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A battle for four titles and to make historical past

That wasn’t always the plan. This was far from Amanda Serrano’s goal. It never crossed their minds during their championship-winning, seven-weight boxing title-winning career.

Be undisputed in a division? No, it wasn’t for Serrano and her team. They were content with chasing a different kind of story, winning championships in seven different divisions and making her one of the greatest fighters of all time.

Then, three years ago, the team began to think differently about how they wanted to continue with their careers.

Serrano (43-2-1, 30 KOs) was tired of maneuvering her way through divisions and her body no longer progressed to flyweight or welterweight. She wanted to stay at featherweight where she was comfortable. Plus, their contemporaries — Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields — were doing something fascinating: They were vying for unchallenged status.

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The only time Serrano was in an undisputed bout against WBA featherweight champion Erika Cruz before Saturday’s main event was a year ago at Madison Square Garden when she was the challenger to Taylor’s undisputed lightweight titles. It was arguably the biggest fight in women’s boxing history.

“It wasn’t always a dream of ours or the team, it wasn’t always the main goal to become the undisputed champion,” said Serrano. “I was content just being the WBO featherweight champion, but now that’s the era.

“Everyone does it, so I said, ‘You know what, I want to be a part of it.'”

Serrano began collecting featherweight titles, first beating Heather Hardy for the WBO belt in 2019, then Daniela Bermudez in 2021 (WBC) and Sarah Mahfoud last year (IBF). If she beats Cruz, Serrano will add another honor to a career-filled career.

For the most part, Serrano, 34, said she’s completed division-hopping save for a possible rematch against Taylor, for which she would return to lightweight. If they win on Saturday and then fight Taylor – and would beat her – she said she has no plans to go three divisions undisputed because she wants to stay once in her career.

The initial hope for the first Taylor vs. Serrano bout was that Serrano would already be undisputed at featherweight, but the opportunity to fight Taylor first last year was too great. So she took it. Even with a loss, it continued to elevate Serrano’s status.

But making sure she went unchallenged ahead of a second fight between Taylor and Serrano was a priority. She’s stepped up her sparring at camp — for the first time in her 14-year pro career, she’s going to her six-week camp three times a week. She added a sports masseuse to her team for the first time and noticed a difference in her body and its recovery.

All of this for a fight, she said, “means everything to me.” Not just for them, but for their native Puerto Rico, which has never had an undisputed champion in the four-belt era.

“I said let’s try it,” Serrano said after realizing that Puerto Rico has never had an undisputed champion in either men’s or women’s boxing. “We definitely had champions [men’s] classification. [I am] a seven-division world champion, had [the youngest] champions of all time [Wilfred Benitez, 16].

“So I wanted to give that to my island and give them an undisputed champion.”

Assuming all goes well on Saturday, Serrano believes a rematch against Taylor is on the horizon.

The Unlikely Journey of Erika Cruz

Erika Cruz is a WBA Featherweight Champion, member of the Mexican National Guard and a law student. Luis Gutierrez/Norte Photo/Getty Images

It started with finding discipline as a teenager. It became much, much more.

Cruz grew up boxing — her father Guillermo was a professional fighter — and after becoming a single mother to her son Cesar Josue at the age of 15, she said Guillermo wanted her to box to create more discipline.

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As a kid, Cruz thought of boxing as “a game” — she was always in the gym when her dad was working out. When she returned to the gym at 18, she saw things differently. She felt the passion for the sport. Fifteen days after re-entering the gym, she had her first fight. She asked her father questions about everything. He taught her everything he knew. She had a goal, even if it wasn’t planned, to be a mother as a teenager.

“In that moment, my son became the most important thing in my life and to this day he is the most important thing I have in my life,” Cruz said through an interpreter. “He is the engine of my life and the reason why I chose boxing.

“There were times when my son needed me, but I decided to continue boxing because I saw that I could give my son financial stability.”

Every day, Cruz said, he motivates her. He boxed for a while, then played soccer and now wants to pursue a career as a weightlifter. And she’s become a hardworking role model, going beyond what the WBA featherweight champion achieved in the ring.

Her father initially helped financially. After winning the silver medal at the 2011 Pan American Games, she received a scholarship – and also support from the Mexican Olympic Committee. She has taken on sponsorships. And in 2015, just before turning pro, the 32-year-old began working in administration with the Mexican National Guard.

The National Guard also continues to work on its schedule to adjust when it needs to train for combat to keep everything fit. The job also gave Cruz (15-1, 3 KOs) a post-boxing plan.

Cruz began attending online law school part-time at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Guanajuato. She has about 18 months ahead of her — adapting classes between training for combat — with a goal of working as an attorney for the National Guard when she’s done. “Ever since I was little, I always wanted to be a cop or a lawyer,” Cruz said. “I never thought of becoming a boxer and as I grew up I realized it was a good career to pursue. I like it a lot and I think it’s something that will help me continue in the National Guard.”

Before she’s done boxing, she has more fights ahead of her – starting Saturday night against Serrano. Fighting on a platform like this in New York is what she had in mind when she first started boxing. It will be her second professional fight outside of Mexico – her last came in 2021 when she beat Yelena Billionovich for the WBA title she currently holds at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Now she’s returning to the United States and on a much larger platform for the biggest fight of her career. A win changes your life.

“It would mean everything I went through was worth it, the sacrifices, leaving my son to train,” Cruz said. “That’s what I suffered the most, having to leave my son for a long time to train. That would mean, and it would be a way of acknowledging all the sacrifices and hard work.

“And I want to be a role model for all women and show that Mexico continues to be the country that fights big and achieves great things in world boxing.”

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Excessive temperatures promote biodiversity in arctic and subarctic seas

The results of the study prove that global warming is leading to a redistribution of species not only in the tropics but also in polar regions

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A new study by Nord University (Norway), with the participation of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, ​​has confirmed that the high temperatures in the Arctic and subarctic seas – particularly affected by global warming – encourage the establishment of species in these waters that previously inhabited warmer areas farther south.

Details of the research are reported in a recent article published in the journal PNAS. Data from more than 20,000 trawl surveys in the Norwegian and Barents Seas between 1994 and 2020 were analyzed to conduct the study.

“In 1994, an average of 8 species of fish were caught in each trawl in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, while in 2020 the number rises to over 13, a 66% increase. The results of the study also showed an increase, albeit less significant, in the wealth of neighboring areas,” explains the lead author Cesc Gordó Vilasecafrom North University.

This proves that the warming of waters due to climate change is leading to a redistribution of species, not only in the warmer areas – much better studied – but also in colder areas like the polar zones, which are warming much faster than the rest of the planet.

Different responses to warming

On the other hand, the study shows the responses of different species to warming. Of the 193 species included, 71 relatively warm water species are now more common in the northern seas, while 23 species previously more common in the study area are now less common.

However, the study also reveals the spread of some Arctic species that may be adapting well to rising temperatures. Among the relatively warm species that are increasing are some of great commercial interest, such as the common cod (Gadus morhua). In contrast, according to the study, most of the declining Arctic species, such as Arctic cod (Arctogadus glacialis), are not widely fished, although they may play an important ecological role.

“The shift in abundance of species, sometimes favored by high temperatures and sometimes not, could lead to a reconfiguration of ecological interactions, leading to changes in the structure and functioning of the entire ecosystem,” he warns Martha CollResearcher at ICM-CSIC and co-author of the study.

Studies like these are essential as they can help develop more effective conservation and management strategies. For this reason, for future research, researchers will delve deeper into the changes at the overall ecosystem level that may be caused by the rise in temperature in the polar regions. The potential impact of these changes on fisheries management and conservation measures will also be analyzed.

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Three decades of increasing fish biodiversity in the Northeast Atlantic and Arctic Ocean

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Biden plans to finish the Might 11 public well being emergency

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before receiving a second COVID-19 booster shot in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on March 30, 2022 in Washington, United States.

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The Biden administration plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring as the U.S. shifts away from responding to the pandemic as a national crisis, instead treating the virus more like a seasonal respiratory illness.

The White House said in a statement Monday it will end public health and national emergencies on May 11, which the Trump administration first declared in 2020.

The statement, issued by the Office of Management and Budget, expressed the White House’s strong opposition to House Republican legislation aimed at immediately ending emergency declarations.

Public health and national emergencies have allowed hospitals to respond more flexibly when faced with spikes in patient traffic during Covid outbreaks.

Enrollment in Medicaid has also surged because Congress has blocked states in principle from withdrawing people from the program, citing the public health emergency.

A provision in federal spending legislation passed in December allows states to begin withdrawing people from Medicaid in April.

The Department of Health and Human Services has promised to give states 60 days’ notice before the emergency ends, giving the health care system time to prepare for a return to normal.

The public health emergency has been extended every 90 days since January 2020 as the virus has evolved into new variants and repeatedly thrown curveballs over the past three years. HHS extended the emergency earlier this month.

The OMB said an abrupt end to emergencies in the manner established by Republican legislation would “create widespread chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system.”

Ending the statements without giving hospitals time to adjust would result in “disruptions in care and delays in payments, and many facilities across the country will experience lost revenue,” according to the OMB statement.

It would also “sow confusion and chaos” in the process of processing Medicaid coverage, OMB said.

Though emergency declarations remain in place, the federal response to the pandemic has already been scaled back as funding has dried up. Congress failed for months to pass a White House request for $22.5 billion in additional funding for the Covid response.

The White House also plans to bring the Covid vaccines to the private market in the near future, although the exact timing is unclear. That means the cost of the vaccines would be borne by patients’ insurance policies, not the federal government.

Moderna and Pfizer have both announced they can charge up to $130 per vaccine dose, four times what the federal government pays.

Covid has killed more than 1 million people in the US since 2020. Deaths have fallen dramatically since the pandemic peaked in winter 2021, but nearly 4,000 people still succumb to the virus each week.

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Gigi Hadid opens up about how her daughter Khai directs the present at house

Rise and shine!

Gigi Hadid recently shared a glimpse into her morning routine with her 2-year-old daughter Khai. And let’s just say that the supermodel’s toddler — who she shares with ex Zain Malik– gorgeous calls the shots.

“Whenever she wakes up, I wake up,” Gigi told WSJ Magazine in an interview published Jan. 30, noting that they typically wake up between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. “I have a very mom morning routine.”

Once out of bed, the NYC duo enjoys a breakfast of champions. “I eat everything Khai has,” admitted the 27-year-old. “I make her pancakes and sausages every day.”

And Gigi doesn’t make ordinary pancakes either.

“For Christmas,” Gigi said, “she asked me what I would ask Santa for, so I said I wanted a new pancake pan. I ordered this cool pancake pan through Santa – each small circle pancake is a different animal so she can have lion pancakes or llama pancakes.”

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British startup develops gadget to fight air pollution brought on by tire abrasion

Tire wear is a major contributor to microplastic pollution – small particles that do not biodegrade and accumulate in the environment, releasing harmful toxins into the air and our waterways. And although there is no EU regulation to this effect yet, a London startup has developed a device that can capture these particles.

The Tire Collective started as a masters project by three former students from Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art who founded the startup in 2020. It claims to have developed the very first device to detect tire contamination.

The team discovered that tire particles become charged through friction with the road. Based on this, it developed its patent-pending technology that uses electrostatics and airflow to attract up to 60% of these particles. Once captured, they can be recycled as micronized rubber for a variety of uses such as 3D printing, shoe soles and soundproofing – creating a closed loop system.

How the device looks. Photo credit: The Tire Collective

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Working with London-based logistics company Zhero, the cleantech startup completed its first pilot in November 2022. The TC02 prototype was able to detect tire abrasion particles ranging in size from 0.3 to 100 microns. Over half were below 10 microns, considered the most hazardous to human health and the environment.

In the first phase, the Tire Collective is targeting logistics fleets, starting with delivery and maintenance vehicles before moving to buses and trucks. In the future, the device will be scaled across all vehicle segments, with a special focus on electric vehicles. It is also looking for partners to run larger pilots and OEMs interested in integrating the technology.

Although reducing pollution from tire abrasion is an integral step towards zero-emission mobility, it has not received the attention it deserves. This means it’s a favorable place for clean tech startups trying to improve the sustainability of a vehicle’s lifecycle.

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Astronomers discover 25 speedy radio bursts that repeat commonly

Like gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most powerful and mysterious astronomical phenomena today. These transient events consist of outbursts that give off more energy in one millisecond than the Sun does in three days. While most bursts only last milliseconds, there have been rare instances of FRBs repeating themselves. While astronomers are still unsure of what causes them and opinions vary, dedicated observatories and international collaborations have dramatically increased the number of events available for study.

A leading observatory is the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a next-generation radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) in British Columbia, Canada. Thanks to its large field of view and wide frequency coverage, this telescope is an indispensable tool for detecting FRBs (more than 1000 sources to date!). Using a novel algorithm, the CHIME/FRB collaboration found evidence of 25 new repeating FRBs in CHIME data collected between 2019 and 2021.

The CHIME/FRB collaboration includes astronomers and astrophysicists from Canada, the US, Australia, Tawain and India. Its partner institutions include DRAO, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (DI), Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) , the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the National Center for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as several universities and institutes.

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Despite their mysterious nature, FRBs are ubiquitous and the best estimates show that events arrive on Earth about a thousand times a day across the sky. None of the theories or models proposed so far can fully explain all the properties of the eruptions or the sources. While some are believed to be caused by neutron stars and black holes (due to the high energy density of their surroundings), others continue to elude classification. Because of this, other theories exist ranging from pulsars and magnetars to GRBs and extraterrestrial communications.

CHIME was originally developed to measure the expansion history of the universe by detecting neutral hydrogen. About 370,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was permeated by this gas, and the only photons were either relic radiation from the Big Bang – the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – or that released by neutral hydrogen atoms. For this reason, astronomers and cosmologists refer to this period as the “Dark Ages,” which ended approximately 1 billion years after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies began to reionize neutral hydrogen (the Age of Reionization).

In particular, CHIME was designed to detect the wavelength of light that neutral hydrogen absorbs and emits, known as the 21-centimeter hydrogen line. This allowed astronomers to measure how fast the universe was expanding during the “dark ages” and make comparisons with later observable cosmological epochs. However, CHIME has now proven to be ideally suited for investigating FRBs due to its wide field of view and frequency range covered (400 to 800 MHz). This is the goal of the CHIME/FRB collaboration, which is to detect, characterize and trace FRBs to their sources.

As Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow and lead author Ziggy Pleunis told Universe Today, each FRB is described by its position in the sky and a quantity known as the dispersion measure (DM). This refers to the time delay from high to low frequencies caused by the burst’s interactions with material as it travels through space. In a paper published in August 2021, the CHIME/FRB collaboration presented the first large-sample catalog of FRBs, containing 536 events detected by CHIME between 2018 and 2019, including 62 bursts from 18 previously reported repetitive sources.

Artist’s rendering of a rapid radio burst and the observatories dedicated to detecting it. Photo credit: Danielle Futselaar

For this latest study, Pleunis and his colleagues relied on a new clustering algorithm that looks for multiple events that are in the sky with similar DMs. “We can measure the sky position and the scatter of the fast radio burst to a certain accuracy, which depends on the design of the telescope used,” Pleunis said. “The clustering algorithm takes into account all fast radio bursts detected by the CHIME telescope and looks for clusters of FRBs that have consistent sky positions and dispersion measures within the measurement uncertainties. We then run various checks to ensure that the bursts in a cluster really do come from the same source.”

Of the over 1000 FRBs discovered to date, only 29 have been identified as repetitive. Additionally, it has been found that virtually all repeating FRBs repeat in an irregular fashion. The only exception is FRB 180915, discovered by researchers at CHIME in 2018 (and reported in 2020), which pulses every 16.35 days. Using this new algorithm, the CHIME/FRB collaboration discovered 25 new repetitive sources, nearly doubling the number available for study. In addition, the team found some very interesting features that could provide insight into their causes and properties. As Pleunis added:

“If we carefully count all of our fast bursts and the sources that are repeated, we find that only about 2.6% of all fast bursts we detect are repeated. For many of the new sources we only detected a few bursts, making the sources fairly inactive. Almost as dormant as the springs we’ve only seen once.

“We can therefore not rule out that the sources from which we have only seen one burst so far will also show repeat bursts at some point. It is possible for all fast radio burst sources to repeat at some point, but many sources are not very active. Any explanation for fast radio bursts should explain why some sources are hyperactive while others are mostly quiet.”

An illustration of CHIME detecting Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in the night sky. Credit: James Josephides/Mike Dalley

These results could help inform future surveys that will benefit from next-generation radio telescopes that will become operational in the years to come. These include the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), which is expected to collect its first light by 2027. Located in Australia, this 128 dish telescope will be merged with the MeerKAT array in South Africa to create the largest radio telescope in the world. In the meantime, the amazing rate at which new FRBs are being discovered (including repeating events) could mean that radio astronomers could be on the verge of a breakthrough!

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Chargers QB Justin Herbert wants surgical procedure to restore a torn labrum

Los Angeles Chargers star quarterback Justin Herbert underwent surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder, the team announced Sunday.

Herbert, 24, is expected to be fully released to participate in off-season activities this spring.

It is unclear when Herbert suffered the injury. The Chargers were eliminated from the playoffs two weeks ago when the Jacksonville Jaguars made the third-biggest comeback in NFL playoff history in the wildcard round.

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Herbert played several weeks this season with a fractured rib cartilage he sustained in Week 2, but still threw for 4,739 yards and 25 touchdowns as the Chargers secured their first playoff spot since 2018.

Hebert was selected as a proxy for the AFC at the 2023 NFL Pro Bowl Games but is unable to attend due to surgery.

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The FDA is withdrawing Evusheld as a result of it isn’t efficient towards subvariants

Evusheld injection (tixagevimab and cilgavimab), a new COVID-19 treatment that people can take before they become symptomatic. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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The Food and Drug Administration withdrew its approval for Thursday AstraZeneca‘s Evusheld, an antibody injection that people with weak immune systems rely on as extra protection against Covid-19.

The FDA pulled Evusheld from the market because it is not effective against more than 90% of the Covid subvariants currently circulating in the US

The subvariant omicron XBB.1.5, which can evade infection-blocking antibodies, has been growing rapidly in the US and now accounts for 49% of new cases, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Evusheld is also not effective against the BQ.1, BQ.1.1, and XBB subvariants. Along with XBB.1.5, versions of Covid resistant to Evusheld now account for almost 93% of new cases in the US

“Today’s action to restrict the use of Evusheld prevents patients from being exposed to possible side effects of Evusheld, such as allergic reactions, which can be potentially serious, while less than 10% of the variants circulating in the US that cause infections are susceptible to the product are,” the FDA said in a statement Thursday.

People with weakened immune systems, such as cancer chemotherapy and organ transplant patients, are among the groups most vulnerable to serious illness from Covid. Many take Evusheld as an added layer of protection because the vaccines do not elicit a strong immune response.

The decision to stop Evusheld comes more than a month after the FDA withdrew an antibody treatment called bebtelovimab because it was not effective against subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1.

Evusheld is taken as a preventive measure before exposure to Covid. It’s a combination of antibodies, cilgavimab, and tixagevimab given as two injections every six months.

According to data from the Department of Health and Human Services, just over a million doses of Evusheld have been distributed in the United States since the FDA approved the injections in December 2021. About 720,000 of these doses were actually administered to patients.

More than 7 million adults in the US have a compromised immune system. They made up about 12% of Covid hospital admissions, despite making up just 3% of the population, according to a study by the CDC examining data from 10 states.

There is currently no replacement for Evusheld. dr Ashish Jha, head of the White House Covid task force, has blamed Congress for the dwindling number of treatments. He said lawmakers’ failure to pass additional Covid funds meant there was no money to invest in new antibodies.

“We had hoped that as time went on as the pandemic progressed and as our fight against this virus progressed, we would expand our medicine cabinet,” Jha told reporters in October. “Due to a lack of congressional funding, this medicine cabinet has actually shrunk and that is putting vulnerable people at risk.”

President Joe Biden urged people with compromised immune systems to see a doctor.

“New variants may render some existing protections for immunocompromised people ineffective,” the president said in October. “Unfortunately, that means you may be at particular risk this winter. I urge you to consult with your doctors on the right steps to protect yourself and take extra precautions.”

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Kim Ok slams paparazzi asking if Kanye West threw a cellphone

Kim Kardashian was spotted with Tristan Thompson left her kids’ basketball game when she slammed a question about her ex-husband Kanye West’s encounter with dads and a fan earlier in the day.

She replied, “Don’t talk about it in front of my kids!” when asked about Ye’s run-in with paparazzi and a fan.

“Hey Kim, what do you think of Kanye hitting someone…the paparazzi’s cell phone?” the person asks.

To which Kardashian sternly replies,

“Don’t talk about it in front of my kids,” the photographer apologized.

A child can also be heard yelling “Please go!” in the background.

Kanye West named in battery charge investigation after phone incident

According to TMZ, just hours before the incident, Kanye West had been named as a suspect in a battery investigation after he allegedly grabbed a woman’s phone and threw it when she refused to stop filming him.

A law enforcement source confirms that West is the named suspect in this investigation.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department was called to the scene around 4:30 p.m. and received video evidence of the incident.

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Musk is in a authorized duel with a king over Twitter’s unpaid London hire

Twitter has fallen out with another landlord: King Charles III.

The Crown Estate, which manages the British monarch’s vast property portfolio, has sued Twitter over unpaid rent for office space in London. The lawsuit was filed with the High Court in the British capital last week.

The case joins a series of rent disputes that are engulfing Twitter. In December, the company allegedly hasn’t paid rent for any of its global offices for “weeks”. Since then, landlords have been in san francisco, Seattleand London have all sued the Vogel app, while employees at a Twitter office in Singapore were briefly evicted over late payments.

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The clashes come as Elon Musk takes drastic steps to cut costs at Twitter he bought in october for a ruinous $44 billion. His other actions include laying off half of the workforce, Disconnect from servers who keep the platform running, a messy start of a subscription service and, um, Sale of kitchen appliances.

The rent costs

The rent evasion was suspected as an attempt to negotiate better conditions. In the London building, however, that doesn’t appear to be the plan.

As the room has reportedly been abandoned and emptied, it doesn’t appear that Twitter will reoccupy the office. That doesn’t mean Musk gets away with it, though.

“Twitter remains subject to payment.

Andrew Conway, senior director and lead litigator specializing in property law at a London law firm Laurence StephensTNW said it was difficult to escape from its commitments.

“If the landlord fails to give up the lease (i.e., take back the premises so it can be re-leased to other tenants) or agree to a formal return of the lease, Twitter remains obligated to pay the rent for the remainder of the term of the lease,” Conway said by email.

In the event of expiry or surrender of the rental agreement, the tenant is only liable for payments up to the time of entry. Musk might like that, but it could give the crown estate a headache.

If the property cannot be rented out again quickly, landlords face several problems.

A landlord is left with empty premises to pay business fees for after three months,” Conway said. “Also, empty premises are more prone to occupation by squatters.”

Lawsuits offer a way to collect rent arrears — and Twitter will have little resistance to paying them.

The debt collectors are coming

Musk’s escalating feuds with landlords coincide with growing financial pressures on Twitter.

The first interest payment on the $13 billion in debt used to fund his acquisition could be due by the end of January the Financial Times. Analysts expect the looming bill to be around $300 million.

Sales on Twitter have also collapsed. search suggestions that ad spending up The platform — the source of about 90% of its revenue in 2021 — fell 71% in December.

Skipping the rent might delay some expenses, but it adds another dent to Musk’s faltering reputation. It’s also a blow to his dream quit remote work.

At least surviving employees of the Twitter base in New York can still go to the office. Sadly it is smells like feces and has a cockroach problem.