement strategies that make the most of the value of their IT infrastructure and digital information. Evaluator Group services deliver in-depth, unbiased analysis on storage architectures, infrastructures and management for IT professionals. Since 1997 Evaluator Group has provided services for thousands of end users and vendor professionals through product and market evaluations, competitive analysis and education. www.evaluatorgroup.com Follow us on Twitter @evaluator_group
Flash Memory Summit, produced by Conference ConCepts, showcases mainstream applications, key technologies, leading vendors, and innovative startups driving the multi-billion-dollar high-speed memory and SSD markets. FMS is now the world's largest event featuring trends, innovations, and influencers driving adoption of flash memory and other high-speed memory technologies within demanding enterprise storage applications, high-performance computing, mobile, and embedded systems.
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ADDISON, Texas (AP) _ Wingstop Inc. (WING) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $13.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Addison, Texas-based company said it had net income of 44 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 45 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 35 cents per share.
The restaurant chain posted revenue of $83.8 million in the period, missing Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $84.8 million.
Wingstop expects full-year earnings to be $1.55 to $1.57 per share.
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The Galien Foundation Announces 2022 Prix Galien USA Nominees for "Best Digital Health Solution," "Incubators, Accelerators and Equity," and "Prix Galien Startup"
-- In Partnership with Business France, Awards will be presented on October 27, 2022, at the Prix Galien USA Awards Ceremony in New York City
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Galien Foundation, the premier global institution dedicated to honoring innovators in life sciences, today announced the 2022 Prix Galien USA Award nominees for "Best Digital Health Solution," "Incubators, Accelerators and Equity," and "Prix Galien Startup." Winners will be announced during the Prix Galien USA Awards Ceremony on October 27, 2022, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
"The Prix Galien Awards have become the most coveted prizes for those who dedicate their lives to the development of meaningful drugs and innovations," said Bernard Poussot, Director, Roche Holding, Former Chairman & CEO, Wyeth, Prix Galien Startup, Digital Health and Incubators, Accelerators and Equity Committee Chairman. "Members of the Awards Committees applaud the unwavering commitment of each nominee in their quest to provide a healthier future for the next generation."
The newest Prix Galien Award category, "Incubators, Accelerators and Equity," acknowledges the role played by these institutions in guiding the next wave of innovators by offering a range of mentoring skills including clinical trial design expertise, legal counsel, lab space, professional development, peer-to-peer support, free access to leading advisors and economic support to advance life science innovation.
"During my 30-year career at Johnson & Johnson, I learned the importance of casting a wide net in pursuing new ideas while taking on the task of turning these into meaningful products for patients," said Alex Gorsky, Executive Chairman, Johnson & Johnson, member of the Prix Galien Startup, Digital Health and Incubators, Accelerators and Equity Committee. "It is an honor to join the Awards jurors responsible for recognizing the industry's very best innovative practices in the new Award category."
Judges will evaluate submissions using seven criteria, including details on how the incubator/accelerator addresses the needs of candidates accepted, background on how success is measured during the incubation, acceleration or funding period, and examples of businesses that have "graduated" or "exited" from the incubator and/or accelerator, alongside a candidate's 800-word entry.
"At Alexandria, we are immensely proud to play an essential role in catalyzing life science entrepreneurship and innovation as well as the growth of life science ecosystems through our one-of-kind, best-in-class Alexandria LaunchLabs® life science startup platform. We curate and coalesce mission-critical real estate, early-stage risk capital, mentorship and company-building resources to accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into new treatments and cures to help meet society's significant unmet medical need," said Joel S. Marcus, J.D., CPA, Executive Chairman & Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc./Alexandria Venture Investments. "I am honored to join the Prix Galien's esteemed Award jury, and with the creation of this new Award category, The Galien Foundation is once again positioned at the forefront of endeavors that will help advance progress toward medicines to improve, extend and save the lives of patients around the world."
The "Best Digital Health Solution" category recognizes excellence in research and development that has significantly improved the human condition. The "Prix Galien Startup" category, which rewards and supports innovation worldwide, will announce three winners for, "Best Startup in Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology Industry," "Best Startup in in the Medical Technologies Industry," and "Best Startup in the Digital Health Industry." Frederic Rossi, General Manager Business France for North America underlines the "tremendous opportunity for French companies to present astonishing projects and to meet with US healthcare leaders for the rapid adoption of essential innovations."
Incubators, Accelerators, and Equity (Nominees)
Best Digital Health Solution (Nominees)
Prix Galien Startup (Nominees)
Prix Galien Startup, Digital Health and Incubators, Accelerators and Equity Committee 2022
Bernard POUSSOT
Director, Roche Holding, Former Chairman & CEO, Wyeth
Chairman
Roch DOLIVEUX
Honorary CEO, UCB
Mikael DOLSTEN
Global R&D President, Pfizer
Jean-Pierre GARNIER
Former CEO, GSK
Alex GORSKY
Executive Chairman, Johnson & Johnson
Penny HEATON
Global Therapeutic Area Head, Vaccines, Janssen
Sheri McCOY
Board of Directors, AstraZeneca, Former CEO, Avon
François MAISONROUGE
Senior Managing Director, Evercore Partners
Joel S. MARCUS
Executive Chairman & Founder, Alexandria
Elias ZERHOUNI
Former Head of Global R&D, Sanofi
Prix Galien Incubators, Accelerators, and Equity Category Sub Committee 2022
Gil BASHE
Managing Partner, Chair Global Health, Finn Partners
Sub-Committee Jury Chair
Ron COHEN, M.D.
Founder, President & CEO, Acordia Therapeutics
Jamey EDWARDS
Former CEO, Emergent Medical Associates
Amir KALALI, M.D.
Chairman & Chief Curator, CNS Summit/Co-Chair, Decentralized Trial Research Alliance
Michelle LONGMIRE, M.D.
Co-Founder & CEO, Medable Inc.
Cheryl PEGUS, M.D.
Executive Vice President of Health & Wellness, Walmart
James PRUTOW, J.D., MBA
Advisory Partner – Life Sciences, Molecular Diagnostics, Global Healthcare, PwC Consulting
About the Galien Foundation
The Galien Foundation fosters, recognizes, and rewards excellence in scientific innovation to improve the state of human health. Our vision is to be the catalyst for the development of the next generation of innovative treatments and technologies that will impact the state of medical practice and save lives.
The Foundation oversees and directs activities in the US for the Prix Galien, an international awards program dedicated to progress through innovative medicines development, with chapters in 14 countries and Africa. The Prix Galien was created in 1970 by Roland Mehl in honor of Galien, the father of medical science and modern pharmacology. Worldwide, the Prix Galien is regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in biopharmaceutical research.
About Business France
Business France is the national agency supporting the international development of the French economy, responsible for fostering export growth by French businesses, as well as promoting and facilitating international investment in France. It promotes France's companies, business image and nationwide attractiveness as an investment location, and also runs the VIE international internship program. For further information, please visit: www.businessfrance.fr - @businessfrance
For more information, visit www.galienfoundation.org.
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COLUMBIA, Maryland, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mexico Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MXF) announced that it will pay today a distribution of $0.18 per share in cash to stockholders of record as of July 20, 2022, according to the Fund´s Managed Distribution Plan (MDP).
As a general matter, the amount of distributable income for each fiscal period depends on the aggregate gains and losses realized by the Fund during the entire year. Distributions may consist of net investment income, capital gains and return of capital, but the character of these distributions cannot be determined until after the end of the Fund's fiscal year.
However, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Fund is required to indicate the source of each distribution to stockholders. The following table sets forth an estimate of the sources of the July 28, 2022, distribution and distributions paid in the current fiscal year:
Information regarding the Fund's performance and distribution rates is set forth below:
1 The Fund's current fiscal year began on November 1, 2021.
2 Average Annual Total Return represents the simple arithmetic average of the Annual NAV Total Returns of the Fund for the last five years. Annual NAV Total Return is the percentage change in the Fund's NAV over a year including distributions paid and assuming reinvestment of those distributions.
3 The Current Annualized Distribution Rate is the Cumulative Distribution Rate as of June 30, 2022, annualized as a percentage of the Fund's NAV at the same date.
4 Current Fiscal Year Cumulative Total Return is the percentage change in the Fund's NAV from November 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, including distributions paid and assuming reinvestment of those distributions.
5 Cumulative Distribution Rate for the Fund's current fiscal period (November 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022) measured on the dollar value of distributions in the period as a percentage of the Fund's NAV as of June 30, 2022.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's MDP.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported above are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report the distribution for federal income tax purposes.
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The Mexico Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company with the investment objective of long-term capital appreciation through investments in securities, primarily equity, listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange. The Fund provides a vehicle to investors who wish to invest in Mexican companies through a managed non-diversified portfolio as part of their overall investment program.
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements regarding future circumstances. These forward-looking statements are based upon the Fund's current expectations and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking statements including, in particular, the risks and uncertainties described in the Fund's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results, events, and performance may differ. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Fund undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to these forward looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. The inclusion of any statement in this release does not constitute an admission by The Mexico Fund or any other person that the events or circumstances described in such statement are material.
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'Unbridled powers' to probe agencies promise devastating consequences for democracy: Congress
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A day after the Supreme Court upheld certain powers of the Enforcement Directorate, the Congress on Thursday said ''unbridled powers'' to investigating agencies promise ''devastating consequences'' for democracy.
At a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that while his party has the greatest respect for the Supreme Court, it feels that the court has not considered the ''consistent pattern of selective and motivated deployment'' that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been put to in the last eight years.
''It is no one’s case, that the government should not investigate money laundering or build strong mechanisms to tackle the problem of financial crimes. ''However, in the absence of meaningful safeguards, and with a government that has routinely stood and argued against the grant of fundamental rights to citizens before the very same Supreme Court, unbridled powers to investigating agencies promise devastating consequences for our democracy,'' he said.
The apex court on Wednesday had upheld the ED's powers relating to arrest, attach property, search and seize under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), in a huge leg up for the central agency often accused of abusing its authority to target the government's political adversaries.
Singhvi alleged that the ED has functioned as an extension of the ruling party.
''Through the weapon of the ED, we have said earlier the BJP is suppressing, sabotaging and subjugating the Opposition,'' Singhvi said.
As per official records presented before Parliament, in comparison with 112 raids conducted between 2004-2014, the number between 2014-2022 is over 3,000, Singhvi said.
''They illustrate the weaponization of the ED against political rivals and those who routinely expose this government,'' he said.
Singhvi said a vast number of cases have been filed against opposition leaders, but almost none have been filed against those who are members of the ruling party or bear proximity to the same.
He said cases initiated against members of the opposition have been put into ''cold storage or abandoned'' altogether once the accused have switched loyalties towards the ruling party.
This is also the case with cases pending against BJP leaders, Singhvi said.
''This pattern by the government of malicious use also exposes the necessity of safeguards many of which have been dismantled by this government through amendment after amendment,'' Singhvi said.
''For example, prior to an amendment in 2019, seizure could only be carried out after a report had been presented to a magistrate. This has been done away with and seizures can take place without any notice and entirely at the discretion of the ED,'' the Congress leader said.
Furthermore, it was pointed out that the Appellate Tribunal for PMLA hasn’t had a full-time chairman since September 2019 and this again speaks to the Modi government's intentions for whom the safeguarding of rights is simply not a priority, he alleged.
''It is our humble and respectful view some of these considerations merited greater attention and intervention by the Hon’ble Supreme Court,'' Singhvi said.
Singhvi said it is ultimately the citizenry of the country looks up to the Supreme Court which needs to provide safeguard, security and safety to the Opposition from the vendetta of the ED to ensure stability in democracy.
The Congress shall continue to speak out and expose this government without fear or favour, Singhvi asserted.
Top opposition politicians, including Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram and his son and MP Karti, Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, also a TMC MP, and Delhi minister Satyendar Jain are among those under the ED's lens for alleged money laundering.
Observing that it is a common experience world over that money laundering can be a ''threat'' to the good functioning of a financial system, a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the validity of certain provisions of the PMLA, underlining it is not an ''ordinary offence''.
The court was hearing a clutch of over 200 petitions filed by individuals and other entities questioning various provisions of the PMLA, a law which the Opposition has often claimed has been weaponised by the government to harass its political adversaries.
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The Unicorn Hunters Show Is Back With New Episodes Premiering Now Through The End Of 2022
New founders pitch their billion-dollar ideas to the Circle of Money and millions of viewers, so they can invest before the companies go public
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LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unicorn Hunters, the groundbreaking series that connects entrepreneurs seeking funding with millions of potential investors worldwide and offers viewers the opportunity to invest in billion-dollar ideas in the pre-IPO stage, is back with six new episodes premiering today through the end of 2022. The series debuts with a special episode featuring Unicoin hosted by Chris Diamantopoulos, known for his iconic role as a billionaire in HBO's Silicon Valley, in which viewers can learn more about the next-generation cryptocurrency. In the following episodes, new founders in high-growth sectors including climate-tech, sports/health-tech, renewables, NFT, and Web3 enter the Circle of Money to pitch returning cast members as well as new panelists and special guests.
Unicorn Hunters produced by reality TV icon Craig Plestis (I Can See Your Voice, The Masked Singer) pioneered enrichtaiment- a brand new genre of television that combines entertainment with investment opportunities that can make people rich. The series has a viewership of more than 18 million across its platforms and companies featured on the show have received more than $285 million in investment requests. The first season of Unicorn Hunters Season premiered in May of 2021 and consists of 18 episodes. Episodes 1-12 are available for on-demand streaming now. The second season will go into production this fall.
The Circle of Money is comprised of a star-studded cast of business luminaries, policymakers, and investors who evaluate the potential of the companies and ask founders the right questions to evaluate the investment opportunity and help viewers at home decide if they want to invest alongside them. The Circle of Money panel includes Rosie Rios, Former Treasurer of the United States, Lance Bass, artist and investor, Moe Vela, former senior White House advisor, Chris Diamantopoulos, social entrepreneur and actor, Alex Konanykhin, CEO of Unicorn Hunters, and Silvina Moschini, entrepreneur, co-founder, president and chairwoman of Unicoin. NFL legend, Hall of Famer, and renowned broadcaster Cris Carter will make his debut as a panelist.
Each episode will feature brand new special guests who have been meticulously selected based on their areas of expertise, including Jason Scott, venture investor, partner of ANIM Fund, and head of startup development ecosystem at Google, Susan Segal, president and CEO of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas and pioneer of early stage venture capital, Laura Chinchilla, Former President of Costa Rica, Jason Felts, founder, entrepreneur, strategic brand advisor and former CEO of Virgin Produced and Virgin Fest, and Danny Cortenraede, serial entrepreneur and investor and CEO and founder of InStudio Ventures.
"Unicorn Hunters was launched with the mission of helping entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to millions of investors around the world, and to offer the masses the opportunity to invest in transparent pre-IPO opportunities in which the return on investment may turn them into the next millionaires," said Alex Konanykhin, CEO of Unicorn Hunters. "We continue to deliver on this promise with millions of viewers and millions in investment requests and remain focused on becoming the most watched and impactful business series in the world."
"Unicorn Hunters is back bigger and bolder with new founders, new cast members, a live audience, special guests, and surprises. It has also upped the game with Unicoin, its official cryptocurrency which is a perfect extension of its mission to democratize access to investment," said Silvina Moschini, co-founder, president, and chairwoman of Unicorn Hunters and Unicoin. "Unicoin gives people the opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio made up of the companies that are part of the Unicorn Hunters through a security token and gives founders who appear on the show the opportunity to receive even more funding to bring their ideas to life."
In February of this year, Unicorn Hunters launched Unicoin, a next-generation coin designed to solve extreme volatility, the major problem of traditional tokens. It is intended to be asset-backed and dividend-paying and this differentiation is especially relevant in today's cryptocurrency market, which has experienced an unprecedented downturn. In the new episodes of Unicorn Hunters, founders who pitch the Circle of Money and obtain a yes from more than one panelist will receive Unicoins. Those who receive a commitment of investment from all the members of the Circle of Money will receive up to 10 million Unicoins.
"As a reality television show producer, I have always prided myself on taking risks, pushing the envelope, being ahead of the curve, and challenging audiences. I have always been a trendsetter, not a trend follower. And my goal was no different with my first streaming show, Unicorn Hunters," said Craig Plestis, executive producer of Unicorn Hunters. "This revolutionary new business program, which has a dynamic participatory element, is innovative and engaging and has the high-quality production values of a network show. I could not be prouder of the show, the panel, and the team behind Unicorn Hunters."
The Unicorn Hunters show can be streamed on multiple platforms including UnicornHunters.com, LinkedIn Broadcast, Binge Networks, Facebook Video, YouTube, and Vimeo. Through global syndication agreements, Unicorn Hunters also streams on Claro Video, one of the largest streaming platforms in Latin America and it is premiering on TV3 Network, one of the main broadcast networks in Ghana in August. Episodes are also available on-demand through international media partners including, Grupo Expansión, the largest media group in Mexico, El Observador, one of the most important newspapers in Uruguay, and El Colombiano, a major media conglomerate in Colombia. This year, Unicorn Hunters also premiered in in-flight entertainment on Tap Air Portugal and WestJet. In September, Unicorn Hunters will premiere on Etihad Airways, an international airline based in Abu Dhabi that services millions of passengers in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.
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Saudi prince subject of legal complaint during Paris visit
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A human rights group said it filed a legal complaint with a Paris court on Thursday alleging complicity by Saudi Arabia's crown prince – who is visiting France – in the gruesome 2018 killing of U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Washington-based group, Democracy for the Arab World Now, or DAWN, called on French authorities to open a criminal investigation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was scheduled to meet French President Emmanuel Macron for a working dinner later Thursday.
In a statement on its website, the group said it filed a 42-page complaint arguing that the prince was an accomplice to the torture of Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018 and his disappearance.
DAWN focuses on human rights violations in Gulf Arab autocracies, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It said two other rights groups backed its call for a French investigation and argued that the prince should not have immunity from prosecution because he is not the Saudi head of state.
“As a party to the U.N. Conventions against torture and enforced disappearances, France is obliged to investigate a suspect such as Bin Salman if he is present on French territory,” Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN's executive director, said in the statement.
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Lauren Pearl is giving new meaning to the term high-flying soprano.
Sure, her latest venture calls for her to sing up to a high C, but plenty of operatic heroines have to do that. What’s different in Pearl’s case is that she will be singing while scaling a 60-foot brick wall.
Pearl is performing the role of Louise in “Gould’s Wall,” a work that is receiving its world premiere at Toronto’s adventuresome Tapestry Opera beginning Aug. 4.
The opera is the brainchild of composer Brian Current, who regularly passes the wall on his way to work with students at the Glenn Gould School, which is housed in Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. The brick facade is a remnant of a building that dates back to 1881, and it was preserved when the conservatory got a new, modern facility.
“That vertical space was just crying out for something to happen,” Current said. “With singers climbing on the walls, and the audience in the atrium looking up.”
He enlisted Liza Balkan, a performer, director and writer, who created a libretto that, as she said, tells “the story of a young artist, a woman, climbing the wall as a journey toward finding her own voice, the readiness to fly and soar.”
Along the way she encounters numerous characters who are harnessed to windows on the wall. Singing from below is Gould himself — the legendary pianist known for perfectionism who remains one of Canada’s most revered classical music figures nearly 40 years after his death.
“He is a presence in the building always,” Balkan said, and in the opera “he is there to support and also interrogate” the artist on her journey.
To play Louise, the company engaged Pearl, who was not a climber but had been training as an aerialist after, as she explained, “I fell in love with a circus performer.”
“I felt the story was very resonant and uplifting and inspiring,” Pearl said. “I thought immediately, I want to do that. But yeah, it’s daunting. It’s a high space.”
She has been practicing on the wall with the help of DangerBoy, a company whose website says it specializes in “stunts, rigging and special effects.” For the performances, Pearl will be securely fastened to a harness with a carabiner for extra protection.
Pearl said she found that singing while suspended from ropes and scaling a wall requires some adjustment in her vocal technique. ”There needs to be a line of energy through my entire body,” she said. “A greater awareness of tension and support.”
Current’s score, which runs about an hour, will be played by an orchestra consisting of five pianos along with an ensemble of brass, winds, strings and percussion.
The audience of just over 100 will be divided into sections, with prime seating on the atrium floor in reclining chairs angled to provide an easy view of the ascent.
“We thought at first of having people lie on mats,” Current said. “But our audience is largely people who aren’t 20.”
Other spectators will be on a balcony of the new building across from the wall. “Then you’re almost at the same level of the singers and also looking down and you can see the orchestra down below,” Current said.
Tom Comet, head rigger for DangerBoy, said the technical aspect of supporting Pearl’s climb is “pretty simple stuff. We’re pulling on a rope, we’re pulling some ropes through some pulleys, we’re redirecting that line.
“That said,” Comet added, “anytime we have human life in our hands … we need to be 100,000% sure that everything’s going to work as we anticipate.
“For me,” Comet said, “the coolest thing is that Lauren is actually belting out opera fearlessly while she’s suspended in the air, 40-50 feet up. It’s gonna be pretty incredible to experience.”
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Mike Silverman writes frequently about opera for The AP. He can be reached at mkslvrmn@gmail.com.
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TRAMONTINA USA DRIVES SUSTAINABILITY FORWARD - TRANSITIONS TO 90% RECYCLED MATERIAL IN SINGLE-USE BAGS
Leading housewares manufacturer continues history of sustainable business commitments with its Voice of the Oceans and Searious Business Partnerships
SUGAR LAND, Texas, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shortly after announcing its partnership with Voice of the Oceans to combat plastic pollution in our seas, leading housewares manufacturer Tramontina USA today revealed its next actionable sustainability initiative: a transition from all non-recycled single-use poly bags used in packaging to bags with a minimum of 90% recycled (LDPE) content, reducing the packaging CO2 emissions by nearly 60%. A result of Tramontina's ongoing partnership with environmental consulting firm Searious Business, the impact of this change will be recognized across nearly 10 million poly bag units used annually and be completed for all items with production dates beginning February 2023.
This initiative is part of a larger goal to incorporate more sustainable materials across all packaging by 2025 and is just one piece of a packaging components improvement strategy undertaken by Tramontina in conjunction with Searious Business. The work is looking at ways to not only reduce harmful materials, but identify new materials and new processes that will help lead the brand and the industry forward.
"Adding to our long history of eco-friendly practices, we have been actively reviewing all elements of our packaging to decrease use of plastics where we can and increase our commitment to sustainability across all avenues of our business," said Mars Mashburn, Vice President of Product Development and Marketing of Tramontina USA. "We are excited for this impactful first initiative resulting from our work with Searious Business and look forward to continuing to find ways to reduce our carbon footprint together in the future."
"It is our mission to help conscious companies like Tramontina maximize their sustainability efforts and stimulate wide-scale organizational change," said Willemijn Peeters, Searious Business. "It has been incredible to work with a company that has been implementing sustainable practices for years, and this important step is just the beginning of accelerating Tramontina's efforts."
Tramontina's efforts at their facilities were complemented by their announcement of their US sponsorship of Voice of the Oceans, a global expedition led by the Schurmann Family to call attention to the plastics pollution poisoning our waters and look for innovative solutions and actions to reverse this impact. The expedition began in August 2021 and will conclude in New Zealand in 2023. By combining this commitment with a focus on their own business practices, Tramontina is zeroed-in on making lasting change for today and tomorrow.
"We're excited to be a partner with Voice of the Ocean and to leverage its expertise in identifying ways to reduce plastic waste and apply those learnings across our supply chain," said Marcelo Borges, CEO of Tramontina USA. "In addition to our long history of eco-friendly practices, Tramontina continues to challenge ourselves to not only innovate, but also lead our business and industry to a more sustainable future. Simultaneously, we also have a vision to develop new projects based on circular economy practices."
A Brazilian-based company established in 1911, Tramontina makes constant investments in clean technologies. Aluminum waste generated in-house is remelted in the company's own furnaces and is transformed into new products. Rainwater is harvested and transformed into drinking water. Sunlight is transformed into clean energy.
In 2021 alone, 92% of the electricity acquired by the Group's companies were from renewable sources and 82% of waste generated was recycled.
For more information, visit Tramontina.com.
About Tramontina
Founded in 1911 in Brazil, Tramontina is an international brand with more than 110 years of high-end housewares manufacturing experience. Tramontina products, delivering premium quality, innovation, and functionality, are available in over 120 countries. Tramontina is dedicated to being a leading manufacturer of cookware, cutlery, kitchen accessories, and housewares items. One of the company's core values is environmental responsibility and sustainable development.
About Searious Business
Searious Business is a social enterprise committed to realising systemic change regarding plastic waste. Creating innovative, economically advantageous front-end solutions, Searious Business collaborates with companies and organisations to encourage the circular economy for plastics and strategically reduce impact on ocean ecosystems.
About Voice of the Oceans
Voice of the Oceans' purpose is to document the extent of the plastic pollution problem and identify solutions that protect the oceans and improve our planet. Our efforts are led by the Schurmann family with support from the U.N. Environment Programme, the Plastic Soup Foundation and numerous corporate sponsors. Through the data we collect and share, we have opened a global dialogue about ocean pollution that includes not only improving our beaches, but also the animals that are harmed by our plastic waste and carry this invisible waste into the food chain. Micro- and nano-plastics found in the oceans also prevent the oceans from playing their role in sustaining the environment, such as producing oxygen and maintaining climate balance. Follow our expedition and support our efforts at https://voiceoftheoceans.com/
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Russian missile strike kills five people in central Ukraine - governor
Five were killed, one of them from the military," he said. "There are material losses - two civilian aircraft and one AN-26 aircraft." Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb.24, did not immediately comment on the report.
Five people were killed and 25 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a flight school in the central Ukrainian city of Kropyvnytskyi on Thursday, the regional governor said.
Andriy Raikovych, governor of the Kirovohrad region, told a news briefing that two missiles had struck hangars at the National Aviation University Flight Academy around 12:20 p.m. (0920 GMT). "There are victims, dead and wounded. Twenty-five have already been taken to medical institutions - they were wounded. Five were killed, one of them from the military," he said.
"There are material losses - two civilian aircraft and one AN-26 aircraft." Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb.24, did not immediately comment on the report.
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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation in 1997 when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by the mainland’s ruling Communist Party as its own territory.
China had other priorities. President Jiang Zemin’s government was preparing to celebrate Hong Kong’s return and wanted to lock in Beijing’s emergence from diplomatic isolation after its 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Gingrich, a booster of closer U.S.-Chinese ties, had just helped that campaign by meeting Jiang in Beijing. China avoided a disruptive clash with Washington.
A quarter-century later, conditions have changed drastically. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government is richer, more heavily armed and less willing to compromise over Taiwan following news reports the current speaker, Nancy Pelosi, might become the most senior U.S. official since Gingrich to visit the island.
Beijing sees any official contact with Taiwan as recognition of its democratically elected government, which the mainland says has no right to conduct foreign relations.
The timing adds to political pressure. Xi is widely expected to try to award himself a third five-year term as party leader at a meeting in the autumn. That could be undercut if rivals can accuse Xi of failing to be tough enough in the face of what they consider American provocation.
Pelosi has yet to confirm whether she might visit, but Beijing is warning of “forceful measures” including military action if she does.
The United States “must not arrange for Pelosi to visit Taiwan,” a Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman, Tan Kefei, said Tuesday.
“If the United States goes ahead with this, the Chinese military will never watch and do nothing,” Tan said. “It will take strong measures to thwart any external interference and separatist plans for ‘Taiwan independence’ and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Tan referred to Pelosi as “No. 3 in the U.S. government,” after her place in the line of succession to become president. That suggests Beijing sees her as President Joe Biden's subordinate, instead of his equal as head of one of three independent branches of the government.
Biden told reporters the American military thinks a visit is “not a good idea right now." But, possibly in deference to her position, the president hasn't said Pelosi shouldn't go. U.S. officials told The Associated Press that if Pelosi goes, the American military would likely use fighter jets, ships and other forces to provide protection for her flight.
Chinese rhetoric about that is "quite disturbing,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “If we’re asked, we’ll do what is necessary in order to ensure a safe visit.”
U.S. officials have said the administration doubts China would take direct action against Pelosi herself or try to sabotage the visit. But they don’t rule out the possibility that China could escalate provocative flights of military aircraft in or near Taiwanese airspace and naval patrols in the Taiwan Strait should the trip take place. And they don’t preclude Chinese actions elsewhere in the region as a show of strength.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war that ended with a communist victory on the mainland. Both governments say they are one country but disagree about which is the national leader. The two sides have no official relations but are connected by billions of dollars of trade and investment.
The United States switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979 but has extensive commercial and unofficial ties with the island. U.S. law obligates Washington to make sure Taiwan has the means to defend itself.
Beijing hasn’t hesitated to try to intimidate Taiwan with shows of force.
The ruling party’s military, the People’s Liberation Army, fired missiles into the sea near Taiwan to drive voters away from then-President Lee Teng-hui in the island’s first direct presidential election in early 1996. That backfired by allowing Lee to talk tough about standing up to Beijing in front of cheering supporters. He was elected with 54% of the vote in a four-way race.
The U.S. responded by dispatching two aircraft carrier battle groups to the area, a move that forced China to acknowledge it couldn’t stop Washington from coming to Taiwan’s aid, which helped propel Beijing’s massive military upgrading in the years since.
The following year, Gingrich led a delegation of American lawmakers to Taiwan following a three-day visit to the mainland. That followed a visit to Beijing the previous week by Vice President Al Gore.
Previously one of Beijing’s fiercest critics in Washington on human rights and Taiwan, Gingrich praised China’s economic development. He talked sympathetically about the challenges Beijing would face running Hong Kong after 150 years of British rule. He said Congress supported China’s claim to Taiwan so long as unification was peaceful. He expressed hope the two sides might evolve to become one state.
Gingrich said he told Chinese leaders that “we will defend Taiwan” but said they responded that Beijing had no intention of attacking.
After Gingrich's comments, China’s foreign ministry said it was confused about U.S. policy. “What the U.S. government and the leaders of some government branches say and what they promised are not the same,” a ministry spokesman, Shen Guofang, said at the time.
In the quarter-century since then, Beijing's stance toward Taiwan has hardened and its military resources have grown. And the mainland has warned it will invade if talks on uniting the two sides fail to make progress.
China passed Germany and Japan to become the second-largest economy behind the United States. Its military spending also is No. 2 after Washington at $293 billion in 2021 following a 27-year string of increases, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
The political landscape also has been changed by the rise of Xi, who has amassed more power over the past decade than any Chinese leader since at least the 1980s and wants to be seen as restoring the country to its historic greatness. That includes being more assertive abroad and stepping up pressure on Taiwan.
The ruling party has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to develop fighter planes, submarines, an aircraft carrier and other high-tech weapons. It is working on “carrier killer” missiles that are believed to be meant to block the U.S. Navy from defending Taiwan in the event of an attack. The PLA sends growing numbers of fighters and bombers to fly near Taiwan.
Beijing's bigger economy and global role also give it more diplomatic tools to show its anger to Washington. The Biden administration wants Chinese cooperation on climate, fighting the coronavirus and other global challenges, all of which Beijing could disrupt.
Washington and Beijing already are mired in conflicts over trade, Hong Kong, Beijing's treatment of Muslim minorities and Chinese claims to large sections of the South China and East China Seas.
Pelosi is hardly new to irking Beijing. As a rookie member of Congress in 1991, she unfurled a black-and-white banner on Tiananmen Square that said, “To those who died for democracy.” This came two years after the bloody crackdown in which hundreds, perhaps thousands were killed. Diplomatic protocol prevented Chinese police from detaining Pelosi.
A visit to Taiwan could cause long-term harm to U.S.-Chinese relations, said Liu Jiangyong, an international relations specialist at Tsinghua University.
Allowing a visit to go ahead “will affect the credibility of recent promises the Biden administration has made,” Liu said. Dialogue between Biden and Xi about other issues “may all be seriously affected.”
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AP researcher Yu Bing in Beijing and AP Writers David Rising in Bangkok and Lolita C. Baldor in Sydney contributed.
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Ubiquitome's Liberty16 Pro ready to carve up next COVID wave
Faster mobile PCR test device helping business continuity
CHICAGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ubiquitome, which won through the United States' NIH RADx shark tank COVID innovation initiative in 2020 and got FDA emergency use authorisation together with Yale's School of Public Health, has developed an even faster COVID PCR testing tool.
It is revealing the Liberty16 Pro at the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Chicago today.
Dr Paul Pickering, Ubiquitome's CEO, says the Liberty16 Pro allows workplaces of up to 500 employees to conduct COVID-testing efficiently with a single, real time PCR device. Surveillance testing at onsite locations can give better early warning, as well as potentially being more cost effective than rapid antigen tests.
"The need for diagnostics that advance clinical care and public health has never been greater with the mutation of Omicron variants picking up speed," Dr Pickering says.
Now Ubiquitome has developed an advanced version of its mobile real time PCR device, to expand testing capacity and enable pathogen detection with a multiplex assay and even greater speed - while retaining the existing simplicity of use.
It was simplicity of use that won over the companies and organisations like Ballance Kapuni, Napier Port and a large New Zealand surgical hospital.
The Liberty16 mobile PCR system allowed them to instigate surveillance - checking patients pre-admission, monitoring staff, splitting teams into shifts, and keeping vital supply chain services running.
After training by Ubiquitome, many companies and organisations set up dedicated rooms on site and interpret sample results with ease through Ubiquitome's proprietary mobile phone app.
"Developments in the Liberty16 Pro potentially expand testing capacity without sacrificing the assay's detection sensitivity, while further reducing test consumable costs and retaining the unique features which are best fit to a near-patient setting," Dr Pickering says.
The Ubiquitome team is at the 2022 AACC to demonstrate the technology and provide relevant scientific data.
The Liberty16 and Liberty16 Pro are research use only devices, not for diagnostic purposes. The Liberty16 has FDA emergency use authorisation for use with the Yale School of Public Health SalivaDirect™ SARS-CoV-2 assay for diagnostic purposes at certain designated CLIA laboratories.
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The partnership helps create a holistic view of a building's DNA and enhances data-driven decision-making to improve the built environment.
NORTHBROOK, Ill., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UL Solutions, a global leader in applied safety science, and StratusVue, a provider of cloud-based project management solutions for commercial construction projects, announced StratusVue's StratusLink™ powered by UL Solutions, a partnership to further develop and integrate the companies' platforms to enable as-built data linking and management for construction information. StratusLink™ powered by UL Solutions will link construction as-built data to UL Solutions product and life safety data in UL Product iQ®, the UL Solutions online location for certification information, and UL SPOT, the UL Solutions database containing product sustainability.
"In the built environment, it is critical to efficiently leverage and access data to help advance safe, smart and sustainable buildings," said John Goecke, CEO at StratusVue. "Linking asset information to built data with product safety and standards information will provide a better understanding of what is contained in a building. Linking information to UL Solutions presents a more holistic view of a building."
StratusVue's partnership with UL Solutions will provide information that will help enable safer buildings. "This, however, is just the tip of the iceberg. Our machine learning and deep linking will allow building owners and managers to access all their building documents in an intelligent and simple way for better, healthier buildings," Goecke said.
"Many factors are impacting the health of work environments," said Neil Lakomiak project management director of the Built Environment group, UL Solutions. "Creating a safe, smart and sustainable building is critically important as stakeholders — from tenants and staff to visitors — have placed a heightened importance on building health and wellness as a key factor in the gradual return to in-person work. Reducing risk and cost associated with occupant health issues, while helping improve productivity and work environmental quality, can also help improve employee and occupant performance. It can also increase the value of a building and company while providing visibility into potential problems so they can be addressed early and with documented solutions. Through our partnership with StratusVue, we believe linking documents to products and plans creates a holistic view into a building's DNA and is the next step in data-driven decision making as it relates to improving the built environment."
About StratusVue
StratusVue provides a leading integrated construction management platform that connects people with the information they need to succeed in construction and the built environment. StratusLink has been developed to help all users semantically understand unstructured data via advanced machine learning and intelligence tools.
About UL Solutions
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Certification Marks serve as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflect an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
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Of 221 requests pending for CBI probe, Maharashtra tops with 168 involving Rs 29,000 crore: Centre
Of the total requests seeking permission for the federal agency to probe the cases involving an amount of Rs 30,912.28 crore, 27 are pending with West Bengal involving Rs 1,193.80 crore, nine with Punjab involving Rs 255.32 crore, seven with Chhattisgarh Rs 80.35 crore, six with Jharkhand Rs 330.57 crore and four with Rajasthan Rs 12.06 crore, according to a written reply by Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh.
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As many as 221 requests seeking consent for CBI probe are pending with six states, with Maharashtra receiving the highest of 168 of them involving a whopping amount of Rs 29,000 crore, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. Of the total requests seeking permission for the federal agency to probe the cases involving an amount of Rs 30,912.28 crore, 27 are pending with West Bengal involving Rs 1,193.80 crore, nine with Punjab (involving Rs 255.32 crore), seven with Chhattisgarh (Rs 80.35 crore), six with Jharkhand (Rs 330.57 crore) and four with Rajasthan (Rs 12.06 crore), according to a written reply by Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh. The highest of 168 requests (involving an amount of Rs 29,040.18 crore) seeking consent for CBI probe are pending with Maharashtra, as on June 30, 2022, it said. Giving details of pendency, the minister said 91 requests are pending with Maharashtra for less than six months, 38 for more than six months and less than one year and 39 for over a year.
Of the total of 27 requests seeking consent from West Bengal for the CBI probe, 25 are pending for less than six months, one for six months to one year and one for over a year, the reply said.
In Punjab, five requests are pending for less than six months and four for six months to one year, it said.
Six requests are pending for less than six months and one for six months to one year, in Chhattisgarh. In Jharkhand, four requests for consent for CBI probe are pending for less than six months and two for more than six months and one year time, the reply said.
Two requests are pending with Rajasthan for less than six months and two others for six months to one year, it said.
As on June 30, 2022, a total of 101 requests under Section 17A of Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act 1988, involving 235 public servants, are pending with various ministries and departments of the Union government and public sector banks, the reply said.
Section 17(A) of PC Act, 1988 provides for previous approval of the competent authority for an enquiry/inquiry/investigation of offences relatable to recommendations made or decision taken by public servant in discharge of official functions or duties, it said. The Act lays down the time line of three months, extendable by one month, for decision by the competent authority, the reply said. In another reply, the government said nine states, including Maharashtra, Chhattisgrah, Rajasthan, Punjab and Meghalaya, have withdrawn general consent for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe cases in their jurisdiction.
According to Section 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act, 1946, the CBI needs the consent from the respective state government for conducting investigation in its jurisdiction, Singh said. Power of the CBI to investigate emanates from the DSPE Act. In terms of the provision of Section 6 of the DSPE Act, 1946, some state governments have granted a general consent to CBI for the investigation of specified class of offences against specified categories of persons, enabling CBI to register and investigate those specified matter, he said.
Mizoram, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala, Jharkhand, Punjab and Meghalaya have withdrawn or not given general consent to the CBI to investigate cases, according to the minister’s reply.
In states where general consent has not been accorded or where the general consent does not cover the particular case, there is requirement of specific consent of the state government under Section 6 of the DSPE Act, 1946, Singh said. Only when the consent of the state government is received, can extension of jurisdiction of CBI under provisions of Section 5 of the DSPE Act, 1946, be considered, he added.
The Supreme Court and high courts also entrust matters for investigation or enquiry to CBI and in such cases, there is no requirement for any notification conveying consent under section 5 or 6 of the DSPE Act, 1946, Singh said. “CBI has the capacity, capability and a robust mechanism laid out through the SOPs/guidelines/circulars, issued from time to time, to investigate cases, including cases pertaining to crimes of serious nature or anti-national activities,” the minister said.
Section 2 of the Act vests DSPE with jurisdiction to investigate offenses notified under section 3 of the Act in the Union Territories only, he said. The jurisdiction of the DSPE can be extended by the central government to other areas, including railway areas and states under Section 5(1) of the Act, provided a state government accords consent under Section 6 of the Act, Singh said. PTI AKV SRY
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Paul M. Collins, Jr., UMass Amherst and Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University
(THE CONVERSATION) Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning half a century of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, nearly two-thirds of Americans want fundamental court reform, specifically term limits for Supreme Court justices.
Indeed, on July 25, 2022, Democrats introduced a bill that would allow a new justice to take the bench every two years and spend 18 years in active service.
The majority that overturned Roe was possible only because of the current system in which justices serve for life and are therefore able to choose when and whether to step down.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett owes her seat to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to retire under a Democratic president and her subsequent death under a Republican.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on the court because of Reagan appointee Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to step down under a GOP administration. Justice Neil Gorsuch was appointed after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia happened to die after President Donald Trump took office.
The author of the opinion in Dobbs, Justice Samuel Alito, took his seat when Republican Justice Sandra Day O’Connor chose to leave under President George W. Bush.
Justice Clarence Thomas – the leader of the court’s conservative majority – has served on the high court for over three decades and is there only because liberal icon Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to retire under a Democratic president and subsequently died with a Republican in office.
All federal judges in the U.S., including Supreme Court justices, enjoy life tenure.
Under Article 3 of the Constitution, justices cannot be forced out of office against their will, barring impeachment. This provision, which followed the precedent of Great Britain, is meant to ensure judicial independence that allows judges to render decisions based on their understandings of the law – free from political, social and electoral influences.
Our extensive research on the Supreme Court shows life tenure, while well intended, has had unforeseen consequences.
It skews how the confirmation process and judicialdecision-making work and causes justices who want to retire to behave like political operatives.
Problems with lifetime tenure
Life tenure has motivated presidents to pick younger and younger justices.
In the post-World War II era, presidents generally forgo appointing jurists in their 60s, who would bring a great deal of experience, and instead nominate judges in their 40s or 50s, who could serve on the court for many decades.
And they do.
When Thomas was appointed at age 43 by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, he famously said he would serve for 43 years. There are another dozen years until his promise is met, should he choose to keep it at all.
Partisanship problems
Justices change during their decades on the bench, research shows.
Justices who at the time of their confirmation espoused views that reflected the general public, the Senate and the president who appointed them tend to move away from those preferences over time. They become more ideological, focused on putting their own policy preferences into law.
Other Americans’ political preferences tend to be stable throughout their lives.
The consequence is that Supreme Court justices may no longer reflect the America they preside over.
This can be problematic.
If the court were to routinely stray too far from the public’s values, the public could reject its dictates by refusing to follow the court’s decisions. The Supreme Court relies on public confidence to maintain its legitimacy. In addition to public resistance to its decisions, if the court lost its legitimacy, lower court judges and legislative and executive branch actors might resist implementing the court’s rulings.
Life tenure has also turned staffing the Supreme Court into an increasingly partisan process, politicizing one of the nation’s most powerful institutions.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Supreme Court nominees could generally expect broad, bipartisan support in the Senate. Today, judicial confirmation votes are almost strictly down party lines.
Public support for judicial nominees is likewise shaped by partisanship. Simply put, Democrats are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Democratic presidents, and Republicans are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Republican presidents.
Life tenure can turn supposedly independent judges into political players who attempt to time their departures to secure their preferred successors – and this may have factored in to Justice Stephen Breyer’s decision this year under President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Biden appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of Breyer’s former clerks, to replace him.
The proposed solution
Many Supreme Courtexperts have coalesced around a solution to these problems: staggered 18-year terms with a vacancy automatically occurring every two years in nonelection years.
This system would promote judicial legitimacy, they argue, by taking departure decisions out of the justices’ hands.
It would help insulate the court from becoming a campaign issue because vacancies would no longer arise during election years. Indeed, even if a justice died during an election year, a lower court judge could be temporarily elevated as a replacement. Term limits would also preserve judicial independence by shielding the court from political calls to fundamentally alter the institution.
Partisanship would still tinge the selection and confirmation of judges by the president and Senate and ideological extremists could still reach the Supreme Court. But they would be limited to 18-year terms.
Instituting life tenure
The U.S. Supreme Court is one of the world’s few high courts whose members have life tenure.
Almost all democratic nations have either fixed terms or mandatory retirement ages for their top judges, including the United Kingdom.
Except for Rhode Island, all U.S. states either have mandatory retirement ages or let voters choose when judges leave the bench through judicial elections.
Even before Dobbs, polling consistently showed a large bipartisanmajority of Americans supported ending life tenure for Supreme Court justices.
This view comes amid reports of eroding public confidence as the court routinely issues decisions down partisan lines on the day’s most controversial issues.
Although judges’ ideology has long influenced Supreme Court decisions, today’s court is unusual because all the conservative justices are Republicans and all the liberal justices are Democrats. In the past, it was not uncommon to have liberal-leaning justices who were appointed by Republican presidents, and conservative-leaning justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents.
In April 2021, President Biden formed a committee to examine reforming the Supreme Court, including term-limiting justices.
Some argue that to end the justices’ life tenure would require a constitutional amendment necessitating approval from two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of U.S. states. But there is a way to enact term limits short of amendment.
The Constitution does not speak of “life tenure” per se. It states only that justices serve “during good behavior” and does not specify the type of work that justices will do.
As a result, ordinary legislation – such as that introduced this week – could be passed by a majority of both houses of Congress that would require justices to take “senior status” at the end of their 18-year terms.
Senior status is already an option for justices who qualify for it and wish to step down from their Supreme Court duties. Senior status allows them either to retire or to sit on a lower court with undiminished salary for the remainder of their careers.
All that is needed, these proponents argue, is a change in the existing retirement statute that requires senior status after 18 years on the court.
And while there are questions over whether term limits via statute are constitutional, or whether the Supreme Court justices who would be affected by them are the appropriate body to make such a determination, the larger question is whether there is or will be the political will in Congress to enact them.
This story has been updated from the original version published on July 6, 2021.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/after-roes-overturning-americans-are-demanding-supreme-court-term-limits-187040.
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US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate Appeals to the Family of a Navy Vietnam War Veteran Who Has Mesothelioma to Call the Legal Team at Danziger & De Llano to Ensure to Best Compensation Results - It Might Be Millions of Dollars
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate, "If your husband or dad is a Navy Vietnam War Veteran and he has just been diagnosed with mesothelioma anywhere in the USA please make financial compensation a top priority and call the remarkable legal team at the law firm of Danziger De Llano at 800-864-4000 for superior results. Financial compensation for a person like this might be millions of dollars as the team at Danziger De Llano is always happy to discuss.
"Navy Veterans who now have mesothelioma and who served in the Vietnam era could have been exposed to asbestos on their ship, at a shipyard in Subic Bay, Long Beach, Honolulu, San Diego or Hunters Point. A Navy Vietnam Veteran with mesothelioma may have also been exposed to significant amounts of asbestos if the served in the Navy Seabees in Vietnam.
"If you are a Navy Veteran who served in the Vietnam war, and you have recently been diagnosed with mesothelioma or this is your family member we have endorsed and we recommend the remarkable legal team at the law firm of Danziger De Llano and we are encouraging you to call them anytime at 800-864-4000 before you hire another law firm. We are certain you will be glad you did." https://meso.dandell.com
These are some actual compensation results the Danziger De Llano client received after attorney's fees for Navy Veterans with mesothelioma.
- $4,750,000 Compensation Result received by a Navy Veteran who was exposed to asbestos products throughout his career in the Navy.
- $3,921,750 Compensation Result received by a man who developed mesothelioma at age 68. He was exposed to asbestos products through his service in the Navy, as an auto mechanic, and while working in construction.
- $3,600,450 Compensation Result received by a gentleman who developed mesothelioma at the age of 67. He was exposed to asbestos products through his service in the Navy and as a construction contractor on commercial and residential projects.
- $3,403,890 Compensation Result received by a gentleman who developed mesothelioma at the age of 57. He was exposed to asbestos products through his service in the Navy and as a refrigeration and air conditioning mechanic.
- $3,222,450 Compensation Result received by a Veteran who developed mesothelioma at the age of 63. He was exposed to asbestos products through his service in the Navy and as a machinist at various manufacturing plants.
According to the CDC the states indicated with the highest incidence of mesothelioma include Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Louisiana, Washington, and Oregon.
However, based on the calls the US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate receives a US Navy Veteran who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma could live in any state including New York, Florida, California, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, or Alaska. www.dandell.com
For more information about mesothelioma, please refer to the National Institutes of Health's web site related to this rare form of cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/types/mesothelioma
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AP govt to launch own TV news channel
At its recent meeting, the Board of APSFL cleared the proposal to launch AP Fiber News, highly-placed official sources told PTI.To begin with, the channel will beam all news related to the state government through its Fiber-to-Home FTH network.We are looking into various aspects related to the other content that could possibly be aired through the channel.
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The Andhra Pradesh government will soon launch a Telugu television news channel of its own, to highlight Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy-led government's initiatives, ahead of the next general election due in early 2024.
The AP State FiberNet Limited (APSFL), a state government entity, will launch the channel under the brand name ''AP Fiber News''. At its recent meeting, the Board of APSFL cleared the proposal to launch AP Fiber News, highly-placed official sources told PTI.
To begin with, the channel will beam all news related to the state government through its Fiber-to-Home (FTH) network.
''We are looking into various aspects related to the other content that could possibly be aired through the channel. We are also yet to decide about the modalities of the news channel, whether to run it on our own or outsource it,'' the sources said.
The Chief Minister currently owns Sakshi television news channel and a newspaper in Telugu. The government, as well as the ruling YSRC, have been highly critical of three major Telugu news channels, implying they are biased towards the main opposition Telugu Desam Party.
However, two other top two Telugu TV news channels have been accused of ostensible tilt towards Reddy.
In this backdrop, the government has decided to foray into the media space to tell its own stories to the people.
The APSFL currently has 10 lakh subscribers to its FTH triple-play services that include television channels, a fixed telephone line and broadband Internet.
It plans to increase the subscriber base to about 50-60 lakh connections by the end of this year. If the plan fructifies, about 50 per cent of the households in the state will have been covered by FTH.
''Our news channel will start with such a massive base. That will give us a distinct advantage of taking the government programmes to the people without any distortions,'' a top official of APSFL noted.
While AP Fiber News will initially be aired through APSFL's FTH network, plans are also afoot to rope in the other multi-system operators to beam it on their networks.
''Since it is a government channel, the MSOs will be required to air it. We will later take it to the Direct-to-Home networks as well,'' the official added.
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Virtual Role-Players Help People with Autism or Other Disabilities Find Employment by Teaching Job Interview Skills
SIMmersion developed a comprehensive job interview training system to support the transition of youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other disabilities from secondary education to competitive employment.
COLUMBIA, Md., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Bureau of Labor reports that only 17% of transition-age youth with disabilities are employed. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Job interview skills are a critical component of job readiness training for transition-age youth. For these people, the interview skills present a barrier to employment. To help overcome this barrier, and with funding from NIMH and the Kessler Foundation, SIMmersion (www.simmersion.com) and Matthew J. Smith, PhD, Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan collaborated to create a comprehensive training system with virtual role-players, called "Job Interview Training for Transition-Age Youth."
During development, the team partnered directly with youth with autism spectrum disorders, their parents, teachers, community employers, and employed adults with autism spectrum disorders to ensure the program reflected the needs of the target population. Funding was also used to ensure the program reflected the needs of transition-age youth with other disabilities or involved in juvenile justice.
The training system features virtual role-play interviewers, Rita Muniz and Travis Bishop. No two interviews are alike, so students get a new and unique experience with each practice interview. The training also features a real-time coach who provides on-going feedback, so students learn as they practice. The practice and feedback prepare students for competitive job interviews. Students reported that the program was enjoyable, easy-to-use, and reduced anxiety during real interviews.
In comparison with the expected 17% employment, a research study with 332 students showed much better results for students with various disabilities after a short 6-month period as shown in the figure below.
The study also found that the employment rate depended on the number of times the students practiced with the virtual role-players. For all categories, students who practiced 15 or more interviews gained employment 71% of the time within 6 months.
The research shows that the comprehensive training with virtual role-players will help fill a critical training gap for transition-age youth. For free educational content and to sample role-play interviews click here.
SIMmersion's mission is to train communication skills faster and more effectively by combining the world's most realistic simulation experiences with interactive training content and extensive feedback. For more information contact SIMmersion by calling 443 283 2555 or online at www.simmersion.com/contact.
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Visit Israel in 2022: Rising Tourism Numbers, New Hotel Openings, Refurbishments and More
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Israel Ministry of Tourism has announced that tourism arrival numbers, for the first time in over two years, are approaching the same record-breaking numbers of summer, 2019. This upward trend comes on the heels of the country reopening to international travelers regardless of vaccination status in March.
"We are thrilled that travelers from all over the world are eager to visit Israel again; ever since our total reopening to all travelers, we are seeing an influx of visitors," said Eyal Carlin, Tourism Commissioner for North America. "With new hotels, restorations and renovations to many historical sites, new tour offerings, and new restaurants in every region we are seeing that the demand to visit Israel is very high--and with all the amazing things to do in Israel, there's never been a better time to visit."
Since March of this year, the Ministry has seen exponential growth month over month, and the country expects to be back to pre-COVID, 2019 numbers very soon. During June of 2022, Israel saw 112.7k North American tourists (excluding day visitors & cruise passengers) while in June of 2019 there were around 131.8k North American tourists who entered the country.
"It's exciting to see continuous growth in travel to Israel from the Canadian market," said Gal Hana, Director Counsel of Canada for the Israel Ministry of Tourism. "With a number of upgrades in accessibility, hotel openings, and of course the natural beauty of the country Israel should be at the top of everyone's travel list this year!"
With tourism on the brink of returning and exceeding 2019 numbers, the country has put forward several announcements highlighting how Israel remains focused on the tourism sector including:
- Israel's Ministry of Tourism and the Investment Administration recently announced 107 entrepreneurs have applied for grants from the Ministry of Tourism to establish new hotels. Investors are seeking to establish and convert existing buildings to hotels and expand existing buildings or restore them to their original purpose. The Israel Ministry of Tourism has earmarked NIS 165 million ($49 million) in grants to support plans for the establishment.
- Numerous hotels have opened over the last six months and more plan to open throughout 2022 and 2023 including the Six Senses Shaharut, Brut Brown Hotel, The David Kempinski Tel Aviv, Nobu Hotel Tel Aviv, Isrotel's Port Tower Hotel, Alberto Tel Aviv, and more.
- Tel Aviv Pride 2022 saw 10K+ tourists this year and the Pride parade, which took place on June 10, saw over 170,000 people marching and celebrating.
- Free guided tours to the public were brought back in February meaning, tens of thousands of free tours are now being offered every day of the week. To-date, more than 1,800 tour guides have responded to the invitation to participate in this project and tours are being offered in English, Russian, French and Arabic in addition to the Hebrew-guided tours currently available.
- The food and beverage scene continues to thrive as Israel remains a top foodie destination. Travelers can expect to see over 300 wineries, new breweries and distilleries including Jerusalem's new Thinker's Distillery, more restaurants in local markets using fresh local produce, vegan options galore, and more.
- Accessibility in the Old City has greatly improved. Years in the making, nearly 4 miles of streets and alleyways in the Old City have been made accessible with the installation of hand railings and ramps. Another great advancement is the addition of the app, Step-Hear, which assists and supports the visually impaired.
- Western Wall infrastructure upgrades are in progress. As one of Israel's most iconic and top-visited sites, Israel has approved a $35 million upgrade to the Western Wall. The plan aims to encourage more visits to the site by improving public transportation accessibility, developing new educational programs and continuing existing development projects.
- New flight routes continue to hit the market. Beginning on October 29, American Airlines will be upgrading its Miami to Tel Aviv flight to daily service. El Al has resumed their non-stop service from Boston's Logan Airport and added a third weekly flight to the destination, and in May, Delta announced a non-stop route from Boston.
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NCW summons Adhir for 'rashtrapatni' comment, asks Sonia to take action
The National Commission for Women on Thursday issued notice to Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to appear before it in person and tender a written explanation for calling President Droupadi Murmu rashtrapatni.The Commission, which scheduled Chowdhurys hearing for next week Wednesday at 11.30 am, also wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to intervene and take appropriate action against Chowdhury for his derogatory remark.
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The National Commission for Women on Thursday issued notice to Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to appear before it in person and tender a written explanation for calling President Droupadi Murmu 'rashtrapatni'.
The Commission, which scheduled Chowdhury's hearing for next week Wednesday at 11.30 am, also wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to intervene and take appropriate action against Chowdhury for his derogatory remark. The reference to India's first tribal president as 'rashtrapatni' has drawn a fresh battleline between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress. The BJP has demanded an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The NCW and 13 state commissions for women issued a joint statement, saying Chowdhury's remark was ''deeply insulting, sexist and constitute an attempt to humiliate the Hon'ble President''. ''We call upon right-thinking persons to condemn his words in the strongest possible language,'' read the statement by NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma as well as representatives of 13 state commissions, including that of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan, present at the quarterly meeting in Visakhapatnam.
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Vita Inclinata Expands Vita Rescue System (VRS) Sales to Africa and South America Through United Aero Group (UAG) Partnership
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vita Inclinata (Vita), developer and producer of precision aerospace and industrial stabilization devices, today announced a partnership with United Aero Group (UAG), an OEM authorized independent service provider focused on rotary support for both commercial and military customers around the world. The partnership will enable UAG to resell the Vita Rescue System (VRS) to search and rescue/combat search and rescue/emergency medical services (SAR/CSAR/EMS) customers who operate hoist-equipped aircraft throughout Africa and South America. UAG views the VRS as a critical life-saving tool paramount to helping these specific customers save lives.
UAG is a General Electric service provider of engine spare parts and the exclusive Sikorsky S-61 distributor with over 6,000 line items of available inventory. The team is an expert in repairs, supply chain management, and significant logistics capabilities. Its customers operate helicopters worldwide in the energy and power and utility restricted category, firefighting, search and rescue, and military sectors.
The VRS enables helicopter crews greater speed, safety, and control on hoisting operations, allowing them to complete hoists four times faster than traditional taglines. Vita offers the only life-saving solution of its kind that will enable UAG to enter a new market with the potential to realize millions of added revenue dollars annually.
"Our teams recognize that offering the VRS through the UAG marketplace of customers is a win-win relationship for both companies," said Jamie Gelder, UAG President and CEO of UAG. "It will also propel market penetration to a customer base eager to learn more about this exciting product line."
"We are excited to be partnering with such a respected company within the aviation community," said Caleb Carr, President, and CEO of Vita. "The agreement represents an important channel to get a faster and more efficient means of helicopter rescue into the hands of those who require new life-saving innovations."
A friend's death during a rescue operation—with a helicopter close but unable to stabilize due to weather and terrain—was the genesis of Vita Inclinata. Founded in 2015 as a way to solve a real problem, Vita today controls chaotic swinging and spin and adds safety and precision for rotor-wing and fixed-wing aircraft and cranes. With the mission of "Bring them home, every time," Vita's technology changes the narrative while saving lives, time, and money across industries, including search and rescue, military, firefighting, public safety, construction, wind energy, and oil and gas. The company is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, with offices in Washington, DC, and Huntsville, Alabama. For more information, please visit www.vitatech.co.
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VIENNA (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Vienna on Thursday for bilateral talks that focused on migration as well as on the war in Ukraine and its consequences.
The meeting of the two central European leaders came only days after one of Orban’s closest associates resigned in protest over what she called a “pure Nazi” speech given by the Hungarian prime minister in which he railed against Europe becoming a “mixed race” society.
Nehammer sought to quickly distance himself from Orban's controversial remarks, telling reporters in Vienna that he made clear to the Hungarian prime minister that “we in Austria reject, condemn in the strongest terms, any form of trivialization or relativization of racism or even antisemitism.”
While Orban’s anti-migrant stance and criticism of Western liberal values have long prompted a backlash, Saturday’s speech sparked a fresh wave of outrage throughout Europe and from the opposition in Hungary. In it, Orban declared that countries with large-scale migration from outside of Europe “are no longer nations.”
While Orban did not explicitly repeat these remarks in Vienna on Thursday, he stressed his anti-migration agenda and insisted on what he saw as the need to defend his country's culture against outside influence.
“I don’t want Hungary to become an immigration country and I don’t want migration to become stronger in Hungary," he said. "I have always held this point of view and I will continue to do so, this has no biological basis. This is not a racial issue for us. This is a question of culture. Quite simply, our civilization should be preserved as it is now.”
Nehammer, for his part, depicted migration as a “challenge” that needs to be fought.
Austria has taken in over 80,000 refugees from Ukraine and around 30,000 additional asylum applications during the first half of the year, the chancellor pointed out, calling the arrival of these people “challenges that Austria is actually facing now in addition to the energy crisis, in addition to inflation, in addition to the pandemic.”
In comparison, Germany has registered more than 900,000 refugees only from Ukraine since the outbreak of the war.
Both the Austrian and Hungarian leaders said their countries were planning a conference with Serbia on how to “curb irregular migration.”
Nehammer and Orban said they also discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its consequences on Europe, especially regarding sanctions against Russian energy exports, as well the two countries' economic ties.
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Ana Angarita brings nearly 20 years of fashion retail experience to Stand Out For Good, Inc. family of brands
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vow'd Weddings, part of the Stand Out For Good, Inc. family of brands, welcomes Ana Angarita as vice president of store experience, further elevating the wedding retail experience for Vow'd brides.
"I am delighted to join the Vow'd team and support the growth and guest experience of an extraordinary brand," said Angarita. "Vow'd and Stand Out For Good, Inc. are known for the highest quality merchandise, unparalleled service and having a heart for giving back. I look forward to advancing the brand and growing with this organization."
Ana Angarita joins Vow'd and Stand Out For Good, Inc. after more than 19 years with Victoria's Secret. Most recently serving as the vice president of store operations and head of stores for the company's travel retail division, Angarita led visual merchandising and marketing operations and learning and development for the home office and store teams.
"Within a few short years, the Vow'd bride has been loud and clear—our stores and guest experience are what distinguish our brand. Ana's arrival shows we are committed to continuing that journey and building a best-in-class bridal environment," said Nicole Sewall, senior vice president of Vow'd. "I'm excited to work with Ana to meld her wonderful experience with our brand vision and deliver a truly different kind of wedding brand."
Most recently, the company announced the addition of Tana Ward as brand president leading the company's new contemporary home brand.
About Vow'd
Vow'd is a different kind of wedding brand. Vow'd believes every bride deserves a beautifully crafted dress and accessories at an honest price and a shopping experience that is uncomplicated and fun. The Vow'd bride is thoughtful, adventurous and involved in her community. Her wedding day is a reflection of these values, and she seeks out brands that reflect her lifestyle. To meet her where she's at, Vow'd pairs its distinctive product assortment with best-in-class technology solutions for the modern bride, including try-at-home and virtual appointments. Launched in June 2020, Vow'd is a rapidly growing brand with six brick-and-mortar locations in Tennessee, North Carolina, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with plans to open 11 additional storefronts by mid-2023. For more information, visit vowdweddings.com.
About Stand Out For Good, Inc.
Stand Out For Good, Inc. is a purpose-based, inspiring lifestyle and fashion family of brands rooted in community and committed to giving back. From welcoming experiences and warm associates to thoughtfully curated products in-store and online, Stand Out For Good, Inc. represents 127 Altar'd State stores, 35 Arula boutiques, six Vow'd boutiques and three Tullabee boutiques in 39 states. Stand Out For Good is built upon the founding principles of giving back and making a difference in the world. Locally in communities nationwide and globally too, Stand Out For Good, Inc. has partnered with over 4,000 nonprofits that provide relief, compassion, resources, education and love. To learn more about the Stand Out For Good, Inc. family of brands, visit their websites at altardstate.com, arula.com, vowdweddings.com and tullabee.com.
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Punjab CM slams Simranjit Mann for calling Bhagat Singh ‘terrorist'
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday slammed SAD Amritsar chief Simranjit Singh Mann for calling Bhagat Singh a terrorist and said the freedom fighter will always remain an ideal for the youth.The Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar leader has been under fire over his controversial remark on the freedom fighter.Replying to a question from reporters, the chief minister criticised Simranjit Singh Mann, who was recently elected as an MP from Sangrur, for the shameful remark.Who are they to say that somebody was a terrorist the CM said.
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday slammed SAD (Amritsar) chief Simranjit Singh Mann for calling Bhagat Singh a "terrorist" and said the freedom fighter will always remain an ideal for the youth.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) leader has been under fire over his controversial remark on the freedom fighter.
Replying to a question from reporters, the chief minister criticized Simranjit Singh Mann, who was recently elected as an MP from Sangrur, for the "shameful" remark.
"Who are they to say that somebody was a terrorist?" the CM said. "Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat attained martyrdom at the age of 23 years. He is an ideal for the youth and will always remain so.'' The CM said Bhagat Singh is revered even in Pakistan.
Bhagwant Mann said his government has put up pictures of Bhagat Singh and Dr B R Ambedkar at all its offices.
Earlier this month, Simranjit Singh Mann had defended calling Bhagat Singh a "terrorist" in the past.
''Try to understand, Sardar Bhagat Singh had killed a young English officer, he killed an Amritdhari Sikh constable, Channan Singh. He had hurled a bomb in the National Assembly at that time. Now, you tell me whether Bhagat Singh was a terrorist or not,'' Simranjit Mann had told reporters in Karnal.
Mann stood by his remark in Delhi when he went there to take oath as an MP after winning the Sangrur bypoll.
Punjab minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer had asked Simranjit Mann, known in the past for being sympathetic to the idea of "Khalistan", to apologize for his remark.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — With its cheery unicorn printed case, Ana Morazan's iPhone contains all that's left of what she calls her “other world," referring to her middle-class life before back-to-back hurricanes destroyed her home in Honduras.
There are glam shots of the 42-year-old with blond, salon-styled hair, impeccable makeup and cocktail dresses. And pictures of her as a home health aide in her white medical coat, smiling proudly as a professional who owned her home and was living debt-free.
The comfortable life she built from years of hard work and sacrifice disappeared in a span of two weeks when she became part of the estimated 1.7 million people displaced by the hurricanes Eta and Iota that pummeled Honduras and Guatemala in November 2020.
Morazan and her boyfriend, Fredi Juarez, who moved in with her during the pandemic, say they fell into debt trying to rebuild Morazan's home and then started getting threats. The couple has been on the move ever since and are currently living in a tent at a crowded Tijuana shelter.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series exploring the lives of people around the world who have been forced to move because of rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other things caused or exacerbated by climate change.
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The photos and videos in Morazan's iPhone both console and torment her. They remind her of who she was and what she had, giving her hope of getting there again, but also serving as evidence of how quickly it was wiped out from the storms that led to her becoming a migrant.
She wipes a tear as she watches a video she recorded of the destruction near San Pedro Sula. In the video, she scans each room of her once spotless home, painted a bright lime color, and now splattered in dirt. Then she stares into the camera and says: “All I have is mud and more mud and more mud.”
The couple said since leaving, they have been attacked, kidnapped, and robbed, keeping them on the move. Now she and Juarez are among tens of thousands of Central Americans in Mexican border cities seeking to request asylum in the U.S., but they are blocked by a pandemic-related health order that was invoked by the Trump administration and has continued under President Joe Biden.
While fear of violence keeps them from trying to return to Honduras, even if they did go back, they would have no place to live. If Eta and Iota had not hit, it would not have started a chain reaction of other things that forced them to flee.
“All our problems started with the hurricanes,” said Juarez, 48.
No nation offers asylum to people displaced specifically because of climate change, though the Biden administration has studied climate migration to explore options. Each year, storms, drought, wildfires and other natural disasters force an average of 21.5 million people from their homes around the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Honduras was among 11 countries identified as being of greatest concern in the U.S. government's first assessment by intelligence agencies on the impact of climate change and its vast rippling effects on the world's stability that was released last year. But identifying climate migrants is not easy, especially in regions rife with violence.
“I just ask that President Biden helps me," Morazan said. “It's not easy for us, given our age. It's been a nightmare. Your life can change in a second. We were living well. Now we don't know what is going to happen day by day."
After Eta hit, Morazan cleaned out buckets of mud from the living room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom and tried to restore her life. With the pandemic hurting the economy, she had already been struggling to pay her bills, including covering the medical expenses of her nephew who has a heart problem.
Then 13 days later, Iota destroyed the little she had managed to salvage. Juarez, a long-haul trucker who had been away on a trip, returned and tried to help. But both ended up getting laid off and they each started borrowing money to get by while trying to repair the home. Morazan borrowed about 340,000 in Honduran lempira (US$14,000), while Juarez borrowed about 80,000 lempiras (US$3,200) .
They ended up sleeping on the streets in the San Pedro Sula area. Then she and Juarez started receiving threats with demands to fork over money or the home, even though Morazan owned it outright, and it was still nothing but a muddy shell. Not long after that, Morazan was beaten by attackers who stepped on her ankle, and she feared for her life, she said. That is when they decided to flee the country.
Being on the road for the past year has not been easy. In southern Mexico the couple said they were kidnapped by bandits and held for two days in a banana plantation until they gave up the little money they had.
“It was horrible, ugly, ugly, ugly," Morazan said.
They moved on to Guadalajara, where they got work at the airport doing security, but they were approached by drug smugglers there and so they quit and headed north to Tijuana.
They have been sleeping on a blow-up mattress on top of folded up cardboard boxes so they don't get soaked when rain enters through the gaps in the shelter's flimsy roof and soaks the floor. Morazan has been bitten by bed bugs and wears a diaper when the shelter's bathrooms become so fetid they make her want to vomit. The couple worked briefly collecting recyclables at a dump.
“We hope the United States opens its door because we won’t last here,” Juarez said.
One night a fellow migrant sleeping in a tent at the shelter was struck in the neck by a stray bullet from a shootout that erupted in the ramshackle neighborhood.
“There are cartels here and a lot of crime," Juarez said.
Morazan fights to keep her spirits up. They took in a stray Chihuahua and named him Jabibi. She has tried to dress up with clothing donated to the shelter, but the competition among the migrants has been fierce and often the best stuff is claimed within seconds of being unloaded.
Morazan put on makeup by holding a mirror inside her tent because, “I still like to feel pretty,” but she conceded that she has only bathed every two days or so because of the limited number of showers.
“It's very hard," she said. “I've been left with only the memories in my mind. At least those can't be wiped out."
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'Wonderland' Showcases Larger-Than-Life World of Whimsy, Introspection at Tuacahn Amphitheatre
IVINS, Utah, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Throughout his career, Frank Wildhorn has built a good portion of his success by taking popular stories and making them even more compelling using his signature style of music, a modern twist, and a fresh perspective — all found in a new look at the familiar story of "Alice in Wonderland" in a musical (with music by Wildhorn and lyrics by Jack Murphy) known as Wonderland.
Based on the writings of Lewis Carroll, this contemporary version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass", a modern-day Alice with a precocious 11-year-old daughter living in New York City. Alice is fighting to find her inner child amid the cynical New York City lifestyle.
Pushed to her limits by the demands of motherhood, a failing marriage and an intense work environment, Alice's connection to reality is skewed when, in a dream, she aligns herself with the title character from Alice in Wonderland and works through a variety of obstacles including a Cheshire Cat with a Latin flair, the delightfully dotty Queen of Hearts and the malicious Mad Hatter.
"It's a no-brainer fit for the Tuacahn audience," Wildhorn said. "It has a lot of hit songs; it's very family friendly. It had a twinkle in its eye and a wonderful humor," he said.
"You can tell from the glee in the actors' faces and the attention they put into the material how much they're enjoying it," Gabriel Barre, Director and Co-Author says.
One such cast member is Lexie Dorsett Sharp, tackling the iconic role of the Queen of Hearts.
Torn between her excitement at being part of a new concept of Wonderland and her amazement at the beautiful surroundings of Tuacahn, Sharp is reveling in the entire process.
"I'm sure the red rocks are old hat for people who live here, but it's absolutely stunning," Sharp said. "Coming from New York City to here, it's eye opening and beautiful."
Sharp said she loves that her character is "over the top" and can't wait to share the music, like her song, "Off With Their Heads," with audiences.
"I've had a lot of freedom to find the role, which gives a great sense of ownership," Sharp said. "She's very absurd in a lot of ways, but it's all in great fun."
Likewise, Barre said part of his enjoyment in the process with Wonderland at Tuacahn is the depth and breadth of imagination it allows.
"Theater is really an opportunity that demands the use of imagination," Barre said. "The audience's imagination is a key ingredient and we're using that to take the audience on a journey."
This journey is taking place now through Oct. 21 alongside Disney & Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. For details and tickets log onto TUACAHN.ORG or call the box office at 435-652-3300.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Worsening climate from the burning of coal and gas is intensifying a range of disasters and uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in California, rising seas overtaking island nations and drought exacerbating conflicts in various parts of the world.
Each year, natural disasters force an average of 21.5 million people from their homes around the world, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. And scientists predict migration will grow as the planet gets hotter. Over the next 30 years, 143 million people are likely to be uprooted by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other climate catastrophes, according to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published this year.
Still, the world has yet to officially recognize climate migrants or come up with formalized ways to assess their needs and help them. Here’s a look at climate migration today.
WHO ARE CLIMATE MIGRANTS?
Most climate migrants move within the borders of their homelands, usually from rural areas to cities after losing their home or livelihood because of drought, rising seas or another weather calamity. Because cities also are facing their own climate-related problems, including soaring temperatures and water scarcity, people are increasingly being forced to flee across international borders to seek refuge.
Yet climate migrants are not afforded refugee status under the 1951 Refugee Convention, which provides legal protection only to people fleeing persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or particular social group.
DEFINING CLIMATE MIGRATION
Identifying climate migrants is not easy, especially in regions rife with poverty, violence and conflicts.
While worsening weather conditions are exacerbating poverty, crime and political instability, and fueling tensions over dwindling resources from Africa to Latin America, often climate change is overlooked as a contributing factor to people fleeing their homelands. According to the UNHCR, 90% of refugees under its mandate are from countries “on the front lines of the climate emergency.”
In El Salvador, for example, scores each year leave villages because of crop failure from drought or flooding, and end up in cities where they become victims of gang violence and ultimately flee their countries because of those attacks.
“It’s hard to say that someone moves just because of climate change. Is everyone who leaves Honduras after a hurricane a climate migrant?” Elizabeth Ferris, a research professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “And then there are non-climate related environmental hazards - people flee earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis - should they be treated differently than those displaced by weather-related phenomena?"
Despite the challenges, it's vital that governments identify climate-displaced people, Ferris added.
“The whole definitional issue isn’t a trivial question - how can you develop a policy for people if you aren’t clear on who it applies to?” she wrote.
INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS
While no nations offers asylum to climate migrants, UNHCR published legal guidance in October 2020 that opens the door for offering protection to people displaced by the effects of global warming. It said that climate change should be taken into consideration in certain scenarios when it intersects with violence, though it stopped short of redefining the 1951 Refugee Convention.
The commission acknowledged that temporary protection may be insufficient if a country cannot remedy the situation from natural disasters, such as rising seas, suggesting that certain climate displaced people could be eligible for resettlement if their place of origin is considered uninhabitable.
An increasing number of countries are laying the groundwork to become safe havens for climate migrants. In May, Argentina created a special humanitarian visa for people from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean displaced by natural disasters to let them stay for three years.
Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden ordered his national security adviser to conduct a months-long study that included looking at the “options for protection and resettlement of individuals displaced directly or indirectly from climate change.” A task force was set up, but so far the administration has not adopted such a program.
Low-lying Bangladesh, which is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, has been among the first to try to adapt to the new reality of migration. Efforts are underway to identify climate-resilient towns where people displaced by sea level rise, river erosion, cyclonic storms and intrusion of saline water can move to work, and in return help their new locations economically.
TRANSFORMING DEBATES ON MIGRATION
Policy debates on migration have long centered on locking down borders. Climate change is changing that.
With hundreds of millions of people expected to be uprooted by natural disasters, there is growing discussion about how to manage migration flows rather than stop them, as for many people migration will become a survival tool, according to advocates.
“One problem is just the complete lack of understanding as to how climate is forcing people to move," said Amali Tower, founder and executive director of Climate Refugees, an advocacy group focused on raising awareness about people displaced because of climate change. “There is still this idea in the Global North (industrialized nations) that people come here because they are fleeing poverty and seeking a better life, the American Dream. In Europe, it's the same spin of the same story. But no one wants to leave their home. We've got to approach climate displacement as a human security issue and not a border security issue."
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Chowdhury's remarks on Prez: MP CM slams Cong leader, asks Sonia to respond
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said Congress Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury using the term rashtrapatni for President Droupadi Murmu was unpardonable.It is disrespectful to a woman who belongs to a tribal community and occupies the highest constitutional post in the country.
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said Congress Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury using the term 'rashtrapatni' for President Droupadi Murmu was unpardonable.
''It is disrespectful to a woman who belongs to a tribal community and occupies the highest constitutional post in the country. It is dishonour of the country's women power. The tribal sisters of the country will never pardon him for it,'' Chouhan said in a statement.
He said the Congress' mentality was anti-tribal and anti-women and asked if party chief Sonia Gandhi ''agrees with the statement of Chowdhury''.
Gnadhi must respond on whether it is right to address a person occupying the country's highest constitutional post in this manner.
Chowdhury has said the remark was a ''slip of the tongue'' and has assured he would apologise to the President.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Richmond man who was released from prison three years ago after serving 23 years for a federal drug trafficking conspiracy is going back behind bars for having a gun he bought on the street.
Following a hearing on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Keith L. Hopkins Jr., 54, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his earlier guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
Hopkins also admitted he was selling drugs again.
Richmond police caught Hopkins with a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol on Oct. 27 as they were executing an arrest warrant on another person at a convenience store. Officers observed Hopkins reach into his waistband, pull out a holstered gun and discard it in a vehicle with two people in it, according to the government’s case.
Hopkins subsequently told police that he purchased the gun “off the street” for $325. He “further stated that he sells illegal narcotics and makes approximately $500-$600 per day doing so.”
Two years earlier, Hopkins was released from federal prison after serving 23 years for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine.
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Rishi Sunak less unpopular with swing voters in UK PM race, survey finds
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Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has an edge over his rival, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, in the race to be elected the next Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister among swing voters, a new survey revealed on Thursday.
The British Indian ex-minister, who has been trailing Truss among the hardcore Tory members who will vote for their favorite in postal ballots from next week, is favored among voters who had voted Conservative for the first time in the 2019 general election.
''While there is little to separate the two leadership candidates among for example those who currently intend to vote [Opposition] Labour (minus 59 for Sunak, minus 62 for Truss) or those who voted Conservative in 2019 (0 and +3 respectively), the crucial difference between Truss and Sunak comes among swing voters," YouGov said in a statement.
''Net favourability among those who voted Conservative in 2019 but now tell us they plan to vote Labour stands at minus 25 for Sunak and minus 45 for Truss. Equally, scores among those who voted Labour in 2017 but Conservative in 2019 register at minus 6 for Sunak and minus 19 for Truss," it said.
Sunak also does "slightly better" among those who voted Conservative in 2019 but who now told the survey that they do not know how they would vote in an election being held today. Among this group, the former Chancellor sits at minus 12, whereas the current Foreign Secretary is at minus 16. Boris Johnson, by comparison, is at minus 22, while [Labour Leader] Starmer is down at minus 59," it said.
The study of 4,946 adults, which was carried out between July 10 and 24, suggests Sunak has an overall net favourability score of minus 30 while Truss has a net favourability of minus 32. Net favourability scores are measured by the percentage of people telling YouGov they have a "favorable" opinion of someone minus the percentage telling them they have an "unfavorable" opinion.
Overall, the YouGov survey suggests both candidates are unpopular with the public as a whole but more popular than outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Both candidates are significantly less unpopular than current Prime Minister Johnson, who stands at minus 45. However, they are considerably more unpopular than Labour leader Keir Starmer (minus 18), YouGov said of its survey results.
It comes as one of Johnson's key loyalists and supporters of Truss, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, accused Sunak of leading a ''ruthless coup'' against his former boss. Earlier this week, the Cabinet minister faced criticism for attacking the expensive suits and shoes worn by Sunak.
''It's about judgment and it's about who voters can relate to and who voters think has walked in their shoes and can understand their lives," she told the BBC when confronted about the attacks.
''I am bitterly disappointed that Boris Johnson was removed via a ruthless coup, as he was, led largely by Rishi Sunak," she said.
The two finalists will address their first official Tory leadership hustings in the northern England city of Leeds on Thursday evening and set out their stall for the estimated 180,000 members who will be casting their ballots in the race soon.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus and Greece plan to consult with other European Union members on how to respond if Turkey tries again to drill for oil and gas inside waters that Cyprus claims as its exclusive economic zone, the Cypriot foreign minister said Thursday.
Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said earlier this week that the country’s newest drill ship, the Abdullhamid Han, would set sail Aug. 9 for a drilling operation “in the Mediterranean.” The exact location has not been announced.
“We have discussed some actions in the hope that they can avert the creation of such tensions in our exclusive economic zone," Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said after talks with Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias.
Turkey, which doesn’t recognize Cyprus as a sovereign state, claims much of the ethnically split island’s offshore economic zone as its own. Turkish Cypriots in the breakaway north claim their waters overlap many of the 13 blocks off the country's southern coast that make up the zone.
Kasoulides said Cypriot authorities believe there “more than six” potential areas where the Turkish drill ship could start work, and not all may be inside the area claimed by Cyprus.
The government of Cyprus has granted drilling and exploration rights in nine of the blocks to ExxonMobil and its partner Qatar Petroleum, Chevron and partners Dutch Shell and Israel NewMed, as well as a consortium made up of Italy’s Eni and France's TotalEnergies
Turkey previously dispatched warship-escorted drill ships and survey vessels inside Cypriot-claimed waters. Similar excursions into waters claimed by Greece have ratcheted up military tensions. The EU has strongly condemned Turkey’s actions and imposed sanctions on two individuals involved in such drilling expeditions.
Cyprus split into ethnically Greek and ethnically Turkey sides in 1974, when Turkey invaded following a coup by supporters of union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence. Although Cyprus joined the EU in 2004, only the southern, Greek Cypriot part enjoys full membership benefits.
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TMC busy in saving a family, its leader like Congress: Dilip Ghosh on WBSSC scam
Amid the row over the alleged involvement of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Partha Chatterjee in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam, BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday said embezzlement worth thousands of crores had taken place but the state's ruling party was busy only trying to save its leader just like the Congress.
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Amid the row over the alleged involvement of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Partha Chatterjee in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam, BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday said embezzlement worth thousands of crores had taken place but the state's ruling party was busy only trying to save its leader just like the Congress. Speaking to ANI, Ghosh said, "These people keep changing their statements every day. This is all drama. The party wants to cut relations with Partha Chatterjee. Now Mamata ji, her nephew and the government all are busy saving the family. All of them (TMC) are busy saving the family, to save their leader like the Congress party. I do not think anyone will be saved."
The BJP national vice president alleged that the scam was to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore. "Hundreds of people are involved in that scam who used to collect money. Government officials, MLAs, MPs, Ministers and leaders of block levels are involved in the scam. And gradually all the information will come out, there is a big scam. Didi says Bengal is the frontrunner. Yes, she is right Bengal is the frontrunner in corruption."
BJP MP and West Bengal BJP vice president Saumitra Khan alleged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's involvement and demanded her arrest. "Mamata Banerjee is 100 per cent involved with Partha Chatterjee in the whole scam. She should be arrested. This is just a small amount. Mamata ji's nephew has at least thousands of crores in Kalighat. The biggest thing is that this is only cash. Apart from this, there is black money in bank accounts," Khan told ANI.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee was relieved of his duties as a minister in the Mamata Banerjee-led state government on Thursday. The announcement was made through a notification issued by the West Bengal government. Chatterjee was the minister in charge for the Department of Industry, Commerce and Enterprises, Department of Information Technology and Electronics, Department of Parliamentary Affairs and Department of Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction.
Earlier on Thursday, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh urged his party to sack West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and also remove him from all party posts following allegations of his role in a massive school jobs scam. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday had arrested Chatterjee in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission and West Bengal Primary Education Board recruitment scam.
The ED also claimed to have seized a huge amount of cash in the case. (ANI)
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Zachary Lamb, University of California, Berkeley; Jason Spicer, University of Toronto, and Linda Shi, Cornell University
(THE CONVERSATION) When you hear the words “trailer park” or “mobile home park,” what comes to mind? Crime? Poverty? Vulnerability to natural disasters? These negative images reflect the stigma, reinforced by popular culture, that many U.S. residents assign to manufactured home parks – the official name for these dwellings under federal standards adopted in 1976.
Over 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing – more than in public housing and federally subsidized rental housing combined. Yet many people, including urban planners and affordable housing researchers, see manufactured housing parks as problems. In contrast, we see them as part of the solution to housing crises.
We are urban planning scholars who study climate vulnerability, community economic development and equity in urban land use. Our research suggests that misguided stereotypes blind scholars and policymakers to the possibility that mobile homes can help address the affordable housing crisis and climate change. Here are some misperceptions about this widespread form of housing.
Stereotype 1: Manufactured housing is shoddy
Many people think manufactured homes are poorly built, even though these structures, unlike site-built houses, have had to meet federal safety standards since 1976. These safety standards have been periodically updated, often in response to disasters. Today, new well-installed factory-built homes are comparable to site-built homes when it comes to standing up to wind, fire and other disaster threats.
Compared to homes built on-site, manufactured housing costs half as much per square foot – partly because it’s easier, more predictable and cheaper to build homes in factories. Many quality problems associated with manufactured housing arise from home installation, park maintenance and infrastructure issues. No matter how well-built homes are, residents can suffer if they are installed on unstable foundations, or if park owners allow water, sewer or power utility infrastructure to crumble.
Stereotype 2: Manufactured housing parks are always exploitative
While many manufactured housing residents own their homes, they may not own the land the homes sit on. This can leave them at the mercy of predatory park owners and investors. Moving manufactured homes is difficult and expensive, despite the “mobile” label, so residents of manufactured home parks can’t easily relocate when park owners allow conditions to deteriorate, raise rents or evict residents.
But there are alternatives. Residents at over 1,000 manufactured housing parks in the U.S. have jointly bought their land, creating Resident Owned Communities.
This cooperative model gives residents control over their homes and neighborhoods. Resident-owned parks preserve affordability and help residents address their own problems, including vulnerability to climate-driven disasters.
Stereotype 3: Manufactured housing parks aren’t urban or dense
Manufactured home parks are often dismissed as rural and low-density, and therefore irrelevant to urban housing needs. However, 61% of all manufactured housing is located in a metro area, and 8% is in urban centers.
The density of these communities, typically eight to 15 homes per acre, is often greater than nearby neighborhoods. In Houston, for example, many manufactured housing parks are located in suburban areas close to the central business district. If anything, local zoning in many cities limits the density of manufactured housing parks.
Stereotype 4: Manufactured housing parks are uniquely disconnected
Critics often assert that manufactured housing parks are disconnected from surrounding neighborhoods. In reality, this pattern applies to most U.S. residential neighborhoods built since World War II, including gated communities and cul-de-sacs. Residents of these communities value the privacy, safety and neighborhood cohesion their street patterns provide.
Biased local zoning regulations also frequently reinforce manufactured housing parks’ isolation by requiring them to be separated and hidden behind tall privacy fencing. Where fragmented street networks create problems for residents, like reduced walkability, they can be retrofitted by reconnecting streets.
The real challenges
While these stereotypes often don’t reflect reality, manufactured housing communities face real challenges.
Local governments and park owners often are eager to convert parks to what they describe as “higher and better uses,” which frequently means evicting residents for commercial development or more expensive housing. Private equity investors, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are buying up manufactured housing parks, which they view as reliably profitable investments. When owners redevelop parks, they can evict residents with little recourse.
Residents of manufactured home parks are also increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Biased zoning rules have forced many of these communities to locate on less desirable land, including flood-prone sites, industrial areas and highway fringes. In a 2021 review, we found that 22% of manufactured housing parks across nine states were located within current 100-year floodplains – zones with a 1% chance of flooding every year.
Manufactured housing is especially common in hurricane-prone regions like Florida, Louisiana and Texas. While updated building standards have substantially improved safety, increasingly ferocious storms still pose a real threat.
Aging manufactured home park infrastructure, including sewer, water and electricity systems, is highly vulnerable to extreme heat, wind, drought, flooding and wildfires. And since residents typically have lower incomes, they have fewer resources to respond when extreme events strike.
Manufactured housing, resilience and justice
With economic, political and technical support, evidence shows that manufactured housing can overcome these challenges.
To date, 20 states have adopted laws that help residents purchase the manufactured home parks where they live. These policies have helped ROC USA, a nonprofit social venture, create a network of over 280 cooperatively owned, limited-equity resident-owned communities that are home to over 18,000 households.
ROC USA provides low-cost loans to resident cooperatives to buy land and make needed capital improvements such as upgrading water, sewer and electric systems. Their network of regional housing experts then works with communities for at least a decade to develop and sustain their ability to manage their parks.
Over three decades, no ROC USA community has ever defaulted on a loan or sold their park. A growing number have adopted climate-responsive measures, such as building storm shelters and community centers, upgrading drainage infrastructure and providing emergency post-storm tree clearance and other forms of mutual aid. Other resident-owned communities are investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs for their residents.
Policymakers are paying attention. The Biden administration’s 2022 housing plan includes extensive support for manufactured housing parks.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for increasing state funding to preserve manufactured housing parks as affordable housing. The U.S. Department of Energy recently adopted more ambitious efficiency standards to reduce energy costs for residents of manufactured housing.
In our view, these efforts should be coupled with legislation that protects manufactured housing park tenants and expands the limited-equity ROC model. Governments could enact laws that offer tenants opportunities to purchase their rental units and provide subsidized loans and grants to resident cooperatives. Decades of experience shows that resident ownership can transform manufactured home parks from sites of stigma and vulnerability into stable and resilient communities.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/debunking-stereotypes-about-mobile-homes-could-make-them-a-new-face-of-affordable-housing-186105.
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Adhir's 'rashtrapatni' remark no slip of tongue, was deliberate: BJP's tribal leaders
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhurys use of the term rashtrapatni for President Droupadi Murmu was deliberate, the BJP said on Thursday, rejecting his assertion that it was a slip of the tongue and insisting on an apology from his party.Chowdhurys clarification was even more objectionable as he has tried to make light of the remark, Union minister Kiren Rijiju told reporters at a BJP press conference.The BJP fielded six of its tribal leaders, including three Union ministers, to attack the Congress over the issue on a day its women leaders protested in both Houses of Parliament against Chowdhurys comment.
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Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's use of the term 'rashtrapatni' for President Droupadi Murmu was deliberate, the BJP said on Thursday, rejecting his assertion that it was a slip of the tongue and insisting on an apology from his party.
Chowdhury's clarification was even ''more objectionable'' as he has tried to make light of the remark, Union minister Kiren Rijiju told reporters at a BJP press conference.
The BJP fielded six of its tribal leaders, including three Union ministers, to attack the Congress over the issue on a day its women leaders protested in both Houses of Parliament against Chowdhury's comment. The party also targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi following her face-off with Union minister Smriti Irani in the Lok Sabha.
BJP leaders, including Union ministers Sarbananda Sonowal and Bharati Pawar, said Sonia Gandhi should tender an apology to the country on behalf of her party as Chowdhury had insulted the tribal community as well as women.
''What he said was not a mistake. He said it deliberately and with stress,'' Rijiju said, criticising the West Bengal leader for his allegation that the BJP was making a mountain out of a molehill. To Chowdhury's assertion that he will apologise to Murmu, the tribal leader from Arunachal Pradesh shot back, ''You will first insult her and then go to her to give clarification. The president's post is not something you purchase from the market. This is India's supreme post. She is the country's first citizen. He is making loose comments which are more objectionable.'' The law minister said the Constituent Assembly had settled the matter on how the president should be referred to in Hindi. ''As tribals we are extremely hurt and pained over such a comment,'' he said.
The Constitution has made public posts gender neutral, and a 'sabhapati' (chairperson) or a 'kulpati' (vice chancellor) are referred in the same way irrespective of the sex of the person occupying the position, he added.
Sonowal accused Chowdhury of insulting India's top constitutional position and also slighted tribals, women and in fact the entire country. At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working to take everyone along, the Congress is conspiring against the country's unity, he claimed.
Pawar also hit out at the Congress leader.
Earlier, Chowdhury had claimed his comment was a ''slip of tongue'' and said he will apologise to President Murmu but not to ''these pakhandis'' (hypocrites).
He also accused the BJP of making a ''mountain out of a molehill'' over the issue.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but the previous week's number was revised upward significantly, with claims breaching the 250,000 level in back-to-back weeks for the first time in more than eight months.
Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 23 declined by 5,000 to 256,000 from the previous week’s 261,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The number of claims for the week of July 16 was revised upward by 10,000 from the previous estimate of 251,000.
First-time applications generally reflect layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which smooths out some of the week-to-week volatility, rose by 6,250 from the previous week, to 249,500. That number is also at its highest level since November of last year.
The total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits for the week ending July 16 fell by 25,000 from the previous week, to 1,359,000. That figure has been near 50-year lows for months.
Earlier this month, the Labor Department reported that employers added 372,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly robust gain and similar to the pace of the previous two months. Economists had expected job growth to slow sharply last month given the broader signs of economic weakness.
The unemployment rate remained 3.6% for a fourth straight month, matching a near-50-year low that was reached before the pandemic struck in early 2020.
Earlier in July the government reported that U.S. employers advertised fewer jobs in May amid signs that the economy is weakening, though the overall demand for workers remained strong. There are nearly two job openings for every unemployed person.
Though the labor market is still considered strong, other indicators are pointing to some weakness in the U.S. economy. The government said Thursday that the U.S. economy shrank 0.9% in the second quarter, the second straight quarterly contraction.
Consumer prices are still soaring, up 9.1% in June compared with a year earlier, the biggest yearly increase in four decades. In response, the Federal Reserve raised its main borrowing rate by another three-quarters of a point on Wednesday. That follows last month’s three-quarter point hike and a half-point increase in May.
Those higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome and pushed credit card rates up.
All of those factors paint a divergent and confusing picture of the post-pandemic economy: Inflation is hammering household budgets, forcing consumers to pull back on spending, and growth is weakening, heightening fears the economy could fall into recession.
Though the labor market is still strong, there have been some high-profile layoffs announced recently by Tesla, Netflix, Carvana, Redfin and Coinbase.
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Hungary's Orban says his anti-immigration stance not rooted in racism after backlash
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stuck to his anti-immigration stance on Thursday but insisted it was not rooted in racism after his recent remarks that Hungarians did not want to become "peoples of mixed race" drew fire at home and abroad.
Orban has spoken about maintaining "ethnic homogeneity" in Hungary before, taking a hard line on immigration since 2015. But his comments in Romania on Saturday, when he said that in contrast to Western Europe's "mixed-race world" where people mixed with arriving non-Europeans, Hungary was not a mixed race country - hit a nerve, drawing condemnation from the United States, the European Union, Jewish groups and academics.
"I am the only politician in the EU who stands for an openly anti-immigration policy," Orban told a joint news briefing with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Vienna. "This is not a race issue for us, this is a cultural issue," he said. "It happens sometimes that I say something in a way that can be misunderstood but ...the position I stand for, is a cultural, civilization (based) stance."
Nehammer earlier said the two discussed the speech, adding: "It was very important for me to make clear that we in Austria utterly reject any trivializing of racism or even anti-Semitism."
Late on Wednesday the U.S. embassy in Budapest issued a statement in which it did not mention Orban, but said it condemned "all ideologies, policies, and rhetoric that give oxygen to the doctrines of hate and division." Earlier this week, European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans said on Twitter that "poisonous" racism had no place in Europe that drew its strength from diversity.
At home, Jewish groups raised alarm on Monday, calling for a meeting with Orban, on Tuesday one of his aides Zsuzsa Hegedus resigned, calling his speech "a pure Nazi text", and on Thursday more than 60 members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences issued a petition criticizing his "race mixing" remarks. During the news briefing, Orban echoed his open letter to Hegedus, saying his government had "zero tolerance" for racism and antisemitism.
But Budapest's chief rabbi Zoltan Radnoti told Reuters any communication "talking about races, pure races, and mixing of races" was unacceptable. More than half a million Hungarian Jews were systematically exterminated during the Nazi Holocaust in World War Two.
The head of the Association of Hungarian Jewish communities, Slomo Koves, though, while critical of Orban's language, said he did not believe his speech was racist. "He portrayed a certain, very legitimate conservative view on European and World politics," he said. Concerns about the retreat of Western civilization or unchecked mass illegal immigration from the Middle East were part of it, he said.
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Melanie Gall, Arizona State University; Christopher Emrich, University of Central Florida, and Marie Aquilino, Arizona State University
(THE CONVERSATION) If you look at homes on real estate websites today, you’ll likely see risk ratings for flooding, hurricanes and even wildfires.
In theory, summarizing risk information like this should help homebuyers and renters make more informed housing choices. But surveys show it isn’t working that way, at least not yet. Housing developments and home sales are still expanding in flood- and wildfire-prone areas.
The problem isn’t necessarily that consumers are ignoring the numbers. In our view, as experts in hazards geography, it’s that the way risk information is being presented ignores long-established lessons from behavioral science.
These ratings tend to appear as a single number for each hazard and lack an intuitive interpretation. What does it mean to have a heat risk of 84 (“extreme”) with 52 hot days in 2050, or a flood risk of 10 (“extreme”)?
We believe that current and future hazard and climate risks can more effectively be translated as costs, savings and trade-offs.
Making risk personal
Studies show that people rely on personal experience as the dominant driver when considering risk. In the absence of having personally experienced a flood or wildfire damage, they need actionable and understandable information.
We belong to a group of more than 20 interdisciplinary researchers at universities in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina who are trying to improve risk rating information. We’re currently testing an online tool for the Gulf Coast that provides residents with actionable resilience information. It is an early model of what residential risk reporting could look like.
Rather than just presenting a score, the tool offers information on the costs annually and over time that one can expect from each hazard, such as flooding or wind damage, and how the home’s census block compares with the local area, county and state. To capture the effects of sea-level rise, for example, we model the number of years it will take for a home to go from outside a high flood risk area to being inside.
Homebuyers’ psychological hurdles
The development of real estate-focused climate and hazard risk metrics, such as those offered by First Street Foundation and ClimateCheck, is a step in the right direction, going beyond government risk maps that provide risk data by county. The next step is to ground those numbers in behavioral science research.
People do not ignore risk ratings per se, but the point at which information motivates people to take protective actions varies.
The motivation hurdle is lower for people with past experience, those who are aware of the risks and receptive to this kind of information, and those who have the financial resources to choose safer communities.
For others, the hurdle can be much higher. They might struggle with common decision biases, such as oversimplifying the severity of the risk, which leads to either an overestimation or underestimation of the threat depending on the type of hazard, focusing on today rather than the future, or simply assuming nothing bad is going to happen. They might just follow what others do – which research finds is what most of us do when deciding on a home.
Many people also have unrealistic beliefs that insurance and government payouts after disasters will fully compensate them for their losses, and a false sense of security that building codes and permitting mean homes are built to withstand any natural hazard.
The combination of these decision biases causes residents to underestimate the risk and impacts from disasters and climate change. Most people then underprepare and don’t consider these risks in their housing choices.
Risk ratings could help overcome those biases by expressing risk information in relatable terms such as the number of assistance requests made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency after disasters, the rejection rate and the average FEMA funds received per applicant in the area.
Next step: Pull it all together in one location
Ideally, homebuyers and renters would have a one-stop shop for all of this risk information about a property. To be prepared for climate change, risk must become a factor in housing choices similar to square footage and number of bedrooms.
Currently, risk data is scattered. For example, people can learn about insurance costs by checking flood insurance rate maps, which outline the areas with a 1% or greater annual chance of flooding. Or they can ask an insurance agent to generate a Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange report, which lists all flood insurance claims made on a property in the past five to seven years. A handful of states such as California require sellers to disclose the risk of natural hazards to the property.
In our view, the continuing influx of residents into high-risk areas, along with skyrocketing disaster losses, presents an urgent need to give prospective renters and buyers better information about the risks properties face.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/flood-and-wildfire-risks-translating-risk-ratings-into-future-costs-can-help-homebuyers-and-renters-grasp-the-odds-and-act-on-them-186798.
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Non-Cong Oppn leaders rally behind Sonia, say she was 'encircled, heckled pack-wolf style in LS'
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Several non-Congress Opposition leaders Thursday rallied behind Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who was involved in a face-off with Union minister Smriti Irani in the Lok Sabha, with the TMC's Mahua Moitra saying the 75-year-old leader was ''encircled and heckled pack-wolf style''.
As the Lok Sabha adjourned soon after 12 noon, Gandhi walked across to the Treasury benches and sought to know from BJP member Rama Devi why she was dragged into the issue -- the BJP has demanded an apology from Gandhi over Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury referring to President Droupadi Murmu as 'rashtrapatni'.
Irani stepped in and was seen gesturing towards Gandhi and apparently protesting Chowdhury’s remark. Gandhi at first tried to ignore Irani’s protestations, but was soon seen gesturing towards the minister and speaking angrily.
Nationalist Congress Party leader Supriya Sule said unfortunate scenes were witnessed in the Lok Sabha.
''Was shocked to hear unnecessary sloganeering against Mrs Gandhi after house was adjourned. We all should take responsibility of the house and maintain its dignity and decorum,'' Sule said.
In a tweet, Moitra said, ''Was in Lok Sabha when 75 year old lady senior leader encircled & heckled pack-wolf style when all she did was walk over & speak (masked) to another senior lady panel chairperson.'' ''Disgusted to read BJP lies and false version in press,'' the Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnanagar in West Bengal said.
Earlier, in another tweet, Moitra said, ''All rules in Lok Sabha always only for Opposition. Today as soon as LS started before Hon’ble Speaker could even say 'Baithiye' mic was hijacked by BJP for 10 minute tirade. Different strokes for different folks.'' Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also referred to the incident involving Sonia Gandhi and said ''this is shameful and bully behaviour of BJP MPs''. ''Has to be condemned by one and all, this hooliganism that was led by a hysterical minister who herself is facing charges of illegal operations in Goa, besides fake education affidavits should be called out,'' she said.
Meanwhile, BSP leader Danish Ali attacked Irani for her remarks in Lok Sabha and claimed that she took the name of President Droupadi Murmu in a ''objectionable'' manner.
''I strongly demand an unconditional apology from Smriti Irani ji for disrespecting Hon’ble President of India while calling her name on the floor of the House, in an inappropriate and objectionable manner,'' he said. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claimed that Gandhi told a BJP member not to talk to her. However, the Union minister did not name any BJP leader.
NCP member Sule and Trinamool member Aparupa Poddar were seen escorting the Congress president away from the Treasury benches as BJP members flocked around Rama Devi and Gandhi.
The Congress has accused BJP MPs of subjecting Gandhi to ''brutal heckling, verbal assault and physical intimidation'', and demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A woman who left her newborn baby in a trash bin pleaded guilty to attempted murder and child abuse, agreeing to a seven-year prison sentence and potential deportation.
Two maintenance workers at a Boca Raton apartment complex heard faint crying sounds coming from the bin and rescued Rafaelle Sousa's 6-pound 8-ounce baby. She was taken in by her boyfriend, who named her Sarah, the Palm Beach Post reported.
Sousa's lawyer says the 38-year-old Brazilian woman didn't know she was pregnant until she went into labor, and was in shock when the baby was born three years ago.
“People look at her and think they see this monster,” attorney J. Samantha Vacciana said outside the courtroom. “What they’re looking at is someone who had a severe traumatic experience that caused them to have an even more severe mental break.”
Sousa, who was already caring for her 3-year-old son, had taken Tylenol and diet pills in the month's before the birth to cope with pain and sudden weight gain, but wasn't able to afford a doctor’s visit and did not know she was expecting another child, her lawyer said.
When the newborn's head hit the toilet seat, she was blue and not breathing, Vacciana said. Sousa thought the baby was dead, and she was losing blood quickly. She placed her in a garbage bag, and then into another bag with trash and coffee grounds. Police found napkins used to soak up blood inside them, along with receipts that led them to Sousa.
She later told investigators she returned twice over the next three hours trying to see if the baby was really dead, but couldn't get close enough because people were in the parking lot.
The attorney told the Post that Sousa had only lived in the United States for four years and couldn't read, write or speak English. She lost custody of both children following her arrest, which breaks her heart, Vacciana said.
Palm Beach County Senior Judge Barry Cohen asked Sousa on Wednesday if she understood that her guilty plea subjects her to deportation after prison. Sousa never obtained U.S. citizenship.
“Si,” Sousa said.
Vacciana said she had health care professionals prepared to testify had the case gone to trial, to explain why the Sousa responded the way she did to the birth. But she wasn't confident jurors would accept the defense.
“Being poor and unsophisticated sometimes is a crime,” Vacciana said.
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PM Modi to chair NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting on August 7
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair NITI Aayog's Governing Council meeting on August 7 and issues related to economy, agriculture, and health are expected to be taken up for discussions, according to official sources.
The council, the apex body of NITI Aayog, includes all Chief Ministers, Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories, and several Union ministers.
Modi is the Chairman of NITI Aayog.
The official sources on Thursday said the council is expected to discuss issues related to the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP), urban governance, health, and crop diversification.
Besides, issues about the economy, achieving self-sufficiency in oilseeds, pulses, and other agri-commodities are expected to come up for discussions, they added.
Generally, the full council meeting happens every year, and last year, it was held under the chairmanship of Modi on February 20.
The council meeting was not convened in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The first meeting of the council took place on February 8, 2015.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's annual inflation rate has declined slightly for the second consecutive month, official data showed Thursday, but July's pace of 7.5% was still within sight of the nearly half-century high it reached in May.
Inflation in Europe's biggest economy rose 7.9% in May from a year earlier, the highest level since the early 1970s, before slipping to 7.6% last month. The preliminary monthly figure for July, reported Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office, is usually confirmed in a final report about two weeks later.
Energy prices spiked 35.7% this month from a year earlier and food prices rose 14.8%.
Germany temporarily lowered taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline at the start of June and introduced an ultra-cheap ticket that allows people to use all local and regional public transportation for 9 euros ($9.15) a month. The measures are due to last for three months. The statistics office said it wasn't yet clear to what extent they dampened inflation.
As in other countries around the world, inflation in Germany has been stoked by Russia's war in Ukraine, which has led to a rise in energy costs and food prices.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to work with unions and employers to find ways to address the impact of rising prices while preventing an inflationary spiral.
The July inflation rate for all 19 countries that use the euro will be released by the European Union's statistics office Friday after consecutive months of record highs. It reached 8.6% in June.
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Winding up Canada trip, pope visits historic churches
Pope Francis on Thursday visits two of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in North America as he winds up a trip to Canada centered on his apology for the Catholic Church's role in the country's notorious residential schools. In the morning Francis presides at a Mass at the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in the town of the same name about 30 km (20 miles) outside Quebec City.
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Pope Francis on Thursday visits two of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in North America as he winds up a trip to Canada centered on his apology for the Catholic Church's role in the country's notorious residential schools.
In the morning Francis presides at a Mass at the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in the town of the same name about 30 km (20 miles) outside Quebec City. The oldest Catholic pilgrimage site in North America stands on the site where a small church was built in 1658 to house a statue of St. Anne that French colonists considered miraculous.
About a million people visit each year, many seeking cures from illnesses. Thousands of people were arriving in the area early on Thursday, including indigenous groups from as far away as Natashquan, an Innu community about 1,000 km away by road.
About three-quarters of 1,400 places inside the basilica were given to residential school survivors and other indigenous people while thousands of others were gathering to watch the Mass on giant television screens outside. Psychological counselors were on hand in case of need by residential school survivors.
"I adore the pope," said Carmen Ortega, a woman originally from Peru who traveled to Quebec with fellow Canadians of Latino origin. In the afternoon, Francis was due to preside at a vespers service in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Quebec City. It stands on the site where Samuel de Champlain, the French colonist and navigator who founded Quebec and New France, built a chapel in 1633.
The visits to the two churches come on the penultimate day of his week-long visit to Canada, where he has several times issued apologies related to the schools, which operated between 1870 and 1996. 'PAIN AND SORROW'
Shortly after his arrival in Quebec City on Wednesday, Francis met with Canada's leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon. In public addresses in the Citadelle de Quebec, the largest British fortress built in North America, Trudeau and Simon pointedly told him of the horrors of residential schools for indigenous that the Church ran for past governments.
More than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and brought to residential schools. They were starved or beaten for speaking their native languages and sexually abused in a system that Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission called "cultural genocide". "As a dad, I can't imagine having my children being taken away. When my kids are crying, I can console them. When they're happy, I can share that feeling of joy with them," Trudeau said.
"But in residential schools, these children were alone and isolated in their pain and sorrow, far from their families and communities. And even worse, stripped of their language, their culture, their identity," the prime minister said. The pope said the Church was "admitting our faults" and wanted to join civil authorities "to promote the legitimate rights of the native populations and to favor processes of healing and reconciliation" between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians.
On Monday, the pope traveled to the town of Maskwacis, the site of two former schools, and issued a historic apology that called the Church's role in the schools, and the forced cultural assimilation they attempted, a "deplorable evil" and "disastrous error". On Tuesday, he said the Church should accept institutional blame for the harm done to indigenous Canadians.
On his way back to Rome on Friday, he will stop for a few hours in Iqaluit in the Canadian Arctic, where the pope is expected to discuss the threat that climate change poses to indigenous communities.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya as it has in other countries, according to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove.
It is the third such test of Facebook's ability to detect hateful language — either via artificial intelligence or human moderators — that the groups have run, and that the company has failed.
The ads, which the groups submitted both in English and in Swahili, spoke of beheadings, rape and bloodshed. They compared people to donkeys and goats. Some also included profanity and grammatical errors. The Swahili language ads easily made it through Facebook's detection systems and were approved for publication.
As for the English ads, some were rejected at first, but only because they contained profanities and mistakes in addition to hate speech. Once the profanities were removed and grammar errors fixed, however, the ads — still calling for killings and containing obvious hate speech — went through without a hitch.
“We were surprised to see that our ads had for the first time been flagged, but they hadn’t been flagged for the much more important reasons that we expected them to be," said Nienke Palstra, senior campaigner at London-based Global Witness.
The ads were never posted to Facebook. But the fact that they easily could have been shows that despite repeated assurances that it would do better, Facebook parent Meta still appears to regularly fail to detect hate speech and calls for violence on its platform.
Representatives for Meta did not immediately respond to a message for comment on Tuesday. Global Witness said it reached out to Meta after its ads were accepted for publication and did not receive a response.
Each time Global Witness has submitted ads with blatant hate speech to see if Facebook’s systems would catch it, the company failed to do so. In Myanmar, one of the ads used a slur to refer to people of east Indian or Muslim origin and call for their killing. In Ethiopia, the ads used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the murder of people belonging to each of Ethiopia’s three main ethnic groups — the Amhara, the Oromo and the Tigrayans.
Why ads and not regular posts? That's because Meta claims to hold advertisements to an “even stricter” standard than regular, unpaid posts, according to its help center page for paid advertisements.
Meta has consistently refused to say how many content moderators it has in countries where English is not the primary language. This includes moderators in Kenya, Myanmar and other regions where material posted on the company’s platforms has been linked to real-world violence.
Kenya is readying for a national election in August. On July 20, Meta posted a detailed blog post on how it is preparing for the country's election, including establishing an “operations center” and removing harmful content.
“In the six months leading up to April 30, 2022, we took action on more than 37,000 pieces of content for violating our Hate Speech policies on Facebook and Instagram in Kenya. During that same period, we also took action on more than 42,000 pieces of content that violated our Violence & Incitement policies," wrote Mercy Ndegwa, director of public policy in East & Horn of Africa.
Global Witness said it resubmitted two of its ads, one in English and one in Swahili, after Meta published its blog post to see if anything has changed. Once again, the ads went through.
“If you’re not catching these 20 ads, this 37,000 number that you are celebrating, that is probably the tip of the iceberg. You have to think that there’s a lot that’s (slipping through) your filter," Palstra said.
The Global Witness report follows a separate study from June that found that Facebook has failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa. The region remains under threat from violent attacks as Kenya prepares to vote.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Thursday expressed "deep concern" at Myanmar’s executions of four political prisoners.
This was India’s first reaction to the executions carried out last weekend. All were tried, convicted and sentenced by a military tribunal with no access to appeal.
India supports the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ efforts to bring peace to Myanmar, which has been rocked by civil unrest and widespread fighting since the military seized power from an elected government in February 2021.
"We have noted these developments (executions) with deep concern. As a neighboring country, we have always highlighted the need for a peaceful resolution to the issue. The rule of law and democratic process must be upheld,” said a statement by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi.
"As a friend of the people of Myanmar, we will continue to support Myanmar's return to democracy and stability," he said.
India and Myanmar share a long land border of over 1,600 km (1,000 miles) and a maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal. The proximity of the two countries has helped Myanmar become a key partner in India's fight in the remote northeast against dozens of ethnic insurgent groups whose demands range from independent homelands to maximum autonomy within India.
India and Myanmar in recent years have signed defense cooperation agreements committing to peace and stability in border areas, and they promised to not allow anyone to use their respective soil for hostile activities against the other side.
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US Domestic News Roundup: U.S. gets warrant to search phone of Trump's election attorney John Eastman; U.S. says 'substantial offer' on the table for Russia to release detainees Griner, Whelan and more
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
U.S. gets warrant to search phone of Trump's election attorney John Eastman
The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it got a warrant to search the phone of former President Donald Trump's election attorney, John Eastman, who spoke at a rally before the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Federal agents in June seized Eastman's phone based on a warrant authorizing them to take the device. They needed a second warrant to search the phone's contents.
U.S. says 'substantial offer' on the table for Russia to release detainees Griner, Whelan
The United States has made "a substantial offer" to Russia to release U.S. citizens detained there, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, adding he would press his Russian counterpart to respond in a conversation planned for the coming days. Washington offered Moscow a deal to bring home WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan weeks ago, Blinken told reporters and hoped to advance the process when he speaks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Two Minnesota ex-officers sentenced on federal charges in George Floyd case
Two former Minneapolis police officers were sentenced on Wednesday on federal charges stemming from the murder of George Floyd, the Black man who was killed when their colleague Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck during an arrest. At a hearing in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced Tou Thao, 36, to 3-1/2 years. Earlier on Wednesday, he sentenced J. Alexander Kueng, 28, to three years, Andrew Luger, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, said in a statement.
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Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America's dysfunctional two-party system. The new party, called Forward and whose creation was first reported by Reuters, will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters.
Biden administration announces $400 million for rural internet access
President Joe Biden's administration announced on Thursday that it will provide $401 million to provide access to high-speed internet for 31,000 rural residents and businesses in 11 states, as part of Biden's drive to expand access to the web.
"With this money we are one step closer to President Biden's ambitious goal of affordable and reliable internet for all," Biden's infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu told reporters.
U.S. Senate Democratic deal would expand EV tax credits
A Senate Democratic deal includes a new $4,000 tax credit for used electric vehicles and other new tax credits and grants for automakers to retool factories to build greener cars.
The deal struck between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin also includes an expansion of the existing $7,500 EV tax credit as well as a new $10 billion investment tax credit to build clean-technology manufacturing facilities, according to a summary from Schumer's office.
Judges temporarily block North Dakota, Wyoming 'trigger' bans on abortions
Judges in North Dakota and Wyoming on Wednesday blocked enforcement of "trigger" bans on abortions, allowing abortion providers in those states to resume services after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion. Those two states join others including Kentucky, Louisiana and Utah where judges have blocked abortion bans, providing at least a temporary victory for abortion rights advocates following their defeat at the federal level.
Biden's pledge to tax wealthy, companies revived with the Manchin-led bill
U.S. President Joe Biden's campaign trail promise to increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy as part of a battle against glaring income inequality in the United States got an unexpected boost on Wednesday. Early proposals to increase tax rates from Biden and his fellow Democrats hit a brick wall in Congress after Republicans, and some Democrats opposed them. But a sudden reversal by West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a swing vote in the divided Senate, has given Biden's tax agenda a new lease on life.
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(With inputs from agencies.)
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In Photos: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, 5 Months On
Ukrainians have been living with the reality of war for nearly half a year as Russia's offensive shows no sign of letting up.
Five months after the Kremlin first sent troops into its western neighbor on Feb. 24, Russia now occupies swathes of Ukraine's south and east and continues to press forward in the country's eastern regions.
While millions of Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries, many have stayed behind despite the risks.
Here is a look at scenes near the frontlines five months into the war:
Five months after the Kremlin first sent troops into its western neighbor on Feb. 24, Russia now occupies swathes of Ukraine's south and east and continues to press forward in the country's eastern regions.
While millions of Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries, many have stayed behind despite the risks.
Here is a look at scenes near the frontlines five months into the war:
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A Russian court fined U.S. tech giants WhatsApp, Snapchat and Tinder on Thursday for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users inside the country, Interfax news agency reported.
U.S. company Meta, the owner of messaging service Whatsapp, was ordered by Moscow’s Tagansky District Court to pay 18 million rubles ($298,136), according to Interfax, while messaging app Snapchat was told to pay 1 million rubles and dating app Tinder 2 million rubles.
Russian law requires tech companies to store the data they hold on Russian users locally – a requirement international firms have been repeatedly fined for violating.
A Russian court ordered the blocking of business networking platform LinkedIn in 2016 for breaking data protection laws and it has been inaccessible for Russian users ever since.
U.S. tech companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter have also previously been penalized for failing to abide by Russia’s internet regulations.
Instagram and Facebook were banned in Russia in March after their parent company — Meta — was labeled “extremist” by the authorities.
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In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed farther north than Iqaluit, capital city of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut. On Friday, it will be the final stop of his somber six-day visit to Canada.
It is a distinctive destination – home to about 7,500 people but not a single traffic light, with no road or rail links to the outside world. Its lone Catholic church serves parishioners from at least five continents; more than 100 of them routinely fill the pews each Sunday.
Iqaluit has welcomed world leaders before. Queen Elizabeth, for example, visited for about two and a half hours in 2002, three years after Nunavut was carved out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories to become a territory of its own.
The pope’s similarly brief stopover, in contrast, is not intended to be celebratory. He’ll be finishing up a Canadian visit focused on in-person apologies for the abuse and disrespect inflicted on many thousands of Indigenous Canadians – including Inuit youths -- who attended Catholic-run boarding schools from the late 1800s to the 1970s.
Given the visit’s purpose, there are mixed feelings about it in Iqaluit, among Inuit leaders and also on the part of the Rev. Daniel Perreault, who oversees the parish of Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church.
He said only a handful of his parishioners are Inuit. Most of the others hail from Africa, South America, Asia and other faraway places, have no links to the past problems of the boarding schools and would like to welcome Pope Francis joyously on Friday, Perreault said.
But the region’s Inuit organizations want the visit to be focused on their own community, said the priest. “They do not want it being an occasion of a Catholic feast.”
Iqaluit’s deputy mayor, Solomon Awa, said the Inuit community – which comprises more than half of the city’s population – abounds with swirling emotions. There is gratitude that an apology is forthcoming, and frustration that it took so long to come about.
“It will be very exciting for the people,” Awa said. “I hope that this will get us moving forward to lift ourselves as Inuit, to the point where we say, ‘Yes, we had many downsides in the past but we must move on.’”
Unlike two of his brothers, Awa was spared from attending a boarding school – his father insisted on keeping him at home as a helping hand.
“There are people still with broken hearts who went to residential schools... some of them still hold grudges with what happened,” Awa said. “They are happy that the pope is coming, finally, to say sorry for what happened.”
Iqaluit is by far the largest municipality in Nunavut, a vast territory straddling the Arctic Circle. It is roughly the size of Alaska and California combined, with a mostly Inuit population of about 40,000.
For much of the year, the weather can be severe. In February 2010, Iqaluit hosted a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven nations; several of the dignitaries went dog-sledding in sub-zero temperatures.
Pope Francis, however, is expected to encounter cloudy skies and mild temperatures – about 57 F or 14 C.
“My gosh, he picked the softest kind of a moment to go,” teased David Phillips, senior climatologist for Environment Canada. “Until he feels what it’s like in February, it’s no badge of courage.”
Nunavut’s premier, P.J. Akeeagok, is pleased and grateful that Iqaluit was chosen as one of the three main stops on the pope’s itinerary.
“When people from around the world think of the north, they often think it’s vast, white and barren, when it’s totally opposite,” he told The Associated Press. “We have so much life, in terms of the resiliency of the people... We have incredible opportunities both culturally and economically.”
Along with opportunities, Iqaluit has its share of problems. Last fall, government officials declared a state of emergency after water in the capital was deemed undrinkable and potentially tainted with petroleum. They issued a do-not-consume order, and potable water was flown in by plane.
In May, the city issued an advisory warning that some local youths were throwing rocks at taxis – the main source of public transportation in Iqaluit.
As for the papal visit, community preparations have been low-key. The city says the main street will be closed to regular traffic for five hours on Friday, and in the run-up to the visit volunteers were invited to join in a clean-up of the downtown area.
Perreault, the Catholic priest, said his parishioners have been pitching in, offering to provide food and lodging to priests and other Catholic personnel traveling to Iqaluit from afar for the pope’s visit.
“Life is not always exciting here,” Perreault said. “But people here are happy and enjoy being in a community, sharing and praying together. It’s a very nice, joyful community.”
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Gillies reported from Toronto, where he is AP’s bureau chief. Crary, who reported from New York, is a former Toronto bureau chief who covered the creation of Nunavut in 1999.
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Boris Johnson loyalist accuses Rishi Sunak of ‘ruthless coup’
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One of outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s key loyalists and supporter of Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as his successor on Thursday accused Rishi Sunak of leading a ''ruthless coup'' against his former boss.
UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has come under attack previously for attacking his choice of expensive suits and shoes, a jibe at trying to paint him as distanced from the cost-of-living crisis facing the British public at large.
''It's about judgment and it's about who voters can relate to and who voters think have walked in their shoes and can understand their lives,” Dorries told the BBC, when confronted about the attacks.
''I am bitterly disappointed that Boris Johnson was removed via a ruthless coup, as he was, led largely by Rishi Sunak,” she said.
Sunak’s personal wealth and that of wife Akshata Murty – the daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, has been referenced repeatedly in a race in which the British Indian former minister has admitted he is the “underdog”. He addressed the issue head-on in a TV debate, when he spoke of his pride in what his parents-in-law had achieved with Infosys.
“My father-in-law came from absolutely nothing, just had a dream and a couple of hundred pounds that my mother-in-law's savings provided him, and with that he went on to build one of the world's largest, most respected, most successful companies that by the way employs thousands of people here in the United Kingdom,” he said earlier in the Tory leadership contest.
''It's an incredibly Conservative story, actually it's a story that I'm really proud of and as Prime Minister I want to ensure that we can create more stories like theirs here at home,” he said.
Truss and Sunak are scheduled to address their first official Tory leadership hustings in the northern England city of Leeds on Thursday evening and set out their stall for the estimated 180,000 members who will be casting their ballots in the race soon.
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Jennifer A. Taylor, James Madison University and Katrina Miller-Stevens, Colorado College
(THE CONVERSATION) When anger over everything from the killing of unarmed people of color to new restrictions on access to abortion bubbles over, many Americans act on it.
One avenue for someone who has gotten fed up with current events is to take part in protests, such as marching for gun reform in response to mass shootings. Another is by what nonprofit and philanthropy scholars like to call “rage giving” – charitable donations motivated by strong emotions and dissatisfaction with the political climate.
In our new book about this phenonenom, we explain that people often donate to nonprofits following breaking news about events they consider to be tragic or unjust. By donating, people may feel they are addressing the wrong they want to see righted, or they can express a strong politically driven view or value.
Divisive moments
When news coverage grows and collective anger culminates in high-profile marches, rage givers can experience an emotional release by channeling their feelings into something they consider positive.
Quick bursts of anger sometimes called “fury triggers” usually drive these gifts.
We have found that waves of rage giving are often sparked by divisive political moments. These unexpected spikes in donations are typically fueled by extensive media coverage.
For example, after the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, donations to groups that support gun violence victims in both communities surged.
And, shortly after the May 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, NARAL Pro-Choice America, an organization that advocates for access to abortion, saw a 1,400% increase in donations within 24 hours.
Likewise, the Brigid Alliance, a nonprofit abortion fund that provides financial and logistical help for people seeking abortions, saw the number of its donors quadruple from May to July. The gifts ranged from $5 to $50,000.
Growth following 2016 election
Rage giving isn’t limited to guns or abortion. Nor is it new.
But there are many signs that the phenomenon grew ahead of, during and after the heated 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Many people who were concerned about immigration, civil rights and sexual assault and harassment during those highly polarized periods sought out opportunities to give to nonprofits and political action committees as quick and easy ways to express their outrage.
The ease and growth of online giving, up 42% in the three years ending in 2021, makes it simpler for rage givers to express their outrage. There’s no longer a need to mail a check or make a phone call.
Rage giving is, to be sure, partisan in that anger and outrage can provoke political mobilization, action and higher voter turnout.
But nonprofits on both sides of the political and cultural divide have reaped windfalls from rage giving in recent years. Giving to pro-gun organizations like the National Rifle Association, for example, can surge when gun control measures are in the news –as is generally the case after mass shootings.
More likely to be women and Democrats
In 2017, we commissioned a survey that identified 520 people who said they had donated to a nonprofit of their choice after feeling unbridled anger during the 2016 presidential election. Based on that data, we estimated that about 58% of these rage givers were women and 80% were white.
About 44% said they were Democrats, roughly 35% said they were Republicans and the remaining 21% identified as independent voters. Because the shares of Americans who lean toward one major political party or the other is more evenly matched, we found that, at that moment in time, Democrats were more likely to donate this way than more conservative Americans.
When thinking about the candidates in the 2016 presidential election and the stances each candidate takes on social and environmental issues, one rage giver from North Carolina said in response to our survey, “I’m just sick about it,” she said. “We’ve got to do something.”
We also found the surveyed rage donors were likely to be civically engaged – through behaviors such as volunteering, voting, contacting elected officials and participating in marches and protests. Rage giving, as a form of collective action, aligns with other helping behaviors by giving a voice to the underserved and unheard.
More research is needed to get a clearer picture of why certain people do this. But based on what we’ve learned so far, we believe that people who engage in rage giving see philanthropy as a type of civic engagement and that their gift, along with other donations, makes a difference.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/rage-giving-charities-can-get-a-boost-from-current-events-such-as-controversial-supreme-court-rulings-185841.
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SC ruling on Shiv Sena split will decide future of democracy in country: Uddhav
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said the Supreme Courts ruling on the petitions filed by his and Eknath Shindes factions will determine democracys future in India.Thackeray was speaking to Sena workers at his residence Matoshree here after inducting environmental activist Sushma Andhare and Prashant Surve in the party.
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Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said the Supreme Court's ruling on the petitions filed by his and Eknath Shinde's factions will determine democracy's future in India.
Thackeray was speaking to Sena workers at his residence `Matoshree' here after inducting environmental activist Sushma Andhare and Prashant Surve in the party. Surve is the former husband of rebel Sena MP Bhawana Gawli.
''Shiv Sena is fighting a legal and constitutional battle. The Supreme Court's verdict will decide not only the party's future but also the future of democracy in the country,'' Thackeray said.
Shiv Sena's Hindutva agenda was ''nationalist,'' he said.
''There are ups and downs in politics. I am glad that people of different ideologies are getting attached to Shiv Sena. The need of the hour is to protect the Constitution,'' the former Maharashtra chief minister added.
Hitting out at the rebel MLAs and MPs who support chief minister Shinde, Thackeray said the Sena helped ''ordinary people become extraordinary,'' but these legislators left the party.
''Now it is time to look for more ordinary people and help them realise their potential,'' he said. ''We are rebuilding our real Shiv Sena. I want to focus on leadership capabilities of rural women,'' Thackeray further said.
Sushma Andhare will be a deputy leader of the party, he announced. Prashant Surve, who worked in the airlines sector, will handle party activities in Washim district, said Sena MP Vinayak Raut. Asked about Gawli, the Washim MP who is now with the Eknath Shinde camp, Surve said their relationship ended a decade ago.
Following Shinde's rebellion and downfall of the Thackeray-led Maharashtra government, at least six petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court.
They deal with issues like disqualification proceedings against the MLAs of both camps and the governor’s directive to Thackeray to prove majority and subsequent invite to Shinde to form the new government.
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J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State University
(THE CONVERSATION) More than 160 Ukrainian cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed since Russia invaded the country in February 2022, according to UNESCO.
The Ukrainian government claims the number of damaged sites is far higher. Russia denies these charges.
Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of deliberately targeting cultural sites, half of which are churches, monasteries, prayer houses, synagogues and mosques. Such a targeting would be a violation of international law.
As a scholar who has spent over 30 years studying Russian and Ukrainian religion and culture, I’m deeply concerned about the cultural destruction of this war, which has already claimed thousands of lives and has turned over 12 million Ukrainians into refugees.
An important monument under threat is Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. Built in the 11th century, the church is one of Ukraine’s seven World Heritage sites recognized by the United Nations. It represents the common Orthodox Christian faith that many Russians and Ukrainians share.
Saint Sophia and the Byzantine model
Saint Sophia Cathedral was built under the reign of Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, whose father, Volodymyr – also known as Vladimir – had adopted Orthodox Christianity in 988.
According to a legend in the early 12th-century “Primary Chronicle,” Volodymyr chose Orthodoxy for the beauty of its worship services. The envoys he sent to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, visited the famous Church of Holy Wisdom, the Hagia Sophia. Built by Emperor Justinian in the sixth century, the Hagia Sophia is devoted to the Divine Wisdom, who is personified as a woman in the biblical “Book of Proverbs.” Convinced by his envoys’ favorable report, Volodymyr decided to be baptized and to convert his subjects.
After Volodymyr’s death, Yaroslav invited Byzantine architects and artists to build an impressive cathedral for Kyiv just like the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Yaroslav, who had fought a civil war to succeed his father, deliberately imitated the Byzantine capital to buttress his legitimacy. His new cathedral, Saint Sophia, even took its name from the imperial church in Constantinople.
Christian symbolism in the Cathedral
With 13 cupolas and a central dome that rises 29 meters (about 95 feet) into the air, Saint Sophia is an imposing structure that served as a testament to the power and piety of its ruler. Elaborate mosaics decorate the sanctuary and dome. Portraits of Yaroslav and his family are prominently displayed in the cathedral’s princely gallery, where the ruler attended services.
A mosaic of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, stands in the apse above the altar. Raising her hands in prayer, Mary is framed by a Greek inscription from Psalm 46: “God is in the midst of Her; She shall not be moved.”
The imagery and language are borrowed from Byzantium. Just as she was seen as a powerful divine protector of Constantinople, so now Mary protects Kyiv. The tall central dome is adorned with a mosaic of an all-powerful image of Christ, known as “Christ Pantokrator,” who gazes down from his throne at his worshipers.
The art historian Elena Boeck calls Saint Sophia “the most ambitious Orthodox Church built in the 11th century.”
Decline and restoration
Saint Sophia Cathedral was consecrated in 1049 and completed around 1062. As the power and importance of Kyiv declined, the church suffered from external attacks and internal neglect.
In 1169, the northern prince Andrei Bogolubskii of Vladimir sacked Kyiv – an event that the leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy, has compared to the current Russian invasion. Mongol attacks in 1240, 1416 and 1482 further damaged the cathedral.
Restoration work in the 17th century in the baroque style radically changed the cathedral’s outward appearance. The outer walls were plastered and whitewashed. The church was bombed during the Russian civil war in 1918. Under Soviet rule, the Communists plundered its treasury and secularized the building, which became a museum. In the 1940s, the church again suffered under German occupation.
Saint Sophia Cathedral stands as a monument to the East Slavic cultural heritage that Russians and Ukrainians share. Its extraordinary Byzantine mosaics and frescoes have survived nearly a millennium.
Today, as during the Second World War, Ukraine has been invaded by a foreign army that threatens this heritage. Although Russia has assured the United Nations that its armed forces are taking “necessary precautions” to prevent damage to World Heritage sites, such as Saint Sophia, war is destructive and unpredictable. Whether Saint Sophia Cathedral remains undamaged during this latest invasion remains an open question.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-threatens-a-cultural-heritage-the-two-countries-share-including-saint-sophia-cathedral-187140.
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World News Roundup: Hungary's Orban says his anti-immigration stance not rooted in racism after backlash; Biden looks to tamp down Taiwan tension during China Xi call and more
The sense of paranoia runs deepest here, in eastern Ukraine, where suspicions of treason committed by locals divide formerly occupied villages like Kutuzivka, a once-sleepy hamlet east of Kharkiv, where signs of a recent Russian presence are everywhere. Ukraine steps up drive to retake Russian-controlled south with air strikes Ukraine stepped up its drive to retake the Russian-controlled south of the country by trying to bomb and isolate Russian troops in hard-to-resupply areas, but said it saw evidence that Moscow was redeploying its forces to defend the territory.
Following is a summary of current world news briefs.
Fear and suspicion as Ukraine hunts for traitors in the east
As Ukraine hunts for traitors, the fear of Russian infiltration extends east, far from the capital. The sense of paranoia runs deepest here, in eastern Ukraine, where suspicions of treason committed by locals divide formerly occupied villages like Kutuzivka, a once-sleepy hamlet east of Kharkiv, where signs of a recent Russian presence are everywhere.
Ukraine steps up drive to retake Russian-controlled south with air strikes
Ukraine stepped up its drive to retake the Russian-controlled south of the country by trying to bomb and isolate Russian troops in hard-to-resupply areas, but said it saw evidence that Moscow was redeploying its forces to defend the territory. Ukraine's southern Kherson region, which borders Russian-annexed Crimea, fell to Russian forces soon after they began what Moscow calls "a special military operation" on Feb. 24.
In Canada's north, environment-minded Pope to get climate change close-up
Pope Francis's upcoming visit to Canada's Arctic territory of Nunavut draws attention to a focal point for global climate change, with sea ice disappearing fast and permafrost thawing. Francis, who arrives in the capital Iqaluit of predominantly indigenous Nunavut on Friday, is in Canada to apologize https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pope-apologizes-canada-evil-residential-indigenous-schools-2022-07-25 in person for the Roman Catholic Church's role in abuses that residential schools inflicted on indigenous children.
Hungary's Orban says his anti-immigration stance not rooted in racism after backlash
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stuck to his anti-immigration stance on Thursday but insisted it was not rooted in racism after his recent remarks that Hungarians did not want to become "peoples of mixed race" drew fire at home and abroad. Orban has spoken about maintaining "ethnic homogeneity" in Hungary before, taking a hard line on immigration since 2015.
N.Korea's Kim says nuclear deterrent is ready, slams South's Yoon
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent and counter any U.S. military clash, and criticised South Korea's new president for the first time, warning Seoul was pushing towards the brink of war. Kim made the remarks during a speech at an event to mark the 69th anniversary of the July 27 Korean War armistice, which left the two Koreas technically still at war, according to the official KCNA news agency on Thursday.
Analysis-With massive Polish arms deal S.Korea steps closer to Ukraine war
South Korea's biggest ever arms deal will make it a major supplier of weapons flooding into Europe since the Ukraine war began, with sales to NATO-member Poland involving more than 1,600 tanks and howitzers, and nearly 50 fighter jets. South Korean and Polish officials signed a framework agreement on Wednesday in Warsaw in a deal that Poland says is a key part of their efforts to rearm in the face of the war in Ukraine, where it has sent at least $1.7 billion in military aid.
Macron hosts Saudi crown prince with oil, Iran and rights on agenda
French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Thursday, part of increased Western efforts to court the major oil-producing state amid the war in Ukraine and faltering talks to revive a nuclear deal with Iran. French opposition figures and human rights groups have criticised Macron's decision to invite to dinner at the Elysee a man that Western leaders believe ordered the murder in 2018 of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Taiwan says fired flares to warn off drone near remote island
Taiwan's military fired flares on Thursday to warn away a drone that "glanced by" a strategically-located and heavily fortified island close to the Chinese coast that was possibly probing its defences, the Taiwanese Defence Ministry said. Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has complained of stepped up Chinese military manoeuvres over the past two years or so to try and force the democratically elected government in Taipei to accept Beijing's sovereignty.
Biden looks to tamp down Taiwan tension during China Xi call
U.S. President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping will hold their fifth call as leaders on Thursday, as concerns rise over a possible visit to Chinese-claimed Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. White House officials have said the long-planned call, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. (1230 GMT), will have a broad agenda, including discussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which China has yet to condemn.
Former state TV journalist found guilty of discrediting Russia's armed forces
Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova was found guilty on Thursday of discrediting the country's armed forces in social media posts condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine. "The evidence confirms Ovsyannikova's guilt. There is no reason to doubt its authenticity," the judge said after a short hearing in which Ovsyannikova had described the proceedings as "absurd".
(With inputs from agencies.)
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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government wants large energy companies and banks to pay a windfall tax, which officials hope will yield around 7 billion euros (dollars) over two years.
The government delivered its proposal to parliament Thursday. A debate and vote by lawmakers were scheduled for after their summer recess.
Officials say the tax would apply to about 20 major corporations that would be prohibited from passing on the cost to customers. Under the government's proposal, watchdog bodies would monitor the companies for compliance.
Britain and Italy have adopted similar windfall taxes. Energy companies have seen bumper profits as prices of oil and natural gas soared in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Spanish government said proceeds from its tax would help pay for measures to alleviate a cost of living crisis, including high energy bills.
The proposal calls for energy companies with more than 1 billion euros (dollars) in revenue in 2019 to pay an additional 1.2% in tax on revenue this year and next. The government hopes that will raise 4 billion euros (dollars).
Financial institutions are expected to provide 3 billion euros through a 4.8% tax on their net interest and customer fees.
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Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to visit India from Aug 1-4
President Solihs upcoming official visit will provide an opportunity for the two leaders to review the progress made in this wide-ranging partnership and impart direction to the two sides that will lend further momentum to this partnership, Bagchi said.He said the Maldives is Indias key neighbour in the Indian Ocean Region and occupies a special place in the countrys Neighbourhood First Policy.
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Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih will pay a four-day visit to India from August 1 with an aim to lend further momentum to the already close partnership between the two countries.
The Maldives is one of India's key maritime neighbours in the Indian Ocean Region and the overall bilateral ties, including in areas of defence and security, have been on an upward trajectory in the last few years.
''At the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, President of the Republic of Maldives, will pay an official visit to India from August 1-4,'' External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a media briefing.
Solih will be accompanied by a high-level official and business delegation.
Bagchi said the Maldivian leader will meet President Droupadi Murmu and hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will also call on President Solih. Besides official engagements in New Delhi, President Solih will also visit Mumbai and participate in business events. ''President Solih's upcoming official visit will provide an opportunity for the two leaders to review the progress made in this wide-ranging partnership and impart direction to the two sides that will lend further momentum to this partnership,'' Bagchi said.
He said the Maldives is India's key neighbour in the Indian Ocean Region and occupies a ''special place'' in the country's 'Neighbourhood First Policy'. ''In recent years, the partnership has witnessed rapid growth in all areas of cooperation,'' Bagchi said.
The announcement on Solih's visit came on a day chief of Maldivian defence forces Maj Gen Abdulla Shamaal held talks with Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande in Delhi.
In March, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, during a visit to Male, had handed over a coastal radar system to Maj Gen Shamaal.
India and Maldives share common perspectives on maritime security issues in the Indian Ocean and have been working together to expand defence cooperation.
In April, Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar travelled to the Maldives and met Maldivian President Solih and other senior leaders of the island nation to further boost maritime security cooperation.
Development cooperation has been a key pillar of the India-Maldives relationship with New Delhi providing Lines of Credit of over USD 1.2 billion for infrastructure and grants for community development projects to the island nation.
In August last year, the island nation sealed a contract for the implementation of an India-funded connectivity project, billed as the largest infrastructure initiative being rolled out in the island nation.
Under the Greater Male Connectivity Project (GMCP), a 6.74 km long bridge and causeway link will be built to connect the capital city Male with adjoining islands of Villingli, Gulhifalhu and Thilafushi.
Funded under a grant of USD 100 million and a Line of Credit of USD 400 million from India, it will be reportedly the largest infrastructure project in the Maldives. PTI MPB SRY
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TIGARD, Ore. (AP) — The City of Tigard, Oregon, will pay $3.8 million to the mother of 26-year-old Jacob Macduff, who was fatally shot by Tigard police while experiencing a mental health crisis outside of his apartment complex in January 2021.
As part of the wrongful death settlement agreement, the city agreed to undergo an independent review of their officer’s conduct during the shooting, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
The city also agreed to implement 15 changes to its policies and procedures, including training officers in de-escalation, moving up the timeline for implementing body-worn cameras and creating a mental health response team that will also serve Sherwood, Tualatin and King City.
According to the settlement, Tigard denies any “liability or fault or wrongdoing” related to the shooting. A representative for Tigard did not immediately respond Wednesday to an inquiry from The Oregonian/OregonLive.
At a news conference Wednesday, David Park, an attorney for the victim’s mother, Maria Macduff, showed police footage taken during the shooting and described a rapid and unexplained series of decisions by Tigard police officers that resulted in Jacob Macduff’s death.
Maria Macduff said in a statement provided by Park and another attorney that her son should never have died. “My deepest desire since this happened has been to do everything possible to make sure no other family loses a child the way I have,” she said. “I believe we’ve accomplished that.”
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Labor organizers at a Trader Joe's store in Massachusetts will find out Thursday if there is enough support among employees to form the chain's first union.
About 80 workers at the store in Hadley were expected to cast ballots over two days, said Maeg Yosef, a union organizer who has worked at Trader Joe's for 18 years.
The workers are organizing under the name Trader Joe’s United, which if successful, would be an independent union, and not affiliated with a larger existing union.
Workers from at least two other Trader Joe’s locations have initiated unionization efforts. Employees at a Minneapolis location have a union vote scheduled for Aug. 11 and 12, while the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 on Tuesday filed a union election petition with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of crew members at a Boulder, Colorado store.
The Trader Joe's workers are part of a nationwide wave of employees at major companies who have or are attempting to unionize in an effort to secure a bigger say in their work conditions and compensation.
Workers at multiple Starbucks coffee shop locations across the country, as well as employees at Amazon, Apple and REI are among those who have joined unions in the past year.
Trader Joe’s management has engaged in what Yosef called “classic union-busting” tactics, including hiring a law firm specializing in fighting unionization to try and talk employees out of approving a union.
California-based Trader Joe’s, which has about 550 stores nationwide, also just announced an enhanced benefits package that includes more paid time off and better pay for some employees, which she said was an effort to head off unionization.
Trader Joe's has generous pay and benefits by retail industry standards, a company spokesperson said this week.
“Trader Joe’s is a great place to work and our compensation, benefits, flexibility, and working conditions are among the best when compared to any retailer,” Nakia Rohde said in an email. “We welcome a fair vote by our crew members.”
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Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee sacked from cabinet
There is no way other than getting rid of her constitutionally, said Bikas Bhattacharya, the lone Rajya Sabha MP of the Left Front from Bengal.Earlier in the day, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh had demanded Chatterjee be sacked from the cabinet and expelled from the party, after nearly Rs 50 crore in cash was recovered from properties linked to him.Partha Chatterjee should be removed from ministry and all party posts immediately.
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The West Bengal government on Thursday removed Partha Chatterjee, who was recently arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a school jobs scam, from the ministry with immediate effect.
''Partha Chatterjee, minister in charge, department of industry, commerce and enterprises, department of information technology and electronics, department of parliamentary affairs and department of public enterprises and industrial reconstruction, is hereby relieved of his duties as MIC of the aforesaid department…,'' an official order said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee later said at a government event here that she will look after the portfolios held by Chatterjee for the time being.
''The departments that were with Partha da will be overseen by me… till I reshuffle the cabinet,'' Banerjee said while addressing a meeting of the West Bengal Industrial Promotion Board, shortly after the order, signed by Chief Secretary H K Dwidevi, was issued.
The ED had arrested Chatterjee, who is also the Trinamool Congress secretary-general, on July 23 in connection with its investigation into alleged irregularities in the recruitment drives by the School Service Commission (SSC).
The central agency has also arrested Chatterjee’s close associate Arpita Mukherjee, and seized crores of rupees from her houses in different parts of the city.
Chatterjee became the first minister to be sacked from the cabinet, after the TMC returned to power in the state in 2021.
Reacting to his removal from the ministry, BJP's West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar alleged that the TMC leadership was trying to make Chatterjee a scapegoat.
''There are several people involved in this. Sacking Partha da alone will not save TMC,'' Majumdar asserted.
''The main culprit is the chief minister. There is no way other than getting rid of her constitutionally,'' said Bikas Bhattacharya, the lone Rajya Sabha MP of the Left Front from Bengal.
Earlier in the day, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh had demanded Chatterjee be sacked from the cabinet and expelled from the party, after nearly Rs 50 crore in cash was recovered from properties linked to him.
''Partha Chatterjee should be removed from ministry and all party posts immediately. He should be expelled. If this statement is considered wrong, party has every right to remove me from all posts. I shall continue as a soldier of @AITCofficial (TMC),'' Ghosh tweeted.
Ghosh, however, later tweeted to say that he was deleting the post, and it was his personal opinion.
TMC spokesperson Debangshu Bhattacharya, whose 'Khela Hobe' song headlined the party's 2021 assembly election campaign, had also sought Chatterjee’s expulsion from the party.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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The retirement of Sebastian Vettel leaves Aston Martin with a difficult task to find a new driver ahead of the 2023 season.
The 35-year-old German has endured a tough season with the British outfit and shown interest in activism and other aspects of his life. It perhaps comes as no surprise that the four-time world champion has decided to step away from the sport.
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But even if Vettel had given earlier notice to his team about his intentions, there is no obvious move to make, looking at which drivers could be available for next season.
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We look at the potential options for Aston Martin as they search for an adequate replacement.
Daniel Ricciardo
The McLaren driver is struggling this season with a general acceptance that, whatever the reason, Daniel Ricciardo is failing to match the team’s expectations, which is not helped by team-mate Lando Norris’ excellent form.
While McLaren have said that they intend to keep hold of Ricciardo there could be the chance for him to move on to another established team, where he would offer experience to Lance Stroll, and give McLaren the chance to bring in a fresh face without having to awkwardly accommodate Ricciardo for another year.
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Nyck de Vries
Nyck de Vries made his first F1 outing for Mercedes as one of their reserve drivers at Paul Ricard, and Lewis Hamilton said after the successful French Grand Prix that the Dutchman had handled himself well, and helped the team.
While few would have expected him to outperform Hamilton or George Russell in a single session, he did not look conspicuously out of place, and he can point to his Formula E championship as evidence of his winning instinct.
He has been linked in recent weeks to a move away from Formula E to another format, so if Aston Martin are quick they could perhaps tie him down.
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso would offer much of what Vettel did. He is an experienced head in Formula One, with world championships to his name. Into his fourth decade, he could teach plenty to Stroll and while he remains hopeful of winning another Grand Prix, his ambition does not extend to another championship, so could handle the move to another mid-ranking team.
Of course, he is expected to remain with French side Alpine into next season, but no announcement has been made. There might be a chance for Aston Martin to step in and secure another well established driver.
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Oscar Piastri
Still only 21, Australian driver Oscar Piastri is a back-to-back Formula 3 and Formula 2 champion, and is currently Alpine’s reserve driver.
He clearly has plenty of potential to explore, and has been linked with replacing his compatriot Ricciardo at McLaren. However, recent reports suggest that Alpine are not willing to let him leave, but would consider loaning him out next season.
A short-term replacement for Aston Martin might appeal, but would depend on Alpine being willing to help out a rival, even if it helped their own driver’s development too.
Mick Schumacher
Schumacher has had an inconsistent time with Haas. At some points he looks on the cusp of breaking through to be an established driver, only to be let down by a lapse in concentration or a technical fault.
After finally winning a championship point for his team, he appears to have grown a touch impatient with his team after they gave team orders in favour of Kevin Magnussen in Austria. Coupled with Haas' technical problems, he could be tempted to jump ship.
Nico Hulkenberg
An experienced if limited driver, the 34-year-old German is Aston’s reserve driver and would be the simplest option to pick up.
Hulkenberg stepped in for Vettel at the first two races of this season, when the latter tested positive for coronavirus, and was on the pace despite his lack of experience in an F1 car in recent years.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Police in Vancouver, Washington, are investigating a double homicide at a house party as a gang-related shooting, according to court documents.
When officers arrived at about 1:20 a.m. July 17, they found 19-year-old Alexander Castagnoli of Portland, Oregon, dead inside the house, The Columbian reported. Officers learned that Amadou Keita, 18, of Portland, died on his way to or at a hospital, from gunshot wounds, according to a search warrant affidavit filed this week in Clark County Superior Court.
Two additional gunshot victims, a 17-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man, were taken to an area hospital for treatment. Police have not released the identities of the two wounded victims or updated their conditions.
One witness told police she heard someone ask, “Who’s a Hoover?” followed by gunshots. Hoover is the name of a Portland-area gang, according to the affidavit.
Investigators say one of the gunshot victims is a member of the rival gang, Six Deuce Crips. He declined to answer detectives’ questions about the shooting, according to court records.
The teen’s mother told investigators she overheard him talking on his phone about the shooting, and she believed Hoovers were behind her son’s shooting, the affidavit says.
Witnesses have provided limited suspect information to police, and Vancouver police shared photos of witnesses earlier this week asking for help identifying them.
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Delhi BJP stages protest against Adhir's 'rashtrapatni' remark, demands apology from Sonia Gandhi
Chowdhurys rashtrapatni remark snowballed into a major political row on Thursday with the BJP accusing the opposition party of insulting President Droupadi Murmu and demanding that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi should apologise to the nation.In his defence, Chowdhury, who is the leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, said he never intended to disrespect the President and his rashtrapatni remark was a slip of the tongue.
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The Delhi BJP staged a protest here on Thursday, demanding an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi for the 'rashtrapatni' remark made by her party leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury against President Droupadi Murmu.
Leading the protest, Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta said the Congress' mentality has gone down to such a low level that its leaders can not accept the daughter of a poor holding the highest constitutional post of the country.
''The disrespect shown to the president by the Congress leader is extremely condemnable and exposes the anti-tribal and anti women thinking of the party. ''Sonia Gandhi should apologise to the nation for derogatory word used by her party leader,'' Gupta said.
The protesters tried to reach the the Congress headquarters but were stopped by the police. The protesters also burnt an effigy of Sonia Gandhi. The demonstration was also attended by party's south Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri and leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri. Chowdhury's 'rashtrapatni' remark snowballed into a major political row on Thursday with the BJP accusing the opposition party of insulting President Droupadi Murmu and demanding that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi should apologise to the nation.
In his defence, Chowdhury, who is the leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, said he never intended to disrespect the President and his 'rashtrapatni' remark was a ''slip of the tongue''. He accused the BJP of making a ''mountain out of a molehill'' over the issue. VIT TDS TDS
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Tazreena Sajjad, American University School of International Service
(THE CONVERSATION) The U.K. government was due to begin its first deportation flight to remove asylum-seekers to the East African country of Rwanda on June 14, 2022, exactly two months after signing the U.K.-Rwanda agreement. The asylum-seekers were from several war-torn and politically unstable countries, including Syria, Sudan and Iran.
Each year, thousands of people – many fleeing repressive governments or poverty – attempt to cross the English Channel in fragile boats in the hope of starting a new life in the U.K.
Boris Johnson, the U.K. prime minister, defended the U.K.-Rwanda deal in June 2022, saying it would “remove the illegal cross-Channel trafficking of people whose lives are being put at risk.”
In exchange for Rwanda receiving the deportees, the U.K. has paid the country about US$142 million to cover the initial costs of operating the program as well as economic development projects in Rwanda.
The U.K. deportees were expected to integrate their lives into Rwandan social communities.
But the first Rwanda deportation flight did not take off as planned.
Deterring refugees and asylum-seekers
The European Court of Human Rights, the regional judicial human rights body in Europe, issued what are called interim urgent measures to stop the scheduled flights.
Such measures are most often issued in cases where there is imminent risk of death or torture.
Member states are bound by the decisions of the Court, and its rulings are enforced by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – Europe’s leading human rights organization.
But instead of abiding by the decision, the U.K. government not only stressed its commitment to deportation flights, it also signaled its intention to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights.
As a scholar of refugees and postwar reconstruction, I see the deportation flights to Rwanda as part of a growing list of what are euphemistically known as migrant deterrence practices. These practices are used by Western countries to deter future migration of mainly people of color from countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, collectively known as the Global South.
In exchange for money paid to the receiving country, asylum-seekers are sent to those poorer countries to enable wealthier nations to circumvent international legal obligations to those seeking asylum.
Beyond Rwanda
The use of countries like Rwanda by Western states is on the rise.
The recent U.S.-Mexico Migrant Protection Protocol and the U.S.-Guatemala “third country safe” agreement follow a similar principle.
Since 1992, Australia has had a mandatory detention policy for “unauthorized” arrivals, which have included asylum-seekers.
Since 2001, it has also been removing asylum-seekers to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru – a poor island country in the Pacific Ocean – for processing.
This has been the case even if arrivals applied for asylum in mainland Australia immediately upon arrival.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, “externalization of Australia’s asylum obligations has undermined the rights of those seeking safety and protection and significantly harmed their physical and mental health.”
European countries have also been pursuing similar programs with Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and West African nations such as Nigeria.
They each provide financial aid packages to the respective low-income countries in exchange for preventing migrant mobility and absorbing deported asylum-seekers.
Thus far, Austria, Denmark and the Flemish far-right in Belgium have welcomed the U.K.-Rwanda agreement with the hope that more European states will seek partnerships with countries outside the continent to address irregular immigration.
Johnson’s resignation on July 7, 2022, is not expected to halt the U.K. government’s plans to continue deportations to Rwanda. But in a new turn of events, Rwanda said on July 22 that it can only accommodate 200 deported asylum-seekers and will not be able to stop their efforts to cross the English Channel again.
The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act
Deportations to Rwanda are part of the U.K.‘s 2022 Nationality and Borders Act, a law that drastically changed citizenship and asylum rules in the U.K.
In addition to deportations, the act allows the government to strip citizenship from British people without notice for reasons related to, among other things, national security or counterterrorism.
In the U.K., the reasons to strip citizenship can be defined broadly and may affect about 6 million Britons from immigrant backgrounds.
The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act also allows for the criminal prosecution of those who cross the English Channel on small boats to seek asylum.
The U.N. Refugee Agency has criticized the legislation on which the act is based for being at “odds with the United Kingdom’s international obligations under the Refugee Convention.” These obligations include “not expelling refugees who are lawfully in the territory except on grounds of national security or public order.”
Back into chaos
Deportations under such conditions are controversial because they are violations of the principle of non-refoulement in international refugee law.
The goal of the principle is to prevent individuals from being returned to countries where they have fled and may still be in danger of torture, persecution or death.
Despite this, the U.K. and other European countries have continued to deport asylum-seekers to such places.
Between 2007 and 2016, the U.K. deported 2,748 young people to war-torn and unstable countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria.
At least 605 of them were Afghans who had arrived unaccompanied as asylum-seeking children from their war-ravaged country.
According to Amnesty International, many of the deportees face arbitrary detention, kidnapping, torture and even death in the the countries where they’re sent.
In addition, studies have shown deportations like the kind that have taken place in Europe have caused long-term damage.
These include undue burdens on family members, such as loss of family income to meet basic needs, family separation that causes psychological damage including depression and trauma, especially in children.
Rwanda’s acceptance of asylum-seekers
In recent years, Rwanda has become a host country for approximately 130,000 refugees from around East Africa, particularly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi.
In addition, between 2013 and 2018, Israel paid $5,000 for every African migrant deported to Rwanda under a “voluntary” migration agreement.
Israel made a similar arrangement with Uganda. Under the terms of the controversial arrangement, several thousand Sudanese and Eritrean asylum-seekers had to choose between immigration detention in Israel or to “voluntarily” agree to be deported to Rwanda and Uganda.
Many of those deported to Rwanda have consistently struggled with lack of documentation and poverty, and have mostly fled the country and attempted to return to Europe.
Facing international and national criticism, the Israeli program was later abandoned.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/western-countries-are-shipping-refugees-to-poorer-nations-in-exchange-for-cash-185758.
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Helen Kapstein, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(THE CONVERSATION) “Beloved.” “The Hate U Give.” “Maus.” “Burger’s Daughter.”
Each of these books has been banned at some point in time, but one stands out. Instead of being banned in 21st-century America, Nadine Gordimer’s “Burger’s Daughter” was banned in 20th century South Africa during apartheid, that country’s period of official white supremacist rule.
So why include it in this list? Despite the decades and distance between bans on this book and the others, the rise in attempts to ban and censor books in America in 2022 looks an awful lot like what South African censors did during apartheid. I make this observation as a scholar who specializes in studying literature to better understand the intersections of race, oppression and resistance.
When apartheid censors – who operated under the Directorate of Publications – sought to crack down on what they found offensive, they used terms like “sedition,” “blasphemy” and “obscenity” to justify their acts. In the 2020s in the U.S., people who’d like to censor books use labels like “objectionable,” “pornographic” or “dangerous.” Then as now, the criteria used to censor books are so broad and subjective that almost any book could be challenged on practically any grounds.
To my eye, it’s almost as though would-be American censors have taken a page directly from the South African censors’ playbook. And it’s not just that they look similar in their rationale. Rather, in my view, it’s that they set out to squash political dissent and silence social debate. Here are the similarities I see:
1. Manufactured outrage
Outrage about the content of books is often disingenuous, misplaced or manufactured.
In 1972, South African author Alex La Guma, who was officially categorized as “coloured” under the country’s racist regime, had already been forced into exile. As a person banned by the South African government, his writing already couldn’t legally be distributed inside the country. Yet, his novel “In the Fog of the Seasons’ End” was still banned for threatening state security and good order. This bureaucratic overkill speaks to the urge to censor even when it’s absurd – the authorities were banning a book that by their own rules no one could read.
La Guma’s book depicted the death and torture in detention of an anti-apartheid resistance fighter, causing the censors to complain about the book’s “wild writing against the police.” But another of his novels, “The Stone Country,” was banned even though the censors themselves acknowledged that there was nothing in the plot that merited it. This shows their willingness to manufacture a threat where none exists.
In the United States in 2022, there are reports of parents shouting at school board meetings or storming town halls, upset about material their children are exposed to and demanding it be removed from school library shelves and classrooms. Are these headline-grabbing moments spontaneous, grassroots and earnest efforts to protect innocent young minds? Or are they highly orchestrated, heavily funded and deliberately manufactured schemes to advance an ultra-conservative agenda at the expense of free speech and expression? It can be hard to tell.
While we cannot know anyone’s intent for certain, we do know that when people act to limit a society’s access to literature and libraries, and therefore to other worlds and possibilities, it makes it easier to limit its political imagination.
2. White discomfort
South African censors objected that “Burger’s Daughter” brought Afrikaners – that is, South Africans of Dutch descent – into “ridicule and contempt,” fundamentally misunderstanding how the whites in the novel are depicted. The censors’ unimaginative defensiveness is much like the language of white “discomfort” we hear bandied about in current politics.
At the same time as South Dakota tried to pass a bill that forbade discussion of any history that causes white discomfort, Florida, in spring 2022, passed the “Individual Freedom” law, which states that “an individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.” State Senator Shevrin Jones said, regarding the bill, “This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago.”
3. Euphemism
The South African Publications Act may sound supportive of publishing but in fact was intended to censor and control it.
Likewise, the various acts and bills being passed in America today often slide through legislatures with deceptively bland names. For instance, Florida’s “K-12 Education” law requires all school materials be posted and searchable.
Proponents of the law said it was meant to help parents make decisions regarding their children’s education. But in reality, as pointed out by the National Coalition Against Censorship, the mechanism could discourage teachers and librarians from taking risks with teaching material that might lead to complaints from parents.
New legislation also sneaks through in euphemistic disguise, such as the wave of so-called “transparency bills” which use the language of transparency to embolden public scrutiny. Moreover, the bills themselves are not at all transparent.
One bill prohibits the discussion of “any controversial subject matter”, and another mixed up two historical figures. Vague wording, undefined terms, contradictory language and factual errors all make them more “sweeping” and “draconian,” as PEN America describes them.
4. Proxy wars
Hand-wringing over what’s “age-appropriate” is often a proxy today for suppressing other, potentially controversial conversations about subjects like sexuality.
In South Africa under apartheid, such a conversation was the mixing of races. “Burger’s Daughter,” for instance, was called “indecent” partly because a Black child and a white child play together in it.
Here in the U.S., books are also called “objectionable” by lawmakers and parents for reasons other than the real ones. Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” for example, gets an “NSC … not suitable material or conduct for minors per existing statute” rating for sections mentioning the “n word,” among other objections, from the Florida Citizen’s Alliance 2021 Porn in Schools report.
Ironically, the report labels itself as “contain[ing] objectionable and potentially offensive material.”
In January, a school board in Tennessee removed “Maus” from the curriculum in the name of “inappropriate words” and “objectionable language,” including profanity. However, some people, including the graphic novel’s author, Art Spiegelman, believe the real reason it was removed was disinterest in or discomfort with Holocaust education on the part of Tennessee lawmakers.
5. Unbanning and other doublespeak
“Burger’s Daughter” was first banned under the 1974 Publications Act and then unbanned. Gordimer, however, saw the lifting of the ban as a charade to make the apartheid regime look more fairminded.
A Virginia court ruling also exposes the murky area between banning and unbanning. In May 2022, a Virginia Beach judge declared two books “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors.” Even though schools and bookstores might now be prohibited from distributing the books to young readers without parental consent, the attorney who won the case insists that, “It doesn’t mean the books are banned. It doesn’t mean we’re burning books or infringing on free speech.”
These rulings, in my view, are largely political theater. If proponents of censorship in the U.S. today are thumbing through the South African playbook, they might learn that it’s savvy to sound tolerant, if only for show.
After all, South African censors were devious enough to figure that banned books were of more use to the anti-apartheid movement because they they’d get notoriety. If the book were no longer banned, then they’d lose much of their appeal. They knew the threat of banning can actually backfire and generate more interest in the books.
Our modern American censors may be cribbing from South Africa’s notes, but they should read to the end of the history book. Despite its repressive tactics, that white minority government could not stay in power, and it was apartheid itself that wound up banned. There’s a lesson for the books.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/what-the-us-can-learn-about-apartheid-era-book-bans-in-south-africa-185114.
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BJP's focus only on diverting public attention from issues like unemployment: Sachin Pilot
Congress leader and former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Thursday said the BJP is only focused on diverting public attention from real issues such as unemployment and inflation instead of holding discussions on them.He also accused the central government of not supporting the state.Rajasthan is not able to get its due share from the Centre.
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Congress leader and former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Thursday said the BJP is ''only focused on diverting public attention'' from real issues such as unemployment and inflation instead of holding discussions on them.
He also accused the central government of not supporting the state.
''Rajasthan is not able to get its due share from the Centre. We do not get cooperation and support from the central government,'' he claimed.
''There are issues like unemployment and inflation on which the Congress wants a discussion in Parliament but the central government does not want it. The government wants to run away from discussion,'' he told reporters here.
He said MPs are being suspended in Parliament and there is ''no discussion on issues over GST, inflation, encroachment on border by China and unemployment''.
''Their attention is only on the equations to win elections. They do not want the real issues to be discussed among people and therefore they want to keep them confused,'' he said.
The Congress leader said the Centre is not giving the state its due share and not supporting it.
On a recent incident of self-immolation by a saint in Bharatpur against mining, Pilot said that it was an unfortunate incident.
He said the state government has taken steps earlier as well as after the incident to fulfil the demands.
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Jonathan B. Santo, University of Nebraska Omaha and Kelly Rhea MacArthur, University of Nebraska Omaha
(THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Women in statistics classes do better academically than men over a semester despite having more negative attitudes regarding their own abilities, according to our recent study in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
Using data from more than 100 male and female students from multiple statistics classes, my colleagueand I assessed gender differences in grades over the course of a semester. As part of the study, students also answered surveys at the start and end of the semester that measured six different things: their fear of statistics teachers in general; their thoughts about the usefulness of statistics; their perceptions of their own mathematical ability; their anxiety in taking tests; their anxiety in interpreting statistics; and their fear of asking for help.
Overall, we found that students with more negative perceptions of their own mathematical ability had lower grades over the course of the semester. What’s even more interesting are the gender differences that emerged.
Even though men and women scored similarly on exams at the start of the semester, women finished the semester with almost 10% higher final exam grades. This was the case even though women had significantly worse attitudes about their mathematical abilities at the start of the semester than their male counterparts.
At the beginning of the semester specifically, women were more likely to rate their mathematical abilities as lower than men in the class and report more anxiety toward exams and toward interpreting statistical findings. However, each of these self-assessments improved over the course of the semester such that women’s attitudes didn’t differ from men’s by the end.
Meanwhile, the grades of male students who reported fear of statistics teachers or fear of asking for help decreased more sharply over the course of the semester. For men whose attitudes improved during the semester, grades also improved – though not as much as women’s grades improved.
Why it matters
A number of studies have shown that from an early age, boys and girls learn math equally well.
However, girls are less likely to be called on in math classes than boys, even when they raise their hands as much as boys do. Moreover, some teachers unconsciously grade girls’ math tests more harshly than boys’. By middle school, gender differences in math scores emerge. These factors may contribute to adult women’s being more likely to rate themselves as less mathematically skilled than men. As a result, women are also less likely to pursue STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – occupations.
The results from our study, in line with others, bolster the notion that women have the potential to do as well as men, and even better, in STEM fields, such as statistics. We contend that women would benefit from additional mentoring to encourage them as they begin pursuing STEM-related education.
What still isn’t known
The evidence above provides hints at some of the causes of the gender discrepancy in perceived ability. However, there is much we still don’t know.
For example, why did the attitudes of the women in our study improve over time? Was it based on their confidence in their abilities as their grades improved, or did their statistics teachers influence their perception of their own abilities over time?
More research is needed to understand exactly how women differed from men in their attitudes over the course of the school semester, among other questions. In particular, we’d like to disentangle exactly which classroom or instructor factors can lead to better attitudes among students, ultimately translating to better grades.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/women-are-better-at-statistics-than-they-think-164676.
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Worries over winter test support in Germany for Russia sanctions
Melnyk, who was removed from his post by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy earlier this month, has been outspoken in his criticism of any signs of German wavering over its support for Ukraine. 'FREEZING FOR FREEDOM' Friedrich Merz, the head of the conservatives in the Bundestag lower house of parliament, has distanced himself from Kretschmer's comments, saying they do not reflect a broader change in the parliamentary group's hard line on Russia. Kretschmer has long been an outlier on Russia policy - in 2019, he also called for an end to sanctions imposed after Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
The German government's hard line on Russia over the Ukraine war is coming under pressure at home amid growing worries about the resulting soaring energy prices and possible gas shortages in Europe's largest economy when winter comes. Until now, all mainstream parties - from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's leftist Social Democrats and its junior coalition partners, the Greens and Free Democrats, to the opposition conservatives, had backed the tough Western sanctions imposed on Russia after it invaded its neighbour.
In recent weeks though, some conservatives leaders have voiced scepticism about the West's strategy. And while opinion polls show that more than two thirds of Germans still back sanctions, around half think these are hurting Germany more than Russia. Around half of German households rely on gas for their heating while gas also accounts for a third of industry’s energy. In recent years half of that gas has come from Russia.
But deliveries from Russia have dwindled in recent weeks due what Moscow is calling maintenance issues and Berlin says is weaponizing of energy, prompting the European Union to agree this week an emergency plan to curb demand. Germany recorded its first monthly trade deficit since 1991 in May, partly due to inflation running at around 8%.
"Our entire economic system is in danger of collapsing. If we are not careful, Germany could become de-industrialised," Michael Kretschmer, conservative leader of the eastern Saxony region, told Die Zeit newspaper in an interview printed on Thursday. "If we realise that we cannot for now give up on Russian gas, then it is bitter but it is the reality, and we must act accordingly."
Concerns about government policy on Ukraine are particularly widespread in the former communist East, which has stronger ties to Moscow and stands to be more affected by the looming economic downturn as it is already worse off. Kretschmer, whose state has a population of around 4 million, is calling for the war in Ukraine to be "frozen" and for Europe to push for peace talks.
This would allow both key commodities from fossil fuels to grains to be delivered once more, preventing German economic collapse and famine in Africa, he said. Critics say this would legitimize Russia's territorial gains and allow it to regroup. Ukraine's outgoing ambassador in Berlin, Andrij Melnyk, said on Twitter Kretschmer should stick his own head in the freezer to stop his "Russia fantasies". Melnyk, who was removed from his post by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy earlier this month, has been outspoken in his criticism of any signs of German wavering over its support for Ukraine.
'FREEZING FOR FREEDOM' Friedrich Merz, the head of the conservatives in the Bundestag lower house of parliament, has distanced himself from Kretschmer's comments, saying they do not reflect a broader change in the parliamentary group's hard line on Russia.
Kretschmer has long been an outlier on Russia policy - in 2019, he also called for an end to sanctions imposed after Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Still, leaders of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party of Merz's Christian Democratic Union in the southern region of Bavaria, Germany's manufacturing hub, have expressed similar concerns.
"Freezing for freedom is not sustainable," CSU General Secretary Martin Huber told the Muenchner Merkur newspaper, referring to the prospect of possible gas shortages in the coming winter. "Weapons help Ukraine quicker than sanctions."
Even within the government there is concern over the knock-on effects of sanctions. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser warned earlier this month of possible radical protests, while Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said a total Russian gas cut-off could lead to "uprisings". Scholz this week promised further more welfare support to shield poorer households and help the country get through this difficult phase.
The government has already agreed two multi-billion euro relief packages for households and firms this year as well as measures to reduce energy consumption, for instance by boosting funding for the construction of energy-efficient buildings. "It's clear that we will have to fight for sustained support for our Ukraine policy given the difficult supply situation and high inflation," a senior government official said.
This was one reason Baerbock, one of the government's most popular ministers, made a 10-day tour of Germany earlier this month, the official said. The tour however did not take her to Saxony, where the focus of weekly demonstrations on Mondays organized by the "Free Saxony" group - founded in 2021 - has shifted from anger over COVID-19 restrictions to outrage at the government's energy policy.
"Corona and energy protests unite," the group wrote Monday on its Telegram channel that has nearly 150,000 subscribers. "We will not freeze for this policy but will rise up. Numerous and together."
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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