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The friends they made. The lives they led. The memories they cherished. Here we mourn and celebrate the lives of Sachems who have passed, but whose legacies persist.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
Mrs. Linda J. Burton Van Dyke
Linda Burton Van Dyke's passing at the age of 70 on Monday, April 4, 2022 has been publicly announced by Hinchliff-Pearson-West, Inc., Galesburg...
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Hinchliff-Pearson-West, Inc., Galesburg
Published in Hinchliff-Pearson-West, Inc., Galesburg on Apr. 18, 2022.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Jacquelyn S. Kellogg
Jacquelyn Kellogg's passing on Thursday, March 24, 2022 has been publicly announced by The Wilton Mortuary in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you...
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The Wilton Mortuary
Published in The Wilton Mortuary on Mar. 29, 2022.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Shirley J. Fix
Shirley Fix's passing on Friday, March 11, 2022 has been publicly announced by The Wilton Mortuary in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you to offer...
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The Wilton Mortuary
Published in The Wilton Mortuary on Mar. 16, 2022.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
John W. Prince
John Prince's passing on Sunday, March 13, 2022 has been publicly announced by U.C. Davis-Callahan Funeral Home in Morris, IL. Legacy invites...
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U.C. Davis-Callahan Funeral Home
Published in U.C. Davis-Callahan Funeral Home on Mar. 15, 2022.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Marilyn Kay Lipps
Marilyn Lipps's passing on Sunday, February 27, 2022 has been publicly announced by Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service in Peoria, IL...
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Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service
Published in Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service on Mar. 1, 2022.
Robert Ferdinand Lipps
Robert Lipps's passing on Sunday, February 27, 2022 has been publicly announced by Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service in Peoria, IL...
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Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service
Published in Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service on Mar. 1, 2022.
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Sandra Lynn "Sandy" Moskovitz
Sandra Moskovitz's passing has been publicly announced by Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel
Published in Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel on Feb. 24, 2022.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Ramona J. Holmes
Ramona Holmes's passing on Saturday, February 19, 2022 has been publicly announced by The Wilton Mortuary in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you to...
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The Wilton Mortuary
Published in The Wilton Mortuary on Feb. 23, 2022.
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Zada Adell Lasco
Peoria- Zada Adell Lasco, 97, of Peoria, passed away on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at Renaissance Care Center in Canton. She was born in Peoria...
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Endsley-Sedgwick Funeral Home - Bartonville
Published in Endsley-Sedgwick Funeral Home - Bartonville on Feb. 19, 2022.
Monday, February 7, 2022
Marjorie E. "Marge" Willadsen
Marjorie Willadsen's passing on Sunday, February 6, 2022 has been publicly announced by Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel in Peoria, IL. Legacy...
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Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel
Published in Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel on Feb. 7, 2022.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Thomas P. Day
Thomas Day's passing at the age of 67 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 has been publicly announced by Mason-White Funeral Home in Washington, IL...
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Mason-White Funeral Home
Published in Mason-White Funeral Home on Feb. 4, 2022.
Beverly Jan Miller (Barkey)
Beverly Jan (Barkey) Miller Born: February 29, 1932 in Rockford, IL Died: January 27, 2022 in Katy, TX Beverly Jan (Barkey) Miller, 89, of Ottawa, Illinois, passed away Thursday, January 27, 2022, in Katy, Texas. She was born February 29, 1932, in Rockford, Illinois, the daughter...
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Schmidt Funeral Home - Brookshire
Published in My Web Times from Feb. 4 to Feb. 5, 2022.
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Diane Mesenbrink (nee Bath)
Diane Mesenbrink's passing on Saturday, January 22, 2022 has been publicly announced by Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home in Peoria...
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Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home
Published in Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home on Feb. 3, 2022.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Ashley L. Butler
Ashley Butler's passing on Thursday, January 20, 2022 has been publicly announced by Walker Funeral Service and Chapel, Inc. - Decatur in Decatur...
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Walker Funeral Service and Chapel, Inc. - Decatur
Published in Walker Funeral Service and Chapel, Inc. - Decatur on Jan. 26, 2022.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Jane O. Hills (Williams)
Jane Hills's passing at the age of 100 on Thursday, January 20, 2022 has been publicly announced by Turnball Funeral Home in Oquawka, IL. Legacy...
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Published on Jan. 22, 2022.
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Mary Frances Snyder
Mary Snyder's passing at the age of 84 on Sunday, January 9, 2022 has been publicly announced by Shorts Spicer Crislip Funeral Homes in Streetsboro...
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Shorts Spicer Crislip Funeral Homes
Published in Shorts Spicer Crislip Funeral Homes on Jan. 20, 2022.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Mr. Ny'Quavion Martin
Ny'Quavion Martin's passing on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 has been publicly announced by T.W. Parks Colonial Chapel in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites...
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T.W. Parks Colonial Chapel
Published in T.W. Parks Colonial Chapel on Jan. 19, 2022.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Shirley Lee Sutton
Shirley Sutton's passing on Sunday, January 16, 2022 has been publicly announced by Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home in Peoria, IL...
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Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home
Published in Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home on Jan. 18, 2022.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Andrew E. "Andy" Burgeson
Andrew Burgeson's passing on Monday, January 10, 2022 has been publicly announced by Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria in Peoria, IL. Legacy...
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Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria
Published in Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria on Jan. 14, 2022.
Monday, November 29, 2021
Theo J Kenyon (Ahrends)
Theo Jean Kenyon, 99, died November 19, 2021, in Peoria, IL. She was born on September 5, 1922, in Peoria, the only child of Theo (Younglove)...
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Cumerford-Clary Funeral Home - Peoria
Published in Cumerford-Clary Funeral Home - Peoria on Nov. 29, 2021.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Jean Jorgenson
Jean Jorgenson's passing at the age of 69 has been publicly announced. Legacy invites you to offer condolences and share memories of Jean in...
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Published on Nov. 28, 2021.
Friday, November 26, 2021
Lorin Dixon Whittaker
Lorin Dixon Whittaker's passing has been publicly announced by Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you...
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Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home
Published in Davison-Fulton-Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home on Nov. 26, 2021.
Monday, November 22, 2021
Mary "Beckie" Maxwell
Mary Maxwell's passing on Saturday, November 20, 2021 has been publicly announced by Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service in Peoria, IL...
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Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service
Published in Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service from Nov. 22, 2021 to Jan. 4, 2022.
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Louise "Lucy" Pierce
Louise Pierce's passing has been publicly announced by Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you to offer...
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Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service
Published in Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Service from Nov. 11, 2021 to Jan. 4, 2022.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Karen L. Hagey
Karen Hagey's passing on Friday, October 22, 2021 has been publicly announced by The Maple Funeral Home & Crematory in Channahon, IL. Legacy...
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The Maple Funeral Home & Crematory
Published in The Maple Funeral Home & Crematory from Oct. 23, 2021 to Jan. 4, 2022.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Jay David Trimmer
Jay David Trimmer Born: March 8, 1959 in Peoria, IL Died: October 13, 2021 in Pleasant Prairie, WI Jay David Trimmer, 62, of Pleasant Prairie, WI, passed away October 13, 2021. Dave was born March 8, 1959, in Peoria, IL. He moved to LaSalle, IL, then settled in Pleasant Prairie...
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Congdon & Company Funeral Directors Ltd
Published in News Tribune from Oct. 21 to Oct. 23, 2021.
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Jay D. Trimmer
Jay D. Trimmer March 8, 1959 - Oct.. 13, 2021 PLEASANT PRAIRIE - Jay D. Trimmer, 62, of Pleasant Prairie, WI, passed away on October 13, 2021. Please visit the online guest book at: www.congdonfuneralhome.com for the full obituary.
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Congdon & Company Funeral Directors Ltd
Published in Kenosha News on Oct. 17, 2021.
Saturday, October 9, 2021
James Elliot Stephens
James Elliot Stephens's passing has been publicly announced. Legacy invites you to offer condolences and share memories of James in the Guest...
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Published on Oct. 9, 2021.
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Jack D. McManus
Jack McManus's passing has been publicly announced by Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences...
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Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria
Published in Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria on Sep. 26, 2021.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Ketra Schefelbein (Gilbert)
Ketra Schefelbein's passing at the age of 89 has been publicly announced by Mason-White Funeral Home in Washington, IL. Legacy invites you to...
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Mason-White Funeral Home
Published in Mason-White Funeral Home on Sep. 19, 2021.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
James Elliot "Jim" Stephens
James Elliot "Jim" Stephens 1924-2021 FORSYTH - James Elliot "Jim" Stephens, 96, died peacefully in his sleep on September 10, 2021 at his home in Forsyth. A service to celebrate Jim's life will start at 10:30 a.m. on September 18, 2021 at First United Methodist Church in...
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Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes - Decatur
Published in Decatur Herald & Review on Sep. 14, 2021.
Monday, September 13, 2021
James Elliot Stephens
James Elliot Stephens's passing has been publicly announced by Brintlinger & Earl Funeral Homes - Decatur in Decatur, IL. Legacy invites...
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Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes - Decatur
Published in Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes - Decatur on Sep. 13, 2021.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Mr. Omer Moore Jr.
Omer Moore's passing has been publicly announced by T.W. Parks Colonial Chapel in Peoria, IL. Legacy invites you to offer condolences and share...
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T.W. Parks Colonial Chapel
Published in T.W. Parks Colonial Chapel from Sep. 7, 2021 to Jan. 4, 2022.
Friday, July 23, 2021
Martha E. "Marty" Burgeson
Martha "Marty" E. Burgeson PEORIA — On Sunday, July 4, 2021, Martha E. "Marty" Burgeson, loving daughter, sister and aunt, passed away at the age of 77. Marty was born on July 18, 1943, in Canton, IL, to Carl E. "Lefty" and Irene E. (Tolle) Burgeson. Marty was a 1961 graduate of...
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Cremation Society of Mid Illinois
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Jul. 23 to Jul. 25, 2021.
Saturday, July 10, 2021
Martha E. "Marty" Burgeson
Burgeson, Martha "Marty" E., 77, Peoria. Cremation Society of Mid-Illinois Co., Pekin/Peoria.
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Cremation Society of Mid Illinois
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Jul. 10 to Jul. 11, 2021.
Friday, July 2, 2021
Mary Louise Baker
Mary Louise Baker PEORIA - Mary Louise Shively Baker, 78, formerly of Peoria, died on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Detailed information at suncitycenterfuneralhome.com .
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Sun City Center Funeral Home - Sun City Center
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Jul. 2 to Jul. 4, 2021.
Monday, June 28, 2021
Lisa J. Metz
Lisa J. Metz PEORIA - Lisa J. Metz, 48, of Peoria passed away on Thursday, June 24, 2021, at her residence. Born March 28, 1973, in Peoria to Wayne R. Metz and Elizabeth (Cording) Fandel, she is survived by her father of Peoria; her mother of Germantown Hills; 1 daughter, Maleyia...
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Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Jun. 28 to Jun. 30, 2021.
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Lisa Metz
Metz, Lisa, 48, Peoria. Wright & Salmon Mortuary, Peoria.
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Wright & Salmon Mortuary - Peoria
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Jun. 26 to Jun. 27, 2021.
Friday, June 18, 2021
Timothy M. "Tim" O'Brien
O'Brien, Timothy "Tim" M., 65, Peoria. Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel, Peoria.
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Davison-Fulton Woodland Chapel
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Jun. 18 to Jun. 19, 2021.
Friday, June 4, 2021
Benedict "Ben" Dwyer
Benedict "Ben" Dwyer PEORIA - Benedict "Ben" Dwyer died Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at OSF Richard Owens Hospice Home in Peoria after a courageous struggle with ALS. Ben was born on February 1, 1953, in Peoria, Illinois, to Warren Dwyer (deceased) and Rose (Pomponio) Dwyer (deceased)...
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Published in Peoria Journal Star from Jun. 4 to Jun. 6, 2021.
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Benedict Dwyer
Dwyer, Benedict, 68, Peoria. Affordable Funeral & Cremation Services of Central Illinois, Peoria.
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Published in Peoria Journal Star from May 27 to May 28, 2021.
Friday, May 7, 2021
Frances Brown
Frances Brown PEORIA - Frances J. Brown, 93, of Mendota, formerly of Peoria, passed away May 6, 2021, with her daughter by her side in Heritage Health Mendota. Cremation rites have been accorded. A private family service will be graveside at Swan Lake Memory Gardens in Peoria. Rev...
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Wasmer Funeral Home
Published in Peoria Journal Star from May 7 to May 9, 2021.
Albert D. Wylie
Albert D. Wylie PEORIA - Albert Dimitri Wylie, 91, a lifelong Peorian, passed away on Thursday, April 29, 2021 at UnityPoint Health Proctor, following a period of declining health. He was born October 5, 1929 to Albert R. and Jessie Pickett Wylie. He and his loving wife, Eleanor,...
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The Wilton Mortuary
Published in Peoria Journal Star from May 7 to May 9, 2021.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Albert D. Wylie
Wylie, Albert D., 91, Peoria. The Wilton Mortuary, Peoria.
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The Wilton Mortuary
Published in Peoria Journal Star from May 6 to May 7, 2021.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Helen Louise Emanuels
Helen Louise Emanuels MOSSVILLE - Helen Louise Lonteen Emanuels of Mossville passed away on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at Generations Nursing Home In Peoria Heights. She was born on April 9, 1940, to John B. Lonteen and Helen L. Matteson Lonteen. Louise attended East Peoria High...
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Published in Peoria Journal Star from Apr. 20 to Apr. 22, 2021.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
James Roger Walser
James Roger Walser -Born August 2, 1944.....And then came his DASH.....What you might call, the rest of the story.... Born to Maurice and Jean Katherine Walser, he was a trouble maker from the start. Terrorizing his mom and older sister.. The sound of mom yelling...Jimmmmmy was constantly...
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Billow Fairlawn Chapel
Published in Akron Beacon Journal from Apr. 13 to Apr. 14, 2021.
Saturday, April 10, 2021
James R. "Jim" Goble
James "Jim" R. Goble PEORIA - James R Goble, 67, of Peoria passed away peacefully in his home on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, surrounded by loved ones, after a long battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Jim was born on October 27, 1953, to James and Norma (Leucht) Goble in Peoria, IL. Jim...
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Published in Peoria Journal Star from Apr. 10 to Apr. 12, 2021.
Friday, March 26, 2021
Eric Glenn Collier
Eric Glenn Collier PEORIA - Eric Glenn Collier, 49, peacefully passed away in his home from COVID-19 complications on March 23, 2021, in Peoria, IL. He was born March 11, 1972, in Urbana, IL, to Glenn and Josephine Collier, they survive. Eric graduated from Peoria High School, where...
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T.W. Parks Colonial Chapel
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Mar. 26 to Mar. 28, 2021.
Janet Craddick
Janet Craddick TREMONT - Janet Marie Craddick, long time resident of Tremont IL, left this world for what comes next on March 20, 2021, in Dallas TX. She was born to John L Diamond and Chloe Kanady Diamond on July 20, 1939, in Highland IL. She graduated from Peoria High School in...
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Davis-Oswald Funeral Home
Published in Peoria Journal Star from Mar. 26 to Mar. 28, 2021.
Friday, March 5, 2021
Nan Doubet Brown
Nan Doubet Brown PEORIA - Nan Doubet Brown, 78, passed away in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, surrounded by her beloved husband and three sons, after a nine-year battle with Parkinson's disease and dementia. Nan was born on April 30, 1942, in Peoria to Raymond and Virginia...
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Published in Peoria Journal Star from Mar. 5 to Mar. 7, 2021.
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WADSWORTH, Ohio, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rohrer Corporation, a leading retail-packaging designer and manufacturer, is ramping up sustainability efforts with the debut of two new eco-friendly packaging solutions – its All-Paper Blister and ecoCombo® sustainable packaging.
"Statistics in Rohrer's 2021 Sustainable Packaging Study conducted with Hanover Research indicate that 83 percent of companies are interested in more sustainable packaging options," said Steve Wirrig, president and CEO of Rohrer Corporation. "As a result of this study, Rohrer is STEPPING UP SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS and taking them to the NEXT LEVEL with the introduction of two new eco-friendly packaging options – our All-Paper Blister and ecoCombo® packages."
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"The theme of Earth Day 2022 is Invest in Our Planet," said Carmine Lombardi, senior vice president of Rohrer Corporation. "Rohrer is 'investing in our planet' by donating to OneTreePlanted.org for each All-Paper Blister or ecoCombo® order fulfilled. Our goal with this campaign is far-reaching: to accelerate sustainability efforts for our company and our partners, to help the environment, and to advance reforestation efforts around the globe."
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Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani, produced in a court in Assam's Kokrajhar today, alleged that his arrest was "vendetta politics and this is by PM". The 41-year-old leader has been accused on a complaint by an Assam BJP leader over his tweets on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which have since been removed from the social media platform.
The surprise arrest by the Assam police took place last night in Gujarat's Palanpur. Mr Mewani has been charged with criminal conspiracy, offence related to place of worship, outraging religious feelings, and provocation that might lead to breach of peace. He was flown to Guwahati and produced at a city court in Kokrajhar.
While going into the courtroom with the police, Mr Mewani – an arch-critic of the Prime Minister -- in response to reporters' queries, said, "This is vendetta politics and this is by PMO".
In his complaint, BJP leader Arup Kumar Dey has alleged that Mr Mewani's tweet caused "widespread criticism" and "had the propensity to disturb public tranquility". "It is more likely to incite a section of the masses belonging to a certain community," the complaint added.
Pointing to the rush in which the case was filed and the arrest made, the Congress said the arrest was made with an eye to the coming assembly elections in Gujarat, a state the BJP has been ruling since 1995.
The complaint was filed within 24 hours of Mr Mewani's tweet and arrest made within another 24 hours of the First Information Report. The Assam police are yet to explain the urgency. Mr Dey, who is also a member of Bodoland Territorial Council, filed the complaint on April 19, citing the tweet by Mr Mewani.
Congress's Rahul Gandhi tweeted, "Modi ji, you can try to crush dissent by abusing the state machinery. But you can never imprison the truth".
Modi ji, you can try to crush dissent by abusing the state machinery.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 21, 2022
But you can never imprison the truth.#DaroMat#SatyamevaJayatepic.twitter.com/Qw4wVhLclH
Angered over Mr Mewani's arrest, the Gujarat Congress leaders staged a demonstration near Sarangpur circle in the city and demanded his release. | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vendetta-politics-congresss-jignesh-mewani-on-arrest-in-assam-2907906 | 2022-04-21T14:45:32Z | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vendetta-politics-congresss-jignesh-mewani-on-arrest-in-assam-2907906 | true | 1 |
The friends they made. The lives they led. The memories they cherished. Here we mourn and celebrate the lives of Raiders who have passed, but whose legacies persist.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday he is seeking to deepen trade and defense ties during his visit to India, and will also bring up the situation in Ukraine during talks with his Indian counterpart.
Johnson landed in the western state of Gujarat on Thursday, kicking off a two-day visit that will see him meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday. The two countries are expected to announce new deals in defense, green energy and jobs, and complete a new trade agreement that is to be signed later this year.
Apart from discussing trade, Johnson is expected to encourage India to distance itself from Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Johnson said he was aware of the close ties that India and Russia have shared.
“We have to reflect that reality. But clearly, I’ll be talking about it to Narendra Modi,” he told reporters in Ahmedabad, where he landed.
Modi has called the situation in Ukraine “very worrying” and has appealed to both sides for peace. While India has condemned the killings of civilians in Ukraine, it has so far not criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin, and abstained when the U.N. General Assembly voted this month to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.
Modi has also responded coolly to pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden and others to curb imports of Russian oil and gas in response to the invasion.
India receives relatively little of its oil from Russia, but ramped up purchases recently because of discounted prices. India is also a major buyer of Russian weapons, and recently purchased advanced Russian air defense systems.
In Ahmedabad, Johnson met with Indian industrialist Gautam Adani and visited Sabarmati Ashram, the former home of Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.
“I don’t think any time in my political lifetime has the living bridge between the U.K. and India really being so strong,” he said.
Johnson’s trip to India was scheduled and canceled twice previously due to the pandemic. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Boris-Johnson-to-discuss-Ukraine-response-with-17116323.php | 2022-04-21T14:47:11Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Boris-Johnson-to-discuss-Ukraine-response-with-17116323.php | true | 13 |
Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (NYSE:SAND – Get Rating) – Raymond James issued their Q1 2023 earnings per share estimates for shares of Sandstorm Gold in a research report issued on Tuesday, April 19th. Raymond James analyst B. Macarthur forecasts that the company will earn $0.05 per share for the quarter. Raymond James currently has a “Outperform” rating and a $9.50 target price on the stock. Raymond James also issued estimates for Sandstorm Gold’s Q2 2023 earnings at $0.05 EPS, Q3 2023 earnings at $0.04 EPS, Q4 2023 earnings at $0.04 EPS and FY2023 earnings at $0.18 EPS.
Sandstorm Gold (NYSE:SAND – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 17th. The company reported $0.04 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.05 by ($0.01). Sandstorm Gold had a return on equity of 4.49% and a net margin of 24.05%. The business had revenue of $29.82 million for the quarter.
NYSE:SAND opened at $8.72 on Thursday. Sandstorm Gold has a 52 week low of $5.30 and a 52 week high of $9.31. The firm has a market cap of $1.68 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 62.29 and a beta of 1.01. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $7.90 and its 200 day simple moving average is $6.79.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 29th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 19th will be issued a dividend of $0.016 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 18th. This represents a $0.06 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.73%. Sandstorm Gold’s payout ratio is 42.86%.
A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. raised its holdings in Sandstorm Gold by 0.4% during the 4th quarter. D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. now owns 457,276 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,838,000 after purchasing an additional 1,665 shares during the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. increased its stake in shares of Sandstorm Gold by 14.5% in the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 13,622 shares of the company’s stock valued at $84,000 after acquiring an additional 1,722 shares in the last quarter. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. increased its stake in shares of Sandstorm Gold by 1.3% in the 3rd quarter. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. now owns 160,285 shares of the company’s stock valued at $922,000 after acquiring an additional 2,097 shares in the last quarter. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC increased its stake in shares of Sandstorm Gold by 11.8% in the 4th quarter. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC now owns 20,954 shares of the company’s stock valued at $129,000 after acquiring an additional 2,213 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Quilter Plc increased its stake in shares of Sandstorm Gold by 10.8% in the 3rd quarter. Quilter Plc now owns 27,724 shares of the company’s stock valued at $159,000 after acquiring an additional 2,707 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 39.79% of the company’s stock.
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Sandstorm Gold Ltd. operates as a gold royalty company. It focuses on acquiring gold and other metal purchase agreements and royalties from companies that have advanced stage development projects or operating mines. The company offers upfront payments for companies to acquire a gold stream or royalty and receives the right to purchase a percentage of a mine's production for the life of the mine at a fixed price per unit or at a fixed percentage of the spot price.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was rattled by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake early Wednesday.
But the country’s national disaster prevention agency did not immediately report any damages or deaths.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred about 36 miles (58 kilometers) west south-west of the coastal town of Masachapa, which itself is located southwest of the capital, Managua.
The quake hit Wednesday at around 1:42 a.m. local time (7:42 am UTC).
Vice President Rosario Murillo said the quake was felt along the coast, and officials were monitoring for any reports of damage. | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Nicaragua-rattled-by-6-7-magnitude-earthquake-17116375.php | 2022-04-21T14:48:20Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Nicaragua-rattled-by-6-7-magnitude-earthquake-17116375.php | false | null |
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In a shocking incident of provocation days after the Jahangirpuri riots, Uttar Pradesh cleric Maulana Tauqir Raza on Thursday threatened to start 'Mahabharat' if the bulldozer crackdown was not stopped by the administration. Reacting to the same, the BJP has sought strong action against the UP cleric.
Addressing a press conference, Maulana Tauqir Raza issued an ultimatum and warned that Muslims will storm Delhi and start a 'Jail Bharo Andolan' after Eid if the government, both at the state and Centre, did not mend its ways. The cleric is said to be close to the Congress party, and General-Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
"After Eid, our meeting will be finalised. If government does not mend its ways, and continues a one-sided investigation... all sayings of 'Sabka Saath' are just a claim. You have 10 days... fix your ways or I will announce from Delhi and start a Jail Bharo Andolan after Eid. The day Muslims come on the streets, it is not going to be controlled by anyone. This is my warning to the Modi government," said the UP cleric.
#BREAKING | Day after Jahangirpuri demolition drive, UP cleric Tauqir Raza calls for 'Jail Bharo' agitation post Eid
— Republic (@republic) April 21, 2022
Tune in to watch #LIVE here - https://t.co/9k7OEOhxZK pic.twitter.com/GoRa9MsQro
Launching a personal attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tauqir Raza said that the PM was functioning like 'Dhritarashtra' -- the blind king from Mahabharata, and if he did not come out of the role, then a real Mahabharat would happen in India.
Reacting to the provocative statement, BJP national spokesperson RP Singh hoped the UP government will take strong action against Raza.
"It's clear that his intention is something else. I'm hopeful that the state government will take cognisance...he cannot provoke communities for creating disharmony and create a ruckus in the country," Sing told Republic TV.
#LIVE: UP cleric gives 'jail bharo' call-to-action; BJP spokesperson @rpsinghkhalsa says 'Asking state govt to initiate suo-motu action against him'; Tune in here - https://t.co/oFu84RiCkR pic.twitter.com/HtqFEzkfOk
— Republic (@republic) April 21, 2022
Slamming the UP cleric for his inflammatory remarks, Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma told Republic, "There are some people who want to stay in the limelight through their speeches...there is no need to give importance to remarks made by such people. Discussing Prime Minister Narendra Modi (in a bad light) is like spitting on one's own self."
"Such people who want to create divisions, poison the minds of people do not have a place in this country. There is a law to take care of such people. I believe such remarks should not be given any importance," he added.
#LIVE | Such opinions should be ignored, they are condemnable: Former UP Dy CM Dinesh Sharma rejects UP cleric Tauqeer Raza's provocative call-to-action; Tune in here - https://t.co/oFu84RiCkR pic.twitter.com/v6DeKqEQ3g
— Republic (@republic) April 21, 2022
Similarly, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla reacted strongly to the shocking statement and lashed out at the Congress party for patronizing rioters and aggressors. "This is the Congress party's true face...Tauqir Raza is very close to the Congress party. In UP elections, he was given a platform and he incited the Muslim youth to take up arms, saying that Hindus won't have a place to hide. Today he has provoked again," said Poonawalla. | https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/up-cleric-tauqeer-raza-fires-communal-jail-bharo-provocation-bjp-eyes-yogi-govt-action-articleshow.html | 2022-04-21T14:49:19Z | https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/up-cleric-tauqeer-raza-fires-communal-jail-bharo-provocation-bjp-eyes-yogi-govt-action-articleshow.html | false | 1 |
MCB CAP LEJEUNE (WNCT) — Military officials are looking into the deaths of three children at Camp Lejeune in two separate incidents that happened on April 16.
Officials at Camp Lejeune told WNCT”s Cheyenne Pagan that NCIS would be investigating the incidents and would not have further comment during the process, including who the children were. Ace A. Padilla with the US Marines issued this statement Wednesday evening:
“We are aware of the tragic passing of three dependent children in two separate incidents on MCB Camp Lejeune April 16, and offer our deepest condolences to the families of those affected. There was no shooting incident tied to either event.
“Out of respect for the families and the investigative process, we are not providing additional information and NCIS does not comment on or confirm details relating to ongoing investigations.” | https://www.wjtv.com/news/national/investigators-looking-into-deaths-of-three-children-at-camp-lejeune/ | 2022-04-21T14:50:22Z | https://www.wjtv.com/news/national/investigators-looking-into-deaths-of-three-children-at-camp-lejeune/ | true | null |
The UK Government has announced new sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s “war leaders”, as the Foreign Secretary vowed to crack down on those with “Ukrainian blood on their hands”. Action will also be taken against individuals outside of the Russian military, who are “actively supporting his illegal invasion”.
The move will target those “commanding the front line” to commit “heinous” acts in Ukraine, according to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Individuals include Lt Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov, a commanding officer with involvement in the Bucha massacre, the FCDO said.
Also sanctioned by the UK are Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov, commander of airborne forces; Major General Valery Flyustikov, commander of special operations forces; and Colonel General Nikolay Bogdanovsky, first deputy chief of the general staff.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss tweeted: “Today I announce new sanctions on those with Ukrainian blood on their hands including the commander of the unit which occupied Bucha and other individuals and businesses supporting Putin’s military. We are relentless in support of Ukraine.”
The individuals outside of Mr Putin’s military targeted in the latest round of sanctions include Oleg Belozyorov, the chief executive and chairman of vital logistics company Russian Railways, and Ilya Kiva, the defecting and expelled Ukrainian MP who has publicly supported Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
The Foreign Secretary also accused Russia of deliberately searching out civilian targets. She said: "The depravity of Russia’s assault on the people of Ukraine is plain for all to see. They are deliberately targeting hospitals, schools, and transport hubs in Mariupol and beyond – just as they did in Chechnya and Syria.”
For more stories from where you live, visit InYourArea. | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/uk-targets-putin-accomplices-blood-6980813 | 2022-04-21T14:51:33Z | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/uk-targets-putin-accomplices-blood-6980813 | false | 2 |
Income remains hard to come by. This scenario is only exacerbated by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes, which are plaguing bonds.
Add to that, broader market volatility could creep higher. Combine these factors, and the time could be right to consider covered call exchange traded funds, such as the Global X Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF (QYLD). QYLD, which is the largest ETF in the Global X stable, follows the Cboe Nasdaq-100 BuyWrite V2 Index.
In plain English, QYLD writes or sells call options on the widely followed Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX), bringing robust income to a benchmark not usually known for big yields.
“You can enhance a stock’s return by selling call options against the shares. The strategy—called ‘overwriting’ or a ‘covered call’—is a relatively simple building block of the options market. On any given day, innumerable investors sell calls on stocks that they own. There are many ways to implement the strategy, but many investors pick calls that are about 10% above the stock price and expire in 30 to 45 days,” reports Steven Sears for Barron’s.
Among the various options strategies, selling covered calls is only slightly removed from “basic” territory, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to execute on a consistent basis. Since it’s an income-generating strategy, consistency matters.
Additionally, identifying the right stocks on which to sell calls is a burden that many investors don’t have time for. QYLD makes life easier on that front.
“The strategy pays investors for agreeing to sell their stock at a higher price. Should the stock price remain below the strike price, investors can keep the call premium. If the stock price exceeds the strike price, investors don’t have to sell their stock—they can ‘roll’ the position out one month or more to avoid assignment. Ideally, an investor gets paid for rolling the call,” according to Barron’s.
Rolling calls is another endeavor that can be tricky for novice options investors, underscoring the utility of the QYLD strategy.
The $7.16 billion Global X ETF delivers the income goods. Its trailing 12-month distribution rate is 13.86%, and it has delivered uninterrupted monthly distributions for more than eight years, according to issuer data.
For more news, information, and strategy, visit the Nasdaq Investment Intelligence Channel.
The opinions and forecasts expressed herein are solely those of Tom Lydon, and may not actually come to pass. Information on this site should not be used or construed as an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation for any product. | https://www.etftrends.com/nasdaq-portfolio-solutions-channel/considering-covered-call-etfs-today/ | 2022-04-21T14:53:02Z | https://www.etftrends.com/nasdaq-portfolio-solutions-channel/considering-covered-call-etfs-today/ | true | 2 |
Australians can now legally purchase RimWorld once again, with the Australian Classification Board overturning its initial "Refused Classification" rating following an application review.
The space colony sim had been happily sitting on Australian Steam since its Early Access launch in 2013, but upcoming console ports appeared to be the reason for its appearance on the Classification Board website. It was refused classification in February, with the reason being the game's handling of "matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults."
Earlier this month it was revealed the board would review the application, which has helped to overturn bans for games like Disco Elysium in the past. RimWorld creator Tynan Sylvester had said he was "optimistic" for a positive outcome, and it appears he had every right to be.
Good news! RimWorld is now rated and legal to buy again in Australia.We'll have it back up on Steam soon.Thanks to everyone who lent their support.https://t.co/KBRR9sySp4April 20, 2022
RimWorld has now been classified as R 18+ in Australia, the highest rating that can be given. The board referred to the use of drugs in the game as having "a high impact," but determined that "the game mechanics ultimately provided disincentives related to drug-taking behaviour, to the point where regular drug use leads to negative consequences such as overdose, addiction and withdrawal." It also points out how the drug use is "depicted at a distance through a top-down perspective, in a highly stylised, simplified form."
A news post on the game's Steam page read: "We assembled a lot of useful evidence and had a great legal team to help us. Our community was also amazing and helped us by providing examples of games on Steam that had similar cases to us, like Disco Elysium and Fallout. The review concluded with a happy ending." | https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/rimworld-has-been-unbanned-in-australia-and-is-back-on-steam/ | 2022-04-21T14:54:06Z | https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/rimworld-has-been-unbanned-in-australia-and-is-back-on-steam/ | false | 3 |
As Covid cases surge, US extends vaccine requirements for non-citizens at land borders
- The requirements were first adopted in November as part of reopening the United States to land crossings by foreign tourists after the borders had been closed to most foreign visitors since March 2020.
The Joe Biden administration said Thursday it is extending a requirement that non-US citizens crossing land or ferry terminals at the US-Mexico and US-Canada borders must be vaccinated against Covid-19 and provide a before boarding flights to the US. This came amid a spike in Covid-19 infections in some parts of the country.
The requirements were first adopted in November as part of reopening the United States to land crossings by foreign tourists after the borders had been closed to most foreign visitors since March 2020. Unlike international air travellers headed to the United States, people travelling at land or ferry crossings do not need to provide a negative Covid-19 test.
Meanwhile, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked the Justice Department to appeal a judge’s ruling that threw out a mask requirement for plane and air travel, setting up a court battle over the decision.
“It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health,” the agency said in a statement on Wednesday evening. “CDC believes this is a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health.”
(With agency inputs)
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Met Police to delay fresh updates in ‘partygate’ scandal probe until after May 5
The Metropolitan Police, which is probing alleged breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules at gatherings in Downing Street, informed on Thursday that its officers will issue the next set of updates on the agency's probe into the case only after elections to local and regional authority positions, scheduled for May 5. The investigation, however, will continue as usual in this period, the police also said.
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ISIS claims responsibility for Mazar-e-Sharif mosque blast killing 10
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Shia mosque in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, according to a statement on the group's Telegram channel, reported news agency Reuters. In September 2021, the Islamic State had claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan where more than 30 Taliban members were killed, and several other people were left injured.
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Covid: China gives go ahead for batch of Sri Lankan students to return
China on Thursday gave the go ahead to a batch of Sri Lankan students, studying in Chinese universities but currently stranded in their home country because of Covid-related restrictions imposed by Beijing, to return to their campuses to resume in-person learning. China's decision to allow Sri Lankan students to return was announced by the Sri Lankan embassy in Beijing in a statement on Thursday.
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Ukraine war: UK sanctions ‘Butcher of Bucha’, others
The United Kingdom on Thursday announced a new wave of 26 sanctions against defence actors, including Russian army generals, over the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. “The UK is unyielding our support for Ukraine and holding (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and his regime to account. Today's new wave of sanctions hit the generals and defence companies that have blood on their hands,” foreign secretary Liz Truss said, announcing the sanctions.
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200 civilians still in besieged Mariupol, Ukraine calls for 'urgent' evacuations
Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko said around 200 people were waiting to evacuate from the besieged Ukrainian city on Thursday but no buses had arrived as of mid-afternoon. He said a small convoy of buses had evacuated people from Mariupol on Wednesday and was now headed for the city of Zaporhizhia which is under Ukrainian control, reported news agency Reuters. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-extends-covid-vaccine-requirements-for-non-citizens-at-land-borders-101650547216725.html | 2022-04-21T14:54:39Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-extends-covid-vaccine-requirements-for-non-citizens-at-land-borders-101650547216725.html | true | 1 |
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The Klein Law Firm announces that class action complaints have been filed on behalf of shareholders of the following companies. There is no cost to participate in the suit. If you suffered a loss, you have until the lead plaintiff deadline to request that the court appoint you as lead plaintiff
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC)
Class Period: April 27, 2017 - February 25, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 2, 2022
According to the complaint, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson allegedly made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Ericsson overstated the extent to which it had reformed its business practices to eliminate the use of bribes to secure business in foreign countries; (ii) Ericsson had paid bribes to the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to gain access to certain transport routes in Iraq; (iii) accordingly, the Company's revenues derived from its operations in Iraq were, in at least substantial part, derived from unlawful conduct and thus unsustainable; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Learn about your recoverable losses in ERIC: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/telefonaktiebolaget-lm-ericsson-loss-submission-form?id=26234&from=1
Celsius Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CELH)
Class Period: August 12, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 16, 2022
The complaint alleges Celsius Holdings, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company had improperly recorded expenses for non-cash share-based compensation for second and third quarters of 2021; (2) as a result, the Company's financial statements for those periods would be restated, including to report a net loss for the third quarter of 2021; (3) there was a material weakness in Celsius's internal controls over financial reporting; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
Learn about your recoverable losses in CELH: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/celsius-holdings-inc-loss-submission-form?id=26234&from=1
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AUPH)
Class Period: May 7, 2021 - February 25, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 14, 2022
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. allegedly made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Aurinia was experiencing declining revenues; (ii) Aurinia's 2022 sales outlook for the Company's only product which it offers for the treatment of adult patients with active lupus nephritis, LUPKYNIS, would fall well short of expectations; (iii) accordingly, the Company had significantly overstated LUPKYNIS's commercial prospects; (iv) as a result, the Company had overstated its financial position and/or prospects for 2022; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Learn about your recoverable losses in AUPH: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/aurinia-pharmaceuticals-inc-loss-submission-form?id=26234&from=1
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Help Wanted: Shortages Intensify
Summary
- U.S. equity markets bounced back following the worst week since February as relief over a last-minute compromise to raise the debt ceiling offset disappointment over another weaker-than-expected employment report.
- After flirting with "correction territory" earlier in the week, the S&P 500 ultimately ended the week higher by 0.8% while the MidCap 400 climbed 0.3% and the Small Cap 600 rose 0.1%.
- For the third straight week, weakness from large-cap technology REITs offset solid gains across much of the real estate sector. The Equity REIT Index declined 0.4% while Mortgage REITs gained 0.7%.
- Help Wanted: The U.S. economy added just 194k jobs in September - the weakest rate of job growth since December 2020 - amid an unexpected decline in labor force participation.
- Prison REIT GEO Group - which has benefited from the stalled Biden agenda - soared this week after a federal appeals court tossed out California's ban on privately-owned federal corrections facilities.
- This idea was discussed in more depth with members of my private investing community, The REIT Forum. Learn More »
Real Estate Weekly Outlook
U.S. equity markets bounced back following the worst week since February as relief over a last-minute compromise to raise the debt ceiling offset disappointment over another weaker-than-expected employment report. Further evidence of a persistent labor shortage in the September jobs report - along with an intensifying energy crunch across the globe - sent inflation expectations and interest rates higher this week as the 10-Year Treasury Yield jumped above 1.60% for the first time since early June
(Hoya Capital Real Estate, Co-Produced with Colorado WMF)
After flirting with "correction territory" earlier in the week, the S&P 500 (SPY) ultimately ended the week higher by 0.8% while the MidCap 400 (MDY) climbed 0.3% and the Small Cap 600 (SLY) rose 0.1%. For the third straight week, weakness from large-cap technology REITs offset solid gains across much of the real estate sector. The market-cap-weighted Equity REIT Index posted declines of 0.4% despite 13-of-19 property sectors gaining ground while the Mortgage REIT Index finished higher by 0.7%.
Political dysfunction abated temporarily this week as Senate GOP leader McConnell offered a deal to extend the debt ceiling into December, avoiding the risk of a technical default on U.S. sovereign debt, but agreements on infrastructure spending and the $3.5T White House budget remain in doubt. The Energy (XLE) sector led the gains yet again this week as Crude Oil and Gasoline prices rose to the highest levels in a decade amid a worldwide "energy crunch" resulting from global supply chain issues, recovering demand, and OPEC production curbs. Meanwhile, residential REITs and the broader Hoya Capital Housing Index were among the leaders of the week as investors turn to real assets to hedge inflationary pressures.
Real Estate Economic Data
Below, we recap the most important macroeconomic data points over this past week affecting the residential and commercial real estate marketplace.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that the U.S. economy added just 194k jobs in September - far below consensus expectations of 500k - the weakest rate of job growth since December 2020. The ADP Payrolls report earlier in the week, however, was slightly better than expected, as was Jobless Claims data. Despite a record number of job openings, more Americans left the workforce in September, resulting in a decline in the unemployment rate to 4.8% from 5.2% in August. Notably, economic strength in the Sunbelt region - and the Midwest to some extent - continues to offset economic weakness in coastal states. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly above 7% in eight states - California, New York, Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, and Hawaii.
Beneath the headline numbers, the BLS report wasn't quite as weak as it looked as much of the miss resulted largely from a sharp decline in public sector employment - mostly local government jobs in the education sector - which some economists speculate could be reflecting seasonal factors. Private sector employment was generally in line with estimates when including the prior month's revisions, led by a bounce-back in the Leisure and Hospitality sector and in the Retail Trade sectors. Construction hiring also bounced back in September following several months of very weak growth, perhaps reflecting some relief in supply chain constraints in the homebuilding sector.
Equity REIT Week In Review
Prisons: GEO Group (GEO) soared nearly 15% this week after a federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out California's ban on privately owned immigration detention facilities. Judge Kenneth Lee wrote that the bill - which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 - was unlawful because it "conflicts with the federal power and discretion given to the Secretary of Homeland Security in an area that remains in the exclusive realm of the federal government." GEO Group - which is in the midst of a strategic review to decide if it will abandon the REIT structure - was slammed by the Democrat sweep in the 2020 elections, but has rallied this year as the Biden legislative agenda faces an uncertain future amid a sharp dip in approval ratings. Last year, fellow prison operator CoreCivic (CXW) abandoned the REIT structure.
Student Housing: Also on the upside this week, American Campus Communities (ACC) rallied nearly 2% after it boosted its full-year FFO guidance, citing a successful completion of the Fall 2021 lease-up and robust occupancy and rental revenue growth. ACC now expects FFOM per share of $2.08 at the midpoint, implying a growth rate of 5.1% this year, up 410 basis points from its prior FFO growth outlook. CEO Bill Bayless commented, "Our sector is experiencing substantial tailwinds and appears to have almost entirely recovered from the impacts of COVID" and sees NOI returning to pre-pandemic levels during the current quarter, which the company expects will translate into "significant" earnings growth next year.
Healthcare: Elsewhere, Healthcare Trust of America (HTA) jumped nearly 6% on the week after activist investor fund Elliott Investment Management was reported to be urging the REIT to put itself up for sale. This week, we published Healthcare REITs: Safe & Effective which discussed how the "fourth wave" of the COVID pandemic has pressured Healthcare REITs over the past quarter. Staffing shortages have become critical issues at skilled nursing facilities - worsened by recent vaccine mandates - pressuring not only operating margins but also forcing some facilities to turn away new business. While near-term headwinds will persist until the pandemic abates, we remain optimistic on the long-term outlook for healthcare REITs. Baby Boomers are substantially larger and wealthier than any prior generation.
Manufactured Housing: It was another strong week for residential REITs as well as rents continue to soar across the nation with few signs of slowing. This week we published A Rare Opportunity which analyzed recent performance from the perennially outperforming manufactured housing REIT sector, focusing on the stellar Q2 results from Equity Lifestyle (ELS), Sun Communities (SUI), and UMH Properties (UMH). Pressured by concerns over rising rates, inflation, and the broader rotation from growth into value, MH REITs had briefly pulled back into "correction territory" for just the third time over the past decade before rallying late in the week. Beneficiaries of the intensifying affordable housing shortage, manufactured housing REITs have been the top-performing property sector over the past decade.Net Lease: This week, we saw details on the new office REIT - Orion Office - that will be spun-out of Vereit (VER) and Realty Income (O) upon the completion of its merger later this year. Orion Office will be a self-managed publicly traded REIT with a portfolio of 92 office properties totaling roughly 10.5M total leasable square feet. The combined portfolio recorded $107M in rental revenues through the first six months of the year - Realty Income's office portfolio had revenues of $25.6M while Vereit's portfolio had revenues of $81.3M. For size and peer comparison, Easterly Government (DEA) - which has a market cap of $2.0B - recorded $130M in rental revenue in the same period across 83 properties and 7.6M total leasable square feet.
Hotel: Ashford Hospitality (AHT) dipped nearly 10% this week after reporting portfolio occupancy of 59.7% in September and RevPAR of approximately $94, which was 28.2% lower than September 2019. For Q3, AHT expects to report that its RevPAR was 25.6% below 2019 levels. Braemar Hotels (BHR) dipped nearly 7% after it reported portfolio occupancy of 56.4% in September and RevPAR of approximately $188, which was 20.8% lower than September 2019. The company expects to report that for the full Q3 period, its RevPAR was 6.5% below Q3 of 2019. As discussed last week in Winters Coming, the "fourth wave" came at an inopportune time for the industry, which was relying on robust demand in the critical late-summer season and the return of business travel this Fall.Data Centers: Large-cap technology REITs have been a considerable drag on the market-cap-weighted REIT indexes over the past month. Data center REITs dipped nearly 4% this week following a handful of analyst downgrades, citing the supply chain headwinds on hyperscale demand. Equinix (EQIX) declined nearly 5% while Digital Realty (DLR) was lower by 3%. Small-cap Digital Bridge (DBRG), however, was higher by more than 8%. In Go Big or Go Home, we discussed how fundamentals have been largely unaffected by the pandemic and subsequent reopening - for both better and for worse. Data Center REITs reported solid-but-unspectacular earnings results in Q2.
Mortgage REIT Week in Review
Mortgage REITs were mostly higher this week as residential mREITs climbed 1.0% while commercial mREITs rose 0.1%. Ellington Mortgage (EARN) gained more than 4% this week after holding its dividend steady and announcing it will switch to a monthly payout schedule beginning in November. Elsewhere, Redwood (RWT) gained nearly 2% on the week after it announced an investment in Flock Homes, an online real estate investment platform that utilizes the 721 Exchange, allowing investors to exchange appreciated real estate for units in a REIT. Finally, cannabis-focused AFC Gamma (AFCG) gained more than 3% after it announced that it closed on new commitments of $119.2m in Q3. Boosted by 24 dividend hikes across the sector this year, the average residential mortgage REIT now pays a dividend yield of 8.9% while the average commercial mortgage REIT pays a dividend yield of 6.8%.
REIT Preferreds and Capital Raising
REIT preferred stocks declined 0.95% this week, on average, but remain higher by 10.68% on a price-return basis with total returns of roughly 16%. This week, PS Business Parks (PSB) announced that it will redeem all of its 5.20% Series W Cumulative Preferred Stock (PSB.PW) on November 3rd. Also this week, Farmland Partners (FPI) completed the conversion of its 6.00% Series B Convertible Preferred (FPI.PB) into common stock at a price of $12.75.
Over in the bond markets this week, Physicians Realty (DOC) priced $500m of 2.625% senior unsecured notes due 2031. American Campus (ACC) priced $400M of 2.25% senior unsecured notes due 2029. W.P. Carey (WPC) priced $350M of 2.45% senior notes due 2032 in the company's debut green bond offering. Elsewhere, Healthcare Trust of America (HTA) announced an amended and restated $1.3B revolving credit facility while American Finance (AFIN) also announced an $815M extended credit facility - up from its existing $540M facility. In our State of the REIT Nation report, we discussed how REITs have used lower rates to extend their debt maturities and to lower their average cost of debt to the lowest on record.
2021 Performance Check-Up
Through the first week of the fourth quarter, Equity REITs are now higher by 21.1% this year while Mortgage REITs have gained 16.0%. This compares with the 17.1% advance on the S&P 500 and the 16.7% gain on the S&P Mid-Cap 400. Led by the residential and retail property sectors, all nineteen REIT sectors are now in positive territory for the year, while on the residential side, seven of the eight sectors in the Hoya Capital Housing Index are higher. At 1.61%, the 10-year Treasury yield has climbed 69 basis points since the start of the year and is 109 basis points above its all-time closing low of 0.52% last August, but still 164 basis points below its 2018 peak of 3.25%.
REITs are now the third-best performing asset class this year, leapfrogged this week by Small-Caps (SLY) and also outpaced by the recently-resurgent Commodities (DJP) complex. REITs are still outpacing Large-Caps and Mid-Caps, as well as international stocks and bonds. Despite the rough 2020 in which REITs were the worst-performing asset class, REITs are still the fourth best-performing asset classes since the start of 2010, producing average annual total returns during this time of 11.9%. REITs only slightly lag Small-Cap, Mid-Cap, and Large-Cap equities over this time, producing superior total returns to Bonds (AGG), TIPS (TIP), Commodities, Emerging Markets (EEM), and International (EFA) stocks.
Economic Calendar In The Week Ahead
We'll see another busy slate of economic data in the week ahead, kicking off on Tuesday with the JOLTs Job Openings report for August, which is expected to set another new record high as employers continue to struggle to find workers. On Wednesday, we'll see the critical Consumer Price Index data for Wednesday which is expected to show that consumer inflation remained above 5% in September. The Producer Price Index on Thursday, meanwhile, is expected to show that producer costs rose nearly 9% for the month. Finally, on Friday, we'll see Retail Sales data for September which is expected to show a moderation in spending and we'll get the first look at October Consumer Sentiment data following a historic plunge last month.
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Forecasting Our Future: Meteorologists explain what drew them to a career in weather
Forecasting Our Future: Meteorologists explain what drew them to a career in weather
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Ottawa feared repeat of 2020 rail blockades before B.C. pipeline arrests last fall
There was also concern that people from other demonstrations over Indigenous land rights had travelled to the site, including “Mohawk warriors.”
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Federal officials feared a repeat of the 2020 rail blockades one month before RCMP enforced an injunction last fall against protests that cut off access to a pipeline construction site in Northern British Columbia.
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There was also concern that people from other demonstrations over Indigenous land rights had travelled to the site, including “Mohawk warriors.”
Details of the rising tensions around construction of the 670-kilometre Coastal GasLink pipeline are contained in briefing notes prepared for federal officials before a meeting with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
The documents were released to The Canadian Press through federal access-to-information legislation.
They outline how Lucki requested the Oct. 19 meeting with department heads of Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations to discuss the “recent escalation” of protests to the natural gas pipeline under construction in Wet’suwet’en territory.
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Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs have opposed the pipeline for years, while 20 First Nations band councils along the pipeline route have signed off on the project.
Those opposed to the pipeline have set up blockades along forest service roads to stop workers from getting through and have been confronted by police and court injunctions granted to its owner, TC Energy.
The briefing notes show federal officials were watching the situation carefully last October after they noted activity was once again picking up.
“Small-scale protests have been held in recent days in various parts of the country in support of the hereditary chiefs. There is a risk that protest activities could spread and possibly escalate to levels seen in early 2020,” officials wrote.
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In February 2020 — weeks before the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the country into its first lockdown — protesters began blocking rail and other major transportation routes in support of those arrested by RCMP in Northern B.C., as officers enforced the court injunction prohibiting people from blocking access to Coastal GasLink’s construction sites.
One of the most concerning blockades for governments and industry took place on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory along a stretch of Canadian National rail line between Montreal and Toronto. Police ultimately cleared the site in late February after train traffic had been ground to a halt for several weeks.
Last October, a document titled, “Royal Canadian Mounted Police Situation Report,” provided before the meeting with Lucki identified the presence of someone associated with the Tyendinaga blockade travelling to Northern B.C., along with four others from Ontario and some U.S. citizens.
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“One was involved in the Six Nations protest in Ontario known as ‘1492 Landback Lane,”‘ the report read. There were also “references to ‘war’ against police.”
“With the latest update and the alleged involvement of members of the Mohawk Nation from Ontario, there is a very likely chance for violence and disruptive sympathy actions across Canada similar or greater than those seen in early 2020.”
About a month after the Oct. 19 meeting, RCMP cleared another round of blockades set up by members of the Gidimt’en clan, one of five in the Wet’suwet’en Nation. A photojournalist and documentary filmmaker were among those arrested at the site.
In February, RCMP responded to reports of damaged equipment and an attack on security guards at a construction site for the pipeline. Before getting there, the Mounties said officers were stopped on the road by a fire as a group of people allegedly threw flaming sticks at them.
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Since then, RCMP have stepped up their presence at a camp on the forest service road leading to the pipeline construction site, with officers visiting between four and eight times daily for the last six weeks, said Sleydo’, a spokesperson for the group organizing the blockades.
“Their main goal is to try to remove us from the territory, to make it so uninhabitable and unbearable that we won’t be on the territory anymore. And that’s just not something that’s going to happen,” said Sleydo’, who also goes by the English name Molly Wickham.
“We’re going to continue occupying our territory and upholding our laws.”
Asked about the use of the term “war” mentioned in the federal briefing documents, Sleydo’ said it’s “absolutely fitting for what we’ve been experiencing.”
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“There are helicopters flying over, there are tactical teams, there are K9 units, like, it is war. And the way that colonization has happened in our territories … and the use of the RCMP by the government has been war.”
RCMP said Wednesday that they’ve maintained a presence along the forest service road since 2019 and increased patrols around the industry and “other camps” along the route following the confrontation in February.
“We want to ensure that Criminal Code offences (obstruction, mischief, etc.) are not being committed and that individuals with court-ordered conditions are not breaching those conditions,” Cpl. Madonna Saunderson said in a statement.
“Officers have encountered several individuals believed to be on conditions and (who) refused to remove full-face coverings. They were arrested for obstruction but released without charges once identification was confirmed.”
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The hereditary chiefs and their supporters say the elected band councils have jurisdiction over their reserve lands, but not over 22,000 square kilometres of Wet’suwet’en territory that has never been surrendered.
“The highest courts in Canada have recognized that it’s the hereditary chiefs that have jurisdiction and that have title,” said Sleydo’.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples requires governments to obtain free, prior and informed consent before taking actions that affect Indigenous Peoples and their lands, she noted.
B.C. passed legislation in late 2019 requiring the province to align its laws with the declaration, a process that will take years to complete.
The federal government passed similar legislation last year.
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Connecticut has moved toward joining the growing list of states acting to protect consumer data with the Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill that now goes to the House.
The failure of Congress to pass federal privacy legislation has defaulted the issue to state legislatures in California, Colorado, Virginia and now Connecticut, which have had to gingerly approach regulating digital commerce that cross state lines.
Senate Bill 6 would let consumers see which companies are collecting their data and opt out of sales or sharing of that information. Consumers under 16 would have to opt in to data collection.
The final version of the bill is the product of negotiations with industry groups initially opposed to the evolving state-by-state approach and merchants fearful of liability for the actions of web designers or payment processors.
Sen. James Maroney, D-Milford, the co-chair of the General Law Committee, was credited by colleagues in both parties for doggedly leading working groups that produced a consensus on an endlessly complex area of regulatory law.
The fruit of that labor was a genial debate geared to illuminating the workings of the legislation, followed by a 35-0 vote this week.
The bill is a recognition of the ubiquity of data collection. Our phones and smart watches silently record our movements. Our purchases and internet and TV habits are logged. Our joys and sorrows are posted on social media.
The average child can expect their parents to post 1,300 photos of them on social media by their 13th birthday, Maroney said. And that child will have 70,000 interactions on social media by their teen years.
“Unfortunately, we cannot change any of this,” he said. “The genie is out of the bottle. It would be nearly impossible to put it back in. What we’re doing today is simply saying that Connecticut residents have the right to know what data is being collected about them, how it is being used, and to ask companies to tell companies not to sell their data.”
The bill gives consumers the ability to opt out on the collection of relatively benign data, such as their favorite television shows or dessert. It requires an opt in for more sensitive data to be tracked, such locator data.
“We also tell companies that they cannot sell the data of children under the age of 16 without them opting in — some of the strongest privacy protections for children in the country,” Maroney said.
Companies can continue to collect data used exclusively for the improvement of their products, so long as that data is not shared with third parties, he said.
Sen. Henri Martin, R-Bristol, called the debate an education and the bill one of the most important of the session, one whose provisions he would share with his constituents.
“We have a crisis of privacy in our country right now,” said Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, who first tackled the issue in 2017. “People, at this point, have no expectation of any privacy anymore, and there’s something fundamentally wrong with that. People don’t have an expectation of privacy even in their own homes, whether they think the TV is watching them or their smart speaker is listening to them, or their phone is listening to them.”
Maroney said national privacy advocates had been pushing for passage of the Connecticut bill, seeing it as one of the stronger measures. The national goal, he said, is a critical mass of state laws that provide useful guardrails and not merely provide lip service to protecting privacy.
The states have filled a void left by congressional inaction.
“We have waited and waited and waited for the federal government to do something. And they haven’t done anything. They haven’t acted,” Duff said.
Maroney said he has worked with lawmakers in other states for more than a year, trading ideas and negotiating standards with a wide variety of industry groups, nationally and in Connecticut.
He likened the Connecticut bill to one passed in Colorado — less stringent than California’s while stronger than many others. The hospitals and restaurants signed off on the final language in recent days, clearing the way for passage, he said.
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State Sen. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor, and Sen. Ryan Fazio, R-Greenwich, said Maroney’s working group has produced an impressive piece of legislation, given the complexities of digital commerce and the competing interests of stakeholders.
But both noted that other perhaps more challenging digital terrain remains to be explored: the impact of social media on children.
“This bill is a starting point,” Anwar said.
One of the Republicans who complimented Maroney also noted that passage of the bill is a beginning, not an end to efforts to protect consumers in a time when an hour rarely passes without leaving a digital footprint.
“What we’re trying to do here is extremely complex,” said Sen. Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield. “This is a good initial start, but obviously it continues to be a significant work in progress.”
Maroney replied, “I would acknowledge that technology advances faster than our ability to regulate it.”
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Overview Of Value Stocks In The Financial Services Sector
The Meaning Behind Value Stocks
A value stock is traditionally defined in terms of how investors in the marketplace are valuing that company's future growth prospects. Low P/E multiples are good base indicators that the company is undervalued and can most likely be labelled as a value stock.
Benzinga Insights has compiled a list of value stocks in the financial services sector that may be worth watching:
- Chemung Financial (NASDAQ:CHMG) - P/E: 8.27
- Five Star Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBC) - P/E: 9.92
- Meta Financial Group (NASDAQ:CASH) - P/E: 8.94
- loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) - P/E: 3.9
- OFS Credit (NASDAQ:OCCI) - P/E: 3.24
This quarter, Chemung Financial experienced a decrease in earnings per share, which was $1.42 in Q3 and is now $1.38. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 2.67%, which has decreased by 0.03% from 2.7% last quarter.
Five Star Bancorp saw an increase in earnings per share from 0.64 in Q3 to $0.66 now. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 2.11%, which has decreased by 0.32% from last quarter's yield of 2.43%.
Most recently, Meta Financial Group reported earnings per share at $0.78, whereas in Q4 earnings per share sat at $0.5. Its most recent dividend yield is at 0.37%, which has increased by 0.05% from 0.32% in the previous quarter.
loanDepot's earnings per share for Q4 sits at $0.09, whereas in Q3, they were at 0.46. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 8.72%, which has increased by 1.28% from 7.44% last quarter.
OFS Credit has reported Q1 earnings per share at $0.78, which has increased by 13.04% compared to Q4, which was 0.69. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 17.2%, which has increased by 0.66% from 16.54% last quarter.
The Significance: A value stock may need some time to rebound from its undervalued position. The risk of investing in a value stock is that this emergence may never materialize. | https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/04/26740603/overview-of-value-stocks-in-the-financial-services-sector | 2022-04-21T15:04:09Z | https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/04/26740603/overview-of-value-stocks-in-the-financial-services-sector | false | 1 |
Doug Mann, Livermore
Thank you, Independent, for your reporting on the April 11 Livermore City Council meeting, particularly the item related to Save the Hill’s Court win. You accurately reported John Marchand's statement that "it was the EIR that failed to address potential funding opportunities (to buy it as open space) and not the council”. This seems to be an attempt to absolve himself of responsibility, and here’s a little more information for clarity.
An Environmental Impact Report is required for certain projects because of a law signed by Ronald Reagan in 1970 - the California Environmental Quality Act. Usually, developers hire a private company to do most of the work. The project then goes to an agency for consideration and a vote.
The final report accompanies the development planning documents. This report is an inanimate object though, consisting of printed pages. It does not possess the ability to vote and certify itself. It is the legislative authority, the Council in this case, that needs to certify or reject it as valid and complete.
The Court held that the Council, headed by John Marchand at the time, should not have voted to certify it and allow the development to move forward. Consequently, it may also be wise to investigate exactly why the EIR was defective and how it was produced, particularly the “no project alternative” component. | https://www.independentnews.com/mailbox/lawsuit-is-council-s-fault/article_e712f9c8-c0bc-11ec-8fb5-f39c82a462f5.html | 2022-04-21T15:04:49Z | https://www.independentnews.com/mailbox/lawsuit-is-council-s-fault/article_e712f9c8-c0bc-11ec-8fb5-f39c82a462f5.html | true | 1 |
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a futuristic new messaging system that works by using a pair of smart glasses.
The feature will allow users to dictate texts out loud to the glasses and the message would then be sent to friends and family.
Mobile software community XDA Developers uncovered references to the feature hidden inside the code of the WhatsApp beta.
The messaging service remains non-integrated with Voice Assistants for now, but the feature is linked to the Ray-Ban Stories – a pair of smart glasses created by WhatsApp-owner Facebook.
What are Ray-Ban Stories?
Ray-Ban Stories launched in 2021 in a collaboration with EssilorLuxottica and Ray-Ban.
The smart glasses are designed to look like regular glasses, but can actually film the things you can see and the footage can then be uploaded to social media.
The built-in 5MP cameras allow you to capture both photos and videos, and the three microphones make it possible to answer phone calls too.
Video is recorded in 1184x1184 resolution at 30 frames per second, with a 105-degree field of view, and you can record videos up to 30 seconds long, or take 2592x1944-pixel photos if you prefer. Activating the camera is done with the tap of a button or a vocal “Hey Facebook” command.
On-device storage caters for 35 videos and up to 500 photos, but you can offload these in seconds to the new Facebook View app and clear the device for re-use easily.
Just like the WhatsApp feature, you would be able to send texts with just a voice command.
When could the feature launch?
As yet, it is not clear exactly when this new feature could launch.
WhatsApp may be developing it for weeks, months or even years, and it is entirely possible the feature is discarded before being brought ot fruition. | https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/read-this/whatsapp-working-on-new-feature-to-send-texts-without-having-to-type-3662804 | 2022-04-21T15:07:08Z | https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/read-this/whatsapp-working-on-new-feature-to-send-texts-without-having-to-type-3662804 | true | 21 |
Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV boosted its position in shares of OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE:OGE – Get Rating) by 16.4% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 59,233 shares of the utilities provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 8,338 shares during the period. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV’s holdings in OGE Energy were worth $2,273,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Franklin Resources Inc. lifted its position in OGE Energy by 2.6% during the third quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 1,459,744 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $48,114,000 after acquiring an additional 37,344 shares during the last quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC lifted its position in OGE Energy by 19.3% during the third quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC now owns 30,376 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $1,001,000 after acquiring an additional 4,904 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its position in OGE Energy by 5.1% during the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 2,697,875 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $88,921,000 after acquiring an additional 130,657 shares during the last quarter. Comerica Bank lifted its position in OGE Energy by 9.0% during the third quarter. Comerica Bank now owns 167,660 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $5,737,000 after acquiring an additional 13,781 shares during the last quarter. Finally, People s United Financial Inc. lifted its position in OGE Energy by 1.7% during the third quarter. People s United Financial Inc. now owns 26,045 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $858,000 after acquiring an additional 436 shares during the last quarter. 63.42% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
In related news, VP Patricia D. Horn sold 4,015 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, March 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $39.95, for a total transaction of $160,399.25. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, Director David L. Hauser purchased 1,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 1st. The shares were purchased at an average price of $37.25 per share, for a total transaction of $37,250.00. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. 0.53% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Shares of OGE Energy stock opened at $42.33 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.11, a current ratio of 0.56 and a quick ratio of 0.42. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $39.09 and a 200 day moving average price of $37.01. OGE Energy Corp. has a 1 year low of $32.49 and a 1 year high of $42.60. The stock has a market cap of $8.47 billion, a PE ratio of 11.53, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.53 and a beta of 0.68.
OGE Energy (NYSE:OGE – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 24th. The utilities provider reported $0.27 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. OGE Energy had a net margin of 20.18% and a return on equity of 12.50%. The firm had revenue of $581.30 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $638.06 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.57 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 19.8% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts expect that OGE Energy Corp. will post 2.17 EPS for the current year.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 29th. Investors of record on Monday, April 11th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, April 8th. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.87%. OGE Energy’s dividend payout ratio is presently 44.69%.
OGE Energy Profile (Get Rating)
OGE Energy Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy and energy services provider that offers physical delivery and related services for electricity, natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids in the United States. The company generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric energy.
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How to Watch: Mississippi State Baseball Faces Ole Miss, Game 1
Mississippi State baseball (22-16, 6-9) is coming off a dominant 17-2 win over the Jackson State Tigers in a game that only took seven innings to finish out.
Before that, MSU came within reach of recording its first SEC sweep on the season, topping the Auburn Tigers twice in a row (7-6 and 9-5) before falling just short in a 3-2 loss in Game 3.
Up next, the Bulldogs will look to keep the momentum rolling as they return to SEC play to take on the in-state rival Ole Miss Rebels on the road in Oxford.
Ole Miss (21-15, 5-10) is currently on a three-game losing streak, most recently falling 13-3 to Southeast Missouri after recording two consecutive losses (9-8 and 4-2) to lose the series to the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Here's what to know about Thursday's game between the Bulldogs and the Rebels and how to tune in, regardless of where you are:
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Game Info: Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss
Where: Swayze Field (Oxford, MS)
Weather: 78 degrees, Intermittent Clouds
Start time: 6 p.m. CT on Thursday, April 21
Watch: SEC Network
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama will deliver the keynote address at a democracy summit sponsored by a national, nonpartisan voting organization she helped create, the group announced Wednesday.
The former first lady’s June 13 remarks to When We All Vote’s inaugural Culture of Democracy Summit in Los Angeles will be her first in-person appearance before a large audience since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said. She last addressed When We All Vote in person in 2018 before the midterm elections.
“We need to talk about the state of our democracy and the ways we can protect it right from our own communities,” Michelle Obama said in a tweet announcing the upcoming speech.
Conversations during the June 10-13 summit will center around protecting democracy, combatting voter suppression and ensuring equal access to the ballot box for this fall’s November midterm elections and political contests beyond, organizers said.
Artists, athletes, academics, grassroots organizers and technology, civic and corporate leaders are among the 1,500 people expected to participate.
“Democracy isn’t just a box we check every four years,” said Stephanie Young, executive director of When We We All Vote. “Voting must be embedded in all aspects of our culture.”
President Joe Biden invited global leaders to his own Summit for Democracy last year to pledge his commitment to democracy worldwide, even as the United States faces its own challenges in meeting the democratic ideals of its founders.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies continue to stoke lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Republican-led states have used his false claims of election fraud to justify new voting restrictions. Supporters of the Republican former president who deny that Biden, a Democrat, was legitimately elected are running for election administration roles in several states.
In 2018, Mrs. Obama used the considerable influence she had built up as first lady to launch When We All Vote to help register eligible voters in the United States.
That fall, she released her memoir, “Becoming,” which became a bestseller, and embarked on a worldwide book tour that drew thousands of people to her appearances.
Her last big in-person appearance before the pandemic was a February 2020 conversation with Oprah Winfrey in New York that was part of a wellness tour by the former TV talk show host.
Mrs. Obama isolated during the pandemic and, apart from the book tour, has kept a relatively low profile since leaving the White House. She appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show this week.
The former first lady leads When We All Vote with an all-star group, including actors Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Kerry Washington and Tracee Ellis Ross, “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, television producer Shonda Rhimes, singers Janelle Monae, Jennifer Lopez and H.E.R. and professional athletes Stephen Curry, Chris Paul and Megan Rapinoe, among others. | https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/michelle-obama-to-address-democracy-summit-june-13-in-la/ | 2022-04-21T15:11:55Z | https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/michelle-obama-to-address-democracy-summit-june-13-in-la/ | false | 29 |
Mother’s Day gifts for fitness moms
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Mother’s Day is right around the corner (Sunday, May 8) which means shopping for your mom (or the moms in your life) is likely at the top of your to-do list. While flowers, chocolate and jewelry are all nice gifts, if she’s sporty, chances are she’d prefer something fitness-centric. After all, where flowers wilt and chocolates disappear all too quickly, well-made fitness gifts can last a lifetime (or, at the very least, a few years).
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With that in mind, we searched high and low for 16 of the best gifts for fitness moms. Whether she’s someone who likes to go on walks around the neighborhood, workout at home or head to a studio to get her sweat on, you’ll find more than a few ideas worth considering this Mother’s Day.
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1. A pair of trendy ankle and wrist weights
Bala Bangles are a favorite among celebrities, influencers and everyday fitness folks alike. The trendy weights can be worn on ankles or wrists, and can be tailored by removing individual blocks. The light weights, which work especially well to elevate low-impact barre workouts and neighborhood walks, come in 1- and 2-pound options, as well as 11 colors.
Get the Bala Bangles - Set of 2 at Amazon for $49
2. A top-of-the-line smartwatch
There’s something so satisfying about being able to track your workouts and activity as a whole. The Series 7 Apple Watch allows you to do all that and more via its 41mm or 45mm touchscreen face. Available in both GPS and GPS + Cellular options, this watch can be used to map out runs, measure blood oxygen, time Tabata workouts, alert the wearer of an irregular heartbeat, track sleep, offer moments of mindfulness and so much more. Best of all, it’s water-resistant up to 50 meters, so it can be worn while swimming without worry, too.
Get the Apple Watch Series 7 [GPS 41mm] Smart Watch at Amazon for $329
3. A pair of cult-favorite pocket leggings
It’s no secret that women love pockets. Unfortunately, many workout pants come without them. Thankfully, Athleta came to the rescue with their fan-favorite Salutation Stash Pocket Tight. Made with deep pockets on each side, these sweat-wicking yoga leggings, which are sold in 10 colors, are a great option for any mom who likes to keep their essentials on them at all times.
Get the Salutation Stash Pocket II 7/8 Tight at Athleta for $98
4. A sports bra that won us over
Lululemon's AirSupport bra is ideal for moms who love a good long run and need the gear to match. Its a high-support bra made for those with larger chests, with sizes ranging from 32B to 36DDD or 40D. Our tester found it to be a super supportive bra and while its on the expensive side—it would certainly make a great gift for mom to add into her athletic wear rotation.
Get the AirSupport Bra at lululemon for $98
5. A streamlined workout mirror
Busy lifestyles can make it difficult to find time to work out. However, for fitness-loving moms, that just won’t do. To help ensure they always have access to a gym space, consider gifting them one of the most popular workout mirrors on the market: the Mirror. Equipped with live and pre-recorded classes, virtual training programs and heart rate data, this streamlined, wall-mounted gym is an absolute game-changer. Priced at under $2,000, this Mother’s Day gift is undoubtedly expensive but to give the gift of endorphins throughout the day is priceless, don’t you think?
Get The Mirror starting at $1,345
6. A set of top-rated suspension training accessories
TRX suspension trainers are a favorite among fitness professionals thanks to the way they offer full-body benefits with minimal impact. This TRRx bundle comes with a TRX GO rope for suspension training, indoor and outdoor anchors, a mesh carrying bag and a 30-day free trial to the TRX training club app. (If you want to amp up your TRX gift, consider adding the TRX Bandit Kit to your cart, as well. Unlike most band bundles, it comes with ergonomic handles that can be transferred between bands to make working out with them more comfortable than ever.)
Get the TRX GO Suspension Trainer and the Go Bundle at Amazon for $129.95
7. A calorie-counting jump rope
Does the mom in your life love to jump rope? Take their cardio workout to a whole new level by gifting them this calorie-counting jump rope. Sold in six colors, this rope features an LED screen to time jump rope workouts, enter your weight and calculate your calories based off of both. What’s more, the rope length can be adjusted, so she’ll be able to tailor it to her height.
Get the multifun Speed Skipping Rope with Calorie Counter at Amazon for $16.95
8. A water bottle unlike any other
One of our favorite water bottles of all time, the Owala FreeSip Insulated Stainless-Steel Water Bottle will change the way the mama in your life hydrates. The bottle is equipped with a push-button and additional handle clutch that keeps the lid secure and spill-proof. When popped open, the bottle reveals a double-sip mouthpiece that can be used as a straw or an open spout. So whether she likes to sip or chug, this bottle delivers.
9. A compact compression massager
As beneficial as stretching and foam rolling are for muscles both before and after a workout, they’re not always the most comfortable practices. That’s where compression massagers come in. These high-speed massagers dig deep into muscles to relieve tension and promote fitness and recovery. Although compact, this specific Theragun is particularly beneficial because it delivers between 1,750 and 2,400 percussions per minute, and it’s small enough to throw in a gym bag or carry-on.
Get the Theragun Mini at Amazon for $168.99
10. A pair of sustainable sneakers
Many workouts require comfortable, supportive shoes and the Allbirds Women’s Tree Dasher 2 are just that. Sold in five colors, these sneakers, which are considered to be carbon neutral, are sustainably made with a eucalyptus tree fiber upper, sugarcane-based midsole and certified natural rubber sole. All in all, shoppers love these sneaks for their responsive, lightweight eco-friendly design.
Get the Women's Tree Dasher 2 at Allbirds for $135
11. A few pairs of the best socks ever
What’s a good pair of sneakers without equally as cozy socks? In our eyes, nothing quite compares to Bombas. This 6-pack will introduce the mom in your life to the comfortable, foot-hugging, arch-supporting nature of the cult-favorite cotton socks—and it will give back to those in need, because for every Bombas purchase made, socks are donated.
Get the Women's Tri-Block Marl Ankle Sock 6-Pack at Bombas for $71.25
12. A fan-favorite at-home boxing gym
Help her jab and cross it out without even having to leave her house. The Fight Camp Personal is the at-home version of the popular studio class and comes with a freestanding bag, boxing gloves, punch trackers, quick wraps and a bag ring. (FYI: If the hefty price tag deters you, know that financing is available.)
Get the Fight Camp Personal at FightCamp for $999
13. A truly unbeatable gym bag
The perfect in-flight personal item doubles as the best gym bag. The popular Calpak Luka Duffel, which comes in nine colors, might not look like the largest bag but it can fit so much more than meets the eye. Designed with a trolly strap, front pocket, multiple interior pockets and hidden shoe storage, the structured bag is perfect for taking to the gym, as well as on your next vacation. (Truly, it’s so good that I’ve bought it in two colors.)
Get the Luka Duffel at Calpak for $110
14. A bright fanny pack that’s perfect for runs and hikes
As popular as the Calpak Luka Duffel is, it’s not the best bag option for those looking to run or hike for miles on end. Instead, consider the Caraa Small Sling. Sold in six colors, the fanny pack has six pockets and compartments and can be comfortably worn at the waist, over the shoulder or slung over your back.
Get the Small Sling at Caraa for $115
15. A membership to one of the country’s premier group class studios
Orangetheory is one of the most popular studio fitness classes in the world and touts a workout program applauded by the American Heart Association. The workout itself is heart rate-based full-body HIIT that incorporates treadmills, rowers and floor exercises, and focuses on endurance, strength and power. Often thought to be intimidating, OTF is actually accessible for all, as coaches are always available to offer alternative movements and guidance. While the studio has a variety of different membership plans, none compare to the Premier Plan, which offers unlimited classes for a set price each month. (Check out the best shoes for OTF,here.)
Get the Orange Premier Membership at Orangetheory (Prices vary based on location)
16. A journal to reflect on a healthy lifestyle
Part of living a healthy lifestyle is being in tune with not only your physical activity but your mind, too. As such, a Wellness Journal from Papier is a particularly thoughtful gift for fitness moms. This journal comes in dozens of prints and features daily spreads that offer space to outline key priorities, meals, exercise, water intake, gratitude and more. Plus, it’s undated, so she won’t have to stress out if she misses a day.
Get the Wellness Journal at Papier for $32.99
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A meeting bringing together Heads of States from the East African Community (EAC) is expected to take place in Nairobi, Kenya this Thursday, to discuss peace and security in the region.
According to Twitter account of the Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the leaders who will attend the mini-summit include President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, the host President Uhuru Kenyatta, and currently chair of the EAC, President Paul Kagame, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and the President of Burundi, Maj. Gen Évariste Ndayishimiye.
#RDC 20.04.2022|#Nairobi
Le Chef de l'État, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo séjourne,depuis cette nuit, à Nairobi (Kenya) en prévision du Mini-Sommet quintipartite consacré à la paix et à la sécurité de l'E.A.C, qui s'ouvre ce jeudi. pic.twitter.com/PjpV0xFDCX— Présidence RDC 🇨🇩 (@Presidence_RDC) April 20, 2022
According to the tweets, President Tshisekedi arrived in Nairobi on Wednesday evening for the summit which opens today while Burundi’s Ntare Rushatsi House, the President’s Official account, confirmed that President Ndayishimiye departed for Nairobi.
Dubbed the Quintipartite Mini-Summit, the meeting will dwell on the peace and security situation in the region, key among other issues, the situation in Eastern DRC, the latest entrants of the regional bloc.
#Burundi: Sur invitation de son Homologue du #Kenya SE Uhuru Kenyatta, le Président Evariste #Ndayishimiye a pris l’avion à destination de Nairobi pour prendre part à un Sommet des Chefs d'Etat sur la situation dans la Région qui aura lieu ce 21 avril 2022 au @StateHouseKenya. pic.twitter.com/CJDX3ZOKJh
— Ntare Rushatsi House (@NtareHouse) April 21, 2022
The mini-summit which was agreed upon on March 30, is a follow up on the one that took place on March 8 where the leaders met in Nairobi for the official accession of the DRC in the EAC.
Among other subjects, the resurgence of M23 in Eastern DRC is expected to dominate the conversation. Both the EAC and State House Kenya were yet to communicate about the meeting by press time.
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Last month, it was announced that Salman Khan starrer Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali directed by Farhad Samji and backed by Sajid Nadiadwala will release in theaters on December 30, 2022.
However, a few weeks later, post the failure of Bachchhan Paandey, a report claimed that Sajid Nadiadwala has decided to back out of Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali and Salman will now be producing the film under his production banner Salman Khan Films.
Later, it was also claimed that Bhai has decided to take the directorial reigns of the film in his own hands now. And it is possible that he may direct the film solely or could co-direct it with Farhad Samji.
Soon, fans started requesting Salman to shelve the film rather than directing it himself.
Well, in the past whenever Salman has decided to venture into other aspects of filmmaking besides acting, the end result has mostly been disastrous.
Post his acting debut with Biwi Ho To Aisi in 1988, Bhai turned story writer for the 1993 fantasy film Chandramukhi co-starring Sridevi. The film was panned by the critics and was a dud at the box office.
He once again turned to writing with 2010 film Veer and again the result was a box office dud.
Recently, for the 2019 film Dabangg 3, Salman wrote the story and screenplay and delivered a box office flop almost killing the franchise.
Not just story writing, Salman was also the uncredited dialogue writer for Dabangg 3 and Race 3.
In fact, the infamous “Our Business Is Our Business None Of Your Business” from Race 3 is courtesy Bhai.
In 1999, Salman also decided to go behind the mic and crooned the song Chandi Ki Daal Par from Hello Brother.
Over the years, he sang a number of songs in his films with Hangover from Kick and Main Hoon Hero Tera from Hero actually becoming successful.
However, his last few songs that he sang have been unbearable to say the least. These include his singles Bhai Bhai, Pyar Karona & Dance With Me and Race 3 track I Found Love.
Having said that, the worst talent Salman has flexed in films is as a lyrics writer.
He wrote two of the worst songs of the last decade in Selfish and I Found Love from the 2018 film, Race 3.
Now, if the report of Bhai deciding to turn director with Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali is true, we just hope it goes his acting career way and not the other talents that he tried showcasing.
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Hotel Okura opens in PH, signals recovering hospitality sector
Hotel Okura officially opened in Manila on Tuesday, signaling the gradual recovery of the country’s hospitality industry from almost two years of pandemic-driven lockdowns.
The Japanese luxury hotel, situated within the Resorts World complex in Newport City, soft-opened in December 2021 and is the first Okura Nikko Hotels property in the Philippines.
“We are delighted that Hotel Okura Manila officially opens today. At this hotel, we are confident that Okura’s omotenashi together with the warmest Filipino hospitality, in conjunction with our spirit of ‘Wa’ (meaning harmony or teamwork), would evolve into the ultimate hospitality,” Hotel Okura Co., Ltd. president Toshihiro Ogita said.
In an interview, Philippine Hotel Owners Association executive director Benito Bengzon Jr. said the Japanese hotel brand’s debut in Manila also marks the renewed confidence of investors in the Philippines.
“This is something that a lot of people have been waiting for and it signals the recovery of the hospitality industry. The fact that they opened while we are still in a pandemic goes to show that they believe in the Philippines,” he told reporters.
“This will (also) help expand or increase the capacity in terms of the number of rooms here in Metro Manila. And, of course, if you’re familiar with the brand, Okura is a premium brand known all over Japan and the fact that they’ve decided to open here speaks volumes about the confidence that they have.”
The 11-floor hotel, with 190 rooms, features a picturesque lobby adorned with a calming karesansui or zen rock garden that seamlessly blends with the structure’s Japanese-style interior.
It also boasts a wide array of accommodations, including the iconic Hinoku-yu room that features Japanese cypress wooden bathtubs handcrafted by artisans from the mountainous Nagiso town in Nagano, Japan.
Hotel Okura Manila also has a fine dining restaurant, the Yamazato, and the all-day dining Yawaragi that serve authentic Japanese cuisine.
In a speech, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said Okura’s grand opening is a testament to the tourism and hospitality industry’s “improving state”.
“This momentous occasion heralds the recovery of the tourism and hospitality industry. With more places now under Alert Level 1 status, we expect more tourism activity in the coming months,” she said.
The hotel’s launch came more than two months since the Philippines reopened its borders to foreign leisure travelers.
Based on the latest government data, about 265,553 foreign tourists visited the country from February 10 to April 17 alone.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — An attack by suspected Islamic extremist rebels has killed nine people in northeast Nigeria, police and witnesses said Thursday, one of several deadly attacks this week in the troubled region.
At least 15 people have been killed in attacks in northeast Nigeria this week.
The suspected Boko Haram members stormed Geidam, a border town in Yobe State, and opened fire on residents, according to witnesses. Those killed include two women and a retired inspector of police, said Dungus Abdulkareem with the Yobe State Police Command.
The militants came on foot and “began to shoot,” resident Babagana Umar told The Associated Press.
“We all thought it was soldiers shooting until we began to hear people screaming and running,” Umar said. “They burned down a school before storming a local alcohol and relaxation joint (where) the terrorists shot at some persons and then tied others’ hands from behind and slit their throats.”
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the Wednesday attack.
The Islamic State group, however, claimed responsibility for an explosion in neighboring Taraba state that killed six people earlier in the week. That attack targeted a “gathering of Christian disbelievers inside a crowded bar” in Taraba, the group said.
The group also said that its fighters killed five soldiers in a separate attack on an army post in Marte town in Borno State although the Nigerian army did not confirm this.
Security has been beefed up in areas hit by the attacks, police have said.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with 206 million people, continues to grapple with a 10-year-old insurgency by Islamic extremists in the northeast carried out by Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State West Africa Province. The extremists are fighting to establish Shariah law and to stop Western education.
More than 35,000 have died and millions have been displaced by the violence, according to the U.N. Development Program.
On Wednesday, Nigerian leader President Muhammadu Buhari criticized the insurgents who have forbidden western education in parts of Nigeria’s north where they operate.
“God is justice. You can’t kill innocent people and shout Allah Akbar (God is great). It’s either you don’t know that God at all, or you are simply being stupid,” Buhari said. “To say Western education is unacceptable is very fraudulent.”
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By Jim Newell
Review Editor
There’s two new hotels in Orion Township and they’re not along the Brown Road corridor. And the hotels’ future tenants will be buzzing with delight at their new accommodations.
Noah Johnson, an Eagle Scout candidate in Lake Orion Boy Scout Troop 128, has designed, constructed and installed two new bee hotels at the Orion Township Public Library.
One hotel is next to the outdoor reading garden/patio at the back of the library, while the other is near the Polly Ann Trailhead on the east side of the property.
Johnson installed the hotels on April 10.
And visitors to the library shouldn’t have to worry about getting stung while enjoying a little reading time outdoors or taking a walk on the trail.
The type of bees that bee hotels tend to attract are generally not dangerous to humans, Johnson said.
“They don’t target people. And the bee hotels specifically, there for the bees to come into lay their larvae in and then they seal it up with mud and leave. So, there shouldn’t be any danger or swarms of bees around that people have to worry about,” he said.
Unlike honey bees, the native solitary bees attracted to bee hotels, or houses, are extremely docile and up to three times more effective as pollinators.
About six months ago, Johnson started looking into potential Eagle Scout projects
Lori Morris, volunteer engagement specialist at the Orion Township Public Library, said Johnson approached her wanting to do a project at the library and asked what the library might want, or need.
“I’ve actually known Noah since 2017 when he applied to become a volunteer at the library for National Junior Honor Society hours and so he was a volunteer for me first. Then he approached me in September 2021…and said he needed a place to do his Eagle Scout project,” Morris said.
“I talked to Lori at the library and she recommended that I look into bee hotels because they’ve been popular recently and they’ve had some similar projects here, like the bat house,” Johnson said.
He then did a bit more research and felt that a bee hotel would be a good fit at the library. But even more research was required: the best way to build and install the bee hotels, location, materials like special reeds for housing.
Morris said working with scouts is mutually beneficial: the scouts get to complete their projects and the library gets new amenities to enhance the library.
“We look forward to partnering with scout troops. We’ve had the reading amphitheater, we’ve had the bat house and wooden puzzles made for our special needs community,” Morris said. “And it’s a way for them to have a legacy here at the library.”
To get the project funded, Johnson sent out donation requests to friends, family and his scout troop asking for direct donations. But his main source of revenue was from can and bottle drives.
“Even though it was only 10 cents per bottle, it really added up because we’ve needed a big investment for this,” Johnson said.
Johnson, who has been in scouts for more than seven years, had help during construction and installation from his fellow scouts and his parents, Valerie and Brian Penz.
Now that he’s finished, Johnson said he’s happy he stuck with it, given the difficulties of the past two years.
“I definitely feel glad that I’ve made it this far. It hasn’t always been easy. There were some times, especially through COVID when we couldn’t meet up or go on camp outs that I really had to ask myself if I was committed as I needed to be to get this done. But, yeah, I’m just really glad that I could make it this far,” Johnson said. | https://lakeorionreview.com/did-you-hear-the-buzz-eagle-scout-candidate-completes-project-at-orion-twp-public-libary/ | 2022-04-21T15:25:20Z | https://lakeorionreview.com/did-you-hear-the-buzz-eagle-scout-candidate-completes-project-at-orion-twp-public-libary/ | true | 1 |
A preliminary hearing for former state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane, arrested last month for driving under the influence, has been rescheduled to the end of May, according to Lackawanna County Court records.
Kane, 55, is scheduled for court May 26. She was originally slated to appear in Lackawanna County Central Court on Thursday.
Scranton police charged Kane with DUI and careless driving after striking another vehicle March 12 at Moosic Street and Meadow Avenue. No one was injured.
Kane refused a blood test and denied she had anything to drink, but police said they smelled alcohol and later viewed surveillance footage of her drinking at a city restaurant.
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Coronation Street cast Hollywood star and Killing Eve actor in huge new Aggie Bailey storyline
CORONATION Street has cast Hollywood star Dominic Mafham in an upcoming plot involving character Aggie Bailey.
Dominic, 54, has previously appeared in shows including Granchester and Killing Eve and will be arriving on the cobbles next week, The Sun can reveal.
The actor will play Weatherfield General's new head doctor Henry Thorne - and it's not long before he strikes up a friendship with nurse Aggie, played by Lorna Laidlaw.
Nurse Aggie was recently switched to a new ward and, after hearing about new boss Mr Thorne's reputation, was concerned she'd find herself in an unbearable working situation.
But - after a brief meeting - Aggie discovered Mr Thorne to be a bit of a charmer, sparking speculation of a new workplace romance for her.
Telly fans will remember Dominic for playing John Gurney Clifford on ITV’s Grantchester and, more recently, Charles Kruger in series three of Killing Eve.
He's also appeared in The English Patient and New Tricks.
Last year fans questioned why Aggie was noticeably absent from Corrie, with the soap cleverly explaining that she needed to isolate between shifts at the hospital.
And Lorna told Digital Spy: "I was supposed to be in these scenes but I was shielding and protecting my mum.
"So I said to Corrie, 'Why don't we just do them over WhatsApp?'
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"I did my own make-up and dressed my home to look like a hotel, as Aggie was meant to be isolating following her shifts at the hospital.
"Some days it was really hot, so I was wearing my nurse uniform on top of a pair of shorts and flip-flops, as no one was going to see them." | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/18330390/coronation-street-new-character-doctor/ | 2022-04-21T15:26:41Z | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/18330390/coronation-street-new-character-doctor/ | true | 3 |
Second in a series
The Texans enter the draft with a lot of needs on both sides of the ball. Each day leading up to the draft (April 28-30), we’ll look at a different position with an eye on who might be available for the Texans.
Texans’ needs
The Texans are committed to Davis Mills as their starter going into his second season. He was the NFL’s second-best rookie quarterback behind New England’s Mac Jones. Over the last four games, Mills played better than every rookie and finished with 16 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. In his last four games, Mills had eight touchdowns and two interceptions. General manager Nick Caserio signed Kyle Allen to back up Mills. Even though Jeff Driskel is returning, it doesn’t mean Caserio won’t use a low draft choice on a quarterback or sign an undrafted free agent.
Overall
This is an average group of quarterbacks without depth, but because teams are so desperate, they’ll reach at this position. Three or four could be taken in the first round.
Malik Willis, 6-1, 219, Liberty
No quarterback prospect has improved his stock more since the end of last season, when he threw 27 touchdown passes and 12 interceptions. He fashioned a 17-6 record in 23 starts the last two seasons. Willis impressed scouts at the Senior Bowl, the combine and his pro day. He has a terrific arm and the mobility and instincts to play the position at the next level. Scouts love his personality and his leadership ability. He’s intelligent, works hard and is willing to do whatever it takes to succeed. MVP of his last two bowl games. Most teams believe he needs a year of development. He’ll be the first or second quarterback drafted.
Kenny Pickett, 6-3, 217, Pittsburgh
A senior who started 49 games in college, which should make him ready to play before the other prospects. Last season, he threw 42 touchdown passes and seven interceptions for an 11-2 team. He’s smart, sees the whole field, makes good decisions with the ball, is accurate and has the mobility to make plays off schedule. He doesn’t have a great arm, but it’s good enough. Diagnoses defenses well. Doesn’t force the ball. Isn’t afraid to take the checkdown when a receiver isn’t open. He’ll be the first or second quarterback drafted.
Desmond Ridder, 6-4, 211, Cincinnati
A four-year starter who improved every season. A dynamic leader who exudes confidence. Started 48 games in college. Led the Bearcats to a 13-1 record last season, with the only defeat to Alabama in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. Lacks the kind of arm talent scouts prefer, but he’s worked hard to improve his accuracy. Threw 30 touchdown passes and eight interceptions as a senior. Also ran for six touchdowns and 18 over his last two seasons. Impressed at the Senior Bowl. Ran a 4.52 at the combine. Could go in the bottom of the first round but could last until the second.
Matt Corral, 6-2, 212, Mississippi
Started 27 games, including 23 the past two seasons. After declaring for the draft, Corral suffered a high ankle sprain in the first quarter of the Sugar Bowl loss to Baylor and wasn’t able to compete at the Senior Bowl or combine. He’s a smart, tough, courageous player who’ll absorb a lot of punishment. Threw 20 touchdown passes and five interceptions last season. Ran for 614 yards and 11 touchdowns. Has to become a smarter runner who’ll slide rather than risk getting clobbered. A good enough arm. Needs to use more of the field. Could go at the bottom of the first round or last until the second.
Sam Howell, 6-1, 218, North Carolina
Going into his junior season, Howell was projected as a first-round pick, perhaps taken among the top-10 prospects. But he lost a lot of terrific skill position players, and his touchdown-to-interception ratio dropped from 30-7 to 24-9. Ran for 828 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2021. An outstanding leader with above-average arm strength but must improve mechanics and release. He’ll hang in the pocket waiting for receivers to get open, but he loves to run. Must learn to slide or run out of bounds. Should be drafted in the second round.
Stock rising
Bailey Zappe, 6-1, 215, Western Kentucky
The Victoria native played at Houston Baptist before transferring to Western Kentucky last season when he compiled incredible statistics. He threw for 5,967 yards and 62 touchdowns compared to 11 interceptions. Doesn’t have a great arm, but he’s smart, accurate and makes good decisions. Could go in the fourth round.
Stock falling
Carson Strong, 6-4, 226, Nevada
At one point, he was projected among the top-five quarterbacks, but he’s dropping into the second or third round. Knee issues have a lot of scouts concerned. Last season, he threw for 4,186 yards, 36 touchdowns and eight interceptions. Lacks mobility and takes too many sacks.
Best of the rest
Jack Coan 6-3, 218, Notre Dame; Cole Kelley, 6-7, 249, Southeast Louisiana; E.J. Perry, 6-2, 211, Brown; Skylar Thompson, 6-2, 217, Kansas State; D’Eriq King, 5-9, 196, Miami; Brock Purdy, 6-1, 212, Iowa State.
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Stephen King sparks horror with microwaved salmon recipe: ‘Your most terrifying work yet’
‘Truly a master of horror’
Stephen King’s ability to spark horror among his fans and followers has extended to his cooking suggestions after the author shared instructions for making salmon in the microwave.
This week, The Shining author, 74, tweeted his dinner recipe to his more than 6.6m Twitter followers, writing: “Dinner: get a nice salmon filet at the supermarket, not too big.
“Put some olive oil and lemon juice on it. Wrap it in damp paper towels. Nuke it in the microwave for three minutes or so. Eat it.”
After sharing the unique cooking method, King also suggested that his followers “maybe add a salad” to the dish.
As of Thursday, the tweet has been liked more than 30,000 times, with King’s followers both concerned and disgusted by the unconventional salmon recipe.
The recipe prompted many to make the same joke, with hundreds of people replying with variations of suggestions that the tweet was the “scariest thing” King has “ever written”.
“This may be the shortest horror story you’ve ever written,” one person jokingly replied, while another said: “My dude, this is your most terrifying work yet.”
“He’s on a short story horror kick again,” another fan joked. Author and Top Chef judge and host Padma Lakshmi also chimed in, tweeting: “More terrifying than any story he’s penned.”
Someone else suggested that the recipe would only be “understandable” if one was living in a college dorm, and even then it wouldn’t be “acceptable”. “This would be understandable if you were presently living in a college dorm. However, it would still not be acceptable,” they wrote.
Others noted that the smell the microwaved fish would result in would perhaps be the worst part of the meal, with one person writing: “The smell of microwaved fish is more horrifying than anything you have penned and I say this as an admirer who can barely watch a trailer or see a book jacket with your name on it without getting next-level scared.”
King’s recipe also prompted some to question whether the author was joking. “There’s no way this is real,” one person tweeted, while someone else said: “In the microwave???”
The tweet even encouraged a response from celebrity chef Jose Andres, who waded into the discussion to share his own cooking recommendations if King was serious about using a microwave to cook his salmon. “This is a horror movie! Eat it raw, eat it plancha, eat it fry... but three minutes on the microwave is like the twilight zone! Do one minute at a time if you use microwave, in and out in and out... and undercooked better! Let the waves heat the water molecules enough to be warm!”
Although King did not clarify whether his initial suggestion was a joke or not, he doubled-down on the recipe in a follow-up tweet, in which he urged his followers to try the meal before criticising it.
“I have one thing to say to people slagging on my salmon recipe: DON’T KNOCK IT IF YOU HAVEN’T TRIED IT,” the author wrote in a follow-up tweet posted on Wednesday.
In response, one person joked that they tried the recipe at work and had been fired as a result. “I tried it at work today. My badge has been deactivated and I have a meeting with HR in 15 minutes,” they wrote.
However, others said that they would be trying the recipe, with one person claiming that they were “inspired” by King’s suggestion for cooking the fish.
“Actually, I was inspired! I never tried to cook salmon in a microwave,” they wrote, while another person said: “I HATE cooking, but I love food, so I’m all in! Thank you! Anything to keep my butt out of the kitchen is good with me.”
King is not the only celebrity recently to share a controversial recipe, as Paula Patton was recently mocked over her recipe for fried chicken, which saw her seasoning the chicken after it was already frying in oil.
Patton later addressed the backlash in a video shared to social media, in which she said she would be taking some fan suggestions, but would still continue to make her “mom’s chicken the way that she did it”.
“We put the seasoning in the oil and all that, it’s just the way we do it. But that’s all good,” she added.
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Villagers fight to save 140-year-old Cedar tree: Furious residents locked in planning row with housing developers over bid to fell 'majestic' 80ft tree to make way for 500 homes
- Residents want to save 80ft tree, valued by surveyors at £165,000, from felling
- Permission given to developer last year to build 550 homes for a large estate
- But locals are furious that the giant cedar is among 100 trees up for the chop
Villagers are locked in a planning row with housing developers as they fight to save a 'majestic' 140-year-old Victorian tree from being chopped down to make way for 500 new homes.
The 80ft cedar tree, valued by surveyors at £165,000, could be chopped down along with more than 100 trees expected to be felled as part of a new estate being built in Coventry.
Permission was given to Bellway Homes last year to build 550 homes but locals are furious that the giant cedar - which has a circumference of 160ft - is among those trees which will be lost as a result of the proposals.
They say the sprawling tree is home to tawny owls, hedgehogs, birds and other wildlife and also acts as sound barrier to passing traffic.
More than 60 residents have now signed a petition which has been submitted to Coventry City Council ahead of the local authority's final decision on the plans in June.
Villagers are locked in a planning row with housing developers as they fight to save a 'majestic' 140-year-old Victorian tree from being chopped down to make way for 500 homes. Pictured: The tree near the Tamworth Road in Keresley, Coventry
The 80ft cedar tree, valued by surveyors at £165,000, could be chopped down along with more than 100 trees expected to be felled as part of a new estate being built in Coventry. Pictured: The housing development, just a few hundred yards from the cedar tree that is due to be felled, on Tamworth Road in Coventry which is part of wider set of projects that will see 3,000 homes built
Permission was given to Bellway Homes last year to build 550 homes but locals are furious that the giant cedar (pictured) - which has a circumference of 160ft - is among those trees which will be lost as a result of the proposals
The campaign is being spearheaded by grandmother-of-one Ann Evans who has lived on the Tamworth Road in Keresley near the development for 36 years.
The 74-year-old says the tree could easily live up to a thousand years and is also concerned about pollution issues as the development begins to encroach onto nearby ancient woodland.
Mrs Evans added: 'It's such a beautiful, truly majestic tree and we are furious that they are trying to cut it down.
'It's a very important tree to residents. If it was anywhere else, it would have a plaque on it. It's absolutely huge and a thing of beauty which should be protected.
'The tree there was part of three plantations of trees. There was the cedar tree, three monkey trees and three Scots pines.
'They were statement trees from the Victorian era, so they have been here a very long time.
'We used to have a historian that used to be on the parish council, he said that land dated back to 1880 and he confirmed they are well over 100 years old.
'We've seen tawny owls in there, the hedgehogs regularly hibernate in there during the winter, it's also full of birds and other wildlife.
'You just can't replace a tree like that. Surveyors valued it as being category A1 which means it's in exceptional condition and of exceptional value.
'They even go as far as putting a monetary value on it, and this particular tree is aid to be worth £165,000.
'You can go inside the tree and look up and it's like being in a forest. It's always green. Its colour stays all year round. Its glorious and we all love it.
'We are also worried about pollution if this comes down, trees are very important for environmental protection but they just don't seem to care.'
The campaign is being spearheaded by grandmother-of-one Ann Evans, pictured, 74, who lives on the Tamworth Road in Keresley and says the tree could easily live up to a thousand years
Bellway Homes have promised to plant more trees to compensate for the losses but must have further details of their plan approved before work can begin on the homes
The housing development on Tamworth Road (pictured) in Coventry is also part of a wider 3,000-homes projects
Bellway Homes have promised to plant more trees to compensate for the losses but must have further details of their plan approved before work can begin on the homes.
The housing development on Tamworth Road in Coventry is also part of a wider scheme of projects that will see 3,000-homes built.
Mother-of-one Mrs Evans, a retired administrator, added: 'The developers have just seemed very disrespectful. They want to fell 120 trees to accommodate 550 houses.
'The whole area is part of a local wildlife belt. There are two woods here classed as ancient woods and they're building a 20 metre buffer right up to the woods.
'The Woodland Trust recommend a buffer of 100 metres, so we're obviously concerned about the impact on other parts of our countryside.
'We're all conscious about the noise and pollution this could bring.
'We're trying our best but when you're taking on big businesses like this it's always difficult to succeed.'
Another local resident dad-of-three Jeremy Anderson, 55, added: 'That tree is part of our community, it's a stunning thing that improves the landscape.
'It would be criminal of them to tear it down.'
Coventry City Council said the authority would not comment.
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Lee was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett on Thursday.
He was promoted Tuesday as bullpen depth and didn't get in a game before heading back to the minors.
Lee was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett on Thursday.
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Authorities seize 30 pounds of illegal shark fins at Texas restaurant
Published: Apr. 21, 2022 at 11:06 AM EDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
(CNN) - The owners of a Texas seafood restaurant may face charges after nearly 30 pounds of shark fins were found inside a freezer.
In 2015, Texas banned the trade of shark fins. The law was put into effect to help crush the trade that officials say is mostly to blame for harming the shark population.
Authorities seized the fins and will use them as evidence.
A criminal case is pending against the unnamed restaurant owners.
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A New York Times report published Thursday offers new details of a familiar storyline: Republicans who privately criticized Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection ultimately shying away from a public confrontation for fear of riling up or alienating his supporters.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who reportedly pushed Trump to call off the attack on the Capitol as it was happening, told Republicans that he planned to tell Trump to resign in the days following last Jan. 6, according to the new book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future. “I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign,” McCarthy told colleagues he’d tell the president.
McCarthy’s comments came in the days following the attack, including on Jan. 10, as Congress debated impeaching Trump a second time. McCarthy also reportedly told Republicans that Trump “inciting people” to riot days earlier was “atrocious and totally wrong,” and that “nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.”
McCarthy wasn’t the only Republican leader who wanted Trump out of office. “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly told two advisers on Jan. 11, referring to the upcoming impeachment vote in the House. McConnell also allegedly told them he expected the Senate to convict Trump. “If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is,” he said.
It was all talk, though.
McCarthy never told Trump to resign, and his spokesperson, Mark Bednar, told the Times that “he never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.” He quickly softened his stance on the attack, and even posed for a picture with Trump at Mar-a-Lago later the same month. He’s since done what he can to stonewall the work of the Jan. 6 committee.
McConnell, after saying, “If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is,” ultimately voted against impeaching Trump for inciting the attack. Jonathan Swan of Axios recently pressed McConnell about continuing to support Trump despite comments he made in the wake of Jan. 6. McConnell made clear that as the party goes, so too will he go, even if it means supporting someone he thinks is a danger to democracy.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — A driver going the wrong way on Interstate 35E through downtown St. Paul was killed in a crash that also injured six others.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, it happened just before 10 p.m. Tuesday and involved four vehicles, including a school bus.
The state patrol said 36-year-old Robin Grigsby of North St. Paul entered I-35E in a Ford Fusion going the wrong way at Victoria Street. Just south of Grand Avenue, her vehicle hit a school bus, then hit an SUV. Her vehicle then rolled and hit another car.
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Grigsby died at the scene. The injuries to the six others were not life-threatening.
The highway was shut down for hours after the crash.
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During a virtual forum co-hosted by the WALF and Pittsfield City Council VP Pete White, Berkshire County caregivers will share their experiences and encourage the public to join them in advocating for improved conditions
PITTSFIELD, Mass., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The registered nurses of Berkshire Medical Center, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, will share their experiences, and urge hospital owner Berkshire Health Systems to take necessary steps to recruit and retain staff and protect the quality of patient care during an April 25 virtual community forum co-hosted by the Western Massachusetts Area Labor Federation and Pete White, Vice President of Pittsfield City Council.
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When: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 25
Where: A virtual forum hosted on Zoom and shared on social media. The public and media are welcome to attend.
How: A link to join the forum is available at www.massnurses.org/BerkshireForum.
Participants: Massachusetts Nurses Association, SEIU 1199 (representing BMC LPNs); Western Mass Area Labor Federation, Pete White, Vice President of Pittsfield City Council
"This virtual forum will provide important insights into the experiences of Berkshire County caregivers and the support they need to provide safe, high-quality patient care," said Lydia Wood, Field Organizer at Western Mass Area Labor Federation, and emcee of the forum. "The nurses and all Berkshire Health Systems employees are an essential part of our community and our well-being."
"We want the public to understand what it has been like on the frontlines of healthcare over the last two years and what we need today to provide the kind of care our patients deserve," said Alex Neary, a registered nurse at BMC and a Co-Chair of the MNA Bargaining Committee. "Working together as caregivers and the community we can urge Berkshire Health Systems to address the retention problems that are negatively affecting our ability to provide the best possible patient care."
In fall 2021, BMC MNA nurses began negotiating a new contract, their first since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Nurses are concerned about the approach Berkshire Health Systems is taking so far in negotiations, as executives have not agreed to make the improvements necessary to boost nurse recruitment and retention and ensure safe, high-quality patient care.
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The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday, April 20, suspended two employees of Road Transport Authority (RTA) for an incident in which a family was left stranded on road after the car in which they were travelling was taken away for the chief minister's convoy. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy ordered action into the incident, RTA Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspector (AMVI) A Sandhya and home guard P Tirupati Reddy were suspended.
Vemula Srinivas of Vinukonda in Palnadu district and his family members, including two women and two children, were left stranded on the road in Ongole town after officials took away the car in which they were travelling, along with the driver, saying they needed it for the convoy of the chief minister.
The shocking incident occurred on Wednesday night when the family travelling in the cab to Tirupati had stopped for dinner at a hotel in Ongole. An RTA official told them that they need the vehicle for the convoy of the chief minister who is scheduled to visit Ongole on April 22.
When the family said they were going to Tirupati for pilgrimage, the official reportedly told them that he couldn't help except saying sorry and took away the Innova vehicle along with the driver. The family had to spend the night at the RTC bus stand at Ongole and the incident triggered public outrage.
RTA officials issued orders for their suspension after the chief minister ordered action against erring officials who forcibly took away the cab along with the driver. Jagan Mohan Reddy has ordered departmental action against the erring officials. "This kind of measure will not be tolerated especially when people are in trouble," the chief minister said. | https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/andhra-family-left-stranded-after-officials-take-their-cab-cm-s-convoy-163111 | 2022-04-21T15:40:41Z | https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/andhra-family-left-stranded-after-officials-take-their-cab-cm-s-convoy-163111 | true | 1 |
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Brandon Fleming should be back to boost Hull
Brandon Fleming is likely to return for Hull’s clash with Reading.
Defender Fleming was left out of the squad for the 2-1 defeat to Millwall on Easter Monday but could regain his place.
Long-term absentee Randell Williams is back in training but this game is expected to come too soon for him.
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) _ Westamerica Bancorp (WABC) on Thursday reported net income of $22.6 million in its first quarter.
The San Rafael, California-based bank said it had earnings of 84 cents per share.
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TOKYO – Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday as traders cheered strong earnings reports from several big U.S. companies
The S&P 500 rose 0.8% as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 245 points, or 0.7%, to 35,412 and the Nasdaq rose 0.8%.
Technology stocks helped with much of the heavy lifting. Apple rose 1.8% and Microsoft gained 1.3%.
American Airlines jumped 7.3% after telling investors it expects to turn a profit in the second quarter as more people return to travel. That upbeat outlook helped push rival airlines higher, as well as other companies within the travel industry. Expedia rose 4.3% and Marriott rose 1.8%.
Tesla surged 8.3% after after the maker of electric cars and solar panels reported strong sales and a seven-fold increase in profits despite global supply chain kinks.
The solid earnings reports helped give the broader market more direction following a bumpy day of trading on Wednesday in what has been a choppy week. Major indexes are still on track for weekly gains. Investors are reviewing the latest round of corporate earnings amid lingering concerns about rising inflation and the Federal Reserve's shift away from an ultra-low interest rate policy.
The Fed has already announced a quarter-percentage point rate hike and Wall Street expects a half-percentage rate hike at its next meeting in two weeks. Other central banks have also moved to raise interest rates to try and temper the impact of rising prices on businesses and consumers.
Bond yields have been gaining ground as investors prepare for higher interest rates. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.90% from 2.84%, hovering near its highest level since late 2018.
Investors have been closely listening to comments from Fed officials and other central bank members and will turn their attention to a panel discussion Thursday with Fed Chair Jerome Powell and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Central bank officials and economists have been warning about slower economic growth as the world moves past the initial surge in activity as the pandemic subsided and persistently rising inflation crimps spending. Concerns about a slowdown have been elevated since Russia invaded Ukraine, prompting a jump in energy and commodity prices that could prolong rising inflation.
U.S. crude oil prices rose 2.5% on Thursday and are up roughly 40% for the year. That has made gasoline more expensive, which cuts deeper into consumers' wallets. Prices for wheat and corn have also jumped, as Ukraine is a key global producer of both. Those staples are key ingredients in a wide range of food products.
Rising prices on everything from food to clothing and uncertainty over the inflation have been lingering over the economy even as it continues to show more signs of recovery from the virus pandemic. The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits inched down last week as the total number of Americans collecting aid fell to its lowest level in more than 50 years. | https://www.local10.com/business/2022/04/21/global-shares-mixed-in-choppy-trading-amid-inflation-worries/ | 2022-04-21T15:47:13Z | https://www.local10.com/business/2022/04/21/global-shares-mixed-in-choppy-trading-amid-inflation-worries/ | true | 11 |
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PUTRAJAYA, April 21 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) takes seriously the allegation that an officer had acted aggressively and dismissed members of a political party from making a report at the MACC headquarters here today.
In a statement today, MACC said they are conducting further investigation into the allegation and would take appropriate action if misconduct is proven.
A 22-second video of the incident went viral on social media today.
MACC said that based on the gazetted Prohibited Areas rules, the Security Division only allowed three representatives to enter the compound and MACC building to meet officers on duty to lodge complaints.
Video recordings and cameras are also not allowed in the areas without the permission of top management, it added.
However, around seven of the 25 individuals from the group entered the building compound in pairs up to the main entrance, in the incident at 11am.
“The individuals also did not comply with the rules because they recorded videos while being in the area,” it said.
Meanwhile, the MACC confirmed that it had received information from Parti Sosialis Malaysia member Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj regarding the allegation of misconduct in government land affairs in Perak.
“MACC will review and scrutinise the information before taking any further action,” it said. — Bernama | https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/04/21/macc-says-it-views-seriously-alleged-misconduct-involving-its-officer/2054907 | 2022-04-21T15:51:32Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/04/21/macc-says-it-views-seriously-alleged-misconduct-involving-its-officer/2054907 | true | 2 |
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THE RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN hospital in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, is named after Turkey’s president. It has 47 intensive-care beds, more than any other in the country, but it does not treat covid-19 patients. “If we did, we would have to isolate them,” explains Asir Eraslan, the manager, “and we would not have enough room to treat the bomb victims.” These keep on coming because of an insurgency by al-Shabab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, and clashes between rival clans.
Along one of Mogadishu’s main roads, packed with armoured vehicles and red tuk-tuks (motorised rickshaws), locals point out where bombs have ripped through crowds. During your correspondent’s visit, security forces were on the lookout for two suicide-bombers.
Given the violence and risk of kidnapping, Mogadishu attracts few foreigners. Few aside from Turks, that is. One Turkish company has renovated and operates the port. Another runs a hotel and the international airport, from which Turkish Airlines flies daily to Istanbul. Turkish firms have repaired the city’s main roads and the parliament building, with funding from Turkey’s development agency. At its biggest foreign military base, Turkish officers have trained and equipped more than 5,000 Somali soldiers and police commandos.
Perhaps more distinctive even than the size of Turkey’s presence in Somalia is its boots-on-the-ground approach, helped by a common religion. “In Somalia one of the advantages of being a Turk is that you pray at the same mosques as everyone else,” says Kadir Mohamud, a Somali businessman. Non-Turkish companies and embassies tend to operate from the guarded “green zone” around the airport. “We are the only ones in the field,” says Mehmet Yilmaz, the Turkish ambassador. With its own herd of dwarf antelope and a sweeping view of the Indian Ocean, his embassy is Turkey’s biggest anywhere, too.
Somalia is a striking example of Mr Erdogan’s broader push into Africa in search of markets, resources and diplomatic influence. Only two decades ago Turkey had very little interest in Africa below the Sahara. Instead it looked west and dreamed of joining the European Union. But as relations with the West have cooled, Turkey has pivoted south. The turning point was in 2011 when Mr Erdogan, flanked by Turkish businessmen, aid officials and Muslim charities, visited Somalia, then in the grip of a drought and civil war. His visit, the first by a non-African leader in about two decades, marked the start not just of Turkey’s involvement in the Horn of Africa but of deeper ties across the continent.
In 2009 Turkey had just a dozen diplomatic missions in Africa. Now it has 43. Ambassadorial glad-handing has helped businesses expand. Turkish Airlines, which flew to only four African cities in 2004, now flies to more than 40. Trade with the continent has expanded greatly, to $29bn last year, of which $11bn was with sub-Saharan Africa, an almost eight-fold increase since 2003. So has construction, where Turkish firms are chipping away at the dominance of Chinese ones, helped no doubt by a drop in lending by China. Turkish officials reckon that Turkish firms have completed some $78bn worth of African projects, including airports, stadiums and mosques. Last year Tanzania awarded a Turkish firm a $1.9bn contract to build a modern railway line.
Turkey is also gaining clout through aid. Previously it gave money mainly through international agencies such as the UN. In 2003 some 60% of Turkish aid was channelled this way. By 2019 that share had plummeted to 2%. These days Turkish flags adorn packages of food, schools and wells. “Turkey is known for giving a blank cheque, particularly when you’re in desperate need of economic or military aid,” says Abel Abate Demissie, who works for Chatham House, a British think-tank, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital.
Yet there is a harder edge, too. Mr Erdogan, who has readily sent his army into the many-sided civil war in Syria, has also started flexing his muscles in Africa. He has, for instance, dispatched Turkish soldiers and Syrian mercenaries to Libya to fight against Khalifa al-Haftar, a warlord then backed by Egypt, France, Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Turkey and France, after sparring in Libya, have also locked horns in west Africa, the Sahel and the Maghreb, where Mr Erdogan has challenged French influence by playing on France’s image as a colonial oppressor. In Somalia Mr Erdogan faced off against Saudi Arabia and the UAE when their spat with Qatar, which is friendly with Turkey’s government, spilled over into a proxy struggle in the Horn of Africa.
Arms are the plan
Turkey has also signed military pacts with several African countries, most recently Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. Many are keen to take advantage of Turkey’s experience in counterinsurgency. Tellingly, an increasing share of African ambassadors appointed to Turkey are active or retired generals.
Turkey’s aim is not to get involved in wars, but rather to sell weapons. It is not in the same league as countries such as Russia, which provided 30% of all arms sold to sub-Saharan Africa in 2016-20, or China (20%), according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. But last year Turkey’s sales surged seven-fold to $328m. In the first two months of this year they approached $140m.
Turkey’s top products are drones of the sort currently bombing Russian tanks in Ukraine. They have been seen in Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. Other countries, including Angola, Nigeria and Rwanda, are thinking of buying them. “Wherever we went, they asked us for unarmed and armed drones,” said Mr Erdogan after a visit to Africa last year. Somalia would also like more arms, but cannot get them because of a UN embargo. “Turkey is giving us everything they can give,” says Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, Somalia’s defence minister. “But right now they can only give us small weapons.”
Unlike America, Africa’s fourth-largest arms supplier, which stops sales to African countries that use them to commit war crimes, Turkey seems unconcerned about how its kit is used. Its drones, which helped turn the tide in Ethiopia’s civil war, have reportedly killed dozens of civilians. Because of Turkey’s silence about this, Ethiopia sees it as one of its very few trusted allies. Somalia’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known to his people as Farmaajo, has used Turkish-trained soldiers against his rivals, to cling to power after his term expired more than a year ago, says Matt Bryden of Sahan Research, a Nairobi-based think-tank. “We do not dictate, and we do not tell anyone what to do,” says an official in Ankara, Turkey’s capital.
Like China and Russia, which have expanded their reach in Africa in recent years, Turkey touts its policy of non-interference as a selling point. Mr Erdogan presents Turkey as a rising power and the champion of a fairer world order. “Turkey is coming in with no colonial baggage whatsoever,” says Wamkele Mene, the secretary-general of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). “That’s an advantage.” Mr Erdogan takes this a step further, arguing baselessly that colonialism persists. “The British, the French and the Western colonisers,” he said earlier this year, “continue to loot Africa’s diamonds, its gold and its mines.”
In truth, Turkey is not above strong-arming African governments. Last year its security agents in Kenya abducted the nephew of Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of spearheading a failed coup in 2016. He was snatched right outside the police headquarters with the connivance of Kenyan officials and flown to Turkey, flouting a court order barring his deportation. Turkey has also pressed African countries to close schools set up by Mr Gulen’s Islamist movement.
Turkey’s interest in Africa is reciprocated. The number of African embassies in Turkey has tripled in two decades, to 37. At least 14,000 students from Africa have received scholarships to study in Turkey over the past decade. Africans are also buying property in Turkey, not least since spending $250,000 on a house brings a Turkish passport. Ankara has emerged as a hub of the Somali diaspora. Turkish soap operas, which are winning audiences across the continent, are spreading soft power.
Still catching up
Though Turkey’s involvement in Africa has grown fast, occasionally bringing confrontation with other outside powers, its economic, military and diplomatic reach is still nowhere near as extensive as those of America, China and the continent’s former colonial powers. China’s government reckons its two-way trade with Africa was worth $254bn last year, dwarfing Turkey’s $29bn. Turkey’s military aid carries nothing like the punch of Western powers. America has about 6,000 troops and supporting civilians deployed in Africa, where they battle al-Shabab in Somalia and jihadists in the Sahel, and train African counter-terrorist forces across the continent. France, too, deploys roughly 5,000 troops, many of them in the Sahel. This is reflected in popular opinion. In a survey conducted for The Economist in March by Premise, a data firm, 72% of Kenyans and 58% of Nigerians named America as the most reliable security partner.
Yet Turkey seems ready to play a long game. Its recent launch of TRT Français, a French-language edition of its state propaganda channel, clearly had an African audience in mind. And by providing aid and security assistance, Turkey hopes that in time it will reap durable rewards. “Right now, we are the ones in need,” says Mr Nur, Somalia’s defence minister, talking of Turkey. “But when there is an opportunity, we will give our friends a chance others cannot have, because they helped us when we needed it most.” ■
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline "The call of the south" | https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/04/23/turkey-is-making-a-big-diplomatic-and-corporate-push-into-africa | 2022-04-21T15:53:59Z | https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/04/23/turkey-is-making-a-big-diplomatic-and-corporate-push-into-africa | true | 1 |
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SUNBURY – Bragging rights to the Shikellamy School District’s spring musical include the fact that it is a brand new show nobody in the area has seen before.
Shikellamy Theatre will present “The Lightning Thief, The Percy Jackson Musical” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Shikellamy High School, on Chestnut Street.
“The Lightning Thief, The Percy Jackson Musical,” based on the middle-grade books by Rick Riordan, first ran off-Broadway in 2019 and was set to transfer to Broadway when COVID-19 closed all theaters, said Ellen Boyer, director of theater and forensics at Shikellamy. The show’s intended national tour never happened.
“So we’re really excited to get it,” Boyer said. “It’s a great family show. It’s kind of exciting being Central Pennsylvania’s debut of this musical.
The story follows 12-year-old Percy Jackson, whose mother decides it’s time he learns the truth about his heritage: he is actually a demi-god, the son of Poseidon. Never mind that he also has dyslexia and AD. Though he’s not a typical hero, he and his two close pals, Annabeth and Grover, must embark upon a quest to retrieve Zeus’ stolen lightning bolt and prevent war amongst the gods.
“A lot of young people have read the Percy Jackson books and would be excited to see them onstage,” Boyer said. “At the same time, they may be inspired to seek out the books and read them.”
Boyer chose the play after hearing some of her students talking about Percy Jackson. When she told them there was a musical based on the books, they were intrigued.
“This show has a positive message for young people,” she said. “Even a person with differences can still find his way in the world and be a hero.”
She recalled a song that Percy’s mother sings to him that says, in part, “The things that make you different are the things that make you strong.”
“It’s a really good image to portray to young kids,” Boyer said.
Pulling the play together involved some challenges, including the creation of “a lot of monsters,” using special effects to bring a fantasy world onto the stage and expanding a show written for seven people into one holding 26 students. This musical also brought back a live pit orchestra, which had not been used in Shikellamy plays in a number of years and which is scheduled for only four rehearsals with the student actors.
“That’s been a challenge,” Boyer said, “but they’re fabulous musicians, and they will be top notch.”
Not being able to perform publicly for the past two years because of pandemic restrictions took away the “feeder program” for the school’s theater, Boyer said, noting that students learn the ropes as they progress through yearly productions.
“I have an amazing group of seniors, and we’re going to miss them desperately,” she said. “But we also have seventh and eighth graders in the show who are gaining experience for the programs coming through. We’re having a whole lot of fun with this.”
Angel Maisonette, a junior, plays the role of Percy Jackson and thinks audience members will like the fact that Percy is relatable to all ages.
“I feel people young, old, new to the story, or coming back to it reliving their childhood, can see this character as a sort of light at the end of the tunnel, as a hero that shows them that they are strong,” Maisonette said. “So ‘bring on the monsters because the sea doesn’t like to be restrained.’”
George Shearer, a senior, plays Grover Underwood, Percy Jackson’s best friend.
“I feel kids of any age will connect with his funny, happy-go-lucky personality, and stay for his emotions and drive to succeed,” Shearer said.
Senior Olivia Weaver plays Percy and Grover’s friend, Annabeth. She said audiences will resonate with Annabeth’s ambition.
“She has always lived her life in the shadow of others, despite how hard she works,” Weaver said. “Yet, nothing will stop her from achieving her goals.”
Weaver is also an assistant choreographer for the production, an experience she has found to be an incredible learning opportunity.
“The biggest challenge I faced as a first time choreographer was the teaching aspect,” she said. “I have always been the student in the past, so switching to the teacher was kind of a shock. Yet over time I became more comfortable in my new leadership position and more confident as a choreographer. The music of this show is lively and modern, which is such fun to work with. The dancing ranges from ballet to hip hop to jazz, so there is something here for everyone.”
Performing onstage again gives the students that all-important chance to sing, dance and act in front of a live audience.
“It means everything to the students to have a big audience,” Boyer said. “I’m hoping people will come and support these kids. They work so hard. They give up a lot of time to do this. It’s so important to have the audience there.”
At the same time, audience members will be happy they chose to attend the show.
“The audience will be inspired by the students on the stage, by the message of the show, and the talent of the students,” Boyer said.
Ticket can be pre-ordered by calling 570-286-3760 or emailing boyere@shikbraves.org. Tickets will also be sold at the door the day of the event.
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ARLINGTON, WI - Conway James Schmidt, age 90, passed away on Friday, April 8, 2022, at Columbia Health Care Center. Conway was born on February 2, 1932, on the family farm in Arlington to Adolph and Julia (Huber) Schmidt. He graduated from Poynette High School in 1950. He especially enjoyed playing football and baseball during high school and was a loyal fan of the Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin Badgers, and Milwaukee Brewers.
Connie met Mary Osmundsen of DeForest at a local dance and they were married on April 24, 1954, at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church just outside of Arlington. Mary and Connie were dedicated partners in farming for 58 years. Connie raised dairy cows, beef cattle, and hogs, and grew tobacco and crops. After selling the cows, Connie worked as a soybean and corn salesperson for Dekalb. He and Mary enjoyed traveling and visiting family and friends and achieved their dreams of seeing Alaska, Hawaii, and Germany.
Connie is survived by his daughter, Faye (Scott) Baker; his son, Jay (Elaine) Schmidt, and sister-in-law, Narcisa Schmidt. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Jessica (Cory) Geurts, Ryan Schmidt, Celia Baker, and great grandchildren, Carter Geurts and his sibling arriving this summer. Connie was preceded in death by his wife, Mary; his parents; his brothers, Harland and Donald; his father and mother- in-law, Orlin and Lydia (Klopp) Osmundsen; sisters-in-law, Shirley Haack and Ruby Hale Bennett, and brothers-in-law, Edward Haack, Ervin Hale, and Jim Bennett.
A celebration of life will be held at GUNDERSON LODI FUNERAL AND CREMATION CARE, 157 S. Main St., Lodi at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, with Pastor Michele Hopp presiding. Burial will follow in the Arlington Evangelical Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:00 pm until the time of service on Tuesday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be sent to Arlington EMS, P.O. Box 222 or Arlington United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 240, Arlington, WI. 53911. Conway's family is grateful for the care provided by the staff at Columbia Health Care Center, Rachael Booth, APNP, Dr. Gerald Krumpos, SSM Health Dean Clinic and Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital. | https://www.hngnews.com/lodi_enterprise/obituaries/article_709369c5-f1fd-5ee0-9de2-8b663b8c6d47.html | 2022-04-21T15:59:40Z | https://www.hngnews.com/lodi_enterprise/obituaries/article_709369c5-f1fd-5ee0-9de2-8b663b8c6d47.html | false | 3 |
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PagerDuty Inc. (NYSE:PD) went down by -4.84% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $50.33. The company’s stock price has collected -4.55% of loss in the last five trading sessions. Barron’s reported on 12/08/21 that PagerDuty’s Earnings Impressed. The Stock Is Soaring.
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The average price from analysts is $45.50, which is $14.22 above the current price. PD currently public float of 75.60M and currently shorts hold a 9.81% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of PD was 1.44M shares.
PD’s Market Performance
PD stocks went down by -4.55% for the week, with a monthly drop of -10.76% and a quarterly performance of 6.00%, while its annual performance rate touched -22.96%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 6.29% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 5.99% for PagerDuty Inc.. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -8.98% for PD stocks with a simple moving average of -16.54% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of PD
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for PD stocks, with Monness Crespi & Hardt repeating the rating for PD by listing it as a “Buy.” The predicted price for PD in the upcoming period, according to Monness Crespi & Hardt is $40 based on the research report published on March 14th of the current year 2022.
Truist, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see PD reach a price target of $45, previously predicting the price at $35. The rating they have provided for PD stocks is “Hold” according to the report published on September 03rd, 2021.
RBC Capital Mkts gave a rating of “Outperform” to PD, setting the target price at $59 in the report published on September 03rd of the previous year.
PD Trading at -4.30% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought PD to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -37.85% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 5.99%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 6.29%, as shares sank -14.37% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -3.64% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, PD fell by -4.55%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -25.52% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $34.10. In addition, PagerDuty Inc. saw -9.99% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at PD starting from Tejada Jennifer, who sale 68,182 shares at the price of $31.17 back on Apr 11. After this action, Tejada Jennifer now owns 897,974 shares of PagerDuty Inc., valued at $2,125,134 using the latest closing price.
Justice Dave, the Chief Revenue Officer of PagerDuty Inc., sale 1,737 shares at $34.38 during a trade that took place back on Apr 01, which means that Justice Dave is holding 298,427 shares at $59,724 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for PD
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- -35.40 for the present operating margin
- +81.97 for the gross margin
The net margin for PagerDuty Inc. stands at -38.19. Equity return is now at value -38.40, with -13.70 for asset returns.
The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 2.77. | https://newsheater.com/2022/04/21/pagerduty-inc-pd-and-the-battle-of-fundamentals-vs-technicals/ | 2022-04-21T16:03:07Z | https://newsheater.com/2022/04/21/pagerduty-inc-pd-and-the-battle-of-fundamentals-vs-technicals/ | true | 17415 |
Murder suspect streamed gruesome killing via Instagram Live, Louisiana police say
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A suspect has been arrested in connection with a body that was found in the parking lot of a Louisiana business.
The Baton Rouge Police Department said Tuesday that Earl Lee Johnson Jr., 35, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Janice David, 34, whose body was found inside a vehicle Monday, WAFB reported.
Police confirmed the woman’s brutal death was broadcast on Instagram Live in a gruesome nearly 15-minute feed. They added Johnson was already in custody when they learned of the video and that he admitted to killing David.
“Very horrible, very horrible. She didn’t deserve to die like this…no one does,” said Terri Austin, who is the cousin and godmother of David.
Police sources said David’s hands were bound to the steering wheel and that she was found naked.
“I really thought, you know, when they say she died that it would have been a vehicle wreck or something like that. Wouldn’t never dream that someone would do this to her,” Austin said.
Detectives said Johnson choked David, beat her and stabbed her. They added it is believed the pair had been on a three or four-day drug binge together.
“She was caught up in a world, I guess you could say, that, you know, it was hard for her to get away from,” Austin said.
Officials also said Johnson tried to set the car on fire. Investigators said the suspect was injured in a police pursuit and taken to a hospital.
According to investigators, the body was found in the parking lot of Sherwood Towers, an office building located on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard near Newcastle Avenue.
Officers responded to a call a little before 10 p.m. Monday regarding the body of a dead female.
Johnson’s rap sheet shows multiple armed robbery arrests in 2005.
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Inter schedules meeting with Mano, but also has ‘old acquaintance’ as plan B, says radio
If you don’t reach an agreement with Mano Menezes, Lisca is the colorada board’s plan B
THE International continues in search of a new technician after the Alexander Medina’s resignation last Friday (15). According to information from Rádio Gaúcha, the The club’s board of directors will meet until this Monday (18) with Mano Menezeswho is already in Porto Alegre to hear the proposal of the Colorado.
Mano is the preferred name of technical coordinator Paulo Autuori, while Lisca is plan B.
Experienced in Inter’s youth categories, Lisca led the professional team in 2016 in the last three games of Serie A.
Mano Menezes has been free on the market since the end of last year, when he was fired from the command of Al-Nassr, in Saudi Arabia. If the talks progress, this will be the coach’s first visit to Beira-Rio. Between 2005 and 2007, he commanded Colorado’s arch-rivals, the Guildconquering the Serie B do Brasileiro (2005) and the double championship of Gauchão (2006 and 2007), in addition to the runner-up of CONMEBOL Libertadores (2007).
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South Carolina’s highest court on Wednesday issued a temporary stay blocking the state from carrying out what was set to be its first-ever firing squad execution.
The order by the state Supreme Court puts on hold at least temporarily the planned April 29 execution of Richard Bernard Moore, who drew the death sentence for the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg. The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. was in 2010.
The court said in issuing the temporary stay that it would release a more detailed order later.
Attorneys for the 57-year-old inmate had sought a stay, citing pending litigation in another court challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina’s execution methods, which also include the electric chair. Moore’s lawyers also wanted time to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether Moore’s sentence was proportionate to his crime.
It has been more than a decade since the last firing squad execution in the U.S. The state of Utah carried out all three such executions in the nation since 1976, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. The most recent was in 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner faced a five-person squad.
South Carolina’s last execution was in 2011. State officials have attributed a decadelong hiatus in executions to an inability to secure lethal injection drugs after the state’s last batch expired in 2013. Efforts to contact manufacturers and compounding pharmacies have proved unfruitful, Corrections Department officials have repeatedly said.
A 2021 law intended to solve that problem made the electric chair the default execution method instead of lethal injection, and also codified the firing squad as an alternative option for condemned inmates.
Moore’s execution date was set after corrections officials disclosed last month that they had completed renovations on the state’s death chamber in Columbia to accommodate the firing squad and also developed new execution protocols.
Though Moore elected execution by firing squad earlier this month, he maintained in a written statement that he was forced to make a decision by a deadline set by state law and still found both options unconstitutional.
A state judge has agreed to examine a legal challenge brought by Moore and three other death row inmates who have mostly exhausted their appeals. Their lawyers argue that both electrocution and the firing squad are “barbaric” methods of killing. The prisoners’ attorneys also want the judge to closely examine prisons officials’ claims that they can’t get hold of lethal injection drugs, citing executions by that method carried out by other states and the federal government in recent years.
Moore is also separately asking a federal judge to consider whether the firing squad and the electric chair are cruel and unusual.
South Carolina is one of eight states that still use the electric chair and one of four — including Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah — to allow a firing squad, per the Death Penalty Information Center.
Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted in 2001 in the fatal shooting of convenience store clerk James Mahoney. Prosecutors said at his trial that he entered Nikki’s Speedy Mart in Spartanburg looking for money to support his cocaine habit. He then got into a dispute with Mahoney, who drew a pistol that Moore wrestled away from him. Mahoney pulled a second gun, and a gunfight ensued, with Mahoney shooting Moore in the arm and Moore shooting Mahoney in the chest.
Moore’s lawyers have said Moore couldn’t have intended to kill someone when he entered the store because he didn’t bring a gun with him.
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The Best—and Worst—Ways to Remove a Tick From Your Skin
If you're feeling nervous about going outdoors this summer, you're not alone: Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that tick-borne diseases have doubled in the United States since 2004. Across the country, cases of Lyme disease have surged in recent years, and reports of new and scary tick-borne illnesses have dominated headlines as well.
Ticks are tiny arachnids, meaning they're in the same family as spiders, scorpions, and mites. They can be identified by their eight legs and their oval- or teardrop-shaped bodies, which plump up after feeding. Their color and markings vary, depending on their specific species, but many appear brown, black, or reddish.
When a tick bites into a human's or animal's skin and begins feeding, it can transmit bacteria, viruses, or parasites. For some illnesses, like Lyme disease, it takes 24 to 36 hours for the harmful bacterium to be passed to the host; for others, like the much less common (but very dangerous) Powassan virus, transmission may happen in as little as 15 minutes. In rare cases, ticks can even cause paralysis or trigger an allergy to red meat.
That's why tick removal, as early as possible, is so important. Staying indoors isn't the answer. But experts agree that people should be vigilant in checking themselves and their pets for ticks and should know what to do if they find one. Health spoke with Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, an entomologist at Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, about how to remove a tick with a pair of tweezers. Here's her step-by-step guide.
What to do
As soon as you discover a tick that's attached itself to your (or a loved one's) skin, grab a pair of fine-tipped tweezers ($8; amazon.com), a cotton ball, and some rubbing alcohol, says Gangloff-Kaufmann.
"We say 'fine-tipped' because tweezers with flat edges, like the ones used for eyebrows, are not as good," says Gangloff-Kaufmann. "That flat edge can squish the tick, and if you squash the abdomen, you could actually squeeze germs into your blood."
Use the tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible, and simply pull it straight out with even pressure; don't yank or twist. Flush the tick down the toilet or seal it in a plastic bag, says Gangloff-Kaufmann. If you remove a tick soon after it attaches, chances are low that you'll be infected with anything, since it usually takes a few hours for them to begin feeding.
Some people consider testing ticks they have removed–but this isn't recommended by the CDC. If you've been infected, you'd probably notice symptoms before you got any test results back, and even if a tick tests positive for something, that doesn't necessarily mean you have the disease as well, says Gangloff-Kaufmann.
Treat the bite with rubbing alcohol, and keep an eye on it for several weeks to make sure you don't develop a bulls-eye rash, which could indicate Lyme disease. Pay attention to your overall health, as well.
"Not everyone gets a rash with Lyme disease, and the other diseases don't involve rashes at all," says Gangloff-Kaufmann. (Ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis can also be transmitted by ticks and mistaken for the flu or a common cold.) "If you begin to develop flu-like symptoms at any point, and flu is not going around at that time, you may want to get tested for tick-borne illnesses," she adds.
If part of the tick stays in your skin after you pull it out with tweezers, try not to worry too much about it. "Treat it with alcohol to make sure it's sterile, but mouth parts themselves will not cause infection," says Gangloff-Kaufmann, "and your skin will work them out just like it does a splinter."
Gangloff-Kaufmann recommends creating a tick-removal kit to keep on hand during tick season. "Ours includes a set of fine-point tweezers, rubbing alcohol, a magnifying glass—because ticks are really tiny, smaller than you'd expect—and a small mirror, for checking hard-to-see places, like behind your ears." A tick identification card may also be helpful.
What not to do
"There are a lot of old remedies that grandmothers talk about, like using Vaseline or lighting a match or using essential oils," says Gangloff-Kaufmann. But trying to suffocate or heat up a tick can actually cause it to burrow deeper into the skin. "We don't recommend any of those things," she says.
She also doesn't recommend buying fancy tick-removal tools, at least not for use on humans. "There's a spoon-like device ($10; amazon.com) that can be good for animals, because their fur can make it difficult to remove ticks with tweezers. But for humans, tweezers are the simplest, best way."
Don't assume you're safe just because you're not in the forest or deep grass. "Not everyone realizes that a park or a backyard can be a tick habitat," says Gangloff-Kaufmann. "And if you're in the woods, it's usually the edge of the woods where you'll find the most ticks, not deep in the middle."
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At the same time, she adds, don't be scared to spend time outside this summer. "I would never advocate for not enjoying the outdoors," she says. "If you take precautions, like wearing tick repellant and doing a tick check at least once a day, you can still have a great time and you won't have to worry so much." | https://www.health.com/condition/lyme-disease/how-to-remove-a-tick | 2022-04-21T16:06:12Z | https://www.health.com/condition/lyme-disease/how-to-remove-a-tick | false | 1 |
Unnati makes it to senior team as BAI selects squads for CWG, Asiad, Thomas & Uber Cup
By IANS | Published: April 21, 2022 08:54 PM2022-04-21T20:54:06+5:302022-04-21T21:05:15+5:30
New Delhi, April 21 The 14-year-old teenage sensation from Rohtak, Unnati Hooda caught the selectors' eyes as she ...
New Delhi, April 21 The 14-year-old teenage sensation from Rohtak, Unnati Hooda caught the selectors' eyes as she secured a place in the Indian senior squads for the Asian Games and Uber Cup.
Unnati made the grade by finishing third in the women's singles after Aakarshi Kashyap and Ashmita Chaliha, who claimed first and second positions respectively. Unnati is the youngest Indian badminton player to be part of the Asian Games squad.
Following six days of competitions and nail-biting action in the selection trials at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Thursday announced strong Indian contingents to participate in the upcoming Thomas & Uber Cup, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.
For the Commonwealth Games, the men's team consists of Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and B. Sumeeth Reddy while PV Sindhu will lead the women's squad which has Aakarshi, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri P and Ashwini Ponappa.
Sumeet Reddy and Ponappa made the cut into the men's and women's squads respectively for the Commonwealth Games after their top-place finish in the mixed doubles category.
A 10-member women's team for the Asian Games and Uber Cup will consist of PV Sindhu, Aakarshi, Ashmita, and Unnati alongside the top-3 doubles pairs from the trials-Treesa Jolly-Gayatri P, N Sikki Reddy Ashwini Ponappa and Tanisha Crasto and Shruti Mishra.
Sindhu, Sen, Srikanth and the men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj and Shetty were awarded direct entry into the squads for their world rankings inside Top-15. In-form shuttler HS Prannoy has also been included as part of the automatic selection for his consistently impressive recent form at the international circuit.
Priyanshu Rajawat, who claimed the top spot in the men's singles category, also made his way into the 10-men contingent for the Asian Games and Thomas Cup alongside Sen, Srikanth and Prannoy. The team also has Satwiksairaj and Shetty and the top-2 doubles pairs from the trials-Dhruv Kapila-MR Arjun and Vishnu Vardhan Goud-Krishna Prasad Gariga.
"We are delighted with the energy of the selection trials. All the players gave everything on the court to earn themselves a chance to represent the country. It's great to see high-quality competition for the positions. I congratulate all the players and wish them good luck with their preparations for the mega events," said Sanjay Mishra, General Secretary of BAI, after the selection meeting that ended late on Wednesday night.
"This new format for the trials was developed to provide a platform where the senior, as well as young players, can have opportunities and now you can now see the squads are a great mix of youth and experience and I am sure each of them will make the most of this opportunity and make India proud," Mishra added.
The trials saw the participation of 120 players in the five categories as the league-cum-round robin format tested the ability of the players in each stage from April 15-20, the BAI informed in a release on Thursday.
Apart from the squads for the three major tournaments which are to be held this year, the BAI also finalised the names of 40 players (20 men and 20 women) for the senior national coaching camp and core group for the 2024 Olympic Games, based on players' positions in trials.
The 32nd edition of the Thomas Cup and 29th Uber Cup are scheduled in Bangkok from May 8-15 while the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2022 Asian Games will kickstart in Birmingham and Hangzhou respectively from July 28 and September 10.
INDIAN SQUADS:
Commonwealth Games:
(Men) Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and B Sumeeth Reddy.
(Women) PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri P, Ashwini Ponappa.
Asian Games and Thomas & Uber Cup:
Men) Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Priyanshu Rajawat, Chirag Shetty, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Dhruv Kapila, MR Arjun, Vishnu Vardhan Goud, Krishna Prasad Gariga
(Women) PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashmita Chaliha, Unnati Hooda, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri P, N Sikki Reddy, Ashwini Ponappa, Tanisha Crasto and Shruti Mishra
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50 dogs and cats rescued from kennel, apartment fire
By Rob Polansky
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WESTPORT, Connecticut (WFSB) — Crews rescued about 50 dogs and cats from a kennel and apartment fire in Westport Thursday night.
The Westport Fire Department said a fire alarm was triggered at the mixed occupancy building on Post Road East just before 11:45 p.m.
Firefighters said they saw heavy fire coming from the second floor when they got there.
They found that the building housed a dog and cat boarding facility on the first floor and basement and that an apartment was on the second floor.
The Fairfield and Norwalk fire departments provided mutual aid. Firefighters said they attacked the fire with two hose lines to extinguish it.
Searches of the building determined that three people inside on the 2nd floor apartment had escaped.
The occupants were awakened by smoke detectors. They said their exit was blocked by fire, so they had to jump from a second-floor window to get out. They were treated and assessed on scene by Westport EMS. They did not require transport to the hospital.
Westport firefighters and police said they rescued and removed approximately 50 dogs and cats from the dog and cat boarding facility on the bottom level.
The fire is under investigation by the Westport Fire Marshal’s Office.
“The Westport Fire Department would like to remind residents that working smoke detectors save lives,” the department wrote in a press release. “Please ensure that you have working smoke detectors in your house.”
The Norwalk and Wilton fire departments provided station coverage during the incident, Westport firefighters said.
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Imagine Language & Literacy, Imagine Learning Twig Science and Imagine Robotify Earn Honor from Education Technology Industry Leaders
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine Learning, the largest provider of digital curriculum solutions in the U.S., serving over 10 million students in more than half the school districts nationwide, was today named as a finalist for four 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards for Imagine Language & Literacy, Imagine Learning Twig Science, and in two categories for Imagine Robotify. CODiE finalists represent the best products, services, and people in the education and business technology industries.
"It is a great honor to have our products selected as finalists for CODiE Awards," said Sari Factor, Vice Chair and Chief Strategy Officer for Imagine Learning. "The CODiE Awards have long been the gold standard for recognizing excellence in education technology and we're excited that our industry peers have identified Imagine Language & Literacy, Imagine Learning Twig Science, and Imagine Robotify as leaders in English language learning, science education, and coding and virtual instruction."
Imagine Learning CODiE finalists include:
- Imagine Language & Literacy – "Best Solution for English as a Second Language" Finalist
Imagine Language & Literacy won "Best Foundational English Language Arts Instructional Solution" in 2021. It is the only personalized learning program that accelerates both literacy skills and English language development for students in grades PreK-6. Designed to supplement core literacy instruction, Imagine Language & Literacy provides instruction and practice in all four domains of literacy—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. As students explore and practice skills, their individualized learning sequence adjusts dynamically to maximize their engagement and progress, accelerating to match a cognitive leap, or adjusting to accommodate unfinished learning. - Imagine Twig Science – "Best Science Instructional Solution for Grades PK-8" Finalist
Imagine Twig Science provides comprehensive coverage of science standards through engaging hands-on and digital investigations in which PreK-8 students take on the roles of real-world scientists and engineers. The program was created from the ground up for the Next Generation Science Standards and ensures that all students have an interwoven understanding of Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs), Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs), and Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs). The unique instructional design challenges students to become creative problem solvers, making sense of engaging, real-world phenomena. - Imagine Robotify – Finalist in two categories: "Best Coding & Computational Thinking Solution" and "Best Virtual Lab"
Imagine Robotify is a browser-based digital solution designed to teach coding using the world's best computer science simulator. The platform offers students the freedom and creativity they need to realize their original ideas and, in the process, develop their capacity for critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. Imagine Robotify provides students with the ability to master coding skills and apply their critical thinking to robotics, math, science, and coding skills through project- and game-based learning. Students have access to more than 1,000 different coding activities and games, including 24/7 access to the latest and greatest virtual robots without having to ever purchase real hardware.
The SIIA CODiE Awards, the long-running, premier awards program for the software and information industries are produced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software, education, media and digital content industries. Imagine Learning was picked as a finalist across 47 education technology categories, including new categories in education and leadership.
The SIIA CODiE Awards have recognized thousands of Education and Business technology companies, products, and services as leaders in innovation and excellence for the past 37 years. The CODiE Awards are the only industry peer-reviewed awards program that includes a detailed review by industry experts.
"The 2022 CODiE Award finalists highlight the products and people who drove their industries forward through innovative products and leadership in these uncertain times," said SIIA President Jeff Joseph. "These honorees continue the proud tradition of CODiE Award finalists of recognizing the most impactful products, services and leaders of their time, setting a foundation for the next generation of innovators. Congratulations to all who received this well-earned acknowledgment."
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-recognized awards program. Finalists are determined by industry experts. CODiE Award winners will be announced during the virtual winner announcement celebrations June 8 and June 9, 2022.
Details about each finalist are listed at https://siia.net/codie/codie-finalists/
About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology's finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.
About Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)
SIIA is the only professional organization connecting more than 450 data, financial information, education technology, specialized content and publishing companies. Our diverse members provide the critical data, content, and information that drives the global economy, informs financial networks, connects learners and educators, and drives innovation. Learn more at siia.net.
About Imagine Learning
Imagine Learning is a PreK–12 digital learning solutions company that ignites learning breakthroughs by designing forward-thinking solutions at the intersection of people, curricula, and technology to drive student growth. Imagine Learning serves more than 10 million students and partners with more than half the school districts nationwide. Imagine Learning's flagship products include Imagine Edgenuity®, online courseware and virtual school services solutions; supplemental and intervention solutions for literacy, language, mathematics, robotics, and coding; and high-quality, digital-first core curriculum, including Illustrative Mathematics®, EL Education®, and Odell Education®—all on the Imagine Learning Classroom—and Twig Science®. Read more about Imagine Learning's digital solutions at imaginelearning.com.
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Amber Heard’s lawyers interrogate Johnny Depp at libel trial
(AP) - Attorneys for actor Amber Heard resumed their cross-examination of her ex-husband Johnny Depp in a Virginia courtroom on Thursday as they try to derail his libel lawsuit against Heard over allegations that he abused her.
Depp has been on the stand in Fairfax County Circuit Court since Tuesday afternoon. The actor has spent much of that time describing the couple’s volatile relationship and denying that he ever physically or sexually abused Heard.
Depp said that Heard often violently attacked him. And he argued that his movie career suffered after she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post in which she referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Heard never mentioned Depp by name, but Depp’s lawyers said it was a clear reference to accusations Heard made when she sought a 2016 restraining order against him.
Depp said the accusations and the article contributed to an unfairly ruined reputation that made him a Hollywood pariah and cost him his role in the lucrative “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise.
But when cross-examination began late Wednesday afternoon, Heard lawyer J. Benjamin Rottenborn pointed to evidence that Disney made that decision months before the article’s publication.
Heard’s lawyers have argued that Heard’s opinion piece was accurate and did not defame him. They have said that Depp’s ruined reputation was due to his own bad behavior.
Heard’s lawyers have also argued that Depp has no credibility when he denies abusing Heard because he frequently drank and used drugs to the point of blacking out and failing to remember anything he did.
On the stand Tuesday, Depp called the accusations of drug addiction “grossly embellished,” though he acknowledged taking many drugs. He said his drug use started at age 11 when when he secretly took his mother’s “nerve pills.”
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BENSALEM, Pa., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Gatos Silver, Inc. ("Gatos" or the "Company") (NYSE: GATO).
Class Period: October 28, 2020 – January 25, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: April 25, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Gatos investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that the technical report for Gatos's primary mine, the Cerro Los Gatos deposit, contained certain errors; (2) that, among other things, the mineral reserves had been overestimated by as much as 50%; and (3) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Offering Enables Detection and Measurement of Viewer Experiences in Transport
WALTHAM, Mass., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zixi, the industry leader for enabling dependable, live broadcast-quality video over any IP network, today announced an integration and partnership with SSIMWAVE®, who have integrated the Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP) into SSIMPLUS® Live Monitor, a live video quality assurance tool for perceptual video metrics. Joint customers can now measure and trace the viewer experience of Zixi delivery with a highly accurate objective quality metric that replicates the human visual system, guarding against the degradation of video quality across the network.
SSIMPLUS Live Monitor is a unified end-to-end Video Experience Automation platform that assesses and alerts on perceptual video quality in an automated fashion, ensuring users a consistent viewer experience and decreased operational costs. Live Monitor provides a complete solution for monitoring and alerting on viewer experience impacting issues, such as block corruption and lip sync, across thousands of channels around the clock. The software solution provides a very flexible search engine that allows customers to identify, localize, triage, and root issues with minimal effort for any device, network, and stage across a content delivery chain.
The SDVP's Zixi protocol is a resilient congestion and network-aware protocol that adjusts to varying network conditions and employs patented, dynamic Forward Error Correction techniques for error-free video transport over IP with 99.9999% uptime at minimal latency. It provides best-in-class security with DTLS and AES encryption, allows for protected multicast transport, provides bandwidth efficiency, and enables encoder backpressure. The Zixi ZEN Master control plane is also integrated to enable users to manage large-scale configurations and orchestrate, analyze, monitor, and report on live video streams and devices across, and the Zixi Enabled Network of customers, integrated hardware and software applications, platforms and service providers standardized on Zixi. As part of ZEN Master, Zixi's Intelligent Data Platform aggregates 3 billion data points a day from across the Zixi Enabled Network and uses advanced analytics, machine learning, and Zixi's unique video telemetry data to provide alerts based on patterns and insights that help media companies streamline broadcast operations by focusing their resources to fix errors before they occur and reduce costs from root cause analysis.
With native Zixi support, SSIMPLUS Live Monitor can now be leveraged to generate real-time perceptual video quality performance data for SDVP cloud contribution and distribution feeds, guaranteed reliability with hitless failover to maximize video experience and automated decision with ZEN Master. The SDVP delivers broadcast quality video to and from on-prem and cloud platforms, detailed Quality Assurance of Zixi sources, tracing the video experience across multiple workflows and networks.
"We are proud to welcome SSIMWAVE to the Zixi Enabled Network of partners that have integrated and standardized on the SDVP," said John Wastcoat, SVP Alliances and Marketing, Zixi. "We have a common mission to make complex deployments simple to consume and manage, and this partnership does that for our customers."
"Zixi is a leader for IP video delivery in the broadcast community and is asked for by the industry's biggest customers," said Carlos Hernandez, Chief Revenue Officer, SSIMWAVE. "This integration gives those big brands the ultra-low latency, guarantee of viewer experience, and the end-to-end management of the workflow they demand."
The integration will be demonstrated at NAB, for more information and to schedule a 1-1 meeting please click here Zixi at NAB 2022
About Zixi
Zixi provides a cloud based and on-premise Software-Defined Video Platform that enables reliable broadcast-quality video delivery over any IP network, any protocol, any cloud provider and any edge device. The company offers technologies for broadcasters, enterprises, over-the-top video providers, and mobile service providers around the world. The Zixi Platform makes it easy and economical for media companies to source, manage, localize, and distribute live events and 24/7 live linear channels in broadcast QoS, securely and at scale, using any form of IP network or Hybrid IP environments. Zixi provides enhanced control in large complex networks with ZEN Master, a live video orchestration and telemetry control plane that provides visual tools to configure, orchestrate, and monitor live broadcast channels and events across industry protocols. Over 10+ years, the Zixi Enabled Network (ZEN) has grown to over 350+ OEM and service providers and serves well over 700 customers representing most of the top media brands around the world with 20,000+ channels delivered daily. www.zixi.com
About SSIMWAVE
SSIMWAVE® is the creator of the Video Experience Automation category enabling assessment of video quality at scale so that video streaming services can reduce their operational costs and stop worrying about quality drop-offs. With our VQ Dial and Video Intelligence Suite products, customers enjoy the peace of mind that comes from an end-to-end solution using the only quality metric that is correlated to human vision. Powered by the two-time Emmy®-awarded SSIMPLUS® quality metric, the SSIMWAVE Video Experience Automation Platform connects to any workflow and operationalizes viewer experience data to remove the guesswork and inconsistency from manual video assurance processes. Plugging into the content creation, contribution, distribution, and delivery steps, customers are able to scale their quality assurance function beyond non-metric-based processes so that they can deliver a consistent quality of experience to their distributors and subscribers. SSIMWAVE was founded in 2013 and is located in Waterloo, Canada where the top streaming providers all over the world are served.
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Zixi: info@Zixi.com
Denise Williams, Bubble Agency, +1 503 806 0755, denisew@bubbleagency.com
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Quina da Mega Sena leaves for two bets from Curitiba. see the result
Mega Sena 2472 once again rewarded gamblers from Paraná. The draw, held this Saturday, had a prize pool of R$ 70 million. A gambler from Guarulhos, in São Paulo, won the jackpot when he hit the six dozen of Mega Sena 2472. However, the corner, when the gambler hits five of the six numbers drawn, awarded many people in Paraná. In Curitiba, there were two corners, which earned gamblers R$ 21.6 thousand for each one.
>>> Check here the results of Mega Sena 2472
In Curitiba, there were two winners who won the prize of R$ 21.6 thousand each with single bets. One of them was through Lotérica Zacarias and the other through Lotteries on electronic channels.
In the interior of Paraná, the awards went out to the following cities:
Mega Seine 2473
The new chance to win a millionaire jackpot takes place next Wednesday (20), when Mega Sena draws the prize of R$ 3 million.
How to play on Mega Sena?
Mega-Sena pays millions to the player who picks the 6 numbers drawn. It is still possible to win prizes by matching 4 or 5 numbers out of the 60 available on the betting wheel. To play, you need to dial 6 to 15 numbers on the wheel, and you can let the system choose the numbers for you (Surpresinha) and/or compete with the same bet for 2, 4 or 8 consecutive contests (Teimosinha).
Mega Sena Balloon?
The Bolão Caixa is the possibility that the bettor has to place bets in a group. Just fill in the appropriate field on the steering wheel or ask the lottery attendant. You can also buy lottery shares organized by Lottery Units. In this case, an additional Service Fee of up to 35% of the quota value may be charged. At Mega-Sena, the pools have a minimum price of R$ 10.00. However, each share cannot be less than R$5.00. It is possible to carry out a pool of at least 2 and at most 100 shares. A maximum of 10 bets per Pool is allowed. In the case of a Pool with more than one bet, they must all contain the same number of prediction numbers. | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/18/quina-da-mega-sena-leaves-for-two-bets-from-curitiba-see-the-result/ | 2022-04-21T16:14:03Z | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/18/quina-da-mega-sena-leaves-for-two-bets-from-curitiba-see-the-result/ | false | 1 |
Real is too cheap – Money Times
robin brooks speaks in the sober tones of a PhD economist who has devoted much of his career to calibrating fair value models for exchange rates. It was therefore a shock when he suddenly became a social media sensation in Brazil.
Brooks is a rarity in financial circles: he has long said that real should be more valued. Even in the worst moments of the Brazilian currency collapse during the pandemic, Brooks stood by his opinion, making him the public face of a dizzying rally that transformed the real in the best performing currency among the largest in the world this year.
For your followers on twitter In Brazil, where observing the exchange rate is something of a national obsession, Brooks is simply “the bald man”, or sometimes “the bald man of the Goldman”.
In fact, he doesn’t work. at Goldman Sachs five years ago, but anyway, that title sounds better than the “bald from the Institute of International Finance”, where he currently serves as chief economist.
Your posts on twitter on the real are immediately received with thousands of likes and dozens of responses that say “In bald we trust”, which have become a kind of trademark of their followers. This is a pun on the American motto “In God we trust” printed on the dollar.
Fanatical fans tweet photoshopped photos depicting him as a boxer or GIFs praising him as “the man, the myth, the legend”.
IN BALD WE TRUST! 🇺🇸🥊 https://t.co/zf4cjW3LLy pic.twitter.com/6rYNlbdoB8
— Rafael Balboa 🥊 (@rafaelbboa) March 21, 2022
The Brooks family, he says, is stunned by his fame. “My kids say, ‘What is this? This is our idiot father.”
Some of his critics, who are many, use similar language to describe their analysis. They make fun of how their fair value estimate for the exchange rate – R$4.5 per dollar – hasn’t changed in over two years, despite all the upheavals in the local economy and global markets.
Critics also point out that the bullish estimate was lucky to coincide randomly with two major forces driving the currency’s gains: aggressive interest rate hikes by the central bank and a sudden boom in global demand for Brazil’s commodity exports.
For Brooks, though, these developments only reflect his long-held belief that the country’s economic and foreign trade fundamentals are improving and that the currency remains weaker than it should, even after strengthening 19% this year to Rs. $4.70 per dollar.
Its projection, however, remains outside the consensus. Most analysts surveyed by Bloomberg predict that the real will weaken by the end of the year.
We’re within 5% of our $/BRL 4.50 fair value for the Brazilian Real, which is the closest we’ve been since March 2020, ie since before the COVID pandemic began. Closing the final gap will be harder. US real yields are rising rapidly, which is weighing on all EM currencies… pic.twitter.com/Y6mH2LkqTT
— Robin Brooks (@RobinBrooksIIF) April 17, 2022
Shortly after Brooks released his estimate of fair value for the real, the pandemic began and investors began withdrawing money from Brazil so quickly that the economist says he thought the computer on which he followed the flow numbers was broken.
These dollar outflows, says Brooks, along with the scathing criticisms he saw Brazilians level against their political leaders on Twitter, reinforced his view of the Brazilian currency. “Usually to me this is a sign that there is exaggeration. Maybe the real one is too cheap.”
Born and raised in Germany, Brooks, 51, studied at the London School of Economics and Yale University before working at the International Monetary Fund, Brevan Howard and Goldman Sachswhere he was the company’s main foreign exchange strategist.
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Scientist says Musk’s plan to colonize Mars is ‘dangerous illusion’
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British cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin John Rees says that Elon Musk’s idea of transporting 1 million people to Mars is a “dangerous illusion”;
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Elon Musk wants to build a colony on Mars by 2050;
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In a new book, still without a release date in Brazil, Rees and the astronomer and screenwriter Donald Goldsmith claim that the main problem against human space flight is the cost to the taxpayer.
British cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin John Rees told a British newspaper on Saturday that the idea of transporting human cargo to Mars is a “dangerous illusion”.
Even so, the scientist said that we should root for the wealthy space explorers who dare to make the leap.
“Dealing with climate change and other environmental issues, Earth is really bullshit compared to terraformed and habitable Mars,” Rees claimed.
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“We think there will be some crazy adventurers at the end of this century who will go to Mars to build a small colony and maybe some will go on one-way trips,” the scientist continued.
For him, the attempt, which should be celebrated, “is an adventure, just like we can admire people who do other crazy stunts and we can admire them, but this must be the future of space exploration”.
In a new book, with no release date in Brazil, Rees and the astronomer and screenwriter Donald Goldsmith claim that the main problem against human space flight lies in the tax for the taxpayer;
Thus, the ideal for exploring space would be to send more robots because of the low costs and because of the lower risk.
*Information is from The Sun newspaper. | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/18/scientist-says-musks-plan-to-colonize-mars-is-dangerous-illusion/ | 2022-04-21T16:17:24Z | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/18/scientist-says-musks-plan-to-colonize-mars-is-dangerous-illusion/ | false | 1 |
1inch (1INCH) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 10:00 AM Eastern on April 21st. 1inch has a total market capitalization of $679.44 million and approximately $451.09 million worth of 1inch was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One 1inch coin can now be purchased for $3.77 or 0.00005887 BTC on popular exchanges. In the last seven days, 1inch has traded flat against the U.S. dollar.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002350 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 1.8% against the dollar and now trades at $1.46 or 0.00003422 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002346 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 0.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $14.25 or 0.00033433 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 2.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $44.59 or 0.00104631 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
1inch Coin Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “The 1inch Network unites decentralized protocols whose synergy enables the most lucrative, fastest, and protected operations in the DeFi space.
The 1inch Network’s first protocol is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator solution that searches deals across multiple liquidity sources, offering users better rates than any individual exchange. The 1inch Aggregation Protocol incorporates the Pathfinder algorithm for finding the best paths across over 60+ liquidity sources on Ethereum, 30+ liquidity sources on Binance Smart Chain, 30+ liquidity sources on Polygon, Optimistic Ethereum, and Arbitrum. In just over two years of operation, the 1inch Aggregation Protocol surpassed $90 bln in overall trading volume on the Ethereum network alone.
The 1inch Liquidity Protocol is a next-generation automated market maker (AMM) that protects users from front-running attacks and offers attractive opportunities to liquidity providers.
The 1inch Limit Order Protocol facilitates the most innovative and flexible limit order swap opportunities in DeFi. The protocol’s features, such as dynamic pricing, conditional orders, and extra RFQ support, power various implementations, including stop-loss and trailing stop orders, as well as auctions.
The 1inch Wallet is a multichain mobile platform that provides an easy-to-navigate interface with secure storing, transaction, and staking capabilities. This versatile wallet was built from the ground up to streamline interacting with 1inch’s features.
The 1inch Network’s governance token 1INCH is used to vote on protocol parameters under the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) model.”
Buying and Selling 1inch
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as 1inch directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire 1inch should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase 1inch using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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I don’t think the 49ers are going to trade Deebo Samuel.
Ultimately, I believe that Samuel will play the 2022 and 2023 seasons in the Bay Area. The only question is if he will be on a new contract during those seasons.
After one All-Pro season, Samuel wants to be paid at the top of the booming wide receiver market for the next four or five years. The Niners have, understandably, been reluctant to make him such an offer to this point.
They are even more reluctant to trade away their best offensive player ahead of a pivotal 2022 season.
But everyone in the NFL is available. Every player for every team has a price.
Any trade the 49ers make with Samuel would have to come before Thursday’s start of the NFL Draft.
Trading Samuel for draft picks isn’t ideal for helping the Niners in the 2022 season, but it’s a far better option for the upcoming season than trading Samuel for future draft considerations.
Samuel would cost a pretty penny when it came to picks as well.
The Miami Dolphins just traded picks Nos. 29, 50, and 121 (as well as two Day 3 picks in 2023) to Kansas City for Tyreek Hill.
Some would view that as a baseline for Samuel. I find such a notion ridiculous, as Hill has been a Pro Bowler every year of his six-season career and has three All-Pro teams to his name.
But should the Niners be able to land two picks in the top 50 of this year’s draft, including a first-rounder, I think they’d be hard-pressed to not accept the deal.
That’s because I see two players in this draft as ideal fits for San Francisco, and while they might not be Samuel, in the not-too-distant future, selecting these two prospects could prove to be better for the Niners than keeping Deebo in red and gold.
The first prospect is the best center in this draft, Tyler Linderbaum from Iowa.
I’m still peeved that the 49ers didn’t take my advice and select Creed Humphrey in the second round of last year’s draft.
He was right there, for the taking. And the Niners passed.
Instead, they selected Aaron Banks at pick No. 48 overall. He played five (meaningless) snaps in his rookie season.
Humphrey, selected at No. 63 by the Chiefs, was arguably the best center in football last year. You don’t think he could have been effective at guard for a year?
A year after passing on Humphrey, San Francisco finds itself in a position where it simply does not know if starting center Alex Mack is going to play this upcoming season. That, plus the departure of Laken Tomlinson from his starting left guard role and the question marks surrounding right tackle Mike McGlinchey, who is returning from a serious quad injury, make the Niners’ offensive line a point of emphasis in this draft.
Lucky for San Francisco, Linderbaum is a player in the same class as Humphrey. He’s squatty, mean, and perfect for a wide-zone system for a decade to come.
Tyler Linderbaum Highlights pic.twitter.com/pXYAmkcO6L
— NFL Prospect Clips (@NflProspectClip) April 20, 2022
The 49ers’ current issue is that Linderbaum will not be available when the team picks at No. 61. Not a chance.
San Francisco will likely need to trade into the first round to land him.
If the Niners are going to trade Samuel, ensuring they land Linderbaum for the trouble would be a good start.
But they’ll need a Samuel replacement as well.
And while No. 19 proved last year that no one can do what he does on the field, the 49ers might not need that kind of player with Trey Lance taking over as the team’s starting quarterback.
Enter North Dakota State’s Christian Watson.
Lance’s former college teammate is an athletic marvel. The indispensable Relative Athletic Score database, which compares athletic testing numbers over the history of the draft, has Watson down as one of the best athletes in this draft class.
In fact, he’s one of the best athletes at the wide receiver position over the last 20 years.
Factoring in size and speed, RAS gave Watson a score of 9.96. That’s on par with Julio Jones and just behind Calvin Johnson (a perfect 10) and Andre Johnson (9.98).
Now, there’s not a direct correlation between athletic excellence and NFL success, but when you’re as athletic as Watson, it’s going to be pretty hard to be a bust. Watson has easy speed that can take the top off a defense and the frame to eventually be an outstanding possession receiver as well. He’s a bit of a project, but this is the kind of receiver who could have the Niners’ offense under Lance humming like the 2016 Falcons.
Former #NDSU wide receiver Christian Watson hits the field for the NFL Combine this afternoon. This is just a snippet of what he did for the Bison. pic.twitter.com/fO8uYHLr8P
— Dom Izzo (@DomIzzoWDAY) March 3, 2022
Playing in the NFL will be a marked step up in competition for Watson, who never played an FBS team during his time at NDSU. That, paired with his questionable strength, could have him still on the board in the early second round. Sorry, I’m just not buying into the first-round hype that’s being pushed in mock drafts as of late.
A stalwart center who can hold down one of the most important positions in Shanahan’s offense for a decade to come and a wide receiver with a rare athletic pedigree who already has chemistry with Lance?
That’s a pretty excellent haul if the Niners do, indeed, move on from Deebo.
So who could provide the two top-50 picks necessary to make this kind of move?
The New Orleans Saints have picks Nos. 16, 19, and 49. They’ve also shown that they simply do not care about the NFL’s salary cap. The problem? They’re an NFC rival. No deal.
The Eagles have picks 15, 18, and 51, but they’re also in the NFC. No deal there, either.
The Packers just miss the cut with picks Nos. 28 and 53, as do the Cowboys, who hold Nos. 24 and 56.
Not that the Niners would trade Samuel to those two teams, anyway.
The Jets are in the AFC and have picks Nos. 4, 10, 35, and 38, but those don’t seem to align with these draft targets. Plus: is Robert Saleh willing to bet on Samuel? I’m not so sure about that.
There are two ideal trade partners here. The first is the Baltimore Ravens, who have picks Nos. 14 and 45. The Niners can surely get both of these players with that draft capital. I question if Baltimore would even consider such a deal.
The other option is in the NFC, but it’s hardly a threat to the Niners: the Lions. Detroit has picks Nos. 32 and 34.
The Niners would need some draft luck, but they could add Linderbaum and Watson with those picks and Samuel could land his big-money deal in Detroit in the ultimate “be careful what you wish for” moment.
Again, I don’t think the Niners trade Samuel.
But they could, and when it’s all said and done, if they send him to Detroit, San Francisco could come out on top in such a deal. | https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2022/04/21/kurtenbach-theres-one-deebo-samuel-trade-that-can-actually-improve-the-49ers/ | 2022-04-21T16:21:25Z | https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2022/04/21/kurtenbach-theres-one-deebo-samuel-trade-that-can-actually-improve-the-49ers/ | true | 11 |
Understand the ‘poison pill’ adopted by Twitter against Elon Musk
- The billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX acquired 9.2% of shares in the social network earlier this month. Last week, it proposed to acquire 100% of Twitter for $43 billion.
- The new ‘poison pill’ determines that every time an investor reaches at least 15% of Twitter’s capital, in a transaction not approved by the Board, all other shareholders will have the right to buy the shares at a discount.
Twitter (TWTR34) announced last Friday (15) a ‘limited duration rights plan’, unanimously approved by the company’s Board of Directors. In practice, it is a poison pill (poison pill, in Portuguese) – a mechanism that aims to protect the company against ‘hostile takeovers’, such as the proposal made by Elon Musk last week.
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The billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX acquired 9.2% of shares in the social network earlier this month. Already last Thursday (14), he made a proposal to acquire 100% of Twitter for $ 43 billion, about $ 54.20 per share. As of 9:44 am on Monday (18), TWTR was traded at $44.70.
The entrepreneur’s goals are not entirely clear, but Musk has frequently criticized the alleged lack of ‘freedom of speech’ on the platform. In this way, the new ‘poison pill’ determines that every time an investor reaches at least 15% of Twitter’s capital, in a transaction not approved by the Board, all other shareholders will have the right to buy the shares. discount papers.
Therefore, if Musk intends to go ahead with the proposal, the purchase of the social network will become more difficult and expensive. The poison pill will be valid until April 14, 2023.
“The Rights Plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group will gain control of Twitter through open market accumulation without paying all shareholders an adequate control premium or without providing the Board with sufficient time to make informed judgments. and take actions that are in the best interest of shareholders,” says the company. | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/18/understand-the-poison-pill-adopted-by-twitter-against-elon-musk/ | 2022-04-21T16:25:21Z | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/18/understand-the-poison-pill-adopted-by-twitter-against-elon-musk/ | false | 1 |
Arizona wildfire doubles in size near college town
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — (AP) — An Arizona wildfire doubled in size overnight into Wednesday, a day after heavy winds kicked up a towering wall of flames outside a northern Arizona tourist and college town, ripping through two-dozen structures and sending residents of more than 700 homes scrambling to flee.
Flames as high as 100 feet (30 meters) on Tuesday raced through an area of scattered homes, dry grass and Ponderosa pine trees in a rural area on the outskirts of Flagstaff as wind gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph) pushed the blaze over a major highway.
Weather conditions were more favorable Wednesday with light breezes before a return to stronger winds Thursday “approaching a critical level,” said Mark Stubblefield, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Flagstaff.
No significant precipitation is in the forecast into next week, Stubblefield said.
Coconino County officials said during a Tuesday evening news conference that 766 homes and 1,000 animals had been evacuated. About 250 structures remained threatened in the area popular with hikers and off-road vehicle users and where astronauts have trained amid volcanic cinder pits.
The county declared an emergency after the wildfire ballooned from 100 acres (40 hectares) Tuesday morning to over 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) by evening and to 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) by Wednesday morning.
The fire was moving northeast away from the more heavily populated areas of Flagstaff, home to Northern Arizona University, and toward Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, said Coconino National Forest spokesman Brady Smith.
“It’s good in that it’s not headed toward a very populated area, and it’s headed toward less fuel,” Smith said. “But depending on the intensity of the fire, fire can still move across cinders.”
Authorities won’t be able to determine whether anyone was injured in the wildfire until the flames subside. Firefighters and law enforcement officers went door to door telling people to evacuate but had to pull out to avoid getting boxed in, said Coconino County Sheriff Jim Driscoll.
He said his office got a call about a man who was trapped inside his house, but firefighters couldn’t get to him.
“We don’t know if he made it out or not,” Driscoll said.
Various organizations worked to set up shelters for evacuees and animals, including goats and horses.
The scene was all too familiar for residents who recalled rushing to pack their bags and flee a dozen years ago when a much larger wildfire burned in the same area.
“This time was different, right there in your backyard,” said Kathy Vollmer, a resident.
She said she and her husband grabbed their three dogs but left a couple of cats behind as they faced what she described as a “wall of fire.”
“We just hope they are going to be OK," she said.
Earlier in the day, the wildfire shut down U.S. 89, the main route between Flagstaff and far northern Arizona, and communities on the Navajo Nation. The high winds grounded aircraft that could drop water and fire retardant on the blaze.
Arizona Public Service Co., the state's largest utility, shut off power to about 625 customers to keep firefighters safe, a spokeswoman said.
About 200 firefighters were battling the flames, but more are expected as a top-level national management team takes over later this week.
The fire started Sunday afternoon 14 miles (22 kilometers) northeast of Flagstaff. Investigators don’t know yet what caused it and have yet to corral any part of the blaze.
Ali Taranto rushed to Flagstaff from Winslow, where she works at a hospital, on Tuesday to check on a property she owns that was threatened by the wildfire. She also was getting messages to check on a neighbor whom she found didn’t have access to oxygen while the power was out and didn’t have the strength to manually open her garage door to evacuate.
Taranto said the neighbor was “disoriented and gasping for air” when she reached her. Firefighters in the area helped get the garage door open and the neighbor to the hospital, she said. Taranto was looking for a shelter for the neighbor’s two dogs.
By the time Taranto left the area, the highway into Flagstaff was shut down and she had to drive an extra two hours back home. At least two other neighbors didn’t evacuate, she said.
“To see flames several yards away from your property line and to hear the propane tanks bursting in the background, it was very surreal,” Taranto said. “Ash falling down. It was crazy.”
Red flag warnings blanketed much of New Mexico on Wednesday, indicating conditions are ripe for wildfires. Residents in northern New Mexico’s Mora and San Miguel counties were warned to be ready to evacuate as wildfires burned there amid dry, warm and windy conditions.
The National Interagency Fire Center reported Wednesday that over 2,300 wildland firefighters and support personnel were assigned to more than a dozen large wildfires in the Southwestern, Southern and Rocky Mountain areas. Scientists say climate change has made the U.S. West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Elsewhere in Arizona, firefighters battled a wildfire in a sparsely populated area of the Prescott National Forest, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Prescott.
Cory Carlson, the incident commander with the Prescott National Forest, said late Tuesday afternoon the high winds have been the biggest challenge, sending embers into the air that sparked new spot fires near State Route 261, along with the demand for crews at other fires.
“We do have a lack of resources," he said. “There’s a lot of fires in the region.”
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Associated Press writer Paul Davenport in Phoenix, Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada, contributed to this report.
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Harry Maguire’s house was checked by police on Thursday after the Manchester United captain received a bomb threat.
England defender Maguire, who lives with his fiance and two children, has endured a difficult season with club and country, but it is not known who made the threat.
The 29-year-old’s home was swept by Cheshire Constabulary to ensure his safety.
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“In the last 24 hours, Harry has received a serious threat to his family home," a spokesman for Maguire said.
“He has reported this to the police who are now looking into the matter.
“The safety of his family and those around him is obviously Harry’s number one priority.
“He will continue to prepare for this weekend’s fixture as normal and we will not be commenting in any further detail at this time."
The bomb scare is the latest issue for Maguire, who has been subjected to stinging criticism from pundits and jeers from England fans this season.
Maguire was part of the United team thrashed 4-0 at arch rivals Liverpool on Tuesday.
He is next due to play when United travel to Arsenal on Saturday for a crucial Premier League clash in the race to qualify for next season’s Champions League.
United, who have slipped to sixth in the Premier League, on Thursday announced the appointment of Ajax boss Erik Ten Hag as their new manager from next season.
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Putin claims victory in Mariupol but won't storm steel plant
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in the strategic port of Mariupol, even as he ordered his troops not to storm the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the war’s iconic battleground. Russian troops have besieged the southeastern city since the early days of the conflict and largely pulverized it. Top officials have repeatedly indicated it was about to fall, but Ukrainian forces stubbornly held on. In recent weeks, they holed up in a sprawling steel plant. Putin said Thursday that, for now, he would not risk sending troops into the warren of tunnels under the giant Azovstal plant. Putin’s order may mean that Russian officials are hoping they can wait for the defenders to surrender after running out of food or ammunition.
Biden announces $800M in new military assistance for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he has approved an additional $800 million in military aid to help Ukraine fight back against the Russian invasion, but warned Congress will need to approve additional assistance. The new military assistance package includes much needed heavy artillery, 144,000 rounds of ammunition, and drones for Ukrainian forces in the escalating battle for the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine , and builds on roughly $2.6 billion in military assistance that Biden had previously approved for Ukraine. Biden said that $13.6 billion approved last month by Congress for military and humanitarian assistance is “almost exhausted.”
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'We found nothing:' Thousands of IS victims still missing
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Tensions over race, religion in France's presidential race
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Musk says he has $46.5B in financing ready to buy Twitter
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Phil Foden neck tattoo: What does Man City star's ink say & meaning explained
It's hard to miss Phil Foden's neck tattoo when he plays for Manchester City, but what does it actually say?
The England international has become a symbol of fashion and style in modern football, his blonde dyed hair, inspired by Paul Gascoigne, made headlines at Euro 2020, while on the pitch he has already claimed numerous trophies and accolades.
So what does Foden’s neck tattoo say and what is the meaning behind it? GOAL takes a look.
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What does Phil Foden's neck tattoo say?
Foden's neck tattoo displays four words - 'Sky is the limit'.
The tattoo goes from just behind his ear down to the bottom of his neck.
City midfielder Foden had the tattoo done in February 2022, and it was first seen on a football pitch when he featured in his side's 4-1 win over Fulham in the FA Cup fourth round.
What is the meaning of Phil Foden's neck tattoo?
The meaning behind the tattoo is one of motivation for the England international. 'Sky is the limit' refers to the idea that nothing is impossible or out of reach.
This has certainly been true for the 21-year-old City midfielder in terms of his football career, with Foden having already won 10 domestic trophies - including three Premier League titles - as well as being a runner-up in the Champions League final, in 2020-21.
Indeed, Foden was also part of the England squad that came so close to winning Euro 2020, while he did taste glory on the international stage with the Three Lions' Under-17 side at the World Cup.
Who is Phil Foden's tattoo artist?
The man behind Foden's body art is London-based tattoo artist Gabriel Maniak.
Maniak is well known for his detailed and impressive tattoo art, having previously worked on Foden's City team-mate Raheem Sterling, as well as singer and rapper Anderson Paak, among others.
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HHS official overseeing unaccompanied minors program to step down, spokesperson says
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
The head of the federal agency charged with the care of unaccompanied migrant children is stepping down, according to a Health and Human Services Department spokesperson.
Cindy Huang, who helmed the Office of Refugee Resettlement, is transitioning out of her role through the end of the month as the Biden administration prepares for an increase in migrant arrivals next month. The agency, which also works on refugee resettlement and falls under HHS, came under intense scrutiny last year when a surge of unaccompanied migrant children at the US-Mexico border caught the administration flat footed.
While the number of minors arriving at the US-Mexico border has dropped since last spring, it remains high. In March, more than 14,100 migrant children arrived at the US-Mexico border without a parent, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection.
“The Department of Health and Human Services is deeply grateful to Cindy Huang for her tremendous contributions and committed leadership at the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Cindy’s vision and dedication have been critical to faithfully carry out ORR’s legal responsibility of caring for unaccompanied children and providing services to refugees and other eligible populations, including Afghans,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement, adding: “Cindy has been an inspiring example to everyone who worked with her as the agency faced some of its biggest challenges.”
It’s unclear who will assume Huang’s role once she departs.
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How to have a monthly income of R$ 5 thousand with cryptocurrencies
Last year, play-to-earn (P2E) games, especially Axie Infinity, became a real fever and helped many people earn extra income and even their own livelihood.
A survey revealed that 23% of Axie players took off support their families from the resources obtained in the game.
In this type of game, players receive financial incentives in cryptocurrencies for playing. The prizes are as much for the time that the users spend playing as for the victories in battles, for example.
Play-to-move Stepn
This year, P2E are still on the rise. But move-to-earn games have also hit the market, which reward players for physical activity.
One of the most successful is Stepn, a game built on the Solana (SOL) platform, which pays BRL 5,000 a month for daily 10-minute runs, according to a user of the game.
Is it over there account who bought his first NFT from Stepn, a sneaker (Sneakers), for around R$4,000 in Solana (SOL). And, after running 21km inside the app, he received rewards in the GMT game token.
Discounting the amount spent “repairing” the shoe and to upgrade it from level 5 to level 9, he got a daily net reward of 9 to 9.5 GMT. That’s about $37 a day. Or that gives, per month, more than US$ 1,100, therefore, more than R$ 5,140.
Axie Infinity
Although Axie is competing for space with other games, it remains popular and generating revenue for players.
Like Stepn, Axie also requires investment, with characters starting at R$350. As it is necessary to form teams with three axies, the initial investment is more than R$1,050.
Despite this, Axie Infinity is one of the most popular and profitable P2E games where two players battle with their axies. There are two tokens in the game, the SLP and the PVE. Whoever wins the game has a chance to earn 50 SLP as a starting bonus.
Per day, it is possible to earn around 180 SLP. Currently, the SLP token is at a low price, costing around BRL 0.083 each. That is, it is possible to earn almost R$ 450 per month. It may not seem like much to some, but it is worth remembering that the SLP has already been traded above BRL 1.96, which would give a monthly income of BRL 10,580.
Play-to-earn Pegaxy
Another game based on NFTs that is on the rise and that Can give monthly earnings of up to US$1,000 (or about R$5,000) is the mechanical horse racing game based on Polygon Pegaxy.
The game is set in a futuristic mythological universe in which horses (magpies) – in the form of NFTs – descend from the mighty Pegasus. With each horse race, players can earn rewards in the token used on the platform, the VIS (Vigorus).
In addition, it is possible to profit by renting the handles to participants who do not have the money to purchase an NFT. Thus, the financial result will depend on what is signed between the parties.
Finally, there is yet another way to earn a financial return, which is to sell your horse’s NFTs or the offspring it can generate.
According to the Hard Fork Gaming channel, each horse can compete in a maximum of 25 races per day. According to his calculations, if the player participates in as many races as possible, daily, he can earn up to US$ 1,000 per month.
It is worth mentioning that if the player has more horses (NFTs) he will be able to compete in more daily races, increasing the possibilities of profit.
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LSU Baseball Happy to Be Home For Key Stretch Run of SEC Season
It's almost a relief for LSU to be back in Baton Rouge for the next handful of weeks. The Tigers have spent most of the last two weeks on the road at difficult locations like Starkville and Fayetteville.
But after getting out of the back-to-back road series at .500, this is the time of the season for LSU to make its run up the standings. When Jay Johnson was looking at the schedule, the next two home series against Missouri and Georgia were ones he couldn't help but value as a key stretch of the Tigers' season.
Thus far in SEC play, the environment has done little to sway the results on the field as the purple and gold have lost both home series against Texas A&M and Auburn. Being back at Alex Box should provide an added layer of comfortability and support from the Tigers' faithful but there have been noticeable struggles at home.
It's why Johnson is just glad to have that extra time on the field now that the team isn't traveling, allowing LSU to get some more work done in the process.
"I think you can get more done with players within their routine and work on things," Johnson said. "Kind of itemize the things that individual players need to do to put ourselves in a good chance to be successful. I thought we handled things well, obviously you ramp up in competition but the things we need to do, if we can commit to them, we could play good baseball and that will lead to us winning.
"It is a relief to be back home, traveling for two weeks, it takes a toll on your body and can be very exhausting," pitcher Ma'Khail Hilliard said. "I also thought of it as an opportunity to get better as a team. We already know we're good but we're not there yet so a lot of these new, younger guys you gotta be ready for the next opportunity."
Where LSU's issues have lied this season have been consistency, something that Johnson has attributed to needing to grow as a unit. The players are working hard and competing as best they can but it's the execution side of the game that has plagued this group at the plate, on the mound and in the field.
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As for some of the recent hitting woes, particularly in two strike counts and with runners on base, the Tigers showed a lot of improvement in one game against ULL. Approach, competitiveness and following the clear cut rules laid out to the players is what allowed LSU to have success against the Rajun Cajuns but stringing it together against SEC competition is another prudent step.
On Monday, Johnson described putting those scenarios in the team's face from a video perspective to see how they would respond and they certainly answered the bell with just three strikeouts in the game and batting .429 with runners in scoring position.
"How much better we can be than we have been and they responded in good fashion," Johnson said. "If they do that we'll create more run scoring opportunities and in a couple of games we've lost, that's all we've really needed. We're much better in close games than last year and we need to continue that because that will define our season."
On the mound, it's been Hilliard who has kept the Tigers in position to win a number of SEC series openers the last month. His experience and consistency has been one of the bright spots of this pitching staff that is trying to piece together the staff as best as possible.
Hilliard is throwing the ball with great confidence, finding the right mix with his offspeed pitches and locating the pitches in successful spots, leading to a 3-0 record and respectable 3.83 ERA.
"I believe I've done exceptionally well. This year I felt like I came out ready, mentally locked in and been trying to build off that," Hilliard said. "I have a lot more drive, more experience under my belt and I can correct myself in the moment."
LSU will need that balance of solid starting pitching and two out hitting to get back on track in league play. The team is still bundled with a bunch of teams in the SEC West hovering around the .500 mark and with two straight weeks at home, the Tigers have a chance to capitalize in familiar surroundings.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) – An off-duty Cumberland County deputy will not face charges in the shooting death of Jason Walker in Fayetteville in January.
Jason Walker, 37, of Fayetteville, was shot to death after jumping on the hood of a truck in the middle of Bingham Drive around 2:15 p.m. on Jan. 8, according to a police press release at the time.
The man who shot and killed Walker was later identified as Jeffrey Hash, a Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was off duty at the time of the fatal shooting.
Kimberly Overton Spahos with the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys is the special prosecutor assigned to the case and announced Thursday there will be no charges against Hash.
“This shooting is indisputably tragic, but based upon these facts, the State of North Carolina will not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting of Jason Walker was unlawful. Consequently, our office will not be seeking charges related to the death of Jason Walker,” Spahos said.
A report released by Spahos said Hash believed he, his wife and child were in imminent danger when Walker jumped on the deputy’s truck and shattered its windshield with a metal windshield wiper.
Walker lunged at Hash with the wiper when the deputy exited his vehicle and before shots were fired. Spahos said while Walker’s intent may have not been to enter the truck or injured anyone inside it, Hash had to make a “split-second decision.”
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to set aside his political troubles and focus on economic ties and the war in Ukraine during a long-delayed official trip to India.
Johnson landed in the western state of Gujarat on Thursday, kicking off a two-day visit that will see him meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday.
Johnson hopes to strike new economic deals between Britain and its huge former colony, and to coax India away from Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Modi has called the situation in Ukraine “very worrying” and has appealed to both sides for peace. But India has stood back from international efforts to criticize President Vladimir Putin, abstaining when the U.N. General Assembly voted this month to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.
Modi has so far responded coolly to pressure from President Joe Biden and others to curb imports of Russian oil and gas.
India receives little of its oil from Russia, but has ramped up its purchases and bought 3 million barrels of crude last month, just as other democracies tried to isolate Putin with economic sanctions. India is also a major customer for Russian weapons, and recently bought advanced Russian air defense systems.
Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain, said Britain would “work with other countries to provide alternative options for defense procurement and energy for India to diversify its supply chains away from Russia.”
But he stressed that the U.K. wouldn’t “lecture other democratically elected governments on what course of action was best for them.”
Johnson’s office said the two countries will announce new deals on defense, green energy, jobs and science partnerships during the prime minister’s trip.
In Gujarat, Johnson plans to announce a series of commercial agreements, including more than 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in investments and export deals in sectors like software engineering and health that are expected to create almost 11,000 jobs in the U.K., according to a press release from the British High Commission in New Delhi.
“As I arrive in India today, I see vast possibilities for what our two great nations can achieve together,” Johnson was quoted as saying in the release.
“Our powerhouse partnership is delivering jobs, growth and opportunities for our people, and it will only go from strength-to-strength in the coming years,” Johnson added.
Britain is seeking to tighten ties with Asian nations as part of an “Indo-Pacific tilt” to its foreign policy following its departure from the European Union in 2020. Johnson hopes to nudge forward negotiations on a post-Brexit trade deal between Britain and India, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
Talks started in January, but the prime minister’s spokesman played down chances of a quick deal, saying “we don’t want to sacrifice quality for speed.”
The trip may also provide the British prime minister with a brief respite from a scandal over lockdown-breaching government parties during the coronavirus pandemic.
Johnson was fined by police last week for attending his own surprise birthday party in 10 Downing St. in June 2020, when people in Britain were barred from meeting with friends and family outside the home. It is one of a dozen gatherings in government buildings being investigating by police for possible lockdown breaches in a scandal that has become known as “partygate.”
On Tuesday, Johnson offered lawmakers in Parliament what he said was a ”wholehearted” apology, but insisted he didn’t knowingly break rules and brushed off calls to resign.
The trip means Johnson will miss an opposition-triggered vote Thursday in the House of Commons on whether he should be investigated for allegedly misleading Parliament when he denied violating any pandemic restrictions.
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Boris Johnson: UK MPs approve probe into prime minister's alleged 'partygate' lies
CommentsBritish MPs have decided to open an investigation targeting Boris Johnson over the so-called "partygate" scandal, to find out whether he knowingly misled Parliament about illegal social events held on government property during coronavirus lockdowns.
The move will be seen as a major test of trust in the prime minister, and if the inquiry finds that he lied, the pressure will only grow for him to respond in the traditional manner and resign.
It follows a police fine Johnson received last week for attending a birthday celebration in his office in June 2020 in violation of lockdown rules.
An investigation was approved by parliamentarians without a formal vote due to the lack of opposition, and will now be carried out by Parliament’s Committee of Privileges.
This happened despite the Conservative majority in parliament, as many ruling party lawmakers are uneasy about Johnson's behaviour. The government abandoned efforts to block the move by the Labour opposition to instigate the probe.
The move sought to uphold “the simple principle that honesty, integrity and telling the truth matter in our politics,” Labour leader Keir Starmer said. “But it is a principle under attack.”
The prime minister's grip on power has been shaken by claims he flouted the pandemic rules he imposed on the country, then repeatedly failed to own up to it.
Johnson was fined £50 (€60) for attending his own birthday party in his office, when people in Britain were barred from meeting up with friends and family, or even visiting dying relatives.
He is the first British prime minister ever found to have broken the law while in office.
Johnson denied he knowingly broke the rules, but his shifting responses have drawn derision and outrage from opponents.
The prime minister's fate rests with the views of MPs on his own side. For the time being, the war in Ukraine has prevented critics from moving against Johnson at a time of international crisis -- but that may change after local elections in May if the Conservatives perform badly.
One veteran government backbencher, Steve Baker, who had backed Johnson until now, turned against him on Thursday, calling in parliament for him to go. "The prime minister should just know the gig's up," he said.
The Committee of Privileges probe will not start until twin police and civil-service investigations into “partygate” have concluded.
Boris Johnson was not present for the decision; he is in India on a two-day visit focused on boosting economic ties with the country.
The prime minister again denied knowingly misleading Parliament and insisted he would lead the Conservatives into the next national election, due in 2024.
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Restaurant Developers Set to Open 15 Sandwich Shops across the Tampa Bay Area
LUTZ, Fla., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capriotti's Sandwich Shop, known for its award-winning, hand-crafted cheesesteaks, turkey subs and more, is debuting a new location in the Willow Bend Shopping Center in Lutz at 1948 Collier Pkwy. on April 25. This location will mark the second of 15 total locations set to open in the Tampa Bay area.
Developing the award-winning sandwich brand in an untapped market is what initially inspired the interest of new Capriotti's multi-unit franchisee owner, Scott Crawford. Crawford is no stranger to the restaurant industry. With his first job out of high school as a pizza delivery driver, Crawford now has over 20 years of experience in the food service industry. With a passion for the restaurant industry, he saw the strong foundation that franchises provide and how it can help guide a successful restaurant. Drawn to the mouthwatering menu items provided by Capriotti's, Crawford is excited to bring a concept he is passionate about to the area. More background information on Crawford can be found here.
One of the reasons why Capriotti's continues to be a leader in the fast casual and sandwich category is because of its wide array of sandwiches including: The Bobbie, made with fresh oven-roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and mayo, the Capastrami, made with hot pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and homemade coleslaw, and the Cheese Steak is made with premium steak, chicken or Impossible plant-based meat and melted cheese plus hot or sweet peppers.
The Lutz Capriotti's will offer a convenient order-ahead option, in addition to third-party delivery services. The new shop will bring 30 new jobs to the Tampa community. Locals will be able to experience Capriotti's 45-year tradition of slow-roasting whole, all-natural Butterball® turkeys in-house and hand-pulling them every morning, top-choice beef and other brand favorites.
"The quality of Capriotti's is something one would expect to have in their favorite home-cooked meal," said Crawford. "No matter the sandwich preference, Lutz and the entire Tampa Bay area will soon be able to experience a level of quality and comfort that has never been available in the area until now."
Lutz Capriotti's fans can download the CAPAddicts Rewards app on iOS and Android to earn and redeem rewards and score free food. The restaurant also features online ordering. Capriotti's in Lutz offers catering for any event from corporate events to birthday parties with items such as party trays with cold subs, box lunches or a hot homemade meatball bar.
Capriotti's is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. For additional information, visit www.capriottis.com or call the location at (813) 553-3745.
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Uber and 99: cancellations and delays
With the rise in fuel prices, Uber users and 99 have been complaining of more cancellations and longer wait times to be accepted into rides. Even after the apps announced measures to try to reduce the effects of the high, users of running apps have turned to other alternatives to get around.
Designer Thaiane Gomes, 30, asked for an Uber ride in Mauá, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, to return to her home in Ponte Rasa, east of São Paulo. The driver even got to where he was, but refused the ride. In an interval of 50 minutes, Thaiane counted seven cancellations until she was finally accepted.
She paid R$40 for a journey of about half an hour. “The first driver apologized to me and said he didn’t want to go to São Paulo, that it was worth staying at ABC”, she says.
This was not the first and not the last time that Thaiane has had some difficulty calling a race by app in recent months.
On Avenida Paulista, one of the busiest places in São Paulo, she had to order a taxi after being rejected by Uber drivers for more than 20 minutes. “It’s hard to delay, but I feel like they’re trying to make the work pay off one way or another. [ao escolher corridas].”
bus + app
Publicist Beatriz Harumi, 28, is also changing her transportation habits. She lives in Vila Brasilândia, on the outskirts of São Paulo’s northern zone, a neighborhood that Uber doesn’t enter because it considers it a risky area, she says. Because of that, she only has 99 as an option, which ends up becoming a problem.
In the region where he lives, the scarcity of available cars currently makes the ride more expensive: a trip to Pompeii, in the west zone, used to cost R$25 and now costs R$38 on average. saltier, Beatriz uses public transport.
She says she uses the bus to get out of her neighborhood and gets off at a busy spot where she can call an app. If the fare appears as dynamic, Beatriz compares which is cheaper -Uber or 99. If both are too expensive, the bus trip ends.
“In my case, I feel that the cancellations have decreased, but the car has taken longer to arrive,” he says.
More than R$270 for a ride
With a longer waiting time, publicist Nathalia Costa, 30, began to “schedule herself to be late”. She lives in São Bernardo do Campo, on ABC Paulista, and activates app races every Saturday morning for a route that costs from R$10 to R$15.
She prefers Uber and 99 because she considers walking dangerous to do alone. It also says that the average bus break of 40 minutes can delay your tasks on weekends. But Nathalia has already missed appointments because of the delay in getting a race.
“I started to schedule myself 10, 20 minutes in advance. But I already waited 40 minutes and nobody answered me.”
For Nathalia, in addition to the more expensive fuel, it weighs the fact that she lives in São Bernardo and the drivers there prefer to race in the capital of São Paulo. Even rides with high dynamic rates are denied.
One day in Lollapalooza, the publicist and a friend from São Caetano, in the same region, shared a R$274 Uber ride after more than 20 minutes of insistence. The same route would normally cost around R$94.
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Student Vitor Soares, 20, has been finding it more difficult to get an Uber in Florianópolis (SC). One night, he and two friends were sending messages asking drivers not to cancel the race.
It didn’t work out, as they counted seven “no’s” from the drivers for almost an hour.
After that, Soares has prioritized the services of 99, considering that refusals are less frequent. Although the bus is an option at night in Santa Catarina, students feel safer with the car stopping in front of their house.
“If the situation continues as it is, one possibility is to get my driver’s license and drive my parents’ car,” he says.
What Uber and 99 say
Uber says riders have returned to more use of the services as the pandemic has eased, justifying the longer wait times and the increase in cancellations.
“Users are having to wait longer for a trip because, especially at peak times, there are times when there are more requests than driver partners are available to handle them,” he says in a note.
According to the company, dynamic pricing is an efficient tool “because, on the one hand, it makes some users postpone their trip waiting for a lower price and, on the other hand, it increases drivers’ earnings to encourage more partners to travel to meet that region.”
Regarding fuel, Uber highlighted a package of measures that aims to reduce the costs of drivers who work with the app. Since March 11, rides are 6.5% more expensive.
99 states that professionals earn an increase of R$0.10 per kilometer driven for every R$1 increase in fuel.
According to the company, for a 12 km race in São Paulo, which uses an average of 1 liter for a popular car, the readjustment is R$ 2.04 for this stretch.
99 also claims that the race cancellation rate is below 5%. “To allow the partner to make the best decision to accept or reject the ride, 99 presents all relevant information about the trip in advance: approximate value, origin, destination and passenger data.” | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/19/uber-and-99-cancellations-and-delays-2/ | 2022-04-21T16:55:14Z | https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04/19/uber-and-99-cancellations-and-delays-2/ | false | 2 |
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. oil services firms join push for revamped Venezuela license
By Marianna Parraga, Matt Spetalnick and Deisy Buitrago
HOUSTON/WASHINGTON/CARACAS, April 21 (Reuters) - Some U.S. oilfield firms whose Venezuelan operations were frozen by sanctions are joining an appeal to Washington for authorizations to restart oil drilling in the South American country, according to eight sources with knowledge of the talks.
If they are allowed to resume work, Venezuela could quickly ramp up production capacity beyond 1 million barrels per day (bpd), analysts said.
The new supply could also fill a void left by U.S. ban on Russian energy imports over its invasion of Ukraine that has contributed to crude prices above $100 per barrel.
Schlumberger SLB.N, Halliburton HAL.N, Baker Hughes BKR.Oand Weatherford International WFRD.O have been barred since 2019 from helping Venezuelan state-run PDVSA and its joint ventures produce oil. Any easing by the U.S. Treasury Department of a restricted license the four companies share with Chevron Corp CVX.N could let them expand operations.
Since the United States first imposed oil trading sanctions on Venezuela, many firms removed equipment and staff and wrote off hundreds of millions dollars of their assets there. But over a dozen rigs remain stored near the nation's largest oilfields.
A high-level meeting last month between U.S. and Venezuelan officials opened the door to a possible return of Venezuela's oil to the United States. Sanctions were first imposed in 2019 to choke oil exports and deprive Caracas of its main source of revenue in its bid to see the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The talks coincided with Washington's ban on Russian oil imports, a measure that will take full effect this week, potentially hurting U.S. refiners and contributing to rising fuel prices.
Oil companies that still have a presence in Venezuela could promptly reactivate equipment in the country, the sources said, potentially reviving crude output, which remains at 40% of pre-sanction levels.
"If PDVSA's joint ventures are seeking to obtain licenses to operate, they will need the oil services companies," Reinaldo Quintero, president of Venezuela's Petroleum Chamber told Reuters.
Several U.S.-based and local oilfield firms have approached the chamber to express their desire to resume work in Venezuela, he added, declining to provide details on the talks.
Baker Hughes said it would not comment on speculation or future activity. Schlumberger said its policies do not permit lobbying or political contributions. Halliburton declined to comment on future plans in Venezuela.
Investment firm Amos Global Energy has submitted requests to the United States to participate in Venezuela's energy sector and has an oilfield company ready to provide services if granted, founder Ali Moshiri said.
Weatherford and PDVSA did not reply to requests for comment.
LINING UP
Chevron has requested authorization from U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to take operating control of its projects with PDVSA. The oil major also has begun readying a team for returning Venezuelan crude to the United States.
But U.S officials are still debating whether to revamp the current license, set to expire in June, sources in Washington familiar with the talks said. The move would be widely seen as an easing of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector.
Prospects for a change dimmed after an outcry from Republican lawmakers and some of Biden's fellow Democrats following the Caracas talks. U.S. officials are mindful that there could be further blowback if it proceeds, the people added.
Some U.S. oilfield firms have communicated individually to the U.S. Treasury through intermediaries support for Chevron's efforts to get an expanded license and could provide services if an approval is granted, one of the Washington sources said.
The talks were not made through formal lobbying, according to two company sources.
Even though the companies' current petition is for resuming some operations using mothballed drilling units in Venezuela, they hope to later secure U.S. permits to bring in additional equipment, the person added.
The U.S. Treasury Department declined to comment.
LETHARGIC OUTPUT
Small firms hired by PDVSA since 2021 to revive oil output mainly by coil tubing techniques and well maintenance have helped stop a free-fall in production and exports.
But Venezuela's active drilling rig count remains at zero since 2020, versus 87 units in 2013, according to Baker Hughes' statistics. A portion of equipment once operated by local contractors and Russia-controlled firms is now inactive.
Only a handful of big drilling rigs are deployed in the Orinoco Belt, Venezuela's main oil region, and the ones there - including two 2,000 horsepower (HP) modular rigs and a 1,500 HP rig - are idled over unpaid bills, a source from a joint venture between PDVSA and a Russia-owned company said.
PDVSA also continues trying to reutilize two 750-HP rigs imported from China to produce key crude for refining while hiring local workover equipment and crews, two sources said.
Of the four service firms that share Chevron's license, Schlumberger has some 15 rigs stored in Venezuela, the largest inventory of mothballed equipment by a U.S. company. The others have mostly moved rigs out of the country or have liens on equipment that must be resolved before resuming work, three of the sources said.
Another U.S. company has 10 inactive workover rigs in Venezuela ready to resume work if restrictions are eased, said Amos Global's Moshiri, who declined to identify the firm.
Because U.S. sanctions prohibit any financial transactions with PDVSA, some firms have been trying for months to structure proposals that would allow them to get paid by partners or joint ventures authorized by Washington.
"We have discussed oil trading options so proceeds from sales could go to trustees through transparent payment structures," Quintero said. "Cash flow would be confined to oil projects and the state would receive royalties and taxes."
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(Reporting by Marianna Parraga and Gary McWilliams in Houston, Matt Spetalnick in Washington and Deisy Buitrago in Caracas. Additional reporting by Liz Hampton in Denver, Tibisay Romero in Valencia and Mircely Guanipa in Maracay, Venezuela; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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Upstate New York is home to some of the snowiest cities on the planet. Heavy lake effect snow often blankets Buffalo, along the shore of Lake Erie.
"We're going to have much milder winters, and much more precipitation," said Brendan Mehaffy, executive director of the Buffalo Office of Strategic Planning.
It's not a marketing slogan, but a climate change reality.
"There is no escaping climate disruption. Everyone will feel the effects and is feeling the effects now," said Ryan McPherson, chief sustainability officer at the University at Buffalo.
Fast forward a few decades from now, and the Great Lakes region will be more temperate. Like current-day Tennessee, there will still be snow, just not as much.
"The science is very clear. Temperatures are going to increase, and our climate is going to destabilize further," said McPherson.
We're already living through some of the severe threats: Sea level rise, heat waves, floods, wildfires and droughts. And they are going to intensify.
"It could accelerate pretty quickly, and I don't think as a country we are prepared for those changes that we could see," said Nicholas Rajkovich, an architecture professor at the University at Buffalo.
Some parts of the United States will be difficult to live in, sparking a large-scale climate migration and pushing people north toward the potential climate havens of Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and Duluth, Minnesota.
"In the next 25 to 50 years there will be a lot of people moving to these regions," said Rajkovich. "Places that potentially are going to lose populations are along the coasts — areas that may be impacted by hurricanes, or like in California or Colorado, places that may have a lot of wildfires."
The havens will offer some refuge, providing ample freshwater, affordable housing and green infrastructure in cities with a desire to grow.
"It's not something in the future. It's already started. We've seen growth for the first time in 70 years and it was fairly significant," said Mehaffy.
Buffalo's leaders are already making plans to build infrastructure and to ensure current residents are not priced out of the place they've always called home.
"As you have more people move to regions, you're going to increase housing prices and potentially displace people from neighborhoods," said Rajkovich.
Students at the University at Buffalo are building a concept house future climate migrants could call home. The grow home is ultra-efficient, energy self-sufficient, heavily insulated, and would allow residents to grow most of their own food.
The university and city are both committing to being ready if and when climate migrants start to flow in.
"We only have about eight to 10 years to make a key difference with mitigation. That is an incredibly short period of time," said McPherson.
It's something professors who are also parents realize will impact their children.
"For my son, he probably doesn't want to plan on relocating to Florida anytime soon," said Rajkovich.
Or possibly any time ever.
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NORTH Belfast victims campaigner Raymond McCord has called for all funding to be stopped to UVF-linked community groups.
Raymond's 22-year-old son, Raymond Jnr, was murdered by the UVF in 1997. His call comes after police said the UVF was behind a hoax bomb attack at Holy Cross Church last month, when Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney was speaking at a peace event at the nearby Houben Centre.
Last week, Raymond travelled to Dublin for a meeting with the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement at Leinster House.
Raymond is part of the Truth and Justice Movement, a cross-community group of victims and campaigners who lost loved ones during the Troubles.
Speaking to the North Belfast News, Raymond said: “I called for all funding to be stopped to UVF-linked community groups
“The Chair has asked for an audit for all funding to community groups since the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998. That is a powerful statement.
“The money is not being seen in the Unionist community. Politicians have largely remained silent on these funding issues at Stormont.
“The Committee have stated they want to come to Belfast to explore these issues.”
The group also discussed the British Government amnesty proposals, which seek to close all current avenues of legacy investigations, civil claims, inquests and criminal prosecutions.
“The Committee are behind us one hundred per cent in rejecting the proposals,” added Raymond. “When something is done on a cross-community basis, it works.
"We also met with Sinn Féin President Mary-Lou McDonald who told us there will be no amnesty. We came away feeling positive and look forward to further meetings."
Committee Cathaoirleach Deputy Fergus O’Dowd said: “The proposals published by the British Government last year for a statue of limitations i.e an amnesty – to end criminal investigations and inquests relating to Troubles related incidents represent a serious unilateral departure from the agreement between the British and Irish Government and political parties in Northern Ireland.”
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Last Seen Alive: When is the release date?
A NEW thriller starring Gerard Butler is set to hit screens sometime in 2022.
On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, the official trailer for the film, Last Seen Alive, dropped.
Last Seen Alive: When is the release date?
Last Seen Alive is set to premiere on June 3, 2022.
Originally entitled Chase, the movie follows Gerard Butler's character - Will Spann - as he searches for his wife, who vanished without a trace while the two were at a gas station.
Portrayed by Jaimie Alexander, Lisa Spann is on the way to her parents' house - amid the couple's pending divorce - when she disappears.
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Gerard Butler and his girlfriend Morgan Brown
Who is in the cast of Last Seen Alive?
Aside from Gerard Butler and Jaimie Alexander, the cast of Last Seen Alive includes:
- Dani Deetté as Sgt Andersen
- Robert Walker Branchaud as Jo Paul
- Jordan Salloum as Peter
- David Kallaway as Frank
- Alphonso A'Quen-Aten Jackson as Larry
Other cast members include Russell Hornsby and Aleks Alifrenko Jr.
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Who is Gerard Butler?
Born on November 13, 1969, Gerard Butler is a Scottish actor and producer.
A native of Paisley, Butler graduated from the University of Glasgow School of Law.
He began studying theatre while still a teenager, moving on to pursue acting professionally after being fired from his law career.
Butler has since starred in over 50 films and has appeared on various television shows.
Who is Jaimie Alexander?
Born on March 12, 1984, Jaimie Alexander is a native of South Carolina.
While growing up in Texas, Jaimie began taking theatre classes.
She moved to Los Angeles after high school to pursue a career in acting.
She is mostly known for her roles in Kyle XY and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Jaimie has also appeared in movies such as Thor (2011) and London Fields (2018).
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Caliber Public Safety is once again redefining the future of Next Generation emergency telecommunications with their latest CAD integration with RapidSOS Alerts.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Caliber Public Safety announced today they are the first CAD company in the nation to integrate RapidSOS Alerts into their Caliber CAD NG solution. Alerts is a RapidSOS feature that enables monitoring companies to communicate directly with Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs) without the need for a phone call.
Through the RapidSOS Alerts API integration with Caliber, monitoring companies can trigger an automated digital request for dispatch, creating an incident within the Caliber CAD NG solution. Critical alarm data is pre-populated in the incident upon creation, eliminating duplicate data entry and reducing processing time. Information about responding units is digitally exchanged with monitoring companies throughout the incident to ensure a common operating picture. The integrated chat functionality provides seamless communication of additional details as the incident progresses.
Caliber's latest integration with RapidSOS was deployed in January at Boone County Sheriff's Office in Indiana, sparking excitement among the E911 staff and Communications Director, Sam Sortor. Director Sortor explains that his community is quickly growing. The E911 Center is working hard to keep up with the additional workload, despite a staff shortage – a concern felt by many across the country. Sorter is enthusiastic about the integration's ability to streamline some of their call processes and provide critical information for Dispatchers to act on, right at their fingertips. Boone County Sheriff's Office has the honor of being the first ECC in the nation to utilize this game-changing functionality, but this is just the beginning. The RapidSOS Alerts integration is available to all compatible Caliber CAD NG clients.
"We partnered with RapidSOS very early on because we immediately saw the value that device-based location and additional data could provide to Emergency Communications Centers, so when they introduced the Alerts feature to us, it was a no-brainer," said Rachel Ferguson, Director of Product Management for the CAD and Mobile solutions at Caliber Public Safety. "Alarm calls can be a frustrating experience for telecommunicators, and oftentimes information may be miscommunicated or incorrectly transcribed. The seamless flow of information from RapidSOS's emergency data platform into CAD eliminates that back and forth, resulting in faster dispatch and response times and fewer errors."
Today, telecommunicators often rely on information from monitoring centers relayed verbally from phone calls delivered to a non-emergency call queue. This results in slower dispatch times and introduces the opportunity for error in relaying critical emergency information via voice communications. "With the Caliber CAD NG and RapidSOS Alerts integration, ECCs can receive critical incident information digitally and directly into the dispatch queue, providing improved efficiencies for dispatchers," said Dave Sehnert, Director of NG911 Strategy and Partnerships at RapidSOS. "Working to transform emergency response requires a partnership approach and we continuously look for industry leaders such as Caliber to collectively drive forward our mission."
ECCs interested in accessing RapidSOS Alerts through their Caliber CAD NG solution should reach out to their Caliber or RapidSOS Customer Success Manager.
About Caliber - Caliber Public Safety provides Computer-Aided Dispatch, Mobile, Records Management, and Forensic Science related solutions to 1,000+ Public Safety agencies across North America. Our customers include Federal & State Police Agencies, County Governments, Large Metropolitan and mid-small cities. We pride ourselves on providing solutions with data-sharing and interoperability at the core of our products. Approximately 40% of our team comes from Public Safety, that is why we share the same passion our customers do. We believe the best way to move our business forward is by taking care of our customers and employees – earning the right to win new business. As a business of Harris Computer Systems, our customers enjoy software for life providing assurance we will never sunset a product in use by a maintenance paying customer. We are in the business of forever.
About RapidSOS - In partnership with public safety, RapidSOS has created the world's first emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data from 400M+ connected devices to emergency services and first responders. Through the platform, RapidSOS provides intelligent data that supports over 5,200 Emergency Communications Centers worldwide, across 165 million emergencies. Together with innovative companies recognized as RapidSOS Ready, RapidSOS is supporting first responders in saving millions of lives annually.
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David Grunwald Promoted to Managing Director, SDS Supportive Housing Fund
LOS ANGELES , April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- David Grunwald has been promoted to Managing Director of SDS Capital Group's $150 million Supportive Housing Fund, announced Deborah La Franchi, Founder & CEO, SDS Capital Group (SDS). As Managing Director, Grunwald will leverage his underwriting and asset management skills overseeing both project and fund level activities for the SDS Supportive Housing Fund (SHF). SHF provides land acquisition and construction financing for projects to house people experiencing homelessness in California. SHF is a first-of-its-kind impact fund that is a new model for alleviating homelessness through the use of private capital.
Grunwald joined SDS Capital Group in November 2021 as Senior Vice President. His seasoned expertise and contributions to the activities undertaken by the Fund are expected to be substantial – given his 30 years of experience in affordable and permanent supportive housing in the Los Angeles region.
"David really hit the ground at a full sprint when he joined SDS in November. From day one, his deep experience in permanent supportive housing really accelerated our efforts and has helped make us more effective. We are thrilled to have him in a leadership role with the SDS Supportive Housing Fund," said La Franchi.
In his new role, Grunwald will be responsible for all day-to-day management and operations of SHF. He will collaborate with the SDS team to finance as many as 30 permanent supportive housing (PSH) development projects over the next six years. Grunwald's primary function will be to analyze all project opportunities and make recommendations to the SHF Investment Committee. He will also oversee the asset management activities of the Fund once investments are undertaken – monitoring the development, construction, and operations of the SHF portfolio.
"My new role as Managing Director of the SDS Supportive Housing Fund is the culmination of my entire career mission to find scalable solutions to housing the unhoused," said Grunwald. "SHF's goal to create at least 1,800 units of housing for the homeless over the next six years is an ambitious goal – I'm thrilled to be part of the team making this goal a reality. I'm thoroughly convinced that our talented SDS team will make it happen."
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