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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kailash Vijayvargiya took a jibe at former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath over his remark that he would lend his car if anyone wanted to leave Congress and join the BJP.
Vijayvargiya said, “If Kamal Nath thinks so, then he should definitely buy a lot of cars as many big leaders of Congress are planning to join the BJP.”
The BJP leader was in Jabalpur after visiting Jhoteshwar to pay tribute to Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati Maharaj.
Also Read | Congress united, MLAs not for sale, says Kamal Nath amid Maha political crisis
Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called Kamal Nath’s remark “an insult to the workers.”
Addressing a meeting in Ratlam, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, “How can a party that does not respect its workers do well for the people? When the big leaders of the party are saying such things about party workers, then it can be understood how much they respect the workers.”
Also Read | The biggest problems is no jobs: Kamal Nath at State Of The States Madhya Pradesh First
Kamal Nath, on Sunday, had said that the party won’t stop anyone from leaving. He had said, “If someone goes from Congress, does it mean Congress is over? We don't want to stop anyone who has to leave the party. If anyone feels his future is secure in BJP, then I will give him my car. I will not go to persuade anyone.”
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China stocks track global peers higher ahead of Fed rate-hike decision
SHANGHAI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - China stocks rebounded on Tuesday, snapping a four-session losing streak in line with gains in global markets, as investors priced in an expected hefty U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate hike this week to tackle searing inflation.
** The blue-chip CSI 300 Index added 0.3%, while the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.5%.
** The Hang Seng Index gained 1.3%, and the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index advanced 1.4%.
** Other Asian shares edged up, following a rebound in the final hour of New York trading.
** China kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged at a monthly fixing as expected, as authorities appeared to hold off immediate monetary easing following rapid declines in the local currency and as central banks elsewhere tightened policy.
** Real estate developers lost 3.6%, while new energy shares and non-ferrous metal jumped more than 3% each.
** Tianqi Lithium Corp surged nearly 9%, Chengxin Lithium Group jumped 6.2%, and battery giant CATL added 2.1%.
** Still, the new energy sector is down roughly 15% from a recent peak one month ago, as expectations of aggressive overseas rate hikes weighed.
** Hong Kong leader John Lee said on Tuesday the government aims to make an announcement soon on its controversial COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals, as it wants to keep the city connected with the rest of the world and allow an "orderly opening up".
** China's government also issued draft rules aimed at making it easier for some foreigners to enter China for visits to tourism sites along the Chinese border.
** Tech giants listed in Hong Kong jumped 2.5%, with index heavyweights Alibaba and Meituan both up more than 3%.
** Casino operators soared more than 5%.
(Reporting by Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Rashmi Aich)
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114,000 people are at risk of losing their benefits as Universal Credit rules change next week, on September 26. More than 100,000 people are to be moved from the “light touch” work group to “intensive work search” because of a planned increase in the Administration Earnings Threshold (AET).
The AET rate is being increased from £355 a month to £494 a month, or from £567 a month to £782 a month for joint claims, from September 26, reports The Mirror. This is the equivalent of an individual working 12 hours per week, or a couple working 19 hours per week between them, the Government said.
If your income is above the AET rates, you will be in the "light touch" work group. This means you’re not required to look for work as it stands, and you have less direct contact with the JobCentre.
But if you earn below these amounts, you will be in the "intensive work search" group. This could mean you may be told to find extra work or take on more hours in your existing job, in order to keep your Universal Credit.
You will be given a number of hours that you are expected to take part in work search activities each week. How many hours you are required to spend looking for work depends on your circumstances, including childcare commitments and any health conditions.
You can check your claimant commitment to see how many hours you are expected to look for work. Any mandatory commitments that you fail to take part in - without good reason - could lead to a sanction and your benefits being stopped.
Those affected by the change will be contacted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey said the new approach will "help claimants get quickly back into the world of work while helping ensure employers get the people they and the economy needs".
She added: "Helping people get any job now, means they can get a better job and progress into a career.
"Way to Work is a step change in our offer to claimants and employers, making sure our JobCentre network and excellent work coaches can deliver opportunities, jobs and prosperity to all areas of the country."
Some of the work activities that you might be asked to take part in include:
- Carrying out work searches
- Making applications
- Creating and maintaining an online history
- Registering with an employment agency
- Creating and maintaining job profiles – however, you must not be mandated to use particular internet or social media sites (this must be entirely voluntary)
- Seeking references
- Any other actions which reasonably increase the likelihood of obtaining employment
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Carnival (CCL) Gains But Lags Market: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Carnival (CCL) closed at $10.78, marking a +0.19% move from the previous day. The stock lagged the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.69%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.64%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.2%.
Coming into today, shares of the cruise operator had gained 9.02% in the past month. In that same time, the Consumer Discretionary sector lost 11.32%, while the S&P 500 lost 9.94%.
Carnival will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of -$0.12, up 93.14% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $4.95 billion, up 806.71% from the year-ago period.
CCL's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of -$3.75 per share and revenue of $13.72 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of +46.88% and +618.61%, respectively.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Carnival. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant within the past month. Carnival currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
The Leisure and Recreation Services industry is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 161, putting it in the bottom 37% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
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Half-Year Report 2022
Good Energy Group PLC
Un-audited Half Year Report for the 6 months ended 30 June 2022
20 September 2022
Good Energy Group PLC ("Good Energy" or "the Company")
Un-audited interim results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2022
Resilient financial performance and investing in growth strategy
Good Energy, the 100% renewable electricity supplier and innovative energy services provider, today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2022.
Highlights
Financial performance for the six months to 30 June 2022
Period ended
H1 2022
HY 2022
£m*
Underlying
Non
Reported
H1 2021
continued
underlying
operations
Revenue
£107.6m
£68.4m
Gross Profit
£12.2m
£17.7m
Administration costs
£(12.7)m
£(11.8)m
Operating profit
£(0.5)m
£(0.6)m
£5.9m
Net finance costs
£(0.2)m
£(1.2)m
Profit before tax
£(0.7)m
£4.8m
Taxation
£1.0m
£(1.6)m
Profit from continuing
£0.3m
£3.2m
Profit from discontinued
£0.0m
operations, before tax
Tax on discontinued
£0.4m
Profit for the period
£0.8m
Cash and cash equivalents
£21.7m
£9.0m
Basic (loss) / earnings per
7.4p
20.5p
share (p)
Half Year dividend per share
0.75p
(p)
Financial highlights - continuing operations
Operational highlights
install over 13,000 this year, increasing the total to 40,000 and 47% of our customer base by the end of 2022.
Outlook Highlights
Nigel Pocklington, Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy, said:
"The global energy crisis is escalating further. Russia's stranglehold on gas supplies to Europe has been magnified by further shortages and uncertainty, driving energy prices in the UK to fresh highs. We have been vocal in stating that the only solution in the short term is Government support and demand reduction, with an accelerated roll out of renewables in the medium to longer term. We are now pleased to see the Government take meaningful steps to help customers through winter and beyond.
"Over the past 12 months, the rising cost of energy, multiple supplier failures and everyday consumers having to pick up the bill only serves to highlight a greater need for renewables to play a vital role in our long-term energy strategy. Not only will a shift to cleaner, local electricity sources cut the UK's carbon, it will cut the UK's ties to fossil fuel driven global markets. As a trusted leader in local, decentralised clean power, Good Energy's core purpose has never been more relevant.
"Despite the pressures of the wider market, I am pleased with the resilient performance and continued delivery on our growth strategy during the period. We remain a substantially debt free business with a strong balance sheet, which is of benefit to all our stakeholders, and have taken tangible steps to invest in our future, in both new products for solar customers and supporting Zap- Map's growth by powering electric vehicle drivers.
Demand for clean energy products like solar, storage and electric vehicles is soaring as customers look to cut costs and gain control of their energy. Our mission to help one million homes and
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There is a warning to people with particular £20 or £50 paper notes in the UK that they could face long queues if they try to exchange them. This type of cash becomes redundant on Friday, September 30.
The Bank of England has advised people to remain patient when they try to change them for new polymer notes, which are harder to fake. There is no deadline to swap old notes for new ones, but consumers are still rushing to swap them, Manchester Evening News reports.
The Bank says that long queues are forming and that people could wait for more than an hour if they rush to change the money. The paper notes can be swapped for new polymer ones at the Bank of England, as well as high street banks and some Post Offices.
If you need to get old banknotes swapped on the same day, the Bank of England is your best bet. However, the Bank has warned of long queues to swap these old notes. A Bank of England statement said: "The Bank of England Counter is currently open from 9.30am to 3pm Monday to Friday and is experiencing very high demand.
"There will be long queues and you may encounter waiting times in excess of an hour. We would ask that you kindly consider the long wait times when travelling to the Bank to undertake an in person exchange - if you arrive after 2pm it is possible you may not get served before we close.
"Unless you require your banknotes immediately, we would suggest sending your banknotes via the post."
If you go to a Post Office from September 15, you can swap banknotes - but only at certain branches. You can also only swap up to £300 in old banknotes.
The notes which can be exchanged are:
- Elizabeth Fry paper £5 note
- Charles Darwin paper £10 note
- Adam Smith paper £20 note
- Boulton and Watt paper £50 note
Post Office branches that will exchange withdrawn notes:
London
Golders Green Post Office | Greater London | NW11 8RT
High Holborn Post Office | Greater London | WC1V 7RL
Moorgate Post Office | Greater London | EC2M 5TE
The City of London Post Office | Greater London | EC3M 1AJ
Regent Street St. James’s Post Office | Greater London | SW1Y 4LR
Northern Ireland
Belfast City Post Office | County Antrim | BT1 1LT
Londonderry Post Office | County Londonderry | BT48 6AA
Scotland
Edinburgh City Post Office | Midlothian | EH1 1BQ
Glasgow Post Office | Strathclyde | G1 2RD
Inverness Post Office | Inverness-shire | IV1 1AX
North East
Middlesbrough Post Office | North Yorkshire | TS1 2NR
Newcastle Upon Tyne Post Office | Tyne and Wear | NE1 7DE
North West
Carlisle Post Office | Cumbria | CA3 8JY
Manchester Post Office | Greater Manchester | M2 1BB
Breck Road Post Office | Merseyside | L5 6SW
Yorkshire and Humber
Sheffield City Post Office | South Yorkshire | S1 2AX
York Post Office | North Yorkshire | YO1 9QL
The Markets Post Office | West Yorkshire | LS2 7DZ
Midlands
Birmingham Post Office | West Midlands | B2 4AA
Nottingham Post Office | Nottinghamshire | NG1 3QD
East of England
Cambridge City Post Office | Cambridgeshire | CB2 3BZ
Norwich Post Office | Norfolk | NR1 3QP
Wales
Wrexham Post Office | Clwyd | LL11 1BE
Cardiff Post Office | South Glamorgan | CF10 2NX
South West
Bournemouth Post Office | Dorset | BH1 1DY
Bristol Post Office | City Of Bristol | BS1 3XB
Mutley Post Office | Devon | PL4 6LL
South East
Oxford Post Office | Oxfordshire | OX1 1ZZ
Melville Road Post Office | East Sussex | BN3 1UB
Portsmouth Post Office | Hampshire | PO1 1AB
For more information please visit Bank of England website here
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Tough treatment in Ivory Coast schools, expelling 'losers' to boost grades
Any pupil with an unacceptable grade would be prohibited from pursuing their studies
Youngsters in Ivory Coast return to school this week with a sword of Damocles above their heads: those with average grades of less than 8.5 out of 10 will be excluded at the end of the year.
The measure is an old one brought back by authorities in the hope of raising the general standard of education in the west African country -- prohibiting any pupil with an unacceptable grade from pursuing their studies.
In the working-class district of Adjame, at the heart of the commercial capital Abidjan, the rule stirs comment at small stalls selling school supplies, where people also exchange secondhand textbooks.
"What are we going to do with the students who will be excluded? It's too drastic!" exclaims Mariam Eid, a mother of three.
"We're going to turn them into bandits. We want the teaching to be up to par, but one step at a time," she adds, while making sure a worn mathematics book has no missing pages before she buys it.
But at the Pierre Amondji college in Adjame -- where the motto "Who seeks perfection obtains excellence" is displayed in capital letters on the walls of the courtyard -- the measure is generally well received among the students.
- 'Redouble our efforts' -
"I find it positive," says Djenebou, who is taking the baccalaureate school leavers' exam at the end of the year.
Some students worried the move could lead to students being blackmailed by teachers for good grades
"It will incite us to redouble our efforts and work harder."
"It's a good measure. The goal is to improve our knowledge so we move on with solid training," adds his classmate Seydou.
But Seydou also hopes the regulation will not encourage fraud, and in particular the blackmailing of students by certain teachers in exchange for good exam grades.
"Some teachers are difficult... The marks are very low and to move on to the next class we have to negotiate with them," the young student says.
The minister of national education, Mariatou Kone, who is seeing in the second new school year of her time in office, defends a regulation that is far from universally welcomed.
"This is a measure that has existed since the 1970s and that we are restoring to encourage students to work and fight against mediocrity," she tells AFP.
"Students will not be barred from the school system. There are bridges between technical education and vocational training," Kone adds, keen "to reassure parents".
Officially state schools are free but the price of uniforms, satchels and supplies can quickly strain budgets
The minister says students who don't get the grades will not follow the standard curriculum, but they will be able to learn a trade or different skills.
"We must not leave anybody aside. The state must redirect these students to training in other trades," insists Claude Kadio Aka, president of the Organization of the Parents of Pupils and Students in Ivory Coast (Opeeci).
"All our children are useful in the development of the country," Aka declares.
- 'Measure of averages' -
Minister Kone stresses the aim of the reform is "to raise the standard" of Ivorian schools and to give diplomas their full worth.
In the past two years, the success rate for the baccalaureate has hovered around 30 percent, compared with 45 percent in previous years.
"Our children are in advanced classes and don't even know how to write an elementary sentence," protests Christelle Okingni, who has four children in school and welcomes the initiative.
But the "measure of averages" will not suffice to improve a school system which is sorely lacking in resources.
It is not uncommon in Ivory Coast to find classrooms with 60 or even 80 pupils
"Students regularly rise up to denounce the lack of classrooms and desks," points out a teacher of French from an establishment in Bouake, the country's second city, who prefers to remain anonymous.
It is not uncommon in Ivory Coast to find classrooms with 60 or even 80 pupils, while a lack of teachers sometimes cuts short the school year by several weeks.
"Last year, we had a mathematics and physics teacher only after the first term, it's not good for us students," laments Aya, a middle-school pupil at a college in Bouake.
The matter of school fees has arisen more than ever at a time when worldwide inflation is not sparing low-income households in Ivory Coast.
Officially, Ivorian state schools are free, but the price of uniforms, satchels and supplies can quickly put a strain on the family budget -- not to mention illegal registration fees sometimes requested by certain establishments.
Last week, the government announced a free distribution of six million textbooks and 5.3 million kits of classroom supplies, as well as the provision of 167,000 tables.
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Energy crisis key to Italy's election - but not conservation
MILAN (AP) - Giambarini Group´s plants in northern Italy must keep zinc baths that rustproof steel and iron parts super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as natural gas prices spike.
Methane to create molten zinc that forms a protective coating over high-rise support beams and wrought-iron fences used to take up just 3% of operating costs, but now it's as much as 30%. The family-run company has passed some of the extra cost to customers, but business is uncertain as rising prices for raw materials freezes the construction industry that Giambarini supplies.
"We don´t know the future. We don´t know if it will get worse or better, since clients don´t know if they will have work,´´ said CEO Alberto Giambarini, the third generation in his family to run the business. He has orders for the coming 10 days, instead of through Christmas, like in the past. "We are living day to day."
The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households - like those across Europe - is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses, at least temporarily, and force household rationing by winter. Prices started going up a year ago and have only been exacerbated as Russia has cut back natural gas used to generate electricity, heat and cool homes, and run factories as Europe supports war-torn Ukraine.
Already in July and August, industrial energy use dropped by double digits mostly because of scaled-back production - which experts say could affect economic growth and employment in the coming months.
At the same time, three-quarters of Italian households expect even more pain this fall with higher bills, according to the SWG polling institute. Already, 80% report important sacrifices to pay energy costs, such as delaying vacations, major purchases and eating out.
Men work in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. Never in an Italian election campaign has energy been such a central talking point. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Never in an Italian election campaign has energy been such a central talking point. Candidates have sparred over whether debt-laden Italy, which has already spent more than 60 billion euros to help families, businesses and local governments, should incur yet more debt to finance new relief. They're also facing off on whether Italy should consider investing in new nuclear technologies.
But no party is discussing mandatory conservation measures, like many of Italy´s European neighbors.
"It is remarkable to see how much all these people are commenting on energy. Before the current situation, no one would mention the issue. But at the same time, they are neglecting if not ignoring completely the climate side of this,´´ said Matteo Di Castelnuovo, an energy economist at Milan´s Bocconi University. "No one is going to talk about rationing or reducing consumption."
Most major parties, including Giorgia Meloni´s far-right Brothers of Italy and Enrico Letta´s center-left Democratic Party, are largely following strategies pursued by the outgoing government of Premier Mario Draghi. They both advocate a European Union cap on natural gas prices, despite a failure to gain EU consensus in months of discussion, along with varying formulas to help families and offer tax breaks to businesses.
Pollsters and energy experts say these similarities have made it difficult for voters to be moved by energy policy.
Broadly, the campaign has focused on continued natural gas investments.
For the Democratic Party, plants that regasify liquid natural gas are positioned as a bridge to other technologies as it sets a target to add 85 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 in a country that for years has averaged just 1 gigawatt a year. The center-right coalition that Meloni´s party is leading wants to expand pipeline deliveries to Italy, which fits a longer-term strategy of making Italy a gas hub for Europe but does not address the EU goal of emission reductions by 2030.
The right-wing coalition and small centrist parties also advocate a return to nuclear power, which Italians have rejected in two referendums decades apart. In addition to societal resistance, the technology would take at least two decades to implement, too late to help Italy´s commitment with the Group of 7 wealthy economies to fully decarbonize by 2035, said Matteo Leonardi, executive director of the environmental think tank ECCO.
The political debate is largely focusing on lowering gas prices but not diversifying or discouraging households from consuming resources that would better support industry, Leonardi said.
"The response to this crisis, as they are saying in the rest of Europe, are renewables and efficiency," Leonardi said. "You cannot face a war without arms. You cannot give the message that the state will take care of it, consume what you want."
Italy´s famed textile industry, which gives French and Italian fashion houses their luxury edge, also is suffering. The small and medium operators that form the backbone of the system risk closure without a swift, systemic response from both Europe and Italy, said Sergio Tamborini, head of the SMI Italian Fashion System association.
"The bills that arrived in June and July were explosive,´´ Tamborini said.
Italy´s textile industry - along with leather and accessories accounting for revenue of 100 billion euros a year - is a luxury niche that Tamborini worries will be weakened by cheaper markets if costs aren't reduced.
Dying and printing textiles is especially energy intensive, Tamborini said, and for some, "it is a problem of survival."
"We should have had help already in September. We cannot wait for the next government to be active, because it could be Christmas or even after," he said, given the fractured nature of Italian politics.
Meanwhile, Giambarini said his business has no immediate plans for short-term layoffs of 250 workers, but the outgoing government has been discussing new layoff programs to give businesses a way to avoid crippling energy costs.
Shutting down even temporarily would be devastating, taking months to relaunch, said Giambarini, adding he was still deciding which party to back.
"We are waiting for the election and hope we will get a government that will indicate a better road out of this period of crisis,´´ Giambarini said.
A man works in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Men work in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A man works in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The family-run group has passed some of the additional energy cost on to customers, but business remains more uncertain than ever as inflationary pressure on raw materials is putting a freeze on the construction industry that Giambarini supplies. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A man works in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A man works in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A woman works in a textile industry in Guanzate, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. Never in an Italian election campaign has energy been such a central talking point. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A man works in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The family-run group has passed some of the additional energy cost on to customers, but business remains more uncertain than ever as inflationary pressure on raw materials is putting a freeze on the construction industry that Giambarini supplies. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A man works in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Men work in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The family-run group has passed some of the additional energy cost on to customers, but business remains more uncertain than ever as inflationary pressure on raw materials is putting a freeze on the construction industry that Giambarini supplies. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A man works in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Men work in a galvanizing plant in Cambiano, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Zinc baths at Giambarini Group's galvanizing plants in northern Italy must remain super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as gas prices spike. The family-run group has passed some of the additional energy cost on to customers, but business remains more uncertain than ever as inflationary pressure on raw materials is putting a freeze on the construction industry that Giambarini supplies. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A man works in a textile industry in Guanzate, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. Never in an Italian election campaign has energy been such a central talking point. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A woman works in a textile industry in Guanzate, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. Never in an Italian election campaign has energy been such a central talking point. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A woman works in a textile industry in Guanzate, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. The energy crisis facing Italian industry and households is a top voter concern going into Sunday's parliamentary elections as fears grow that astronomically high bills will shutter some businesses and force household rationing by winter. Never in an Italian election campaign has energy been such a central talking point.(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha will inaugurate Kashmir’s first multiplex in Srinagar on Tuesday. Cinema halls will be back in Kashmir after a gap of three decades.
The multiplex designed by INOX will have three movie theatres with a total capacity of 520 seats. The premises will also have a food court aimed at promoting local cuisine. To highlight Kashmir's art and design, a Kashmiri wood "Khatambandh" is also used in the lobbies, giving it a Kashmiri cultural look.
The multiplex will be thrown open to the public with a special screening of Aamir Khan-starrer 'Lal Singh Chaddha'.
The multiplex will be permanently stationed and the latest movies will be released for people of Kashmir to experience the same recreational facilities as they get in the rest of the country.
On December 31, 1990, all cinema halls in the Kashmir valley were closed amid spread of terrorism.
CINEMA HALLS IN PULWANA, SHOPIAN
J&K L-G, Manoj Sinha on Sunday inaugurated multipurpose cinema halls in Pulwama and Shopian. The union territory has got cinema halls after three decades and three years after the abrogation of Article 370.
In both the cinema halls, many children-oriented films, including Lal Singh Chadha, were shown on the first day of the movie screening.
Yesterday inaugurated Multipurpose Cinema Halls at Pulwama and Shopian. It offers facilities ranging from movie screening, infotainment and skilling of youth. pic.twitter.com/rsCzxgqNwL
— Manoj Sinha (@manojsinha_) September 19, 2022
After the inauguration, Sinha took to Twitter and called it a 'historic day' for J&K. "A historic day for J&K UT! Inaugurated Multipurpose Cinema Halls at Pulwama and Shopian. "It offers facilities ranging from movie screening, infotainment, and skilling of youth," the LG tweeted.
(With inputs from Ashraf Wani)
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Recruiter SThree sees annual profit above estimates on science, tech job demand
Sept 20 (Reuters) - British recruiting firm SThree Plc forecast a higher-than-expected annual profit on Tuesday, helped by continued demand for hiring in the science, technology and related sectors.
The company, which hires employees for finance, energy, banking, pharmaceutical, engineering and tech sectors, said it expected profit before tax for the year ended Nov. 30 to be at least 7% ahead of market expectations.
As candidates moved jobs, the recruitment industry saw a boom from soaring wage inflation and talent shortages but the looming recession brings back the cracks in the job market with jobseekers taking a back seat as demands cool down.
Last month, larger peer PageGroup had flagged slower hiring in some markets, as companies grapple with higher costs.
"Whilst we remain mindful of the macro-economic uncertainty across global markets, with all developments and lead indicators of the Group's performance monitored closely, our strong market position underpins our confidence in the medium to long-term future of the Group," SThree Chief Executive Officer Timo Lehne said in a statement.
The London-headquartered company sees a 19% rise in group net fees for the third quarter.
(Reporting by Amna Karimi in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)
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Single-use plastics: Wales set to ban carrier bags and straws after delay
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Plans to ban single-use carrier bags and plastic wet wipes in Wales are set to be reintroduced after a delay.
Plastic plates, cutlery, stirrers, drinking straws and cotton buds would also be banned under the proposed law.
Climate Change Minister Julie James said Wales must "avoid leaving a toxic legacy" to future generations.
The rest of the United Kingdom already bans plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers.
However nowhere in the UK has stopped the sale of plastic wet wipes or single-use carrier bags.
The new Welsh law will make it an offence to supply or offer to supply what ministers call "littered and unnecessary disposable single-use plastics".
The Welsh government said the law needed to bring in the changes was delayed by a complicated piece of post-Brexit UK legislation.
The draft bill, which will now begin the required scrutiny process before it can become law, will also give local councils the powers to enforce the ban on single-use plastic items including:
- cutlery, plates and stirrers
- drinking straws (with an exemption for medical or care needs)
- cotton buds with plastic stems
- balloon sticks
- polystyrene takeaway containers, cups and lids
- thin plastic single-use carrier bags
The list follows a consultation in 2020 and the Welsh government argues there are non-plastic or reusable alternatives to all of the products.
Powers to raid premises
Straws can be sold by pharmacists and are allowed for medical or care reasons.
Anyone else who supplies these products could be fined, with councils having powers to raid premises.
The legal changes will allow ministers to add or remove items, provided those changes are backed by the Welsh Parliament.
"Single-use plastic products are often seen littered in our streets, parks and seas," Ms James said.
"Not only are they unsightly, but they have a devastating impact on our wildlife and environment.
"With a Team Wales effort, we have to say no to the single-use item culture, so we avoid leaving a toxic legacy of plastic for future generations to deal with."
Wales was the first part of the UK to require retailers to charge for single use carrier bags in 2011.
The 5p charge must be given to charity.
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Martha's Vineyard Residents Were Having Total Meltdown, Turning on Each Other and Calling Out Friends
The national media has jumped to the support of the super-rich, left-wing residents of Martha’s Vineyard in the wake of its 50 illegal alien visitors, but it seems that all is not in harmony behind the scenes.
Members of the media have fallen all over themselves to claim that the residents of Martha’s Vineyard stand together like a rock in their angel-like hope that they can find a place amongst them for the illegals dumped by the dastardly “xenophobic” GOP Gov. of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
CNN, for instance, published a story lauding the cooperation of the residents of Martha’s Vineyard and how the community “responded” to the arrival. The story was full of notes on how the community came together.
Local media also lauded the hometown heroes, including the Vineyard Gazette, which published the tale entitled, “Vineyard Community Rallies Relief Efforts to Assist Stranded Migrants.”
Indeed, local authorities on the island that serves as home to the rich and famous tooted their own horn over their efforts to solve that shocking “humanitarian crisis” that beset their quiet island paradise.
To our Island community, here is an update on current humanitarian crisis on Martha’s Vineyard….we thank people for their continued help. pic.twitter.com/f9YRJSJPow
— Visit Martha’s Vineyard (@VisitMV) September 15, 2022
That was all before the illegals were all shipped right back off the island, as Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz noted:
I thought Martha’s Vineyard was a “sanctuary city”?
I thought they declared themselves a “haven” for illegal immigrants??
Just 50 arrive, and the socialist billionaires send them away—to a military base, no less—in JUST 24 hours. 🤦♂️ https://t.co/3fwOghLIe2
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 16, 2022
Still, were those compassionate stars of humanitarianism all so unified in compassion for their visitors?
Maybe not so much.
The liberal residents of Martha’s Vineyard enthusiastically support politicians such as Joe Biden, who espouse open-border policies that are swamping border states like Texas with tens of thousands of illegals weekly. In 2020, 9,763 residents voted for Biden and only 2,610 for Trump.
But the residents were not quite as pleased to have a few of the immigrants in their own backyards.
The behind-the-scenes arguing started almost as soon as GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a plane loaded with 50 illegals to the island on Wednesday.
A Facebook group created for the island’s residents seems to have had a bit of dissent going on behind the scenes as residents bickered and pointed fingers at each other over the arrival of the uninvited guests.
TBDaily News gathered a grouping of some of the top comments as residents argued about the situation.
Twitter user Dave Rubin thought that the comments were hilarious:
Possibly the greatest thread in the history of Twitter.
Liberals mugged by reality… https://t.co/1Okfx0F9n5
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 16, 2022
And Aidan Kearney assembled a bunch of them for Twitter users to see:
“Obama has room”
“I’m sure he does but that’s not the point”
It kind of is though, Rebecca pic.twitter.com/v6vHbWyXQk
— AidanKearneyTB (@DoctorTurtleboy) September 16, 2022
“Ron DeSantis is sick because he’s sending people to an island paradise where they are welcomed”
“Permanent housing? I thought we were just doing a weekend camp out?”
“I’m not willing to let them live with me but I have some hand me down clothes. I’m a good person, right?” pic.twitter.com/gFf1A0gJ5M
— AidanKearneyTB (@DoctorTurtleboy) September 16, 2022
I found them – the only liberal in Massachusetts who thinks they should practice what they preach. When will Edgartown build high rise housing projects? pic.twitter.com/vfGVl4r9r2
— AidanKearneyTB (@DoctorTurtleboy) September 16, 2022
Poor Carole can’t believe they brought all these icky poor people to her expensive community. Now let’s treat them with kindness by putting them on a boat and sending them to Rhode Island pic.twitter.com/gDciXRzT50
— AidanKearneyTB (@DoctorTurtleboy) September 16, 2022
Even with the accusations that Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are “xenophobes” who are “using people for politics,” they still haven’t explained how it is an American duty for border states to allow themselves to be flooded with illegal aliens by the millions, but it is somehow evil and un-American for Martha’s Vineyard to deal with 50 of them.
These same leftists have also not explained how it is good policy for Obama and Biden both to ship illegals by the hundreds in midnight plane rides all across the country, but if Abbott or DeSantis do it with a few dozen illegals on a few buses, they are monsters abusing families.
The whole situation really highlights the left’s hypocrisy.
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Report: Meghan and Harry Let Their Pretentious Side Loose - 'Furious' Response to Family Shutting Down Kids
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back from being working royals in 2020, part of the deal was that they didn’t get to use the titles His and Her Royal Highness. Fair’s fair, right?
Sure, Harry may have been born into the Windsor family, but there’s something distinctly unregal about decamping to Hollywood to work on a development deal with Netflix.
So, why are Harry and Meghan so surprised their children won’t be getting HRH titles? Because, of course, they’re Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
According to the U.K. Sun, while King Charles III has said he will anoint both of the couple’s children — 3-year-old Archie and 1-year-old Lilibet — as prince and princess, they won’t be given HRH titles.
“Harry, 37, and Meghan, 41, agreed not to use their His and Her Royal Highness titles when they moved there two and a half years ago,” the Sun reported Thursday.
“But they moaned that it had left their family without adequate security.”
The report said that the couple began petitioning the rest of the royal family to award their children HRH titles shortly after Queen Elizabeth II’s death last week — because apparently decorum isn’t Harry or Meghan’s thing, even as Britain is still grieving.
“Harry and Meghan were worried about the security issue and being prince and princess brings them the right to have certain levels of royal security,” a source told the Sun.
“There have been a lot of talks over the past week.”
The source added the couple “have been insistent that Archie and Lilibet are prince and princess.”
“They have been relentless since the queen died,” the source added.
“But they have been left furious that Archie and Lilibet cannot take the title HRH.
“That is the agreement — they can be prince and princess but not HRH because they are not working royals.”
The couple’s argument: Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have HRH status even though they’re not working royals. Why not Archie and Lilibet?
It might have something to do with the fact that the couple have lobbed accusations of racism against the royal family — Markle is half-black — and gave an ugly tell-all interview to Oprah Winfrey in 2021.
Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that, not contented with doing that kind of damage, Prince Harry is set to publish a poison-pen memoir about the royal family.
According to Fox News, while the book was originally set for a global release late this year, it could be delayed due to the death of the queen.
Or maybe it’s the fact that Archie and Lilibet weren’t even entitled to be called prince and princess, a source close to the royal family told Us Weekly in 2021.
“Under royal protocol established by King George V, only those in the direct line of succession to the throne get the titles [of] prince or princess,” the source said. Those rules limit the number of individuals who can call themselves HRH.
However, one royal watcher says, King Charles III was willing to meet the prodigal prince and his insufferable consort halfway by agreeing to dub their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
“Letting Archie and Lilibet become a prince and princess but not have HRH titles would be a classic compromise,” royal expert Phil Dampier said, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.
“The same thing happened to Diana and Fergie after they were divorced from Charles and Andrew. And of course Sarah Ferguson is still the Duchess of York today.”
If all these reports are accurate, there are two things we can take away from all of this.
First, and least important, “royal expert” apparently passes as a real job description over in England. I know it feels callous to mock Mr. Dampier’s chosen profession as the world mourns the beloved Queen Elizabeth II, but the fact there are professional “royal watchers” reminds Americans why we threw all that tea in Boston Harbor.
Second, this controversy is arguably the most Harry/Meghan thing that could possibly have happened at this moment. We’re talking peak Markle here — and it couldn’t have happened at a worse possible time.
Queen Elizabeth was the United Kingdom’s longest-reigning monarch, but she was more than that. When one said “the queen,” nobody needed to ask which queen you were talking about.
How much respect did she command? Even Johnny Rotten — the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, most famous for the then-sacrilegious royal-mocking 1977 single “God Save the Queen” — publicly paid his respects to the woman he once claimed “ain’t no human being” and savaged as a “fascist.”
Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth II.
Send her victorious.
From all at https://t.co/vK2Du0ZzDS pic.twitter.com/kq4M6WfeML
— John Lydon Official (@lydonofficial) September 9, 2022
When even Johnny Rotten is urging people to “send [Queen Elizabeth] victorious,” one ought to read the room, no matter how ambitious they may be. This was a global moment for solemnity, grief and reflection on a life well-lived. If one has their heart set on making a power move, at least wait for a decorous period after the funeral.
Instead, reports indicate, Harry and Meghan decided it was high time redefine the phrase “too soon” and used the occasion to lobby hard for royal titles for their kids, even though their progeny aren’t in line for the throne.
King Charles III, for whatever reason, decided to meet his family’s two best arguments for republicanism halfway: Fine, we’ll call your kids prince and princess, but HRH isn’t going to happen.
That seems reasonable, no? But then again, Harry and Meghan are hardly reasonable people. After all, they’ve spent over two years trashing the royal family as insufferable, hyper-elitist bigots. And now, these anti-elitists are reportedly fuming that their kids won’t get the pretentious title of His/Her Royal Highness.
For the royal family’s Hollywood annex, even a magnanimous compromise on the part of King Charles didn’t make the grade. One is halfway surprised Harry and Meghan — well, let’s be realistic here, mostly Meghan — didn’t demand Archie replace William as next in line for the throne.
And if Charles were to refuse that request, well, he must be a racist — because, as we’re constantly reminded, Archie is one-quarter black.
It’s little wonder that, just days before Queen Elizabeth’s death, Harry and Meghan were booed by Britons during an appearance in Manchester. It won’t be the last time.
“Lots of people think Harry and Meghan themselves should lose their titles, so I think they should just accept this compromise and be grateful as it could be a lot worse for them and their children,” said Dampier, our indispensable royal expert.
Yes, but that would be the reaction of individuals who occasionally commute to reality, even if they don’t live there full time. Harry and Meghan, meanwhile, stopped being working royals to take up residence in California, which explains quite a bit.
King Charles’ wise decision to withhold pretentious, meaningless HRH titles from Archie and Lilibet is one of the rare occasions where reality intruded upon the insular lives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex — and thank heavens for that small mercy. To the extent anything positive could emerge from the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the subsequent reshuffling of the House of Windsor, this was definitely it.
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Report: King Charles III Learned About Dying Queen in Frantic Phone Call, Then 'Everything Was Silent'
A new report shines a light on King Charles’ reaction to learning of Queen Elizabeth’s imminent death.
Then-Prince Charles was at the Dumfries House estate in Scotland when he learned that his mother was ailing on Sept. 8, according to the Mirror, which cited Newsweek’s chief royal correspondent Jack Royston.
At the time, Charles’ wife Camilla was preparing for an interview with journalist Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush.
An aide notified Charles of Elizabeth’s deteriorating health, quickly changing plans for the interview.
“Charles took a call, everything was silent, and they were asked to be silent,” Royston said.
The heir apparent immediately departed to be with the queen at Balmoral Castle.
Charles learned of his mother’s health situation very shortly before the public was told, according to the report.
Hager said aides were “running up and down the halls” hours before her scheduled interview with Camilla, Fox News reported.
“The next thing [Hager] knew, Charles and Camilla were in a helicopter. And that was at 12:30, so that was around exactly the same time that we were told,” Royston said.
Hager has recounted having a “lovely dinner” with Charles the night before the queen’s death, according to Fox.
She suspects that Elizabeth’s passing came as a surprise to her eldest son.
“I think it was a surprise. We had a wonderful evening filled with conversation that felt joyful. … So I think this was sort of a surprise,” Hager said on her NBC show.
The queen had experienced health challenges in recent years, but she held a meeting with Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss just two days before her death.
Charles described his mother’s death as “the moment I’ve been dreading” in a meeting with Truss the day after Elizabeth’s passing.
“The moment I’ve been dreading. Try and keep going.”
King Charles met with Prime Minister Liz Truss for the first time on Friday.
The monarch also told the PM that the crowds that greeted him and the Queen consort as they arrived at Buckingham Palace were “so touching”. pic.twitter.com/bg04i7bEOF
— The Royal Family Channel (@RoyalFamilyITNP) September 9, 2022
Charles spent more time as heir to the British throne than anyone in history, a testament to his mother’s unmatched tenure as monarch.
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Petrol prices are about to skyrocket again after fuel tax cat expires - here's how bad it could get
- The temporary 22c per litre discount on fuel tax ends at 11.59pm September 28
- Service stations expected to pass the increase on to customers at the bowser
- But Treasurer Jim Chalmers said 700 million litres of the cheaper fuel is stored
- He warned service stations not to 'jack up' their prices immediately
- Six month discount was brought in to battle soaring petrol prices in early 2022
Petrol prices at the pump will soon jump by 25c-a-litre as the fuel excise discount ends after Anthony Albanese refused to extend it.
But drivers should be spared the financial pain of the astronomical prices seen earlier this year when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
Consumers should expect to see prices increase within days after the fuel excise cut ends at 11.59pm on September 28, NRMA's Peter Khoury told Daily Mail Australia.
The Morrison Government halved the fuel excise from 44.2c to 22c-a-litre in March for six months as prices skyrocketed.
Mr Khoury said GST would add another 3c-a-litre to the cost, pushing prices back up by 25c-a-litre at the bowser.
Australians will be paying more at the fuel pump by October as the temporary cut on the fuel tax finishes (file image)
'The excise is added at the wholesale level so we won't see an increase immediately, retailers need to buy more stock and pass on the hike to customers,' he said.
'It depends on how quickly retailers sell what they have, which could be a few days or up to two weeks.
'Urban areas will go through their product quicker and regional areas will follow.'
Going on Monday's petrol prices, to fill up an unleaded car with a 60-litre fuel tank the cost would, on average, rise from about $98.40 in Sydney to $113.40.
In Melbourne it would go from about $99 to $114 and in Brisbane from about $103.80 to $118.80.
NRMA's Peter Khoury said while prices will rise they shouldn't reach the levels seen in early to mid 2022 (file image)
Mr Khoury said the consumer watchdog, the ACCC, would be closely watching petrol prices to ensure retailers didn't increase prices too early and by too much.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Tuesday there was 'no reason' for service stations to 'jack up their prices' on the same night the excise goes back up.
He pointed to 700 million litres of fuel stored around the country that was bought at the lower price.
'Prices don't need to jump up immediately. We don't want service stations to treat Australians like mugs so we're watching this closely,' he said.
Mr Khoury said it was a 'difficult decision' to not extend the tax cut but his focus was on 'responsible budgeting'.
'We're under no illusions it will be difficult for people (but) I think most people understand that the budget can't afford to keep the excise cut going forever,' he said.
Mr Khoury said prices would rise but they shouldn't reach the levels seen earlier this year when fuel rose to more than $2.20-a-litre.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers (pictured) said on Tuesday there was 700million litres of fuel stored at the cheaper price so retailers shouldn't 'jack up' their prices too quickly
'There's been a positive trend with the international benchmark price,' he said.
'It was $160 a barrel and has now dropped by 60 dollars over a couple months to $100 a barrel.'
'What pushed the prices up was global supply being affected by Covid supply chain issues along with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the associated sanctions on Russian oil.
'There no shortage of fuel for Australia it's just expensive, the market is volatile but those spikes earlier this year came down pretty quickly.'
Some economists criticised the fuel tax relief when it was introduced in the federal government's budget citing the huge loss in revenue, estimated at $3 billion by Treasury.
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Man Lost in Florida Swamp Has Arm Eaten by Gator, Looks Back and Catches Horrific Sight in the Water
If your belief in the power of the human spirit ever flags, all you need to do is look at the fact Eric Merda is still alive.
According to The New York Times, Merda survived four days in a Florida swamp after losing his arm to an alligator attack and struggling to stay alive.
The attack occurred on July 17. Merda, who had some free time between his irrigation service calls that day, decided to visit Manatee Fish Camp, which was near one of his job sites in the Sarasota, Florida, area.
“His downtime on that summer Sunday turned into what he described as a nightmare survival story: four days and three nights lost, naked and suffering alone in the swamp after an alligator bit off his right arm,” the Times reported.
Merda’s problems began when, as he explored the swamp, the heat began getting to him and he couldn’t think straight. Lost, he decided the best way to get back to his vehicle was to swim through Lake Manatee — a two-square-mile artificial reservoir which is known as an alligator habitat.
However, his clothes were dragging him down, so he ditched them. Shortly afterwards, he saw a horrific site that would change his life: an alligator swimming parallel to him in the water.
“He said he tried to swim away, but the animal was faster. It latched onto his right forearm, and the two fought,” the Times reported.
“The animal pulled him under three times, then bent his forearm backward. It snapped away at the elbow and the alligator swam away with his forearm and hand in its mouth.”
However, the 43-year-old managed to escape and get to shore.
The next few days were a Herculean struggle. He got sleep when he could and pushed on when he was able. He stayed near the shoreline in order to avoid becoming further lost.
“I kept getting lost in the grasses,” he said.
“I was scared to death to go back to that water but I had to. I didn’t know how the heck else I’m going to get out of there.”
And then there was his physical condition: “I got bone poking out of me, muscles twitching,” he said.
“There was a lot of times I couldn’t keep going — a lot,” he said. “As the days got longer, of course it got worse and worse. That last day, if I had to guess, I bet that last day I didn’t move but 100 yards.”
“Flies swarmed his limb. His R.O.T.C. training taught him he had to tourniquet the arm, but he didn’t have anything to do it with,” the Times reported.
“He was cut up from walking through thorns; his back got attacked by red ants. Scavenged purple flowers became his meals. He drank from the lake.”
And to make matters worse, he said that when he looked back at the water, “the alligator just keeps popping up here and there” — a horrific site if there ever was one.
People that knew Merda started realizing something was wrong because of his social media posts — or rather, the lack thereof.
After he went several days without posting anything on Facebook, family and friends contacted local hospitals.
After the four-day ordeal, Merda came to a fence bordering the Lake Manatee Fish Camp and located another individual, who went on to contact authorities.
He ended up spending three weeks in the hospital, where more of his arm was amputated because of infection. However, he’s alive and is being fitted with a prosthetic arm.
He’s otherwise healthy and his children are apparently handling their father’s condition better than one might expect.
Merda said his 4-year-old asked why he only has one arm now. “Daddy had to beat up an alligator,” he responded.
Which, if you get attacked by an alligator, is basically your best option.
“If you’re in the jaws of an alligator and it isn’t letting go, fight like your life depends on it,” said Frank Mazzotti, a professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida. “Because it does.”
As for Merda, he’s looking forward to his new lease on life.
“I thank God every day for giving me the opportunity to fight through that,” he told the Times.
He also said he’s looking for new work. One option? Motivational speaker. Given his superhuman perseverance, I’d say he fits the bill quite nicely.
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Pat Sajak Labeled 'Far-Right Lunatic' After Picture Surfaces on Web
I’d like to buy some sanity, Pat.
On Saturday, a picture of “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak with a Republican politician emerged on social media. This was hardly a surprise; Sajak is openly conservative and is known to throw barbs at liberals online.
Under normal circumstances, the photo would likely have generated some controversy — and then it would have quickly disappeared.
But in this case, the politician in question is a Republican guaranteed to send Democrats into a tizzy: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak with Marjorie Taylor Greene and RSBN reporter Bryan Glenn. pic.twitter.com/3dbUygSqDy
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) September 18, 2022
According to TMZ, the man to the left is Bryan Glenn, a reporter with the Right Side Broadcasting Network, a media company best known for relentless promotion of now-former President Donald Trump.
According to Fox News, the picture was taken earlier this month, though no other context is being reported.
The furor started when it was tweeted by Patriot Takes, an account that describes itself thusly: “Dedicated researchers monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.”
And there’s no greater threat to democracy like the host of “Wheel of Fortune” posing with a duly elected congresswoman in a photo that provides little information beyond the image itself.
One comment reported by Fox News pretty much summed up the outrage: “Pictured: Pat Sajak and Vanna Whitesupremacist.”
At least that remark had a modicum of wit, despite being flippant and inflammatory (and unnecessarily dragging Sajak’s longtime letter-touching partner Vanna White into the picture for the sake of a bad pun).
Yes, Rep. Greene has accumulated her share of controversies — from a campaign ad that showed her posing in front of a photo of the members of the leftist “squad” in Congress while carrying a gun, to social media posts she wrote before her time as a politician indicating her support for problematic conspiracy theories.
The rest, alas, did not rise to that level. Most were like this response, also reported by Fox News: “Pat Sajak has always been a far-right lunatic I’m not surprised at all.”
Here’s Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill: “First Chuck Woolery. Now Pat Sajak. Are all game show hosts trash?” Woolery, who originally hosted “Wheel of Fortune” and other game shows, has come under fire for his political views, particularly his support for Trump.
First Chuck Woolery. Now Pat Sajak. Are all game show hosts trash? https://t.co/Nc0mThlFap
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) September 18, 2022
It’s worth noting that out of Sajak, Woolery and Marc Lamont Hill, Hill is the only one to have lost a television job due to offensive remarks. In 2018, CNN let him go as an analyst after he called for “a free Palestine from the river to the sea” — a phrase with anti-Semitic undertones which implies the state of Israel should be wiped off the map.
He still has a job in academia, though, because — well, you know, academia.
Another Twitter user who goes by the name Mr. Newberger seemed unusually obsessed with the photo.
I’d like to solve the puzzle, Pat Sajak. pic.twitter.com/rP0lPmlBfi
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) September 18, 2022
It’s only been 8 months since Marjorie Taylor Greene gave the keynote at a Nazi rally where the organizer praised Adolf Hitler. So by all means, Pat Sajak, take some selfies with her. Looks like the Wheel of Fortune is morally bankrupt.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) September 18, 2022
In that last tweet, Mr. Newberger is referring to Greene’s speech earlier this year at an event organized by alt-right carbon-waster Nick Fuentes. Greene told CBS News she was unfamiliar with Fuentes or his views; whether or not you buy this, there’s little evidence Sajak was even remotely familiar with the controversy, which hardly lasted an entire news cycle.
Nevertheless, the “Sajak is a Nazi” drum-beat continued apace on Twitter:
Wheel Of Fortune host Pat Sajak should’ve never posed with QAnon terrorist Marjorie Taylor Greene. He’s not a stupid man, he knows exactly who and what she is, so that tells me he is as disgusting as she is.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) September 18, 2022
Pat Sajak is the Chairman of the Board at Hillsdale college. The same Hillsdale that’s been instrumental in conservative’s attacks on our public school system and teachers. He’s a MAGA fascist.
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) September 18, 2022
— Crissy (@cdxllard) September 18, 2022
Apparently, if you don’t agree with the liberal line on our failed public school system, you are a fascist/Nazi/white Christian nationalist/QAnon terrorist.
As of Monday morning, Sajak hadn’t commented on his Twitter account, although he rarely uses it. And, while there are calls to fire him, the idea that ABC would get rid of a veritable American institution over a picture with a duly elected congressman seems unlikely.
Besides, Sajak has recently discussed retiring from the show anyway — meaning, for some liberals, they’d just be getting there too late.
— Crissy (@cdxllard) September 18, 2022
However, many — including media personality Kim Iversen — noted the reaction was indicative of how toxic our political culture has become in the Twitter age.
I woke up this morning to see Pat Sajak trending. He’s being called a Nazi and piece of garbage by virtuous liberals for being a Republican. Is Twitter just a cesspool of insanity or is it a reflection of how divided our country actually is?
— Kim Iversen (@KimIversenShow) September 18, 2022
“I woke up this morning to see Pat Sajak trending. He’s being called a Nazi and piece of garbage by virtuous liberals for being a Republican. Is Twitter just a cesspool of insanity or is it a reflection of how divided our country actually is?” Iversen wrote.
All of this outrage assumes that Sajak shares all of Greene’s views — or even most of them. Heck, it practically assumes he was either the one who sought out the photograph or had perfect knowledge of every controversy Greene has been involved in.
We know nothing about the circumstances surrounding the picture. Nothing about whether Sajak supports Greene. All we know is that the picture exists, Sajak is a conservative, Greene frequently gets labeled a “Nazi” by raging lunatic leftists and, ergo, Sajak is a Nazi.
Don’t follow that logic? Maybe you’re a Nazi, too.
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John Kerry Flies to Africa, Warns Continent: 'Be Very Careful' About Investing in Natural Gas
John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy who happened to own a private jet and five mansions as recently as 2019, warned developing African nations against investing in long-term natural gas projects which could expand their citizens’ access to electricity.
Kerry said that African nations should be wary of natural gas developments that could bring electricity to hundreds of millions of impoverished people as the gas projects will lead to more carbon emissions, according to Reuters.
Kerry, who has a reported net worth of around $250 million, and his wife own a private jet, as well as five pricey homes in the U.S. including an $11.75 million 18.5-acre mansion in Martha’s Vineyard, which they bought in 2017.
Kerry and his wife owned a luxury townhouse in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood as recently as 2019 where the average property value is $2.89 million, according to Redfin. The couple also owned a house in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood that they sold for $7 million in 2020, according to The Washingtonian.
Kerry and his wife owned two additional houses as recently as 2015 in Pittsburgh and Idaho that have an estimated total value of almost 9 million, according to Fox News.
Kerry’s family owns a private jet that has emitted at least 300 metric tons of carbon dioxide since Biden took office, according to Fox News. Over the year and a half that Biden has been in office, the jet has produced emissions that are equivalent to burning 331,923 pounds of coal, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas calculator.
Kerry also owned a large luxury yacht but sold it in 2017.
“We do not have to rush to go backward. We need to be very careful about exactly how much we are going to deploy, how it is going to be paid for, over what period of time and how do you capture the emissions,” Kerry told Reuters at an African environment ministers’ conference in Senegal.
Kerry argued that gas projects that would remain operational past 2030 would cause issues for African countries. He said that countries would struggle to break even on their investments within 10 years and added that projects that could last as long as 40 years were not needed.
Over 600 million people, or 43 percent of Africa’s population, do not have access to electricity, according to the International Energy Agency June 2022 report.
The world’s energy crisis has hiked the prices of food, electricity and other commodities, increasing the strains on African economies that were already suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, according to the IEA report. About 25 million more people in Africa are living without electricity today compared with before the pandemic due to the current crisis.
“We are not saying no gas,” Kerry told Reuters. “What we are saying is, over the next few years, gas replaces coal or replaces oil,” he said, claiming that natural gas can be used as a stopgap while countries transition towards using more green energy.
The U.S. and European nations aim to slash emissions and expand the use of “clean” energy to reach ambitious climate targets by 2030.
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A former Dancing with the Stars finalist performed the “most intimate dance” with a woman he would allegedly go on to sexually assault, a court has heard.
Trenton Shipley, 48, is facing seven charges relating to the alleged sexual touching and assault of a woman at a Sydney dance studio in 2021.
In 2005, Mr Shipley made it to the finals of Dancing with the Stars as the partner of Seven News presenter Chris Bath.
It is alleged over the course of one evening, between 10pm and 4am, Mr Shipley kissed a woman on the face and neck and touched her breasts and genitalia without her consent.
Mr Shipley appeared in Downing Centre local court on Tuesday for a trial which will continue this week. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Veteran dance teacher Leeanne Bampton, who owns the Annandale studio where the alleged offence took place, gave evidence in court.
Both Mr Shipley and the alleged victim were invited to spend the night in a unit attached to the studio where Ms Bampton lives.
She told the court she had seen Mr Shipley dancing a rumba with the alleged victim earlier in the evening – describing it as a “very intimate dance”.
“Out of all the dances, it’s the most intimate dance. It’s very a close, tactile dance. It’s got a lot of emotion,” Ms Bampton said.
“You move very quickly, in and out, every body part touching. You intertwine your legs. You’re cheek to cheek.”
According to Ms Bampton, it’s normal for dancers to spontaneously engage in touching each other and even what could be considered “kissing” in the course of dancing together.
“You just do it spontaneously – that’s what we do. We don’t take offence to it,” she said.
“I grab somebody on the bottom every hour to show them a move.”
However, she said there was a level of implied boundaries that were different for every dancer but could be gauged by how they present themselves or react to being touched.
She added that in general, touching on the “crutch or boobs” would be crossing a line.
“You learn a bit of choreography and you elaborate to make it look as natural as possible to a sexual act,” Ms Bampton said.
“They know that the minute they stop dancing, it’s just part of the act of dancing.”
Ms Bampton said the pair appeared as if they were enjoying dancing together and that she had also started briefly dancing with Mr Shipley because she had felt left out.
She said Mr Shipley appeared to have had a “substantial amount to drink” and began critiquing his alleged victim’s dancing skill, she told the court.
“In the beginning she was enjoying it. She was enjoying the dancing. She was giggling, laughing,” she said.
“It started to change. It became more critical.”
Later, Ms Bampton asked the intoxicated Mr Shipley to sleep at the studio, which included helping him to get undressed and take a shower.
“He didn’t seem in a very good mental state. I wanted him to stay. I was concerned about him,” she said.
According to Ms Bampton, the last thing she recalled was putting Mr Shipley to bed next to her and falling asleep.
The next morning, the alleged victim informed her that during the night, something had occurred with Mr Shipley.
“She said while she was asleep, Trenton had come downstairs naked and jumped in bed with her,” Ms Bampton said.
“I asked her did anything happen and she said ‘no’ but it scared her.”
According to court documents, police allege that at 4.10am, Mr Shipley touched the woman’s breasts and genitalia.
Mr Shipley remains on bail under strict conditions, including that he not contact or interfere with the complainant or go to certain addresses in Sydney.
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Trump Makes Dirty Discovery from FBI When Returning Home, Says Mar-a-Lago 'Will Never Be the Same'
No matter what your politics are, you would think that any former president of the United States deserves, at the very least, a modicum of respect.
Apparently, when it comes to former President Donald J. Trump, the FBI disagrees.
In fact, this is so much the case that, during the Aug. 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago, FBI agents apparently didn’t even bother to take off their shoes while searching the former president’s bedroom.
Trump revealed as much on Sunday after visiting Mar-a-Lago, his Florida country club and part-time home, for the first time since the raid took place.
Prior to his visit, Trump posted a fiery message on his Truth Social account.
“I’ll soon be heading to the scene of the unwarranted, unjust, and illegal Raid and Break-In of my home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago. I’ll be able to see for myself the results of the unnecessary ransacking of rooms and other areas of the house,” Trump wrote.
Then, after his visit, Trump blasted the FBI for a number of reasons, including their lack of decorum when it came to his bedroom.
“Arrived in Florida last night and had a long and detailed chance to check out the scene of yet another government ‘crime,’ the FBI’s Raid and Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago. I guess they don’t think there is a Fourth Amendment anymore, and to them, there isn’t,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“In any event, after what they have done, the place will never be the same. It was ‘ransacked,’ and in far different condition than the way I left it. Many Agents — And they didn’t even take off their shoes in my bedroom. Nice!!!”
To put it simply, the federal government made Trump feel uncomfortable in his own home.
But maybe that was the point.
After all, federal agents seem all too willing to engage in political witch hunts directed at the former president and his family.
For example, they spent months on end investigating the “Russian-collusion” narrative only to discover that Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, working alongside an opposition firm, fed the supposed “evidence” to the FBI, which eventually turned out to be fruitless.
According to a 2020 news release from Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, the FBI dismissed several early warning signs that the “evidence” of Trump-Russia collusion was faulty.
If they ignored those warning signs, why should the American people believe the FBI’s latest investigation into the Mar-a-Lago documents is any different?
Because of all of this, it’s clear that the FBI doesn’t respect Trump.
Actually, the situation is worse than that. It’s not just that they lack respect — they see him and his followers as the enemy.
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Xiaomi India has announced the seventh edition of the 'Diwali with Mi' sale. Starting on September 23, alongside Flipkart and Amazon sales, the event will offer a slew of discounts and offers on Xiaomi and Redmi products. As a part of Diwali with Mi, premium smartphones such as Xiaomi 12 Pro and Redmi K50i will be available at a starting price of Rs 45,499 and INR 19,999, respectively.
Ahead of the sale event, Xiaomi has revealed deals and offers on its other Redmi and Xiaomi products, such as TV, wireless earbuds, and more. Xiaomi's India site notes that customers can enjoy up to Rs 8,000 off on select bank credit and debit cards. Xiaomi is also offering exchange deals on smartphones.
If you are planning to upgrade your phone and home with the latest tech, here's all you need to know. Readers must also note that prices during a sale season may fluctuate based on the demand for a device. Some devices may also go out of stock soon. Xiaomi is yet to reveal Diwali with Mi's conclusion date, but the sale event will likely go on for a week.
Smartphones: Xiaomi's flagship Xiaomi 12 Pro with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset will effectively retail at Rs 45,499 for 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. It is currently retailing for Rs 62,999. If your priority is super-fast charging, the Xiaomi 11T Pro and Xiaomi 11i Hypercharge will sell for Rs 28,999 (current selling price of Rs 39,999) and Rs 19,999 (current selling price of Rs 26,999), respectively. Both phones support 120W fast charging.
If you're looking for phones under Rs 20,000, the Redmi K50i with Dimensity 8100, 144Hz display, and 67W charging will effectively retail for Rs 19,999 (down from Rs 25,999). The Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G will also get a big price cut and effectively sell for Rs 16,999, down from Rs 20,999.
Under the Rs 10,000-mark, the Redmi 10 Prime that features a 50-megapixel quad camera setup will be offered for Rs 9,499 instead of Rs 12,499 for 4GB RAM + 64GB storage. The Redmi will also get Rs 3,000 off to retail at Rs 10,999.
Laptops and tablets: The recently launched RedmiBook 15 will retail for Rs 28,999 (effectively), down from Rs 41,999. Its Pro model will get a price cut and retail for Rs 35,999 - 14,000 off.
Xiaomi's Snapdragon chipset-powered Xiaomi Pad 5 will get a up to Rs 4,000 price cut. The base model will retail for Rs 22,999 and the top model will cost Rs 26,999.
Xiaomi TVs and earbuds: Similarly, the Xiaomi Xiaomi Smart TV 5X 43-inch with Dolby Atmos will be available for Rs 27,999. If you're looking for new TWS earbuds, Redmi Earbuds 3 Pro will get Rs 1,500 off to retail at Rs 1,499.
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16-Year-Old Boy Dies Suddenly at His Home: 'Taken Away Too Soon'
A 16-year-old Massachusetts boy unexpectedly died this weekend in his home, and his community is now mourning this tragic loss of a young life.
On Saturday, Jon Niemi, a resident of the central Massachusetts town of Northborough was found unresponsive in his home around 10:40 a.m., the Worcester Daily Voice reported.
The Northborough Police Department posted on Facebook that just moments after the Northborough Fire/EMS arrived at the home, Niemi was pronounced dead.
“Upon arrival, officers located the individual and immediately began rendering medical aid. Northborough Fire/EMS arrived on scene moments later and later declared the individual deceased,” the Facebook post read.
The police also noted that Niemi’s sudden death is also under investigation.
“The incident remains under investigation by Northborough Police and State Police detectives assigned to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office, though the preliminary investigation indicates that the death is not suspicious,” the post read.
Though Niemi’s death was sudden, according to the GoFundMe set up to help support his family, Niemi did struggle with some health problems.
Nevertheless, his death was still unexpected.
“There is no worse tragedy than the loss of a child. Today, the Niemi family is faced with that tragedy. Jon Niemi was only 16. While Jon suffered from health issues, his passing was unexpected. We hope to alleviate any financial stress of a funeral and other related expenses for the Niemi family as they grieve during this horrible time,” the GoFundMe page explained.
Niemi’s school community is also mourning his loss, the Community Advocate reported.
Niemi was a junior at Algonquin Regional High School and Principal Sean Bevan announced the tragic death of the teen to the school community.
“Our hearts go out to the Niemi family as they grieve the loss of their cherished son and brother,” Bevan wrote in an announcement, the Community advocate reported.
“Those who may have known Jon will experience with full force the loss of a friend or neighbor,” the principal added.
Friends on Facebook have also been mourning the loss of Niemi and one person posted a tribute to the teen.
“Jon you will be greatly missed! Such a good kid taken way to soon! We love and miss you! I just can’t believe this is real please keep my cousin and her family in your prayers!!” a family member wrote in a post.
The money raised from the GoFundMe that was set up to help Niemi’s family has also shown how people are remembering Niemi and supporting his family in the midst of his unexpected and young death.
There is no worse tragedy than the loss of a child. The Niemi family is faced with that tragedy. Jon Niemi, 16, passed unexpectedly. Please help to alleviate any financial stress the Niemi family fasces as they grieve https://t.co/GYHgZB9wTh
— Liz (@Lizoftheboro) September 19, 2022
At the time of publication, the GoFundMe has raised over $35,000.
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The Karnataka government's decision to ban hijab in schools was a religion-neutral order and neither a saffron gamcha nor a hijab were allowed in schools, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Top Court is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the ban on wearing hijab in educational institutions in the state for the eighth day.
Mehta, appearing from the government side, also told the court that the petitioner students are influenced by the Popular Front of India (PFI). The government also told the bench comprising of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia that the Karnataka High Court had accepted the arguments on the "unseen hands to engineer social disharmony" as police documents were submitted to the court.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta also told the apex court that the sudden upsurge by the students was not their idea and that there was no issue or insistence on hijab between 2004-2021. He told the SC that a copy of chargesheet against the PFI will be submitted before the court.
During the hearing, the Supreme Court asked if the arguments could be heard keeping away the essential religious practice issue.
Senior advocate Dushyant Dave has submitted precedent judgments over the distinction between "religious practices" and "essential practices".
Dave told the court that the hijab has been worn for centuries. He also said that as the community in one voice has accepted the practice, it should be accepted as part of the religion.
Dave also told the bench comprising of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia that in the guidelines, the Karnataka government rules clearly state that school uniforms are not mandatory in the PU colleges. "The 2020 rules say that some principals have imposed uniforms which are illegal. Uniforms are a burden. Many people cannot afford uniforms."
Responding to this, Justice Gupta said, "In certain schools, there are moneyed people and poor people. Because someone is coming in a Bentley and someone is coming on foot. A uniform is a leveller. The uniform has the same fabric. Your richness and poverty cannot be made out by the uniform."
The bench also said, "We have a very limited question of whether the headgear can be permitted along with the uniform. We have been hearing arguments for 8 days."
Justice Gupta further said, "The parliamentary debate has the opinion/stand of one member. We have to go by the definition that was finally adopted by the Constituent assembly. Can the opinion of one member during the debate be used to interpret what the provision finally says? The assembly had 249 members."
Dave said the debates can be relied on to see what went into making the provision.
"Women want to wear hijab. How is HC saying Constitutional rights are violated by the hijab? Whose right? The other students' right? Or the school's right?" Dave asked.
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A body of a man was found hanging from a tree in a park located in Noida Sector 47. Upon receiving the information, the police immediately rushed to the spot to identify the body on Tuesday morning.
Taking possession of the body, the police sent it for post-mortem.
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The identity of the youth hanging from the tree is yet to be ascertained. The police is currently investigating the case.
Further details are awaited.
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Tesla Owner Experienced EV Nightmare When He Found Out He'd Have to Pay $26,000 to Unlock Car
Mario Zelaya, a Canadian ax-thrower, entrepreneur and Tesla owner, told TikTok viewers in a series of now-viral videos starting Aug. 29 that his “piece of trash” 2013 Tesla Model S — which cost him $142,000 Canadian when new — now required a new battery that would cost him approximately $26,000 to replace.
Worse still, without a battery, he was having trouble selling the car because he couldn’t even open a door to get inside the vehicle.
Zelaya, in a video posted to TikTok that has garnered over 660,000 “likes,” explained that he purchased the Tesla new in 2013. In it, he described an alleged design flaw: “They made it so the air conditioning condenser unit dumps all the water on top of the battery, so my battery is full of water, which is why it needs a new one. And now they’re saying it’s not covered under warranty, even though it started happening during the warranty period.”
WARNING: The following social media posts contain language which some may find offensive.
@supermariozelaya My opinion: Tesla shut down my car over the air because my videos after refusing to pay for a new battery. #tesla #car ♬ original sound – Mario Zelaya
According to Fox Business, Zelaya said, “I got Transport Canada involved, and they actually did an investigation on the car. Not only did they do an investigation on this car, they’re gonna be doing one that Tesla doesn’t realize is coming up.”
“Tesla’s trying to sweep it under the rug,” he said.
“They won’t give them any explanation of why their battery died.”
Zelaya argued that when Tesla vehicles are serviced, the battery is not inspected. He said that Tesla has no incentive to do so, according to Fox Business.
@supermariozelaya Replying to @Daddiebear “Full of BS”? You’re going to love this video. 😆 Denial is the first stage of grief. I understand your pain. The truth hurts. Next is anger; Embrace it when you find out I’ve been telling you all the truth about the cost of the car, price for a new battery and water that leaked in. Enjoy your Tesla while it lasts. 😫 #tesla #car ♬ original sound – Mario Zelaya
Acknowledging that he was one year beyond his warranty, Zelaya told viewers that he wanted to sell the car and had a $20,000 offer, but was struggling. His ownership papers were in the car and he couldn’t get into it.
In the end, he would have to spend $30 for new papers before he could sell the car.
@supermariozelaya Going back to burning fossil fuels.⛽️ Never buy a Tesla. #tesla #car #ItHurts ♬ original sound – Matthew Rincon
“I’ll never buy another Tesla again,” Zelaya said. “That’s the long way of me saying stay the (expletive) away from Teslas. They’re brutal cars, brutal manufacturing, and even worse, they’re a 10-year-old company.”
Fox Business wrote that in a video update, Zelaya said he finally sold the car and someone was going to pick it up from his home.
The buyer is allegedly shown taking off the front bumper of the electric vehicle and charging it.
“That’s going to be the end of my Tesla journey. It’s out of my life. Keep it out of yours,” he said.
On Sept. 15, Zelaya posted updated comments to his TikTok in which he claimed his account has been restricted.
“Update: I’m temporarily not allowed to post more videos due to ‘multiple community guidelines violations,'” he posted.
Zelaya added, “Banned from posting until September 21st. I can’t wait… I’m going to unleash.”
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Pakistan Army chief
Qamar Jawed Bajwa met the Chinese Defence Minister General
Wei Fenghe on Monday months ahead of his retirement. While speculations swirl over a possible extension of tenure, after he already received one in 2019, General Bajwa told the Chinese minister that military cooperation was an “important pillar” of bilateral ties between
Pakistan and China.
Bajwa is known for his close relations with the Chinese authorities. His earlier tenure was extended in view of the security situation in the Indian subcontinent amid the then Afghan peace talks and tensions between India and Pakistan.
Security for CPEC
Security for the
China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship project for China’s ambitious Belts and Roads Initiative (BRI), topped the agenda. China’s General Fenghe thanked General Bajwa for the special measures taken for the protection of CPEC, a project that has come under recurring attacks by militant groups like the Baloch Liberation Army.
Just in April this year, three Chinese nationals were killed near Karachi University by a suicide bomber affiliated to the separatist Baloch outfit that considers Chinese investments in balochistan an exploitation of the resource-rich province.
That shook China and Pakistan relations and put the focus on Islamabad’s failures in providing a safe and secure environment for CPEC projects that entail a total cost of $60 billion.
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit last week, Chinese president
Xi Jinping conveyed his concerns for the security of workers in Pakistan. “China hopes that Pakistan will provide solid protection for the security of Chinese citizens and institutions in Pakistan as well as the lawful rights and interests of Chinese businesses,”
Xi told Pakistan president Shahbaz Sharif as per reports.
Days later as the Pakistan Army chief visits China for two days, general Wenghe is reported to have expressed his satisfaction over the progress on CPEC, according to the PR wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces.
Chinese boots on ground
Besides troubles over funding and entrenched
corruption in Pakistan that slowed down CPEC, the project that is to serve as a model for other such infrastructure initiatives has been dragging along at a glacial pace since its launch ten years ago also because of the security challenge.
Pakistan is not only battling
internal insurgents but radical Islamist outfits in Afghanistan, particularly the Taliban and its offshoot – the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – also pose hurdles to CPEC. While the Afghan Taliban has enjoyed Pakistan support for decades, it is turning increasingly nationalistic and may not cooperate with Islamabad if its interests, especially at the Durand line, are subverted. The TTP is expected to toe the line of the ‘mothership’ of the Taliban movement.
Following the deteriorating security climate, China’s Ministry of State Security had reportedly asked the Pakistan government to allow
a private security company to operate inside the country to protect its citizens. Pakistan PM
Shehbaz Sharif had opposed the idea, reports say, but China is expected to be pushing the matter still.
Chinese boots on the ground are a risk in Pakistan where already anti-China sentiments are high, especially among the Baloch. Other local populations too eye Chinese investments with suspicion as land grab issues emerge and locals are overlooked for employment that goes to Chinese nationals instead.
Pakistan’s security apparatus may get overwhelmed managing multiple crises and this could pave the way in the future for the entry of private Chinese security providers in the country.
Will Bajwa get an extension?
Meanwhile, as Bajwa meets Fenghe, there are questions once again on whether he is set to serve another term as the Army chief, a post he has now held for six years. Bajwa was first appointed by former and now exiled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while former PM Imran Khan extended his tenure.
Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told the media on Sunday that the army Chief’s appointment would be done as it was done in the past - two-three weeks before the incumbent’s retirement. He also downplayed the row over the appointment of a “favourable military boss” saying that the chief’s loyalty is to the institution and the soldiers he commands.
When he was given a fresh term in 2019, in a rare gesture
Chinese officials welcomed the re-appointment of their “old friend” who made “robust” contributions to China-Pakistan relations. Bajwa remains a frequent visitor to China like army chiefs before him but he is one of the rare generals who also met the Chinese president, highlighting the importance of the man in China-Pakistan ties.
If Bajwa gets another extension, it is sure to signal that Pakistan is increasingly relying on one individual to smoothen the challenging security environment, which could further tilt the balance of power in the military’s favour which already plays a prime role in the choice of civilian government in Pakistan’s undesirable ‘hybrid democracy’.
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Illinois braces for matchup with FCS powerhouse Chattanooga
Illinois' last nonconference game could be its toughest one.
When the Fighting Illini oppose Chattanooga on Thursday night in Champaign, Ill., they will take on a Top 10 team in the Football Championship Subdivision that is off to a 3-0 start.
Illinois (2-1) has sandwiched dominant home wins over Wyoming and Virginia around a disappointing Big Ten Conference loss at Indiana. The Illini have been idle since bouncing the Cavaliers 24-3 on Sept. 10.
Illinois' game plan figures to be pretty simple -- aim Chase Brown at the Mocs' run defense. Brown is coming off a 146-yard performance against Virginia that was his fourth straight 100-yard effort, dating back to last year's final game.
If Brown makes it five in a row, he would be the first back in program history to do it. His total of 496 yards in this season's first three games leads all of FBS, as does his 18 rushes of at least 10 yards.
"He's an animal," Illini quarterback Tommy DeVito said of Brown. "He's a special dude for sure. He can turn nothing into something. He can break a play any time."
Brown needs just 12 yards to pass the immortal Red Grange for 17th on the Illini's all-time rushing list. Brown enters the game with 2,059 rushing yards.
Chattanooga, meanwhile, is ranked ninth in the FCS after routing North Alabama 41-14 on Saturday at home. Quarterback Preston Hutchinson led the way by throwing for three touchdowns and running for two.
Hutchinson's 303 passing yards marked the first time in four years that a Mocs quarterback had eclipsed 300 yards. Seven of his eight receivers finished with multiple catches.
The Mocs' biggest problem might be a lack of preparation time. They have just three days to get ready before making the trip to east-central Illinois.
"We're not the only ones going through it this week," Chattanooga coach Rusty Wright said. "Just have to adjust, be good mentally and be able to focus and prepare."
This will be the first meeting between Chattanooga and Illinois.
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The head of the country's troop recruitment agency said "social consensus" is necessary in deciding whether to allow K-pop superband BTS replace their mandatory military service with an alternative. In an interview with local media, commissioner Lee Ki-sik of the Military Manpower Administration said that while BTS' achievements are certainly outstanding, linking them with military duty requires social consensus in terms of fairness.
The head of the country's troop recruitment agency said "social consensus" is necessary in deciding whether to allow K-pop superband BTS replace their mandatory military service with an alternative. In an interview with local media, commissioner Lee Ki-sik of the Military Manpower Administration said that while BTS' achievements are certainly outstanding, linking them with military duty requires social consensus in terms of fairness.
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The head of the country's troop recruitment agency said "social consensus" is necessary in deciding whether to allow K-pop superband BTS replace their mandatory military service with an alternative. In an interview with local media, commissioner Lee Ki-sik of the Military Manpower Administration said that while BTS' achievements are certainly outstanding, linking them with military duty requires social consensus in terms of fairness.
The head of the country's troop recruitment agency said "social consensus" is necessary in deciding whether to allow K-pop superband BTS replace their mandatory military service with an alternative. In an interview with local media, commissioner Lee Ki-sik of the Military Manpower Administration said that while BTS' achievements are certainly outstanding, linking them with military duty requires social consensus in terms of fairness.
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Sekisui House, Ltd.
Transcript for Earnings Results Briefing for the Second Quarter FY2022
(WEB Conference)
Note: The following generally omits the details of the financial results presented in the "Summary of Consolidated Financial Results".
[Page 2] Results Overview
Record highs were achieved for both net sales and operating income in the current second quarter. The full-year plan has been revised upward, reflecting the strong progress of each business.
Interim and year-end dividends both increased by ¥5, with the full-year dividend forecast to exceed 100 yen.
Net sales increased by 16.3% year on year to ¥1,423.6 billion. Sales grew for all business models. Contributing factors include sales in the Built-to-Order Business of ¥46.9 billion, ¥19.8 billion in the Supplied Housing Business, ¥38.8 billion in the Development Business, and ¥92.1 billion in Overseas Business, as well as the strong performance in the domestic and international housing business and progress in property sales.
Gross profit increased by 19.4% to ¥301.6 billion. Gross margin improved by 0.5p to 21.2%. Despite the impact of the sharp rise in the price of raw materials, the volume effect and cost reduction contributed to the Built-to-Order Business, while increased profit in the Development Business and Overseas Business contributed significantly to the improvement.
SG&A expenses increased by 8.5% to ¥155.2 billion. Personnel expenses increased by ¥5.9 billion due to increase in overseas subsidiaries. The SG&A ratio decreased 0.8p to 10.9%, partly due to the increase in net sales.
Operating income increased by 33.5% to ¥146.4 billion. Operating margin improved by 1.3p to 10.3%. Non-operating income/expenses decreased by ¥0.4 billion from the previous fiscal year to ¥1.2 billion. Foreign
exchange gain/loss increased by ¥1.1 billion from the previous fiscal year to ¥2.3 billion due to the ongoing depreciation of the yen.
Equity in earnings/losses of affiliates decreased by ¥1.7 billion from the previous fiscal year to a loss of ¥1.8 billion. This includes the investment valuation loss of ¥1.7 billion in connection to the liquidation of a partially-owned company in the United Kingdom included in the first quarter. As a result, ordinary income increased by 32.6% year on year to ¥147.6 billion.
Extraordinary income was ¥8.3 billion after calculating the liquidated profit from the liquidation of a condominium project in Suzhou, China.
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Including provision of allowance for doubtful accounts in the United Kingdom business of ¥1.9 billion and loss on sales of fixed assets, etc., extraordinary losses were ¥2.7 billion.
Quarterly net profit attributable to the owners of parent increased by 43.4% (¥31.5 billion) to ¥104 billion. EPS increased by ¥48 to ¥155.
[Page 4] Financial Position
Total assets increased by ¥249.1 billion from the end of the previous fiscal year. Assets from the acquisition of Chesmar Homes in July will be included in the current earnings results. Profits will be included from the third quarter. Current assets increased by ¥209.8 billion. Cash and deposits decreased by ¥42.2 billion. Real estate for sale increased by ¥216.9 billion to ¥1,393.6 billion. Domestic real estate increased by ¥24.2 billion and overseas real estate increased by ¥192.6 billion. In addition to the increase relating to the consolidation of Chesmar, there was an increase of ¥137.4 billion in effects of foreign exchange rates. Non-current assets increased by ¥39.5 billion. Property, plant and equipment increased by ¥8.8 billion. ¥3.2 billion in goodwill from the consolidation of Chesmar was included in intangible fixed assets.
Total liabilities increased by ¥109.4 billion due to an increase in borrowings, despite a decrease in accrued income taxes payable. Interest-bearing debt increased by ¥139.8 billion. Of the addition of approximately ¥36.6 billion in Japan and ¥103.1 billion at overseas subsidiaries, the effects of foreign exchange rates were ¥67.1 billion. D/E ratio increased by 5.6p from previous fiscal year to 42.9%. Hybrid bonds of ¥120 billion do not currently require replacement, and amortization took place on August 18 as scheduled.
Net assets increased by ¥139.7 billion. In addition to the increase in quarterly income, there was an increase of ¥83 billion due to cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments as depreciation of the yen continued. Equity ratio increased by 0.2p to 52.8%.
[Page 5] Cash Flow, Investment Status
Cash flow generated by operating activities decreased by ¥13.7 billion due to the increase in corporate tax payments, etc. Cash flow generated by investing activities decreased by ¥59.2 billion due to the purchase of Chesmar as well as the addition in investment in rental real estate. As a result, free cash flows decreased by ¥72.9 billion. While dividend payments and the repurchase of company shares moved forward, cash used for financing activities increased ¥39.4 billion due to the addition in borrowings and the redemption of bonds last year. Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the second quarter amounted to ¥472.8 billion.
As for the investment situation, capital expenditures were ¥36.2 billion. Of this, investment in rental real estate comprised ¥27 billion. The full-year plan has been changed to ¥100 billion.
[Pages 6, 7] Segment Information (Built-to-Order Business)
Net sales in the Built-to-Order Business overall increased by 9.6% to ¥534.2 billion. Operating income was ¥57.9 billion. The increase in profit in custom detached houses and rental housing covered the decrease from architectural/civil engineering.
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Net sales in the Custom Detached Houses Businesses increased by 7.3% to ¥179.2 billion. Sales increased due to robust receipt of orders continued from the previous fiscal year. Gross margin decreased by 1.3p to 25.4%. In comparison to the initial plan, which incorporated the effects of ¥13 billion in material price increase for the full year, there was a negative impact of ¥7 billion by the second quarter. The revised plan will assume an increase to ¥19 billion for the full year. Operating margin decreased by 0.7p to 11.5%. Orders received totaled ¥177.7 billion, a high level that match the previous year. The order backlog decreased by ¥1.5 billion. The ZEH ratio was 91%. ASP per building also increased by approximately 6% year on year to ¥45.42 million.
Net sales in the Rental Housing Businesses increased by 14.1% to ¥208.9 billion. Sales increased significantly in line with strong progress in construction. Gross margin decreased by 0.6p to 25.2%. Operating margin improved by 0.2p to 14.3%. Orders received increased by 5.2% to ¥202.7 billion. Strong performance in Sha Maison rental housing covered the decline in non-residential areas. The adoption rate for Sha Maison ZEH exceeded 60%, setting a pace that exceeds the target of 50% for the fiscal year. The unit price per building is ¥136.76 million, an increase of ¥10.2 million from FY2021. The ratio of three-to-four-story houses also remained high at 84.8%.
Net sales in the Architectural/Civil Engineering Business increased by ¥8.9 billion to ¥145.9 billion. Operating income decreased by ¥4.1 billion. Reason for decrease in profit includes competition for orders in the industry and the rise in prices. Orders received decreased by ¥0.9 billion to ¥156.8 billion.
[Page 8, 9] Results by Segment-Supplied Housing Business
Net sales in the Supplied Housing Business as a whole increased by 5.3% to ¥391 billion. Operating income increased by ¥0.4 billion to ¥40.3 billion.
The Remodeling Business recorded increases in sales and profit. Operating margin also improved by 0.4p to 17.0%. Remodeling remained strong in custom detached houses and rental housing. In addition to large-scale remodeling such as Family Suite Remodeling, stable growth continued atop a strong customer foundation, including the remodeling proposals that are vital to long-term stable management of rental housing. As with the Built-to-Order Business, there is a need to closely watch movements in material costs but profit is continuing to improve based on additional orders for large-scale remodeling. Orders received increased by 6.7% to ¥86.5 billion. Government policies have also had an impact, including the project to support child-rearing families to acquire housing, and there has been strong growth in proposal-based and environment-based remodeling for custom detached houses. Net sales in Rental Housing reached ¥26.7 billion after actively making remodeling proposals when tenants change.
In the Real Estate Management Fees Business, sales increased but profit decreased. Operating margin decreased by 0.6p to 8.5%. Despite the decrease in profit due to temporary increase in costs associated with the establishment of Sekisui House Real Estate Holdings, with the high occupancy maintained, it is expected that cost issues will be eliminated and profit will increase for the full year.
The number of units under management is about 680,000 with an occupancy rate of 98.0%. In the second quarter, tenants were replaced in 63,914 units and monthly rental fees increased by ¥138 million as rental fees continued to increase.
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[Page 10, 11] Results by Segment-Development Business
Net sales for the Development Business overall increased by 21.8% to ¥217 billion. Operating income increased by ¥9.6 billion to ¥26.1 billion. Profit increased in all segments.
Sales and profit increased in the Houses for Sale Businesses. Gross margin decreased by 0.9p to 18.3%. Orders received increased by 25.2% year on year to ¥128.2 billion. Effort was put into ongoing purchases of land in prime areas. Land inventory increased by about ¥24.1 billion from the end of the previous fiscal year.
Sales and profit increased in the Condominium Business. Operating margin improved by 4.1p to 18.9%. Delivery of the residential tower completed at the end of the previous fiscal year in the Umeda area of Osaka significantly contributed to the profit. The rate of progress against the full-year sales plan is 98%. Orders received increased by 0.5% to ¥41.1 billion. Completed housing stock decreased by 94 units from the end of the previous fiscal year to 71 units.
Sales decreased and profit increased in the Urban Redevelopment Businesses. Sales from the sale of properties were ¥32.2 billion. The sale of properties to REIT and the sale of development properties also progressed. Despite a decrease in sales, profit increased due to a difference in gross margin. In the Hotel Business, many hotels have just opened, and recovery of profit will take time due to the impact of the seventh wave of COVID-19 pandemic.
[Page 12] Results by Segment-Overseas Business
Net sales increased by 61.6% to ¥241.6 billion. Operating income increased by ¥28 billion to ¥46.1 billion. Operating margin improved by 7.0p to 19.1%. Sales and profit increased in the United States, Australia and China. Orders received increased by ¥61.1 billion to ¥250.7 billion.
[Page 13] Overseas Business-Details by Country
In the United States, net sales increased by ¥56.8 billion to ¥176.6 billion. To break this down, the multifamily business is scheduled to sell four properties this year in contrast to the sales of properties in two projects in the first quarter, making net sales of ¥36.3 billion. The master-planned community business increased sales by ¥4.5 billion to ¥38.8 billion. Profit from Holt Homes has been added to profit in homebuilding businesses from this fiscal year, with an increase of ¥31.1 billion to ¥100.7 billion. Operating income increased by ¥16.4 billion to ¥34.8 billion. There was an increase in all three businesses, with ¥8 billion in the multifamily business, ¥12.3 billion in master-planned community business, and ¥13.8 billion in the homebuilding businesses due to improved profit from favorable sales and the contribution to profit from Holt Homes. Orders received increased by ¥50 billion to ¥196.7 billion. Of this, the homebuilding businesses increased by ¥41.6 billion to ¥135.3 billion. In addition to the net increase from Holt Homes, there was an increase in orders received at Woodside Homes. Order backlog increased by ¥74.5 billion from the end of the previous year to ¥249.9 billion. The master-planned community business reached ¥69.5 billion while the homebuilding businesses reached ¥180.4 billion, including the order backlog from Chesmar. There was a continued rise in unit prices and an improvement in the gross profit margin. In the immediate future for sales, along with the rise in mortgage
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interest rates, even if sales slowdown, sales will gradually recover backed by the lack of available pre-owned homes and the stable demand from Millennials. Based on thorough PMI, including the recent acquisition of Chesmar, we are continuing to optimize the supply chain and to respond to the rise in prices. The investment balance increased by ¥251.7 billion against the end of the previous year to ¥833 billion, which includes Holt Homes and Chesmar.
In Australia, net sales increased by ¥24.1 billion to ¥43.7 billion. Operating income increased by ¥5.5 billion to ¥5.6 billion. The delivery of condominiums in Sydney, which had been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the previous fiscal year, and the sale of properties made a contribution. Orders received increased by ¥21.3 billion to ¥50.4 billion. Custom detached houses will continue to be in adjustment phase while mortgage rates continue to rise. Regarding condominiums, it is expected that there will be an economic recovery due to the mitigation of entry restrictions, as well as the recovery of sales due to inflation and the ongoing gradual rise in prices. The investment balance increased by ¥2.8 billion against the end of the previous year to ¥167.3 billion.
In China, net sales increased by ¥11.1 billion to ¥21.2 billion. Operating income increased by ¥6.4 billion to ¥6.6 billion. Delivery of properties in the city of Taicang was recorded. The order backlog is ¥1.7 billion. The investment balance decreased by ¥12.5 billion against the end of the previous year to ¥9 billion. Progress is steady toward the completion of all projects, including the liquidation of Suzhou Condominium Project company.
In Singapore, equity in earnings of affiliates remained flat at ¥0.3 billion.
[Page 15] Full-year Plans
Full-year plans have been revised upward, taking into account steady orders in Japan and overseas as well as the contribution to profits from Chesmar.
Net sales increased by 13.1% year on year to ¥2,930 billion. A ¥143 billion increase to the initial plan. Operating income increased by 13.0% to ¥260 billion year on year, an upward revision of ¥24 billion to the initial plan.This is due to factors including favorable sales of houses in the United States, and steady performance of Rental Housing and the Houses for Sale Businesses in Japan. An upward revision was made that covers the impact of the high price of raw materials. Ordinary profit was ¥260 billion.
Net profit was ¥174 billion, an increase of ¥16 billion against the initial plan. EPS increased by 14.7% to ¥260.83. ROE of 11.2% is planned. Dividends are scheduled to be ¥104, which is ¥14 higher than the previous year. Planned orders were accumulated, including in the Houses for Sale Businesses that is strong primarily in the overseas business.
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The owners of a cafe in West Cork say they're going to "stay positive" despite their latest electricity bill being more than double what it was last year.
Bantry's Stuffed Olive have posted up pics showing their rate has more than doubled since 2022 with their latest charging going over €5,500.
The beloved food and wine store were paying around €19.92 per day the middle of last year, and copies of their bills show that rose quickly to about €30.36 by the end of 2021, and up to around €76.50 per day today.
They were charged €1,334 over a 67 day period last year, while their latest bit of post says they owe €5,508 for a 72 day period from the end of June to start of September.
They took to Facebook to show people just how the current crisis is affecting family businesses, but insisted they're going to power on and stay positive adding "there will be mince pies at Xmas".
They said: "Ah the old electricity bill on our new rate has finally arrived. To say we've been living in fear is an understatement......it is what I had estimated but it is still a shock to get a bill over €5000 for electricity.
"We are probably lucky we agreed a rate back in June and moved to Bord Gáis as they were able to offer a cheaper rate than Electric Ireland at the time (0.38c a unit from Electric Ireland (previous rate 0.19c a unit with a 6% discount, new rate with Bord Gáis 0.36c a unit)
"Honesty you just wouldn't know what to do.... BUT we are totally going stay positive, keep on going as we are and fingers crossed Team Olive will power through and there will be mince pies at Xmas."
The gang are one of many to get rinsed as prices skyrocket.
The Celtic Ross Hotel in Rosscarbery recently received a bill over €18,000 - with the same months in 2019 coming in at €7,7000.
Electric Ireland recently announced their charges are going up by 26.7 percent from October 1st, while Prepay Power announced similar. Airtricity also have a price hike coming.
It's the third time in 12 months that each company brought their rates up - and others that have yet to make announcements are expected to.
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Will Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani have trouble competing against each other on The Voice now that they're a married couple?
Season 22 of the NBC singing competition kicked off with Blind Auditions on Monday night, and Gwen made her return to the show for the first time since her season 19 victory -- as well as the first time since she and Blake tied the knot. During the show, host Carson Daly, who officiated the pair's July 2021 nuptials, asked Gwen how it felt to return to the Voice stage.
"I'm just excited to be back here," Gwen shared, adding, "Blake looks so hot today."
As for their fellow coaches, newcomer Camila Cabello proved she's more than up to the challenge by blocking Gwen on the very first four-chair turn of the season, while John Legend is feeling the responsibility of his new seat on the panel.
"It's a lot of pressure, because the people who have sat in this chair -- Adam Levine and Kelly Clarkson -- have both had heated rivalries with Blake Shelton," John shared. "We're going to battle."
When ET spoke with The Voice coaches ahead of season 22, Gwen admitted that, despite the competition, she was having a great time being back on set with her hubby. "It's just pretty fun," she admitted, referencing one of the pair's duets as she added, "Like, 'Happy Anywhere,' you know what I'm saying?"
But while Blake claimed that he's "more competitive" and strategic with Gwen back, John joked that having his wife on set is the country star's "kryptonite."
"She takes the edge off him just a little bit," he explained. "She is his weakness."
As for Blake, he was playing it cool, and praising the "unbelievable" level of talent that singers always bring to The Voice.
"The reason there is four coaches on The Voice is because it takes three people to go against me," he teased.
The Voice airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. PT/ET on NBC. See more from this season in the video below!
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The Bachelorette's Agostino 'Aggi' Guardiani is expecting his first child with tennis coach Tamasin Patterson
Former Bachelorette star Agostino 'Aggi' Guardiani, who appeared on Becky and Elly's season of the show, is expecting his first child with girlfriend Tamasin Patterson.
The couple, who have been dating for over a year, announced the exciting news in a joint Instagram post alongside a polaroid of an ultrasound.
'We can't wait to meet you ❤️ March 2023,' they captioned the image alongside the hashtags #lettheadventurebegin and #thebestisyettocome.
Former Bachelorette star Agostino 'Aggi' Guardiani, who appeared on Becky and Elly's season of the show, is expecting his first child with girlfriend Tamasin Patterson. Both pictured
Their post was quickly inundated with comments from their reality star friends.
MAFS alum Jamie Gardner wrote: 'OMG yasssss! Congratulations to you both xx'.
Love Island star Anna McEvoy commented: 'Congrats guys ❤️❤️❤️ So exciting!!'
The couple, who have been dating for over a year, announced the exciting news in a joint Instagram post alongside a polaroid of an ultrasound
SAS Australia's Bonnie Anderson wrote: 'Aww yayyyy! I knew it! So happy for you! Congratulations to you both.'
Daily Mail Australia understands that while the pair have been in a relationship for one year, they have been really good friends for four years.
Both Aggi and Tamasin have been previously romantically linked to other reality stars.
Daily Mail Australia understands that while the pair have been in a relationship for one year, they have been really good friends for four years
Aggi previously dated Natasha Zuanetti, better known as Tash Candyce, who is set to appear on the upcoming season of The Bachelor.
Meanwhile, Tamasin was linked to MAFS groom Jake Edwards.
Aggi rose to fame during Elly Miles and Becky Miles season of The Bachelorette in 2020.
Aggi rose to fame during Elly Miles and Becky Miles season of The Bachelorette in 2020
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When Navaratri is around the corner, people start travelling to their home town to celebrate the festival dedicated to Goddess Durga. It is a strict fast that is performed without the intake of onion and garlic. It has a unique recipe that is followed by the people of India.
And those who are travelling by trains have got a special menu decided by the caterers of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). Therefore, commuting across states with the food of travellers' choice on the fasting days adds a special factor of happiness and comfort to their traveller's diaries. Especially when the food is repaired with onion, garlic and rock salt.
Indian Railways have introduced several digitally enhanced features that empower the railway system in India. The packages also include a visit to the religious places connecting all the Char Dhams Yatras throughout India.
WHAT IS THE PRICE OF THE VRAT THALI?
The starting price of the food menu begins at Rs 99.
It should be noted that the special Navaratri food is available only on the IRCTC trains, which offer an e-catering facility.
It extends to 500 trains across the country.
MENU FOR THE NAVARATRI VRAT THALI:
The starters available in the Navratri thali include Aloo Chaap and Sabudana Tikka.
The main course has Sabu dana khichdi and Paneer Makhmali with parathas.
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It also serves the dessert Sitaphal kheer and additional Navratri items.
Additionally, there are various food items like Kofta Curry, and Sabudana khichdi Navratri thali.
The delicious thali serves cuisines like Kofta Curry, Sabudana khichdi thali, Paneer Makhmali and Sabudana khichdi Navratri thali for a wholesome meal.
STEPS TO BOOK NAVRATRI THALI:
It requires three steps to complete the order:
Step 1: ‘Choose the outlet’. You need to enter the PNR number and search for the restaurants nearby for the journey.
Step 2: The next step is to ‘Complete the Order.' Here you can choose your food and schedule an order while paying online or choosing the cash-on-delivery option.
Step 3: The food will be delivered to your seat.
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Madeleine McCann's parents LOSE libel legal bid against Portuguese police officer at European Court of Human Rights
- Kate and Gerry McCann lost latest round of legal battle with Goncalo Amaral
- Pair had sued Portuguese ex-cop for libel after he published a book suggesting they were involved in the disappearance of daughter Madeleine in 2007
- Parents won the initial case but ruling was overturned by Portuguese judges in 2017, prompting them to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
- European judges today ruled in Amaral's favour, opening door to another appeal
Madeleine McCann's parents have lost the latest round in a legal battle against the Portuguese ex-police officer who led a probe into their daughter's disappearance.
Kate and Gerry McCann are attempting to sue Goncalo Amaral for libel for suggesting they were involved in the disappearance - claims he published in a 2008 book and then repeated in media interviews.
They won the initial case but Amaral appealed, and in 2016 Portuguese judges reversed the decision - prompting the McCanns to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
European judges delivered their verdict today and rejected the appeal, giving the McCanns three months to decide whether to appeal again. A source close to the pair told MailOnline they are 'disappointed' and are reviewing their legal options.
Kate and Gerry McCann (file) have lost the latest round of a long-running legal battle with Goncalo Amaral - the Portuguese ex-cop who led the probe into Madeleine's disappearance
Madeleine went missing from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz where she was staying with her parents in 2007, and no trace of her has ever been found
Lawyers for Kate and Gerry had been arguing that the Portuguese courts breached their right to respect for a private and family life in the way the case was handled.
They also argued their right to a fair hearing had been damaged by Amaral's statements alleging their involvement.
However, European judges rejected that claim - saying the McCanns' reputation had actually been damaged by Portuguese police naming them as suspects for a short time and not Amaral's comments.
They also dismissed claims that Portuguese authorities had breached their right to privacy, noting the parents had taken part in their own media interviews and participated in a documentary.
A source close to the family said: 'They felt very strongly about the case, otherwise they wouldn’t have taken it to the European Court of Human Rights.
‘Clearly in their eyes Goncalo Amaral’s comments were completely unjustified and they felt compelled to take the case against the Portuguese Supreme Court ruling to Strasbourg. They will now examine the judgement and decide what to do.
‘The most important thing for them is finding what happened to their daughter and that has always been uppermost for them.'
In a five page judgement issued today, the seven judges wrote: 'The Court considered that, even assuming that the applicants' reputation had been damaged, this was not an account of the argument put forward by the book's author.
'Rather [their reputation was damaged] as a result of the suspicions expressed against them, which had led to their being placed under investigation in the course of the criminal investigation.'
Goncalo Amaral, the Portuguese police officer who led the initial investigation, later claimed in a book that the McCanns were involved in Maddie's disappearance
The judges added: 'The information had thus been brought to the public's attention in some detail even before the investigation file was made available to the media and the book in question published.
'It followed that the national authorities had not failed in their positive obligation to protect the applicants' right to respect for their private life.'
The Court in Strasbourg also highlighted how Portugal's Supreme Court in previous rulings had 'not implied any guilt on the applicants or even suggested suspicions against them' saying that as a result their 'complaint concerning their right to be presumed innocent was manifestly ill-founded.'
Rejecting the argument that the book had harmed their right to a private life, the judges noted that the McCann's themselves had undertaken a tour of media interviews following the book's publication.
'In particular they cooperated in a documentary programme about their daughter's disappearance and continued to give interviews to the media,' they said.
'While the Court understood that the book's publication had undeniably caused anger, anguish and distress to the applicants it did not appear that the book, or the broadcasting of the (Amaral) documentary, had a serious impact on the applicants social relations or on their legitimate and ongoing attempts to find their daughter.'
The panel was headed by president Gabriele Kucsko-Stadimayer from Austria, as well as British judge Tim Eicke and colleagues from Bulgaria, Armenia, Andorra, Netherlands and Portugal.
Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from a holiday apartment where she was staying with her parents, brother and sister in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
German prosecutors have named Christian Brueckner, who is currently in jail for rape, as the prime suspect in Madeleine's disappearance
Kate and Gerry had been eating in a restaurant near the apartment with a group of friends who were going back periodically to check on the sleeping children.
But when Kate went back to the apartment around 10pm to check on the children, she found that Madeleine was missing.
Despite years of investigations - initially by Portuguese police led by Amaral, and later by British detectives - no trace of the schoolgirl has ever been found.
In 2020, investigators took the extraordinary step of naming the chief suspect as Christian Brueckner - a German man currently in jail in his home country for rape.
Brueckner has previous convictions for child sex offences and drug smuggling, and in 2007 was known to be living out of a camper van near Praia da Luz.
Police say they have phone records that place Brueckner in the vicinity of the apartment where Madeleine was sleeping on the night she vanished, but cannot currently prove he took the girl.
Cops revealed his identity in the hopes of convincing someone with information to come forward, and have said they hope to bring charges this year.
Brueckner's lawyers have stressed that he has not been formally charged and he has reportedly written a letter to German prosecutors from his jail cell telling them to 'put up or shut up'.
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Kylian Mbappe is arguably one of the greatest footballers in modern-day football in terms of goalscoring.
Possessing tremendous pace and trickery on the ball, the Paris Saint-Germain star is well on his way to becoming one of France's greatest ever players.
For the national team, Mbappe scored his first goal back in 2017 against the Netherlands and then at the age of 19, he became the second-youngest player behind Pele to score in a World Cup final when he netted in the 65th minute against Croatia to win the coveted trophy in 2018.
Just how many strikes does the Frenchman have to his name, though, and in which competitions did he find the net the most often?
Mbappe's total France goals
How many goals has Mbappe scored at the World Cup?
Mbappe's Euro Championships record
World Cup qualification goals
Mbappe's friendly goals for France
Mbappe's France hat-tricks
Mbappe's favourite opponents
*Data accurate as of September 19
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- Reds have just nine Premier League points
- Van Dijk denies World Cup is affecting them
- Defender in Nations League action this week
WHAT HAPPENED? Van Dijk is adamant that he and his teammates are firmly focused on club matters for the time being. The defender has also denied that he is concerned about missing the Qatar tournament, having been ruled out of Euro 2020 with a knee injury.
WHAT THEY SAID: Van Dijk told a press conference when asked if the upcoming World Cup was affecting Liverpool's performances: "We are not in the situation because of that. I understand, because of the start we had, everyone is looking for 'why?' because the difference (to last season) is too big, but I can assure you that is definitely not one of the reasons. You focus on the game at the time and that's definitely what we're doing."
The 31-year-old added on the suggestion he fears another injury setback: "I want to go but to be ready, in my opinion, is not to focus on hopefully not getting injured, it is just to keep playing, get fit, stay fit and get in a good moment. If you think about this (getting injured), I think you are going to have issues in my opinion."
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Liverpool are currently all the way down in eighth with only nine points from their first six Premier League games. They were also on the receiving end of a 4-1 Champions League battering by Napoli earlier this month.
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DID YOU KNOW? Van Dijk has 47 caps for the Netherlands to his name, six less than former Barcelona and Stoke City winger Ibrahim Afellay.
WHAT NEXT FOR VAN DIJK? The centre-back was speaking ahead of the Oranjes' UEFA Nations League meetings with Poland and Belgium this week.
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Kendall Jenner turns heads in a sheer top and tiny mini skirt as she enjoys a night out with best friend Fai Khadra
She never fails to turn heads on an outing.
And Kendall Jenner ensured all eyes would be on her as she headed out in New York City on Monday evening in a racy ensemble.
The Kardashians star 26, was joined by her best friend Fai Khadra on the trip - a Palestinian model and musician who has long been pals with the Jenner clan.
Stunning: She never fails to turn heads on an outing. And Kendall Jenner ensured all eyes would be on her as she headed out in New York City on Monday evening in a racy ensemble
Kendall was a vision of beauty on the outing as she teased her incredible figure in a sheer white T-shirt adorned with a graphic print.
She teamed the garment with a white mini skirt, while black leather boots gave her model frame an extra boost.
The Vogue cover girl completed the look with a white handbag and small silver hoops.
Delightful duo: The Kardashians star 26, was joined by her best friend Fai Khadra on the trip - a Palestinian model and musician who has long been pals with the Jenner clan
Fai looked stylish by her side as he paired a black motorcycle jacket with a plain white T-shirt.
Kendall and Fai made for a picture perfect couple on the outing, yet their relationship is strictly platonic.
The pair last cleared up their relationship status when she went with Fai to Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin's wedding in 2019, with Kendall explaining online: 'We don't date he's just my date.'
Clearing things up: The pair last cleared up their relationship status when she went with Fai to Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin's wedding in 2019
Kendall is currently loved-up with Devin Booker, who she has been dating on and off for two years.
The couple were first linked and seen together in May 2018, but at the time, the two were seeing other people and were just on friendly terms.
Two years later, the pair started seeing each other on a romantic level, with an insider revealing: 'It's not like they will be getting engaged any time soon. Kendall likes the pace at which things are going at the moment and has no plans to elevate things so quickly.'
The couple were still happily dating into 2022, and were seen attending Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker's glamorous wedding ceremony in Italy earlier in May.
The following month in June, the two split. A source explained to E! News that, 'once they got back, they started to feel like they weren't aligned and realized they have very different lifestyles.'
It seemed that the stars couldn't stay apart for long, and were seen hanging out together in July at the Hamptons.
Last month in August, an insider confirmed to Us Weekly that Kendall and Devin have rekindled their relationship.
'Kendall and Devin are 100 percent back together,' a source close to the pair stated, adding 'They spent some time apart but are back to a good place and are really happy with each other.'
Cute couple: Kendall is currently loved-up with Devin Booker, who she has been dating on and off for two years (pictured in September)
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A day after Shashi Tharoor got a nod from Sonia Gandhi to run for Congress presidential polls, party leaders in Kerala indicated that the state unit is only in favour of Rahul Gandhi becoming the party chief.
Upon being asked about Shashi Tharoor's nomination for the party president post, Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala said, "It is up to Tharoor to speak out whether he is contesting to become the party president". He further said that the general feeling in Kerala is Rahul Gandhi should become the president and there is no need to pass a resolution in this regard.
MP Kodukkunil Suresh said, "Anyone can contest the election for Congress president. The party will take a decision unanimously. I got to know about Shashi Tharoor's candidature through the media. Rahul Gandhi is eligible for the post. We all expect Rahul's return as party president"
Congress MP K Muraleedharan also had the same view. "No matter whoever contests for the post, only a person with the support of the Nehru family would become the president," he said.
The leaders said the reception that Bharat Jodo Yatra is receiving in Kerala is only because it is being taken out by Rahul Gandhi.
Meanwhile, on Friday, September 23, the yatra has a day off and Rahul Gandhi will be going to Delhi, informed Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).
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DP World wins another ruling in battle over Djibouti port
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai-based shipping giant DP World said Tuesday it has won another ruling in a longstanding legal battle over the operation of a strategic port in the African nation of Djibouti.
Dubai-based DP World said an appeals court in Hong Kong agreed with its request to keep its lawsuit against China Merchants Port Holdings in Hong Kong courts, where that company is based, rather than transfer it to Djibouti.
DP World accuses China Merchants of successfully pressuring Djibouti's government to expel DP World from the country and hand over the Doraleh Container Terminal to the Hong Kong-based firm. It also accuses China Merchants of operating other ports and free zones in violation of DP World's exclusivity rights.
China Merchants did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
DP World is seeking billions of dollars in damages. International courts and tribunals have already awarded it some $686.5 million in damages, and the 2006 concession to operate the port remains in force, the company said.
The Doraleh Container Terminal is the largest employer and biggest source of revenue in Djibouti, and has operated at a profit every year since it opened, according to DP World.
Djibouti seized the container terminal after DP World created another corridor for imports to landlocked Ethiopia in Somaliland, endangering Djibouti´s near-monopoly on Ethiopia´s imports.
Djibouti´s port alone accounts for 95% of Ethiopia´s imports. With a population of 110 million people, Ethiopia is the largest economy in the Horn of Africa.
DP World, which is majority-owned by the Dubai government in the United Arab Emirates, operates nearly 80 marine and inland terminals around the world.
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England include six World Cup winners in their squad for this year´s tournament
England have named a squad featuring six survivors from their 2014 World Cup triumph for their bid to claim New Zealand’s crown this autumn.
Captain Sarah Hunter leads a 32-strong group that also includes flankers Marlie Packer and Alex Matthews, prop Laura Keates, wing Lydia Thompson and centre Emily Scarratt.
Another star of 2014 fails to make the cut, however, after veteran scrum-half Natasha Hunt was omitted in favour of Leanne Infante, Claudia MacDonald and Lucy Packer.
Head coach Simon Middleton has opted for a split of 19 forwards and 13 backs for a World Cup campaign that opens against Fiji in Auckland on October 8, with 19 players making their first appearances in the tournament.
England enter the event as strong favourites after following up their Grand Slam earlier this year by amassing 125 points in their two warm-up fixtures against the USA and Wales, in the process extending their record winning run to 25 Tests.
“First and foremost I would like to start by acknowledging those who have missed out on selection,” Middleton said.
“There is not one single player in the wider squad who hasn’t given their all. Nobody has given less than their absolute best, they should be proud of their efforts throughout the team’s campaign to date.
“If between now and the tournament, or during the World Cup, we have to call anyone up, we can do it with 100 per cent confidence that we are bringing a top player in.
“I would like to say a huge congratulations to those who have made the squad. To earn selection means you have done some special things and you have been outstanding in your application to training and performances.
“We are really confident with the balance of the squad. I am pleased with the way the team is gelling and how our game is coming together. There is still plenty to work on, we expect to improve game-on-game.”
Hunter is the squad’s most capped player with 135 appearances and will be involved in her fourth World Cup, acting as skipper for three of them.
“While this is not about singling out individuals, it would be remiss not to reference our captain Sarah Hunter,” Middleton said.
Natasha Hunt is a high-profile omission from England´s squad (Mike Egerton/PA)
“Sarah is a better captain now than she has ever been. She has owned the captaincy and how she represents the squad on and off the field is absolutely brilliant.
“When you work with someone for so long you sometimes need to remind yourself of her outstanding attributes, she is unbelievable in how she conducts herself.
“Her pride in and love of representing her country is as strong as ever. She is a class act and we are very fortunate to have her leading the side at this tournament.”
England squad for the World Cup in New Zealand: Forwards: Z Aldcroft (Gloucester-Hartpury), S Bern (Bristol Bears), H Botterman (Saracens), S Brown (Harlequins), P Cleall (Saracens), A Cokayne (Harlequins), V Cornborough (Harlequins), L Davies (Bristol Bears), R Galligan (Harlequins), S Hunter (Loughborough Lightning, captain), S Kabeya (Loughborough Lightning), L Keates (University of Worcester Warriors), A Matthews (Gloucester-Hartpury), M Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury), C O’Donnell (Loughborough Lightning), M Packer (Saracens), C Powell (Gloucester-Hartpury), M Talling (Loughborough Lightning), A Ward (Bristol Bears).
Backs: H Aitchison (Saracens), J Breach (Saracens), A Dow (Wasps), Z Harrison (Saracens), T Heard (Gloucester-Hartpury), L Infante (Saracens), E Kildunne (Harlequins), C MacDonald (Exeter Chiefs), S McKenna (Saracens), L Packer (Harlequins), H Rowland (Loughborough Lightning), E Scarratt (Loughborough Lightning), L Thompson (University of Worcester Warriors).
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FOCUS-Elon Musk faces skeptics as Tesla gets ready to unveil 'Optimus' robot
By Hyunjoo Jin
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk blamed overreliance on factory robots for sending the electric carmaker to "production hell" four years ago, saying humans were better at certain jobs.
My, how times have changed.
Musk's Texas company now is floating ambitious plans to deploy thousands of humanoid robots, known as Tesla Bot or Optimus, within its factories, expanding eventually to millions around the world, according to job postings. Buzz is building within the company as Tesla is having more internal meetings on robots, a person familiar with the matter said.
Longer term, Musk said at a TED Talk robots could be used in homes, making dinner, mowing the lawn and caring for the elderly people, and even becoming a "buddy" or a "catgirl" sex partner.
The robot business eventually may be worth more than Tesla's car revenue, according to Musk, who is now touting a vision for the company that goes well beyond making self-driving electric vehicles.
At its "AI Day" on Sept. 30, Musk said Tesla will unveil a prototype from its project Optimus, an allusion to the powerful and benevolent leader of the Autobots in the Transformers series. Production could start next year, he said.
Tesla faces skepticism that it can show technological advances that would justify the expense of "general purpose" robots in factories, homes and elsewhere, according to robotics experts, investors and analysts interviewed by Reuters.
Tesla already employs hundreds of robots designed for specific jobs for production of its cars.
Humanoid robots have been in development for decades by Honda Motor Co and Hyundai Motor Co's Boston Dynamics unit. Like self-driving cars, the robots have trouble with unpredictable situations.
"Self-driving cars weren't really proved to be as easy as anyone thought. And it's the same way with humanoid robots to some extent," the lead of NASA's Dexterous Robotics Team, Shaun Azimi, told Reuters.
"If something unexpected happens, being flexible and robust to those kinds of changes is very difficult."
At an "Autonomy" event in 2019, Musk promised 1 million robotaxis by 2020 but has yet to deliver such a car.
Musk's robots may be able to demonstrate basic capabilities at the event, but it would be hard for them to impress public expectations of robots that are as capable as humans, experts say.
To succeed, Tesla will need to show robots doing multiple, unscripted actions, said Nancy Cooke, a professor in human systems engineering at Arizona State University. Such proof could provide a boost to Tesla stock, which is down 25% from its 2021 peak.
"If he just gets the robot to walk around, or he gets the robots to dance, that's already been done. That's not that impressive," she said.
Tesla did not respond to Reuters' request for comments, but Musk in the past proved skeptics wrong, jump-starting the electric car market and building a rocket company, SpaceX, although some product launches were behind schedule.
IN-HOUSE EXPERTISE
Initially, Optimus will perform boring or dangerous jobs, including moving parts around its factories, according to Musk.
Musk acknowledged that humanoid robots do not have enough intelligence to navigate the real world without being explicitly instructed.
But he said Tesla can leverage its expertise in AI and key components to develop and produce smart, yet less expensive, humanoid robots at scale.
Tesla is on hiring spree for people to work on humanoid bi-pedal robots, with about 20 job postings on "Tesla Bot" including jobs for designing key robot parts like "actuators".
"The code you will write will at term run in millions of humanoid robots across the world, and will therefore be held to high quality standards," one of the job postings said.
Tesla has over 2 million vehicles on the road.
Jonathan Hurst, chief technology officer at Agility Robotics, a humanoid robot firm founded in 2015 said the technology "is right now starting to turn the corner."
"Certainly, an important measure of success is do they make money from it," he told Reuters, referring to Tesla's humanoid robot efforts.
HUMAN HELP?
Analysts see more pageant than product. "It's all part of distracting people and giving them the next shiny object to chase after," Guidehouse Insights analyst Sam Abuelsamid said.
"Investors are not excited about Optimus," said Gene Munster, managing partner at venture capital firm Loup Ventures, which holds Tesla stocks. "It's just such a low probability that it works at scale," he said, saying it is "infinitely harder than self-driving cars."
And then there is Musk's own experience with robots in the factory.
During the 2018 production hell, Musk specifically noted the problems of the "fluff bot," an assembly robot that failed to perform simple tasks that human hands can do - picking up pieces of "fluff" and placing them on batteries.
He said the cost of having technicians maintain the complicated robot far exceeded that of hiring someone to do the assembly.
The fluff bot is "a funny example but drives home the point that autonomy often doesn't generalize well, and so handling soft fluffy material that isn't as predictable as a rigid part was causing a huge problem," Aaron Johnson, a mechanical engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said.
"Human hands are way better at doing that," Musk said.
(Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Peter Henderson, Ben Klayman and Lisa Shumaker)
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Swiss gold exports to China slow but shipments to Turkey surge
LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Swiss exports of gold to China fell in August from July's 5-1/2-year high, while shipments to Turkey rose to their highest since June 2013, Swiss customs data showed on Tuesday. Falling gold prices in recent months have seen metal flow from commercial vaults in the United States and Britain to countries in Asia, which have large consumer markets for gold and typically take advantage of low prices. Switzerland is the world's biggest refining and transit hub for gold and its data offer insight into global market trends. The customs figures also showed that Switzerland imported 5.7 tonnes of Russian gold worth around $320 million in August, the most since April 2020, but Swiss authorities said this metal, while Russian in origin, came from Britain. Large Western banks and refiners stopped buying gold from Russia after the Kremlin attacked Ukraine in February and Switzerland banned imports of gold from Russia in August. But hundreds of tonnes of gold mined in Russia still sit in vaults in London, Zurich and New York. Barring July's bumper number, Switzerland's exports of gold to mainland China in August were the highest since January. Shipments to India were the highest since May. Turkey, which is enduring rampant inflation and a fast-weakening currency, began stepping up gold imports from Switzerland in May. Gold is seen by many as a safe place to store assets during times of economic turbulence. Following are numbers and comparisons. SWISS TRADE DATA (KG) EXPORT (kg) Aug-22 121,025 Jul-22 186,158 Aug-21 116,455 SHIPMENTS TO KEY MARKETS (KG) To China To Hong To India To Turkey Kong Aug-22 37,807 1,034 19,359 23,695 Jul-22 80,149 3,679 15,836 20,128 Aug-21 18,200 2,085 70,294 0 * Source: Swiss customs. Data subject to revision by source. (Reporting by Peter Hobson; editing by Uttaresh.V)
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UK's Channel 4 sale to be 're-examined', minister says
LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Britain's new culture minister, Michelle Donelan, said on Tuesday she was re-examining the case for selling Channel 4, raising the possibility that a plan to privatise the publicly-owned broadcaster could be scrapped.
"We are looking especially at the business case for the sale of Channel 4 and making sure that we still agree with that decision," she told BBC radio.
The sale of the broadcaster, which is funded by advertising and receives no public money, was announced by former prime minister Boris Johnson's government in April.
It said a sale, possibly to a U.S. media giant, would help the broadcaster thrive against newer competitors like Netflix and Amazon.
The broadcaster's management, lawmakers across parliament and television grandees strongly opposed the move, saying it would jeopardise Channel 4's distinctive programming.
Channel 4 was created by Conservative former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s to deliver an edgy alternative to the BBC and ITV, with a focus on under-served audiences. (Reporting by Paul Sandle, editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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Electric vehicle makers may get some more time to implement the proposed safety regulations for batteries, government sources have indicated to Business Today TV. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and electric vehicle manufacturers are meeting today on the crucial safety regulations that are to be implemented from October 1, the source added.
“Industry has requested an extension of the timeline. We may favorably consider their request and grant additional time for implementing some regulations”, the source said.
India's automobile industry has welcomed government's safety norms for electric vehicles and has started work towards it, but will not be able to complete the shift by October 1, an industry executive says.
Sulajja Firodia Motwani, founder and CEO, Kinetic Green and Chairperson of FICCI's EV Committee and IFGE EV committee told Business Today TV that the EV industry welcomes higher safety standards for EV batteries. In fact, this will further build customers' confidence in electric vehicle technology and contribute to rapid electrification of India’s EV sector. However, The changes proposed under the new amendment to AIS 156 (by way of Rev 2) are extensive and wide in scope. To achieve these changes will require re-design, re-engineering, re-validation and re-homologation of battery packs. Further, battery makers will have to design and procure tooling and new capital equipment which will require a minimum of six months.
On September 1, MoRTH decided to implement mandatory standards for battery components and their testing, including cells of electric vehicles from October 1, 2022.
The amendments include additional safety requirements related to battery cells, battery management system, on-board charger, the design of battery pack and thermal propagation due to internal cell short circuit leading to fire.
The norms will be valid for electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, quadricycles and cars.
"While the majority of the required parameters are easily met, some new requirements have been added in the new amendment that necessitates battery design changes. The design and development and rigorous testing of these changes are required to ensure effective implementation. Hence, it is imperative to have some bandwidth in terms of timelines to execute the changes. Therefore, the EV industry seeks a humble extension from the government to allow us to execute the changes. A phased implementation timeframe can be looked at jointly with the testing agencies and the ministry too" Sohinder Gill, Director General, Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), and CEO, Hero Electric told Business Today TV.
The ministry in its September 1 notification had also invited comments from stakeholders on mandating conformity of production for traction batteries used in electric vehicles.
This will involve random sampling of finished batteries from factories for tests to find whether the companies are complying with the standards while undertaking mass production of EV models. Currently, there is no such provision.
Akshay Singhal, Founder & CEO at Log9 Materials said, "The last six months have proven why we need to perfect our products and technologies specific to local operating conditions before they reach our customers. From rethinking our choice of cell chemistries to revamping BMS and battery architecture, the industry needs time to create a fail-proof system so that we never have to confront the issue of EV safety again. A haste in this matter will again create long term issues"
Also read: Delhi govt plans kerbside charging for electric vehicles; how it will work
Also read: EV players laud new battery safety norms, say will aid India’s electric vehicle adoption
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The COVID-19 crisis has thrown up challenges as well as provided an opportunity not just to re-invent journalism, but to redefine the media as a trusted source of news and information, said Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday.
Speaking at the AIBD General Conference 2022 in the national capital, he called on the media to highlight and create a strong future for broadcasting in the post-pandemic era.
"In challenging times the role of the media, especially broadcasting becomes extremely important to sift facts from fake information. Real journalism is about facing the facts, presenting the truth and letting all sides the platform to present their views," Thakur said.
"In my personal opinion the biggest threat to mainstream media is not from new age digital platforms, but rather the mainstream media channel itself. If you decide to invite guests who are polarising, who spread false narratives and who shout at the top of their lungs - the credibility of your channel goes down. Your decisions regarding the guest, the tone and visuals - define your credibility in the eyes of the audience," the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister said.
Highlighting the need for having more sensible debates and content-rich debates on television instead of mere shouting matches, Thakur said, "Are you going to watch the narrative be defined by soundbites or redefine yourself and set the terms for your guests and channel? Are you going to show visuals that grab eyeballs and inflame anger or show restraint and project visuals in context to showcase the full picture?"
Thakur also highlighted the need to have more innovative and improvised content. Failing this, the younger generation is gradually drifting away from broadcast news. "Are you going to watch as the younger audience switches and sweeps through the shrill on TV news or are you going to bring back the Neutrality in NEWS and Discussion in DEBATES to stay ahead of the game?" Thakur said
Thakur lauded the media's efforts, especially in the Covid times when It was seen that correct and timely information could save millions of lives.
He also spoke about the extensive use of media - both mainstream as well as new digital platforms by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government during this exceptionally difficult phase of COVID-19.
In reply to a written question, Thakur said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had also issued directions to block 94 YouTube-based news channels and 19 social media accounts, websites and mobile applications under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules during 2021-22.
He was responding to a question by Congress member from Gujarat Naranbhai J Rathwa who had sought to know if it is a "fact that the Press Club of India on Raisina Road in Delhi was enrolling members at an exorbitant membership charge of Rs 1.5 lakh and above".
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How to Watch Chicago White Sox vs. Cleveland Guardians Live Online on September 20, 2022: TV Channels/Streaming
On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 8:10 PM EDT, the Chicago White Sox face the Cleveland Guardians. The game is airing exclusively on Bally Sports Great Lakes, SportsTime Ohio, and NBC Sports Chicago, which you can stream with a Live TV Streaming Service.
Chicago White Sox vs. Cleveland Guardians
- When: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 8:10 PM EDT
- TV: Bally Sports Great Lakes, SportsTime Ohio, and NBC Sports Chicago
- Stream: Watch with 5-Day Free Trial of DIRECTV STREAM
In Cleveland, the game is streaming on Bally Sports Great Lakes (previously SportsTime Ohio), which is available with a 5-Day Free Trial of DIRECTV STREAM. Since Hulu, YouTube TV, fuboTV, and Sling TV do not carry Bally Sports Great Lakes, this is your only option to stream Cleveland Guardians games all year long.
In Chicago, the game is streaming on NBC Sports Chicago, which is available with a 5-Day Free Trial of DIRECTV STREAM. You can also stream it on fuboTV, Hulu Live TV, and YouTube TV to watch Chicago White Sox games all year long.
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Cleveland Guardians vs. Chicago White Sox Game Preview: White Sox host the Guardians to open 3-game series
Cleveland Guardians (80-67, first in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (76-71, second in the AL Central)
Chicago; Tuesday, 8:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Aaron Civale (0-0); White Sox: Dylan Cease (14-7, 2.16 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 214 strikeouts)
BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox host the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday to start a three-game series.
Chicago has a 76-71 record overall and a 35-37 record in home games. White Sox hitters are batting a collective .261, the best team batting average in MLB play.
Cleveland has gone 40-35 on the road and 80-67 overall. Guardians pitchers have a collective 3.56 ERA, which ranks fifth in the AL.
The teams play Tuesday for the 17th time this season. The Guardians lead the season series 9-7.
TOP PERFORMERS: Jose Abreu has a .309 batting average to rank second on the White Sox, and has 35 doubles and 15 home runs. Elvis Andrus is 16-for-44 with three home runs and eight RBI over the past 10 games.
Jose Ramirez leads the Guardians with 74 extra base hits (42 doubles, four triples and 28 home runs). Amed Rosario is 16-for-46 with three doubles, two home runs and 13 RBI over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 7-3, .278 batting average, 2.87 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs
Guardians: 8-2, .277 batting average, 2.81 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs
INJURIES: White Sox: Luis Robert: day-to-day (hand/wrist), Johnny Cueto: day-to-day (illness), Michael Kopech: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Crick: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tim Anderson: 10-Day IL (finger), Danny Mendick: 60-Day IL (knee), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan Stiever: 60-Day IL (lat)
Guardians: Zach Plesac: 15-Day IL (hand), Aaron Civale: 15-Day IL (forearm), Anthony Gose: 60-Day IL (tricep)
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The Janta Dal (Secular) has hit out at the Karnataka government hours after the state told the Supreme Court that the student petitioners who challenged the hijab ban in state-run institutes were influenced by the Popular Front of India (PFI).
“Indira Gandhi kept a ‘pallu’, the President of India keeps a ‘pallu’. Are these conspiracies by the PFI as well? In Rajasthan, women have ‘pallu’ over their hands. Do we declare them Muslims? ‘Pallu is the culture of Indian tradition,” senior JD(S) leader CM Ibrahim said.
Earlier in the day, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for Karnataka, told a bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia that on March 29, 2013, the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi passed a resolution that a uniform would be prescribed. The uniform did not include hijab and every student wore the uniform.
Also Read | Karnataka hijab row: PFI poster on school gate removed after India Today report
Students, who are now the petitioners in the case, took admission to the college in 2021 and complied with the uniform rules initially.
“In 2022, a movement began on social media spearheaded by an organisation called the Popular Front of India. The social media movement was designed to create agitation based on religious feelings of the people,” SG Tushar Mehta told the bench.
On March 15, the Karnataka High Court dismissed the pleas filed by some Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom. The high court held that hijab is not a part of the essential religious practice under Islam which can be protected under Article 25 of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the high court's order.
Also Read | Students seeking nod to wear Hijab influenced by PFI: Karnataka govt tells Supreme Court
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King Charles has landed in Scotland to privately mourn his mother at the Balmoral estate she adored.
He will visit the home where his mother died 12 days ago likely staying at Birkhall, his Scottish home on the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire, which sits around seven miles from the main castle.
The King was swept into the Royal Air Force station in north London just before 10.30am.
His police outriders removed their helmets and bowed while he boarded with his wife, as the Royal Family observes a period of mourning from now until next Monday — seven days after the Queen’s funeral.
All public engagements are cancelled until Tuesday, September 27.
The King and the Queen consort landed in Aberdeen and headed to Balmoral the morning after laying Elizabeth to rest at a private burial, which only senior royals attended.
One senior royal source told the Evening Standard there were tears at the private service but at least Her Majesty was at peace now.
Queen Elizabeth II now lies in the royal vault under St George’s Chapel with her husband, father, mother and sister.
The Queen’s state funeral captured the world on Monday, with about 4 billion people watching on their TVs while tens of thousands more lined the streets of London to watch the procession of her coffin through the city.
It was a day of emotion, pomp and ceremony not seen since the last state funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965.
Family, friends, dignitaries and world leaders gathered at Westminster Abbey for a solemn funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II.
The Queen’s coffin was then taken through the streets of London to Windsor Castle.
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Apple says it will release a fix next week for bizarre iPhone 14 Pro glitch that causes the camera to physically SHAKE when taking photos or videos in TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram
- Some early adopters of the iPhone 14 Pro are reporting a bizarre problem
- The rear lens shakes and rattles when they are taking photos in some apps
- It is unclear how widespread the problem is or what the underlying cause is
- Apple has said it is releasing a software update that will fix the issue net week
The long-awaited iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max finally went on sale on Friday, with fans around the world eagerly queuing outside Apple Stores to be among the first to get their hands on the new device.
But some early adopters are already reporting a bizarre problem - the rear camera's main lens physically shakes and rattles when they are taking photos or videos in some third-party apps including Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram.
Apple has now confirmed in a statement that it is working on a fix for the bug, and will be releasing a software update next week to resolve the issue.
It is unclear how widespread the problem is or what the underlying cause is, as the problem does not appear to affect the iPhone's built-in Camera app.
However, several concerned iPhone 14 Pro users have taken to Reddit and Twitter to describe their experiences and share videos demonstrating the issue.
A handful of videos showing the problem have been shared to social media, including this one from TikTok user Damian Munoz. The videos show the user opening up the camera function within a third-party app on the iPhone 14 Pro and seeing a blurry image on the display, as the main lens on the device vibrates uncontrollably and makes a rattling noise
In response, Apple has announced that it is working on a fixing the bug and will be releasing a software update next week that will resolve the issue
'So I've been experiencing my camera shaking uncontrollably whenever I open Snapchat or use the camera for Instagram,' wrote one Reddit user. 'However, I don't run into any issues when I use the regular camera app.'
Another wrote: 'Picked up my new iPhone 14 pro yesterday and intermittently get ois camera shake (by shake I mean can see and hear it shaking) in Snapchat, anyone else experience this?'
'My iPhone 14 Pro just arrived and when I opened Snapchat, the camera was shaking a lot and made a pretty strange mechanical noise,' another wrote.
A handful of videos showing the problem have been shared to social media, including this one from YouTuber Luke Miani and another by TikTok user Damian Munoz.
The videos show the user opening up the camera function within a third-party app on the iPhone 14 Pro and seeing a blurry image on the display, as the main lens on the device vibrates uncontrollably and makes a rattling noise.
Miani said the incident resulted in the lens on his iPhone being unable to focus properly in subsequent usage, even in the iPhone's default Camera app. He took the device to an Apple Store and was able to exchange it for a new one.
Some users have suggested it may be due to a software bug affecting the device's optical image stabilisation.
Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported yesterday: 'Apple has identified a fix for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max camera shake issue and a software update will be released next week.'
The announcement comes as a relief to those who have forked out over a grand for the latest device, as it suggests it is a software issue rather than hardware.
Apple is yet to comment on the issue, but some users have suggested it may be due to a software bug affecting the device's optical image stabilisation
One user said that restarting the phone and then opening the default Camera app before opening Snapchat temporarily solved the issue.
However, if iPhone 14 Pro owners are concerned about potential damage to the rear camera system, they should avoid opening the camera in apps like Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram until the matter is resolved.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced four variations of the iPhone 14 at the company's 'Far Out' launch event on September 7.
These were the standard iPhone 14 model, the iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
The new models boast an array of flashy features, including improved camera technology, 'Always On' display and satellite connectivity (currently available in the US only).
The standard model retails for £849 and comes with a 6.1-inch screen, while the Plus costs £949 and has a 6.7-inch screen.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 14 Pro has a 6.1-inch screen and costs £1,099, while Pro Max has a 6.7-inch screen and costs a mammoth £1,199.
The pro models are more expensive, largely because they have more advanced cameras and a sophisticated pill-shaped notch at the top of the screen, called 'Dynamic Island'.
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A grave in Deer Park, located in Delhi's Hauz Khas area, is currently making headlines. The controversy started when a former counsellor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from Safdarjang Enclave area Shailendra Singh aka Monti, accused AAP MLA Somnath Bharti of misusing the land and declaring it as a graveyard.
In his accusation, Shailendra said, "Somnath Bharti first placed a board in the graveyard inside the park. Later, his men came and cleaned the park. Then, on September 10, a few people came and buried a body inside the park. Not even a single person was local. Now Somnath Bharti is pressuring the DDA officers to declare the park as a graveyard."
ALSO READ | Chandni Chowk set for another round of revamp! Delhi govt to begin second phase of redevelopment soon
He claimed that the AAP MLA was trying to present the land as an old graveyard but in reality, it was encroached by a family.
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— Shailender Singh Monty (@MontyBJP) September 16, 2022
AAP MLA ( DDA board member) , .. - @epanchjanya @eOrganiser @VHPDigital @BJP4Delhi @ManojTiwariMP pic.twitter.com/aVYbwTtO9E
BURIED TRUTH UNCOVERED
While the former MCD counsellor claimed that a new graveyard board had been installed by the AAP MLA, our team from India Today found that there is Pir Baba Mazar near the board of Kadimi Muslim cemetery, which has been there for some time now. Only a new grave has been put in.
One of the residents named Ashi who has been living in the area for the last five years revealed that Kadimi Muslim cemetery board is quite old.
She said that she had not seen anyone burying a dead body in the new grave. Deer Park is visited by about 25,000 resident morning walkers every day.
In fact, in 2014, DDA had written a letter to the Hauz Khas Tehsildar to get possession of the graveyard land to remove it but no action was taken.
AAP MLA HITS BACK
Talking about the allegations, Somnath said that all this is being done to win the upcoming elections and create a rift between Hindus and Muslims.
He accused Shailendra of taking over DDA land and said that he would soon send him a legal notice for defamation. He called all the allegations against him completely 'baseless' and raised the issue of taking action on the encroachment done by Shailendra.
ALSO READ | Lakhs being sought as bribes under L-G's watch for registry in PM UDAY scheme in DDA: AAP
"Radhika Phogat, a former corporator of BJP herself, has admitted that the allegations being made by Shailendra Singh Monty regarding the land of the graveyard are baseless," he added.
TIT FOR TAT?
This is not the first time that Somnath and Shailendra have been at loggerheads because of the DDA lands. In 2015, the AAP MLA accused Shailendra of building a hotel on DDA land.
He revealed that he had also filed a complaint against him but no actions were taken.
To this, Shailendra then replied that he had already sold the property and had no idea about what existing owners were doing.
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Dogs With Big Bites 2022: These are the 11 breeds of adorable dog who have the strongest bite force - including the Bulldog 🐕
With demand for pups continuing to rocket post-lockdown, here are the breeds of dogs whose bite is worse than their bark.
If you’ve been thinking about getting a new dog then you’re not alone – Kennel Club figures show that the number of people looking for puppies surged by around eight per cent since the start of the global pandemic.
But with 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest four-legged addition – whether you want a large dog, family-friendly dog, or crossbreed.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
Different breeds of dog also tend to have very different physical attributes and strengths, including how strong their bite is – a measure that has been studied by scientists.
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Of course, this dosn’t necessarily mean that these breeds will be more likely to bite – and individual dogs will vary greatly in strength – just that you need to be extra-careful to train these dogs properly as they have the potential to cause serious harm.
So, here are the breeds that research has shown to have the strongest bites, in pressure per square inch (psi). For reference the average human’s bite is around 162 psi.
For the purposes of this article we are only using breeds recognised by the UK Kennel Club, meaning such breeds as the Cane Corso (700 psi), Dogo Canario (540 psi) and Dogo Argentino (500 psi) are not included.
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INSTANT VIEW-Canada annual inflation rate slows to 7.0% in August
TORONTO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Canada's annual inflation rate eased more than expected to 7.0% in August, largely on lower gasoline prices and slowing shelter costs, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday. But grocery prices rose at their fastest pace since August 1981.
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the annual rate to fall to 7.3% in August from 7.6% in July.
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ANDREW GRANTHAM, SENIOR ECONOMIST, CIBC CAPITAL MARKETS
"Canadian inflation decelerated further in August, and unlike the prior month the move wasn't just a story of lower gasoline prices."
"Even after today's deceleration, the annual rate of inflation remains well above the Bank of Canada's target and as such further interest rate hikes are still in the cards. However, a clearer gap appears to be opening up between Canadian and US inflation trends, which should bring a lower peak (for interest rate) from the Bank of Canada than the Federal Reserve."
MICHAEL GREENBERG, SVP AND PORTFOLIO MANAGER, FRANKLIN TEMPLETON INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS
"It probably suggests to the Bank of Canada that hikes are starting to work but they are by no means done. It has maybe taken down some of the risk of a supersized rate hike in Canada in October but clearly there is still more wood to chop and we think that central banks, including the Bank of Canada, are still going to be pretty singularly focused on the inflation fight and getting inflation under control and down to closer to their target."
ANDREW KELVIN, CHIEF CANADA STRATEGIST AT TD SECURITIES
"A downside surprise is better than an upside surprise where the Bank of Canada's concerned. If you look at where the core CPI metrics are, they look like they are slightly lower on average than they were previous month. So again, that's a positive thing for the Bank of Canada. But the big picture here is still that we're talking about a CPI that is growing at 7% year-over-year. It's still a highly inflationary environment, from the Bank of Canada's perspective. So it still is going to require additional rate hikes, I don't know that this is going to change their (Bank of Canada's) thinking in the very near term. Though it does speak to the fact that inflation is decelerating, we have seen a peak in inflation, and they could probably afford to be a little bit more careful if they were so inclined."
"I think ultimately the really important thing will be the evolution of inflation expectations, which we will have more information on when we get the Business Outlook Survey and Canadian survey of consumer expectations in October."
"TD's forecast for interest rate increases this year is "another 50 (basis points) this year, and then we have one more in January to get them 4%. But my view here is that now we're in restrictive territory, the safest course of action is to slow down. I think they've front loaded enough and can revert back to the normal 25 basis point course of tightening. Having said all that, if the market demands a 50 basis point move, I don't think the Bank of Canada can disappoint the market."
(Reporting by Steve Scherer, Fergal Smith Editing by Denny Thomas)
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Potter County deputies working off duty at the Tri State fair were involved in *** shooting. Male suspect opened fire on the deputies striking *** deputy and an off duty firefighter, also working at the fair in *** bystander, the deputies returned fire striking the suspect. The deputy and the firefighter and the bystander were transported to *** local hospital and treated for non life threatening injuries. The suspect was transported to *** local hospital with life threatening injuries. Um At this point, the incident is being investigated.
Gunman shoots 3, including 2 first responders, at Texas fair before being shot by deputies
Updated: 7:08 AM CDT Sep 20, 2022
A gunman shot three people, including two first responders, at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Texas, before he was shot and wounded by sheriff's deputies, authorities said.Just before 11 p.m. Monday, a man opened fire on Potter County deputies working off-duty at the fair in Amarillo, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said.Thomas said the “male suspect opened fire on the deputies, striking a deputy and an off-duty firefighter, also working at the fair, and a bystander.” Deputies returned fire, wounding the suspect.The deputy, firefighter and bystander were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The gunman was taken to the hospital with injuries that were described as life-threatening.Video below: Potter County Sheriff on Texas fair shootingThomas did not identify any of the victims or the suspect. He did not offer a motive for the shooting, which is being investigated by the Texas Rangers.Amarillo is about 365 miles northwest of Dallas.
AMARILLO, Texas — A gunman shot three people, including two first responders, at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Texas, before he was shot and wounded by sheriff's deputies, authorities said.
Just before 11 p.m. Monday, a man opened fire on Potter County deputies working off-duty at the fair in Amarillo, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said.
Thomas said the “male suspect opened fire on the deputies, striking a deputy and an off-duty firefighter, also working at the fair, and a bystander.” Deputies returned fire, wounding the suspect.
The deputy, firefighter and bystander were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The gunman was taken to the hospital with injuries that were described as life-threatening.
Video below: Potter County Sheriff on Texas fair shooting
Thomas did not identify any of the victims or the suspect. He did not offer a motive for the shooting, which is being investigated by the Texas Rangers.
Amarillo is about 365 miles northwest of Dallas.
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Instagram model who admitted to having an affair with married Adam Levine claims she was 'exploited' and led to believe his marriage was over - as she apologizes to his now pregnant supermodel wife Behati Prinsloo
- Instagram model Sumner Stroh claims she had an affair with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, who is now expecting his third child with wife Behati Prinsloo
- In a TikTok video posted Monday, Stroh shared screenshots of Instagram DMs from Levine saying, 'It is unreal how f***ing hot you are. Like it blows my mind'
- 'Essentially, I was having an affair with a man who is married to a Victoria's Secret supermodel,' she said, referring to his wife of eight years
- Sumner admitted she was 'young and naïve' at the time of the illicit relationship and was 'easily manipulated'
- The two lost contact for a 'period of months' until this year, when Levine messaged Stroh again to tell her his wife is expecting their third child
- And to her astonishment, the heavily tattooed singer asked her if he could name the child Sumner – a request that left her horrified
The 23-year-old Instagram model who admitted to having an affair with Adam Levine has issued a public apology, claiming she was led to believe the singer's marriage to pregnant wife Behati Prinsloo was over.
In a follow-up video addressing the scandal on Monday night, Sumner Stroh said she feels 'embarrassed' and 'disgusted' with herself for engaging in a secret relationship with the married Maroon 5 frontman.
The glamorous brunette, who initially shared few details of their affair, admitted that while she is no victim in the situation, she had naively believed that Levine and Prinsloo were separated at the time.
'I only came forward because I wanted to kill whatever story the tabloid had. The most important part that I definitely glossed over was the fact that I was under the impression that their marriage was over,' she said in a TikTok video.
'I believed they were keeping it quiet to avoid the negative press because as I had said I was new to LA so I just assumed that with celebrities of the caliber that that's just how it was.
'And that's why I feel exploited because he knew I believed what he said because of my vulnerable position of being new to LA.'
Stroh insisted she did not intend to gain sympathy before apologizing to Prinsloo and her children directly.
'I fully realize I'm not the victim in this. I'm not the one who is really getting hurt here, it's Behati and her children. And for that I am so, so, sorry.'
Hours earlier, Stroh took to TikTok to reveal details of her alleged illicit relationship with Levine.
The model, who is now based in Los Angeles after studying at the University of Texas, shared screenshots of their flirty exchanges on Instagram, including one bizarre message where Levine, 43, asked if he could name his new baby after her.
'Essentially, I was having an affair with a man who is married to a Victoria's Secret supermodel,' she said, referring to Levine's wife Behati, 34, who is now pregnant with the couple's third child.
'At the time, I was young and naïve. And I mean, quite frankly, I feel exploited. I wasn't in the scene like I am now, so I was definitely easily manipulated.'
Los Angeles based model Sumner Stroh, 23, has claimed she had an affair with married Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, 43, that lasted 'about a year'
The glamorous brunette spoke out just five days after Levine's wife, supermodel Behati Prinsloo confirmed she is pregnant with the couple's third child. Prinsloo is seen left showing off her baby bump in Santa Barbara earlier this month
Stroh, who did not disclose specifics about their encounters, pointed to one Instagram DM between the pair, in which Levine writes: 'It is unreal how f***ing hot you are. Like it blows my mind.'
'You are 50 times hotter in person,' he adds.
According to Stroh, who has over 338,000 followers on Instagram, she and Levine were 'seeing each other for about a year', until the two lost contact 'over a period of months.'
However, the 43-year-old musician would later get back in touch this year to share the news that he was expecting another child with his wife of eight years, she claimed.
And to her astonishment, the heavily tattooed singer asked if he could name the child Sumner if it turned out to be a boy – a request that Stroh said left her horrified.
'Ok serious question. I'm having another baby and if it's [a] boy I really wanna name it Sumner. You ok with that? DEAD serious,' Levine said, according to a screenshot of the conversation.
Stroh said she felt like she was 'in hell,' upon reading the odd message.
'I mean my morals were unknowingly compromised. I was completely manipulated,' she said in the TikTok video that has now gone viral.
In a TikTok posted on Monday, Stroh shared screenshots of their flirty exchanges on Instagram, including one where the singer admitted he was mind blown by how 'hot' she was after they met for the first time
Stroh claimed the two lost contact after a few months, but said Levine later came back into her life this year when he revealed his wife was expecting their third child and asked if he could name the child Sumner, leaving her horrified
Speaking in a video that has now gone viral, Stroh said she felt compelled to speak publicly after her friend threatened to sell her story to the tabloids
She explained that she never planned on addressing the situation in such a public manner and was aware of the consequences of being 'tied to a story like this.'
Stroh said it was only after her friend whom she had confided in about the affair, and to whom she had sent the screenshots, threatened to take her story public – that was she left determined to tell her story herself.
'I wanted to handle this privately. I never wanted to come forward because obviously I know the implications that come with doing what I do, making money the way I do, and being an Instagram model,' she added.
'I had sent some screenshots recklessly to a few friends I thought I trusted and one of them had attempted to sell to a tabloid...So here I am.'
Stroh did not provide an exact timeline of the affair, however, the allegations have emerged just five days after Prinsloo confirmed her pregnancy on an Instagram post amid heavy speculation.
Sumner admitted she was 'young and naïve' at the time of the illicit relationship and was 'easily manipulated'
Stroh, who has over 338,000 followers on Instagram, she and Levine were 'seeing each other for about a year', until the two lost contact 'over a period of months'
Stroh did not specify the exact timeline of the affair, however, the allegations have emerged just five days after Prinsloo confirmed her pregnancy on Instagram post (pictured) amid heavy speculation
Earlier this month, Prinsloo and Levine were snapped having lunch together in Santa Barbara, where the soon-to-be mother-of-three had her burgeoning baby bump on full display.
She is believed to have already been expecting in July, when the couple celebrated were seen celebrating their eighth wedding anniversary during a trip to Maui, Hawaii.
Levine, however, was nowhere to be seen in the photos, while Prinsloo was photographed glum-faced and alone on the beach.
Levine was once almost as famous for his string of model girlfriends as he is for his music and sex appeal before tying the knot with Prinsloo in 2014.
Until he married Prinsloo in a romantic ceremony in Cabo San Lucas in July 2014, Levine had been the ultimate playboy with a dating career that included Victoria's Secret models Anne Vyalitsana and Nina Agdal, as well as a rumored fling with Jessica Simpson.
Levine was once almost as famous for his string of model girlfriends as he is for his music and sex appeal before tying the knot with Prinsloo in 2014. The Namibian model is seen walking the runway at the Victoria's Secret Fashion show in 2010
According to Sumner, Levine revealed he is expecting his third child with Prinsloo early next year
The couple (pictured in 2018) already have two daughters Dusty Rose, four, and Gio Grace, three
The couple now have two daughters Dusty Rose, four, and Gio Grace, three and founded tequila brand Calirosa in 2021.
Prior to Sumner's revelations, the couple appeared to have one of the strongest marriages in showbusiness but cracks have been emerging in recent weeks.
In May, the couple sold their $51million 10-bedroom, 14-bathroom home in Pacific Palisades, California.
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Top US Show Dogs: Here are the 10 breeds of adorable dog that have won most Westminster Best in Show titles - including the Dachshund 🐕
It’s the biggest and more prestigious dog show in the USA - and history has taught us that some breeds have a better chance of winning the big prize than others.
Tuesday, 20th September 2022, 11:54 am
The 146th edition of the celebration of everything canine took place this year at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York.
Nearly 3,500 dogs took part in America’s answer to Crufts, with Trumpet becoming the first Bloodhound to win the Best in Show title.
While Trumpet made history at the second oldest continuous sporting event in the USA after the Kentucky Derby, other breeds are more used to topping the podium and winning that sought after rosette.
Here are the breeds of dog that have received Westminster’s highest accolade the most times.
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Mayor blasts 'unacceptable decision' to cut bus routes including between Peterborough and Lynch Wood and City Hospital and Hampton
“Routes are vital for so many of our residents across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, in addressing isolation, enabling inclusion and supporting access to key services.”
The Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has hit out at Stagecoach after it was announced a number of bus routes across the county are to be cut.
In total 18 routes in Cambridgeshire – including three in Peterborough are being cut at the end of October.
"The timing of this news couldn’t come at a worse time”
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Mayor blasts 'unacceptable decision' to cut bus routes including between Peterborough and Lynch Wood and City Hospital and Hampton
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Following the announcement, Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Dr Nik Johnson, said: “. The timing of this news couldn’t come at a worse time. It is of utmost importance to the Combined Authority that our rural bus networks are protected. They are vital for so many of our residents across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, in addressing isolation, enabling inclusion and supporting access to key services. We are appalled that Stagecoach are pressing ahead with such severe changes to the network whilst continuing to accept the funding from the government that is designed to protect it.”
The Peterborough routes being cut are the number 23 and 24 – which links Peterborough to Lynch Wood, and the number 29, which links Hampton and the City Hospital.
Mayor Johnson said he had lobbied Government successfully to secure an extension to the Bus Recovery Grant earlier this month. Despite requesting this extra money for six months Stagecoach has decided to make service cuts, a decision he described as ‘unacceptable;.
“I have asked officers to prepare to take these threatened routes back out to the market"
Mayor Johnson added: “With this in mind, I have asked officers to prepare to take these threatened routes back out to the market. I have also asked that we urgently review and refresh the business case for franchising the bus system in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.”
Stagecoach said eight routes were either being created or increased – including a service from Parnwell to Peterborough Hospital new morning service to support ‘early shift’ workers, and the service from Peterborough to Hampton being increased to every 20 minutes.
“Some routes costing £80 per passenger”
Darren Roe, Stagecoach East Managing Director, said: “Overall, services are operating at around 75 per cent of pre-pandemic passenger levels, with concessionary travel for older people dropping to as low as 55 per cent.
"Inflation, rising fuel and energy bills are also all having an impact on our costs. In such tough economic conditions, just like local authorities, bus companies are having to make very difficult decisions.
“The 18 affected routes have been losing £12 per passenger per journey on average. Some of them, where numbers have dropped as low as around only 50 customers per week, are costing up to £80 per passenger. We cannot continue to operate services which we know are no longer financially viable. That would not be right for taxpayers or our passengers.
“The more people who switch to buses, the stronger our networks will be. It can generate vital investment for more electric vehicles, helps keep fares low and ultimately will help us to expand the bus network to meet new demand."
The other routes in Cambridgeshire being cut are: 11/X11, 12, 18, 25, 39, 915, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, 22, 30, 35, 66;
The new timetable is available at https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/east/east-bus-network
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1997 Kentucky school shooter makes his case for parole
Michael Carneal was sentenced to life in prison after shooting up Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky more than 25 years ago. Now, for the first time, he has the chance to ask a parole board to set him free.
His two-day virtual hearing with the parole board started on Monday with testimony from victims of the shooting and their families.
On Tuesday, he's speaking on his own behalf.
A parole board member asked, do you deserve parole?
Carneal replied, "I don't know, honestly. It depends on when you ask. Sometimes I think I should be killed."
But he also says he believes he has potential to "do good" if he's released.
He also told the board members that he still hears voices, but he no longer acts on them.
We'll have more coverage soon.
Three students died and five were injured in the school shooting in 1997, including Nicole Hadley.
"I haven't been able to hug Nicole or see her since December 1, 1997," said Gwen Hadley, Nicole's mother, on Monday.
All but one of the seven speakers asked the parole board to keep Carneal in prison.
"On that day, I was a 14-year-old child," said Hollan Holm. "I laid on the floor of Heath High School, bled from the head, and believed I was going to die."
Carneal fired upon a group of students while they were praying.
"Almost 25 years later I have trouble being in crowds of people," Holm said. "I get agitated, scan for sources of danger and exit routes."
Despite his trauma, Holm urged the parole board to release Carneal, who was 14 at the time of the shooting and is now 39.
"My oldest child turned 10 this year and I can't imagine holding her to the standard of an adult," Holm said.
Carneal accepted a plea deal of life in prison with no parole until he served at least 25 years.
"He has never shown remorse or taken responsibility for what he's done," said Charles Hadley, Nicole's father.
In 2007, Carneal filed appeals, arguing his mental illness made him incapable of accepting a plea deal.
"I hope the wheelchair reminds everybody that everybody's still suffering," said Missy Jenkins Smith.
For some of his victims, the fact they'll never get a break means he shouldn't either.
"My life won't get simpler. I'm forced to continue with every day getting harder and harder as the years pass during my life sentence," said Smith.
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Poppies to travel to either King's Lynn or Bedford in FA Cup
Kettering Town will travel to either King’s Lynn Town or Bedford Town in the third qualifying round of the Emirates FA Cup at the start of next month.
The draw was made at lunchtime today (Tuesday) and the Poppies must wait to find out where they will be heading as Bedford host King’s Lynn in a second qualifying round replay this evening after they shared a 1-1 draw at The Walks on Saturday.
If King’s Lynn were to win tonight, it would mean Kettering will face the unbeaten Vanarama National League North leaders twice in the space of five days as the two clubs are due to meet in the league at Latimer Park next Tuesday night while the third qualifying round tie is due to be played a week on Saturday (October 1).
Should Southern League Premier Central side Bedford prevail this evening, it will see the Poppies go up against former player Gary Setchell who is the manager of the Eagles.
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The Civil and Local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG) has served notice it will be putting a proposal before Parliament to amend the Pensions Act, 766, to allow retirees to opt out of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) pension scheme.
This, according to CLOGSAG, allows retirees who have worked for their compulsory 180 months to have a better pension.
The association says this call is to ensure that retirees are not worse off under the SSNIT pension scheme.
The association is also arguing that this will make retirees receive enhanced benefits in retirement.
Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Isaac Bampoe Addo, served this notice at the inauguration of the Public Services Pensioners Association in Accra.
According to the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, the government has accrued over GHS40 billion as pension funds for retirees.
Mr Bright Wereko Brobbey said the government will roll out a risk-based system to provide security for all pension funds for the retirees.
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Council tax could double on second homes in North Yorkshire
Council tax on second homes in North Yorkshire could double in a bid to tackle the affordable housing crisis.
Councillors on North Yorkshire County Council’s executive have voted for a 100% premium on council tax bills on second homes to be brought in within the next two years.
The proposal will be considered at a full council meeting in November and, if it is passed, the county will become one of the first in the country to adopt new Government measures aimed at making more homes available for locals.
Backers hoped the plan would deter people from owning second homes, and that the millions raised by the premium could be used to introduce more housing in areas particularly affected by the affordability crisis.
Almost half the money raised from second homes would come from the Scarborough district (Danny Lawson/PA)
Council leader Carl Les said radical action was needed as North Yorkshire has the highest number of second homes in the region.
He said: “There is no simple solution to the issue of affordable housing, second homes and the impact they have on housing for local communities.
“But we recognise that bold and decisive action needs to be taken to deal with the affordable housing crisis in North Yorkshire, and that is why the executive has decided to pursue the policy of a council tax premium.
“It may not be popular with everyone, but that is not the key factor in this decision.
“We need to act to try and ensure more local people have access to housing in their own communities, and the premium on council tax bills for second homes will be a significant step towards achieving that.
“Second homes and the impact they can have on the availability of housing has been a long-running problem that has affected communities not just in North Yorkshire but across the country, and this was reinforced by the findings of the independent North Yorkshire Rural Commission.”
The council tax premium could bring in more than £14m annually, experts have said.
Almost half that figure would come from the Scarborough district due to the large number of second homes in the seaside town and neighbouring Whitby and Filey.
Measures will be put in place to ensure second home owners do not avoid the double tax by claiming their property is a holiday let.
And checks will be made by council officers to stop couples with two homes pretending that they have split up and that they are living separately in two homes.
The council’s executive member for finance, Coun Gareth Dadd, said: “We know that there is an acute shortage of housing for local people in many communities in North Yorkshire, and this has been an issue that has long affected their opportunities to actually buy their own home.
“Places such as the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors as well as coastal towns such as Scarborough and Whitby are without question wonderful places to live.
“But with that comes the fact that these areas also see very high numbers of second homes, which affects the availability of housing for local people.
“The scheme to introduce the council tax premium will ideally see these second homes brought back into use for local people.
“But if not, then there will be a valuable new revenue stream created that will help fund council priorities, such as helping introduce more housing for local communities.”
House prices in the Yorkshire Dales are about a third higher than the county’s average. The average cost of a property in the Dales is nearly £400,000, while the weekly wage in North Yorkshire is just over £530.
A parish poll held in Whitby in June saw 93% of voters agree that new houses should be restricted to full-time occupation and not be allowed to be holiday lets, although the poll had no power to bind policy makers.
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Alex Jones makes appearance outside Sandy Hook damages trial
A defiant Alex Jones has made an appearance outside a Connecticut court, declaring his innocence despite already being found liable for spreading the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
A jury has been hearing evidence for a week to determine how much Jones must pay the families of eight victims and an FBI agent who was among the first to respond to the shooting that took the lives of 20 first graders and six educators.
Jones arrived at the courthouse at about 9.30am, accompanied by one of his lawyers and repeated declarations he made last week on his Infowars web show that the proceeding is nothing more than a “show trial”.
“This is a travesty of justice and this judge is a tyrant,” Jones said outside the courthouse.
“This judge is ordering me to say that I’m guilty and to say that I’m a liar. None of that is true. I was not wrong about Sandy Hook on purpose. I questioned it.”
Jones left a short time later, indicating he would not be giving evidence on Tuesday.
Judge Barbara Bellis found Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, liable by default last year without a trial, as punishment for what she called his repeated failures to turn over documents to the Sandy Hook lawyers.
Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis (H John Voorhees III/Hearst Connecticut Media/AP)
Jones has complained that he was found “guilty” without trials. There is no guilt in civil trials like this one in Connecticut, or one last month in Texas where a jury awarded nearly 50 million dollars in damages to the parents of one of the children killed in the shooting.
The judge “has now ordered me to not say I’m not innocent and ordered me to say that I have not profited from Sandy Hook”, Jones said on Tuesday.
“That’s ordering me to perjure myself. I will not perjure myself under the order of a judge.”
Jones is not being allowed to present defences arguing he is not liable, including that the First Amendment gave him the right to say the shooting did not happen and to raise questions about it.
Sandy Hook families arrive at Waterbury Superior Court (Carol Kaliff/Hearst Connecticut Media/AP)
A gunman killed 20 first graders and six educators at the school on December 14 2012.
The plaintiffs say Jones’s promotion of the hoax lie on his show led to the families being threatened and harassed by deniers of the shooting.
They say they have endured death threats and in-person harassment, video recording by strangers and abusive comments on social media. Some families moved out of Newtown to avoid the harassment.
They also say that while Jones talked about the shooting, sales of the dietary supplements, clothing, food and other items he sells on his show surged.
A representative for Free Speech Systems told the court last week that she believed Jones and his company had made at least 100 million dollars (£87 million) in revenues since the school shooting.
Sandy Hook Elementary School (Julia Nikhinson/AP)
Jones, who has said over the past few years that he believes the shooting did happen, also condemned the Texas trial on his show.
Under oath and facing a jury in Austin, he said he realised the hoax lies were irresponsible and hurt people’s feelings, and he was sorry for that.
Jones has painted the trials as a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to put him out of business and silence him. He also has complained he was found “guilty” without trials.
There is no guilt in civil trials like the ones in Connecticut and Texas, and him being found liable for damages without trials was a sanction against him for refusing to obey court orders to turn over evidence to the plaintiffs.
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Tigrayan forces in Ethiopia say Eritrea launches offensive over border
NAIROBI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Forces in Ethiopia's Tigray region said troops from neighbouring Eritrea started a full-scale offensive on Tuesday and heavy fighting was taking place in several areas along the border.
Two aid workers also reported intense fighting along the border, including shelling into a displaced persons camp on the outskirts of the village of Ziban Gedena. They did not say whether Eritrean troops were on the ground in Tigray.
If confirmed, the participation of Eritrean troops would mark an escalation in a conflict that was reignited last month after the collapse of a ceasefire in place since March.
The U.S. special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Mike Hammer, said on Tuesday the United States was aware of Eritrean troops crossing into Ethiopia's Tigray region and condemned it.
Eritrea had withdrawn its troops from most areas in Tigray last year after they supported the Ethiopean military in earlier phases of a war against Tigrayan forces which erupted in November 2020.
"Eritrea is deploying its entire army as well as reservists. Our forces are heroically defending their positions," Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), said on Twitter.
Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Getachew said Ethiopian troops and special forces from the Amhara region to the south had also joined the offensive.
Ethiopian government spokesperson Legesse Tulu, military spokesperson Colonel Getnet Adane and the prime minister´s spokesperson Billene Seyoum did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Gizachew Muluneh, spokesperson for the Amhara regional government, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The two-year-old war in Tigray has already killed thousands, displaced millions and created a humanitarian disaster in northern Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government accuses the TPLF, which dominated Ethiopia's ruling coalition until Abiy came to power in 2018, of trying to reassert Tigrayan dominance over Ethiopia. The TPLF accuses Abiy of over-centralising power and oppressing Tigrayans.
On Saturday the Canadian government warned that Eritrea was mobilising armed forces due to the resumption of fighting in Tigray, where a ceasefire in place since March broke down on Aug. 24.
Eritrea's Yemane confirmed over the weekend that some reservists were called up but said the government was not mobilising the entire population.
Ethiopian residents and aid workers previously reported that Eritrean troops had shelled the towns of Shiraro and Adigrat earlier this month.
According to a United Nations document seen by Reuters on Monday, more than 200,000 people have fled the most recent fighting.
Also on Monday, a U.N. human rights commission said it had reasonable grounds to believe that Ethiopia's government was "using starvation as a method of warfare".
The commission also said it had reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes had been committed by forces from both sides of the conflict.
Spokespersons for the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments and for the Tigrayan forces did not respond to requests for comment about the report. Ethiopia's government has previously called the commission's investigation "politically motivated". (Reporting by Nairobi Newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens, Alexandra Hudson, Peter Graff)
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Ford shares fall 10% on warning of higher inflation-related supply costs
Sept 20 (Reuters) - Shares of Ford Motor Co fell 10% on Tuesday after the automaker flagged a bigger-than-expected $1 billion hit from inflation and pushed delivery of some vehicles to the fourth quarter due to parts shortages.
"The inflationary costs are concerning as they could persist into Q4 and 2023," Wells Fargo analyst Colin Langan said.
Ford's preliminary third-quarter results sent shares of rival General Motors Co tumbling 3.3% as some analysts said it might take more time for the auto industry to recover from chip shortages.
"It appears that across the industry, chip and components shortages may be improving at a slower pace than anticipated," Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner said.
Electric-vehicle makers Tesla Inc and Rivian Automotive Inc slipped about 1% each in early trade.
Ford also said on Monday it will have 40,000 to 45,000 vehicles in inventory lacking parts. The company in July had outlined a $3 billion hit for the year from inflationary pressures.
The automaker's outlook also comes against the backdrop of investor worries that the U.S. Federal Reserve's pace of interest rate hikes to tame soaring inflation threatens to tip the economy into a recession.
Ford, which is set to report third-quarter results on Oct. 26, however, reaffirmed its 2022 adjusted earnings before interest and taxes forecast of between $11.5 billion and $12.5 billion on Monday.
It was unclear if chip and parts supply will normalize by the end of the year, Deutsche Bank's Rosner said.
Ford's shares were trading at $13.52, with the stock on track for the worst day since February if losses hold. (Reporting by Kannaki Deka in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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Ukraine calls for bespoke IMF and World Bank programmes
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LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ukraine will push for unprecedented and bespoke International Monetary Fund and World Bank packages worth tens of billions of dollars in the coming weeks to shore up its war-ravaged finances, the country's top debt management chief told Reuters.
Ukraine's army has regained swathes of its territory from Russia in recent weeks but the financial and humanitarian costs of the nearly eight-month-old war continue to rise.
Its budget this month estimated it faces a $38 billion shortfall next year, money that will need to either come from the Western backers and multilaterals or else be printed. Those Western backers and multilaterals are already set to provide around $20 billion this year.
The International Monetary Fund looks ready to give it a boost by allowing countries struggling with global food price increases - a group that includes Ukraine - to draw more money from its main rapid financing facility.
Kyiv's goal though is a full-fledged IMF programme that would provide enough money and security to see it through the coming years.
IMF head Kristalina Georgieva said last week following a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that the Fund would continue to back Ukraine, but the country wants things to happen faster.
"We have a really heated debate with IMF on what would be the preconditions for that," Yuriy Butsa, government commissioner for public debt management, said, explaining that the uncertainty over the war's duration and impact on the country's economy made it difficult to agree parameters with the Fund.
"I'm not sure whether standard tools of the IMF are really designed for this type of situation," he added. "They probably need to introduce a bit of creative thinking," noting the last time Europe saw a war of this magnitude the IMF was not set up.
"Create a bespoke facility or use the existing facilities in different ways. But being a bit less dogmatic in that sense would probably help."
Officials expect the next step to be the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in October and then an IMF staff mission to the country to try to work out what a potential $15-$20 billion new programme might look like.
Ukraine expects its economy will have shrunk by roughly a third this year. Next year's rebound might be as modest as 4%.
RECOVERY AND SURVIVAL FUND
The shortfall between what taxes and other income sources bring in and what Kyiv is spending to keep the country and war running has dropped to around $3.5 billion a month from $5 billion Butsa estimates, but the numbers are still huge.
It has received just over $17 billion of Western aid and loans. Roughly another $10 billion is due from the European Union, United States and country's such as Britain.
But its biggest single financing source is its own central bank, which has already had to print over $10 billion worth Hryvnia.
"If we are not there in terms of financing, we will have to rely on the monetary financing like this year," Butsa said. "We will have a lot of problems after the war to sort out, we don't want to create another one like hyperinflation to fight."
Inflation is currently at around 23%.
Post-war rebuilding costs are also piling up. They are estimated by the World Bank at over $350 billion already, but the government wants to $17 billion to be made available quickly to repair key infrastructure so millions that have fled the war can return.
Butsa said it is talking to the World Bank about a special facility for that money, where others, including private donors, could also contribute. The government is photographing the damage so donors could pick which projects their money goes to.
"We call it the rapid recovery for survival (fund)" Butsa said. "It's really very crucial for us to be quick with that one because, there are cities where it's not safe to live during the winter because there is no central heating."
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Butsa successfully steered through a two-year sovereign debt payment freeze last month but the country's state-owned energy firm Naftogaz is now stuck in default after a large chunk of its bond holders rejected a similar plan.
Creditors were disgruntled as Naftogaz had been saying it would keep making its debt payments just weeks before it defaulted.
Analysts have suggested a deferral plan could be agreed if Kyiv offers to guarantee Naftogaz's debt going forward -- something it currently does not do -- but Butsa is reluctant.
"They (Naftogaz) are not looking at this option," he said. "From my point of view it will be really sub-optimal to increase the amount of guaranteed debt in the current environment."
Naftogaz needs its cash reserves to buy gas over the winter and beyond he said, although some analysts have estimated that the firm has ample supplies for now.
"After all the participants (bond holders) fully digest the fact that there won't be any payments on the principle of the bonds then it can become a more nuanced discussion on what can be the solutions," Butsa said.
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(Reporting by Marc Jones; Editing by Alison Williams)
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Since we already went into depth on who the Big Ten lost after the 2021-22 season ended, it’s time to take a look at who returns for the country’s toughest wrestling conference.
We’re now concluding our countdown of the 30 best returners (and incoming transfers) in the Big Ten that you can expect to be at or near the top of the NCAA podium this coming season.
We already counted down from 21-30 here and 11-20 here.
Now let’s move on to a star-studded Top Ten that holds a combined 12 individual NCAA titles and 16 NCAA final appearances. There are more than a few all-time greats on this list, just proving how loaded the Big Ten is, especially at the top of the heap.
Big Ten’s 30 Best (The Top 10)
10. Mason Parris - Michigan
The first of three heavyweights in the Top 10, Michigan’s Mason Parris has been fairly dominant the past four seasons, but he’s never been able to get past Minnesota’s Gable Steveson.
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Parris finished as the NCAA runner-up in 2021 before securing All-American honors again this past season when he finished in 5th place. The Michigan senior went 20-6 last season, but he sports an impressive career record of 93-18.
With Steveson possibly returning, along with Penn State’s Greg Kerkvliet and Arizona State’s Cohlton Schultz (the only three guys to beat Parris a year ago), Parris will have a tough road to an NCAA title. But if Steveson decides not to come back, Parris will be one of a handful of guys in contention for a title.
9. Sammy Sasso - Ohio State
The highest-ranking Buckeye on this list, Sammy Sasso is going into his junior season as a two-time All-American and a Big Ten champion already. Sasso won a conference title in 2021 but fell short of repeating this season as he finished as runner-up. At NCAAs, Sasso made it all the way to the NCAA final in 2021 but fell to Cornell’s Yianni Diakomihalis. This past season, Sasso dropped a bit and finished in 5th place.
Sasso went 17-1 in 2021 with his only loss in that NCAA final, and this past season he went 26-4. In his career, Sasso is currently 66-8, and he’s proven to be an incredibly talented defensive wrestler who excells in the scrambles when the action hits the mat.
Sammy Sasso confidently working his underhook game against one of the best overhookers in college wrestling. One of his main attacks is a throw-by to single. Will often try to shelve opp's ankle on his far thigh - although this one turns into a scramble before he can get it there pic.twitter.com/kFZnMtwamB
— Dan Sweeney (@DPSBreakdowns) November 22, 2021
Having already made it to an NCAA final, Sasso is always a threat, but he’s in one of the best weight classes in the country as well as in the conference. Three of this list’s Top 10 are in the 149-pound weight class, plus he still has Diakomihalis, who’s going for his fourth NCAA title this year as a senior, to deal with.
8. Austin Gomez - Wisconsin
Austin Gomez started his career at Iowa State, where he went 24-7 as a redshirt freshman and made it to the Round of 12 at 133 pounds at the NCAA Championships in 2019. He then suffered a series of concussions that led to him announcing his retirement from wrestling in 2020 while taking on a wrestler-coach role at Iowa State in 2021.
Gomez then entered the transfer portal last summer and landed at Wisconsin, where he moved up to 149 pounds and had an outstanding season. Gomez finished the year with a 23-4 record while winning a Big Ten title and finishing fourth at NCAAs to earn his first All-American honors. Here’s Gomez downing Sasso at NCAAs.
Just a junior-to-be, Gomez has proven he’s legit at 149 pounds and should again be in contention at Big Tens and NCAAs.
7. Greg Kerkvliet - Penn State
Amazingly, this is the first Nittany Lion on this countdown, but Greg Kerkvliet definitely won’t be the last.
Kerkvliet is just a sophomore, but he’s already established himself as one of the best heavyweights in the country. After going 10-4 as a redshirt freshman in 2021, a free year of eligibility, Kerkvliet improved leaps and bounds this past season. He went 22-3 with his losses to just Gable Steveson and Tony Cassioppi and his third loss a medical forfeit.
Last season, Kerkvliet overtook Mason Parris as the Big Ten’s best competition for Steveson, as he went 3-0 against the Wolverine.
Highlights from Greg Kerkvliet vs Mason Parris match last night pic.twitter.com/dat6tCVjJp
— Heavyweight Nation (@hwtnation) January 22, 2022
A former cadet world champion, Kerkvliet has incredible age-level freestyle credentials, but he’s increasingly improved his folkstyle game. He’ll be one of the favorites to win an NCAA title this season, as long as Steveson stays retired.
6. Ridge Lovett - Nebraska
A returning NCAA finalist, Nebraska’s Ridge Lovett has improved at a rapid rate throughout his career. Starting as a 133-pounder, Lovett competed as a true freshman in 2019-20 and went 17-8.
The next year, Lovett skipped over 141 pounds up to 149. Midway through the season, he took over as Nebraska’s starter before making it to the Big Ten final and qualifying for NCAAs. This past season, Lovett got his first full season at his new weight class and didn’t disappoint. He went 24-4 and made it all the way to the NCAA final before falling to three-time champion Yianni Diakomihalis of Cornell.
One of the skills that sets Lovett apart is his work while in the top position. He’s smothering, he rides you out, and he looks for turns. In fact, when given the choice of top, bottom or neutral to begin the period, Lovett’s opponents often choose neutral rather than going on bottom to earn the “easy” escape. No escapes are easy against Lovett, so his opponents often don’t even want to be underneath him. And those that do choose bottom often regret it, like when Lovett took out the 2-seed Tariq Wilson of NC State at NCAAs. Check it out below. Go to the 4:30 mark. Lovett made him PAY for choosing bottom in the second period.
Despite falling just short of the ultimate goal in college wrestling, the junior-to-be Lovett has established himself nationally and will be the slight favorite to again meet Diakomihalis at the end of the year. He’s 50-15 on his career and is also in position to establish himself as an all-time Husker great.
5. Max Dean - Penn State
Now is where we get into the Big Ten’s national champs. Penn State’s Max Dean transferred from Cornell last summer. After making it to the NCAA final in 2019 at 184 pounds, Dean moved up to 197 when he got to Penn State, and he went on to win his first NCAA title as a junior.
Going 23-1 on the year with his only loss a 3-2 setback against Michigan State’s Cam Caffey, Dean also won a Big Ten title in 2022 by beating Nebraska’s Eric Schultz. At NCAAs, Dean overcame Iowa’s Jacob Warner in the 197-pound final.
With an 80-13 career record, Dean will again be considered the favorite to win this year’s national championship.
4. Aaron Brooks - Penn State
There are few who have had better starts to their careers than Penn State’s Aaron Brooks. A junior-to-be, Brooks holds an astonishing 50-2 record so far in his career at 184 pounds. He’s a two-time NCAA Champion as he won titles as a sophomore in 2021 and 2022. After NCAAs were cancelled in 2020 during Brooks’ freshman season, Brooks won both his titles as a sophomore due to the NCAA’s free year of eligibility in the shortened 2021 season.
Brooks has lost two matches, one to Nebraska’s Taylor Venz as a freshman and the other to Michigan’s Myles Amine in the 2022 Big Ten final in overtime. Brooks got his revenge however in this year’s NCAA final, downing Amine 5-3.
An absolute powerhouse (see below) with amazing defense, Brooks heads into his junior year as the heavy favorite to win his third NCAA title. I honestly don’t see anyone really challenging Brooks now that five-time All-American Amine has graduated.
Aaron Brooks doing what many Penn State guys do, which is use the ankle pick as an entry to other attacks. Here it's an ankle pick to double leg - a nice chain b/c opp cannot sprawl his right leg back once the ankle is controlled. Great positional progression!
— Dan Sweeney (@DPSBreakdowns) March 22, 2022
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3. Carter Starocci - Penn State
Another two-time NCAA Champion for the Nittany Lions, Carter Starocci technically is entering just his sophomore season at 174 pounds. He won his first title in 2021’s free year of eligibility, then he won his second in 2021 as a redshirt freshman again.
In fact, Starocci has a chance to become college wrestling’s first five-time NCAA champ if he keeps up his current pace. Starocci even lost his first college match 10-9 to Indiana’s DJ Washington, but ever since he’s been on a tear. He’s 37-2 on his career with his only other loss to Iowa’s Michael Kemerer in the Big Ten final in 2021. He avenged that loss in the NCAA final, downing Kemerer 3-1 in sudden victory (see below).
In 2022, Starocci finished a perfect 23-0 season with a win over former NCAA champion (at 165 pounds) Mekhi Lewis of Virginia Tech. Starocci won a tight match in tie-breakers with riding time.
Likely, Starocci and Lewis will again meet in the NCAA finals this season.
2. Roman Bravo-Young - Penn State
Yet another Penn-Stater on this list, Roman Bravo-Young decided he’d return for his senior season and will look to win his third NCAA title.
Wrestling at 133 pounds, Bravo-Young hasn’t lost a match since 2020. He went 14-0 in 2021 while winning his first NCAA title then followed that up with a 22-0 season this past year with another NCAA title.
With both wins in the NCAA finals against Oklahoma State’s Daton Fix, a former World silver medalist in freestyle, Bravo-Young is one of the very best in the country at any weight. Below is Bravo-Young’s win over Fix in 2021.
And here’s his won over Fix this past season.
Fix is now a three-time NCAA runner-up, and all signs point to a Fix vs. Bravo-Young trilogy match in this year’s NCAA final.
T-1. Spencer Lee - Iowa
Now we’re at No. 1. And yes, I cheated. There are two No. 1s. With all of the uncertainty surrounding Minnesota’s Gable Steveson and whether he’ll come back for his senior year, I decided to lump these two Hodge Trophy winners in at No. 1 on our countdown of the Big Ten’s best wrestlers.
First is Iowa’s Spencer Lee. The three-time NCAA champion has the opportunity to be just the fifth four-time NCAA champion and the first for the Hawkeyes. Lee missed this past season after having surgeries to repair BOTH ACLs in his knees. Lee won his 2022 NCAA title with no ACLs
Lee hasn’t lost a match since the 2018-19 season when he was a sophomore. As a freshman, Lee went 22-2 while winning his first NCAA title, dropping Nick Suriano (then at Rutgers) 5-1 in the NCAA final (below).
Then in 2019, Lee was able to down Jack Mueller of Virginia to win his second NCAA title (see below). He finished the year with a 23-3 record.
After a cancelled 2020 NCAA Championships, a year that Lee went 18-0 and captured his first Big Ten title, he went on in the shortened 2021 season to capture his third national title, beating Arizona State’s Brandon Courtney in the NCAA final. Lee finished the year 12-0.
If Lee comes back even close to his former form, he’ll be one of the country’s biggest favorites to win an NCAA title. He’s already a Hawkeye great, but he could join the discussion for wrestling’s best ever with another undefeated season and a fourth NCAA title.
T-1. Gable Steveson - Minnesota
What has Gable Steveson not accomplished on the mat? He’s a two-time cadet world champion, a junior world champion, a Big Ten champion, an NCAA champion, and an Olympic champion.
And he’s only 22 years old.
A phenom from the start, Steveson amassed all of those accolades in pretty short order. In college at Minnesota, the heavyweight has a 90-2 record with his two losses coming to Penn State’s NCAA Champion Anthony Cassar, a senior during Steveson’s freshman season. Cassar beat Steveson at Big Tens then in the semifinal round of the NCAA tournament. See Steveson’s last loss on a wrestling mat below. Steveson finished his true freshman season with a 36-2 record and All-American status as he finished third.
Ever since those setbacks as a freshman, Steveson has been perfect. He’s won 52 straight matches in college, winning three Big Ten titles and two NCAA titles along the way (the 2020 NCAA tournament was cancelled) while also winning an Olympic gold medal in 202One. In fact, he put together one of the best comebacks we’ve ever seen on the mat in the final against Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili.
Gable Steveson scores two takedowns in the final 13 seconds to win Olympic gold! Unbelievable finish, congratulations @GableSteveson pic.twitter.com/v2YD3CZE8p
— TP Bulldog Wrestling (@TPWrestling1) August 6, 2021
In many people’s opinions, including people way smarter than me, Steveson has already proven to be the best heavyweight we’ve ever seen. Now, Steveson still has a year of eligibility to use, but it’s unclear if he’ll use it.
Steveson has signed a contract with the WWE and put his shoes on the mat after his most recent NCAA title win, a universal sign that a wrestler is retiring from the sport. But the Minnesota big man has also hinted at one more season as he tries to win his third title. He’s done the same about the 2024 Olympics, teasing a return.
With Gable, it’s anyone’s guess what he’ll do. But if he does return, he’ll be the best wrestler in the country at any weight and he’ll be the biggest favorite at any weight class to win it all.
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Ancient South Downs monument damaged
An appeal for information has gone out after damage was discovered at an ancient South Downs monument.
Sussex Heritage Community says that ‘unexplained ground disturbance’ has been found at Chanctonbury Ring.
The group is asking anyone who knows anything about the damage to contact Sussex Police and the South Downs National Park Authority.
Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hill fort on the South Downs on the border of Washington and Wiston.
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It forms part of historical features created over more than 2,000 years, including round barrows dating from the Bronze Age to the Saxon periods and dykes dating from the Iron Age and Roman periods.
Its purpose is not known but it is thought it could have been used as a defensive position, a cattle enclosure or religious shrine.
After a few centuries of use, it was abandoned for about 500 years until it was reoccupied during the Roman period.
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Smashing Pumpkins are calling their upcoming album ‘ATUM’ a sequel to their classic ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ album of 1995 as well as 2000’s ‘Machina/The Machine of God’.
The first song we get to hear in ‘Beguiled’.
‘ATUM’, pronounced Autumn, is the 12th Smashing Pumpkins album, and first since 2020’s ‘Cyr’.
‘ATUM’ is described by Billy Corgan as a three act rock opera. Each act contains 11 songs. The three acts will be released 11 weeks apart. Act 1 will be released on November 15, 2022. Act 2 on January 31, 2023. Act 3 along with a special edition boxset featuring all 33 album tracks plus 10 additional unreleased songs, will be released on April 21, 2023.
Smashing Pumpkins will perform ‘Beguiled’ on the Jimmy Fallon show on Friday.
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Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja finally announced the name of their newborn son. The couple shared an oh-so-adorable picture with their little one on Instagram on the occasion of his first-month birthday. They also revealed that they have named him Vayu Kapoor Ahuja.
Sonam and Anand welcomed Vayu, their first child together, on August 20. Today, they took to Instagram and shared a priceless picture with him. The endearing photo shows Anand holding the baby boy in his arms and planting a kiss on Sonam’s cheek at the same time. The family’s coordinated fashion game was totally a treat to our fashion-hungry eyes.
Both Sonam and Anand were dressed in mustard-hued ethnic ensembles. Even baby Vayu was clad in a mustard cloth wrap.
Take a look:
Now, this is what family fashion goals look like! For the special picture, Sonam slipped into an exquisite anarkali set boasting elaborate embroidery on the yoke. The actress upped the ethnic glam with a matching dupatta, traditional jhumkis, a dainty bindi and a gajra-adorned hair bun.
Anand, on the other hand, was handsome in a mustard kurta. The traditional number was adorned with striking white embroidery details.
Sonam shared the picture with a long note and explained the meaning behind her son’s name.
“In the spirit of the force that has breathed new meaning into our lives...In the spirit of Hanuman and Bheem, who embody immense courage and strength...In the spirit of all that is sacred, life-giving and eternally ours, we seek blessings for our son, Vayu Kapoor Ahuja. In Hindu scriptures, Vayu is one of the paanch tatvas. He is the deity of breath, the spiritual father of Hanuman, Bheem and Madhav and He is the incredibly powerful lord of wind (sic)," the note read.
Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja tied the knot in May 2018 after dating each other for a couple of years. On the work front, Sonam was last seen in The Zoya Factor with Dulquer Salmaan.
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Financial Information
Boulogne-Billancourt, September 20, 2022
Cegedim, an innovative technology and services company, announces that its Financial report for the 1st Half of 2022 is available free of charge in French and -in a few days’ time- in English (that is a free translation into English of the “Interim Financial Report 2022” issued in French):
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Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Over? The Answer Is More Art Than Science
September 19, 2022
(STAT News) – Reaching the end of a pandemic is not like driving out of one county into the next. There is no fixed demarcation between a pandemic and post-pandemic period, especially for the first recorded pandemic caused by a coronavirus. It’s not like we know it’s over if cases drop to a certain level for a prescribed length of time. Experts say there are no accepted metrics or defined international rules that tell us when we can call the code on this horrible event. In reality, things are much more ephemeral when it comes to knowing when a pandemic is over. (Read More)
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Music Director Carl St.Clair Asks Board To Begin Succession Planning
The new agreement reaffirms his commitment to Pacific Symphony, its musicians, and to the community of supporters and friends.
Pacific Symphony announces that Music Director Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony's Board of Directors have come to agreement on a two-year extension of his contract for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, with an option for additional extensions. The new agreement reaffirms his commitment to Pacific Symphony, its musicians, and to the community of supporters and friends that he will continue to be the artistic leader for Pacific Symphony.
While making this important commitment, Maestro St.Clair asked the Board to begin shaping a succession plan and to commence a search for his successor in a fashion that will assure a continuity of leadership. Until the Symphony has secured a successor, St.Clair will continue as music director. There is no specific timetable, and this will afford the Board, musicians, and staff the freedom to assess potential candidates very carefully over time allowing for a seamless transition.
Long-time board member and current Board Chair, John Evans, commented that "Carl St.Clair's tenure has been one of great progression from our early performances at Santa Ana High School to the opening of the breathtaking Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. His 33-year tenure is among the longest in U.S. orchestral history. Extending Carl's contract as music director of our Symphony will help support the orchestra's continued achievement of artistic excellence. I am also grateful to Carl for this thoughtful approach to succession, continuing in his role as Music Director while we start a search for his successor."
During his tenure, St.Clair has become widely recognized for his musically distinguished performances, his commitment to building outstanding education and community engagement programs, and his innovative approaches to programming. In April 2018, St.Clair led Pacific Symphony in its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut, as the finale to the Carnegie's yearlong celebration of pre-eminent composer Philip Glass' 80th birthday, ending in a standing ovation, with The New York Times calling the Symphony "a major ensemble!" He led Pacific Symphony on its first tour to China in May 2018, the orchestra's first international tour since touring Europe in 2006. The orchestra made its national PBS debut in June 2018 on Great Performances with Peter Boyer's Ellis Island: The Dream of America, conducted by St.Clair. Among St.Clair's many creative endeavors are the highly acclaimed American Composers Festival, which began in 2000; and the opera initiative, "Symphonic Voices," which has included concert-opera productions of Madame Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Aida, Turandot, Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca, and La Bohème in previous seasons.
"I am so grateful to Carl for remaining committed to Pacific Symphony. As visionary and orchestra builder, Carl has possessed a singular commitment to Orange County. He has a deep love for the musicians with whom he has collaborated," says Pacific Symphony President and CEO John Forsyte. "It has been thrilling to listen to and watch the chemistry of this orchestra evolve and grow over the three decades of Carl's tenure. He has inspired the community, initiated national models of education and community engagement programming, designed fascinating festivals, commissioned important composers, and led our development to the top tier of American orchestras. Of course, this is a point of great emotion for all of us who love Carl's work. We know that Carl will have a significant role with Pacific Symphony for the foreseeable future."
Maestro St.Clair joined Pacific Symphony in 1990 and is only the second music director in the orchestra's 44-year history. "I am grateful to the community and our patrons for showing so much support for the orchestra and me all these years. I have been granted a unique gift to be part of the development of an institution from its early period," St.Clair shared. "The musicians of Pacific Symphony and I have shared an extraordinary 33-year journey, and I am honored that the Board has extended my contract for two seasons, and that I will remain music director through 2023-24, if not longer. I am pleased to reaffirm my commitment to Pacific Symphony and pledge my commitment to continue to be part of the Symphony Family for many years to come."
Pacific Symphony opens the 2022-23 Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series on September 22-24 with performances that include Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Ravel's Boléro. In keeping with St.Clair's commitment to contemporary composers, he has also programmed Re(new)al, a work for percussion and orchestra by Viet Cuong.
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If you’re a fan of the Raspberry Pi, you really should check out the official Tom’s Hardware’s Raspberry Pi-themed show—The Pi Cast. The show airs every Tuesday at 2pm EST / 7pm BST and features a myriad of Raspberry Pi news, projects, tutorials and special guests. We’ve got plenty of episodes to explore and this week we’re airing episode number 100!
With 100 episodes under our belt, this new milestone marks for a great catalog of content to inspire makers both amateur and professional alike. We feature tons of cool Raspberry Pi projects and makers just like you to show off how they pulled off their incredible creations. You can find previous episodes on the Pi Cast playlist at the official Tom’s Hardware YouTube channel.
The Pi Cast Episode 100: Rpilocator
For our 100th episode, we’re excited to have André Costa join us as our special guest. Costa is the mastermind behind Rpilocator. If you’ve been itching to find a Pi but struggled because of supply chain disruptions, odds are you’ve come across his website which scours many popular resellers for stock across the world.
Costa is our latest guest but we’ve had tons of brilliant minds join us in the past including Eben Upton in our first episode and Raspberry Pi co-founder Pete Lomas. If you want to check out the 100th episode special, be sure to tune in this Tuesday September 20 at 2pm EST, 7pm BST.
Our Favorite Projects
Since The Pi Cast launched in mid 2020, we've covered a heap of The Best Pi Projects and we have dug through the archives and found five of the best. From doors that unlock using your face, to retro Pi-powered computers, we have covered them all and we shall be talking about them all on the 100th episode.
Tiny Raspberry Pi CNC Drawing Machine
Recycling an old floppy drive and parts from an old CD drive, this maker made a tiny Pi-powered CNC drawing machine. It can create perfect images every time on a super small scale. The Pi works with an Arduino to drive a pen holder around to create custom images on demand.
Raspberry Pi Typewriter Works as Linux Terminal
Using an old Brother AX-25 typewriter, maker Riley from Artillect has created a working Linux terminal. It's powered by a Pi that processes the user input and prints out the terminal responses on the typewriter in real time.
Raspberry Pi Apple Hack
Maker Dave Luna has placed a Pi inside of an old Macintosh Classic II. The screen is an e-Ink display from Waveshare while the external peripherals are all original Apple hardware from 1991. In a unique twist, Luna is using a Chromecast to stream images from Google Photos, and a custom Python script to convert the images to resemble the vintage System 7 operating system. If you want old school computing with a modern twist, this is one hack worth checking out.
Raspberry Pi Tricorder Detects Starlink Satellites
Saveitforparts as his head the sky and a Pi in his hands with this project. He's upgraded his Tricorder to detect Starlink satellites using an LNB module from an old satellite dish. Did we mention that this gadget is totally portable?
Raspberry Pi Unlocks Door with Facial Recognition
AuraLock is designed to unlock doors automatically by scanning for preapproved faces. If you don't mind using facial recognition to control your door lock, then this project may be for you. It's powered by a Raspberry Pi and even has an accompanying smartphone app to help manage it.
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4 Stocks You Might Want to Lay off From Buying Right Now
The stubbornly high inflation is raising the odds of the Fed launching another significant rate hike this week. Additionally, amid the growing recession fears, several companies are planning layoffs. Given...
The stubbornly high inflation is raising the odds of the Fed launching another significant rate hike this week. Additionally, amid the growing recession fears, several companies are planning layoffs. Given such economic uncertainties, we think investors should avoid buying fundamentally weak stocks, Shopify (SHOP), Snap (SNAP), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), and Groupon (GRPN). Keep reading….
Inflation surged 8.3% year-over-year in August, and another significant rate hike seems inevitable. Analysts at Goldman Sachs now expect a 75-bps hike this week, followed by a 50-bps hike in November.
"How the drag from tighter financial conditions will net out with other key growth impulses in 2023 is more uncertain, and we could imagine the hiking cycle extending beyond this year," said the analysts, led by economist Jan Hatzius.
Elevated economic uncertainty and rising recession fears have compelled several companies to announce layoffs as a part of their cost-cutting measures. According to a recent survey by PwC, about 52% of the surveyed U.S. companies have enacted hiring freezes to prepare for an economic downturn.
Given this backdrop, we think investors should avoid buying fundamentally weak stocks Shopify Inc. (SHOP), Snap Inc. (SNAP), Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD), and Groupon, Inc. (GRPN) now.
Shopify Inc. (SHOP)
SHOP, a commerce company, offers a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses. SHOP's platform enables merchants to display, manage, market, and sell products through various sales channels, including the web, buy buttons, mobile and social media storefronts, pop-up shops, offline retail locations, and more. The company offers both subscription and merchant solutions.
In July, SHOP's CEO Tobi Lutke admitted that he underestimated the length of the pandemic-driven e-commerce boom and announced cutting 1000 jobs majorly from its sales, accounting, and recruiting departments to lay off 10% of its workforce.
In the second quarter of fiscal 2022, SHOP reported an adjusted operating loss of $41.77 million, compared to an adjusted operating income of $236.80 million during the prior-year quarter. Its adjusted net loss and net loss per share increased 113.5% and 113% year-over-year to $38.45 million and $0.03, respectively.
Street expects SHOP to report a loss of $0.07 per share for the current quarter ending September 2022 and $0.10 for the ongoing fiscal year.
The stock has declined 77.8% over the past year and 57.8% over the past six months to close the last trading session at $32.94.
SHOP's POWR Ratings reflect this bleak outlook. The stock's overall F rating translates to a Strong Sell in our proprietary rating system. The POWR Ratings are calculated by considering 118 different factors, with each factor weighted to an optimal degree.
SHOP also has an F grade for Sentiment and a D for Growth, Value, Stability, and Quality. It is ranked #29 of 30 stocks in the F-rated Internet – Services industry. To see additional POWR Ratings for SHOP for Momentum, click here.
Snap Inc. (SNAP)
SNAP operates as a camera company in North America, Europe, and internationally. It offers Snapchat, an application that enables people to communicate visually through short videos and images. The company also provides Spectacles, an eyewear product for capturing photos and videos; and advertising products, including AR ads and Snap ads.
For the fiscal second quarter ended June 30, SNAP's total cost and expenses increased 28.7% from its prior-year quarter to $1.51 billion. Adjusted EBITDA declined 93.9% from the prior-year quarter to $7.19 million. Non-GAAP net loss and net loss per share came in at $29.60 million and $0.02, respectively, indicating an increase of 120.5% and 120% year-over-year.
Analysts expect SNAP's EPS to decline 89.7% year-over-year to $0.05 for the fiscal year ending December 2022.
The stock has declined 84.8% over the past year and 74.9% over the past nine months to close its last trading session at $11.35.
The stock has an overall F rating, equating to a Strong Sell in our POWR Ratings system. SNAP also has an F grade in Stability and Sentiment and a D in Growth, Momentum, and Quality. Out of the 65 stocks in the F-rated Internet industry, SNAP is ranked #59.
In addition to the POWR Rating grades we've stated above, you can see SNAP's ratings for Value here.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD)
HOOD operates a financial services platform in the United States that allows users to invest in stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), options, gold, and cryptocurrencies. The company also offers learning and education solutions, which include Snacks, Learn, Newsfeeds, Lists and Alerts, and First Trade Recommendations.
HOOD's Monthly Active Users (MAU) decreased from 1.9 million sequentially to 14.0 million in the second quarter as customers navigated the volatile market environment.
For the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, HOOD's net revenues declined 43.7% year-over-year to $318 million. Its total operating expenses increased 21.8% year-over-year to $610 million in the same period. The company also reported a net loss of $295 million and a net loss per share of $0.34.
HOOD's EPS is expected to remain negative for fiscal 2022 and 2023. Analysts expect its revenue for fiscal 2022 to decline 24.7% year-over-year to $1.37 billion.
The stock has lost 75.8% over the past year to close the last trading session at $10.26.
HOOD's POWR Ratings reflect its poor prospects. The stock has an overall rating of F, which translates to Strong Sell in our proprietary rating system. It also has an F grade for Quality and a D for Value, Stability, and Sentiment. In the 152-stock F-rated Software - Application industry, HOOD is ranked #141.
Beyond what is stated above, we've also rated HOOD for Growth and Momentum. Click here to access all ratings for HOOD.
Groupon, Inc. (GRPN)
GRPN is a marketplace operator that connects merchants to consumers. It offers goods and services on behalf of third-party merchants and serves customers through its website and mobile applications. The company operates through two broad segments: North America and International.
GRPN's total revenue decreased 42.4% year-over-year to $153.22 million in the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2022. Net income attributable to GRPN declined 2,597.4% from the prior-year quarter to a negative $91.23 million. Net income per share came in at a negative $3.04, down 2,433.3% from the same period the prior year.
The consensus EPS estimate of $0.04 for the fiscal quarter ending December 2022 indicates a 95.6% year-over-year decrease. Likewise, the consensus revenue estimate of $184.31 million reflects a decline of 17.4% in the same period.
GRPN's stock slumped 55.4% year-to-date to close the last trading session at $10.32.
It is no surprise that GRPN has an overall rating of D, equating to Sell in our POWR Ratings system. It has a Sentiment and Stability grade of F and a Momentum and Growth grade of D.
In the Internet industry, GRPN is ranked #53. Click here to see the additional POWR Ratings for GRPN (Value and Quality).
SHOP shares were trading at $31.82 per share on Tuesday morning, down $1.12 (-3.40%). Year-to-date, SHOP has declined -76.90%, versus a -18.50% rise in the benchmark S&P 500 index during the same period.
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Council member pleads no contest to handcuffing Trump critic
EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) - A Detroit-area city council member accused of handcuffing a woman who placed Black Lives Matter stickers on 2020 pro-Trump campaign signs pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace.
Eddie Kabacinski was placed on probation for a year during the Monday hearing, but the case could be dismissed if he stays out of trouble, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.
A judge will review it in six months, attorney Stephen Rabaut said.
"Mr. Kabacinski isn´t happy about the resolution, did not want to enter a plea, but at the advice of counsel elected to enter the plea because he saw it was probably in his best interest," Rabaut said.
Kabacinski, a member of the Warren City Council, handcuffed a woman who placed BLM stickers on signs promoting then-President Donald Trump during a political rally in Eastpointe in October 2020, according to police.
He was initially charged with assault and impersonating a police officer. Kabacinski claimed he had the power to detain people as a former military police officer.
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UEFA confirms Russia´s exclusion from Euro 2024 qualifying draw
Russia’s isolation from international sport continues after UEFA confirmed the country would be excluded from qualification for Euro 2024.
Russia has been banned from UEFA and FIFA competitions since it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, with the Court of Arbitration dismissing an appeal against that ban in July.
UEFA confirmed Germany would qualify as hosts for the tournament, with the qualifying draw scheduled to take place in Frankfurt on October 9.
Fifty-three countries will battle it out for the 23 remaining places in the finals. The 10 group winners and runners-up will qualify, plus a further three teams via a play-off competition due to be played in March 2024.
Those play-offs will feature the 12 best-performing teams from the 2022-23 Nations League who have not already qualified via the conventional route.
UEFA said there would be seven groups of five teams and three groups of six.
Russia have been excluded from qualification for Euro 2024 (Ian Rutherford/PA)
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Pep Guardiola `very happy´ Roberto De Zerbi chose to take over at Brighton
New Brighton head coach Roberto De Zerbi received a seal of approval for choosing Albion from Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.
The 43-year-old Italian insisted he picked Brighton over a host of other managerial opportunities, and declared himself excited to succeed Graham Potter with the Seagulls.
Brighton deputy chairman Paul Barber branded De Zerbi a “natural fit” to take the club forward, after Potter left for Chelsea.
Barber and owner Tony Bloom insisted De Zerbi was on a shortlist of one to take the helm, with both club and new coach believing their qualities and vision align.
“Brighton strongly wanted me as a coach, and their style of play is very similar to my idea of football,” said De Zerbi.
“We met each other straight after we had started to talk. Of course, other teams were interested in me but I’m delighted to be here.
Roberto De Zerbi has taken over at Brighton (Gareth Fuller/PA)
“I think we’re on the same wavelength and I’m sure we can do it well. I spoke to Pep (Guardiola) on Sunday evening, yes. He’s very happy that I’m on board here.
“He told me very good things about the club. And he told me that if I need he will be very happy to help me – but of course not in the match we are playing against them!”
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Entertainment of Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Ghanaian actress, Ama K. Abebrese, has said she is very unhappy with people who look down on the Ghanaian Movie Industry.
Ghanaian producers have always been criticized for poor storylines and for producing low-budget movies.
Talking on 'XCLUSIVES' with Noella Kharyne Yalley, the entertainer, expressed that people need to appreciate the efforts producers put into movies and not always demonize them.
“You don’t have to like my work. It is not my fault that you don’t like everything because it is Ghanaian. Just do not down it. That is my issue.
“Sometimes you find a Ghanaian denigrating somebody’s work which probably the person used their last penny to produce,” Ama K. Abebrese said.
She added, "until you step into a producer or a director’s shoes, you wouldn’t know the sacrifices they’ve made.
“Any producer will tell you the challenges or what they have to go through to get their film made with very little support because of their passion. Just because you do not like it, doesn’t mean somebody won’t love it,” she added.
The entertainer empowered people who were enthusiastic about delivering and not be discouraged.
“I want to encourage people who are passionate about anything, it does not matter what it is don’t be discouraged,” she motivated.
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Anti-terror probe of Tunisia opposition chief begins
Rached Ghannouchi, head of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party, arrives for questioning in July, 2022 in a separate anti-terrorist unit probe
The leader of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha appeared Tuesday before an anti-terrorism unit, where he faces questioning over alleged involvement in sending jihadist militants to Syria and Iraq.
Ennahdha categorically denies the accusations levelled at its leader, Rached Ghannouchi, and Tunisia's former prime minister Ali Laarayedh, who was questioned for hours on Monday.
Ghannouchi, 81, arrived at the headquarters of the anti-terrorism unit in the capital Tunis, where dozens of his supporters had gathered in a show of solidarity, an AFP correspondent said.
The accusations have resurfaced after President Kais Saied tightened his grip on the judiciary, following the suspension of the Ennahdha-dominated parliament last year.
Ghannouchi had arrived at the headquarters of the anti-terrorism centre on Monday afternoon for questioning, according to an AFP reporter, several hours after his deputy Laarayedh.
"After more than 12 hours of waiting, Mr Ghannouchi wasn't heard by this unit which decided to delay the interrogation until midday Tuesday," his lawyer Samir Dilou told AFP.
Laarayedh was questioned "for hours" and was still being held by the unit, said Dilou.
In a statement released overnight, Ennahdha denounced the interrogation as "a flagrant violation of human rights".
Critics of the party and some politicians accuse Ennahdha of having facilitated the departure of militants for war zones.
After the 2011 overthrow of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, thousands of Tunisians joined the ranks of jihadist organisations -- most notably the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, but also in neighbouring Libya.
Ennahdha played a central role in Tunisia's post-Ben Ali democratic politics until Saied began his power grab in July last year, followed by a controversial referendum which granted unchecked powers to his office.
Ennahdha had on Sunday decried attempts "to use the judiciary to tarnish the opposition's image" and implicate its leaders in "fabricated affairs".
The probe against Ghannouchi and Laarayedh was meant to "distract the public" from dealing with economic and social issues and the "worsening conditions" in the country, the party said in its statement.
In July, the same anti-terrorism unit questioned Ghannouchi in a probe into allegations of corruption and money laundering linked to transfers from abroad to the charity Namaa Tunisia, affiliated with Ennahdha.
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LIV golfers urge inclusion in world ranking points
LIV Golf Series golfers sent a letter to the chairman of the Official World Golf Ranking organization to urge their inclusion in the points ranking system.
The letter, sent to the media on Tuesday, was signed by the 48 players who played in the LIV Invitational Chicago this past weekend. The tournament was won by Cameron Smith of Australia, who was the No. 2 player in the world playing on the PGA Tour before jumping to the upstart circuit. He has fallen to No. 3 despite his success on the LIV circuit because he is unable to earn points.
"To maintain trust, we urge you -- as one of the true statesmen of sports -- to act appropriately to include, on a retroactive basis, the results of LIV Golf events in OWGR's ranking calculations," the players wrote in the letter. "An OWGR without LIV would be incomplete and inaccurate, the equivalent of leaving the Big 10 or the SEC out of the U.S. college football rankings, or leaving Belgium, Argentina, and England out of the FIFA rankings."
To date, LIV players have not received ranking points for the first five tournaments staged by the breakaway tour
"Some 23 tours are integrated into the OWGR universe, and LIV has earned its place among them," the letter said. "LIV's roster includes 21 of the last 51 winners of the four Majors. The level of competition at the average LIV event is at least equal to that at the average PGA Tour event. We know because we've played in both. Every week that passes without the inclusion of LIV athletes undermines the historical value of OWGR."
At issue is that OWGR standings are used to determine exemptions for golf's four major championships and to qualify for the Olympics.
The OWGR board began consideration of LIV's application for inclusion in a meeting that took place at The Open in St. Andrews in July.
However, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley are among the OWGR board members.
"The case for LIV's inclusion is strong, but we have concerns that members of your Governing Board are conflicted and are keeping the OWGR from acting as it should," LIV golfers wrote in the letter. "Four of the eight members have connections to the PGA Tour, which unfortunately views LIV Golf as an antagonist. Other members of the Board have made unfairly harsh remarks about LIV, with one of them calling the organization 'not credible.'"
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Ford tumbles 11% after inflation warning
By Kannaki Deka and Noel Randewich
Sept 20 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co shares tumbled about 11% on Tuesday, a day after the automaker said inflation-related costs would be $1 billion more than expected in the current quarter and that parts shortages had delayed deliveries.
The stock last traded at $13.33 and was on track for its deepest one-day decline since March 2020, when global markets reeled over the coronavirus pandemic.
Ford's preliminary third-quarter results, released late on Monday, sent shares of rival General Motors Co down 4.4% as analysts said it might take more time for automakers to recover from chip shortages.
"It appears that across the industry, chip and components shortages may be improving at a slower pace than anticipated," Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner said.
In July, Ford said it expected commodity costs to rise $4 billion for the year.
The Detroit manufacturer's warning comes less than a week after delivery company FedEx Corp withdrew its financial forecast due to slowing global demand.
Ford's inflation troubles and FedEx's weak demand highlight the bind the Federal Reserve finds itself in ahead of the U.S. central bank's policy-making meeting on Wednesday.
The Fed is widely expected to hike rates by 75 basis points in its battle against decades-high inflation. However, its aggressive monetary policy campaign has battered the U.S. stock market in recent weeks, with investors worried the Fed's measures could hobble the economy.
Ford also estimated it would have 40,000 to 45,000 vehicles in inventory lacking parts.
Ford, which is set to report third-quarter results on Oct. 26, affirmed 2022 adjusted earnings before interest and taxes forecast of $11.5 billion to $12.5 billion.
It was unclear if chip and parts supply will normalize by the end of the year, Deutsche Bank's Rosner said.
Ford's shares are down 36% in 2022, well over the S&P 500's 19% decrease. (Reporting by Kannaki Deka in Bengaluru and Noel Randewich in Oakland, Calif.; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Richard Chang)
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Yossi Brodny, number two on the Jewish Home list, said, "We need to know how to listen, accept, and know that not all the wisdom is in one camp."
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Washington Crime Soars Under New Law 'Empowering People to Break the Law'
Spokane Valley deputies were forced to watch the suspect in a commercial burglary crash a vehicle through the fence of a lumberyard to flee the scene. A relatively new state law prohibited them from pursuit even though they could see materials in the SUV that appeared to have been stolen.
“This law is exceptionally frustrating to deputies and to the victim,” said Spokane County Undersheriff John Nowels. “The rule of law is the bedrock of a civil society, and this policy is empowering people to disobey the law.”
As a result, he said commercial burglaries in the county outside the City of Spokane have gone up 31 percent since last year and residential burglaries are up 15 percent.
More alarming, said Nowels, is that vehicle thefts are up 55 percent, following a statewide trend.
To date in 2022, he said there have been 618 car thefts in the county, a number that already exceeds the total of 426 in 2021.
“We are putting effort into identifying suspects and tracking them, but if they get into a car and take off, we are not allowed to chase them,” said Nowels.
He said the situation at Ziggy’s Home Improvement in Spokane Valley several days ago exemplifies how policies crafted by state lawmakers, no matter how well intentioned, can fail in real time.
“The decision about whether to pursue needs to be made by the experts on the streets who are doing it well and doing it every day,” he said. “Handcuffing officers so they can’t do their job is not the way to protect the public.”
The incident began with the report of a burglary in progress at Ziggy’s shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 10.
Deputies arrived at the store on East Sprague Avenue following the report from an employee that two males were stealing items from the fenced lumber yard and placing them in a black SUV.
One of the suspects was described as wearing all-black clothing and a red hat. A person matching that description was seen running through the north side of the fenced lot when deputies arrived. He was captured and later identified as 38-year-old Robert Rehfeld.
Deputies also observed a black Mercedes SUV drive through the back fence of the business at a high rate of speed, causing an estimated $4,000 in damages. Law enforcement officials activated their emergency lights and sirens, but the suspect drove recklessly away, said Nowels.
Although authorities saw miscellaneous items believed to have been stolen from the business through the open liftgate of the fleeing vehicle, they were not allowed to give chase, he said.
With the trunk open, the rear license plate of the SUV was not visible so there was no way to immediately track ownership and location, said Nowels.
Rehfeld was transported and booked into the local jail on a charge of burglary in the second degree. He also had two active warrants for driving under the influence and reckless driving.
In 2021, the state legislature passed House Bill 1054 that, among other things, prohibits police from pursuits unless a violent felony is involved, there is suspicion of impairment or the driver is endangering the public.
Nowels said pursuits can no longer take place for property crimes, such as the burglary at Ziggy’s.
Prior to the new law, he said police could pursue a vehicle if there was reasonable suspicion that a crime had been committed or was going to be committed soon. Under the more stringent probable cause standard now required, officers, deputies and troopers must have known facts that a crime has occurred in order to act.
“Probable cause is very tough to prove,” said Nowels, who has almost 25 years of experience in law enforcement.
He said, prior to enactment of HB 1054 rules, a supervisor not on scene would independently evaluate the information relayed by patrol deputies and then decide if a pursuit was safe enough to engage in. That decision factored in traffic, weather, the potential safety risk to the public and other conditions on the ground.
If the legislature wants to protect public safety, Nowels said government leaders should make sure law enforcement agencies have the best training available and strong leaders to oversee patrol activities.
“We, here, in Spokane County will do everything we lawfully can to keep our communities safe,” he said. “However, we need help from the legislature to turn things around so that people committing crimes know that they will be held accountable.”
What needs to happen, he said, is that legislators take time to learn more about scenarios that law enforcement officials face on the streets, and then make policy decisions that support that work.
As it is, he said trust has been broken between peace officers, state lawmakers and administrators, and that has led scores of officers to leave the profession altogether or take jobs in other states.
“There’s definitely some work that needs to be done to regain that trust,” Nowels said.
A version of this article appeared first at The Center Square.
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1st Street Players to Present LIZZIE: THE MUSICAL This Halloween
The tale is told through the voices of four women, fronting a six piece rock band, with a powerful score inspired by the music of Bikini Kill, The Runaways, Heart & more.
1st Street Players leads into their 2022-2023 season, "Breaking Free" with a special fundraising event for the theater: a production of "Lizzie," the award winning rock musical, by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner & Alan Stevens Hewitt.
"Lizzie" is based on the true story of the infamous, (alleged) axe wielding murderess, Lizzie Borden, her sister Emma, friend Alice Russell, housekeeper Bridget, and of course, Mr. and Mrs. Borden, and proposes some new theories on what really happened in August of 1892, in the quiet town of Fall River, Massachusetts. The show is dark, disturbing, moving, at times humorous, and always entertaining. The tale is told through the voices of four women, fronting a six piece rock band, with a powerful score inspired by the music of Bikini Kill, The Runaways, Heart, and more.
Director Nicole Napolitano loves this opportunity to bring together talented musicians from both her theater and heavy metal backgrounds, to tell a story that has unexpected depth and powerful messaging. "There are just so many complex layers and so much meaning to be found within this 90 minute rock show. I love that it uses the female voice to show the real impact of abuse and mental health struggles on people's lives." According to Artistic Director Dee Leech, "What I find truly inspiring is the true collaboration effort in this fundraiser. It is a blending of seasoned rock musicians, trained artists and theater folk coming together in a local brewery, to bring to life one of the most grisly murders and trials of that time period. The trial was truly a public obsession at the time, and there is still speculation as to whether Lizzie did it today. Come to the show and decide for yourself."
"Lizzie" is best suited for mature audiences, as it contains strong language, sexual situations, violence, and abuse. Parental advisory is suggested, and supervision required, for any audience member under the age of 18.
Performances are October 21st and 22nd at 8 pm, and October 23rd at 4 pm. They are not being held at the theater, but at Tuned Up Brewing Company, 135 N. Main Street, Spring City, PA. Tickets will be available for purchase in two sections: $25 for reserved dinner theater style seating, and $20 for general admission bar "concert" seating (limited view).
All audience members will be carded upon entry, and adults 21 years and older will receive a ticket for one free beer. Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the venue. The event will have vendors as well as raffles for a variety of items donated by businesses including the Lizzie Borden House, Axe Heaven, Splitting Edge Axe Throwing, and Darker Arts Studio.
To purchase tickets, please visit https://cloud.broadwayworld.com/rec/ticketclick.cfm?fromlink=2197949®id=3&articlelink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.1ststreetplayers.org%2Fshows?utm_source=BWW2022&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article&utm_content=bottombuybutton1 or call (610) 404-8436.
1st Street Players is a small community theater nestled in the heart of Birdsboro, PA. Since opening our doors in 2015, we have provided top-notch entertainment to our community and surrounding areas. Our goal is to uplift the community through imaginative theatrical productions and transformative educational programming. We strive to foster a safe space for artists and audiences to connect, collaborate, and create.
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- GBP/USD bears take control ahead of the central bank meetings this week.
- Bulls and bears battle it out at key hourly support.
GBP/USD has been in the hands of the bears at the start of this week in the lead into the centerpiece events being the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. Currently, the price is attempting to correct from the lows of 1.1357 at 1.1370 but is well off from the highs of the day's range at 1.1460. The following illustrates the market structure from both a near-term and longer-term perspective.
GBP/USD H1 chart
From an hourly perspective, the price has run into a familiar support area and would be expected to correct higher from here with the price imbalance between 1.1380and close to 1.40 the figure eyed.
GBP/USD daily chart
Overall, as per the daily chart above and the weekly below, the price is in a strong bearish trend which leaves the focus on the downside, especially as the bears take out the 2020 low of 1.1410.
GBP/USD weekly and month charts
1.1240 and 1.0520 are a focus on the longer-term outlook. However, a revisit to 1.19 and 1.20 in a mean reversion of the recent monthly bearish impulse to meet and prior lows could be in order:
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UNITED NATIONS -- French President Emanuel Macron admonished countries Tuesday not to stay neutral about condemning Russia's war in Ukraine as he declared that Moscow's invasion amounts to a new form of imperialism.
The war in Ukraine — and its effects on food prices, fuel costs, Ukrainian nuclear power plants, and the larger context of tensions between Russia and the West — is looming over the annual gathering of presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and other dignitaries. Neither Russia nor Ukraine has yet had its turn to speak during the nearly weeklong series of speeches.
Macron made the war the centerpiece of his speech, arguing that the conflict threatens to usher in a world where “the security and sovereignty of everyone no longer depends on a balance of strength, on the strength of alliances, but rather that of armed groups and militias.”
“Who here can defend the idea that the invasion of Ukraine justifies no sanction?” he asked. “Who of you here can consider that the day when something similar with a more powerful neighbor happens to you, there’ll be silence from the region, from the world?”
In two General Assembly resolutions in March, soon after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, about 140 of the U.N.’s member nations overwhelming deplored Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, called for an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of all Russian forces, and urged protection for millions of civilians. But more than 30 countries abstained, including China, India and South Africa.
On April 7, some 58 nations abstained from voting on a measure calling for Russia’s suspension from the Human Rights Council. It passed, 93-24.
Macron called on the United Nations' member countries “to act so that Russia rejects the path of war,” and he said that staying out of the matter isn't an option.
“Those who are keeping silent today actually are, in a way, complicit with a cause of a new imperialism, a new order that is trampling over the current order, and there’s no peace possible here,” he said. “The war in Ukraine must not be a conflict that leaves anyone indifferent.”
“We’re not talking about choosing a camp here between the East and the West, between the North or the South, either,” the French president insisted. “What we’re talking about is everybody’s responsibility — everybody who’s committed to the respect of the (U.N.) Charter and our common, precious good: peace.”
Macron spoke shortly after Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans to start voting this week to become integral parts of Russia.
The Kremlin-backed votes, in territory Russia already controls, are all but certain to go Moscow’s way. Western leaders who are backing Kyiv with military and other support have dismissed the votes as illegitimate.
“Russia declared war, it invaded this region, it bombed it, it killed people, it made other people flee, and now it explains that, in this same region, it is going to organize a referendum," Macron told reporters before his speech. “If this were not tragic, we could laugh.”
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Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer contributed to this report. For more AP coverage of the U.N. General Assembly, visit https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations-general-assembly
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More rail chaos for London commuters as overhead line damage closes host of key routes
- Commuters have reported chaotic scenes at Kings Cross station this evening
- Damage to overhead wires forced multiple cancellations at the London terminus
- There has been severe disruption on services into Paddington for a second day
- Trains after 10pm have been cancelled at the station to allow for repair work
- The Queen's funeral: All the latest Royal Family news and coverage
Travellers trying to get in and out of London are tonight facing severe disruption as services from two of the capital's busiest railway stations have been cancelled.
Damage to overhead wires at Stevenage means multiple trains in and out of Kings Cross have been cancelled this evening, causing 'chaos' at one of the main gateway's to northern England.
The disruption on the line, which runs services by London North Eastern Railway (LNER), Great Northern, Thameslink and Hull Trains, led to angry scenes at Finsbury Park after passengers were left stranded.
Meanwhile, there has also been severe disruption at Paddington, just a day after tens of thousands of mourners trying to leave after the Queen's funeral saw their trains cancelled.
No trains from the West of England and South Wales were able to reach the London terminus yesterday after overhead lines were damaged near Hayes and Harlington at 6.30am on Monday morning.
While some trains have been able to run today, there have been far fewer services than normal, and departures scheduled to leave after 10pm tonight have been cancelled so more repair work can be carried out on the line.
Train information boards at Kings Cross station tonight showed no services were leaving the terminus
Crowds gathered on the platforms at Finsbury Park station (pictured) as services were cancelled during rush hour
Many passengers were left scrambling to find alternate routes home after damage to overhead wires in Stevenage forced the line to be closed. Pictured: Travellers at Finsbury Park station tonight
Services run by LNER, Thameslink, Great Northern and Hull Trains have all been affected. Pictured: Passengers at Finsbury Park station tonight
The travel chaos today comes as London and the rest of the country tries to get back to normal after the Queen's funeral yesterday.
Roads in and around the capital were closed for Her Majesty's funeral and subsequent procession to Windsor Castle, while rail services saw greater than normal passenger numbers as millions descended on London to watch.
However, it wasn't to be smooth running today, after two separate incidents involving damage to overhead wires saw a raft of cancellations.
Damage at Stevenage has meant that people travelling through Kings Cross and Finsbury Park have been forced to deal with severe disruption during rush hour.
At the London terminus there were worrying scenes for passengers all the train information boards displayed a special notice confirming all services in and out of the station had been cancelled.
Further up the line at Finsbury Park, platforms became crowded with people as passengers were left facing severe delays and having to make alternate arrangements to get home.
On social media commuters reported seeing people 'in tears' and described scenes at both stations as 'chaos'.
Some lines reopened later in the evening, but LNER said there would be 'major disruption' until at least the end of the day.
On its website LNER said: 'Some lines have now reopened following damage to the overhead wires at Stevenage earlier today.
'Trains running through this station may still be cancelled or severely delayed.
'Major disruption is expected until the end of the day.'
It added: 'At this time, Great Northern and Thameslink ask that you consider seeking out your own personal travel arrangements. If you do travel, your journey time will be greatly extended.
'We are working to reintroduce services through the area, but the number of trains and crew impacted by this incident means this will be drawn out process.'
There are also severe delays at Paddington tonight after two miles of overhead wiring was damaged near Hayes and Harlington at 6.30am yesterday.
PA News Agency reports that the damage is thought to have taken place after a number of trains became entangled.
It caused the cancellation of every train between Reading and Paddington, leading to chaotic scenes at Waterloo as tens of thousands of mourners from the Queen's funeral attempted to find alternate routes out of the capital.
Services from the station to destinations in the West of England and South Wales have been running today, but at greatly reduced levels, leading to delays and some cancellations.
All four lines serving Paddington reopened on Tuesday morning after a 27-hour suspension, but the wires were only working above two of them.
Trains due to leave Paddington after 10pm tonight have been cancelled in a bid to allow workers to try and completely repair the damaged wires, although Great Western Railway has warned more disruption is expected tomorrow.
There were chaotic scenes at Reading station (pictured) last night as all trains in and out of Paddington were cancelled
Damaged overhead wires near Hayes and Harlington (pictured) has caused severe disruption today
There will be no GWR and Heathrow Express services in and out of London Paddington until 6am on Wednesday, while National Rail is advising passengers to use alternative routes to reach their destinations.
On its website Great Western Railway GWR said: 'Due to damage to the overhead electric wires between Slough and London Paddington fewer trains are able to run on all lines.
'Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled, delayed or revised.
'Delays and short-notice cancellations are expected for the remainder of the day.
'Network Rail engineers will undertake further repair work tonight.
'This means GWR will not be able to run services into or out of London Paddington from 2200 this evening until 0600 tomorrow (Wednesday 21 September). Services will start and finish at Reading instead.
'The last departing train from London Paddington - Tuesday 20th September 2022, will be 21:48 London Paddington to Swansea.
'The last arriving train into London Paddington - Tuesday 20th September 2022, will be the 20:00 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington (Arriving at 21:34).'
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Great British Bake Off viewers were left feeling a little nauseous when one contestant made a quirky dessert choice.
Fans of the hit Channel 4 show were stunned when budding chef Syabira decided to put an interesting twist on her creation when the contestants were tasked with making macarons that don't look like macarons.
Running with the theme she decided to not only mix up the look of the popular dessert dish, but also the flavour by opting to add a savoury filling to her recipe.
READ MORE: The Great British Bake Off's biggest feuds - bin-gate, stolen custard and host row
However, her chicken satay-flavoured tofu filling didn't have mouths watering as viewers took to Twitter to slam the idea.
One wrote: "They've all been on the sherry this week. 'Why not put a chicken satay in a macaron?' I feel sick."
Another added: “Why not put chicken satay in a macaron? Things you only hear on #GBBO."
A third grimaced: "Satay tofu: add to the list of things I never want to see coming out of a piping bag ever again."
A fourth social media user said: "This is turning my stomach. Chicken satay macarons? Vile. Syabira did not understand the assignment."
A fifth continued: "Syabira making chicken satay macrons is unhinged. I want to love it."
But surprisingly Paul Hollywood wasn't so put off by the idea - and actually praised the dish as he performed a taste test on it - much to the relief of some viewers who were rooting for Syabira.
One wrote: "So satay macarons are actually quite nice. Which is a bit of a surprise."
A second agreed: "I have been holding my breath over these satay macarons and I'm so glad they worked."
A third praised her choice writing: "Syabira is kind of a queen actually, she really said 'haha let's make chicken satay' and actually did it, what a mad lass."
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SARAH VINE: The Queen is a very hard act to follow... King Charles faces a host of pressing tasks that can't be dismissed like that pesky pen
There were many reasons our late Queen was held in such deep affection and so widely admired; but one of them, I think, was her quiet humility.
For all her titles, she was the opposite of entitled. We saw that not only in her attitude towards her duties, but in her personal habits too. She was thrifty, she abhorred waste, she was not afraid to get her hands dirty.
She judged people by their actions, not their status, and was just as comfortable spending her days with the daughter of a docker — Angela Kelly, her dresser and confidante in later years — as any high-born duchess.
The Crown was hers to inherit; but she worked tirelessly to prove that she was worthy of wearing it.
Whatever the privileges of her position, she never took any of it for granted.
All this is a very hard act to follow — and yet it is the task that faces her successor, King Charles.
For now, of course, he must rest, having lived through a deeply tiring, traumatic and emotionally charged few days. But if he is to guide the monarchy successfully into its next chapter, he must show that he understands that the true mark of a monarch is determined not by the symbols and trappings of power, but by concrete actions.
There are many pressing issues that await his attention, and he can’t just dismiss them with a grimace and a petulant wave of his hand, as he did with that pesky pen last week
That said, if I were King Charles, I would not rush to book the Abbey. I would give myself a bit of time, a period of reflection, and focus on getting my house in order first
Already we have seen just how much the King is capable of. A whirlwind tour of the country, procession after procession, addressing the nation, solemn speech after solemn speech, endless walkabouts, greeting of dignitaries, shaking of hands and, of course, the hardest thing of all: standing vigil at his mother’s coffin before finally laying her to rest and assuming the mantle of power himself.
There aren’t many 73-year-olds who could endure such a punishing schedule, let alone while dealing with the huge emotional turmoil of losing someone who was not only a beloved parent but also an icon against which he will inevitably be judged. I hope Camilla’s got him on the cod liver oil.
But the real test will be over the next few weeks and months, as he settles into his new role and the character of his reign begins to take shape. There are many pressing issues that await his attention, and he can’t just dismiss them with a grimace and a petulant wave of his hand, as he did with that pesky pen last week.
First and foremost is the question of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They just about fell into line for the sake of the Queen’s memory, but it still feels more like a temporary truce than a lasting peace.
Certainly nothing fundamental seems to have changed in the demeanour of Prince Harry, especially after he made it known how upset he was about having the Queen’s initials removed from his Army uniform as he stood vigil over his grandmother’s coffin.
There were many reasons our late Queen was held in such deep affection and so widely admired; but one of them, I think, was her quiet humility, writes Sarah Vine (pictured)
It won’t be long before he and Meghan are back in California, and without the benign influence of his grandmother to keep him in check, it could well be all-out war. Unless, that is, the King can persuade Harry to abandon his plans for a tell-all book and find other ways of earning a living that don’t involve trading off his and Meghan’s so-called ‘misery’.
Prince Andrew, too, is a problem — although perhaps less so, since he doesn’t have a vast social media following and an army of adoring fans to egg him on.
But there are difficulties beyond the immediate family, too.
First and foremost is the question of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They just about fell into line for the sake of the Queen’s memory, but it still feels more like a temporary truce than a lasting peace
Britons are facing a winter of hardship, with soaring energy prices and increases in the cost of living.
The late Queen, with her two-bar electric heater at Balmoral Castle, would have had no trouble resisting criticism of the royal lifestyle; this may be trickier for King Charles. Especially given his pending Coronation, which is likely to take place next spring or early summer. Already there are questions about whether, given everything, a full-blown state occasion is appropriate.
The optics of opulence have rarely been harder to justify, and even a pared-down ceremony is likely to draw criticism, especially from those who see the death of the Queen as an opportunity to undermine the monarchy.
Personally, I think if you’re going to have a Coronation, it should be bells and whistles. After all, Britain is a monarchy, and that’s what monarchies do.
That said, if I were King Charles, I would not rush to book the Abbey. I would give myself a bit of time, a period of reflection, and focus on getting my house in order first.
I would begin to put in place measures to slim down the monarchy; deal with the more pressing matters at hand; support the new Prime Minister (after all, they are both newbies together) and generally work on building allies and goodwill.
That way, when the Coronation finally happens, it will feel entirely justified: a well-deserved celebration of a great British institution — and not, as its enemies will doubtless try to frame it, an empty extravagance we can ill-afford.
What on earth are they going to do with all the Queen’s outfits?
When the Queen Mother died, 20 years ago, a friend who lives near Ballater, in Royal Deeside, noted that the local second-hand clothes shop had suddenly acquired an influx of exquisitely-made items.
Will the Knightsbridge branch of Save the Children (assuming there is such a thing) suddenly be full of an array of brightly coloured hats and dresses?
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King Charles’s equerry, Major Jonathan Thompson of the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment, has set social media on fire with his absurd good looks and dashing demeanour
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He is known for his fur sporran in all weathers. And no, that is not a euphemism.
A Swiss politician has caused outrage by suggesting that people save energy by sharing showers.
I wouldn’t necessarily share a shower; but we do get the most out of a bath in my house.
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New Culture Secretary, Michelle Donelan, was doing the media rounds yesterday morning — and boy was she impressive.
Interviewer after interviewer did their best to trip her up, as relatively fresh meat.
New Culture Secretary, Michelle Donelan, was doing the media rounds yesterday morning — and boy was she impressive
But she bested all of them, including Kay Burley on Sky, who looked a complete fool after she attempted to belittle Donelan’s record at the Department for Education and then tried to catch her out for taking a payoff which, as Donelan patiently told her, she never actually received.
One to watch.
A priceless memory for Louis to treasure
I understand why the Prince and Princess of Wales left Prince Louis at home for the funeral — too young for such a solemn occasion.
But one of the last pictures of the Queen sees her dressed in Wedgewood blue, leaning on her cane on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, a huge grin on her face as he claps his hands over his ears to block out the roar of the fly-past — something that in years to come he will treasure
But one of the last pictures of the Queen sees her dressed in Wedgewood blue, leaning on her cane on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, a huge grin on her face as he claps his hands over his ears to block out the roar of the fly-past — something that in years to come he will treasure.
What a shame his cousin Archie, three, won’t share such memories.
If I had to pick one moment from Monday’s funeral, it would be the lone piper who closed the Westminster Abbey ceremony with a rendition of the traditional lament, Sleep, Dearie, Sleep.
On a day of great pomp and pageantry, for some reason the austerity of that moment struck me as the most beautiful of all.
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Revealed... The simple yet poignant inscription for Queen's final resting place: Slab at Windsor contains monarch's name alongside those of beloved husband and parents
- Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest beside her husband Prince Philip in a moving private ceremony last night
- Overnight a new slab has been installed with the names of the late monarch, her husband and her parents
- Between the couples is a metal Garter Star, to mark that they were all members of the Order of the Garter
- The public will be able to view the Queen’s final resting place at St George's Chapel in Windsor from next week
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The Queen’s final resting place has been marked with a simple slab reuniting her for eternity with her adored husband and parents.
The 96-year-old sovereign was interred in a moving private ceremony at Windsor’s King George VI Memorial Chapel on Monday night.
There, a ledger stone – an inscribed slab laid into the floor – had previously been marked with the names of the Queen’s parents in gold lettering on black Belgian marble.
Tonight Buckingham Palace revealed that a new slab was installed overnight with the names of the late monarch, her husband and parents along with the dates of their birth and death.
In order, it reads George VI 1895-1952, Elizabeth 1900-2002, Elizabeth II 1926-2022, Philip 1921-2021.
Between the two couples is a single metal Garter Star, the insignia of the Order of the Garter, the country’s oldest and most noble order of chivalry.
All four were members of the order and St George’s Chapel, where the memorial chapel is situated, is its spiritual home.
A stone slab engraved with the names of Queen Elizabeth II, her late husband Prince Philip, and her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, has been installed at St George's Chapel in Windsor
The Royal Family yesterday released a never-before-seen image showing Queen Elizabeth II hiking in the heather at Balmoral in Scotland
Her Majesty was interred alongside her husband, Prince Philip, and her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Pictured: A stone in the George VI Memorial Chapel at St George's Chapel in Windsor, where the Queen Mother was laid to rest in 2002
Queen Elizabeth II's coffin is lowered beneath St George's Chapel in Windsor during her committal service on Monday afternoon
The humble stone annexe, which can be viewed through a metal gate inside St George’s Chapel, also contains the ashes of the late monarch’s sister, Margaret.
The public will be able to view the Queen’s final resting place from next week but will have to pay for the privilege, it can be revealed.
The chapel, which is currently closed during the period of royal morning, will reopen to visitors on Thursday September 29 as part of a general tour of Windsor Castle, costing up to £28.50 for adults and £15.50 for children.
The castle is only open five days a week from Thursday through to Monday – but St George’s Chapel is closed to the public on Sundays as it is a living place of worship.
Castle tours are run by the Royal Collection Trust (RCT), a registered charity and a department of the Royal Household. No profits are kept by the Royal Family.
Income generated from admissions and other commercial activities is used for the upkeep of the Royal Collection, one of the largest and most important art collections in the world and one of the last great European royal collections to remain intact.
Containing thousands of artworks and antiques, the collection is not owned by The King as a private individual but is held in trust by the sovereign for his successors and the nation.
Its treasures are spread among some 15 royal residences and former residences across the UK, most of which are regularly open to the public.
There may be some surprise, however, that those wishing to see the Queen’s resting place and pay their respects will have to pay in order to do it.
Sources stressed, however, that the RCT is a charity and suffered a £30million deficit as a result of the pandemic.
There is also likely to be concern that St George’s Chapel could be overrun with mourners, particularly as the family memorial is so small and visitors can only peer into it through a small metal gate.
Given that 250,000 wellwishers queued for up to 14 hours to view the Queen lying in state, Windsor staff could face long waiting lines and bottlenecks.
A private service, which was due to start at 7.30pm, took place last night away from the public's gaze where King Charles buried his mother the Queen. This rarely seen picture from 1947 was released last night
King Charles III places the Queen's Company Camp Colour of the Grenadier Guards on Her Majesty's coffin at Monday's committal service
The new monarch was tearful as he bade farewell to his mother at Monday afternoon's committal service at St George's Chapel in Windsor
Members of the public threw flowers and bouquets which covered the royal hearse as the Queen arrived in Windsor on Monday afternoon
An RCT spokesman stressed, however, that only a limited number of castle tickets are sold each day in timed, 15-minute slots.
George VI died in February 1952 at the age of just 56 – a moment the Queen always marked privately at her Sandringham estate. Her mother passed away aged 101 in March 2002. The Queen lost her sister, Princess Margaret, the previous month at the age of 71.
King George’s coffin had been originally placed in the Royal Vault. But as it was his wish to rest in his own chapel with his beloved wife, a memorial chapel that bears his name was built by his eldest daughter in 1969.
Their resting place was marked by a black ledger with the inscriptions King George VI 1895-1952 and Elizabeth 1900-2002 in gold lettering. Margaret’s ashes were initially placed in the Royal Vault, before being moved to the memorial chapel when the Queen Mother died weeks later.
After an historic State Funeral in London and committal ceremony at Windsor on Monday, the late Queen’s coffin was taken down into the vault but later brought back up along with that of Prince Philip, who died last April at the age of 99.
Their remains were then interred in the tiny family memorial annex built on the north side of St George’s Chapel.
Their coffins were gently lowered 18ft to lie one on top of the other, supported by a metal frame, inside the 10ft by 14ft chamber.
An RCT spokesman said visitors would not be able to bring flowers inside the castle.
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Citi sets new Black employee target at 3% for UK
Bank looks to build again after beating earlier targets to increase Black and female representation
Citigroup is aiming to increase its proportion of Black employees in the UK to 3% over the next three years, as part of a raft of new diversity targets.
The US investment bank has included its City operations in a set of new diversity goals and has also expanded its targets elsewhere in the world.
In the UK, Citigroup is aiming for 3% of its...
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https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/citi-sets-new-black-employee-target-at-3-for-uk-20220920
| true
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