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They are both tied for 12th after shooting one-under-par 71s, to be three shots behind Frenchman Sebastien Gros at the Pulheim course.
Hend made a poor start, dropping four shots in his opening 10 holes, including a double bogey on the par-three fourth, before storming back with four birdies in his final six holes to add to the Queenslander's lone birdie on the opening nine.
South Australian Ormsby was flying high until he double bogeyed the last to peg him back.
A shot further behind is Adelaide-born Nick Cullen, who is in a tie for 23rd, after his even par round.
Much of the spotlight though was on Tommy Fleetwood, who closed with a 63 at the treacherous Shinnecock Hills course that matched the lowest round in US Open history last week.
But the world No.10 and tournament runner-up couldn't conjure up his US Open magic as he battled to a two-over-par 74.
The Englishman, whose father Pete is serving as his caddie this week, ended the day equal 55th.
Gros, ranked 104th on the European Tour's points list, headed Spain's Jorge Campillo, Scott Jamieson (Scotland), Englishman Aaron Rai and Henric Sturehead (Sweden) by one stroke.
Spain's Sergio Garcia is tied 35th after shooting a one-over-par 73 to sit alongside Victorian Lucas Herbert.
Firefighters prepare to enter the Macy's Herald Square store on Oct. 25, 2013. Heavy smoke forced the store's evacuation, but no injuries were reported.Firefighters prepare to enter the Macy's Herald Square store on Oct. 25, 2013. Heavy smoke forced the store's evacuation, but no injuries were reported.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The iconic Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square reopened Saturday morning, as an investigation into a fire at the store continued.
The blaze broke out around 8 p.m. in the basement of the iconic store, at 151 W. 34th St. All 20 floors of the building were evacuated.
The flames could be seen from outside, and inside, there was confusion and chaos as shoppers were surrounded by heavy smoke.
“I was eating, I was shopping. Everything broke loose,” shopper Biro Marius said.
“Everyone was carrying on as normal and then smoke started rising up. Twenty or 30 trucks showed up,” Frasier Smith added.
The blocks surrounding the flagship store were blocked off. Officials said a small mechanical fire in the basement got into the vents, and filled the iconic building with smoke.
Macy’s said the fire was mechanical in nature. No injuries were reported.
The store was reopened at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The well-known department store occupies more than 1 million square feet of retail space.
QUEBEC — The medical team treating boxer Adonis Stevenson in a Quebec City hospital said Wednesday it is too early to say anything definitive about his prognosis as he continues to receive treatment for a severe traumatic brain injury.
Intensive care specialist Dr. Alexis Turgeon told reporters the 41-year-old fighter remains in stable but critical condition after a knockout loss Saturday night in his WBC light heavyweight title defence against Oleksandr Gvozdyk of Ukraine.
Turgeon said he could not offer an informed opinion on the Montreal boxer’s chances of a full recovery.
Stevenson’s condition deteriorated after he was helped into the dressing room following Saturday’s fight, and he was transported by ambulance to Hopital de l’Enfant-Jesus from the Videotron Centre.
He was admitted with “a traumatic brain injury” that required rapid neurosurgery, the physician said.
He added that Stevenson is under mechanical ventilation, is sedated and requires specialized neurological monitoring.
Turgeon said by the time Stevenson arrived at the emergency room, he wasn’t able to speak.
“His level of consciousness was altered — like someone who was sleeping deeply,” Turgeon said.
A neurosurgeon quickly operated to reduce bleeding in the brain.
Turgeon said the next step for Stevenson is to get past the critical phase, which doctors hope can happen by the end of the week.
That will depend on the results of monitoring, further scans and assessment of his condition.
“When we are satisfied with the monitoring and his condition, we will try decrease the sedation and drugs to keep him under controlled sedation,” Turgeon said.
Sedation allows doctors to watch for secondary effects and reduces oxygen consumption in the brain, he said.
“With all the treatment we’re giving him, a person couldn’t tolerate all that without sedation,” Turgeon said.
Stevenson does have certain factors in his favour.
“He’s a healthy man, in good shape and we didn’t suspect any damage to his brain prior to this injury,” Turgeon said.
But there are likely to be some lasting effects.
“It’s a traumatic brain injury. The majority of people come out of it with after-effects,” the doctor said.
Turgeon said Stevenson’s family members, who are by his bedside, wanted to express thanks for all the messages of support they have received.
He asked that people refrain from reporting medical details that do not come from official sources, because the family is affected by speculation and rumours they read on social media.
The Haitian-born Stevenson is father to five children, including a newborn daughter.
Stevenson’s partner, Simone God, tweeted a message late Tuesday to Stevenson, saying his infant daughter misses him.
“You promised you’ll be back for her after the fight and I know you’ll be back! Love you,” she said.
– By Sidhartha Banerjee in Montreal.
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed France’s first lady Carla Bruni to make a personal appeal to the German parliament for aid, despite an initial cold shoulder given to the plan by some politicians.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert told Reuters on Thursday that Merkel supported Bruni’s quest to speak before the budget committee of the Bundestag lower house to seek more funding for the fight against AIDS.
“The Chancellor found this a good idea because Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy could deliver important arguments,” he said, using Bruni’s married name.
Officials in Merkel’s ruling coalition had earlier said the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to appear before the committee but was likely to be politely shown the door.
Bruni, a former model, hopes to press Germany in her capacity as an ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, but lawmakers were skeptical, arguing it would encourage other lobbyists to try their hand too.
“I can’t imagine she’ll be given an official invitation, because that would break the committee’s rules,” said Norbert Barthle, budgetary spokesman for Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in parliament.
Otto Fricke, a budget policy specialist from the Free Democrats (FDP), junior partners to the CDU, agreed.
“We mustn’t give the impression that celebrity status ensures access to the budget committee,” he said.
Rebuffing the 42-year-old Bruni could have been awkward for Merkel, whose relations with Sarkozy have suffered frequent ups and downs, most recently during a testy diplomatic exchange this month over the French president’s expulsion of Roma.
The officials said Bruni wants to ask Germany for an extra 200 million euros ($268.1 million) for the Global Fund, to which other countries promised more aid at the Millennium Summit in New York.
Canada, which like Germany is campaigning for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, pledged to give an additional C$540 million ($524.8 million) for the next three years. Sarkozy promised a billion euros from France.
Germany’s development ministry has set aside only 200 million euros for the fund next year and has ruled out further pledges for now, although Merkel herself said she would continue supporting it at the weekend summit in New York.
The Global Fund takes in aid from governments and private donors and gives out grants to countries which make proposals on how to confront the three targeted diseases.
Oil prices extended earlier gains as U.S. commercial crude stockpiles unexpectedly fell by 2.6 million barrels.
Healthy demand has also supported crude prices, but a relentless rise in U.S. crude production is capping gains.
Pump jacks in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation near Lost Hills, Calif.
Oil prices rose for a second day on Wednesday, trading at six-week highs, on a surprise decline in U.S. crude inventories and as concern persisted over possible disruption to Middle East supply.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures ended Wednesday's session up $1.63, or 2.6 percent, at $65.17 a barrel.
Brent crude futures were up $1.97, or 2.9 percent, at $69.39 a barrel by 2:24 p.m. ET. The price has risen by about 12 percent since hitting a two-month low of $61.77 in early February.
Oil prices barely budged after the U.S. Federal Reserve hiked interest rates and upgraded its outlook for economic growth.
Data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday morning showed a surprise 2.6 million barrel draw in crude inventories. Analysts had expected a 2.5 million barrel build.
"A few things happened," said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, referring to the data released by the EIA.
"Crude imports dropped by half a million barrels per day, that contributed to the draw. We saw refinery runs increase more than expected by around 400,000 barrels per day so that ate up a lot of crude. And exports were up slightly," he said.
Gasoline stocks fell by 1.7 million barrels, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 2.0 million barrels drop. Distillate stockpiles, which include diesel and heating oil, fell by 2.0 million barrels, versus expectations for a 1.7 million barrels drop, the EIA data showed.
Norbert Ruecker, head of macro and commodity research at Swiss bank Julius Baer said seasonally low demand at the end of the northern hemisphere winter meant he had "a rather cautious near-term outlook on commodities."
Investors have been particularly wary of the steep rise in U.S. output, which has grown by more than 20 percent since mid-2016, to 10.41 million bpd, putting the United States on track to become the world's largest oil producer this year.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday arrived in Washington for a state visit, raising speculation the United States could reimpose sanctions on Iran, following renewed criticism of the 2015 nuclear deal.
"You still have geopolitical considerations and possible U.S. action on Iranian sanctions ... that is going to be relatively prompt, in May," Petromatrix strategist Olivier Jakob said.
"So even though you do see signs that the market is lax on the physical side, do you go aggressively bearish when you have the potential for something happening between the U.S. and Iran?"
Analysts also pointed to the nomination of Mike Pompeo as new U.S. Secretary of State as a risk to oil markets, given he fiercely opposed the Iranian nuclear deal as a member of Congress.
"The nomination of Mike Pompeo for U.S. Secretary of State ... raises the likelihood of oil trade disruptions," Citi said in a note.
Should the United States reimpose sanctions against Iran, energy consultancy FGE said that would likely result in a 250,000 to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) drop in its exports by year-end.
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Most new Alabama governors appoint a task force to write a report on streamlining state government and then let it collect dust. Gov. Robert Bentley and legislative leaders say they are determined not to let that happen.
MONTGOMERY | Most new Alabama governors appoint a task force to write a report on streamlining state government and then let it collect dust. Gov. Robert Bentley and legislative leaders say they are determined not to let that happen.
Bentley has already targeted some programs in the executive branch, including one of his own Cabinet members, for merger and says there will be more.
“Streamlining government will save money. If one agency duplicates the services of another agency, we will merge those agencies. We will look for excess and cut it out,” Bentley said.
Like most new Alabama governors, Bentley had barely begun his term last year when he created the Commission on Improving State Government to give him recommendations. In addition, Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh organized legislators to look at consolidation and hired consultants from Auburn University Montgomery fo...
Bentley and Marsh have seen reports before to streamline government that went nowhere. Instead, Marsh said, the trend has been for governors to add more agencies to create positions for their friends and supporters.
Marsh said this time is different because a Republican governor and Republican-controlled Legislature are working together on the issue for the first time and the state General Fund budget for next year is facing $400 million in cuts.
“The budget crisis exaggerated the point that we’ve got to go in and solve this now,” Marsh said.
Marsh’s team has studied 196 state agencies and found that 126 duplicate services or operations. Among them are 21 agencies with law enforcement and investigative jobs. Alabama’s neighboring states have about half that many.
Marsh said a group of law enforcement officials is studying the agencies to determine if functions can be consolidated and whether that would save money. “If we can work consolidation in public safety, we can do it in any area,” Marsh said.
The Senate leader said legislators are also looking at several dozen state boards that regulate and license various professions. Each board gets no money from the state General Fund budget and exists off fees derived from its members. But the boards have their own employees, office rent and equipment costs.
Marsh said he wants to find out how many provide a public service and how many exist primarily to restrict entry into a profession.
Marsh and state Finance Director Marquita Davis said officials are looking at whether some of the boards’ functions could be consolidated into a state licensing office that would have fewer employees and less office space. The governor’s commission recommended that at the very least, the state create one website where ...
On the third floor of the Statehouse, legislators already have a wall-size chart that looks at overlapping services between state programs. There’s also a proposed name for the consolidation of issuing professional licenses: the Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services.
In the executive branch, Davis said Bentley is planning to merge two children’s programs, the state Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and the state Office of Special Needs, into the state Department of Human Resources. He also plans to fold the state Department of Labor into the much larger Department of...
If Bentley’s plan is approved by the Legislature, Labor Commissioner Jim Bennett is looking at being out of a job after holding the position for nine years under Gov. Bob Riley and then Bentley. Bennett has been in Montgomery since 1962 as a newspaper reporter, legislator and secretary of state before becoming labor co...
“It’s a directive,” said Bennett, who doesn’t know what his next job might be.
Marsh said the consolidation isn’t limited to the executive branch. The Legislature is working on a bill that would merge its bill-writing agency, the Legislative Reference Service, with its financial arm, the Legislative Fiscal Office.
“We are practicing what we preach,” he said.
But in preaching consolidation, Marsh isn’t advocating layoffs. He said consolidation will reduce jobs, but it will take several years and should be handled through retirements and attrition rather than layoffs.