Eurovision song contest 2023: seven UK cities named as potential hosts | Eurovision
Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield have been named as potential hosts for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest when it is held in the UK for the first time in 25 years. Scott Mills announced the seven candidate cities live on Zoë Ball’s Radio 2 breakfast show. This year’s Eurovision was won in Turin by the Kalush Orchestra, representing Ukraine. That would normally mean Ukraine would host in 2023, which its government wanted to happen, but in June the European Broadcasting Union announced that next year’s contest could not be held there because of the war. Instead, the…
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The CBD Gold Rush Is Over & It’s Great for Consumers
Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor. Nothing in this publication should be construed as investment advice. CV Sciences ($CVSI), the company behind the leading brand +PlusCBD, had a meteoric rise in 2018. The US Farm Bill had just passed, legalizing the cultivation of hemp nationwide. Research firms projected that the CBD industry would grow to $20 billion in annual revenue. CV Sciences was at the forefront, widely recognized as one of the top two companies in the CBD industry (the other being Charlotte’s Web). At one point in 2019, the company’s market capitalization reached $575 million. A lot has…
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Good Government Group Says Rate Hikes Are Not Justified
Tom Swan, Executive Director of CCAG Credit: File photo by Christine Stuart Connecticut Citizens Action Group updated its report on insurance company benefits in anticipation of Monday’s hearing on proposed double-digit rate hikes by health insurance companies in the individual and small group market . The report found that five of the companies looking to raise consumer rates by 2023 saw billions of dollars in profits, stock buybacks and executive compensation. “As the state considers these requested rate hikes, it’s important to look at what insurance companies are doing with the dollars they collect from Connecticut residents,” said Tom Swan,…
Read More »At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before
NEW DELHI (AP) — Demonstrations on Aug. 5 by India’s main opposition Congress party against rising food prices and unemployment began like any other recent protest: an electorally weak opposition that took to the streets of New Delhi against the massively popular government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The protests, however, quickly took a turn when key Congress lawmakers led by Rahul Gandhi, Modi’s main opponent in the last two general elections, arrived at Parliament, sparking fierce clashes with police. “Democracy is a memory (in India),” Gandhi tweeted later, describing dramatic photographs showing him and his party leaders being briefly…
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New CBD Store Sets up in India and Hopes to Expand the Local Underserved Market
CBD Store India is a new entrant in the exciting cannabidiol market in the country It is important that India is not left out of this industry. People elsewhere are enjoying life changes from CBD products.” – Sean NEW DELHI, DELHI, INDIA, August 11, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — CBD Store India is a new entrant to the exciting cannabidiol market in the country. The company has high hopes of providing its Indian customers with high-quality CBD products as well as quality information. “When we did feasibility studies on the availability of CBD Oil India products, we quickly realized that the market…
Read More »Lebanese gunman holds bank staff hostage to access his savings
A gunman who held 10 people hostage inside a Lebanese bank to gain access to his own savings turned himself into police Thursday after a seven-hour standoff. No one was injured during the ordeal. Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, a food delivery driver, said he had to withdraw his money to pay his father’s medical bills. On Thursday, the 42-year-old man entered a Federal Bank branch in Beirut with a shotgun and a can of gasoline. About $210,000 (€204,000) had been deposited there, according to his family. Inside, Hussein held seven or eight employees, plus two customers, hostage and demanded access to…
Read More »‘CBD Investr’ receives Digital C Award and MENA Banking Excellence Award 2022
Dubai: Commercial Bank of Dubai, a leading bank in the United Arab Emirates, announced that its app ‘CBD Investr’ has been awarded ‘Outstanding Robo Advisory’ at the 2022 Digital CX Awards and ‘Most Effective Investment Service Offering’ in MENA Banking Excellence Awards 2022. Digital Banker’s Digital CX Awards recognize the world’s leading financial services organizations for pioneering innovation in the digital customer experience. The MENA Banking Excellence Awards celebrate the best banking and financial services institutions and individuals for their innovative offerings and commitment to customer excellence. The CBD Investr app allows users to automatically build a globally diversified and…
Read More »CT should use backup batteries to conserve power
“The big debate there,” said Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO-New England, “is can you do it the way Texas does it, which is an energy-only market? Or do you need a capacity market? Capacity markets aim to ensure grid reliability by paying participants to commit generation to delivery years into the future. Power-only markets, on the other hand, pay generators only when they provide power on a daily basis. How about a third way: one where power companies incentivize their customers to maintain battery backup systems that fill in when there’s excess power on the grid and draw when…
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