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A Columbia woman faces life in prison after she was found guilty Wednesday by a Howard County Circuit Court jury of second-degree murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of her infant child in November 2018.
Moira Akers, 41, of Columbia is scheduled to be sentenced July 29.
According to a news release from the Office of the State’s Attorney for Howard County, on Nov. 1, 2018, Howard County Police were called to Howard County General Hospital after Akers was transported there from her residence by paramedics. Akers did not disclose the birth of her newborn to Howard County Fire & EMS personnel who responded to treat her.
Through investigation, it was determined that Akers had recently given birth inside her home. Investigators responded to the house to conduct a welfare check and located a deceased newborn in a zipped plastic bag under a blanket in a closet with the door shut, according to the news release.
Akers told police that the baby had been stillborn. On Nov. 2, 2018, an autopsy was done by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and a report was issued in March 2019 classifying the death as a homicide. The report stated the infant was a healthy, full-term baby and alive at birth. The cause of death was declared as asphyxiation and exposure.
Akers was arrested in April 2019 and charged with first-degree murder. When looking at Akers’ internet search history, police said they discovered multiple searches on how to terminate a pregnancy.
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A government building was covered in orange paint as part of a protest by an environmental campaign group against energy giant Drax.
It comes just two weeks after Extinction Rebellion‘s campaigners glued themselves to the walls of the same building.
The protest is part of a series of other demonstrations against Drax Group on the day of the company’s annual general meeting.
Campaigners gathered in Liverpool, Leeds, York, Hull and outside Drax’s AGM in London to protest against the government’s support for the Drax biomass power station.
The person who doused the department building in paint said: “The criminal injustice of Drax fills me with despair and needs to stop.
“Drax power station is accelerating the climate crises, whilst being labelled as the solution, costing taxpayers in their energy bills and is in court with the HSE for their work conditions.”
A few days ago, it was reported that Drax earned £893 million in government subsidies for burning forest biomass last year.
A BEIS spokesperson told ELN: “People’s day-to-day lives should not be disrupted and any criminal activity will not be tolerated.
“Sustainable biomass is considered a renewable, low carbon energy source and forms a key part of our plan to strengthen Britain’s energy security.”
A Drax spokesperson told ELN: “Converting Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire to use sustainable biomass has transformed it into the UK’s largest producer of secure, renewable power.
“Drax does not cut down trees. Our pellets are produced from the waste material that is left behind from the construction and furniture making industries, such as sawdust from sawmills, off-cuts, tree-tops and smaller, diseased, or misshapen trees that have little commercial value and thinnings.
“If we didn’t take this material, it would mostly be sent for disposal, burned by the side of the road, or left to rot on the forest floor.” | https://www.energylivenews.com/2022/04/28/activists-cover-beis-building-with-orange-paint-in-protest-against-drax/ | 2022-04-28T12:14:03Z | https://www.energylivenews.com/2022/04/28/activists-cover-beis-building-with-orange-paint-in-protest-against-drax/ | false | 1 |
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Labelled as a ‘superfood’, quinoa is a complete protein, containing all eight of the essential amino acids Picture: Pexels
HELLO and welcome to all about food. As I type this column I am inhaling the sweet smell of wild garlic that I just gathered after a walk in the woods. I was alerted to this treasure after spotting a blanket of bluebells (wild garlic is always found beside bluebells). Lunch today will now be served with a side of homemade wild garlic focaccia and, no doubt, a large dollop of nostalgia as I bore my family with tales of foraging in the woods and hedgerows as a child. In my defence, there is no such thing as a free lunch!
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Hello Gingergirl,
Could you tell me a simple way to cook quinoa? I don’t eat fish or meat and I am told quinoa is an excellent substitute.
Many thanks,
Mary
Hello Mary,
Labelled as a ‘superfood’, quinoa is a complete protein, containing all eight of the essential amino acids. It's packed with dietary fibre, phosphorus, magnesium and iron, is gluten-free and easy to digest. Not only that; it cooks in minutes, works well with an endless array of ingredients, can be served warm or cold and, most importantly of all, it's delicious!
My favourite way to eat quinoa is with lots of roast vegetable – I tend to make this with whatever vegetables have been lurking in my veg bowl or what we have an abundance of in the allotment. My daughters love the texture of quinoa and happily use their little hands to scoff their way through bowls of this quinoa, feta and roast vegetable salad!
Quinoa & Feta Salad with Roast Vegetables
(serves 4)
200g of quinoa
3 tablespoons of olive oil
1 red onion, peeled and cut into chunky wedges
1 red and 1 yellow peppers, deseeded and cut lengthways
2 courgettes cut in half and quartered lengthways
3 garlic cloves unpeeled
the zest and juice of one lemon
a pinch of sugar
a handful of flat-leaf parsley , roughly chopped
200g pack of feta cheese
Cook the quinoa following pack instructions, then drain well and set aside. Meanwhile heat the oven to 180˚c. Toss the onion and peppers with a tablespoon of oil and salt on a roasting tray, roasting for twenty minutes. Toss the courgettes and garlic with the rest of the vegetables and roast for another fifteen minutes.
Squeeze the roasted garlic cloves out of their skins and mash with a little salt and black pepper. Stir in the remaining oil, lemon juice and zest and add the sugar to taste. Drizzle the garlicky dressing over the quinoa and toss together with the roast vegetables and parsley. Crumble over the feta, toss gently again and serve.
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KKK flyers found in Atlanta neighborhood
ATLANTA (WGCL/Gray News) - The Atlanta Police Department is voicing concerns over some KKK flyers found by residents in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood.
Police said they were reportedly discovered in the Zone 1 area along Paul Avenue NW, Spink Street NW, and Edwards Drive NW.
The department said the flyers “appear to be distributed by a group or organization who depict themselves as the ‘Glory Knights of the Klu Klux Klan.’ The flyer appears to contain insensitive messaging.”
Police said they are investigating “to determine if this act was an attempt to intimidate the community.”
The Office of the Attorney General told WGCL that as soon as they were made aware of this matter on Sunday, they immediately contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to request that it investigate.
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Here's why this York County Division I quarterback is searching for a new opportunity
Cade Pribula said the past three years have taught him he's more than just a football player.
Still, he has a strong desire to play the game. And that led to him deciding a change was necessary.
The 2019 Central York graduate and University of Delaware quarterback announced Monday afternoon that he's entered the NCAA transfer portal with three years of eligibility remaining. Players in the portal have the option to remain at their current school, but Pribula plans to seek an opportunity elsewhere.
After entering the portal Friday, Pribula said he already has scholarship offers from other Division I FCS programs but declined to disclose them until after those schools inform their current quarterbacks.
Pribula's reason for transferring is simple: Current Delaware starting quarterback Nolan Henderson has been granted a medical redshirt after missing the final seven games last season with an abdominal injury and still has another additional year of eligibility that was extended to all NCAA athletes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That could keep the fifth-year senior in Delaware's lineup for two more seasons.
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Having already spent three years at Delaware, Pribula wants to become a starter sooner than his sixth season of college football. He's also already earned his undergrad degree in finance and will be eligible to play immediately at his next school as a graduate transfer.
"I miss the feeling of leading a team," Pribula said. "It's tough when you don't play. I just want to get back on the field again."
It's possible Pribula could follow a similar path to Henderson and eventually become a seventh-year college player. He missed most of this past season with an undisclosed injury and can apply for a medical redshirt. He already redshirted his first year, which gives him two years of standard eligibility along with a third year due to COVID. A medical exception would grant him a fourth.
Even with a college degree in hand, he said he plans to use all of his eligibility as he works on his master's of business administration.
"I think I owe it to myself," he said. "Because of the tough times I went through I want to play as much as possible."
A tough decision after a tough three years
Pribula said the decision to enter the portal was a tough one due to the relationships he built at Delaware.
Still, he dealt with a long list of obstacles during his time there.
He accepted a full scholarship to the Division I FCS program in the summer before his senior season over offers from Sacred Heart and Albany. He was the only quarterback in his recruiting class ― a sign that the program considered him a key piece of its future. Delaware was coming off a 7-4 season and historically considered one of the top FCS programs in the country.
But he dealt with nagging injuries while Henderson ― who is two classes ahead of him ― established himself as the starter. Then head coach Danny Rocco was fired after a 5-6 campaign this past season. Pribula appeared in just one game with the Blue Hens.
Coaching changes at the college level usually leads to transfers since a new staff didn't recruit the current players. Henderson briefly entered the transfer portal but decided to stay after former Delaware quarterback Ryan Carty was named the Blue Hens head coach in December. Henderson is considered a dual-threat quarterback while Pribula ― who was an underrated runner in high school ― is considered more of a pocket passer.
"It was a very tough decision to leave my friends that I've made here," Pribula said. "Even watching on the sidelines I stayed optimistic. Through practice and working out I've gotten better and there is still a lot of time left for me."
Related:After a day in the limelight, Penn State commit Beau Pribula 'can't wait' for competition
A strong bond with his brother
His decision to transfer means he won't get the chance to potentially compete against his younger brother, Beau, when Delaware plays Penn State at Beaver Stadium in September 2023. Beau is entering his freshman season as a quarterback at Penn State and is battling with fellow freshman Drew Allar and sophomore Christian Veilleux behind sixth-year senior Sean Clifford on the depth chart.
Pribula said he's spoken with his brother a lot since deciding to enter the portal, but the two have focused more on Beau's experiences at Penn State this spring than Cade's future.
"I guess I can save Beau from a loss," Cade said jokingly about not getting to compete against him. "It's a shame (playing against him) won't happen but it is what it is.
"We talk about everything. Our social lives, how the Blue-White game was, but not so much about my decision."
With Beau establishing himself the past few years as the most heralded quarterback recruit in York County history, it's easy to forget just how successful Cade was during his high school days at Central York. The elder Pribula brother was undersized at just over 6-feet tall and didn't possess Beau's next-level physicality and athleticism, but he was an outstanding passer with sneaky escapability and a flair for the dramatic play.
As a senior, he threw for 2,866 yards, 31 touchdowns and just nine interceptions. He set the York County records for career touchdown passes (66) and career passing yards (6,733). Beau broke his touchdown mark (73) but couldn't eclipse his brother in yardage.
Cade said he's currently 6-foot-1 and 208 pounds after entering college weighing 195. He added he believes he's better now than when he came out of high school.
"I can throw farther and more accurate," he said. "I've reworked my motion and taken out some things that weren't as clean. I've gotten a lot of reps in practice and I think I find a way to get better every year."
Cade is interested in eventually becoming a coach at the college or NFL levels. For now, his focus is making the most of his own playing career.
"I love football and I hope to stay around the game," Pribula said. "But football is not who I am. It's just what I do."
Matt Allibone is a sports reporter for GameTimePA. He can be reached at 717-881-8221, mallibone@ydr.com or on Twitter at @bad2theallibone. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/04/26/central-york-quarterback-cade-pribula-to-transfer-from-delaware/65352088007/ | 2022-04-28T12:18:23Z | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/04/26/central-york-quarterback-cade-pribula-to-transfer-from-delaware/65352088007/ | false | 2 |
14-year-old suspect in Lily Peters killing told investigators he strangled and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors say
Prosecutors said Wednesday that the 14-year-old suspect in the death of 10-year-old Iliana "Lily" Peters told investigators he punched, strangled and sexually assaulted her, according to CBS Minnesota. Peters was found dead in Wisconsin on Monday after her family had reported her missing the day before.
Prosecutors said the boy admitted that he'd been planning to rape and kill Peters "from the get-go" on Sunday night, when he began following her down a trail after she left her aunt's home, CBS Minnesota said.
"Protection of (the) community also is necessary in this case given his statements regarding his intentions and his statements regarding that when he did get off the trail, he punched the victim in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, essentially strangled her, hit her with a stick, before strangling her to the point of death — before he then sexually assaulted her," Chippewa County District Attorney Wade Newell told the judge at the bond hearing, according to the Associated Press.
After hearing from both legal teams, Judge Ben Lane granted prosecutors' request to detain the boy on a $1 million cash bond, calling his alleged crimes "a serious threat to the community," CBS Minnesota reported. The boy's defense team had asked for a $100,000 bond, arguing that he was not a flight risk because he was too young to drive.
Newell said after the hearing the boy is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree sexual assault and first-degree sexual assault of a child under age 13 resulting in great bodily harm. The judge in the case has sealed the criminal complaint, the AP reports.
The name of the suspect, who appeared in court on video, has not been released, though prosecutors said he has lived in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, for his entire life. Investigators said he and Peters knew each other.
"The suspect was not a stranger. The suspect was known to the victim," Kelm said, according to CBS Minnesota. "We do not believe there is any danger to the community at this time."
Peters was first reported missing on Sunday night after she did not return home from her aunt's house. While searching for the girl, officers found a bicycle near a walking trail.
Her body was found in a wooded area near the walking trail on Monday morning, police said. On Tuesday, the suspect was arrested at a home on the same block as Peters' aunt's house, CBS Minnesota reported.
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Why does Elon Musk want to take Twitter private, and what does it mean for shareholders?
Billionaire Elon Musk plans to make Twitter a private company following his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform.
Twitter has been a publicly traded company since 2013, but it only has turned a profit twice -- in 2018 and 2019.
The social media platform's more than 200 million user base is much smaller than competitors like TikTok and Facebook, and it's had lackluster revenue growth in comparison to Google and Facebook, the two dominant forces in digital advertising.
However, Twitter has been a popular social media platform for politicians, such as former President Donald Trump before he was banned from the site in January 2021, celebrities, and others to get their messages out for free to their followers.
Musk has argued that in order for Twitter to be successful and serve the "social imperative" of free speech, it must be "transformed as a private company."
What does Twitter going private mean for shareholders'?
If Musk's planned deal to buy Twitter goes through, and he takes the company private, Twitter shareholders will receive $54.20 per share in cash. That's a 38% premium to Twitter's closing stock price on April 1, the last trading day before Musk publicly announced he had taken a 9% stake in the company.
That will put extra money in the pockets of most shareholders, said Matthew Faulkner, an assistant professor of finance at San Jose State University.
There’s only been a few times in history when Twitter stock jumped above $54.20 – once in 2013 after its Initial Public Offering, and in February 2021 in what Faulkner called a “COVID run-up of the market.”
In order to go private, Twitter's board will negotiate a takeover deal with Musk and then host a special election for its investors to accept or decline the purchase.
Any investor who owns voting stock in the company would be able to vote, although institutional shareholders who tend to hold larger amounts of stock would represent a consequently larger portion of the vote.
It's easier to make changes in a private company
The biggest, and most obvious, benefit of making the company private is allowing more flexibility to make big changes when a company is not under scrutiny of thousands of shareholders and public filings required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, financial experts say.
Musk, however, still would be held accountable by his financiers, but going private may allow him to add value to the company, Faulkner said.
"Acting in the best interests of the shareholders is the goal of the board and management," Faulkner said. "And that's a very important thing to think about with the decision that they made here."
When Musk announced plans to take Tesla private in 2018, he said doing so would allow the electric car company to operate "free from as much distraction and short-term thinking as possible."
Wild stock swings and the quarterly earnings cycle both distracted workers and put pressure on the company to make decisions that were right for the moment, but not in the long-term, Musk wrote.
Musk, the richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $219 billion according to Forbes Magazine, has hinted at adding an edit button to tweets, ending Twitter’s dependence on ads, and expanding freedom of speech.
“There’s fewer hurdles to jump over to make big changes, or small changes, within the company when you're not having to answer to thousands of shareholders,” Faulkner said.
Musk has said he would "endeavor to keep as many shareholders in privatized Twitter as allowed by law."
Going private means no SEC reports
Taking Twitter private also means the company would no longer need to report its financial documents or "material" developments to the SEC, the federal regulatory agency Musk has had legal troubles with in the past.
Those regularly filed reports, which can include risks to the company and any plans that could impact its financial performance, are public information that shareholders and anyone can view.
After Musk tweeted that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private, the SEC in 2018 accused him of securities fraud in a civil lawsuit that charged him with lying or being recklessly misleading in his tweets.
Tesla shares dropped massively following the SEC’s claim, and Musk eventually had to pay a fine and step down as chairman of Tesla.
Other public companies that have gone private
Other big, well-known publicly traded companies also have gone private – and then jumped back into the market.
Dell said going private in 2013 would allow the company to "be even more flexible and entrepreneurial." Its founder, Michael Dell, said taking his company private allowed it to weather the downturn in the PC industry and expand into other growing IT sectors.
"One of the beauties of being the controlling shareholder in a company is you can do whatever you want to do," Dell said.
After going private in 2013, with its stock closing at $13.73, Dell went public again in 2018 at a price of $46 per share. The company said returning to the stock market would simplify its capital and ownership structure.
Hilton was bought out by a private investor group in 2007, and went public again in 2013. During its stint as a private company, the hotel business rebuilt itself: its number of open rooms increased by 36%, and the number of room in the pipeline – to be developed but not being built yet – went up by 60%.
In Phoenix, Swift Transportation, one of the largest truck carriers in the United States, first went public in 1990. Company founder Jerry Moyes took the business private in 2007, after he had been forced out as CEO two years earlier following a SEC investigation for insider trading. Moyes admitted no wrongdoing and paid a $1.26 million settlement.
The company went public again in 2010, and it merged in 2017 to become Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) _ HarborOne Bancorp Inc. (HONE) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $12.3 million.
The Brockton, Massachusetts-based bank said it had earnings of 25 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $54.7 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $52.3 million, which topped Street forecasts.
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Highlights
- Final geological logging of the winter 2022 drill program has identified spodumene mineralization over varying intervals in each1 drill hole completed
- Wide intervals of continuous pegmatite intersected in multiple drill holes (<2 m to 135.7 m) with the main pegmatite body interpreted to be widening with depth
- Spodumene pegmatite has been logged as far down as approximately 265 m vertical depth (CV22-034), with the hole ending in spodumene pegmatite
- The logging of the winter program drill core (4,345 m over 20 holes) has informed the planning of an approximate 15,000 m summer/fall drill program starting in early June 2022, which has been increased to three (3) drill rigs, with objectives to:
- Infill drill the current approximately 1,400 m strike, which has now been tested at approximately 100 m spacing
- Drill step outs along strike at both ends and to depth, all of which the pegmatite remains open
- Explore further and drill test other spodumene pegmatite outcrops identified on the Property
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Patriot Battery Metals Inc. (the “Company” or “Patriot”) (CSE: PMET) (OTCQB: PMETF) (FSE: R9GA) is pleased to provide additional information from its recently concluded winter/spring component of the 2022 drill campaign at its wholly owned Corvette Property (the “Property”). The area of drilling focus along the CV Lithium Trend is located approximately 13.5 km south of the regional and all-weather Trans-Taiga Road and powerline infrastructure, within the James Bay Region of Quebec.
As outlined in news release dated April 21st, 2022, geological 3D modelling of the drill holes completed to date indicates that pegmatite continues across the lake from CV5 towards CV1 – a strike length of at least 1,400 m – and that the pegmatite body is widening at depth. The pegmatite body remains open to the southwest, the northeast, and at depth, with a significant portion of the overall corridor of focus – containing the CV6, CV5, CV11, CV2, CV1, CV4, and CV7 pegmatites – remaining to be drill tested (Figure 1). To date, the main pegmatite body has been traced to a vertical depth of a least 180 m (CV22-030) and additional pegmatite encountered down to a vertical depth of approximately 265 m (CV22-034). Analysis of drill core samples, collected from the 2022 holes, is pending. The Company is using SGS Canada (Lakefield, ON, and Burnaby, BC facilities) as their primary analytical lab.
A summary of drill holes completed to date in 2022, along with logged pegmatite intercepts greater than two (2) metres, are presented in Table 1. Drill hole locations and cross-sections, based on drill and surface data collected to date, are presented in Figures 1 and 2, respectively.
The final drill hole of the program, CV22-034, was paused in spodumene pegmatite (field identified) – and the drill put on temporary standby – to respect a regional pause in exploration activities as requested by the local communities to accommodate the goose hunting season. The exploration activities at Corvette will resume in early June, where drill hole CV22-034 will be continued.
Detailed planning is underway for the remaining approximately 15,000 m campaign to be completed over the summer/fall period. This drilling will focus on continued land-based infill and step-out holes around CV5-6 and CV1-2, as well as testing new regional targets (see news release dated March 8th, 2022). The Company has secured a third drill rig at Corvette for June/July, which will enable increased production during the summer/fall program. The third rig will also allow for a continued two rig focus at the CV5-CV1 drill corridor as well as provide a drill rig for consistent focus on regional spodumene pegmatite targets.
The aggressive 2022 drill campaign is being completed as a direct follow-up to the strong lithium-tantalum mineralization encountered in the first four (4) drill holes to test the CV5-6 pegmatite this past fall. Drill intercept highlights include 155.1 m at 0.94% Li2O and 117 ppm Ta2O5 (CF21-002), and 58.1 m at 1.25% Li2O and 194 ppm Ta2O5 (CF21-003) (see news releases dated January 27th and February 3rd, 2022).
The winter/spring phase of the 2022 drill campaign began in late February with two diamond drill rigs, which remain on site in preparation for the summer/fall phase of the drilling expected to commence in early June. A total of twenty (20) NQ size diamond drill holes (4,345 m) were completed during the winter/spring phase and included seventeen (17) holes collared over ice, and three (3) holes collared over land. The primary objective of the winter/spring drill program was to test for mineralized pegmatite along strike from surface outcrops, potentially connecting the CV5-6 pegmatites with the CV1-2 pegmatites, as well as testing the mineralization at depth. Geological modelling, based on drilling to date, indicates the target pegmatite has a strike length of at least 1,400 m and is widening at depth. All 2022 drill core analysis is pending, although spodumene has been field identified all1 2022 drill holes completed to date.
The Company notes that it has developed a COVID Management Plan for the program and will carry out its field programs while adhering to all federal, provincial, and regional restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mineral exploration has been recognized as an essential service in Canada and the Province of Quebec.
Table 1: Pegmatite intercepts (> 2 m) logged in 2022 drill holes at the Corvette Property
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Figure 1: 2022 drill hole collar locations
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Figures 2A-2G: Series of cross-section interpretations based on drilling to date targeting the CV5 to CV1 pegmatite corridor. Blue colour is pegmatite. Core sample assay results are pending for all 2022 pegmatite intervals
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About the CV Lithium Trend
The CV Lithium Trend is an emerging spodumene pegmatite district discovered by the Company in 2017 and spans the FCI West, FCI East, and Corvette claim blocks. The core area includes an approximate 2 km long corridor, which is part of the more than 25-km long and Property-wide CV Lithium Trend. It consists of numerous spodumene pegmatite occurrences, which include the CV1, CV2, CV3, CV5, CV6, and CV7 pegmatites, highlighted by the CV5 Pegmatite – a large (~220 m long and 20-40 m wide), well-mineralized outcrop with drill intercepts of 155.1 m at 0.94% Li2O and 117 ppm Ta2O5 (CF21-002), and 58.1 m at 1.25% Li2O and 194 ppm Ta2O5 (CF21-003). Drilling indicates a pegmatite body approximating 60 m in true width (at CF21-001 and 003), and therefore considerably larger than that observed in outcrop. The high number of well-mineralized pegmatites in this core area of the trend indicate a strong potential for a series of relatively closely spaced/stacked, sub-parallel, and sizable spodumene-bearing pegmatite bodies, with significant lateral and depth extent, to be present.
Qualified Person
Darren L. Smith, M.Sc., P. Geo., Vice President of Exploration of the Company, a registered permit holder with the Ordre des Géologues du Québec and Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed the technical information in this news release.
- No pegmatite or spodumene mineralization was logged in drill hole CV22-032. This hole was lost at depth due to drilling conditions, prior to reaching its target.
About Patriot Battery Metals Inc.
Patriot Battery Metals Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of mineral properties containing battery, base, and precious metals.
The Company’s flagship asset is the Corvette Property, which includes the wholly owned Corvette, FCI East, FCI West, Deca-Goose, Felix, and Corvette East claim blocks, located in the James Bay Region of Québec. The land package hosts significant lithium potential highlighted by the CV5-6 spodumene pegmatite with drill intercepts of 0.94% Li2O and 117 ppm Ta2O5 over 155.1 m (CF21-002), and 1.25% Li2O and 194 ppm Ta2O5 over 58.1 m at (CF21-003). Additionally, the Property hosts the Golden Gap Trend with grab samples of 3.1 to 108.9 g/t Au from outcrop and 10.5 g/t Au over 7 m in drill hole, and the Maven Trend with 8.15% Cu, 1.33 g/t Au, and 171 g/t Ag in outcrop.
The Company also holds 100% ownership of the Freeman Creek Gold Property in Idaho, USA which hosts two prospective gold prospects - the Gold Dyke Prospect with a 2020 drill hole intersection of 4.11 g/t Au and 33.0 g/t Ag over 12 m, and the Carmen Creek Prospect with surface sample results including 25.5 g/t Au, 159 g/t Ag, and 9.75% Cu.
The Company’s other assets include the Pontax Lithium-Gold Property, QC; and the Hidden Lake Lithium Property, NWT, where the Company maintains a 40% interest, as well as several other assets in Canada.
For further information, please contact us at info@patriotbatterymetals.com Tel: +1 (778) 945-2950 , or visit www.patriotbatterymetals.com.
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Statements included in this announcement, including statements concerning our plans, intentions, and expectations, which are not historical in nature are intended to be, and are hereby identified as, “forward-looking statements”. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words including “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”, “estimates”, “expects” and similar expressions. The Company cautions readers that forward-looking statements, including without limitation those relating to the Company’s future operations and business prospects, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements.
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A pop-up shop in Lichfield will be raising money for a local charity helping victims of domestic abuse.
It will open in Tudor Row between 10am and 4pm tomorrow (29th April) in aid of Pathway Project.
A spokesperson said:
“We’ll be selling all sorts, from clothing to toys – come and bag a bargain and support a local domestic abuse organisation in the process.”
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Right adjustment of DW / No right adjustment of DW Subject : Adjustment Symbol : BAM01C2208X The Full name : DERIVATIVE CALL WARRANTS ON BANGKOK COMMERCIAL ASSET MANAGEMENT PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED ISSUED BY BUALUANG SECURITIES PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED LAST TRADING IN AUGUST 2022 # X Before Exercise Price (THB/share) : 29.50 After Exercise Price (THB/share) : 28.689 Before Adjustment Exercise Ratio (DW : : 2.92571 : 1 share) After Adjustment Exercise Ratio (DW : : 2.84519 : 1 share) After Adjustment Exercise Ratio : 0.35147 (Calculate) The reason for adjustment : To ensure that the benefits of the Derivative Warrant holders are not less than the existing status according to formula which is specified in the Term and Condition of Derivative Warrant issuers and Derivative Warrant holders. The reasons for adjustment of this event are as follows: - dividend payment Effective Date : 29-Apr-2022 Authorized Persons to Disclose : Mr. Bannarong Pichyakorn Information Position : Senior Managing Director of Sales & Trading Business ______________________________________________________________________ This announcement was prepared and disseminated by listed company or issuer through the electronic system which is provided for the purpose of dissemination of the information and related documents of listed company or issuer to the Stock Exchange of Thailand only. The Stock Exchange of Thailand has no responsibility for the correctness and completeness of any statements, figures, reports or opinions contained in this announcement, and has no liability for any losses and damages in any cases. In case you have any inquiries or clarification regarding this announcement, please directly contact listed company or issuer who made this announcement.
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EUNISELL INTERLINKED PLC
UNAUDITED ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED
31ST MARCH 2022
UNAUDITED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR 3RD QUARTER ENDED 31ST MARCH 2022
(Figures in ₦'000)
3 MONTHS
9 MONTHS
JAN'22-MAR'22
JAN'21-MAR'21
JUL'21-MAR'22
JUL'20-MAR'21
%
₦'000
REVENUE
30,116
57,118
173,845
99,703
74%
COST OF SALES
(13,915)
(37,686)
(86,324)
(47,098)
83%
GROSS PROFIT
16,201
19,432
87,521
52,605
66%
OPERATING EXPENSES
(18,428)
(11,585)
(52,367)
(34,596)
-35%
OTHER INCOME
-
PROFIT/(LOSS)FROM OPERATIONS
(2,227)
7,847
35,154
18,009
218%
FINANCE COST
(5,496)
(14,177)
(28,956)
(25,915)
199%
PROFIT BEFORE TAX
(7,723)
(6,330)
6,198
(7,906)
TAXATION
PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD
(7,721)
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
GAINS/LOSS ON PROPERTY REVALUATION
EXCHANGE DIFF. FROM TRANSLATION OF FOREIGN ENTITY'S F/S
GAINS/LOSS FROM VALUATION OF EQUITY INVESTMENT INSTRUMENT
MEASURED AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Total Comprehensive Income for the Year
UNAUDITED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 31ST MARCH 2022
(Figures in N'000)
NOTES
9 MONTHS 31 MAR'2022
Audited 30 JUN 2021
Assets: Non-Current Assets: Property, Plant and equipment
1
20,529
15,717
Current Assets: Inventories
Trade Receivables/Prepayment Cash and Cash Equivalents
Total Assets
Equity and Liabilities
Equity
Share capital Retained earnings
Other Components of Equity Total Equity
219,413 301,688
2
362,596 328,505
2,500 5,340
584,509 635,533
605,038 651,251
3
118,350 (162,719) 232,440 188,071
118,350 (168,919) 232,440 181,870
Non-Current Liabilities Deferred Tax
Current Liabilities
Trade and other Payables Current income tax liabilities Short-term Borrowings
Total Equity and Liabilities
(1,509)
(852)
4
118,879 182,763
3,974 3,974
295,623 283,494
418,476 470,231
605,038 651,250
Fabian C. Nnadozie Chairman FRC2017/NSE/00000017392
Approved by the Board 26th April 2022
Chris Okoro MD/CEO FRC/2019/002/0000074
Temitope Olusoji
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) FRC/2020/004/00000022179
STATEMENT OF CHANGE IN EQUITY
Share
Retained
Capital
Premium
Earnings
Balance as at 1st Jan 2022
118,350
229,351
(154,998)
Profit for the period
Balance as at 31st Mar 2022
(162,719)
3,089
Balance as at 1st Jan 2021
(185,013)
Balance as at 31st Mar 2021
(191,343)
Other
Total
Reserves
195,792
188,071
165,777
-6,330
159,447
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
31ST MARCH, 2022
Cash from operating activities
Profit before income tax
Adjustments:
Interest income
Interest expense
Profit from asset disposal
Depreciation
Changes in working capital:
Cash generated from operations
Interest income received
Interest expense paid
Income tax paid
VAT paid
Net cash from/ (used in) operating activities
Cash from investing activities
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and
Net cash from/ (used in) investing activities
Cash from financing activities
Net proceeds / (repayment) on long term
Net proceeds / (repayment) on short term
Restricted cash
Net cash from/ (used in) financing activities
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the year
Cash and cash equivalents at end of the year
Represented By:
Cash and cash equivalents
- - -
inventories trade and other receivables trade and other payables
Unaudited
Audited
31 MAR'2022
30 JUN 2021
Notes
16,598
28,956
38,654
2,452
2,686
82,275
(93,180)
(34,091)
(75,048)
(63,884)
(6,173)
21,906
(116,463)
(38,654)
(1,539)
(6,312)
(8,589)
(161,429)
(6,141)
10,021
12,129
175,979
(2,601)
4,528
5,340
812
2,740
2,500
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-- Company to Conduct Conference Call at 2 p.m. Pacific Time --
CORONA, Calif., April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ: MNST) announced today that results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022 will be reported on Thursday, May 5, 2022, after the close of the market. The company also said that Co-Chief Executive Officers, Rodney Sacks and Hilton Schlosberg, will host an investor conference call that same day at 2 p.m. Pacific Time to review the company’s financial results and operations.
The call will be open to all interested investors through a live audio webcast via the Internet at www.monsterbevcorp.com. For those who are not able to listen to the live broadcast, the call will be archived for approximately one year on the website.
Monster Beverage Corporation
Based in Corona, California, Monster Beverage Corporation is a holding company and conducts no operating business except through its consolidated subsidiaries. The Company’s subsidiaries develop and market energy drinks, including Monster Energy® energy drinks, Monster Energy Ultra® energy drinks, Juice Monster® Energy + Juice energy drinks, Java Monster® non-carbonated coffee + energy drinks, Espresso Monster® non-carbonated espresso + energy drinks, Rehab® Monster® non-carbonated energy drinks, Monster Hydro® Energy Water™ non-carbonated refreshment + energy drinks, Monster Hydro Super Sport® Superior Hydration non-carbonated refreshment + energy drinks, Monster HydroSport Super Fuel® non-carbonated advanced hydration + energy drinks, Monster Dragon Iced Tea® non-carbonated energy teas, Muscle Monster® non-carbonated energy shakes, Monster Energy® Nitro energy drinks, Reign Total Body Fuel® high performance energy drinks, Reign Inferno® thermogenic fuel high performance energy drinks, True North® Pure Energy Seltzer energy drinks, NOS® energy drinks, Full Throttle® energy drinks, Burn® energy drinks, Samurai® energy drinks, Relentless® energy drinks, Mother® energy drinks, Play® and Power Play® (stylized) energy drinks, BU® energy drinks, Nalu® energy drinks, BPM® energy drinks, Gladiator® energy drinks, Ultra Energy® energy drinks, Live+® energy drinks, Predator® energy drinks and Fury® energy drinks. The Company acquired CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective LLC in February 2022 and added a number of craft beers and alcoholic seltzers to its product portfolio. For more information, visit www.monsterbevcorp.com. | https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/04/28/2431375/10193/en/Monster-Beverage-to-Report-Financial-Results-for-2022-First-Quarter-on-May-5-2022.html | 2022-04-28T12:28:14Z | https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/04/28/2431375/10193/en/Monster-Beverage-to-Report-Financial-Results-for-2022-First-Quarter-on-May-5-2022.html | true | 5 |
MOSCOW (AP) — Turkey had warned Russia in advance before moving to bar Russian planes from flying to Syria over its territory, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
The ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said that Turkey had asked Russia more than a month ago not to send Syria-bound planes over its territory.
She added that “the reasons for that were clear to us and the Russian side isn't using that route.”
Zakharova made the comments at a briefing when asked about the Turkey's announcement over the weekend that it had halted Russian flights to Turkey over its territory from the start of this month.
Her remarks follow a statement by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said over the weekend that he asked Moscow to stop using the airspace during a visit there in March, and that Moscow agreed to the Turkish request.
Russia and Turkey have backed the opposite sides in Syria's civil war, with Moscow joining efforts with Tehran to shore up President Bashar Assad's government, and Turkey backing the opposition.
Despite the sharp differences, Moscow and Ankara worked together to negotiate a series of cease-fires in northern Syria.
Russia has used a shortcut through Turkish airspace to send warplanes to its base in Syria where they have been deployed since 2015 and fly cargo planes with supplies for troops stationed there.
The Turkish ban would now force Russian planes to take a longer route via Iran and Iraq, forcing them to take more fuel and reduce the payload. The Russian planes already used that path during a period of high tensions with Turkey sparked by the 2015 downing of a Russian warplane by Turkish fighter jets on the border with Syria.
Tensions later abated after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a series of talks to negotiate compromises on Syria and other issues.
It wasn't clear if the latest Turkish ban on Russian flights to Syria was aimed to hinder the possible transfer of Syrian fighters to Ukraine. Russian officials have said that some Syrians have volunteered to join the Russian troops in Ukraine.
Some observers said that the Turkish move reflected the weakening of Russia's positions as its troops have been bogged down in military action in Ukraine.
NATO-member Turkey has been trying to balance its close relations with Moscow and Kyiv and has positioned itself as a mediator between the two, hosting a round of talks last month between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators. It hasn't joined international sanctions against Russia, but has closed the straits at the entrance of the Black Sea to some Russian warships. | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Russia-says-Turkey-warned-in-advance-about-Syria-17133105.php | 2022-04-28T12:28:18Z | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Russia-says-Turkey-warned-in-advance-about-Syria-17133105.php | false | 30 |
FRANKFURT, Germany, April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Exela Technologies, Inc. (“Exela”) (NASDAQ: XELA) has signed a multi-year license deal with Finanz Informatik (“FI”), the IT service provider of the Savings Banks Finance Group, a financial institution with approximately $3.5 trillion in assets, 300,000 employees and 67 million customers. Since 2006, Exela has been helping FI on its digital journey primarily with their Core Banking System, OS Plus.
The latest project will enable a standard, comprehensive end to end solution replacing many of the local solutions developed over the years. Exela will introduce Digital Mailroom and the AI-based distribution and process control will be carried out by Plexus CaseVision. The project is valued at a TCV of several million USD over the next few years.
“FI is one of the most important leaders in IT banking infrastructure and its commitment to implement Exela’s holistic solution embracing AI is a testament to our technology and service capability. We are proud that FI chose to partner with us,” said Vitalie Robu, President of Exela, EMEA.
About FI
Finanz Informatik Technologie Service is an innovative IT Partner for the financial sector and supports both public and private banks, insurance companies and finance service providers with standardized outsourcing services. The company has had a firmly entrenched position in the banking sector market for many years and also provides an attractive IT-Offer for the insurance sector.
About Exela Technologies
Exela Technologies is a business process automation (BPA) leader, leveraging a global footprint and proprietary technology to provide digital transformation solutions enhancing quality, productivity, and end-user experience. With decades of experience operating mission-critical processes, Exela serves a growing roster of more than 4,000 customers throughout 50 countries, including over 60% of the Fortune® 100. Utilizing foundational technologies spanning information management, workflow automation, and integrated communications, Exela’s software and services include multi-industry, departmental solution suites addressing finance and accounting, human capital management, and legal management, as well as industry-specific solutions for banking, healthcare, insurance, and the public sector. Through cloud-enabled platforms, built on a configurable stack of automation modules, and over 17,000 employees operating in 23 countries, Exela rapidly deploys integrated technology and operations as an end-to-end digital journey partner.
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BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) _ HarborOne Bancorp Inc. (HONE) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $12.3 million.
The Brockton, Massachusetts-based bank said it had earnings of 25 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $54.7 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $52.3 million, which topped Street forecasts.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — If you’ve been on social media this week, you may have seen a video that claims to show the moon crossing the sky and blocking the sun over the North Pole. The video, which has been viewed millions of times already, is not real.
The video was posted to Twitter early Tuesday morning and looks like it could be a scene from a Marvel or “Star Wars” movie. It shows what looks like the moon — extremely close to Earth — “rise,” then quickly move across the sky to block out the sun. The person who posted the video claimed it was a “breathtaking view” from the North Pole.
That “breathtaking view,” however stunning it may look, is fake. Here’s how you can tell it’s not real:
Size
“While the heavily-altered video makes the moon look amazing and huge, it’s not possible for the moon to appear that large here on Earth,” WFLA Meteorologist Rebecca Barry said. “The moon’s orbit isn’t a perfect circle, and there are wobbles within the orbit, but we can calculate the moment the moon is closest, and appears the largest, to Earth each year – it is called perigee. At perigee, the moon is still over 200,000 miles from Earth. A Super Moon only appears about 7% larger than a normal full moon, so the much larger appearance of the moon in this fake video just isn’t physically possible.”
Speed
Another clue that proves the video is fake is the speed in which the moon appears to be rotating in the video.
“You can see the moon rotating – quickly – while it makes its fast journey across the sky. The moon rotates much more slowly, imperceptibly to our observation over the course of an entire evening,” Barry explained. “In fact, it takes the moon 23.7 days to make a rotation on its axis.”
The “eclipse”
The video claims to show the moon completely blocking the sun in the sky for five seconds before disappearing. That visual – showing the moon almost glowing in the sky – is another clue that the video is manipulated.
“I watched the last solar eclipse – when the moon moved in front of the sun. You couldn’t see the moon at all in the sky while it approached the sun, “Barry said. “The only way we see the moon is when the sun’s light reflects off of the surface and back to us. At that angle, it is impossible for the moon to be illuminated.”
Location
The tweet posted Tuesday claims the video was taken from the North Pole, which is another red flag.
“The fake terrain shows a dry grass field, not the snow and ice we know covers the North Pole,” Barry said.
So where did the video come from?
It’s not the first time this video has made the rounds online. It was posted in May 2021 and again in October 2021. Previous tweets claim the video was taken in the North Pole, like Tuesday’s tweet, or between Russia and Canada.
It’s not clear exactly where the video came from, but some Twitter users traced it back to a TikTok account that posts videos featuring CGI. | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/space/viral-video-of-moon-rising-over-the-north-pole-is-fake-heres-how-to-tell/ | 2022-04-28T12:30:38Z | https://www.rochesterfirst.com/space/viral-video-of-moon-rising-over-the-north-pole-is-fake-heres-how-to-tell/ | true | 30 |
A drug addict whose seven-year-old son died alone from a needless asthma attack after she used his inhalers to smoke crack cocaine has been jailed for 20 years.
Laura Heath admitted child cruelty and was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter last week after jurors heard how Hakeem Hussain was found dead in a garden in Nechells, Birmingham.
A trial at Coventry Crown Court was told a school nurse had warned at a child protection conference that Hakeem “could die at the weekend” just two days before his death in the early hours of Sunday November 26, 2017.
Hakeem, who had been admitted to hospital due to asthma three times in the previous two years, is believed to have gone outside on his own as Heath deliberately “prioritised” her addiction to heroin and crack cocaine, leaving him without an inhaler.
Heath, formerly of Long Acre, Nechells, was staying over at a friend’s flat when Hakeem was found dead at 7.37am.
She later told police she had smoked three bags of heroin – two before Hakeem went to bed at 10.30pm and one afterwards, leaving her in a drug-induced sleep.
Toxicology evidence put before the court proved Hakeem had inhaled tobacco smoke in the hours before his death, having also been exposed to heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis through second-hand smoke.
Passing sentence on Thursday, Mr Justice Dove told 40-year-old Heath that Hakeem’s death was the result of her “catastrophic and deplorable” parenting.
Heath’s life had “entered a drug-fuelled downward spiral into squalor, chaos and tragedy”, he said.
Ruling that Heath should serve two-thirds of her sentence before being eligible for parole, the judge told her: “When Hakeem Hussain died in the early hours of the morning he was only seven years old.
“It is clear that in his tragically short life he had been an inspiration of happiness and affection for people who knew him.
“All of that potential for a wonderful and fulfilling life was cut short, extinguished as he collapsed on his own suffocating, clutching a leaf in the garden.
“The truth is that Hakeem died as a result of your deplorable negligence. You had allowed your life to be completely overtaken by your addiction to heroin and cocaine. His death was needless, tragic and a result of your abject failure as his mother.”
Before sentencing, defence QC Isabella Forshall said Heath’s level of drug addiction amounted to a recognised mental condition.
Heath had formed her habit in her teenage years, was receiving treatment by 2002 and was a diagnosed and registered heroin addict at the time of Hakeem’s death.
Heath admitted four counts of child cruelty prior to the trial, including failing to provide proper medical supervision and exposing Hakeem to class A drugs.
At the start of the trial, Crown counsel Matthew Brook said Hakeem had been repeatedly absent from school and had experienced three emergency admissions to hospital in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
After one of the admissions, the court heard, a paediatrician recorded that Hakeem had been in an “acute life-threatening” state linked to asthma.
Mr Brook told the court: “The defendant had a duty to ensure the welfare of her son.
“She knew that he was suffering from severe uncontrolled asthma. There was an obvious risk that Hakeem might die from such an attack if she did not manage his asthma in accordance with the medical advice she received.
“Instead, the defendant deliberately prioritised her addiction to heroin and crack cocaine and flouted the medical advice that she received that would have kept her son’s asthma under control.”
Mr Brook added: “Hakeem died as a result. He died alone in the early hours of the morning, sometime between midnight and about 6am.
“At some stage that night, Hakeem got out of bed and went outside, which he would do when his asthma was bad and he needed fresh air.
“Usually when he had difficulty breathing, he would wake his mother – indeed he had done so the previous night – and ask her to give him his inhaler.
“The evidence shows that on this occasion his mother had not come to his aid, and sadly his lifeless body was found in the garden outside the flat.
“Hakeem was clutching a leaf in his hand. There was no sign of his asthma medication being with him.”
Source Link Heroin addict jailed for 20 years over death of son, seven, from asthma attack | https://neptunepine.com/heroin-addict-jailed-for-20-years-over-death-of-son-seven-from-asthma-attack/ | 2022-04-28T12:32:44Z | https://neptunepine.com/heroin-addict-jailed-for-20-years-over-death-of-son-seven-from-asthma-attack/ | false | 7 |
On a night better suited for helmets and shoulder pads than balls and bats, Lampeter-Strasburg and Conestoga Valley tested the dimensions of Garrett Park and found them generous.
The two teams combined for seven home runs as the Pioneers (10-2 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section Two, 10-3 overall) outslugged CV 13-5 in softball action on Senior Night in Willow Street.
Becca Hartranft, Rhiannon Henry and Laken Smith circled the bases for the Buckskins on deep shots to the fences, nearly 300 feet away. Ally Raub, Keiva Middleton and Brooke Zuber (twice) homered for L-S.
Zuber’s three-run homer in the first inning got the ball rolling for the Pioneers. She added a bases-loaded walk in the second inning and a solo homer in the third to finish the night 2-for-2 with a pair of walks, three runs scored and five RBIs.
“It was hard, it was cold,” she said of playing in conditions more akin to mid-November, 44 degrees with a wind howling out of the northwest.
“You’re trying to run around the bases and you’re stiff.”
The wind also had an effect on the pitches thrown by Middleton and Henry. Especially Henry, who was undone by a second inning where she walked four in a row, two with the bases loaded. L-S scored four times without a hit to take an 8-1 lead. Henry finished the night with six walks and nine strikeouts.
Middleton didn’t walk a batter and struck out 13, but when the Bucks made contact, they made contact.
A far cry from the last time these teams met when the Pioneers prevailed 1-0 on Middleton’s one-hit shutout. And game-winning home run. CV (4-8, 6-8) finished with 10 hits, three by Smith, who drove in a pair, and homered back-to-back with Hartranft and Henry in the third inning, pulling the Buckskins to within five at 8-3.
L-S answered with Middleton and Zuber going back-to-back in the bottom of the inning, Middleton’s a two-run blow, and the outcome was academic, but just a matter of whether the mercy rule would come into play.
The win is the eighth in a row for the Pioneers, who appear to be coming together as a team. “We’re a much different team than we were against Warwick,” said Zuber, calling back to a loss that left L-S at 2-3. “We’re really coming together nicely, at the right time of the season. We’re feeling good about where we’re going.” | https://lancasteronline.com/sports/highschool/softball/l-l-softball-lampeter-strasburg-hits-4-homers-beats-conestoga-valley-in-section-2-contest/article_2dcbf05e-c6df-11ec-a751-770439f6a8e3.html | 2022-04-28T12:35:14Z | https://lancasteronline.com/sports/highschool/softball/l-l-softball-lampeter-strasburg-hits-4-homers-beats-conestoga-valley-in-section-2-contest/article_2dcbf05e-c6df-11ec-a751-770439f6a8e3.html | true | 2 |
(AP) — Moderna is asking U.S. regulators to open its COVID-19 vaccine to the nation’s youngest children.
Kids under 5 are the only group in the U.S. not yet eligible for vaccination, and frustrated parents are waiting impatiently for a chance to protect them. Moderna hopes the Food and Drug Administration will rule in time for tots to start getting vaccinated by summer. It’s a complex decision partly because while other countries give Moderna shots to older children, the U.S. so far has restricted them to adults. Rival Pfizer also is studying its vaccine in the littlest kids.
Moderna on Thursday asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of tots by summer.
Frustrated families are waiting impatiently for a chance to protect the nation’s littlest kids as all around them people shed masks and other public health precautions — even though highly contagious coronavirus mutants continue to spread.
Moderna submitted data to the Food and Drug Administration that it hopes will prove two low-dose shots can protect babies, toddlers and preschoolers — albeit not as effectively during the omicron surge as earlier in the pandemic.
“There is an important unmet medical need here with these youngest kids,” Dr. Paul Burton, Moderna’s chief medical officer, told The Associated Press. Two kid-size shots “will safely protect them. I think it is likely that over time they will need additional doses. But we’re working on that.”
Now, only children ages 5 or older can be vaccinated in the U.S., using rival Pfizer’s vaccine, leaving 18 million younger tots unprotected.
Moderna’s vaccine isn’t the only one in the race. Pfizer is soon expected to announce if three of its even smaller-dose shots work for the littlest kids, months after the disappointing discovery that two doses weren’t quite strong enough.
Whether it’s one company’s shots or both, FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks said the agency will “move quickly without sacrificing our standards” in deciding if tot-sized doses are safe and effective.
While questions are swirling about what’s taking so long, Marks pointedly told lawmakers this week that the FDA can’t evaluate a product until a manufacturer completes its application. FDA will publicly debate the evidence with its scientific advisers before making a decision, and Marks said multiple meetings would be set to cover several expected applications.
“It’s critically important that we have the proper evaluation so that parents will have trust in any vaccines that we authorize,” Marks told a Senate committee.
If FDA clears vaccinations for the littlest, next the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to recommend who needs them — all tots or just those at higher risk from COVID-19.
Many parents are desperate for whichever vaccine gets to the scientific finish line first.
“We’ve been kind of left behind as everybody else moves on,” said Meagan Dunphy-Daly, a Duke University marine biologist whose 6-year-old daughter is vaccinated — but whose 3-year-old and 18-month-old sons are part of Pfizer’s trial.
The family continues to mask and take other precautions until it’s clear if the boys got real vaccine or dummy shots. If it turns out they weren’t protected in the Pfizer study and Moderna’s shots are cleared first, Dunphy-Daly said she’d seek them for her sons.
“I will feel such a sense of relief when I know my boys are vaccinated and that the risk of them getting a serious infection is so low,” she said.
Some parents even have urged the government to let families choose shots before all the evidence is in.
“This strain of COVID feels almost impossible to dodge,” Dana Walker, a mother of an 8-month-old, tearfully told a CDC meeting last week. “Cut red tape and allow parents to protect their kids.”
The FDA will face some complex questions.
In a study of kids ages 6 months through 5 years, two Moderna shots — each a quarter of the regular dose — triggered high levels of virus-fighting antibodies, the same amount proven to protect young adults, Burton said. There were no serious side effects, and the shots triggered fewer fevers than other routine vaccinations.
But the vaccine proved between about 40% and 50% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 during the trial. Burton blamed the omicron variant’s ability to partially evade vaccine immunity, noting that unboosted adults showed similarly less effectiveness against milder omicron infections. While no children became severely ill during the study, he said high antibody levels are a proxy for protection against more serious illness — and the company will test a child booster dose.
Another issue: So far in the U.S., Moderna’s vaccine is restricted to adults. Other countries have expanded the shot to kids as young as 6. But months ago the FDA cited concern about a rare side effect, heart inflammation, in teen boys, and it hasn’t ruled on Moderna’s earlier pediatric applications.
Burton said the FDA may consider its vaccine for children of all ages — but also might open it first to the youngest kids who have no other option. He said safety data from millions of older children given Moderna vaccinations abroad should help reassure parents.
While COVID-19 generally isn’t as dangerous in youngsters as adults, some do become severely ill or even die. About 475 children younger than 5 have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic’s start, according to the CDC, and child hospitalizations soared at omicron’s peak.
Yet it’s not clear how many parents intend to vaccinate the youngest kids. Less than a third of children ages 5 to 11 have had two vaccinations, and 58% of those ages 12 to 17. | https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/coronavirus/moderna-seeks-to-be-1st-with-covid-shots-for-littlest-kids/ | 2022-04-28T12:36:13Z | https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/coronavirus/moderna-seeks-to-be-1st-with-covid-shots-for-littlest-kids/ | false | 54 |
Higher U.S. menu prices and easing COVID-19 restrictions elsewhere helped McDonald’s offset troubled markets like China and Russia in the first quarter.
Revenue rose 11% to $5.66 billion in the January-March period, topping Wall Street expectations of $5.57 billion, according to analysts polled by FactSet.
The Chicago burger giant announced in early March that it would temporarily close 850 stores in Russia. It continues to pay its 62,000 employees in the country. It also closed 108 restaurants in Ukraine in February and is paying its employees there as well.
McDonald's has said it expects to lose $50 million per month in sales from the Russian store closures alone.
McDonald’s spent $27 million on salaries, leases and supplier payments in Russia and Ukraine during the quarter. The company also said it has $100 million worth of inventory it will probably dispose of since its restaurants are closed.
Excluding costs in Russia and Ukraine and other one-time items, McDonald's earned $2.28 per share for the quarter, well ahead of analyst forecasts of $2.17 per share.
Global same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, rose nearly 12% for the quarter. The easing of COVID restrictions in many markets, including the United Kingdom, France and Brazil, boosted sales, McDonald’s said.
In the U.S., same-store sales rose 3.5%. China reported negative same-stores sales as it struggled with a COVID resurgence and new restrictions.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda.(Shell Brasil), a subsidiary of Shell plc, signed the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) to formally acquire a 25 percent stake of the Atapu field. Shell paid $ 1.1 billion to Petrobras for the increased stake in the field. With the contract now signed, Shell will start receiving its additional share of oil from the field.
"This transaction is the latest proof point of our commitment to further strengthening our advantaged deep-water positions in Brazil," said Zoe Yujnovich, Shell Upstream Director. "With a leading global deep-water portfolio, this stake in the Atapu field directly supports our Powering Progress strategy to deliver the stable, secure energy resources the world needs today while investing in the energy of the future."
Shell's Powering Progress strategy includes increasing investment in lower carbon energy solutions, while continuing to pursue the most resilient, competitive, and highest return Upstream investments to sustain material cash delivery into the 2030s, to support our dividend and fund Shell's transformation. Our global deep-water portfolio represents two core positions in our Upstream business with prolific basins in the US and Brazil, along with an exciting frontier exploration portfolio in Mexico, Suriname, Argentina, and West Africa.
- Shell Brasil Petroleo is a subsidiary of Shell plc.
- In December 2021 in the Transfer of Rights auction, Shell along with partners Petrobras (52.5%, operator) and TotalEnergies (22.5%) acquired the rights to volumes from the Atapu field.
- Atapu is a pre-salt oil field in the Santos Basin located in waters depths of about 2,000 meters. Production started in 2020 through the P-70 Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO) which has the capacity to produce 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day.
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Freed US Marine veteran Trevor Reed is now “back in the USA,” his mom said early Thursday — as a dramatic new video showed the Hollywood-like moment when he was swapped for a Russian drug trafficker in a prisoner exchange.
“It’s been [a] very exciting day for The Reed family,” the 30-year-old Texan’s mom, Paula Reed, tweeted of the return of her son who spent nearly 1,000 days in a Moscow prison on trumped-up charges.
Newly-released footage showed the prisoner swap on the tarmac of a Turkey airport in a moment his dad, Jerry, had said was “like you see in the movies.”
Reed, dressed all in black, could be seen walking from his jet and across the tarmac — passing Konstantin Yaroshenko, 53, the Russian drug trafficker who was freed from his 20-year sentence in federal prison in Connecticut.
As his father noted, it was like a scene from a movie like 2015’s “Bridge of Spies,” the Tom Hanks-starring Steven Spielberg flick about a previous prisoner swap that freed American U-2 spyplane pilot Francis Gary Powers.
Reed was then flown home in a jet with a special isolation tent over fears he has tuberculosis, his family told NBC News. He arrived at an airport in San Antonio early Thursday.
Before his arrival, his dad said, “I think it’s going to really hit home for him and for us when we finally get to see him and touch him.”
The swap was nearly three years in the making, with President Biden saying Wednesday that the negotiations “required difficult decisions that I do not take lightly.”
The timing was particularly surprising given escalating tensions with Russia amid its brutal war on Ukraine.
Reed had been behind bars since 2019, accused of assaulting two cops in Moscow while blackout drunk — getting sentenced to nine years after a trial that the US ripped as a “theater of the absurd.”
He recently went on hunger strike to complain of brutal conditions in his lockup.
Yaroshenko was serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in Connecticut for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine around the globe. The Justice Department had called him “an experienced international drug trafficker.”
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Some mid-April snowstorms and cold, wet weather across much of the Northern Plains has caused producers to suspend planting for the time being and that makes upcoming planting progress reports very important for the market.
“The (future) Monday afternoon planting progress reports are going to be the key report for a few weeks. Traders want to know if the corn is getting planted in a timely fashion,” said Betsy Jensen, Northland Farm Business Management and a producer/marketer from Stephen, Minn. “We all know we need a bumper crop this year and so any little blip is going to send the market spinning because we’re going to be concerned about yields. So planting progress is a huge issue.”
Another other issue that’s coming out, Jensen noted, is that USDA is projecting that the U.S. is not going to export as much corn this year as last. And so far that does seem to be the case.
“We only have another month or so left in our marketing year and high prices seem to be slowing things down a little, so we’ll have to keep an eye on corn exports,” she said.
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“Are corn buyers finding something else to feed their animals? How are exports going? And right now they are below what USDA is projecting,” she added.
USDA’s projection calls for corn exports of 2.5 million bushels (MB), and as of mid-April, U.S. corn exports totaled just 1.4 MB, which is less than 60 percent of USDA’s goal.
“So we have to pick up our game a little bit. We need to do better,” she said.
“It is a little concerning for export sales. The good news is that traders are really going to be watching the weather more than export sales, but it is something to keep in mind, that we are not quite getting done what we should be getting done (in terms of export sales),” she added.
In geopolitical news, the war in Ukraine is ongoing and impacting markets, and although Ukraine is a big producer of corn, the corn market is really taking a back seat to wheat at this time because Ukraine is one of the world’s largest wheat producers and exporters.
“Ukraine does export corn, but it doesn’t seem to be as big of a concern as it is for the wheat market,” Jensen said. “The war in Ukraine is almost old news in the commodity markets at this time. Ukraine is a major wheat producer and there is still concern. You just don’t see the headlines for corn that you used to, especially with export sales slowing down for the U.S.
I just don’t know that Ukraine is a headliner right now in the corn market like it was at the beginning.”
Part of the reason for slowing U.S. corn exports is that South America appears to have a better than expected corn crop. That, Jensen feels, is the negative right now in the corn market.
“Maybe that's why we’re not talking about Ukraine. And maybe that’s why our export sales or inspections have slowed down,” she said. “We thought we were going to get a lot more sales and South America has actually stolen some of those from us. Unfortunately, they are having a better year than what they anticipated and so that’s hurting us, ultimately.”
Looking at local prices, Jensen said those are “holding in pretty good,” and basis is good, too. There’s good local demand for corn and so right now producers are looking at $7.60-$7.70 per bushel for corn prices locally.
“Old crop corn prices are hanging in there, and even new crop bids … we were close to $7 for a little while, but we’ve backed off a little bit. You can still get over $6.50 for new crop right off the combine,” he said.
At one local elevator in west central Minnesota regularly followed in this column, as of April 26, May cash corn prices were listed at $7.81 and basis was -20 cents under. The November 2022 corn futures prices were listed at $7.38 and basis was +4 cents over.
Something else Jensen wants farmers to look at is put options.
“We always say we’re going to do this, and (then) we never do, but you can actually buy put options that are most likely above your cost of production,” she said. “You can spend maybe 20 cents on a put option, and if we have average yields, it guarantees (you) a profit on your corn crop.
“We always say, ‘Gee, if we could just buy a put option and guarantee ourselves a profit we would do it.’ I hear that from farmers all the time,” she continued. “We actually have that opportunity right now in corn. A put option never looks like it’s a great deal, because you’re buying them a long ways out of the money, you’re better off selling the futures.
“But if we’re going to have a late season in the Northern Plains, if things are going to be a little slow, put options might be an alternative to you to try and make sure that we make money in 2022. You have high expenses and buying a put option might be something for farmers to think about,” she concluded. | https://www.agupdate.com/farmandranchguide/markets/crop/snow-cold-wet-weather-delay-corn-planting/article_08a0875e-c5e5-11ec-952a-ff659ed721f8.html | 2022-04-28T12:40:08Z | https://www.agupdate.com/farmandranchguide/markets/crop/snow-cold-wet-weather-delay-corn-planting/article_08a0875e-c5e5-11ec-952a-ff659ed721f8.html | true | 1 |
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyzon Motors Inc. ("Hyzon") (NASDAQ: HYZN), a leading global supplier of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell electric heavy vehicles, announced today that it will release its first quarter 2022, financial and operational results before the market opens on Friday, May 6, 2022.
Craig Knight, Chief Executive Officer and Sam Chong, Chief Financial Officer accompanied by Mark Gordon Senior Advisor of Hyzon will host a conference call for investors at 8:30 AM ET the same day.
The conference call will be webcast live and an updated investor presentation will be available at:
https://investors.hyzonmotors.com/events-and-presentations/
A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the call on the Events & Presentations page in the Investor Relations section of Hyzon's website and will remain available for approximately one year.
Hyzon Motors Inc. also announced that it plans to hold its virtual 2022 annual meeting of stockholders on June 6, 2022, at 9:00 AM Eastern Time. All stockholders of record as of close of business on April 11, 2022, will be entitled to vote and attend the virtual annual meeting.
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Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., with U.S. operations in the Chicago and Detroit areas, and international operations in the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Germany, and China, Hyzon is a leader in fuel cell electric mobility with an exclusive focus on the commercial vehicle market, and a near-term focus on back to base (captive fleet) operations. Utilizing its proven and proprietary hydrogen fuel cell technology, Hyzon aims to supply zero-emission heavy duty trucks and buses to customers in North America, Europe and around the world to mitigate emissions from diesel transportation, one of the single largest sources of carbon emissions globally. Hyzon is contributing to the escalating adoption of fuel cell electric vehicles through its demonstrated technology advantage, leading fuel cell performance and history of rapid innovation. Visit www.hyzonmotors.com.
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Supreme Court considers Trump immigration policy reversal
The Biden v. Texas case involves a policy that made asylum-seekers wait in Mexico until their claims are heard.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Immigration was front and center at the Supreme Court Tuesday. The case surrounded a Trump-era policy that the Biden administration immediately tried to reverse. The nine justices heard oral arguments in Biden v. Texas. The high-profile case has to do with a Trump policy that made asylum-seekers wait in Mexico until their asylum claims are heard.
Trump instituted the Remain in Mexico program or Migrant Protection Protocol in 2019. President Biden tried to reverse the policy on his first day in office, with immigration advocates saying the policy put asylum-seekers in dangerous situations. Texas and Missouri sued, arguing the reversal by the Biden administration was illegal. Lower courts agreed. The case made its way to the Supreme Court.
“We’re arguing that the Biden administration, just like the rest of us, have to follow federal law. They either have to detain them or send them back to their country of origin,” said Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-Texas).
Justices badgered Paxton’s team on terminology in immigration law with the two sides sparring over whether the administration is legally obligated to send asylum-seekers to Mexico.
Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said the Biden administration created a crisis at the border.
“We had a secure border. And the Migrant Protection Protocols and the Remain in Mexico Policy was a big part of that,” said Schmitt.
The Biden administration argued without the capacity to detain every asylum-seeker, releasing those considered not to be a threat into the U.S. on parole is a better option than sending them to dangerous conditions in Mexico.
Attorney Moses Silverman filed a brief to the court in support of the Biden administration conducting its own foreign policy.
“Not letting them in is easy but sending them back is a major diplomatic issue,” said Silverman.
Silverman said the policy requires buy-in from Mexico and that the U.S. cannot simply drop off immigrants there.
He argued this case will not solve immigration policy in the U.S., but it will have ramifications for executive branch policy-making and tens of thousands of immigrants impacted by the policy in question.
“We certainly are at the vanguard of a country that was created by bringing people from all over the world together and creating a national identity,” said Silverman.
An opinion from the court is not expected until late spring or early summer.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) _ MarineMax Inc. (HZO) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $53.5 million.
The Clearwater, Florida-based company said it had profit of $2.37 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.70 per share.
The recreational boat dealer posted revenue of $610.1 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $537.3 million.
MarineMax expects full-year earnings to be $7.90 to $8.30 per share.
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30 Teens Busted For Trying To Party Inside New York State Forest
The DEC caught 30 teenagers who were hoping to host a wild party inside a New York State forest.
On Tuesday, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation released its DEC Forest Rangers - Week in Review which highlights recent statewide actions from DEC Forest Rangers. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations, and volunteer search and rescue groups, DEC Rangers locate and extract lost, injured, or distressed people from across New York State and much more.
This week the DEC highlighted forest rangers busting up a wild underage drinking party, involving about 30 teenagers, at a New York State Park.
Underage Drinking Enforcement: Town of Brookfield, Madison County
On Friday, April 22, DEC Rangers Oldroyd and Virkler were patrolling in the vicinity of Charles Baker State Forest when they encountered a line of 13 vehicles, including three pickup trucks loaded with pallets, entering Charles Baker State Forest, according to the DEC.
The rangers interviewed the teens in the 13 vehicles. The teens admitted they were going to Charles Baker State Forest to have a party, officials say.
30 Teens Busted For Trying To Party At Charles Baker State Forest, Norwich Teen Arrested
The group included approximately 30 people ranging in age from 15 to 19 years old, according to the DEC.
An 18-year-old from Norwich, New York had three cases of beer, according to the DEC. Rangers issued the 18-year-old a ticket for underage possession of alcohol in a State Forest.
The DEC notified the parents of all 30 teens and made sure all were not impaired before allowing them to leave Charles Baker State Forest.
"After ensuring none of the drivers were impaired and notifying the parents of the minors involved, Rangers cleared the scene," the DEC states. | https://wour.com/30-teens-busted-for-trying-to-party-inside-new-york-state-forest-town-of-brookfield-madison-county/ | 2022-04-28T12:43:54Z | https://wour.com/30-teens-busted-for-trying-to-party-inside-new-york-state-forest-town-of-brookfield-madison-county/ | false | 4 |
Brussels
: The
European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Germany's consumer protection association could bring a legal challenge against
Facebook parent
Meta over
data privacy.
The federation alleges that Meta infringed rules on data privacy, unfair competition and consumer protection related to free games by third parties available to Facebook users.
The gaming companies obtained certain personal data in the process.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The German court referred the case to the CJEU, asking if, under EU law on data protection that came into force in 2018, a consumer body could still take legal action over
data privacy infringements or whether this was now a matter only for national supervisory authorities.
The CJEU noted that the German court had found the legal action well-founded, although questioning its admissibility.
The EU court ruled that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (
GDPR) did not preclude national legislation allowing consumer protection associations to bring legal proceedings.
It also said a consumer association, such as the German federation, counted as a body that could bring proceedings related to GDPR because it was acting in the public's interest.
It could also bring such action without having to identify the person or people whose rights had been infringed. | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/eu-court-rules-against-meta-over-german-consumer-body-challenge/91149041 | 2022-04-28T12:45:09Z | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/eu-court-rules-against-meta-over-german-consumer-body-challenge/91149041 | true | 4 |
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) _ GlycoMimetics Inc. (GLYC) on Thursday reported a loss of $14.7 million in its first quarter.
The Rockville, Maryland-based company said it had a loss of 28 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 31 cents per share.
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Barcelona to spend a season away from Nou Camp amid redevelopment
Barcelona have announced plans to redevelop the Nou Camp, which will see them play the 2023/24 season at the Olympic Stadium in Montjuic.
Work, costing up to 1.5billion euros (£1.26billion), will begin this summer and is expected to be completed at the end of the 2025/26 season.
Initial focus of the redevelopment of the famous stadium will be on the first and second tier as well as improving technological facilities and upgrades to the exterior.
The third tier will be rebuilt in the summer of 2023, which will mean Barca play their home games for the following season at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys – the home of the 1992 Olympics.
They are due to return to the Nou Camp for the 2024/25 campaign, but at a 50 per cent capacity.
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Toulouse location ensures quick product delivery to local customers
PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced that it will invest $17 million to build an aerospace application support center (ASC) in Toulouse, France. PPG anticipates breaking ground for the new facility in the third quarter of 2022 and beginning operations in the fourth quarter of 2023. The facility will be strategically located near aerospace customers and the Toulouse Blagnac Airport. This will be the fifth PPG ASC in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region and the second in France, in addition to the ASC in Gonfreville.
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PPG will invest $17 million to build an aerospace application support center in Toulouse, France that will begin operations in the fourth quarter of 2023. The facility will be strategically located near aerospace customers and the Toulouse Blagnac Airport. (Photo: Business Wire)
"The construction of a new ASC will allow us to better serve and collaborate with our aerospace customers in the region," said Dirk Thelen, PPG general manager, Aerospace, EMEA. "The new facility will enhance our ability to provide unparalleled responsiveness and customer support, leading to faster qualification of products and higher participation in new projects, earlier in the development cycle."
Capabilities at the ASC will include a development and qualification laboratory for aerospace materials, a color blending area for coatings, and a spray booth for hands-on training. It will also house filling lines for touch-up kits, a transparencies inspection cell, customized packaging capabilities for third-party products, chemical management resources and a customer service center.
"ASC-Toulouse will be the 17th application support center in our worldwide network," Thelen said. "As we continue to grow our reach globally, we can ensure that all of our customers have convenient access to our latest aerospace technologies, while also improving the delivery of our products and providing technical resources regionally."
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It was the third Anfield Champions League semi-final of Mohamed Salah’s time at Liverpool. It was also the second. In their own way, the first two had been defined by him. Rewind four years and perhaps the first phase of Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool reached its zenith in a blistering burst of five goals in 34 minutes in the last four of the most prestigious competition of all. Salah scored the first two against his old club Roma and assisted the next two.
Fast forward 12 months and he was sat in the crowd, wearing a T-shirt that summed up Liverpool’s ethos. The man who never gets injured was injured but the message on his chest – “never give up” – was taken to heart by his teammates. Salah was the spectator who was upstaged by Divock Origi, the destroyer of Barcelona.
It may now be an exaggeration to brand the Egyptian the scourge of Villarreal. His influence was more indirect. A player going at a goal a game for much of the season saw his relatively barren spell continue. And yet when Liverpool scored twice in three minutes, allowing dreams of a final in Paris to become realistic, Salah had an indirect influence twice.
Many a Liverpool goal stems from their right flank. The opener was a strike with a difference, Jordan Henderson looping a run around Salah as they played a one-two, his cross deflecting off Pervis Estupinan and, despite a desperate attempt to claw it away by Geronimo Rulli, nestling in the net.
Henderson set off in celebration, arms outstretched, in the manner of a man who had scored the goal of his life. More prosaically, it was an Estupinan own goal, denying Salah an assist.
For two minutes, anyway. Then he poked a pass forward, weighted perfectly for Sadio Mane to prod in Liverpool’s second.
Rewind three years and the Egyptian’s reluctance to pass to the Senegalese prompted first a gesture of annoyance and then more widespread controversy. Go back a week and Graeme Souness was branding Salah the greediest footballer he had ever seen.
And yet, even as his goals have become relative rarities, he has spent some of April creating. It was his dinked cross that Andy Robertson headed in to break the deadlock in the Merseyside derby. This was his fourth assist of the month, and a second for Mane.
There could have been more. As Villarreal held out before half-time, Salah’s whipped cross was headed wide by Mane, getting his angles all wrong. For the Egyptian, whose only open-play goals since February have come against Manchester United, there was a now-familiar tale of frustration and near-misses. A trademark curler cleared the bar. A volley from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross was skied.
Yet if that night against a hapless United looks still more of anomaly, one of Salah’s great strengths is his persistence. It is a characteristic Klopp looks for and a reason why Luis Diaz seems such a natural fit for Liverpool.
And it always offered hints that Salah could be Liverpool’s trump card. Estupinan, one of approximately 208 footballers who have been on Watford’s books in the last few years, albeit one who never actually played for Watford, may have sensed theirs was an unfair contest. After Salah glided into space once too often, the Ecuadorian resorted to tugging him back to collect a caution.
Salah twice eluded him in the second half by occupying the inside-right channel; each brought Liverpool a goal. His own ledger only stands at three in 13 games, but a combined goals and assists chart for the season shows Salah on 44, a freakish number.
In autumn, when he had arguably never played better, the Liverpool fanbase united to proclaim Salah the world’s best player. As a former manager of Robert Lewandowski, Klopp may have had divided loyalties. Each may have been leapfrogged since then. In the Champions League’s knockout stages, Karim Benzema is pressing an irresistible case for that status. But of all the candidates, the Liverpool winger is likeliest to be found at the Stade de France on 28 May.
It would complete another trilogy. Salah’s is a tale of two Champions League finals, of the Sergio Ramos-inflicted injury in 2018 and the early penalty in the 2019 win over Tottenham.
But if Phil Neal’s status as the only Liverpool player to score in two European Cup finals could be under threat, Salah instead has the potential to be goal-maker on such stages.
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JONESBORO — As coronavirus infections ticked up slightly during the past couple of weeks across Arkansas, Greene County, for its population, has stood out, ranking second only to Pulaski County last week in new infections.
Then, on Tuesday, the Arkansas Department of Health reported 44 Greene County residents were newly-infected, compared to 28 in Pulaski County.
On Wednesday, with 161 new cases statewide, Greene County reported 13, ranking third in the state. Pulaski County had 24 followed by Benton County in northwest Arkansas with 19. Craighead County had six new cases Tuesday and another six on Wednesday.
State and local health officials are looking for reasons for the higher number of infections in Greene County.
“We haven’t found a specific explanation for the rise in cases in Greene County, but we are continuing to look into it, said Danyelle McNeill, public information officer, for the health department’s Office of Health Communications.
The Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Infection Control and Employee Health teams report and track positive COVID-19 cases in Greene County and surrounding areas. Dr. Callie Talley, the team’s director, confirmed that there has been a significant increase in positive cases in Greene County.
“We are working with the Greene County and Arkansas Health departments to determine the epicenter of this current outbreak,” Talley said in a statement to The Sun. “While the uptick is certainly concerning, we are not seeing a rapid increase of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, outpatient COVID-19 visits or hospital staff out with COVID-19. AMMC will continue monitoring data and working with local health units.”
The number of active cases statewide grew to 1,367 Wednesday. Greene County was reported to have 119 active cases Wednesday, compared to 71 on April 19. Craighead County had 57 active cases Wednesday.
U.S. cases are far lower than they were in recent months, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. However, health officials are keeping a close eye as highly contagious variants continue to spread. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cases have risen about 25 percent in the past week.
The CDC estimated Tuesday that three out of every four U.S. children have been infected with the virus and more than half of all Americans had signs of previous infections.
The researchers examined blood samples from more than 200,000 Americans and looked for virus-fighting antibodies made from infections, not vaccines. They found that signs of past infection rose dramatically between December and February, when the more contagious omicron variant surged through the U.S.
For Americans of all ages, about 34 percent had signs of prior infection in December. Just two months later, 58 percent did. | https://www.jonesborosun.com/news/health-officials-investigate-greene-infections/article_f9b7ca91-a832-57b8-a58e-2dc53e64db74.html | 2022-04-28T12:53:33Z | https://www.jonesborosun.com/news/health-officials-investigate-greene-infections/article_f9b7ca91-a832-57b8-a58e-2dc53e64db74.html | false | 1 |
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is all set to begin the election of new executives to fill up various positions at the constituency level.
The 2022 Constituency Annual Delegates Conference which begins today, April 28, 2022 is expected to end on Monday, May 2 across the 250 constituencies that have been given the green light to hold the elections.
Each constituency is expected to choose a suitable date within the given period to conduct the conference and hold the elections under the supervision of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, per the Party’s rules and regulations.
A statement signed by the General Secretary, John Boadu, noted that the elections would take place as communicated, despite the statutory May Day and Eid-ul-Fitr holidays.
Positions to contest
The positions available to be contested for include Constituency Chairperson, First Constituency Vice-Chairperson, Second Constituency Vice-Chairperson, Constituency Secretary, Constituency Assistant Secretary and Constituency Treasurer.
Other include Constituency Organiser, Constituency Women Organiser, Constituency Youth Organiser and Constituency NASARA Coordinator.
Who can vote?
Per Article 7(27) of the Party’s Constitution, delegates of the constituency conference comprise members of the Constituency Executive Committee, all Electoral Area Coordinators and all five Polling Station Executives from all the polling stations in the constituency.
Also, five members of the Constituency Council of Elders, five members of the Constituency Council of Patrons and any NPP Founding Member can attend and partake in the congress.
At least one-third of the delegates from the constituency shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the conference.
Flashpoints
About 25 constituencies cannot partake in the elections, following petitions and court cases levelled against the party by some aggrieved members.
Already, some flashpoints have been identified in the Dome-Kwabenya and Ododiodioo and other two constituencies. | https://www.adomonline.com/npp-begins-constituency-executive-elections-today/ | 2022-04-28T12:54:47Z | https://www.adomonline.com/npp-begins-constituency-executive-elections-today/ | false | 1 |
Pete Davidson has made his first appearance in girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s new reality show.
The Kardashians, which is currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+, just dropped its third episode, which sees Kardashian preparing to host Saturday Night Live (SNL) last October.
It was during a sketch on SNL that Kardashian and Davidson shared their first kiss. They started dating soon after and, more recently, Davidson and Kardashian attended the premiere of The Kardashians hand-in-hand.
During the episode, fans get a glimpse of the Aladdin skit that the pair starred in together, which marks Davidson’s first appearance on The Kardashians.
In a voiceover, Kardashian said of her hosting duties: “Once your monologue is over you just have to go and change and it’s a rush right into skits.
“It’s just so chaotic and so much fun. I think I thrive under pressure and chaos so it was all fun for me.”
It’s not the first time Davidson has been mentioned in the new series, however. In the first episode, Kardashian revealed that she spoke to Davidson at last year’s Met Gala in September before hosting SNL in October.
“I ran into Pete Davidson at the Met and I was like: ‘I am so scared. I don’t know what I signed up for,’” she said. “And he’s like: ‘Can you read cue cards? You’re good. You’re good.’”
Earlier in the episode, it was shown that Kanye West accompanied Kardashian to the SNL taping.
The night before the taping, West, who is now formally known as Ye, flew to LA to retrieve the unsurfaced “sex tape” that Kardashian had been threatened with in previous episodes.
Kardashian said she had watched the footage from the tape with former boyfriend Ray J and it was “just footage of us at a restaurant, at a nightclub. Nothing sexual, nothing weird, and so now I can take a deep breath and not worry about this right before SNL”.
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ FTI Consulting Inc. (FCN) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $59.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Washington-based company said it had net income of $1.66.
The business advisory firm posted revenue of $723.6 million in the period.
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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) _ Fortive Corp. (FTV) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $165.1 million.
On a per-share basis, the Everett, Washington-based company said it had profit of 45 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 70 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 68 cents per share.
The industrial conglomerate posted revenue of $1.38 billion in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.35 billion.
For the current quarter ending in July, Fortive expects its per-share earnings to range from 70 cents to 73 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $1.39 billion to $1.43 billion for the fiscal second quarter.
Fortive expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.04 to $3.13 per share, with revenue ranging from $5.77 billion to $5.88 billion.
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Burger King has launched a new packaging deal which will see some customers charged deposits for reusable cups and containers.
The fast-food giant is providing sustainable packaging for its sides and burgers, taking the form of a 'clamshell' design.
The new range, also features reusable cups, comes after Burger King announced it will phase out all single-use packaging by 2025.
What is the scheme and where will it happen?
Customers partaking in the trial will be charged a deposit of £1, which will be refunded once the packaging is returned.
The new trial is taking place across five restaurants in Ipswich and Newmarket.
These are:
- Ipswich Copdock Interchange
- Ipswich Europark
- Ipswich Westend Road
- Ipswich Anglia Retail Park
- Newmarket Fordham Road
The scheme will run from 26 April to 5 September, and 10 products are available to buy with reusable packaging, including the Whopper and chilli cheese bites.
If the trial is successful, the sustainable packaging will be rolled out to its Whopper range across the UK.
What has been said?
Tom Szaky, from Loop, who provides and recycles the packaging, said: "This enables customers a simple and convenient way to trial re-usable packaging when ordering their favourite burgers, sides and drinks."
Cups and containers can be returned by placing them in Loop bins outside the restaurant, and through other locations on the Loop app.
Nicola Pierce, director of commercial planning & ESG at Burger King UK, said: "The launch of the new packaging from Burger King® UK will include the first-ever reusable and returnable ‘clamshell’ for burgers and sides in the UK.
"We’re excited to see how the trial performs over the next five months and help us reach our goal of eliminating single-use plastic within our restaurants by 2025." | https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/read-this/burger-king-to-charge-for-reusable-packaging-the-restaurants-taking-part-in-trial-3672970 | 2022-04-28T12:57:54Z | https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/read-this/burger-king-to-charge-for-reusable-packaging-the-restaurants-taking-part-in-trial-3672970 | true | 21 |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) _ Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPW) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter. The results matched Wall Street expectations.
The real estate investment trust, based in Birmingham, Alabama, said it had funds from operations of $282.5 million, or 47 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 47 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $631.7 million, or $1.05 per share.
The health care real estate investment trust posted revenue of $409.8 million in the period, which did not meet Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $410.6 million.
Medical Properties expects full-year funds from operations in the range of $1.78 to $1.82 per share.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) _ Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPW) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter. The results matched Wall Street expectations.
The real estate investment trust, based in Birmingham, Alabama, said it had funds from operations of $282.5 million, or 47 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 47 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $631.7 million, or $1.05 per share.
The health care real estate investment trust posted revenue of $409.8 million in the period, which did not meet Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $410.6 million.
Medical Properties expects full-year funds from operations in the range of $1.78 to $1.82 per share.
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Azadi Se Antyodaya Tak: Giriraj Singh interacts with families of 3 freedom fighters
The goal of the campaign is to take up 17 select schemes with direct assistance to beneficiaries in saturation mode, reaching out to the person at the bottom of the pyramid in rural areas by each of the participating ministries/departments.
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Union Minister for Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Shri Giriraj Singh today launched 'Azadi Se Antyodaya Tak', a 90-day campaign with a mission to saturate 75 Districts across 28 States/UTs with beneficiary schemes of 09 central ministries. Celebrating the spirit of the year- long Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM), the identified districts are aligned with the birth place of 99 Freedom Fighters, who made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation during India's struggle for independence.
The goal of the campaign is to take up 17 select schemes with direct assistance to beneficiaries in saturation mode, reaching out to the person at the bottom of the pyramid in rural areas by each of the participating ministries/departments.
The 75 districts, marginally lagging behind in the development parameters, have been shortlisted through MPCE (Monthly per Capita Indicators) and D5/D7 SECC-2011 (Socio-Economic Caste Census) data.
Describing the Azadi se Antyodaya Tak campaign as a concrete step of the government towards Amrit Mahotsav, Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Shri Giriraj Singh said that the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is working towards making India as dreamt by freedom fighters. He said that to make the campaign successful, all 9 Ministries must work unitedly along with public participation. We will take these 17 schemes in saturation mode along with intensive real time monitoring. It will be kept as a record after the campaign is completed", the Minister added.
Sharing her views during the launch of the campaign, Minister of State for Rural Development, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said, "Even today there are many freedom fighters whom the people of the district do not even know. We now have an opportunity to remember them, pay tribute to them and develop their village. Achieving our goal in 90 days will be a true tribute to the martyrs."
Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil said that through the campaign, the people will now get to know about unsung heroes of the freedom struggle.
Shri Nagendra Nath Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development said, "Today's program is unique in itself. Today we are remembering the contribution and role of the forgotten freedom fighters associated with the freedom struggle."
During the programme, Shri Giriraj Singh also interacted with the families of 3 freedom fighters out of 99 selected. Relatives of freedom fighter Late Shri Thakur Pyare Lal Singh from Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh said that- "This event is a matter of pride for our family, district and city."
Azadi Se Antyodaya Tak campaign is a concerted effort of Ministry of Rural Development, Department of Social Justice & Empowerment-Divyangjan, Ministry of Women & Child Development, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Department of Agriculture & farmers Welfare, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying and Ministry of Labour & Employment.
The campaign will be implemented in a celebratory mode involving all rural stakeholders including families of identified freedom fighters (FF), Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), women networks, youth groups and students highlighting the achievements of the schemes. It will also be participatory in its approach with active support of public servants like local MPs, MLAs, Sarpanch etc.
The Azadi Se Antyodaya Tak campaign is being led by Ministry of Rural Development with active support from Ministry of Culture and all participating ministries/departments.
The campaign is extended to cover 75 districts across 28 States/UTs namely Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
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- Length - Great names are concise and to the point. The shorter, the better!
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These criteria, along with historical sales data and current marketplace conditions, are used to determine whether a name is accepted to our marketplace, and how it's priced. Every name on our marketplace must score high in most or all of these categories to even be accepted. With an acceptance rate of only 10% of names submitted to our marketplace, BrandBucket sets a very high bar for the names we select.
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Barcelona to spend a season away from Nou Camp amid redevelopment
By PA Staff published
Barcelona have announced plans to redevelop the Nou Camp, which will see them play the 2023/24 season at the Olympic Stadium in Montjuic.
Work, costing up to 1.5billion euros (£1.26billion), will begin this summer and is expected to be completed at the end of the 2025/26 season.
Initial focus of the redevelopment of the famous stadium will be on the first and second tier as well as improving technological facilities and upgrades to the exterior.
Agreement on the transformation of Espai Barça and work on new Camp Nou to begin in June— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) April 28, 2022
The third tier will be rebuilt in the summer of 2023, which will mean Barca play their home games for the following season at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys – the home of the 1992 Olympics.
They are due to return to the Nou Camp for the 2024/25 campaign, but at a 50 per cent capacity.
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Superstar wish granter Demi Lovato helps share the power of a wish
PHOENIX, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Make-A-Wish, the organization that grants life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, will celebrate its annual World Wish Day on April 29. Taking place on the anniversary of the wish that inspired the founding of the organization in 1980, World Wish Day will be celebrated by 59 chapters nationwide and in nearly 50 countries around the world. In the weeks leading up to World Wish Day and continuing through the end of May, Make-A-Wish is asking supporters to "Restore Hope with a Wish." The call-to-action highlights the impact a wish has on a child's emotional and mental well-being, forever improving their quality of life. As part of this year's World Wish Day, singer, actor and Make-A-Wish supporter Demi Lovato, who has personally granted nearly 30 wishes, is helping to spotlight the positive impact wishes have on children with critical illnesses and their families.
The inspiration for "Restore Hope with a Wish" comes from the recent 2022 Wish Impact Study that Make-A-Wish conducted, which surveyed 3,411 individuals, including parents of wish kids, wish alumni (i.e., former wish recipients) and doctors. Results showed that following a wish:
- 94% of parents recalled seeing improvements in their child's emotional well-being;
- 91% of parents reported the wish gave their child a better chance of surviving their illness;
- 91% of alumni credited the wish with improving their quality of life; and
- 75% of doctors stated that a wish could improve a child's medical outcomes.
"A majority of Make-A-Wish parents and doctors agree that the hope and strength delivered by a wish often mark a turning point in a wish kid's treatment and recovery," said Richard K. Davis, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America. "Seeing a child gain back a piece of their childhood is incredibly humbling – and knowing that wishes can have this life-changing impact is exactly why we are so committed to our vision to grant the wish of every eligible child."
Now more than ever, wishes can bring hope, joy and a sense of normalcy back into the lives of wish kids and their families. "Restore Hope with a Wish" empowers individuals and corporations to donate to make life-changing wishes possible for children who are waiting for their wishes to come true. Make-A-Wish thanks the following corporate partners that have supported the campaign through their respective fundraising, cause marketing and in-kind programs: Avis Budget Group, Discover Financial Services, Disney, Funko, Helzberg Diamonds, Keebler, Liberty Mutual, Lokai, Marquis Hot Tubs, Red Lobster®, Safelite, The Learning Experience, Topgolf, Winnebago Industries and WWE.
Learn more and help at wish.org.
About Make-A-Wish Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is the world's leading children's wish-granting organization, operating in every community in the United States and in nearly 50 countries worldwide. Together with generous donors, supporters, staff and more than 24,000 volunteers across the U.S., Make-A-Wish delivers hope and joy to children and their families when they need it most. Make-A-Wish aims to bring the power of wishing to every child with a critical illness because wish experiences can help improve emotional and physical health. Since 1980, Make-A-Wish has granted more than 520,000 wishes worldwide; more than 350,000 wishes in the U.S. and its territories alone. For more information about Make-A-Wish America, visit wish.org.
Make-A-Wish, Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Make-A-Wish swirl-and-star logo are marks of Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.
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Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX – Get Rating) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday. The medical equipment provider reported $0.39 EPS for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.39, MarketWatch Earnings reports. The business had revenue of $3.03 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.95 billion. Boston Scientific had a net margin of 8.63% and a return on equity of 14.43%. The company’s revenue was up 10.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.37 earnings per share. Boston Scientific updated its Q2 guidance to $0.41-0.43 EPS and its FY22 guidance to $1.74-1.79 EPS.
Shares of BSX opened at $43.06 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $61.43 billion, a P/E ratio of 62.41, a P/E/G ratio of 2.55 and a beta of 0.83. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $43.82 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $42.91. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.53, a current ratio of 1.48 and a quick ratio of 1.10. Boston Scientific has a 1 year low of $37.96 and a 1 year high of $47.49.
Several equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Bank of America assumed coverage on Boston Scientific in a research report on Tuesday, March 1st. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. Truist Financial assumed coverage on Boston Scientific in a research report on Wednesday, April 13th. They set a “buy” rating and a $52.00 price target on the stock. SVB Leerink decreased their price target on Boston Scientific from $48.00 to $45.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, February 3rd. Raymond James decreased their price target on Boston Scientific from $51.00 to $49.00 and set a “strong-buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, February 3rd. Finally, StockNews.com cut Boston Scientific from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 21st. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nine have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Boston Scientific presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $48.90.
Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in BSX. Hardman Johnston Global Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of Boston Scientific by 0.5% during the fourth quarter. Hardman Johnston Global Advisors LLC now owns 801,420 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $34,044,000 after purchasing an additional 3,650 shares during the period. MML Investors Services LLC lifted its stake in Boston Scientific by 6.6% in the fourth quarter. MML Investors Services LLC now owns 36,640 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $1,556,000 after acquiring an additional 2,264 shares during the period. Colony Group LLC lifted its stake in Boston Scientific by 12.3% in the fourth quarter. Colony Group LLC now owns 6,373 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $271,000 after acquiring an additional 700 shares during the period. Glenmede Trust Co. NA lifted its stake in Boston Scientific by 12.4% in the fourth quarter. Glenmede Trust Co. NA now owns 7,177 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $304,000 after acquiring an additional 792 shares during the period. Finally, Allstate Corp lifted its stake in Boston Scientific by 6.8% in the fourth quarter. Allstate Corp now owns 44,741 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $1,901,000 after acquiring an additional 2,847 shares during the period. 89.75% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices for use in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. It operates through three segments: MedSurg, Rhythm and Neuro, and Cardiovascular. The company offers devices to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal and pulmonary conditions; devices to treat various urological and pelvic conditions; implantable cardioverter and implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators; pacemakers and implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers; and remote patient management systems.
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A week after announcing $800 million in military assistance and $500 in economic aid, President Joe Biden is expected to call on Congress to pass additional funding to support Ukraine.
The President is scheduled to speak Thursday at 10:45 a.m. from the White House.
White House press secretary told reporters Wednesday that Biden will send a formal request to Congress by the end of the week. Psaki added that the funding would be enough to support Ukraine through the end of the year.
“It will include, as our past packages have included, security or military assistance, humanitarian, economic assistance, given those, in our view, will help address a range of the needs the Ukrainians have,” she said.
Biden signed a bill in March that included more than $13 billion in aid for Ukraine.
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Anil Kapoor is known as the actor who is just as young at heart as he was decades ago. And while Anil plays mature roles in movies, the actor’s ‘jhakaas’ image still follows him around. In a recent appearance on The Kapil Sharma Show, Kapil asked Anil if he feels older now, as he is going to be a grandfather.
Anil’s daughter, actor Sonam Kapoor announced her pregnancy a few weeks ago. Kapil asked Anil, “When you heard you are going to be a grandfather, did you feel older or did you get even five years younger?”
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Anil replied, “Like you are a married man in your house, but are a bachelor otherwise. Just like that, I’m going to be a grandfather in the house, but outside…” Kapil chimed in with “Jhakaas!”
Anil Kapoor, Satish Shah and Mukti Mohan will promote their upcoming film Thar on Kapil Sharma’s show. Starring Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor in the lead role, Thar is set to stream on Netflix from May 6. It is also Harsh’s debut production venture.
Anil and Harsh have been promoting their film Thar on various platforms. Anil recently told Film Companion that he turned down offers from some of the biggest international franchises after he got international fame with Slumdog Millionaire. “Biggest franchises around the world with the biggest and the best directors of the planet have somewhere wanted me to do cameos in the franchises but I said, ‘It is two days of work. If I come for two days and I can’t do well at that time, I will be exposed all over the world,’” he said.
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CITYCON OYJ Stock Exchange Release 28 April 2022 at 15:00 hrs
HELSINKI, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Citycon Oyj amends its 2022 financial reporting schedule for its three-month Interim Report due to changed meeting schedule. Citycon will publish its January-March Interim Report on 5 May 2022 about 8:30 p.m. EEST (previously 6 May 2022 about 9:00 a.m. EEST). Citycon's investor, analyst and press conference call and live audiocast will be organized according to the original schedule on 6 May 2022 at 10 a.m. EEST.
CITYCON OYJ
For further information, please contact:
Sakari Järvelä
Vice President, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations
Tel. +358 50 387 8180
sakari.jarvela@citycon.com
Citycon is a leading owner, manager and developer of mixed-use real estate featuring modern, necessity-based retail with residential, office and municipal service spaces that enhance the communities in which they operate. Citycon is committed to sustainable property management in the Nordic region with assets that total approximately EUR 4.5 billion. Our centres are located in urban hubs in the heart of vibrant communities with direct connections to public transport and anchored by grocery, healthcare and other services that cater to the everyday needs of customers.
Citycon has investment-grade credit ratings from Moody's (Baa3) and Standard & Poor's (BBB-). Citycon Oyj's shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.
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SANDUSKY, Ohio, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Civista Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIVB) ("Civista") announced its unaudited financial results for the three months ending March 31, 2022.
First quarter highlights
- Net income of $8.5 million, or $0.57 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2021, compared to $10.8 million, or $0.68 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2021.
- COVID–19 loan deferrals decreased to 0.14% of total loans at period end, compared to 0.26% at December 31, 2021 and 21.3% at the June 30, 2020 high point.
- Based on the March 31, 2022 market close share price of $24.10, the $0.14 first quarter dividend is equivalent to an annualized yield of 2.32% and a dividend payout ratio of 24.56%.
- In January we announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Civista will acquire Comunibanc Corp., the parent company of The Henry County Bank.
"We turned in another solid Civista quarter highlighted by solid loan growth. We continue to work on the integration of the Henry County Bank and did incur some additional expenses related to the acquisition that negatively impacted our noninterest expense. This had an adverse impact to our earnings of approximately $0.03 per share for the quarter. The transaction remains on schedule to close in late second or early third quarter and we look forward to welcoming their employees to the Civista family" said Dennis G. Shaffer, CEO and President of Civista.
Results of Operations:
For the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 and 2021
Net interest income decreased $896 thousand, or 3.8%, for the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period of 2021, due to a decrease in interest income partially offset by a decrease in interest expense. Accretion of PPP fees was $1.2 million during the first quarter 2022 compared to $3.1 million for the same period in 2021.
Net interest margin increased 8 basis points to 3.38% for the first quarter of 2022, compared to 3.30% for the same period a year ago.
The decrease in interest income was due to a $2.5 million decrease in PPP interest and fees and a decrease of $330 thousand decrease in accretion income related to loan portfolios acquired through acquisitions. Average earning assets decreased $192.1 million, partially offset by an 8 basis point increase in the yield.
Interest expense decreased $163 thousand, or 8.6%, for the first quarter of 2022, compared to the same period last year. The average rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities decreased 7 basis points, while average interest-bearing liabilities increased $109 thousand.
Provision for loan losses was $300 thousand for the first quarter of 2022 compared to $830 thousand for the first quarter of 2021. The reserve ratio increased to 1.34% at March 31, 2022 from 1.33% at December 31, 2021. The reserve ratio without the impact of PPP loans would have only been 1 basis point higher.
For the first quarter of 2022, noninterest income totaled $7.6 million, a decrease of $1.5 million, or 16.8%, compared to the prior year's first quarter.
Net gain on sale of loans decreased primarily as a result of a decrease in volume of loans sold. Proceeds from the sale of loans sold totaled $38.1 million and $77.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Service charges increased as a result of a $223 thousand increase in service charges on deposit accounts and a $100 thousand increase in overdraft fees.
Wealth management fees increased as a result of a $95 thousand increase in brokerage fees and a $33 thousand increase in trust fees. Brokerage income increased due to volume of business and trust income increased as a result of new accounts and market conditions.
Swap fees decreased due to the volume. We did not record a swap during the first quarter this year, compared to $4.2 million during the same period last year. We reduced the loans we entered into swaps on as a part of our asset liability management program. Given current rates, we have chosen to book the variable rate loan that we might otherwise have swapped to a fixed rate.
Other income decreased due to a decrease in gains on the sale of OREO properties of $72 thousand.
For the first quarter of 2022, noninterest expense totaled $20.3 million, an increase of $868 thousand, or 4.5%, compared to the prior year's first quarter.
Compensation expense increased primarily due to annual pay increases, which occur every year in April and commission and incentive expense. Commission and incentive expense accruals increased $356.6 thousand, or 21.7%.
Contracted data processing fees increased due to merger related system deconversion fees of $215.
The quarter-over-quarter decrease in taxes and assessments was attributable to decreases in both the FDIC assessment and franchise tax. FDIC assessments decreased due to lower assessment multipliers. Franchise tax decreased due to additional taxes paid in 2021 as a result of an amended return.
Professional services primarily increased due to a $118 thousand increase in merger related legal and audit and a $150 thousand increase in consulting fees.
The increase in Software maintenance expense is due to both increases in software maintenance contracts as well as the implementation of the new digital banking platform.
The efficiency ratio was 65.2% for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 compared to 57.4% for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. The change in the efficiency ratio is primarily due to an increase in noninterest expense and a decrease in noninterest interest income.
Civista's effective income tax rate for the first quarter 2022 was 15.5% compared to 17.3% in 2021.
Balance Sheet
Total assets increased $171.5 million, or 5.7%, from December 31, 2021 to March 31, 2022, primarily due to an increase in cash of $148.5 million, or 56.2%. Loans held for sale increased $2.8 million, or 143.1%. The loan portfolio increased $20.3 million, which includes a decrease in PPP loans of $27.7 million.
Loan balances increased $20.3 million, or 1.0% in the first quarter, including the PPP balance decline. Removing the effect of the PPP loans, the loan portfolio increased $48.0 million or 2.5%. Commercial and Agriculture loans are flat as revolving line of credit balances continue to be undrawn. Commercial Real Estate continued to grow due to consistent demand in both the Non-owner Occupied and Owner Occupied categories. Real Estate Construction grew slightly as new projects were originated awaiting the construction season. Construction demand remains strong and construction availability continues to be near all-time highs. Residential Real Estate is relatively flat as most new originations are sold on the secondary market with any portfolio loans basically equaling payment attrition.
Paycheck Protection Program
In total, we processed over 3,600 loans totaling $399.4 million of PPP loans. Of the total PPP loans we have originated, $383.9 million have been forgiven or have paid off. We recognized $1.2 million of PPP fees in income during the quarter, and at March 31, 2022, $583 thousand of unearned PPP fees remain.
COVID-19 Loan Modifications
As of March 31, 2022, the remaining loans modified under the CARES Act totaled $2.8 million, or 0.14% of total loans at period end, compared to 0.26% at December 31, 2021. Details with respect to the loan modifications that remain on deferred status are as follows:
Deposits
Total deposits increased $198.4 million, or 8.2%, from December 31, 2021 to March 31, 2022.
The increase in noninterest-bearing demand of $198.4 million was primarily due to a $199.4 million increase in balances related to the tax refund processing program, which is a seasonal increase. Interest-bearing demand deposits increased due to a $20.4 million increase in public fund accounts, partially offset by a $15.5 million decrease in non-public fund accounts. The increase in savings and money market was primarily due to a $21.0 million increase in statement savings, a $7.5 million increase in personal money markets, and a $3.9 million increase in public fund money markets. These increases were partially offset by decreases of $19.0 million increase in brokered money market accounts and $6.1 million in business money market accounts. The decrease in time certificates was primarily due to certificates over $100 thousand.
FHLB advances totaled $75.0 million at March 31, 2022, unchanged from December 31, 2021.
Stock Repurchase Program
During 2022, Civista repurchased 183,357 shares for $4.4 million at a weighted average price of $24.17 per share. We have approximately $4.9 million remaining of the current $13.5 million repurchase authorization, which was approved in August 2021. In addition, Civista liquidated 5,403 shares held by employees, at $24.66 per share, to satisfy tax obligations stemming from vesting of restricted shares.
Shareholders' Equity
Total shareholders' equity decreased $27.5 million from December 31, 2021 to March 31, 2022, primarily due to a $29.6 million decrease in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). Shareholders' equity also decreased due to a $4.6 million repurchase of treasury shares. Retained earnings increased $6.4 million.
Asset Quality
Civista recorded net recoveries of $92 thousand for the three months of 2022 compared to net recoveries of $275 thousand for the same period of 2021. The allowance for loan losses to loans was 1.34% at March 31, 2022 and 1.33% at December 31, 2021.
Non-performing assets at March 31, 2022 were $5.4 million, unchanged from December 31, 2021. The non-performing assets to assets ratio decreased to 0.17% from 0.18% at December 31, 2021. The allowance for loan losses to non-performing loans increased to 501.50% from 496.10% at December 31, 2021.
Conference Call and Webcast
Civista Bancshares, Inc. will also host a conference call to discuss the Company's financial results for the first quarter of 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 28, 2022. Interested parties can access the live webcast of the conference call through the Investor Relations section of the Company's website, www.civb.com. Participants can also listen to the conference call by dialing 855-238-2712 and ask to be joined into the Civista Bancshares, Inc. first quarter 2022 earnings call. Please log in or dial in at least 10 minutes prior to the start time to ensure a connection.
An archive of the webcast will be available for one year on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website (www.civb.com).
Forward Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding the financial performance, business prospects, growth and operating strategies of Civista. For these statements, Civista claims the protections of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements in this press release should be considered in conjunction with the other information available about Civista, including the information in the filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations or forecasts of future events and are not guarantees of future performance. The forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. We have tried, wherever possible, to identify such statements by using words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "will" and similar expressions in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. Although management believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially include risk factors relating to the banking industry and the other factors detailed from time to time in Civista' reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those described in "Item 1A Risk Factors" of Part I of Civista's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and any additional risks identified in the Company's subsequent Form 10-Q's. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Civista does not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any forward-looking statement to reflect the events or circumstances after the date on which the forward-looking statement is made, or reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except to the extent required by law.
Civista Bancshares, Inc. is a $3.2 billion financial holding company headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio. The Company's banking subsidiary, Civista Bank, operates 35 locations in Northern, Central and Southwestern Ohio, Southeastern Indiana and Northern Kentucky. Civista Bancshares, Inc. may be accessed at HUwww.civb.comUH. The Company's common shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "CIVB".
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Model Says She Isn't Interested In Men Anymore And Prefers 'Sex Toys' Instead
A German model and influencer has revealed she does not fancy men anymore and has rather taken a liking to sex toys.
Lisa Del Piero, who boasts nearly 900,000 Instagram followers, shot to fame at just 17 after featuring in her homeland’s version of Next Top Model.
Now, at 25, Lisa is one of the most successful fitness influencers in her country. In the last six years, she has vigorously pushed herself into the world of sport and workouts.
She has made gym her best friend and sweats it out regularly to keep herself in the best possible shape.
However, as Lisa has made fitness and wellbeing her main focus, her dating life has taken a backseat. Having had limited experiences with men, she has been left feeling cold.
“I have only dated one person in the last three years. Turns out, he secretly filmed me in a restaurant to show it off," she told Newsflash.
She also revealed that she later found out that the man had a wife and children.
But the model isn't losing sleep over being single. In fact, she’s totally happy with her choice.
During a Q&A session with her fans, Lisa revealed: “I’m happy alone and I don’t want a relationship.”
When one of her fans asked how she stays happy without a partner, Lisa replied: “Please, never make your happiness dependent on someone else!
And, another fan wanted to know how she would react if she became pregnant any time soon.
To which Lisa replied: “I would be very surprised if I could get pregnant with toys alone!"
"I can never imagine a wedding, with the best will in the world," she added.
In the past, Lisa revealed that she’d undergone boob jobs and hyaluronic injections. But she insisted that her impressive butt comes from exercise alone.
"I was really underweight back then. It didn't work out at all. Other girls were bullying me because of my physique. Today I just feel energised and healthy," Lisa said.
Lisa can't seem to understand why women are so focused on being skinny.
"Why are women like this? What's wrong with weighing more than, say, 155 pounds? That says nothing about you as a person. Focusing on a certain number is just bullsh*t!" she lamented.
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A new city break destination has arrived at Birmingham Airport with flights now on sale for the summer. EasyJet has launched a brand new route linking Birmingham to the vibrant city of Nantes.
The announcement follows the arrival of new easyJet summer services to Faro, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca, which are also set to take off for the first time this summer. Flights to Nantes are scheduled to launch on June 27, with weekly departures on Mondays and Fridays.
The new route will offer customers in the Midlands even more choice when it comes to picking a holiday destination for the summer. Once an industrial port city with a thriving shipbuilding industry, Nantes now offers holidaymakers an ideal mix of history, art and culture - not to mention exquisite French cuisine.
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Seats are now on sale from BHX to Nantes, priced from £29.99. Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK country manager said: "We’re delighted to add more new routes to our UK network for the summer and to provide our customers with an even wider range of fantastic destinations to enjoy.
"We are proud to be the largest airline in the UK and remain dedicated to offering low fares and convenient connections and we can’t wait to welcome more customers back on board.”
Tom Screen, aviation director of Birmingham Airport said: "It is great news that today easyJet will be offering flights to Nantes direct from Birmingham Airport. This route, currently unserved from the airport, will ensure that both business and leisure customers will have the opportunity to visit this French city.
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STOCKHOLM, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) (Sobi®) today announced its report for the first quarter of 2022
January – March 2022
- Total revenue SEK 4,925 M (3,661), +35 per cent, +24 per cent at constant exchange rates (CER)
- Haematology revenue SEK 2,499 M (1,877), +25 per cent at CER of which Elocta® SEK 1,024 M (857), +15 per cent at CER; Alprolix® SEK 419 M (413), -3 per cent at CER; Doptelet® SEK 593 M (180), +197 per cent at CER and Aspaveli®/Empaveli™ SEK 4 M (-)
- Immunology revenue SEK 2,119 M (1,554), +24 per cent at CER of which Kineret® SEK 645 M (542), +11 per cent at CER; Synagis® SEK 1,286 M (879), +31 per cent at CER and Gamifant® SEK 189 M (133), +27 per cent at CER
- EBITA1 SEK 1,290 M (1,484), EBITA margin1 26 per cent (41)
- Items affecting comparability2 of SEK -661 M included a provision for expected credit losses in Russia of SEK -157 M. Restructuring comprised contract manufacturing closure of SEK -360 M, site simplification of SEK -72 M and efficiency programmes of SEK -72 M. Excluding these costs, the EBITA adjusted amounted to SEK 1,951 M corresponding to an EBITA margin adjusted1 of 40 per cent (41)
- Efficiency programmes will focus resources into core areas, simplify the organisation and adjust the cost base to enable Sobi to continue sustainable growth and margin improvement over time
- EBIT SEK 776 M (1,034), EBIT adjusted1 SEK 1,437 M (1,034)
- Earnings per share (EPS) before dilution SEK 1.84 (2.36), EPS before dilution adjusted SEK 3.67 (2.36)
- Cash flow from operating activities SEK 1,644 M (1,699)
- Efanesoctocog alfa positive XTEND-1 phase 3 study readout, Gamifant approval in China and other encouraging pipeline milestones 2022 outlook
- Revenue is anticipated to grow by a mid to high single-digit percentage at CER (unchanged)
- EBITA margin is anticipated to be at a low 30s percentage of revenue (now based on EBITA margin adjusted)
Financial summary
Investors, analysts and media are invited to participate in a conference call which will include a presentation of the results and a Q&A session at 13:00 CEST.
The presentation can be followed live here or afterwards on sobi.com. The slides will be made available on sobi.com prior to the conference call.
To participate in the conference call, please call:
Sweden: +46 8 505 583 74 (direct)
UK: +44 3333 009 271 (direct)
US: +1 631 913 1422 (toll) PIN: 27168016#
Sobi®
Sobi is a specialised international biopharmaceutical company transforming the lives of people with rare diseases. Providing sustainable access to innovative medicines in the areas of haematology, immunology and specialty care, Sobi has approximately 1,600 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. In 2021, revenue amounted to SEK 15.5 billion. Sobi's share (STO:SOBI) is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. More about Sobi at sobi.com, LinkedIn and YouTube.
This information is information that Sobi is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, at 08:00 CEST on 28 April 2022.
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Reports | Bangalore to host Ranji Trophy knock-out games will begin on June 4
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According to a report by PTI, the knock-out matches of the Ranji Trophy this season are to be hosted in Bangalore from June 4 after the concussion of IPL 2022. The first quarterfinal between Bengal and Jharkhand will be played from June 4 while the final is set to be played from June 20.
The League stage of the Ranji Trophy 2022 was played before the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League. According to a report by PTI, the knock-out matches of the tournament are scheduled to be played in Bangalore after the IPL. The report states that there will be no compulsory quarantine for players but bio-bubble will be maintained.
Teams and players will have to submit a negative RT-PCR report on their arrival at the venue. The first quarter-final will be played from June 4 while the final game of the tournament will be played from June 20. Bengal will play against Jharkhand in the first quarter-final while Mumbai will be up against Uttarakhand in the second Quarter-final. The third quarter-final will see Karnataka playing against Uttar Pradesh while the fourth will be played between Punjab and Madhya Pradesh.
The two semi-finals will be from June 12 to June 16 and the grand finale of the competition will be held from June 20.
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However, this new research shows the more women understand their finances and investments, the less they worry
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New research examining women's relationship with money, conducted by HerMoney and the Alliance for Lifetime Income, reveals that nearly three out of five (58%) worry about their finances at least several times a month.
In latest chapter of The State of Women 2022 study, 28% worry at least several times a week and 14% worry every single day. Only 10% say they have their financial stress completely under control.
Even among the highest earners, those who report annual household income above $200,000, still, almost half (48%) worry about their money at least several times per month. However, younger women and single women feel the pressure more than others.
- Millennials (64%) worry more than Gen Xers (60%) who worry more than Boomers (51%).
- Nearly two-thirds (64%) of single women worry about their financial situations at least several times a month compared to 56% who are partnered.
- About one of every five single women (19%) worry about their finances daily compared to just 11% of those in relationships.
The online study was conducted in March 2022 among over 1,000 women who are members of the HerMoney community. They range in age from 18 to 75, most are college educated and employed full time. Two-thirds are married or partnered and two out of five have children under the age of 21.
What are the most pervasive money stressors?
When asked what stresses them out the most about money, one third (34%) of women say competing financial priorities, and nearly the same say not having enough money saved (32%). Younger women are significantly more likely to say not earning enough is their biggest financial stressor. However, once women pass 55, their top concern becomes not having enough saved.
HerMoney and the Alliance also looked specifically at women's top concerns when it comes to retirement and retirement planning. As women look ahead, financial concerns significantly outweigh concerns about having purpose in retirement.
The two biggest concerns are the impact of healthcare costs (54%) and running out of money (52%), followed by the impact of market volatility on investments (29%) and getting long-term care later in life (28%). Only 13% are concerned about having purpose in retirement.
Working with a financial advisor that you trust can help alleviate concerns about running out of money. While it's still a major concern, women who have an advisor are significantly less worried about running out of money than those without (44% vs. 58%).
"The bottom line is that the antidote to worry is financial education, the right financial professional and enough protected income to cover basic expenses for as long as you live," said Jean Statler, CEO of the Alliance for Lifetime Income. "The fact is that women continue to earn less and live longer than men, which means they'll need more money in their nest egg. The Alliance's easy-to-use tools and guides can help women gain a better understanding of their finances and estimate their actual income needs in retirement, which can be a big step in reducing their stress and worry."
The more you know, the less you worry
HerMoney and the Alliance's study also points to the key to reducing women's financial worries – knowledge.
Those who say they know the steps it takes to build wealth, make it last and create a retirement income plan worry significantly less than those who say they don't. Specifically:
- 80% of women who don't know what steps to take to build wealth worry several times a month or more compared with just half (50%) of those who do know the steps to take.
- 70% of women who don't know what steps to take to make their money last through retirement worry at least several times a month compared with 45% of those who do.
- 70% of women who don't know what steps to take to create a monthly income plan in retirement worry several times a month or more compared with 48% of those who do.
"After years of debating the effectiveness of financial literacy, it's clear that it has one substantial positive — it can help give us peace of mind so we can stop worrying," said Jean Chatzky, Alliance for Lifetime Income Fellow and HerMoney CEO. "In the first chapter of the study it was encouraging to find that women are engaging and taking more control of their finances — not just managing the household budget but investing and planning for retirement. The real work now becomes the business of creating a financial life that will serve us not just for years but for decades."
What will help women stop worrying?
The State of Women in 2022 study also identified the top three things that would alleviate stress about money:
- Achieving a milestone investment amount (43%)
- A pension or investment that provides an income for the rest of my life (40%)
- A 20% bump in salary (40%)
The Alliance and HerMoney have a variety of tools to make these goals a reality.
About Alliance for Lifetime Income
The Alliance for Lifetime Income is a non‐profit 501(c)(6) educational organization based in Washington, D.C., that creates awareness and educates Americans about the value and importance of having protected lifetime income in retirement. Our vision is for a country where no American has to face the prospect of running out of money in retirement. The Alliance provides consumers and financial advisors with educational resources, interactive tools, and actionable research and insights to use in building retirement income strategies and plans. We believe focusing attention and conversations on retirement income that lasts throughout life leads to greater retirement security for millions of Americans.
About HerMoney Media
HerMoney is a new digital media company focused on improving the relationships women have with money. Started by personal finance expert Jean Chatzky, the mission of HerMoney is to level the playing field for financial security, confidence and power with content that is welcoming, thought-provoking, bold, unbiased and always smart. HerMoney delivers the information women need to manage their money so they can focus on their lives. HerMoney Media is the owner of HerMoney.com, as well as DailyWorth.com.
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Bringing all his charm and puppy prowess to the Queen's Hall as part of his first ever UK tour, Hall is inviting dog and puppy owners in the city to seek his advice for all their canine concerns during a specially crafted 90-minute.
Graeme Hall: The Dogfather Live On Stage comes to the Clerk Street venue on May 26 and features training tricks, memories, heart-warming surprises, as well as a Q&A, all presented in an intimate and relaxed live setting.
With more than 10 years’ experience, a list of celebrity clients, and regular appearances on BBC Breakfast and ITV’s This Morning, Hall has built a glowing reputation for getting 'pooches back on track and trained for life'. A Master Dog Trainer with the Guild of Dog Trainers he provides quick but long-lasting fixes to almost any dog behavioral problem - his motto is 'Any dog, any age, any problem.'
Hall says, “I’m thrilled to be adding extra shows to the tour. For years I’ve been training dogs in village halls and in people’s living rooms, and more recently on TV. I’ve had the chance to write books and record podcasts, now finally I get to do something I’ve always wanted to do.
“I’ll be sharing the lessons I’ve learnt from training thousands of dogs, and telling more than a few funny stories along the way, in my first UKtour. I can’t wait. Come along, learn something and have a laugh with me.”
Heading out on his first-ever UK tour, the TV presenter admits, “I’m excited and nervous. I’ve done a few book tours but it’s the first time I’ll have been on stage in front of such large crowds. I’m used to chatting to an audience but not a whole theatre’s worth. As I always say to people with dogs, ‘If you’re feeling a bit nervous do your best not to show it’ so that’s what I’ll be doing. And I’m really excited about getting out there. If you have a bit of fun and you go away having learned something about your dog then we’re on to a winner.”
In the first section of his The Dogfather Live on Stage 2022 show Hall will take the audience through his golden rules of dog training and how owners can best change their pet’s behaviour, with examples drawn from real life plus behind-the-scenes anecdotes. Then part two will be the audience-driven Q&A.
“So with the first half I know what I’ll be talking about because I’ve planned it, but I’ve no idea exactly how the second half will go because it will vary from venue to venue. It’ll be ‘Over to you’ and it will be really interesting. I also think people like the little bits of humour that are in the TV show. I’m not a stand-up comic but it doesn’t mean we can’t have a laugh.” | https://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/people/dogs-behaving-very-badly-star-the-dogfather-is-coming-to-edinburgh-with-his-tips-for-training-your-puppy-3672413 | 2022-04-28T13:45:51Z | https://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/people/dogs-behaving-very-badly-star-the-dogfather-is-coming-to-edinburgh-with-his-tips-for-training-your-puppy-3672413 | false | 5 |
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Commissioners to keep COVID-19 emergency declaration, limit powers related to spending
In an agreement with commissioners, County Judge Barbara Canales will stay her emergency powers related to procurement, citing low COVID-19 case totals
Nueces County commissioners took a step the county judge said signals a "new day" in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has reportedly caused the deaths of nearly 1,300 people in the county.
The Commissioners Court on Wednesday considered ending a county disaster declaration that was first implemented in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
While commissioners unanimously agreed the county should remain under the disaster declaration, the court voted to limit emergency powers related to procurement that are typically afforded to the county judge while an emergency declaration is in effect.
For more than two years, County Judge Barbara Canales and other leaders in Texas have had broad power because of the public health risks of the pandemic to close and open public places, approve contracts and establish emergency shelters, testing sites and vaccine distribution locations.
In Texas, the county judge is the head of county emergency management.
Now, the majority of the court — not solely Canales — would need to vote in favor of emergency procurements related to the county's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Canales said the court has already been doing this for some time.
Rather than outright rescind the disaster declaration, Canales said she and commissioners agreed to keep it in place in order to not hinder the county's chance at partial reimbursements for COVID-related spending.
Canales said the county's response to COVID-19 is ongoing, asking the community not to misinterpret the court's action on Wednesday for the pandemic ending.
"Today, while we were in court, we had an additional COVID death — a person in their 50s, no comorbidities," Canales said. "I do believe the spirit of today is to make certain we do not — and I repeat, do not — hinder our own reimbursements as we have ongoing activity with COVID-19."
The court's decision comes the same week Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, told The Associated Press the U.S. has entered "a different moment" of the pandemic.
Fauci told the news service that though the pandemic is not over, COVID-19 is better under control nationally.
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COVID-19 cases are at a low point compared to recent months and two-thirds of the U.S. population is vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
In Texas, 77% of the population above 5 years of age in Texas has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Wednesday. More than 65% are fully vaccinated, according to Texas Department of State Health Services data.
Nueces County is below the state's average vaccination rate, reporting that 70.4% of county residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 60.9% are fully vaccinated.
To date, Nueces County has reported 61,125 total cases and 1,266 deaths due to COVID-19, according to state data.
Should COVID-19 numbers rise and the public health risk increase, Canales said she would approach the court to regain those powers concerning procurement.
"There are reasons (those powers) exist, and they are good reasons," she said.
Commissioners directed the county attorney, Jenny Dorsey, to draft a document outlining the agreement passed by the court as soon as possible.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Africa is seeing a surge of outbreaks of preventable diseases as a result of disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
The continent recorded a 400% increase in measles, to more than 17,000 cases between January and March, compared to the same period last year, Dr. Benido Impouma, a WHO expert in Africa, told a press briefing.
Two years of disruptions by the coronavirus pandemic have had “major effects on the provision of routine health services, with immunization being seriously affected” in many countries, he said.
Twenty-four countries confirmed outbreaks of polio last year, four times more than in 2020. Last year 13 countries reported new outbreaks of yellow fever, rising from nine in 2020 and three in 2019, according to WHO figures.
“The rise in outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases is a warning sign,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO regional director for Africa, said in a statement. “As Africa works hard to defeat COVID-19, we must not forget other health threats. Health systems could be severely strained not only by COVID-19 but by other diseases.”
The continent of 1.3 billion people has reported 11.4 million COVID-19 cases, including 252,000 deaths, according to figures from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although the virus had been trending downwards since January, the WHO reported a rise in cases Thursday driven by a doubling of infection rates in South Africa, the African country most affected by the pandemic.
Impouma, the WHO official, said that in the wake of the pandemic the agency seeks to support countries to scale up COVID-19 vaccinations as well as routine immunization services.
“The same is true for routine immunization as for COVID,” said Helen Rees, executive director of a reproductive health and HIV institute at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand. “There is the direct health … problem, but there’s this spinoff in terms of adversely affecting poor development and contributing to poverty, which is absolutely critical for our region.”
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Two years after its initial funding, award-winning legal tech organization opens new office and hires more staff to support exponential growth
PRINCETON, N.J., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Malbek, today's most cutting-edge, AI-fueled Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform, today announced the grand opening of its new headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. The new office provides room for growth and demonstrates the company's continued investment in innovation and strategic expansion as more enterprises turn to Malbek to meet their evolving CLM needs.
"We are thrilled to call Carnegie Center Princeton our new headquarters and begin this new chapter in our company's history," said Matt Patel, COO and co-founder of Malbek. "Since our founding in 2017, we have focused on using cutting-edge technology to simplify contracts and the entire CLM user experience. This new office provides a hybrid model for our team to enjoy a vibrant and collaborative workspace so we can continue to find new ways to delight current and future customers."
The organization marks this milestone as it commemorates the two-year anniversary of its initial $3 million funding by Osage Venture partners. In September 2021, Malbek received $15.3 million in its Series A funding round, led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation from Osage Venture Partners and TDF Ventures.
"We remain as impressed with the Malbek team as when we initially invested, and we congratulate them on the opening of their new headquarters," said Nate Lentz, managing partner of Osage Venture Partners. "This team is made up of talented people, building a great product and meeting an unmet need in the market. With that winning combination, we are confident in their continued success."
Patel also credits support from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) with helping to fuel the company's growth. Representatives from Malbek previously attended one of the NJEDA's New Jersey Founders & Funders events, where they gained invaluable feedback during one-on-one discussions with seasoned investors. In its early days, the company participated in the NJEDA's Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer (NOL) Program.
Malbek was born with a vision to offer next-generation contract management that delights the user and accelerates ROI. In a very short period, the company has proven itself as a trusted contract management solution provider for large, international customers across multiple industries, more than tripling its customer signups and its team size in the last year, while continuing to attract and hire top talent.
To learn more about open roles at the company, visit https://www.malbek.io/all-careers-page.
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Malbek is today's most modern, cutting-edge CLM solution with a proprietary AI core that empowers the enterprise to do more with less. By supporting the growing contracting demands of your entire organization, including Sales, Finance, Procurement, and other critical business units, Malbek's CLM solution delights every user. Malbek provides end-to-end contract management with out-of-the-box integration to popular business applications, like Salesforce, NetSuite, Slack, Office 365, and others, allowing your contract data to flow seamlessly while dramatically reducing cycle times. That's contracts reimagined! To learn more, visit www.malbek.io.
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Guterres's visit to Ukraine saw him travel to Irpin and Bucha, where alleged Russian atrocities included the killing of hundreds of civilians. Photograph:( AFP )
Guterres also asked Russia to assist the International Criminal Court (ICC) on investigations into suspected war crimes committed during its invasion of Ukraine during a subsequent visit to Bucha.
During a visit to Borodyanka, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described war as "evil" and "absurd."
During Guterres' tour, he also went to Irpin and Bucha, where hundreds of civilians were allegedly killed by Russian forces. Multiple investigations into possible war crimes in Ukraine have been begun, including by Ukrainian authorities and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
"I imagine my family in one of those houses that is now destroyed and black. I saw my granddaughters running away in panic. War is an absurdity in the 21st century. The war is evil. There is no way a war can be acceptable in the 21st century," Guterres said.
Guterres also asked Russia to assist the International Criminal Court (ICC) on investigations into suspected war crimes committed during its invasion of Ukraine during a subsequent visit to Bucha.
"I fully support the ICC and I appeal to the Russian Federation to accept, to cooperate with the ICC. But when we talk about war crimes, we cannot forget that the worst of crimes is war itself," he said during a visit to Bucha outside Kyiv, where hundreds of dead civilians were discovered after Russian troops pulled out.
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The death of civilians was revealed to Guterres in Bucha, at the location of a mass grave behind a church.
"Here, you feel how important it is for a thorough investigation and accountability," the UN secretary-general added.
"I fully support the international criminal court and appeal to the Russian federation to accept to cooperate with the ICC (the International Criminal Court). But when we talk of war crimes we cannot forget that the worst of crimes is war itself."
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Despite widespread criticism of Russian atrocities in the Kyiv satellite towns of Bucha and Irpin, Ukrainian President Zelensky has stated that the situation in Borodianka is "far more dreadful" than in Bucha.
Guterres is scheduled to meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later on Thursday after his visit to Bucha.
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LONDON (AP) — British fraud investigators have raided the U.K. offices of the GFG Alliance, owners of the country’s third-largest steelmaker, as part of an investigation into possible fraud and money laundering related to financing from a now-bankrupt lender with ties to former Prime Minister David Cameron.
The Serious Fraud Office opened an investigation last year after Greensill Capital’s collapse forced the owner of Liberty Steel, which has thousands of staff in the U.K., to seek a government bailout. British media have reported that Cameron lobbied government officials, including Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock, on behalf of Greensill.
The fraud office said Wednesday that it is investigating possible fraud, fraudulent trading and money laundering in relation to companies within GFG, also known as the Gupta Family Group Alliance, including “financing arrangements” with Greensill. Investigators have requested documents, including balance sheets, annual reports and correspondence related to the investigation, the agency said.
In a memo to employees, GFG denied any wrongdoing and pledged to cooperate with investigators.
“As part of their ongoing investigation they have today issued procedural … requests for information to some of our U.K. sites, as expected,” GFG said in the memo. “We will comply with the information request orders and will continue to cooperate fully in all manners.”
The company declined to comment.
GFG is led by Executive Chairman Sanjeev Gupta, who was once praised as the “savior of steel” for rescuing struggling steelmakers.
GFG used “supply-chain finance services” offered by Greensill. This meant that if GFG sold a product to another company, it could send the invoice to Greensill and be paid right away, rather than having to wait potentially months for the customer to pay its bills.
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Benchmark indices closed over 1 percent higher on Thursday with Sensex surging 701.67 points or 1.23 percent at 57,521.06, and the Nifty adding 206.60 points or 1.21 percent at 17,245. From Hindustan Unilever to Bajaj Auto, Indian Hotels, Laurus Labs and more, here are the key stocks that moved the most on April 28. | https://www.cnbctv18.com/photos/market/stocks/hul-bajaj-auto-indian-hotels-laurus-labs-key-stocks-that-moved-the-most-on-april-28-13315422.htm/amp | 2022-04-28T13:51:22Z | https://www.cnbctv18.com/photos/market/stocks/hul-bajaj-auto-indian-hotels-laurus-labs-key-stocks-that-moved-the-most-on-april-28-13315422.htm/amp | true | null |
Apple's iPhone 12 is again listed on e-commerce sites at discounted prices. Amazon is selling the iPhone with a starting price of Rs 54,999, whereas Flipkart is offering it for Rs 56,999. But, you can get the iPhone 12 at a much lower price with some bank and exchange offers. Both the sites have different offers. If you have been waiting for a good iPhone deal, then you can check out the details below.
The iPhone 12 is currently on sale for Rs 56,999 on Flipkart, but there is a Rs 4,000 instant discount offer on an HDFC credit card. This effectively brings down the price to Rs 52,999. However, this price is for the 64GB storage model. Those who want more storage will have to spend more. The 128GB variant is being sold for Rs 61,999. With HDFC bank offer, the price would be Rs 57,999. Do note that the bank offer is not available on all the colour variants, so you will have to check that on the site. The above-mentioned offers were available for Red and Black colour models at the time of writing this article.
On Amazon, the device is available at a much lower price, but the offer is not that great. The iPhone 12 is listed for Rs 54,900 on this e-commerce site and there is only 10 percent discount (up to Rs 2,000) on Bank of Baroda, Federal bank, and Standard Chartered credit cards. As for the exchange offers, there is up to Rs 11,400 off on Amazon and up to Rs 13,000 on Flipkart. Users can check both the deals on the respective sites and avail exchange offers as well, which will bring down the price by a big margin.
It is important to note that Apple is still selling the iPhone 12 at its retail price of Rs 65,900 via the official India store, but you are getting this phone at a much lower price on these e-commerce sites.
Yes, it is. In the above-mentioned price range, you are getting a lot. If you can't afford the more expensive iPhone 13 series, then iPhone 12 is still one of the best options for iOS lovers if they can spend close to Rs 50,000 on a phone. The iPhone 12 was launched in 2020, but it is still a great smartphone that will offer you a powerful performance and here, you don't have to worry about long-term software support, as Apple releases the latest version of iOS for most of the models.
It is capable of offering you picturesque shots, and a day's battery life with light usage. One will get an excellent content viewing experience on a 6.1-inch screen, which, in my opinion, is an ideal size. The iPhone 12 also comes with support for next-generation 5G cellular connectivity. The device is IP68 rated, which means you don't have to worry about the phone during the rainy season. Apple has also provided wireless charging support. What else do you want? The handset even has a striking design. Though, there is one area where you might get disappointed. Apple no longer ships a charger in the box, so you will be required to spend extra on this too.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WAVY) — Herbert Maybank was born into a small community in Charleston called Rosemont. He doesn’t live in the neighborhood anymore, but his family still calls it home.
“Even from my childhood, I can remember the closeness of the village,” he said.
Jennifer Curry calls Rosemont home, too. She’s chosen to raise her family in an elevated house right by the marsh. She said community members are like extended family.
“We have a lot of kids, which is nice,” she said. “You see them running around with each other. Definitely brother-sister vibes.”
Curry and Maybank agree: Rosemont is a charming community and a wonderful place to call home. But they both say it’s also a community plagued by flooding, poor drainage, and systemic neglect. Community leaders, like Maybank, have raised quality-of-life issues with government-run agencies in Charleston, but they say their requests for help have been routinely ignored.
“We try to take care of each other through the struggles of being a community that has inequities that goes on,” Maybank said. “The disparities, the feeling of less than that’s a common thread that comes throughout the community.”
Over the last few years, there’s been tangible progress in Rosemont, but it didn’t begin with local government. Instead, it’s a grassroots effort driven by community members that started with a simple invitation to an environmental justice group: The Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC).
LAMC is a nonprofit organization focused on building healthy communities and families. LAMC Executive Director Omar Muhammad said that the organization strives to tap into the agency communities already have and empower them to advocate for a seat at the table to address issues like housing, economic development, education, and environmental justice.
LAMC doesn’t come into a community uninvited, Muhammad said.
“We are invited because we want the communities invested in the process,” he added
That invitation from Rosemont came in 2018 when the community executive board asked LAMC to help them become a more sustainable and impactful organization. The relationship began slowly with LAMC spending a lot of time listening to residents about their concerns, hopes, and goals.
“You tap into the strengths that they already have. The agency that the community has,” Muhammad said.
Together, Rosemont and LAMC have accomplished a lot.
Neighborhood leaders participated in LAMC’s Environmental Justice Academy to develop a community profile and a shared vision of Rosemont’s future.
“What we have found is when communities lack a shared vision for their neighborhood, then a lot of times those neighborhoods are taken advantage of,” Muhammad said.
Rosemont is also one of eight underserved communities across South Carolina that will participate in a new initiative called Environmental Justice (EJ) Strong. Funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, EJ Strong will empower communities to plan for and recover from natural disasters, like hurricanes, flooding, and pandemics.
“I think history has shown this too: We can’t depend on government. We can’t wait on government to respond to our emergencies,” Muhammad said.
LAMC is also working with Rosemont to develop a community-led resiliency plan that will address immediate needs in the neighborhood, like lack of drainage and recurrent flooding. This process lets Rosemont residents to use their shared vision to come up with solutions that they can live with. The next step is working on those solutions with government leaders, like Chief Resiliency Officer Dale Morris.
Morris acknowledges that Rosemont has been neglected in ways that other neighborhoods on Charleston’s Peninsula have not.
“If we don’t hear what they’re saying, we’re going to miss the opportunity to do something significant for them,” Morris said.
“LAMC has provided that trusted door opening for us,” he added.
An open door that Rosemont residents are walking through, cautiously.
“We’re coming together and looking for solutions, and right now the immediate help that’s available has presented itself, but again, our history says that they come, and they offer, and they do nothing. We’re hoping for more now,” Maybank said.
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Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD – Get Rating) issued an update on its second quarter earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.70 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.78. Church & Dwight also updated its FY22 guidance to ~$3.14 EPS.
Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on CHD shares. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Church & Dwight from a sell rating to a hold rating and set a $109.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, April 12th. Truist Financial raised their price objective on shares of Church & Dwight from $100.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock a buy rating in a research note on Monday, January 31st. Morgan Stanley raised their price objective on shares of Church & Dwight from $80.00 to $86.00 and gave the stock an underweight rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 12th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price objective on shares of Church & Dwight from $97.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock a hold rating in a research note on Monday, January 31st. Finally, Credit Suisse Group downgraded shares of Church & Dwight from an outperform rating to a neutral rating and set a $105.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Wednesday, January 26th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have given a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $99.38.
Shares of CHD stock opened at $104.16 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50, a current ratio of 0.59 and a quick ratio of 0.34. The stock has a market cap of $25.28 billion, a PE ratio of 31.47, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.04 and a beta of 0.43. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $99.63 and a 200-day moving average of $96.74. Church & Dwight has a one year low of $80.76 and a one year high of $105.28.
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, June 1st. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.2625 per share. This represents a $1.05 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.01%. Church & Dwight’s dividend payout ratio is currently 31.72%.
In other news, Director Penry W. Price sold 16,718 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, February 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $98.39, for a total transaction of $1,644,884.02. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Corporate insiders own 1.70% of the company’s stock.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Barclays PLC increased its position in Church & Dwight by 36.2% during the 4th quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 601,458 shares of the company’s stock worth $61,648,000 after buying an additional 159,713 shares during the period. Deutsche Bank AG increased its position in Church & Dwight by 11.3% during the 4th quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 1,292,005 shares of the company’s stock worth $132,430,000 after buying an additional 131,171 shares during the period. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans increased its position in Church & Dwight by 186.2% during the 4th quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 186,668 shares of the company’s stock worth $17,643,000 after buying an additional 121,443 shares during the period. Allstate Corp bought a new position in Church & Dwight during the 4th quarter worth $2,874,000. Finally, NewEdge Advisors LLC bought a new position in Church & Dwight during the 4th quarter worth $2,314,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 84.22% of the company’s stock.
Church & Dwight Company Profile (Get Rating)
Church & Dwight Co, Inc develops, manufactures, and markets household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates through three segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products Division. The company offers cat litters, carpet deodorizers, laundry detergents, and baking soda, as well as other baking soda based products under the ARM & HAMMER brand; condoms, lubricants, and vibrators under the TROJAN brand; stain removers, cleaning solutions, laundry detergents, and bleach alternatives under the OXICLEAN brand; battery-operated and manual toothbrushes under the SPINBRUSH brand; home pregnancy and ovulation test kits under the FIRST RESPONSE brand; depilatories under the NAIR brand; oral analgesics under the ORAJEL brand; laundry detergents under the XTRA brand; gummy dietary supplements under the L'IL CRITTERS and VITAFUSION brands; dry shampoos under the BATISTE brand; water flossers and replacement showerheads under the WATERPIK brand; FLAWLESS products; cold shortening and relief products under the ZICAM brand; and oral care products under the THERABREATH brand.
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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (NYSE:CCEP – Get Rating) had its price objective lowered by analysts at Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft from $66.00 to $59.00 in a note issued to investors on Thursday, The Fly reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft’s price objective would indicate a potential upside of 14.83% from the stock’s current price.
CCEP has been the subject of several other research reports. Oddo Bhf upgraded Coca-Cola Europacific Partners from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $60.85 price objective for the company in a report on Thursday, March 17th. Zacks Investment Research upgraded Coca-Cola Europacific Partners from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 23rd. Credit Suisse Group reduced their target price on Coca-Cola Europacific Partners from €61.00 ($65.59) to €60.00 ($64.52) and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 18th. ING Group began coverage on Coca-Cola Europacific Partners in a research note on Tuesday, February 8th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $71.05 target price for the company. Finally, Bank of America reduced their price objective on Coca-Cola Europacific Partners from $68.00 to $55.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, March 9th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and thirteen have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $64.22.
Shares of NYSE CCEP opened at $51.38 on Thursday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.76, a current ratio of 0.95 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.64. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $49.38 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $53.16. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a 12-month low of $42.33 and a 12-month high of $63.04.
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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC, together with its subsidiaries, produces, distributes, and sells a range of non-alcoholic ready to drink beverages. The company offers flavours, mixers, and energy drinks; soft drinks, waters, enhanced water, and isotonic drinks; and ready-to-drink tea and coffee, juices, and other drinks.
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The B-52s to launch a US farewell tour this summer
NEW YORK — (AP) — The quirky dance-pop outfit The B-52s are hitting the road one last time for a final tour this summer that will roam from coast to coast.
“No one likes to throw a party more than we do, but after almost a half-century on the road, it’s time for one last blow-out,” said Fred Schneider, co-founder and singer for the Athens, Georgia-based band, in a statement.
The band burst onto the New Wave scene in 1979 with songs like “Rock Lobster” and cracked the pop charts in the late ’80s with the party classics “Love Shack” and “Roam.”
Their North American farewell tour will visit 10 cities across the U.S., kicking off Aug. 22 in Seattle and ending Nov. 11 in Atlanta. Stops include Boston, Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C. Supporting the band will be The Tubes or KC & The Sunshine Band.
Tickets are available at The B-52s.com.
“Who knew what started as a way to have some fun and play music for our friends’ at house parties in Athens in 1977 would evolve into over 45 years of making music and touring the world. It’s been cosmic,” said co-founder Kate Pierson in a statement.
While the band may be saying goodbye from the road, the members are the subject of a documentary to be released in 2023 directed by Craig Johnson and produced by Fred Armisen.
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London, April 28: Durham’s Ben Stokes on Thursday (April 28) has been appointed captain of the England Men’s Test team by the England & Wales Cricket Board.
Stokes succeeds Joe Root in becoming the 81stcaptain of the England Men’s Test team.
The ECB Interim Chair and Chief Executive Officer approved the appointment following the recommendation by the Managing Director of England Men’s Cricket, Rob Key.
Commenting on the appointment, Managing Director of England Men’s Cricket, Rob Key, said: “I had no hesitation in offering the role of Test captain to Ben.
“He epitomises the mentality and approach we want to take this team forward into the next era of red-ball cricket. I am delighted that he has accepted, and he is ready for the added responsibility and the honour. He thoroughly deserves the opportunity.”
Tom Harrison, ECB Chief Executive Officer, said: “I am delighted that Ben has agreed to become England Men’s Test captain, which is another great achievement in his extraordinary career in an England shirt.
“He cares deeply and passionately about what it means to represent England and he will lead us into a new era with great pride. It’s an important summer for our Test side and Ben will I am sure relish the challenge before him and his team.”
Stokes made his Test debut in December 2013 and has represented his country on 79 occasions at this level. He was named vice-captain in February 2017 and also stood in as captain when Root was absent for the birth of his second child in the summer of 2020.
The Durham star currently has 5,061 Test runs at an average of 35.89. He has taken 174 wickets with the ball and is amongst the best all-rounders in the world.
England Men’s Test Captain, Ben Stokes, said: “I am honoured to be given the chance to lead the England Test team. This is a real privilege, and I’m excited about getting started this summer.
“I want to thank Joe (Root) for everything he has done for English Cricket and for always being a great ambassador for the sport all across the world.
“He has been a massive part of my development as a leader in the dressing room, and he will continue to be a key ally for me in this role.”
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German prosecutors suspect terror in extremist blackout plan
BERLIN — (AP) — German federal prosecutors on Tuesday took over an investigation of anti-government extremists who allegedly planned to cause a long nationwide blackout and kidnap the country's health minister, saying there's evidence that the group constituted a terror organization.
Four German men were arrested on April 13 over their alleged roles in the plot, which authorities suspect was aimed at producing “conditions similar to civil war” and ultimately bringing down the government and parliamentary democracy.
Federal prosecutors, who in Germany handle terrorism and national security cases, said they were stepping in because there are sufficient indications that the suspects may have founded or been members of a terrorist organization. The men are also suspected of preparing a serious act of violence and violating weapons laws.
Investigators have said that the suspects were associated with the protest movement against coronavirus restrictions and with the Reich Citizens movement, which disputes the legitimacy of the post-World War II German constitution and, by extension, the current government.
Authorities said at the time of the arrests that the group’s declared aim was to destroy electricity supply facilities and cause a long blackout across the country as part of its goal of creating chaos. Police seized 22 firearms, including a Kalashnikov rifle, along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, thousands of euros in cash, and numerous gold bars and silver coins. They also found forged COVID-19 vaccination and test certificates.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said earlier this month that the investigation pointed to “a serious terrorist threat,” and that the plan to kidnap Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and fantasies about overthrowing democracy constitute “a new quality of threat.”
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The trailers of ‘Modern Love’ India chapter were released on Thursday at a Prime Video India’s fifth anniversary at a suburban hotel in Mumbai.
The India chapter of the hit international series features three versions from cosmopolitan cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai.
The Indian adaptations of ‘Modern Love’ explore heart-warming stories of different facets, shades and moods of love, all set in India’s three biggest cities with many unique milieus.
‘Modern Love Mumbai’ brings together six directors Vishal Bharadwaj, Hansal Mehta, Shonali Bose, Dhruv Sehgal, Alankrita Shrivastava and Nupur Asthana. Penned by Nilesh Maniyar, John Belanger, Hansal Mehta, Ankur Harish Pathak, Raghav Raj Kakkar, Kashyap Kapoor, Alankrita Srivastava, Jyotsna Hariharan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Dhruv Sehgal, Devika Bhagat and Nupur Asthana.
The cast includes Masaba Gupta, Ritwik Bhowmik, Sarika, Danesh Razvi, Tanvi Azmi, Tanuja, Pratik Gandhi, Ranveer Brar, Meiyang Chang, Yeo Yann Yann, Wamiqa Gabbi, Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Chitrangada Singh .
‘Modern Love Mumbai’ is created by Rangita and Ishita Pritish Nandy under the banner of Pritish Nandy Communications.
‘Modern Love Chennai’ (Tamil) has been directed by Bharathi Raja, Balaji Sakthivel, Raju Murugan, Krishnakumar Ramakumar and Akshay Sundher with scripts from Balaji Tharaneetharan, Rajumurugan, Reshma Ghatala, Pratheep Kumar and Thiagarajan Kumararaja.
Produced by Tyler Durden and Kino Fist, ‘Modern Love Chennai’ stars Kishore, Ramya Nambeesan, Ashok Selvan, Ritu Varma, Vijayalakshmi, TJ Banu, Gouri Reddy, Samyuktha Vishwanathan, Vasudevan Murali, Chu Khoy Sheng and Sanjula S.
‘Modern Love Hyderabad’ (Telugu) brings out stories set in the India’s tech capital Hyderabad.
The Hyderabad leaf has been produced by SIC Productions (Films) with directors Nagesh Kukunoor, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala and Devika Bahudanam at the helm of affairs. The stories have been penned by Nagesh Kukunoor, Shashi Sudigala and Bahaish Kapoor.
‘Modern Love Hyderabad’ stars Aadhi Pinisetty, Nithya Menen, Ritu Varma, Suhasini Maniratnam, Revathy, Naresh, Malavika Nair, Abijeet Duddala, Naresh Agastya, Komalee Prasad and Ulka Gupta.
All episodes will be available to stream on Prime Video starting May 13.
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To the editor:
When I read the description of the parent series hosted by NYS titled, “I’m a Good Person! Isn’t That Enough,” I was confused by a workshop “designed to support white people in making the paradigm shift from ‘fixing’ and ‘helping’ to focusing on internalized white superiority and its role in perpetuating racism at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels.”
Having grown up in a multi-racial community, I never felt that I had “internalized white superiority,” yet here was an educator who was going to teach this idea to parents in our town and in turn our children. This workshop feels to many parents/residents in the community as though it’s focusing on the color of people’s skin, not their character, as to what differentiates them from each other. There may be a difference of opinion on that, and that’s OK. That is the very freedom that makes us all blessed to live in this country.
This is a shift from what NYS has historically been great at — providing camps, after-school hang outs, Elf program, etc. — that many of us have supported over the years.
NYS is not a private organization but a city department funded with our tax dollars, and an organization that works closely with our children; therefore, the public/taxpayers have a right to their perspective on the programs being offered. There were two attempts made, by a growing number of concerned residents, to City Council to have their voices heard. The letters were read at two City Council meetings, but the majority voted to “receive and file” the letters versus referring them to a committee. The process of receiving letters from the community, and referring them to a committee for further discussion, allows the council to uncover a lot of good information about what’s going on in the community. Most letters from the community are in fact referred to a committee for further discussion, yet these letters had two failed attempts. Not all council members voted to “receive and file,” but the majority did.
It is important to allow everyone to be heard respectfully, regardless of differences of opinions. When residents/taxpayers put their time and energy into writing letters to express their concerns to their city officials and attend City Council meetings, only to have those letters motioned to be “received and filed” away because some don’t feel the topic is worthy of discussion, it feels...well...very un-American.
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My fondness for the mega-hit musical “Cats” received a jolt in the late 80s. I’d thoroughly enjoyed seeing the show with its original cast in 1983 and now I’m looking forward giving it another look when the latest national touring production plays at Proctors for six performances May 3-7. But within a few years of my first “Cats” encounter I was living in New York City and attending classical and avant garde concerts far more often than Broadway musicals. Watching the ABC drama “Thirtysomething” with friends one evening, I was taken aback to hear one of the characters (Melissa, the sassy redhead) apologize for something and add, “I should be made to see ‘Cats’ again.”
This was my rude introduction to the phenomena of a cultural backlash, something New Yorkers always seem to relish. It was also my awakening to the fact that “Cats,” already well on its way to a historic Broadway run at the Wintergarden, was not universally loved. Though I was never an avid musical theater buff, I was transfixed by the songs, dances and spectacle of it all. Again, this was prior to my discovering John Cage and Philip Glass. The marketing also got me. I was wearing a black t-shirt adorned with those big yellow eyes before I ever saw the show.
Granted, I was predisposed to enjoying “Cats” because of Betty Buckley, its Tony Award-winning star. Back home in Fort Worth, Texas where we both grew up, she was known to all as Betty Lynn and our parents were friends. I made my way backstage to say hello to her after seeing “Cats,” and again after seeing her in “Sunset Boulevard” in the ‘90s. The most difficult interview I ever conducted during my many years of writing for the Times Union was with Buckley when she appeared in “Three Penny Opera” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. But that’s another story.
After seeing the bizarre quasi-animated film version of “Cats” a couple years ago and now anticipating the return to Proctors, it seemed like a good time to take the temperature of some local theater professionals. My one question was simple: “Cats,” love it or hate it? Following are excerpts from email exchanges.
Krysta Dennis, Producer of Creative Arts at Siena College:
I hate “Cats.” When I hear the first bars of “Memory” I start looking furtively around for the exits. And yet I love to hate “Cats.” Indeed, it seems to have taken up a significant amount of real estate in my brain.
When I am teaching my Business of Art students about the spectacularly effective marketing campaigns of Cameron Mackintosh’s mega-musicals, I show them the shining yellow cat’s eyes with dancers embedded within them, and I ask, “What is this?” They respond in eye-rolling unison, “Cats.”
It is everywhere, an unavoidable piece of musical theatre culture. Try as I might, I cannot remember my first encounter with “Cats.” It is as if it has always been there.
Jim Charles, former artistic director of C-R Productions at the Cohoes Music Hall:
I love it. But when I first saw the show I wasn’t so sure. For years we produced shows that I was not fond of but I always gave them a second look. Once we broke it down and got to know it, I really enjoyed it. The story of Grizabella touched me and Old Deuteronomy brought a sense of transcendence.
Our audience loved the idea of it, actors that were dressed as cats popping into your face. At the student matinees we enlightened another generation.
One memory that will haunt me to the day I die was seeing Betty Buckley. She was unbelievable. When she came on stage, you forgot about everything else.
Kyle West, Executive & Artistic Director, Fort Salem Theater:
“Cats” is polarizing especially among the theater community, but I think it gets a bad rap. To those who question the plot, I challenge that it's not unlike “A Chorus Line,” or the more recent musical “Hands on a Hardbody.” In each show, every character steps forward and tells their story in hopes of being selected for the final prize.
“Cats” was one of the first professional productions I saw as a young dancer, and I remember having the feeling that I literally never wanted the show to end. I was so overwhelmed by the choreography and the creative storytelling and felt that I didn't want to blink and miss a single moment.
Nancy Timpanaro-Hogan, cabaret performer:
I lean towards intense dislike. I bought my parents tickets to “Cats” when it first opened as a Christmas present. My parents, who loved the theater and all musicals, actually walked out of the show! They thought it was silly and insipid. I tend to agree!
But I know I'm obviously in the minority. It's a musical fantasy and people love theatrical fantasy. It’s definitely an escape and there are parts that are actually quite moving.
Josh D. Smith, music director Capital Rep:
“Cats” was huge when I was a kid. I remember the television commercial for the Broadway run playing during Saturday morning cartoons. But I never went to see it as an adult.
When I was approached to conduct it for a company in Vermont, I offered up several alternative shows I thought would work better. I really wasn’t interested but I reluctantly took the job when they agreed with my terms to hire a full orchestra. I conducted and got to watch those dancers give a tour de force each night – the combination was exhilarating.
"Cats"
When: Opens 7:30 p.m. Tuesday May 3 and continues for five more performances through Saturday, May 7.
Where: Proctors, 432 State Street, Schenectady.
Tickets: $20.50-$95.50. Call (518) 346-6204. Or visit: proctors.org.
There were several members of the Broadway company involved in this regional production and they had some glorious stories. Any show that runs as long as “Cats” did is bound to have some stories!
Michael Eck, former Times Union theater critic
I'm with the rest of the critical gang on this one. Seeing it once was more than enough, even if some of the songs did stick in the head like a stray claw swung too hard.
That said, I caught a rendition of the show at Cohoes Music Hall years ago that genuinely moved me, and I love when that happens. I love when something you’ve already formulated an opinion on, especially a strong one, turns you on your heel and changes your mind, even if only for a moment.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ California Water Service Group Holding (CWT) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $1.1 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the San Jose, California-based company said it had net income of 2 cents.
The water utility posted revenue of $173 million in the period.
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Offering opinions that run counter to the 24/7 U.S. war propaganda about Ukraine is probably a foolhardy exercise.
Questioning the official narrative about the conflict in Ukraine invites neo-McCarthyite slurs ranging from Putin pawn and Kremlin apologist to Russian appeaser and even traitor. However, I’ve always spoken my mind and will continue to do so.
It doesn’t excuse Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive and egregious miscalculation to cite the quarter century of U.S./NATO provocations and rejections of Russian security concerns that created the conditions for this conflict.
Many experts in and out of government warned that NATO’s relentless expansion eastward toward Russia’s border was a brazen, reckless act that would virtually guarantee a military response.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO, counter to Russian wishes, added Poland, Latvia and Estonia to its alliance. Several times, Russia made it unequivocally clear that its red line, never to be crossed, would be offering Ukraine membership in NATO.
In 1997 George Kennan, the dean of America’s Russian experts and father of U.S. containment strategy, wrote “… expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post Cold War era. I think it’s a tragic mistake.”
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has long warned about U.S. meddling in Ukrainian affairs, calling for the country to remain neutral. “But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them,” he wrote in 2014.
In 2000, William Burns, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and current CIA director, wrote in his memoir, “Back Channel,” that Ukraine’s entry into NATO is the brightest of all red lines for the Russian elites, all of whom would see it as a direct challenge to Russian interests.
Despite that warnings and others NATO concluded its 2008 summit in Bucharest by welcoming “Ukraine’s aspirations for membership.”
In 2013 and 2014, Ukraine continued to be a sore point in Russian-American relations. As a popular movement against the pro-Russian government gained momentum, the United States supported the opposition and funneled $5 billion in aid to the country, according to then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland.
The pro-Russian president of the country fled in 2014 after popular unrest. Russia responded with an invasion of the eastern region of the country in support of separatists.
Fighting followed, in which thousands died before a temporary truce was reached. In the years that followed, Washington poured weapons and military advisers into Ukraine. Joint exercises took place between U.S. and Ukrainian forces in Europe, and some Ukrainian soldiers were brought to the U.S. for special training.
Ukraine’s possible NATO membership was repeatedly discussed, although never acted on.
One can only imagine how the United States would respond if, say, China were to sign a mutual security pact with Mexico and then began making preparations to install missiles with multiple nuclear warheads that could reach the East Coast of the United States, including Washington, D.C.
How long before the U.S. would launch a military response? Overnight? In other words, if Ukraine is free to make its own choices, does that not apply equally to Mexico or Canada?
Is it implausible to suggest that Washington sought to poke the Russian bear in the eye, entangle it in a new Afghanistan and then hope to bleed and debilitate it? Put another way, Ukraine is a U.S. proxy war with Russia in which Washington will prolong the fight to the last Ukrainian.
Ukraine appears to be the precursor to erecting a new Iron Curtain encircling Russia. However, the cohesion now existing between Europe and the U.S. seen in the imposition of sanctions on Russia will probably be short lived.
Mutually beneficial trade (especially in energy) and development with Russia will prove irresistible. As economic analysts point out, there is a steep cost of lost opportunities to European business interests, in trade and investment in Russia, as the price for their continued obedience to U.S. global ambitions.
In addition, Europeans will resent the fact that NATO is now an extension of the Pentagon, and its taxpayers will rebel against the cost of increased defense budgets.
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So how did White Hot leave the Miami Heat seeing red in Tuesday night’s series-clinching victory over the Atlanta Hawks at FTX Arena? It turns out the playoff theme at times can create a color bind.
Such was the case in Game 5 of the opening round, when the Heat played in their Statement Edition red uniforms at home, with the visiting Hawks wearing white amid the Heat’s whiteout.
As Heat Vice President Michael McCullough explained to the Sun Sentinel, the intent behind the “White Hot” campaign primarily is designed as an immersive fan experience.
“The red uniform carries a certain meaning within the organization,” McCullough said, “and we always want to provide the flexibility for the team to wear what they want to wear.”
Such decisions are a combined effort of both basketball operations and the team’s marketing arm. Basketball operations at times will alternate after a loss or losing streak in a certain color scheme. Such was the case in 2018 in the wake of a home losing streak in the team’s black Vice Nights since-retired alternate jerseys.
At the time, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said, “We’ve done this before as an organization when we go to the red uniforms, just to change the dynamic.”
During the opening-round series against the Hawks, the Heat wore their white Association Edition uniform in their first two home games, their black Icon Edition uniform during Game 3 in Atlanta, and then their white Association Edition again in Game 4.
Then came Game 5, with the home fans seeing red.
“Naturally, we love it when they wear their ‘home’ white uniform,” McCullough, described by the Heat as their “brand architect,” said of his organizational wing, “but keep in mind the power of the White Hot campaign is about what the fans are wearing.”
The home team gets first choice of uniform styles for each game, with the NBA then clearing an approved palette of opposing uniforms for the road team to consider from its annual inventory.
That leaves the Heat with the option on the road of playing in white, red, black or this season’s “Miami Mashup” jerseys.
“Teams have all uniforms available as options to wear in the playoffs,” McCullough said. “Home-decides is still the guiding rule, so we have to select accordingly when we’re the road team.”
The Heat will host Games 1 and 2 (as well as Games 5 and 7, if necessary) in their Eastern Conference semifinal series that opens Monday at FTX Arena.
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SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) _ Civista Bancshares Inc. (CIVB) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $8.5 million.
The bank, based in Sandusky, Ohio, said it had earnings of 57 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 60 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $32.3 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $30.6 million, also falling short of Street forecasts.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged down for the first time in two months following a swift ascent to levels that have not been seen in more than a decade.
After seven weeks of increases, the average rate on a 30-year mortgage inched down to 5.1% from 5.11% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday. Last week's average rate was the highest since April of 2010. One year ago the 30-year rate stood at 2.98%.
Federal Reserve officials have signaled that they will take an aggressive approach to fighting high inflation, saying that half-point interest rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases, “could be appropriate” multiple times this year. The Fed raised its main borrowing rate by a quarter-point in March, its first increase since late in 2018.
Last week, the National Association of Realtors reported that sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in March to the slowest pace in nearly two years with surging mortgage rates and record-high prices sidelining would-be homebuyers just as the spring buying season begins.
Median home prices in March jumped 15% from a year ago at this time to $375,300. That’s an all-time high on data going back to 1999, NAR said.
With inflation at a four-decade high, rising mortgage rates, elevated home prices and tight supply of homes for sale, homeownership has become less attainable, particularly for first-time buyers.
"The combination of swift home price growth and the fastest mortgage rate increase in over forty years is finally affecting purchase demand," said Freddie Mac’s Chief Economist Sam Khater.
Some economists suggest that home sales this year could decline as much as 10% from 2021 levels.
Freddie Mac reported that the average rate on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, popular among those refinancing their homes, rose to 4.4% from 4.38% last week. One year ago it stood at 2.31%. | https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/Long-term-US-mortgage-rates-edge-down-this-week-17133344.php | 2022-04-28T14:11:23Z | https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/Long-term-US-mortgage-rates-edge-down-this-week-17133344.php | false | 75 |
Newcastle United are reportedly keeping close tabs on Eintracht Frankfurt defender Evan N’Dicka ahead of a potential summer transfer.
The towering 6ft 4′ centre-back has shone in the Bundesliga, with his performances seeing him linked with the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal in the past, though a move never materialised.
Now a report from the Chronicle claims that Newcastle are tracking N’Dicka and could make a move for him as their new owners plot more spending for this summer.
It’s claimed that the highly-rated 22-year-old could move for a figure of around £23million, which should be perfectly affordable for the Magpies.
Newcastle brought in big names like Kieran Trippier and Bruno Guimaraes in January, and one imagines they’ll continue to go after big names in order to give Eddie Howe the best possible opportunity of steering this club closer to the top six. | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/04/28/ndicka-newcastle-transfer-eyed/ | 2022-04-28T14:11:55Z | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/04/28/ndicka-newcastle-transfer-eyed/ | false | 1 |
ANAMBRA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian lawmakers have taken steps to bar the payment of ransoms to kidnappers at a time when thousands are in captivity, including passengers kidnapped during a train attack in late March near the nation's capital.
Nigeria’s Senate has passed a bill amending the country’s Terrorism Prevention Act to bar the ransom payments. It said the amendment will “prevent terrorist groups from laundering money.”
However, the legislation could cause more harm to kidnap victims and their families if the bill is signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, activists and Amnesty International’s Nigeria office told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The West African nation has struggled to stem the rise of armed violence in its troubled northwest, and central regions where remote communities are often targeted by armed groups.
Thousands have been killed in the violence, data from the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations shows, while travelers are often abducted and kept in detention for weeks usually in forest reserves until ransoms are paid for their release.
The kidnap-for-ransom business is a lucrative enterprise with over $18 million paid to kidnappers between 2011 and 2020, according to Lagos-based SBM intelligence research firm.
Nigeria's federal authorities have been trying to target the practice for some time. Earlier this month, federal authorities barred calls from more than 70 million unregistered lines in an attempt to target kidnappers and make it difficult for them to contact the families of those held.
When the bill passed on Wednesday becomes a law, it can “turn around not only the security situation in Nigeria but even the economic fortunes of our country,” said Nigeria Senate President Ahmad Lawan.
“We have done so much as a government in terms of infrastructural development in all parts of this country, but because the security situation is not the kind of situation that we all want, this tends to overshadow most of these tremendous and remarkable developments in our country,” said Lawan.
However, activists say the proposed law does not address “the root cause” of Nigeria’s security problems and endangers the lives of those kidnapped.
“If you cannot protect people, why then are you punishing them for finding a way to protect themselves?” asked Festus Ogun, a Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist.
The bill also creates “more opportunities for further violations of people’s rights,” Osai Ojigho, Nigeria director of Amnesty International told AP. She identified the “lack of resources” for security forces to investigate and prosecute crimes as a big challenge in Nigeria’s quest for peace.
Authorities should instead focus on “the root cause” of the kidnappings rather than “criminalizing family members who are distressed” by the abduction of their loved ones,” Ojigho said. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4522512 | 2022-04-28T14:14:15Z | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4522512 | false | 33 |
The Boeing CEO has said he regrets the company losing $660 million on the Air Force One deal with former President Donald Trump.
"Air Force One I'm just going to call a very unique moment, a very unique negotiation, a very unique set of risks that Boeing probably shouldn't have taken," President and CEO David L. Calhoun said in an earnings call after the release of the company's financial results on Wednesday.
"But we are where we are, and we're going to deliver great airplanes and we're going to recognize the cost associated with it," he added.
In 2018, Trump and the U.S.-based multinational aerospace manufacturer Boeing, with under then CEO Dennis Muilenburg, agreed on a $3.9 billion deal for two presidential aircrafts, referred to as the VC-25B program by the company.
"The VC-25B program recorded a $660 million charge primarily driven by higher supplier costs, higher cost to finalize technical requirements and schedule delays," CFO and Executive Vice President Brian J. West said in the earnings call.
The aircrafts are scheduled to be delivered in 2024 and 2025. | https://www.anews.com.tr/economy/2022/04/28/boeing-ceo-regrets-losing-660m-on-trumps-air-force-one-deal | 2022-04-28T14:17:47Z | https://www.anews.com.tr/economy/2022/04/28/boeing-ceo-regrets-losing-660m-on-trumps-air-force-one-deal | false | 1 |
Student-Loan Forgiveness Wouldn’t Solve Much
The proposal’s prominence has less to do with its merits than with college graduates’ agenda-setting power.
About the author: Jerusalem Demsas is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
In March 2020, the government stopped bugging me—and 40 million other Americans—for student-loan payments. It also stopped collecting interest on outstanding debt. And with so many other things to worry about, I largely stopped thinking about that debt. Some survey data indicate that many of my peers became similarly disengaged. Two years later, one estimate from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget suggests that $5,500 per borrower has been effectively canceled, largely because of the lack of interest that would have otherwise accrued on the outstanding debt.
So no one has to make payments. And inflation, which has risen sharply, is eroding everyone’s debt burden. But in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election, a coalition of 239 left-leaning groups called on then-President-elect Joe Biden to proceed with debt cancellation on “Day One of your administration.” These groups weren’t the only ones putting the issue on the agenda; Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Chuck Schumer, and several other prominent Democratic leaders joined the #CancelStudentDebt chorus. Google-search data show that queries for cancel student debt spiked multiple times during the pandemic, and that interest has remained above pre-pandemic trends. Just this week, Biden indicated in a meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he is looking into widespread debt forgiveness.
Some items end up on the agenda because a towering majority of Americans demand change—the most obvious recent example is rising gas prices. Student debt feels different. After all, just 13 percent of the country carries federal student debt. Gallup frequently asks Americans what they believe is the most important problem facing the country today. According to the Gallup analyst Justin McCarthy, the pollster is unable “to report the percentage of Americans who have mentioned student debt or student debt cancellation because it hasn’t garnered enough mentions to do so.” In 2022 so far, he told me via email, Gallup has conducted four polls on the question and “just one respondent mentioned this as the most important problem facing the nation.”
Why, then, is student-debt cancellation having such a moment in the national political conversation?
Reason one: Because student debt is bad
You might argue that student-loan cancellation is having a moment because student debt is really bad. Simple as that. But the question of whether it is bad is actually pretty complicated. Lots of debt is not considered bad—for instance, most policy makers have no qualms with pushing as many people as possible to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt to pursue homeownership. Mortgages are the largest source of debt in the country and stood at roughly $10 trillion in September 2021. On its face, student-loan debt is the state financing the ability of millions of people (including this author, who is carrying more than $20,000 in outstanding federal-student-loan debt) to attend college, people who did not have the cash to pay up front and were loath to borrow from private lenders.
Certainly, total student debt has grown in size, shooting up from $948.2 billion in 2012 to $1.6 trillion in 2022. But so has the number of student-loan recipients, from 38.3 million in 2012 to 43.4 million in 2022. In that time, the average debt burden has gone from roughly $24,700 to $36,800. And that per-capita rise can be explained in part by the increasing numbers of student-loan recipients attending graduate school. (Graduate students borrow 37 percent of federal-student-loan dollars.)
The question of whether large amounts of student-loan debt are desirable depends on what recipients are buying in exchange for the debt. In 2020, the median weekly earnings for someone without a high-school diploma were $619; for those with some college but no degree, that number was $877; for those with a bachelor’s degree, $1,305. The number continues to grow for master’s recipients ($1,545), professional-degree recipients ($1,893), and doctoral recipients ($1,885).
Reason two: Knock-on effects
In The Appeal, the economist Marshall Steinbaum argues that student debt exacerbates racial inequalities in four ways: (1) The racial wealth gap means nonwhite families have a harder time providing financial support to their kids who attend college; (2) labor-market discrimination means people of color have to be more credentialed to get the same opportunities as their white counterparts; (3) people of color face discrimination in the credit market; and (4) students of color are more likely to attend less-resourced institutions and predatory colleges. Similarly, the American Civil Liberties Union has argued that student-loan forgiveness would “help close the racial wealth gap.”
Across the board, student-loan advocates have centered racial justice in their demands for loan forgiveness. They cite a variety of statistics showing that Black college graduates have more student-loan debt than their white counterparts, and that they pay off their loans at a slower rate than white graduates. But the former simply reveals that Black Americans are on average poorer than white Americans, and the latter is likely because of labor-market discrimination, neither of which is addressed by student-loan cancellation. Student-debt cancellation does not actually change anything about labor-market discrimination or credit-market discrimination or discrimination within institutions of higher education, nor does it address the rising cost of college. One could argue that debt forgiveness increases the wealth of nonwhite families, making it easier for them to support future children in attending universities. The wealth boost would be marginal at best, however, given that the majority of nonwhite borrowers owe less than $40,000 one year after graduation.
What’s more, the majority of all student-loan debt is held by white borrowers, and, according to the Pew Research Center, just 23 percent of Black Americans older than 24 had a college degree in 2019. The large majority of the Black population would not be directly served by student-loan forgiveness.
Student-debt advocates also commonly claim that relief could help the cause of housing affordability. Senator Warren, for example, has argued that canceling student-loan debt would boost homeownership, allowing borrowers to trade one form of indebtedness for another, worthier form. But the skyrocketing cost of housing, not student-loan debt, is what’s locking so many people out of homeownership. Although giving people any amount of money increases their chance of being able to buy a home, that’s not an argument in favor of student-debt cancellation specifically; it’s just an argument in favor of giving people money. If our elected officials are sincerely concerned about the housing-affordability crisis (which is also largely responsible for the continuing racial wealth gap), they should actually take steps to address it instead of legislating through back-door channels like debt forgiveness.
Reason three: It’s better than nothing
Ever since negotiations over the Build Back Better Act stalled, Democrats have been sluggish in developing and pushing through alternative legislation, despite the fact that the midterm elections are just a few months away. Indeed, NBC’s Sahil Kapur reported this week that Senator Joe Manchin says “there have been no talks” about a new reconciliation bill, and a senior White House official told The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein that “the White House is throwing every iteration at him.” So things are going well.
The Georgetown University public-policy professor Jonathan Ladd suggested that student-loan advocates have stepped into the messaging void: “I tend to think leaders in the White House and Congress have the most power to set the agenda,” he told me. “If they’re abdicating that role, then it gives activists and other people more power to get news for other things.”
Moreover, the lack of energy on the legislative side is forcing both rank-and-file Democrats and advocates to focus on what can be done through the executive branch. (That’s exactly what happened during President Barack Obama’s second term.) In October, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on her Instagram story that “there is more opportunity than ever to bring the heat on Biden to cancel student loans. He doesn’t need Manchin’s permission for that … he needs to step up his executive action game.”
But this explanation cannot account for the fact that Build Back Better was very much alive until the end of 2021, and the chorus in favor of student-debt cancellation was thundering even then.
Reason four: “With the stroke of a pen”
Representative Ocasio-Cortez alluded to the best argument for student-loan forgiveness: Even if it’s no one’s top priority, advocates believe it can be done unilaterally by the Department of Education. Representative Ayanna Pressley told my colleague Russell Berman that it would take just a “stroke of a pen” to get it done. That’s not necessarily true: The legal theory that undergirds that argument was popularized in 2017 by a co-founder of the Debt Collective. No one really knows how the courts would rule.
But the possibility of an easy solution is enticing, especially when so many problems seem intractable. Building wealth for low-income Americans and bringing down the cost of housing, for instance, are complicated, multistep, multiyear processes. Canceling student-loan debt is an easy policy change to take credit for and has a set of clearly defined beneficiaries. But with housing affordability and the racial wealth gap, even if politicians did make progress on those issues, the beneficiaries would be largely diffuse and would likely experience only incremental benefits, so they probably would not reward politicians for any progress.
Reason five: The power of college graduates
According to Catalist data, roughly 43 percent of the 2020 Biden electorate graduated from a four-year college or university. Compare that with 2012, when, according to Pew, just 36 percent of registered Democrats had completed a four-year degree or more. Given that trend, student-loan forgiveness may seem like the classic tale of a political party transferring a valuable benefit to a crucial constituency.
Although college-educated voters are an important segment of the Democratic Party, no one identity group is completely dominant. The party has long been a coalitional organization stitched together loosely and lacking a clear ideological core. Daniel Schlozman, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, explained a coalitional shift within the party in recent years. “Democrats are becoming more consistently liberal in a variety of ways, and they’re becoming more upper-middle-class all at once,” he told me. “And that creates some awkwardness.”
Awkward indeed that so much energy has been spent on a policy proposal that would affect just 13 percent of the population, and that would send the most dollars to high-income earners and those with graduate degrees. The fervor with which student-loan advocates argue that these policies are in fact racially and economically progressive may be an attempt to resolve the awkwardness that Schlozman describes—advocates of debt cancellation are trying to build a coherent narrative for why a diverse coalition, many of whom have never attended college, should be in favor of forgiveness.
College-educated voters are not just dominant within the Democratic Party; they also dominate the media and, naturally, academia—two institutions that have significant power over what issues are brought to the fore. Importantly, academia and media have also become notoriously unstable work environments lacking sufficiently well-paying jobs. The demographics and precarity of these fields are likely playing a role in the prominence of the student-loan-forgiveness debate.
There are many good proposals for how to forgive student debt, particularly targeted programs aimed at helping those who attended predatory institutions or those who never received a degree and thus missed out on the higher earning potential that comes with it. But the issue’s prominence in our discourse has less to do with its merits than the changing political landscape that has stymied legislative efforts and given college graduates agenda-setting power.
Student-loan-debt forgiveness is not the only policy area in which these factors are prompting discursive oddities. Debate over the state and local tax (SALT) deduction—which disproportionately privileges wealthy homeowners in high-tax states such as California and New Jersey—pitted Democratic leadership against its declared commitment to redistributive taxation. Comically, the progressive darling Representative Katie Porter of California argued on Pod Save America that reducing the federal tax burden for people with “million-dollar homes” was important for her state to continue funding important Democratic priorities such as good salaries for teachers, climate programs, and public health. The SALT-deduction debate also paralleled the student-loan-forgiveness debate in its sidestepping of the underlying issue: People in coastal Democratic states don’t need a tax cut; they need someone to work to bring down the cost of living. If policy makers continue to press Band-Aids to gaping wounds and call it surgery, in no time the patient will be dead. | https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/should-biden-forgive-student-loan-debt/629700/?utm_source=feed | 2022-04-28T14:18:11Z | https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/should-biden-forgive-student-loan-debt/629700/?utm_source=feed | true | 1 |
1 dead in Port St. Lucie fire
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) — One person was killed Tuesday morning in a fire in Port St. Lucie. Firefighters were called to...
cbs12.comPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) — One person was killed Tuesday morning in a fire in Port St. Lucie. Firefighters were called to...
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Sudan doctors: 24 children, 9 women killed in Darfur clashes
CAIRO (AP) - A Sudanese doctor's union said Thursday that 24 children and nine women were among dozens killed in tribal clashes over the weekend between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's western Darfur region.
The Sudan´s Doctors Committee also said that 23 elderly and 144 men were also killed. On Tuesday, Khamis Abdalla Abkar, the provincial governor of West Darfur province, said that the death toll had surpassed 200.
The committee, an independent doctors association, said that the actual death toll may be higher, as the count does not include casualties that were not subjected to autopsy or were not even reported.
The fighting, some of the deadliest in the region in recent years, grew out of the killing of two Arab herdsmen last Thursday just outside Kreinik, 80 kilometers (around 50 miles) east of Genena, the provincial capital of West Darfur.
Large numbers of Arab militias, known as janjaweed, then reportedly stormed the town in retaliation early Sunday with heavy weapons. The violence eventually reached Genena and the main hospital was attacked and then closed.
Meanwhile, several smaller private hospitals have opened their doors to receive some of the more than 220 wounded, according to the doctor's group. "However, these hospitals could not fill the gap created by the closure of Genena hospital," it said.
The World Health Organization said Thursday that two health workers, one in Kreinik and another in Genena, were among those killed. In a statement, the U.N.'s health agency condemned the attacks on healthcare facilities and called for the immediate cessation of violence.
"Health care workers providing life-saving care to injured civilians are already overwhelmed and should not be at risk of intimidation or attack," said Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO's regional chief.
The agency added that the clashes had forced thousands of newly displaced civilians in Kreinik to seek refuge within the town´s military compound.
The fighting has come at a critical time for Sudan, which has plunged into chaos since a military coup last year. The takeover upended the country´s transition to democracy after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.
The Sudanese military said earlier this week that it had deployed a brigade to the province to join a civilian protection force already stationed in Kreinik. However, the clashes raise questions over whether military leaders are capable of bringing security to Darfur, which has been wracked by years of civil war. In 2020, the U.N. Security Council ended its peacekeeping mission there.
The Darfur conflict began in 2003 when ethnic Africans rebelled, accusing the Arab-dominated government in the capital of Khartoum of discrimination. Al-Bashir´s government was accused of retaliating by arming local nomadic Arab tribes and unleashing the janjaweed on civilians there - a charge it denies.
Al-Bashir, who has been in prison in Khartoum since he was ousted from power in 2019, was indicted over a decade ago by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Darfur. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10763503/Sudan-doctors-24-children-9-women-killed-Darfur-clashes.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-28T14:20:57Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10763503/Sudan-doctors-24-children-9-women-killed-Darfur-clashes.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 10 |
More and more refugees from Ukraine are arriving in B.C. as Russia’s invasion continues. Minister of Municipal Affairs Nathan Cullen said he expects more refugees will arrive in waves.
Over 160,000 Ukrainians have applied for resettlement in Canada under the Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel, and 60,000 have been approved so far. The priority is on getting as many refugees settled as possible, which makes it difficult to track where refugees are ending up.
“The numbers are starting to increase,” Cullen said. “We don’t know when, who, how many or where Ukrainians are arriving until they arrive or sometimes even after they’ve arrived when they pop up looking to get their kids into a school or contacting a local settlement group.”
Cullen said early arrivals were more likely to be connected to friends and family to ease the resettlement process, but the next waves of refugees are likely to rely more heavily on government and non-profit support.
When Ukrainians arrive, they’ll be eligible for healthcare and education as soon as possible. B.C. recently waived the three-month wait period for MSP-covered health care for all Ukrainian refugees settling in the province, though refugees will still need to apply for MSP coverage upon arrival.
READ MORE: Ukrainians fleeing to B.C. will receive immediate health coverage
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“While their applications are processed, people can get to hospitals and doctors if they need,” Cullen said. “We suspect folks will need both physical medical needs and mental health — these folks are escaping brutal war and it should not surprise anyone they’ll need some help when they land.”
So far, refugees have been welcomed with open arms in B.C. as many residents have offered accommodations, donations and work opportunities. Included on the government’s Welcoming Ukraine webpage is a section for British Columbians to make donations and offer accommodation if they choose.
Accommodations are vetted by the United Way, which is administering a bulk of the support, to ensure accommodations are a good fit and are safe.
“There are also alternative streams where community groups are self-organized, they’ve arranged accommodation and support, and have gotten in touch with Ukrainians fleeing the war to help them settle in communities all across B.C.,” Cullen said.
If it turns out that accommodations are not a good fit, refugees can contact the provincial government or the settlement agency they worked with to find alternative accommodations.
“This happens with every group of refugees we’ve settled. You continue to work the problem and continue to work the situation to make it fit. And the situation for the refugees themselves will change as well,” Cullen said. “There are the initial needs when they’re here for the first couple months but what they hope for and desire may change in the months that follow.”
Along with the efforts of everyday British Columbians, Cullen said municipalities have stepped up to the plate by offering up municipally-owned spaces for accommodation and developing community-based support.
“This is what British Columbia does. Some would argue we’ve not done enough, but we’ve never argued we’ve done too much. Even in a constrained housing market and other stresses on the system, ultimately, giving, supporting and being generous is what we do and what we ought to do because it’s the best of us.”
All of the provincial and federal programs are designed to be temporary. Cullen would not speculate on what would happen if the war required the permanent resettlement of Ukrainians in the future, however, he did note that B.C. will need new immigrants in the years to come.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if a fair number [of refugees] decided to stay in Canada given the support we see.”
READ MORE: B.C. expands employment, education, mental health support for Ukrainian refugees
READ MORE: Ukraine leader pushes for more arms; US officials to visit
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Belinda brings out her most sensual side and imitates adult movie actors: VIDEO
Winning as always! This is how Belinda is after overcoming her breakup with Christian Nodal, because the beautiful singer and actress is in Spain promoting the series “Welcome to Edén”, the new Netflix series in which she participates and as part of this work she was as guest on the program “La Resistencia”.
During her participation in said broadcast, the beautiful interpreter of “Ángel” talked about everything a little, however, one of the situations that attracted the most attention is that she brought out her fun side and imitated actors from adult films.
Belinda imitates adult movie actors
As you read it, the beautiful ex-fiancée of Christian Nodal questioned the presenter of “La Resistencia” why Spanish actors always seemed to be in a film for adults when dubbing in any film.
And it is that the blonde assures that the Spaniards have a special “bid” because she says that the Spaniards have a voice of anguish when acting, for this reason she began to imitate them and even released some phrases that are said in adult movies.
Belinda watched porn in full broadcast
Due to his imitation of Spanish actors from adult films, the presenter of “La Resistencia” showed him the most famous actor from that country of this type of production and who is called “el niño pollo”.
Belinda set out to see some of the performances of “El Niño Polla” and was impressed with him because he launched some profanities demonstrating his impression, he also apologized to his parents who are watching him and they will realize that in an interview he ended up watching pornography.
Watch the funny moment from minute 2:40
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With the mercury shooting up in Delhi, the power demand on Thursday crossed 6,000 MW mark for the first time in the month of April, discom officials said.
The peak power demand of the city was 6000 MW at 3.31 pm, according to realtime data of State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC) Delhi.
"For the first time in April, Delhi's peak power demand clocked 6,000 MW. It was 3.7 per cent more as compared to 5,769 MW on Wednesday afternoon," said a discom official.
With Delhi experiencing abnormally high temperatures in April this year, the power demand of the city has scaled up by 34 per cent since beginning of the month, they said.
The demand was 4,469 MW on April 1.
The power demand is likely to soar further during this summer, breaching all-time high of 7,409 MW recorded on July 2, 2019.
The peak power demand is expected around 8,200 MW this year which will be an increase of around 285 per cent over 2,879 MW in 2002, discom officials said.
The maximum temperature at Safdarjung weather station, considered base for Delhi, is expected to breach the 43-degree mark on Thursday and touch 44 degrees Celsius by Friday, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The maximum temperature may even leap to 46 degrees Celsius in parts of Delhi, a Met department official said.
A BSES spokesperson said that the peak power demand in the areas of its discoms -- BRPL and BYPL-- clocked 2,549 MW and 1,375 MW respectively as the city's demand soared to 6,000 MW.
In April this year, Delhi's peak power demand has clocked the highest ever for the month, each breaking the previous record in quick succession. It was 5,735 MW on April 19; 5,761 MW on April 20; 5,786 MW on April 27; and 6,020 MW on April 28.
The peak power demand of the city was 6000 MW at 3.31 pm, according to realtime data of State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC) Delhi.
"For the first time in April, Delhi's peak power demand clocked 6,000 MW. It was 3.7 per cent more as compared to 5,769 MW on Wednesday afternoon," said a discom official.
With Delhi experiencing abnormally high temperatures in April this year, the power demand of the city has scaled up by 34 per cent since beginning of the month, they said.
The demand was 4,469 MW on April 1.
The power demand is likely to soar further during this summer, breaching all-time high of 7,409 MW recorded on July 2, 2019.
The peak power demand is expected around 8,200 MW this year which will be an increase of around 285 per cent over 2,879 MW in 2002, discom officials said.
The maximum temperature at Safdarjung weather station, considered base for Delhi, is expected to breach the 43-degree mark on Thursday and touch 44 degrees Celsius by Friday, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The maximum temperature may even leap to 46 degrees Celsius in parts of Delhi, a Met department official said.
A BSES spokesperson said that the peak power demand in the areas of its discoms -- BRPL and BYPL-- clocked 2,549 MW and 1,375 MW respectively as the city's demand soared to 6,000 MW.
In April this year, Delhi's peak power demand has clocked the highest ever for the month, each breaking the previous record in quick succession. It was 5,735 MW on April 19; 5,761 MW on April 20; 5,786 MW on April 27; and 6,020 MW on April 28.
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SOCi's Localized Marketing Benchmark Report showcases how 300 multi-location brands perform across channels, with McAlister's Deli, uBreakiFix, Bar Louie, and more leading the pack
SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SOCi, the marketing platform for multi-location brands, highlights top-performing businesses and how they compare head-to-head in the recently released 2022 Localized Marketing Benchmark Report (LMBR), announced earlier this month. Top performers received the highest Local Visibility Scores from SOCi, a new accolade in the battle for consumer visibility in the most influential digital channels.
A strong Local Visibility Score indicates an organization's commitment to its customers and the communities it serves. Performance is determined by the business' ability to outrank the competition in the areas of search, reviews, and social engagement. The local visibility garnered through the deployment of a holistic digital strategy that makes use of these three focus areas is imperative to a brand's success and truly sets apart top performing businesses from those who are still developing a digital presence.
"As the only industry benchmark report for a brand's local visibility, it's an honor to be recognized as a top overall performer in the 2022 LMBR," said Kayla Dillon, Head of Marketing at Bar Louie. "A successful localized marketing strategy is a critical determinant of success and the LMBR helps us understand what we're doing well and what we can do better. At Bar Louie, no two experiences should feel exactly the same and we let the unique dynamics that shape our communities drive our vision forward. That's the essence of localized marketing strategy, and we continue to make that our focus every day."
The top brands ranked by overall Local Visibility Score were as follows:
Top Performers — Overall
- McAlister's Deli (78)
- 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (74)
- InterContinental Hotels & Resorts (71)
- Marriott Hotels & Resorts (71)
- Bar Louie (70)
- Black Bear Diner (69)
- CPR Cell Phone Repair (68)
- MOD Pizza (68)
- Hobby Lobby (68)
- Culver's (67)
"Multi-location brands that invest in localized marketing will succeed in an era of fierce competition," said Monica Ho, CMO of SOCi. "Building those best practices in search, social, and reputation management is table-stakes now for any brand that wants to stand out amongst the crowd in local markets and communities. We're proud to recognize these top performers, and hope the LMBR will serve as a useful tool for those looking to strengthen their local online presence."
Top performers were also identified in three sub-categories: Search, Reputation, and Social. Analyzing 100 metrics like profile optimization, audience engagement, and onsite SEO, SOCi ranked brands on the success of their digital marketing efforts. With more than 28 million data points synthesized by in-depth analysis, businesses can identify strengths and weaknesses to improve their local online presence. Those high performing brands are listed below:
Top Performers — Search
- uBreakiFix (92)
- McAlister's Deli (86)
- Take 5 Oil Change (84)
- CPR Cell Phone Repair (83)
- Dick's Sporting Goods (81)
- Stanley Steemer (81)
- Valvoline Instant Oil Change (79)
- Potbelly Sandwich Shop (77)
- Crunch Fitness (76)
- Anytime Fitness (76)
Top Performers — Social
- Bar Louie (84)
- Cinnabon (82)
- McAlister's Deli (81)
- Marriott Hotels & Resorts (81)
- Advance Auto Parts (80)
- Black Bear Diner (80)
- Sonic Drive-In (79)
- Chili's Grill & Bar (79)
- 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (78)
- Hobby Lobby (77)
Top Performers — Reputation
- 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (89)
- Roto-Rooter (82)
- Ruth's Chris Steak House (78)
- Black Bear Diner (78)
- Bar Louie (77)
- Blaze Pizza (76)
- Twin Peaks (75)
- Card My Yard (75)
- InterContinental Hotels & Resorts (74)
- Westin (74)
"The LMBR and Local Visibility score is a key measure of the effectiveness of our local SEO strategies and visibility across search engines," said Noah Fleming, SEO Analyst at DICK'S Sporting Goods. "Local campaign testing and optimization have helped our brand stay top of mind for athletes who are searching while located near our stores. We've continued to see the payoff of prioritizing our local SEO efforts through both foot traffic in stores and site traffic online. We're grateful to have a partner in SOCi to support us along the way."
To view the full 2022 LMBR, visit lmbr.meetsoci.com/2022-lmbr-report/. Additionally, brands with more than 50 locations can take the free digital health check on SOCi's website here to get a peek at some of the factors driving Local Visibility in seconds. To learn more about how SOCi helps businesses remain brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected, visit www.meetsoci.com.
About SOCi
SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Sport Clips, and Anytime Fitness to scale marketing efforts across all digital channels in a way that's brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. As one central place to scale marketing, SOCi makes the impossible possible by enabling top brands and their locations to strengthen and scale their digital presence across limitless local search and social pages while protecting what matters most, their reputation. For more information on how SOCi can help fuel your localized marketing success - visit us at www.meetsoci.com or message us at hello@meetsoci.com.
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New Delhi: With a number of global tech giants facing CCI probe for alleged anti-competitive practices, a key Parliamentary panel on Thursday decided to summon representatives of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and others to examine their competitive behaviour.
The next meeting of the panel on the issue is likely to be held on May 12.
The issue was discussed in detail by members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance after a presentation was made before it by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
The regulator told the panel that it was setting up a 'Digital Markets and Data Unit' for effectively dealing with anti-competition practices of big tech companies and bringing a new bill to amend the CCI Act.
CCI also cited a number of investigations it is carrying out in the digital space, including those against Google, Facebook-WhatsApp, Apple, Amazon, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip-Goibibo, Swiggy and Zomato.
The meeting also comes against the backdrop of mounting concerns globally, including in India, about alleged practices of big tech players and technology platforms that could be adversely impacting competition in the market place.
About the meeting, the panel's Chairman Jayant Sinha told PTI that it had "an excellent set of discussions" with officials from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Competition Commission of India.
"In our next hearing (on this issue), we will be calling most of the major tech companies to hear their perspective and how competition law in India is evolving to address the needs and challenges associated with digital space.
"All of the major companies we are going to invite... Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft and others. Competition laws is evolving across the world to meet the challenges associated with the digital markets," Sinha said.
Sinha, a BJP leader and a former Union minister, said the panel will discuss about competitive behaviour of these companies.
According to sources, BJP member CM Ramesh raised the issue of cartelisation among cement companies with the CCI officials and their response on the matter is expected in the next meeting.
Besides, the panel discussed about the existing competition law.
According to Sinha, the CCI Act was initiated in 2002 and last amended in 2007.
A bill to amend the Act is also underway wherein provisions are likely to be introduced to deal with anti-competition practices of tech giants, CCI told the panel.
"It has been 15 years since substantial amendments have been made to our competition law.
"With the rise of digital markets and the importance of the digital economy for the India's economic growth and global position, it is very important to look at our competition law to see whether it is the equal to those in the advanced jurisdictions like the European Union, United States, Australia and United Kingdom," Sinha said.
According to him, today's discussions were to assess how the competition law is evolving and what else is required to position it for the future. "We as a committee are examining what direction our competition law should evolve to meet these requirements," he noted.
In the presentation, CCI also said that it was strengthening its institutional capacity, recalibrating the competition law regime, observing global developments in big tech and monitoring technological developments in digital markets. PTI JTR BJ RAM
The next meeting of the panel on the issue is likely to be held on May 12.
The issue was discussed in detail by members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance after a presentation was made before it by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
The regulator told the panel that it was setting up a 'Digital Markets and Data Unit' for effectively dealing with anti-competition practices of big tech companies and bringing a new bill to amend the CCI Act.
CCI also cited a number of investigations it is carrying out in the digital space, including those against Google, Facebook-WhatsApp, Apple, Amazon, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip-Goibibo, Swiggy and Zomato.
The meeting also comes against the backdrop of mounting concerns globally, including in India, about alleged practices of big tech players and technology platforms that could be adversely impacting competition in the market place.
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About the meeting, the panel's Chairman Jayant Sinha told PTI that it had "an excellent set of discussions" with officials from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Competition Commission of India.
"In our next hearing (on this issue), we will be calling most of the major tech companies to hear their perspective and how competition law in India is evolving to address the needs and challenges associated with digital space.
"All of the major companies we are going to invite... Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft and others. Competition laws is evolving across the world to meet the challenges associated with the digital markets," Sinha said.
Sinha, a BJP leader and a former Union minister, said the panel will discuss about competitive behaviour of these companies.
According to sources, BJP member CM Ramesh raised the issue of cartelisation among cement companies with the CCI officials and their response on the matter is expected in the next meeting.
Besides, the panel discussed about the existing competition law.
According to Sinha, the CCI Act was initiated in 2002 and last amended in 2007.
A bill to amend the Act is also underway wherein provisions are likely to be introduced to deal with anti-competition practices of tech giants, CCI told the panel.
"It has been 15 years since substantial amendments have been made to our competition law.
"With the rise of digital markets and the importance of the digital economy for the India's economic growth and global position, it is very important to look at our competition law to see whether it is the equal to those in the advanced jurisdictions like the European Union, United States, Australia and United Kingdom," Sinha said.
According to him, today's discussions were to assess how the competition law is evolving and what else is required to position it for the future. "We as a committee are examining what direction our competition law should evolve to meet these requirements," he noted.
In the presentation, CCI also said that it was strengthening its institutional capacity, recalibrating the competition law regime, observing global developments in big tech and monitoring technological developments in digital markets. PTI JTR BJ RAM
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Dozens of furious protesters in northern Iran chanted slogans and hurled rocks at police on Thursday, Iranian media reported, injuring five officers over frustrations that their lush village had become a massive waste collection site that they say has become a health hazard.
Security forces dispersed the gathering and detained several protesters, referring their cases to prosecutors in the town of Saravan in the northern Gilan Province, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.
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The group of villagers in Saravan increasingly has been staging protests in recent weeks in an attempt to pressure authorities to find a solution for the waste that has been accumulating in Saravan for the past four decades.
Footage circulating online this month has shown protesters blocking trash trucks from reaching the collection site. Authorities have long promised to open an incinerator in the area, but have yet to take action.
Saravan, with a population of 10,000, is located on one of the roads linking Iran’s capital of Tehran to the bucolic tourist destinations of the Caspian Sea.
Iran has seen such demonstrations in the past over government management of environmental issues like the country’s water crisis.
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How to delete a Samsung account?
Looking to delete your Samsung account? Whether you’re making the switch from a Galaxy phone to another of our best smartphones or you’ve just upgraded your Samsung TV, there are loads of reasons you may not need a Samsung account anymore. Here’s how to delete it.
Before you delete your Samsung account, it’s important to note that you’ll also be getting rid of a bunch of data, including any purchase history, subscriptions, uploads and profile information associated with your account, along with cloud storage and data in the Samsung Health app.
The steps below are a guide to permanently deleting your Samsung account, meaning all of this will be unrecoverable.
If you just want to remove the account from your device and keep hold of your data, you can do this by scrolling to the Troubleshooting section at the bottom of this page.
For those looking to permanently delete their account, keep reading.
What you’ll need
- A phone, tablet or PC
The Short Version
- Log into your Samsung account
- Click Edit Samsung Account
- Click Manage Samsung Account
- Click Delete Account
- Confirm you want to delete your Samsung account and hit Delete
Step
1Go to the Samsung account login page
You’ll need to do this in a web browser on your phone, tablet or PC rather than an app.
Step
2Enter your login details and click Sign In
This will be the email address and password you used to sign up for your Samsung account.
Step
3Click Edit Samsung Account
This option can be found right below your name and email address on the My Page screen.
Step
4Click Manage Samsung Account
You may need to scroll down slightly to see the blue button.
Step
5Click Delete Account
This should be the last option you see.
Step
6Check the circle to confirm you want to delete your account and hit Delete
That’s it! You’ve permanently deleted your Samsung account.
Troubleshooting
You don’t need to delete your Samsung account to remove it from your Galaxy phone or tablet, and if you do remove it, you can always add it back later.
To remove your account, head over to your device’s settings, tap ‘Accounts And Backup’, tap ‘Accounts’, choose your Samsung account, tap ‘Personal Info’ and then hit ‘Sign Out’.
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The new Warzone Sabotage contract that was added as part of Season 3 has its own specific requirements, objectives and rewards for players powering through a game of Call of Duty Warzone. This particular one is based around vehicular destruction - but also creation, as we'll address shortly. If you're deliberating on your next job, we'll go through the advantages and disadvantages of the Call of Duty Warzone Sabotage contract below.
Sabotage contract in Warzone explained
The Sabotage contract in Warzone Season 3 is based around finding and destroying a specific vehicle in the map, one that's marked when you select the contract itself. The team is then given a specific amount of time to blow up the vehicle - if they succeed, they get the reward that we'll outline further down.
Sabotage contracts themselves are marked with icons of little explosions. Once you pick one up, the game will spawn in a random vehicle (rather than choose an existing one) and you're given three minutes to destroy it. It's uncertain at this point if multiple players can target the same vehicle through different contracts, though it's entirely possible that another team might just get into the vehicle you're targeting and drive away.
At time of writing, there also seems to be a rule that players have to destroy the vehicle with explosives and weapons, rather than simply crashing it. It's uncertain right now if this is a glitch, or to make sure that the player is responsible for the "kill" on a vehicle. Either way, make sure you use C4, rockets, or an LMG to blow up your respective target, rather than just dropping it into the sea and hoping for the best. That being said, if another team shoots the vehicle and blows it up, they can poach at least some of the reward, as outlined below.
Sabotage contract rewards
For completing the contract, players get the following:
- Cash (amount dependant on current Cash Bonus)
- A Cash Bonus for future contracts
- An Armoured Truck
It's the last of these that's worth discussing - yes, the armoured trucks are back. Once the vehicle is destroyed, green smoke will begin pouring from the place that it blew up - and the truck will be dropped there within moments. It's a reinforced version with a lot more health, and a gun turret that can be occupied by a second player. If you're playing Solo, that's not as big of an advantage, though a canny player can swap between the two seats quickly.
Be warned that there's nothing stopping other players from getting into that truck if you're too slow. Blowing up a van or helicopter with a long-range weapon can be risky if you have to run all the way to wreckage, as closer players might just see the truck and leap into it. Don't get carjacked!
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