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Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC raised its stake in General Dynamics Co. (NYSE:GD – Get Rating) by 15.0% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 40,470 shares of the aerospace company’s stock after acquiring an additional 5,266 shares during the quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC’s holdings in General Dynamics were worth $8,437,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Costello Asset Management INC purchased a new stake in shares of General Dynamics during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC purchased a new stake in General Dynamics in the 4th quarter worth approximately $29,000. Dixon Hughes Goodman Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in General Dynamics in the 4th quarter worth approximately $29,000. Ten Capital Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in General Dynamics in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $32,000. Finally, Widmann Financial Services Inc. purchased a new stake in General Dynamics in the 4th quarter worth approximately $41,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.02% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NYSE:GD traded up $1.22 during trading on Thursday, reaching $241.20. The stock had a trading volume of 1,438,456 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,489,988. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $236.86 and its 200 day simple moving average is $216.38. The company has a market capitalization of $67.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.97, a PEG ratio of 2.07 and a beta of 1.01. The company has a current ratio of 1.43, a quick ratio of 1.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.59. General Dynamics Co. has a one year low of $182.66 and a one year high of $254.99.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, May 6th. Investors of record on Friday, April 8th will be issued a $1.26 dividend. This represents a $5.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.09%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 7th. This is a positive change from General Dynamics’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.19. General Dynamics’s payout ratio is presently 43.64%.
A number of analysts have weighed in on the stock. Susquehanna raised their price objective on shares of General Dynamics from $280.00 to $285.00 in a research note on Thursday. Wolfe Research upgraded shares of General Dynamics from an “underperform” rating to a “peer perform” rating in a research report on Friday, January 28th. StockNews.com assumed coverage on shares of General Dynamics in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on shares of General Dynamics from $215.00 to $243.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, March 2nd. Finally, Susquehanna Bancshares increased their price objective on shares of General Dynamics from $280.00 to $285.00 in a research report on Thursday. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $238.18.
In related news, VP William A. Moss sold 2,391 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $237.17, for a total value of $567,073.47. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. 1.50% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
General Dynamics Company Profile (Get Rating)
General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment designs, manufactures, and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, charter, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, staffing, and fixed-base operator services.
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In the aftermath of the Nets sweep and his comments about “managing the franchise” with Kevin Durant, Sean Marks and Joe Tsai, Kyrie Irving has taken some hits in the media with several media personalities blaming him for the Nets turmoil-filled season, particularly his refusal to get vaccinated.
Typical of the heat he faced was a segment Tuesday on ESPN featuring Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins, both of whom have long criticized him all season. ESPN rightly described it as a rant...
It was indeed one of several commentaries. Barbara Barker of Newsday in a column published Wednesday suggested that the Irving’s absence was the core of Brooklyn’s problems. So, on Thursday morning, Irving took to social media as he has in the past and blasted mainstream media in a string of tweets without naming names but not holding back...
When I see my name or my brothers/sisters names getting spun through the media, I refer to all my research about who they are.
— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) April 28, 2022
Their job is to CONTROL PUBLIC PERCEPTION, all while profiting off discussing, discrediting, and disrespecting people’s lives for entertainment.
I send shots at the puppet masters, not the puppets. All puppets do is run around society, trying to gain popularity and state opinions. What a life! ♂️
— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) April 28, 2022
My name is worth billions to these media corporations. My brothers and sisters who deal with this know exactly what I mean.
When you become free mentally and spiritually, there is not much this twisted/Racist society can surprise you with.
— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) April 28, 2022
My ancestors left behind all of the wisdom and truth for their agenda to be exposed. When you know exactly who they are, they can’t hide from their filth. pic.twitter.com/I9yGbg4Elf
Alot of of these media corporations make their money by degrading BLACK/African/Indigenous community heroes. They thrive off of it, and then sell it back to us by having a hand selected person or group of people spark controversy about them for the world to see.
— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) April 28, 2022
Just Watch all of the people who wake up everyday and report about people’s lives on TV and social media, and then profit off of them. Then they justify their jobs by saying they get paid to say how they feel. ♂️
— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) April 28, 2022
Lol Its like these people live in a Fantasy
It was one of Irving’s most intense Twitter screeds but the theme, the media as “puppets” or “pawns,” is one he has gone back to multiple times both before and after joining the team in July 2019. Although he does not connect the tweets with the criticism he has taken, it seems likely that it at least spurred him on. | https://www.netsdaily.com/2022/4/28/23047279/kyrie-irving-in-a-multi-tweet-barrage-about-media-abuse | 2022-04-28T23:15:13Z | https://www.netsdaily.com/2022/4/28/23047279/kyrie-irving-in-a-multi-tweet-barrage-about-media-abuse | false | 1 |
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE) — The San Joaquin Valley Air District is launching a new pilot program to create a network of clean air centers.
Similar to cooling centers, the clean air centers would provide residents a safe place on poor air quality days, particularly due to smoke from wildfires and other smoke events.
The pilot program provides grants for portable air cleaners to schools, community centers, senior centers, sports centers, libraries, and other buildings accessible to the public.
The program launches on May 1.
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OAKLAND — The trial has started over a 2019 Oakland shooting that resulted in one man being killed after trying to stop the violence, one man being shot in the foot, and two murder suspects going on divergent paths.
Brenton Boatwright, 26, is facing charges that he murdered his friend, 24-year-old Kaylen Tate, during a shootout in a neighborhood on 66th Avenue. But the main prosecution witness is a former co-defendant in the case, who accepted a plea deal to testify in exchange for a possible drastic sentence reduction.
It all centers around an incident that started around 10 a.m. on July 22, 2019, when Boatwright — whose last name is also spelled “Stuartboatwright” in court records — got into a heated argument with Abdulsatar Muqbel, 35, outside of Chico’s Liquor on Havenscourt Boulevard in Oakland. Tate, who was with Boatwright, got in between the two men and they went their separate ways.
But just a few minutes later, Muqbel pulled up in a vehicle alongside Boatwright’s Chevy Caprice on the 2600 block of 66th Avenue. Heated words were exchanged, and Boatwright got out of his car, gun in hand. A security camera from a home across the street shows shots being fired, and Boatwright and Tate running in different directions.
Deputy district attorney Kevin Ikuma contends that Boatwright fired the shot that killed Tate, and that he was the first to introduce a weapon to the conflict. That’s in part based on Muqbel’s statements to authorities, alleging that Boatwright held a gun to his chest outside the liquor store and then began waving it around on 66th Avenue.
But Boatwright’s attorney, Daniel Horowitz, said Muqbel’s “multiple versions” of the story couldn’t be believed. He played jurors a recording of Muqbel telling police he followed Boatwright and Tate because he wanted to return a pistol Boatwright had previously given him, not to initiate a second conflict. Horowitz said video shows Muqbel firing the first shot that struck the roof of a nearby house, and that Boatwright fired while running away, but only struck himself in the foot.
The kill shot, according to Horowitz, was fired from the back of Muqbel’s car; a cloud of smoke seen emanating from the back of the vehicle proves it, he argues.
Muqbel was arrested two days after the killing, after fleeing to Van Nuys, and Boatwright was arrested and charged the following year. But just two weeks ago, Muqbel accepted a plea deal that hinges on his testimony; he accepted a conviction to second degree murder and a sentence of 15 years to life, but if he testifies truthfully he can be re-sentenced on a manslaughter charge, which carries three to 11 years under state law.
Horowitz called it a “get out of jail free card,” and said that Muqbel was facing 56 years to life when he accepted it.
“He’s going to lie to you over and over and over and walk away from a 15-to-life sentence,” he told jurors.
Both attorneys agreed that Tate was essentially a bystander to the conflict. Video shows him getting between Muqbel and Boatwright at the liquor store to prevent them from fighting; on 66th Avenue, he stayed in the car until shots were fired, at which point he ran up the street, away from both vehicles. Video shows him stumbling when he is struck by gunfire but continuing to run until he gets out of range of the camera.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ PCB Bancorp (PCB) on Thursday reported net income of $10.2 million in its first quarter.
The bank, based in Los Angeles, said it had earnings of 67 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $26.2 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $25.3 million, exceeding Street forecasts.
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ROWLETT, Texas, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Right On Brands, Inc. (OTC PINK: RTON), a fully reporting SEC filer and developer of hemp-based products is pleased to announce the entering into an agreement with Franchise Marketing Systems, a full-service franchise development agency that works in a performance-based franchise development approach to develop and market a franchise business, to develop a franchise model for the ENDO Dispensary and Wellness Brand.
FMS will develop franchise marketing materials, collateral and presentations to promote, present and recruit franchisees to the ENDO Dispensary and Wellness Brand. FMS Franchise will also work with RTON to develop an appropriate strategy, business model and approach to create a platform that allows for scale. A franchise development program will be created to provide new franchisee an operations, training and structure to successfully open and operate new locations of the ENDO Dispensary and Wellness retail stores.
Jerry Grisaffi, Right on Brands' CEO said, "Our partnership with FMS franchise will provide us with the right tools and the know how to successfully franchise our business nationwide. FMS franchise will create a strong framework to support the franchisee, so they have the highest probability of success. We are very excited about the future expansion of the ENDO Dispensary and Wellness brand." Chris Conner, President of FMS said," We believe in the concept and the products developed by Right on Brands. We have sampled many products in the space and the Endo Brand's products stand out head and shoulders above the rest."
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About Right on Brands: Right On Brands, Inc., (OTC Pink: RTON) is a Dallas based, consumer goods company specializing in the brand development and distribution of hemp-based foods, beverages, smokables, oils and topical products. Right on Brands, Inc. is a developer of a broad line of hemp-based smokables, beverages, tinctures, and topical products including products infused with CBD, Delta-8, Delta-10, THCV, CBDV, THCO and Delta-9 (below the federal limit) and the all new HHC vapes, gummies and tinctures (and soon an HHC drink). About ENDO Brands: ENDO Brands™, Humbly Hemp®, and ENDO Dispensary & Wellness™ All share the same goal of providing our customers with the best products in the health and wellness space. As the field of health and wellness products expand, Right on Brands will be there with industry leading Food and Beverage and wellness Products.
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People with arthritis urged to lose weight and exercise under new NHS plan
Starting exercise programmes may initially make the pain worse, but this should settle down, the guidance suggests.
People with arthritis are being urged to lose weight and exercise as the main therapies for their condition.
New NHS guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) says people who are overweight should be told their pain can be reduced if they shed the pounds.
Meanwhile, aerobic exercise such as walking, as well as strength training, can ease symptoms and improve quality of life.
Starting exercise programmes may initially make the pain worse, but this should settle down, the guidance suggests.
The guidelines also gives recommendations on the use of medicines, such as offering non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) but not offering paracetamol, glucosamine or strong opioids.
Nice said there was a risk of addiction with strong opioids, while new evidence suggests little or no benefit for some medicines when it comes to quality of life and pain levels.
In the guidance, doctors are told to diagnose osteoarthritis – the most common form of arthritis – themselves without further investigation in people aged 45 or over who have activity-related joint pain.
Patients should also have no morning joint-related stiffness, or morning stiffness that lasts no longer than 30 minutes to be diagnosed this way.
The draft guideline says people can be offered tailored exercise programmes, with an explanation that “doing regular and consistent exercise, even though this may initially cause discomfort, will be beneficial for their joints”.
Exercising in the long-term also increases its benefits, the guideline adds.
When it comes to weight loss, people will be told that “any amount of weight loss is likely to be beneficial, but losing 10% of their body weight is likely to be better than 5%.”
People can also be referred for hip or knee replacement if their condition cannot be managed in other ways, and referrals should not be held off due to age, sex or obesity.
Dr Paul Chrisp, director for the centre for guidelines at Nice, said: “Osteoarthritis can cause people discomfort and prevent them from undertaking some of their normal daily activities.
“However, there is evidence which shows muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise can have an impact on not just managing the condition, but also providing people with an improved quality of life.
“Beginning that journey can be uncomfortable for some people at first, and they should be supported and provided with enough information to help them to manage their condition over a long period of time.
“Whilst topical and sometimes oral NSAIDs remain an important treatment option for osteoarthritis, we have taken the decision to not recommend some painkillers, such as paracetamol and some opioids for osteoarthritis.
“This is because new evidence has shown there was little or no benefit to people’s quality of life, pain or psychological distress and particularly in the case of strong opioids, there was evidence that they can cause harm in the longer term, including possible addiction.”
In the UK, more than 10 million people have arthritis or other, similar conditions that affect the joints.
The most affected areas are the knees, hips and small hand joints.
Tracey Loftis, head of policy and public affairs at the charity Versus Arthritis, said: “We’ve seen first-hand the benefits that people with osteoarthritis can get in being able to access appropriate physical activity, especially when in a group-setting. Something like exercise can improve a person’s mobility, help manage their pain and reduce feelings of isolation.
“But our own research into the support given to people with osteoarthritis showed that far too many do not have their conditions regularly reviewed by healthcare professionals, and even fewer had the opportunity to access physical activity support.
“The lack of alternatives means that, in many cases, many people are stuck on painkillers that are not helping them to live a life free from pain.
“While we welcome the draft Nice guidelines, healthcare professionals need further resources and support to better understand their role in promoting treatment like physical activity for people with osteoarthritis.
“There is clearly a need for people with arthritis to be given a bigger voice so that their health needs are not ignored.”
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CI+Global+Asset+Management (CI GAM) announces the following reinvested distributions (the “Reinvested Distributions”) in respect of certain ETFs listed below. In all cases, these Reinvested Distributions will be reinvested on or about May 6, 2022 to unitholders of record on May 5, 2022.
The Reinvested Distributions will not be paid in cash but will be reinvested and the resulting units immediately consolidated, so that the number of units held by each investor will not change.
About CI Global Asset Management
CI Global Asset Management is one of Canada’s largest investment management companies. It offers a wide range of investment products and services and is on the web at www.ci.com. CI Global Asset Management is a subsidiary of CI+Financial+Corp. (TSX: CIX, NYSE: CIXX), an integrated global asset and wealth management company with $370.2 billion in total assets as of February 28, 2022.
This communication is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to purchase exchange-traded funds (ETFs) managed by CI Global Asset Management and is not, and should not be construed as, investment, tax, legal or accounting advice, and should not be relied upon in that regard. Individuals should seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding any particular investment. Investors should consult their professional advisors prior to implementing any changes to their investment strategies. These investments may not be suitable to the circumstances of an investor. Some conditions apply.
Commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with an investment in ETFs. You will usually pay brokerage fees to your dealer if you purchase or sell units of an ETF on recognized Canadian exchanges. If the units are purchased or sold on these Canadian exchanges, investors may pay more than the current net asset value when buying units of the ETF and may receive less than the current net asset value when selling them. Please read the prospectus before investing. Important information about an exchange-traded fund (ETF) is contained in its prospectus. ETFs are not guaranteed; their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.
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Groups from North Dakota, Iowa to co-develop CO2 storage
Published: Apr. 28, 2022 at 5:13 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
CENTER, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota-based power cooperative and an Iowa company have announced an agreement to co-develop carbon dioxide storage facilities.
Minnkota Power Cooperative, which operates out of Grand Forks, and Ames, Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions say the CO2 storage facilities would be located in western North Dakota, near the town of Center.
Minnkota and Summit say they have been working independently on the development of their respective carbon capture and storage projects.
The groups say the partnership “will more quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively advance their projects to commercial operations.”
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AXPR (AXPR) traded up 0% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 17:00 PM ET on April 28th. AXPR has a market capitalization of $3.65 million and approximately $76,535.00 worth of AXPR was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last seven days, AXPR has traded up 31.8% against the dollar. One AXPR coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0130 or 0.00000033 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002513 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 1.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.23 or 0.00003096 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002509 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $12.66 or 0.00031784 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded up 1.7% against the dollar and now trades at $40.25 or 0.00101046 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
AXPR Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “aXpire is a blockchain-based spend management system. It will initially serve to help asset and fund administrators and managers at banks, hedge funds, private equity firms and others to deal with the resource and time-costly process of allocating and apportioning outside vendor costs to each fund, or split of funds as is appropriate, based on the deal, later expanding to create digital connections across all key functional departments and stakeholders. The AXPR token is an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum network and it is required for “e-procurement” and/or “e-bidding” for expense contracts. Clients will be able to submit jobs to the aXpire platform, with invoices payable in AXPR. “
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Latest Innovations Build on the Firm's Technology Roadmap To Support a Single View of a Client's Entire Financial Life
BERWYN, Pa., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Envestnet has launched a series of technology updates throughout its ecosystem, designed to meet and exceed the evolving technology and investing needs of financial advisors and their clients. These enhancements are a part of a series of spring releases that include investment products, web-based planning solutions, and an optimized advisor and client experience.
"As part of our always on, and always improving financial wellness ecosystem, these latest technology releases lead into our biggest event of the year, the 2022 Envestnet Advisor Summit," said Molly Weiss, Head of Product for Envestnet Wealth. "We're excited by these enhancements and look forward to unveiling additional innovations as part of our roadmap at Summit."
New features within Envestnet's ecosystem, including the next-generation proposal workflow, are driven by feedback from advisors, who can now access the following capabilities within proposals for new investment products:
- Fund Strategist Tax Management allow advisors to outsource and automate tax management on either third-party manager or proprietary home office fund strategist portfolio accounts at scale and personalized to their individual clients' tax situations and investment goals.
- Sustainable investing strategies and overlays enable advisors to incorporate institutional-quality and customized sustainable investment approaches into client portfolios.
- Private Wealth Consulting to help advisors connect to Envestnet's investment specialists, who can work with them to further customize solutions for their clients.
- Enhanced account setup features, such as more flexible dollar cost average settings and account-level security restrictions.
- Updated performance reports that can break out time periods and performance by asset class and manager.
"These investments in our ecosystem help ensure we continue to offer a truly forward-looking experience for advisors and their clients that allows them to plan ahead across generations," added Ms. Weiss. "Ongoing enhancements to Envestnet's fully connected wealth ecosystem give advisors even more power to help clients capture opportunities, make strategic decisions, and make progress toward their goals."
Envestnet | Tamarac's updates slated for spring include:
- Streamlined navigation for Unified Managed Accounts in the Client Portal, and in the Reporting solution.
- Compliance tools to support advisor's Form ADV and 13F reporting
- Enhanced reporting capabilities to show position attribution, and annualized returns on position performance.
- Continued usability enhancements for the new modernized trading experience with simplified Rebalancing workflow, including a new interface, summary report, and trading dashboard widgets.
In addition, Envestnet | MoneyGuide has completed a new integration with Special Needs Map, a web-based planning tool to help estimate how much money a client may need to leave a child with special needs after they pass. The application guides the client through an intuitive interface asking questions about their family, their child's capabilities and long-term needs, and financial assumptions to arrive at a dollar amount, which is broken down in-depth among categories such as housing/care and lifestyle expenses. To learn more, visit https://www.specialneedsmap.com/.
"With the new Special Needs Map feature, advisors can help clients who have children with special needs navigate and plan accordingly for when they are no longer able to care for their loved ones themselves," said Rose Palazzo, Group Head of Envestnet | MoneyGuide.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks continue to produce in the postseason even without key performers.
The Chicago Bulls simply don’t have that kind of depth or playoff savvy.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 33 points and nine rebounds and the Bucks routed the Bulls 116-100 on Wednesday night to finish off their first-round series in five games.
The Bucks won the last three games by an average of 23.3 points despite playing without Khris Middleton, the All-Star who sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee during the fourth quarter of Game 2.
The third-seeded Bucks advanced to face second-seeded Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals, with Game 1 on Sunday in Boston. The Celtics swept Brooklyn.
“After Game 2, we kind of talked about how we know what the deal was,” Antetokounmpo said. “The team knew what the deal was. We knew what we had to do. We had to be desperate. We had to go out there and compete at a high level, pay attention to detail as much as possible, help one another defensively. We’ve got to do it as a team.”
The Bucks have been through this before. They won their first title since 1971 last season despite losing Antetokounmpo for the last two games of the Eastern Conference finals due to a hyperextended knee
“We’ve been talking about the depth of the roster, the quality of the roster a lot this season,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “Other guys have gotten opportunities and played well. Our defense has tightened up, and we’ve leaned hard on that these three games. We’ve got depth. We’ve got a good group.”
Antetokounpmo appeared to get his left wrist treated during the first half, but it clearly didn’t limit his effectiveness. Antetokounmpo said afterward he felt “great,” and Budenholzer added that “we think he’s fine.”
While the Bucks thrived without Middleton, Chicago didn’t handle the loss of key players quite as well.
The Bulls played without the starting backcourt they used for the first four games because two-time All-Star Zach LaVine was in health and safety protocols and Alex Caruso was in concussion protocol. Without them on the floor, the Bulls fell behind by as many as 29 points in the first half.
“This was a lot of our guys’ first rodeo, just understanding what it’s like to compete in a playoff series,” Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan said. “There’s so much you can learn from that experience, especially going against the defending champs.”
Milwaukee focused on containing DeRozan, who had scored 41 points in the Bulls’ Game 2 victory. DeRozan was held to 11 points Wednesday while shooting 5 of 10, though he also had seven assists.
“That was the game plan — make him see a lot of bodies and force everybody else to beat us,” Bucks guard Wesley Matthews said.
Antetokounmpo was 1 of 15 from the floor and 11 of 14 from the free-throw line. Pat Connaughton went 6 of 9 on 3-point attempts and scored 20 points. Bobby Portis added 14 points and a career-high 17 rebounds.
Patrick Williams scored 23 points, Nikola Vucevic 19 and Coby White 17 for the Bulls. Vucevic also had 16 rebounds and six assists.
DeRozan was scoreless in the first 26 minutes of the game and attempted just one shot in the first quarter as he tried to get his teammates involved.
The problem was Chicago’s other players weren’t hitting open shots, allowing the Bucks to take command early.
“It was pretty obvious they were going to load up on DeMar,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. “I thought he played a great game. I thought he generated good shots. He didn’t have a high assist total because we really didn’t shoot the ball particularly well, but he would have had an enormous amount of assists if we had shot the ball better.”
Milwaukee pulled ahead for good 3 1/2 minutes into the game and built a double-digit lead by scoring 12 straight points in the first quarter. Late in the first period, the Bucks began a 23-2 run that helped them extend the advantage to 49-20 with 7:25 left in the second period.
Chicago outscored the Bucks 22-11 the rest of the second quarter and got the margin down to 11 on Ayo Dosunmu’s 3-point play with 9:32 left in the third quarter, but that’s as close as the Bulls would get.
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Bulls: The Bulls attempted 52 shots from 3-point range and only 40 from inside the arc. Chicago made just 28.8% of its 3-point shots. … The Bulls haven’t advanced beyond the first round of the playoffs since 2015, when they beat the Bucks before losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the East semifinals. … With LaVine and Caruso unavailable, Javonte Green and Dosunmu made their first career playoff starts.
Bucks: Reserve guard George Hill still hasn’t played in this postseason due to an abdominal strain. Hill had been listed as questionable the injury report Wednesday before getting ruled out, an indication he’s getting closer to a return. Budenholzer said before the game that Hill is “making progress” but added that “he needs more time.” … The Bucks have won 20 of their last 22 meetings with the Bulls. … Jrue Holiday had 10 points and nine assists but also committed six turnovers.
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James Corden will no longer host “The Late Late Show” on CBS come summer 2023.
The British actor-turned-broadcaster has just extended his current contract with the network for one more year, Deadline reported on Thursday.
Corden, 43, officially took over the desk chair at Los Angeles’ Studio 56 in March 2015.
“It’s been it’s a really hard decision to leave because I’m so immensely proud of the show. I’m thrilled to be extending [for a year],” Corden said in a statement. “I always thought I’d do it for five years and then leave and then I stayed on. I’ve really been thinking about it for a long time, thinking whether there might be one more adventure.”
The co-creator and star of UK sitcom “Gavin & Stacey” surprised critics who thought the newcomer was a bold choice for CBS at the time. But soon, Corden became widely known for his celeb-attended segment franchises, such as Carpool Karaoke, Drop The Mic, Spill Your Guts and Crosswalk Musical, installments of which frequently went viral on social media. Now, the “Late Late Show” YouTube page boasts ore than 10 billion views and 27 million subscribers.
“Seven years ago, James Corden came to the U.S. and took television by storm, with huge creative and comedic swings that resonated in a big way with viewers on-air and online,” said CBS President and CEO George Cheeks.
That’s why network execs were “keen” to keep Corden, Deadline wrote. “My bosses here at CBS have been incredibly supportive and extraordinarily patient with me while I made this decision,” Corden told the outlet.
However some of his memeworthy content has brushed up against viewers in the past, such as the Spill Your Guts bit, a truth-or-dare game involving obscure and bizarre food choices — some of which are enjoyed by certain communities globally. Cultural advocates called the concept “insensitive.”
Corden also inspired backlash when fans discovered the chauffeur role he played during Carpool Karaoke was a ruse — the vehicle is actually being towed while he and his pop star guests belt along for the ride. Though a fairly customary practice during filming, Corden himself was shocked by the controversy, and jokingly compared it to the abysmal reviews he received for his role in disgraced movie-musical “Cats!”
In a heavy handed attempt to own his part in the cinematic blunder — which “Cats!” creator Andrew Lloyd Webber himself had panned as “ridiculous” in 2020 — Corden and actress Rebel Wilson donned amateurish “Cats!” costumes while presenting during that year’s Academy Awards, a joke that the The Visual Effects Society didn’t find funny.
Corden said he hopes to spend more time writing post-“Late Late Show.”
Meanwhile, he has 200 more shows to shoot before his exit — bringing his total episode count to about 1,250.
Actor-comedian Craig Ferguson previously helmed the show between 2005 and 2014, following comic Craig Kilborn’s five-year stint starting in 1999.
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VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Orchid Island Capital Inc. (ORC) on Thursday reported a loss of $148.7 million in its first quarter.
The Vero Beach, Florida-based company said it had a loss of 84 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 20 cents per share.
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Oh My God! Ja-Breaker! Full Extension!
That’s just some of the reaction from the crowd, commentators, and NBA Fans all over the world when Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant posterized Minnesota Timberwolves guard Malik Beasley in Game 5 of their matchup in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. Morant, who just won the NBA’s Most Improved Player award soared over Beasley in a dunk that some are calling the greatest in NBA playoffs history.
That’s a lot of History
What about Kareem Abdul Jabbar getting dunked on by “Dr. J” Julius Erving in the 1980 finals? Michael Jordan has classic dunks over the Knicks during their rivalry in the 1990s. Remember to win former star Baron Davis brought the house down when he destroyed Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko, leading the “We Believe” Golden State Warriors to an upset victory?
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Some Dude’s List Of The Best Dunks In NBA Playoff History was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
1. Shawn Kemp Dunks on Alton Lister “The Lister Blister”
The matchup between the Seattle Supersonics (Bring back the Sonics!) and Golden State Warriors was a scrappy one. Sonics All-Star forward Shawn Kemp and Alton Lister got into a scuffle during Game 2 of the series. Kemp not only got his revenge, let’s look at the takeaways here:
- Lister’s teammates didn’t help him up
- Kemp pointed and laughed at Lister
Damn…
2. Chris Gatling Salutes Kemp After Getting Dunked On
In the same game, Warriors forward Chris Gatling tried to go toe to toe with Kemp, in a losing effort. Gatling could do nothing but shake up with Kemp.
3. Michael Jordan Dunks on The Knicks
You know it’s a great dunk when it makes a movie. In the intense rivalry between the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls, the #GOAT, Michael Jordan dunked on Patrick Ewing and the rest of the team. This dunk was shown in a scene in the Eddie Murphy film, Boomerang.
4. Scottie Pippen dunks on Patrick Ewing
The 1994 Eastern Conference Finals between the Bulls and Knicks was a memorable one. In game 3 of the hotly contested series, Scottie Pippen decided to sit out the remaining 1.8 seconds of the game when head coach Phil Jackson drew up a play for forward Toni Kukoc. Kukoc would go on to hit the impossible shot but the topic was around Pip’s horrible decision.
After apologizing to the team, Scottie more than made up for the mistake and capped it off by dunking on star center Patrick Ewing in what some say is the most disrespectful dunk in NBA History.
5. Starks Dunks Jordan
John Starks had an ax to grind with the Bulls and he had his chance to get his moment. In this dunk he posterizes the GOAT, Michael Jordan.
6. Kevin Johnson over Hakeem
In what may be one of the most underrated posters of all time, Phoenix Suns guard Kevin Johnson hit the baseline and slammed it over one of the best centers of all time, Hakeem Olajuwon.
7. Kobe Dunks On the Wolves
The young upstart Minnesota Timberwolves faced the LA Lakers in the 2003 Western Conference Finals and thought they could pull the upset. Not only were they wrong. Kobe Bryant left them with the gift of a highlight.
8. BD over AK
WE BELIEVE! The Warriors shocked the world and Warriors guard Baron Davis dunked over Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko in historic fashion.
9. Jayson Tatum Over Lebron
In Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference Finals, Boston Celtics then-rookie Jayson Tatum dunked over one of his idols, LeBron James… While they may have took the L, Tatum got the highlight of the season.
10. Derrick Rose over Joel Anthony
People forget former Chicago Bulls guard Derick Rose was an MVP. People don’t forget D. Rose posterizing Miami Heat center Joel Anthony
11. Julius Erving Dunks Over Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In the 1980 NBA Finals (the same ones we will eventually see on HBO’s “Winning Time.” “Dr. J” Julius Erving let Kareem Abdul Jabbar know he was in the house after these 2 dunks.
12. Paul George Over Birdman
Then-Indiana Pacer Paul George took Lebron James and the Miami Heat to the limit and gave the fans a highlight with this amazing dunk
13. Tracy McGrady Dunks On 7’7 Shawn Bradley
Anytime you dunk on a 7-feet, 7-inches tall man, it’s a highlight. T-mac did exactly that when Houston and Dallas linked up in the playoffs.
14. Kobe Bryant To Shaq Alley Oop
The dunk that started a dynasty! Kobe to Shaq clinched a series and eventually a NBA title when the Lakers defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2001 NBA Playoffs.
15. John Collins Alley Oop Over Joel Embiid
Ok… Trae Young and John Collins embarrassed Joel Embiid here. Sheesh.
16. Kawhi Leonard Drops Maxi Kleber
During the Pandemic NBA Season, Kawhie made a statement when he dunked the life outta Dallas Mavs player Maxi Kleber.
17. Payton to Kemp!
We talked about this Golden State vs. Seattle Sonics series twice already. This alley opp clinched a game 1 victory for the Sonics.
18. Oh Cam!
Phoenix Suns guard skies over Milwaukee Bucks Forward PJ Tucker similar to Ja Morant’s jam!
19. MJ FInally Gets Dikembe Mutumbo
We save the best for last. Hawks center Dikembe Mutumbo told Michael Jordan in a famous All Star conversation that he never dunked on him.
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Alcoa AA has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 3.8% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 16.17%. Currently, Alcoa has a market capitalization of $13.01 billion.
Buying $100 In AA: If an investor had bought $100 of AA stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $211.90 today based on a price of $70.52 for AA at the time of writing.
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On this daf, we find that an avel is forbidden to learn Torah, since Torah gladdens the heart.
The Iglei Tal writes in his introduction to hilchos Shabbos that the main mitzvah of talmud Torah is “to take pleasure and joy in one’s learning. Learning in this way causes the words of Torah to be absorbed in one’s blood.”
In a similar vein, Rav Shlomo Wolbe writes in a letter, “The main way to develop ahavas Hashem is that one feels such great pleasure in every word of Torah and emunah that this Torah learning is literally the ultimate pleasure for a person – tachlis hahana’ah.” (He understands this from the Rambam in Sefer Hamitzvos.)
Anything learned in this spirit draws down tremendous holiness. Of course, some people take pleasure specifically in a particular sefer or method of learning. The Mishnas Chassidim writes that one who feels drawn to learn a particular type of learning should spend most of his time doing this, since usually feeling a draw to some particular holiness signifies that this is likely his personal rectification.
The Mishnas Chassidim adds that one should learn some of each major category of Torah, yet one should still spend most of his time learning what speaks to him.
Yeshivos focus mostly on learning in depth, since without proper analytical skills, one will lack true comprehension of what he learns. Another reason for this is because this sort of learning is easier to get into and enjoy, since it is intellectually stimulating (Maaseh Ish; Michovim Ukesavim; Shnas Chassidim). | https://yated.com/moed-koton-15-the-right-method-of-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moed-koton-15-the-right-method-of-learning | 2022-04-28T23:39:12Z | https://yated.com/moed-koton-15-the-right-method-of-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moed-koton-15-the-right-method-of-learning | true | 1 |
A DC-based online plant shop set out on their biggest mission yet. Grounded hosted their first Earth Week to celebrate the business’ successful two year anniversary last week. We sat down with co-founders Danuelle Doswell and Mignon Hemsley to talk about their journey through entrepreneurship, the significance of staying grounded and how plants have transformed their mental health for the better.
With Mental Health Awareness Month just a few days away, it’s important to highlight people and businesses helping sustain our mental health. Grounded was founded in 2020, a time that was rough for most of the world. The business was created through Doswell and Hemsley’s shared love of plants. It grew as a platform to help their consumers disconnect and decompress through the appreciation of plants in the spaces we occupy.
Their specially crafted selection of plants offers a plethora of benefits designed to elicit a sense of tranquility and mindfulness. From boosting creative energy and concentration to reducing stress and purifying the air, the influence of plants within a given environment has statistically been proven to be advantageous.
Their business has helped restore peace in many homes and offices across the nation.
“Sometimes, when the world around you seems a bit chaotic, the synergy between plants and humans are a natural progression in helping us to remain grounded,” a word from their website.
In our interview, we were able to learn more about how these Black women are creating a space for healing through botany. They pride themselves on not only providing a quality product but educating their consumers on how to care for it and themselves. The two co-founders have diverse creative and professional portfolios, which has aided in their successful two-year business.
Learn more about the founders:
Mignon Hemsley: Washingtonian native and co-founder of Grounded, Mignon Hemsley is best known for her background in graphic design, photography, creative direction, gardening and djing. With emphasis on creating aesthetically pleasing designs and images, she encompasses the bridge between minimalism and informational content. Using her skills learned through gardening she is Mignon is inspired daily by creating powerful imagery and developing a design language that can translate to the masses.
Danuelle Doswell: Danuelle Doswell is the co-founder of Grounded and an Alexandria, Virginia native. Doswell is a multifaceted creative whose background is rooted in the realms of branding, marketing, and public relations helping clients and companies across multiple industries successfully meet and exceed benchmarks through authenticity, ingenious storytelling, innovation, and pervasive research. Not confining herself to no ceilings or any limitations, her life mission is to make an impact and be of service to others and the world around her.
Be sure to support Grounded by purchasing a plant on their website and following their Instagram for more education on how to sustain your mental health while caring for your new plant babies. Watch our exclusive interview with Grounded co-founders Danuelle and Mignon. Congrats, ladies!
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A man accused of shooting at a Louisville mayoral candidate will remain in custody while a federal judge considers his case after a detention hearing Thursday.
Western District of Kentucky Judge Benjamin Beaton said he will issue a written ruling sometime next week. A federal magistrate judge had granted Quintez Brown’s release to home incarceration, but prosecutors appealed.
At a detainment hearing on April 15, prosecutors alleged that Brown wanted to kill candidate Craig Greenberg to prevent him from winning the upcoming mayoral election, citing Brown’s internet search history, text messages and online posts around the time of the February shooting.
They also accused Brown of visiting the politician’s home the day before the attack but leaving after the gun he brought with him jammed. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Gregory insisted that if released, Brown posed a risk of fleeing and could be a danger to the community.
Brown's attorneys pointed to the fact that Brown had been on home incarceration for weeks without any issues before his federal arrest. They also asked the judge to consider the impact of Brown's mental health treatment since the incident.
Brown faces federal charges of “interfering with a federally protected right, and using and discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence by shooting at and attempting to kill a candidate for elective office.”
Greenberg, a Democrat, said he was at his campaign headquarters Feb. 14 with four colleagues when a man appeared in the doorway and began firing multiple rounds. He was not hit by the gunfire but said a bullet grazed his sweater. One staffer managed to shut the door, which they barricaded with tables and desks, and the shooter fled.
If convicted of all federal charges, Brown faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and maximum of life in prison in addition to any sentence he receives on state charges of attempted murder and wanton endangerment.
He has pleaded not guilty in state and federal court.
Patrick Renn, one of Brown’s lawyers, said Thursday that the judge “seemed very thoughtful, very deliberate with the way that he was going about deciding" whether or not Brown would return to home incarceration.
“The fact that he is going to take time is actually, I think, in our favor because when you look at all the evidence in this case, under the statute that he’s required to follow, that he, too, is going to make a ruling that Mr. Brown should be released," he added.
Brown was placed on home incarceration just days after the shooting. He was fitted with a GPS ankle monitor after a group called the Louisville Community Bail Fund paid the $100,000 cash bond.
His release to home incarceration drew bipartisan criticism, including from Greenberg, who said it was “nearly impossible to believe that someone can attempt murder on Monday and walk out of jail on Wednesday.”
Before the incident, 22-year-old Brown was known to the community as a social justice activist who was running as an independent for Louisville’s metro council.
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Dog leaps from window to escape burning Berks County home
BERKS COUNTY - Two dogs and a cat are safe after a devastating fire left a house in ruins in Berks County Wednesday morning.
Video from eyewitness Justin Steinmetz shows smoke and flames billowing from the home around 8 a.m. Initially, flames are seen leaping from the roof.
He said he saw the fire while driving down the road to work. After banging on neighbors' doors to call 911, he tried to put out parts of the fire with a garden hose. He realized, within a few minutes, the garden hose was a poor solution, in comparison to fire hoses and he reluctantly gives up.
He can be heard in the video saying, "I hope the dog's out."
Moments later a dog was seen frantically running in the background of the yard. Officials say it was rescued out the front door.
Dog jumps from window to escape house fire. (Steinmetz Family Farms)
Suddenly, another dog, could be heard crying in the video. When the man ran to the front of the house a dog was seen trying to escape through a window, but was frightened.
With the help of neighbors, the dog jumped from the window to safety. Burns and ash could be seen on the dog's back. The neighbors did their best to calm the dog. The man says the dog named "Charlie" is recovering at the hospital.
"Oh he's burnt up," the man said as he tried to hose the dog down.
Fire engulfs house in Fleetwood (Blandon Fire Company)
Two cats were also reportedly in the home. One cat was found and rescued in the lower level, but another cat is still missing.
Flames are seen ripping through the side and back of the house and soaring into the sky as fire crews arrived. The roof, side of the home and porch in the backyard were completely engulfed in flames, as aluminum siding can be seen melting and falling away from the building.
About 12 minutes into the video, a woman can be heard crying in the background and saying ‘Thank you.’
The final moments of the man's video show the aftermath of the fire with more than half of the roof gone, and the inside of the home completely burnt.
House destroyed in fire in Berks County. ( Steinmetz Family Farms)
A GoFundMe page has been set up in honor of the family who lived in the home. Nearly $31,000 has been raised in just a day.
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Why Biden is resisting the pressure to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt per borrower
By Katie Lobosco, CNN
President Joe Biden has a student loan debt forgiveness problem.
Lawmakers within his party continue to put the issue front and center, urging the President to cancel $50,000 for each of the 43 million federal student loan borrowers — something he has shot down repeatedly, including on Thursday.
Biden has already canceled more student loan debt than any other president by making it easier for students defrauded by for-profit colleges or those working in the public sector to receive forgiveness through existing relief programs. The President also recently extended the pandemic-related payment pause for a fourth time under his administration — moving the expiration date from May 1 to August 31.
But those moves have done little to ease the political pressure.
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Biden yet again to cancel $50,000 in student debt for each federal borrower by using executive action.
“Borrowers don’t just need their debts paused; they need them erased,” Schumer said from the Senate floor.
“With the flick of a pen, President Biden could provide millions upon millions of student loan borrowers a new lease on life,” the New York Democrat added.
The pressure is ramping up in a midterm election year and as recent polling shows that Biden’s approval rating continues to drop with young Americans.
More than 100 Democratic members of Congress signed a letter sent to Biden last month that urged him to “cancel a meaningful amount of student debt.” A handful of progressive lawmakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state, appeared with student debt cancellation organizers outside the White House on Wednesday to show their support.
So far, Biden has resisted the pressure to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for every borrower. On Thursday, he doubled down on that stance while leaving the door open to some kind of student debt cancellation.
“I am considering dealing with some debt reduction. I am not considering $50,000 debt reduction,” Biden said at the White House after unveiling new funding for Ukraine.
“But I’m in the process of taking a hard look at whether or not there are going — there will be additional debt forgiveness, and I’ll have an answer on that in the next couple of weeks.”
Later Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that “there’s been no conclusion of any process internally yet.”
There are several reasons why Biden may be resisting the pull from the left wing of his party.
Legal authority is unclear
Biden made it clear during his presidential campaign, after the Covid-19 pandemic began, that he supported partial cancellation of federal student debt.
His campaign proposal called for immediately canceling a minimum of $10,000 in student debt per person as a response to the pandemic, as well as forgiving all undergraduate tuition-related federal student debt from two- and four-year public colleges and universities for those borrowers earning up to $125,000 a year.
But he has also urged Congress to take action to cancel debt, rather than said he could use executive power to do so.
It’s not totally clear that the President’s executive authority allows him to broadly wipe away student debt. Last year, Biden directed lawyers at the Departments of Education and Justice to evaluate whether he does, in fact, have the power to broadly cancel federal student loan debt. The administration has not disclosed those findings.
But a September 2020 memo from lawyers at Harvard University’s Legal Services Center and its Project on Predatory Student Lending argues that Congress has given the power to broadly cancel federal student debt to the Department of Education through a law known as the Higher Education Act. It gives the education secretary the authority “to create and to cancel or modify debt owed under federal student loan programs,” the memo says.
Inflation is a key issue for voters
It may sound counterintuitive to borrowers who would benefit from debt cancellation, but some experts say forgiving student loans would add to inflation. This is a problem for Biden and other Democrats, who are getting blamed for rising gas and grocery prices.
Millions of people would be able to spend money — roughly $4 billion a month, per one estimate — on things other than their monthly student loan payments. And people may be more likely to make big purchases, like cars or houses, if they no longer have student debt hanging over their heads.
A report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that canceling all $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt would increase the inflation rate by 0.1 to 0.5 percentage point over 12 months. Canceling $50,000 per borrower would result in a smaller increase, but the group did not estimate that effect.
“It’s not gigantic,” said Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
“In a normal inflation environment, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But we’re in a very precarious situation right now and at risk of inflation spiraling out of control,” he added.
Canceling debt could benefit a lot of wealthy people
Biden has repeatedly said he is committed to making sure wealthy Americans pay their fair share and has proposed raising taxes on the richest Americans. Canceling student debt could run afoul of that policy goal.
Canceling student debt for everyone would disproportionately benefit higher-wealth households, like those with doctors and lawyers, because those borrowers tend to have more student debt after attending graduate school. As of 2019, households with graduate degrees owed 56% of the outstanding education debt.
A more targeted approach, like canceling debt for borrowers who earn less than a certain income threshold or canceling loans borrowed only for undergraduate degrees, could help make sure more of the benefit is reaching the Americans most in need.
“If you did even basic targeting, then way more of the money would go to low-income borrowers,” said Adam Looney, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has studied student debt relief policies.
Still, canceling student loan debt wouldn’t solve the fundamental problem with college affordability. Biden also campaigned on making community colleges free, a move that would require an act of Congress, but that proposal was cut from his Build Back Better agenda.
“If you don’t fix the system, these problems are going to reoccur and we’ll be back in the same crisis we are now,” Looney said.
Biden has signaled he would be open to excluding high-income borrowers from student loan debt cancellation, arguing last year that the government shouldn’t forgive debt for people who went to “Harvard and Yale and Penn.”
Psaki said Thursday that the President continues to consider some type of means testing when it comes to loan cancellation.
“He has talked in the past about how he doesn’t believe that millionaires or billionaires should benefit — or even people from the highest income — so that is certainly something he would be looking at,” she said.
To date, Biden’s actions have delivered more than $17 billion in targeted student debt relief to 725,000 borrowers. About $3.2 billion of that was canceled for borrowers who had been defrauded by their for-profit colleges.
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Swedbank AB (publ) (SWDBF) CEO Jens Henriksson on Q1 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Swedbank AB (publ) (OTCPK:SWDBF) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call April 28, 2022 2:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Annie Ho - Head of Investor Relations
Jens Henriksson - Chief Executive Officer
Anders Karlsson - Chief Financial Officer
Rolf Marquardt - Chief Risk Officer
Conference Call Participants
Magnus Andersson - ABG
Maths Liljedahl - SEB
Andreas Hakansson - Danske Bank
Antonio Reale - Morgan Stanley
Rickard Strand - Nordea
Riccardo Rovere - Mediobanca
Johan Ekblom - UBS
Sofie Peterzens - JPMorgan
Jens Hallen - Carnegie
Annie Ho
Hello, and welcome to the call. My name is Annie Ho, Head of Investor Relations, here at Swedbank. And in the room with me today is our CEO, Jens Henriksson; and CFO Anders Karlsson; and our CRO, Rolf Marquardt.
As per usual we will start with the presentation. And for the Q&A section, if I may ask callers to pose a maximum of two questions each in order to facilitate the call to end at 9:30.
And with that, I'll hand over to Jens to begin the presentation, please.
Jens Henriksson
Thank you, Annie and a warm welcome, everybody, to the presentation of Swedbank's Result for the First Quarter of 2022. We have a devastating aggressive war in Ukraine in Europe. It has an impact on our customers and it has an impact on us. In these turbulent times Swedbank stands strong. We are there for our customers and we do business.
In our daily work we contributed to free, open and democratic societies. And we continue to focus on the long term and to be sustainable to provide stability and growth in our four home markets Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden.
Four major topics affect us all; the geopolitics, climate change, the pandemic and inflation and they are all interconnected. During the weekend, IMF said that, global economic prospects have worsened significantly since January. But despite the pandemic and the war, growth is still positive in our home markets.
The transformation of the energy market due to both geopolitics and climate change brings both threats and opportunity. The pandemic is still there, but focus has changed since February 24 and inflation is rising in the shadow of the war.
Several central banks have responded by raising rates and that will be positive for the bank, since we currently are subject to negative Central Bank rates for excess liquidity. At the same time businesses and households will have to live with higher financing costs and lower purchasing power. Thanks to high household savings, there is large buffers.
The result in the quarter was SEK 4.6 billion, in line with the fourth quarter, excluding the bank tax. That means a profit of SEK 4.10 per share. NII was up a tad, mainly due to higher volumes, mortgages increased by SEK 10 million and corporate lending grew by a strong SEK 32 billion, where of the large bulk came in towards the end of the quarter.
Net provisions decreased due to seasonally-lower card commissions, less activity in the capital markets and lower equity prices. Net gains and losses declined due to the turbulence in the financial markets and other income increased due to the result in insurance company and Entercard.
Cost was seasonally lower and came in according to plan. The cost cap for 2022 remains at SEK 20.5 billion, excluding the costs related to US investigations. Return on equity was, as usually in the first quarter, weighed down by the capital held for upcoming dividends and was 11.4%.
Our target of a 15% return on equity remains unchanged and before the end of the year, we will present our plan on how we can reach the target. Swedbank is a profitable bank, with strong capacity to generate capital. It gives us the strength to support our customers in turbulent times, just as we did during the pandemic.
Swedbank's capital and liquidity position is strong. We have a buffer relative to the Swedish FSA's capital requirement of 4.6 percentage point. Credit quality remains good and for the quarter provisions amounted to SEK 158 million. Model effects due to weaker macroeconomic development explains it and we have still a buffer of SEK 1.7 billion to handle indirect effect of both geopolitical situation and the pandemic.
As you all know, dividend to shareholders is important to us in Swedbank. During the quarter a dividend of SEK 11.25 was decided and later paid out. We are proud of that. Swedbank stands strong. We have control of our risks. We are managing sanctions, cyber risk and AML with high attention. Our focus and my focus in recent years on governance and control has strengthened our capacity to handle the challenges of today.
Four US authorities and one Estonian authority are still investigating us and we have no information on when they could be finished or the size of any possible fines. Our diligent work with a stable and resilient IT system is paying off and availability increased during the quarter.
For quite some time the Baltic markets have re-oriented their economies away from Russia and towards the European Union. The invasion of Crimea accelerated this. Their export of goods of national region to Russia accounts for 3% to 4% of their exports.
Lithuania imports its natural gas, through LNG terminal. In Estonia, Latvia the transformation away from Russian gas is ongoing. And we participate with financing. Inflation is high in all countries, but they are strong indication that it will slow down next year both due to -- both due to base effects and reduced demand.
The business in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is resilient and important to us at Swedbank. It stands for 20% of our income. And we remain the market leader in all three countries. We are the biggest in mortgages we're number one for corporates in Estonia. And we are competing for the same position in Latvia and Lithuania.
Swedbank does not have any operations in Russia, Belarus or Ukraine. Our direct exposure to Russia is now below SEK10 million. And we've practically stopped doing transactions with Russia. As war and sanctions, redraw the math of oil and gas markets, the argument to quickly reduce our dependencies on fossil fuels are only getting stronger. And to us, this means growing business opportunities.
Sustainability is the strategy of the bank, not because we are environmentalist but, because it has proved to be profitable for 200 years. In the annual report, we have provided an initial calculation of Swedbank's financed emissions. Well that is the climate impact from our customers with the focus on the real estate sector, a sector where we had a strong position and participate in financing the transformation.
We see that our diligent origination standards contributed to a strong credit quality, our real estate clients have a low loan-to-value ratios, healthy cash flows and focus to improve their energy efficiency. The mortgage market in Sweden continues to grow. We are the market leader with the back book market share of 23% and in the top in new lending. And during recent months our front book market share has been around 17%.
We've continued to work hard and provide our customers fast service and feedback as well as competitive pricing. Customers that digitally apply for an increase of the mortgage can now track their loan applications and receive updates digitally. And we remain proactive with customers and we have the market's best overall effort -- offer.
We are a bank that focuses on advice for financial health. We can be reached through the app, whenever and wherever our customers want. We have launched new tools so that our advisors can work more efficiently with savings and pensions.
The number of digital advisory session is going up, at visits to our digital guidance for better financial health increased in the quarter by 20%. And when the personal meeting is part of that advice, we see customer satisfaction and sales volumes, rise.
During the quarter a new concept was launched at our branches, to guide customers to the right channels for day-to-day banking. This frees up time for personal device. So when inflation rises and interest rates follow suits, Swedbank is there for our customers and help them to plan financially in uncertain times.
The demand from our corporate customers has been high. And we are providing advice on their financing mix. And we are in close dialog with our agricultural customers. We have developed solutions for those struggling with liquidity. During a dark quarter, Swedbank has been there and supported our customers.
In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Swedbank is the most loved brand. In Sweden, we are not that strong, but we had a quickest climber and were named by, YouGov Sweden as a star brand. And we are closing in on our customer satisfaction targets, that is positive but challenges remain.
Customer satisfaction in Sweden is below our target and work is being done. We are improving response time in the customer center, with supporting customers who use the app so they can bank simply and conveniently. We're listening to our customers to deliver on our own customer promise and to provide ultimate value to our shareholders.
And who better to give us the number to show us just that, our CFO, Anders Karlsson. The floor is yours. Anders.
Anders Karlsson
Thank you, Jens. Now let's go into the details of the quarterly results, beginning with lending and deposits. The total loan portfolio increased by SEK42 billion this quarter, excluding a positive FX impact of SEK4 billion.
Corporate lending performed well, having contributed SEK 32 billion to this increase. LC&I originated SEK 30 billion of this, mainly in the end of the quarter. Half of the increase was traditional bank financing and half are event-driven transactions and short-term lending which are expected to be repaid over the course of this year.
Swedish mortgages grew by SEK 8 billion and we continue to capture market leading front book market shares. Baltic Banking lending volumes grew by SEK 2 billion supported by continuously robust new lending in private mortgages. Year-over-year, corporate lending increased by 8% and private lending by 6%. Customer deposit inflows continued this quarter increasing by SEK 18 billion, excluding a positive FX effect of SEK 5 billion. This was mainly driven by SEK 25 billion increase in deposits in large corporate and institutions of which SEK 10 billion is for a temporary nature. Deposits in Baltic Banking decreased by SEK 12 billion corresponding to seasonal patterns. Year-over-year, private deposits which tend to be more sticky, increased by 10% and overall lending outpaced deposits this quarter.
Now, looking at the revenue lines, starting off with net interest income, which increased slightly. The underlying NII increased by SEK 30 million as higher average lending volumes offset slightly lower lending margins. NII from private mortgages in Swedish banking was flat as higher average volumes mitigated decreased margins. Deposit margins were neutral on a group level. And FX benefit of SEK 52 million partially offset a negative day count effect of SEK 70 million.
Regarding the ECB liquidity facility, we booked the third part of the income this quarter, while the first two parts were booked last quarter. The fourth and final installment will be booked in Q2. Reminding you that the fourth quarter also included a negative one-off effect in the leasing business. For a number of quarters, we have had a muted development in our NII despite strong lending growth. One key driver is that the large inflow of deposits has outpaced lending growth.
In a negative rate environment and over the last two years, deposits have grown by SEK 271 billion, while lending has grown by SEK 93 billion. In addition, we have seen pressure on mortgage margins in Sweden from high competition and mix shifts in an environment with the negatively sloping list price curve during most of last year. However, this composition of our balance sheet in terms of lending and deposits puts us in a beneficial position in an environment with increasing rates.
When it comes to NII sensitivity to interest rate movements, we will benefit from higher rates over time. The magnitude of the positive NII impact is highly dependent on the pass through to administratively priced lending and deposits, where deposits in general are less rate sensitive.
Let me illustrate potential outcomes by giving you two examples of what could happen if we had a parallel shift of 50 basis points along the term structures in all our four home markets. The first example gives plus SEK 0.5 billion on an annual basis. And assumes that we have zero pass through to administratively priced lending and deposits. Thus the effect comes from the fact that we have more IBOR priced assets than liabilities and that the residual is financed with equity. The second example, gives approximately plus SEK 3 billion. In this case, we assume full pass through to administratively priced lending and deposits except for transaction accounts.
Before I move on to MCI, just a quick word about the new line in the P&L, which represent after credit impairments. We have moved the resolution fund fee from NII to this line with the new bank tax will also be reported. Consequently, we have restated historical NII in our disclosure. Over to net commission income, which has indeed been impacted by global events this quarter. Card commissions were seasonally lower, income from asset management decreased by SEK 176 million from a high level last quarter due to market development, day count effects of minus SEK 40 million and performance fees of SEK 34 million from last quarter.
Corporate advisory fees declined compared to very strong last quarter, as deals were postponed on the back of geopolitical uncertainties. MCI year-over-year has developed well, having increased by 7%, while assets under management increased by 6% on the back of an overall improvement in consumption levels and market conditions compared to time when we were in the midst of the pandemic.
Turning to net gains and losses, fixed income trading improved compared to last quarter, even though market conditions have been difficult as customer activity in general was good. The result from Group Treasury was lower, derivative valuations related to the bank's funding activities were impacted negatively by significantly increasing market rates in the quarter. The liquidity portfolio in Group Treasury and the bond inventory in LC&I were impacted negatively by widening credit spreads.
Other income increased by SEK 80 million from a combination of higher income in net insurance and the Entercard, as well as the provision release in net insurance. A few words on expenses before I hand over to Rolf. Expenses were lower quarter-on-quarter and according to plan, due mainly to seasonality of staff IT and marketing costs. AML investigation costs for the quarter was SEK 55 million. While the FX development has been positive for EPS benefiting our income lines and overall profit it has impacted expenses negatively by SEK 60 million this quarter.
Nevertheless, our SEK 20.5 billion cost cap and estimate of SEK 0.5 billion for AML investigation costs for 2022 still stand. Any excess FX volatility over the year would not cause us to deviate from our business and investment strategy. I will now hand over to Rolf to talk about asset quality and credit impairments.
Rolf Marquardt
Thank you, Anders. In the first quarter we have seen continued growth in all our home markets, but the recovery from COVID has been subdued by geopolitical crisis and the related economic impact. In this situation our credit quality remains strong. During the quarter, different credit risk indicators like past due loans for different sectors and geographies, credit migrations, watchlist exposures and impairments continued to be stable and at the same level as in previous quarters.
The total credit impairments ended at SEK 158 million with impairments in Swedish banking and large corporates and institutions of SEK 162 million and recoveries of SEK 11 million in Baltic Banking. Going into the details updated macroeconomic forecasts increased provisions by SEK 250 million. As you can see here the export portfolio adjustment was reduced by SEK 107 million.
Behind this, we have two counteracting factors. Even though some customer segments are still impacted by COVID, the recovery has continued reducing the need for an export portfolio adjustment, but then we have the war in Ukraine and the related impact on energy prices, commodities prices, supply chain disturbances Russian trade etcetera.
These changes are expected to affect credit quality in some segments. The impact though has not yet fully filtered through in our customers' income statements and rating migrations. We have therefore assessed that an export portfolio adjustment is needed. This has been allocated to some of the sectors previously impacted by COVID, like transportation, retail, hospitality sector and manufacturing, but also to agriculture and construction.
In total the export portfolio adjustment has been reduced from SEK 1.8 billion to SEK 1.7 billion in the first quarter. Individual assessments ended at SEK 28 million migrations increased provisions by SEK 45 million and other factors reduced provisions by SEK 58 million.
Now a few words on Swedbank's and the three Baltic countries exposure to Russia. In our operations in the three Baltic countries, we have customers with some ties to Russia and to a certain degree Belarus and Ukraine. Overtime the magnitude of this has been gradually reduced and when looking at the macro level, you can see that there has been a major change during the last decade.
Exports to Russia has decreased and now accounts for 5% to 10% of total exports. If you look at the export of goods produced in the Baltic countries of national region the figure is instead around 3% to 4%. The pattern is the same regarding imports which to large degree consists of energy and commodities. This also explains why our exposure to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine is limited.
Our direct exposure to counterparties from these countries is less than SEK 10 million. We have looked out our indirect exposure via our corporate customers that have business connections to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Our indirect exposure is less than SEK 8 billion to customers that have exports to or imports from these countries that exceed 20% of their income or cost. The majority of these customers have strong credit quality. We are monitoring more closely, a small number of customers with an elevated risk that have a total exposure of SEK 1.5 billion, where we so far have seen no need for Stage 3 provisions.
With that, I'd like to conclude where I started our credit quality remains strong. And back to you, Anders.
Anders Karlsson
Thank you, Rolf. Turning to capital, our capital position remains strong, with the CET1 capital ratio of 18.3%. The capital target range of 100 basis points to 300 basis points still stands. The capital buffer ended at around 460 basis points above the minimum regulatory requirements and the risk exposure amount increased by SEK 16.7 billion to SEK 724 billion in the quarter.
Regarding the expected future capital requirements, there are no further updates to what I mentioned in my speech last quarter. We are still awaiting approvals for our updated IRB models from our regulators.
And with that, I hand over to you, Jens to conclude.
Jens Henriksson
Thank you, Anders. Let me now summarize a turbulent quarter, we have during the last years focused on governance and control with strength and stability and resilience in our IT systems. We strengthen our work on AML and tariffs financing. We have reduced our business with Russia to next nothing.
At the same time, we have slowly, but steadily regained trust. We contributed to the transformation and have strengthen our sustainability profile. Our credit quality is good, our capital position is strong and we are profitable. Despite the weak and volatile develop in the capital markets Swedbank is delivering profit at the same level as last quarter. We are a bank that continues to do business and we empower the many people and businesses to create a better future.
Looking ahead, it is with special joy we see that our campaign talked about money with kids has gained great impact and appreciation in Sweden. During the quarter, we have also educated close to 20,000 youngsters in young economy, financial literacy among the young is critical to a financially sound and sustainable society. Thinking about it, it isn't that difficult. We standby, young people, refugees, pensioners, entrepreneurs, unicorns, farmers and shareholders in Sweden, in Estonia, in Latvia, and in Lithuania. Our customers' future that is our focus.
And with that, I hand it back to you Annie.
Annie Ho
Thank you very much, everybody. Operator, could we please open the lines for questions?
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
We will now begin the question-and-answer session. Callers are asked to limit the number of our question to two per person at the time. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Magnus Andersson with ABG. Please go ahead.
Magnus Andersson
Yes. Good morning. I have my first question is on NII and rate sensitivity. Anders, I guess when you gave us those two scenarios, I guess that your second scenario is what we see on page 76 there in the fact book i.e. a positive net annual effect of SEK 3.1 billion for 50 bps higher rates. I was wondering, if you could split that into the Swedish effect, i.e. the Riksbank going from 0 to 50 and the Euribor going from minus 50 to 0, and in – related to that, if you could tell us how much of your lending in the Baltics that is floored at zero. So that's number one.
And the second one is on costs. Just to get the feeling here, I see that your headcount continuous up quarter-on-quarter, if you could give us some flavor there on the outlook for the rest of the year. And secondly on IT within costs, I note that you capitalized slightly less this quarter than you have done previously, whether we should still expect total capitalized investments to increase by around SEK 120 million per annum, as you said after Q4 or whether there will -- we will see a change from here? Thanks.
Anders Karlsson
Thank you, Magnus. The answer to your first question is, yes, it's in the fact book on Page 76. I can't on the top of my head split it between Sweden and Baltics, but as you know in the Baltics, most of the lending, the majority of the lending and deposits are floored. So, the effect that you will see from a 50 basis point hike in ECB is more of a cost avoidance when it comes to excess liquidity but we can dig into the details and come back to you Magnus
And on the FTE development, yes we are recruiting we are continuously needing to recruit competence in primarily IT and data. It will continue at the same time Magnus the attrition rate, if you remember when we talked about that during the pandemic it was down to 4%, the attrition rate now is up to 12%. So it is becoming increasingly difficult to fill up with FTEs as far as I'm concerned. When it comes to the capitalization yes, as you know we have usually a fairly intensive development in Q4 that is coming down a bit in the beginning of the year but the forecast I gave you last quarter is still relevant.
Magnus Andersson
Okay. On to Anders the NII sensitivity do you know if it – would it be net negative going from minus SEK 50 million up to 0 or will you come back on that whole?
Anders Karlsson
It will be – what I meant is if you look at the balance sheet in euro, we have much more deposits than we have lending. So if you assume that we place the excess liquidity at minus SEK 50 million if ECB is increasing rates we will place the excess liquidity at less than minus SEK 50 million.
Magnus Andersson
Okay. Thank you.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Maths Liljedahl with SEB. Please go ahead.
Maths Liljedahl
Yes. Good morning and thank you. Perhaps continuing on this NII Sensitivity and thank you a lot for the scenarios. Anders perhaps a little bit philosophical. But if we assume here we have a different situation than historical rate hikes because we have tons of excess liquidity in the systems also deposits and you have a lot of newcomers in the mortgage market that are not deposit funded and perhaps will suffer more. What do you see here going forward? Do you think it will be easier than in previous rate hike cycles to push pricing on to customers or have you heard anything when you're out talking to clients and when you have all your tentacles out? Just curious.
Anders Karlsson
Well I think that if you look at what banks including us have been doing since November, which has been quite aggressively hiking prices in mortgages in particular, usually that is a heated debate in the whole society. It has not been the case. We have no intention of changing our pricing strategy on mortgages on the back of your second sort of philosophical question.
And then to your point about excess liquidity which I assume implies that what you're asking is whether the competition on savings and deposits will be less with so massive amounts of money in the system I think that it's too early to talk. I mean you will see a gradual tapering but that will take time. You will also see what Jens alluded to the fact that people are getting less purchasing power it becomes more expensive to live.
So there are a lot of dynamics out there that has not been seen yet so I think it is too early to say. What is clear though is that we have been subsidizing deposits for a number of years for our customers. Now we have bank tax resolution fees, we have the deposit guarantee fees coming our way. So we will be very hesitant to aggressively price on the deposit side that's for sure.
Maths Liljedahl
Okay. Thank you. Then combining I guess into – two questions into one since I only have one left. Looking at corporate loan growth and the ROE plan and you say that you have roughly 50% of corporate loan growth is traditional funding and half is transaction driven. How do you see this going forward? Do you think it will still be – I mean are you focusing to tilt more towards long-term term funding rather than transaction driven? And then is this included in your future ROE plan that will be disclosed later this year?
Jens Henriksson
Well, as you know we're not going to guide on individual lines. What we were saying is that we've seen an increased demand for corporate lending and we're up 32%. And when it comes to the plan you have to wait a while. We said that we will come back with our plan before the end of the year and that stands.
Maths Liljedahl
Okay. Thank you.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Andreas Hakansson with Danske Bank. Please go ahead.
Andreas Hakansson
Hello, everyone and so I'm afraid I have to go back to NII sensitivity. I think that's what matters today. We've gone through the details. But Jens let me ask you like this. I mean you had an 11.5% return on equity in the quarter. In a fairly normal quarter to get to 15% if I had SEK 6 billion which is rate sensitivity to over 100 bps you get almost to 15%. But don't you feel pressure that you really need to improve the margins on the back of the rate hikes in order to deliver on your profitability target or do you really see any other ways of getting out to the current quite low profitability?
Jens Henriksson
Thank you. You're right that return on equity in the quarter landed at 11.4%. That is below our target. But let me also remind you that it was an unprecedented quarter with pandemic and war, which affected both NGL and NCI and on top of this we have the new bank tax and accrued dividends waiting to be paid out.
We think we can reach the 15% and we will present our plan before the year end and I've talked about the levers to meet the 15% target.
Cost control, we met our cost target last year and we will do it this year as well. Impairments Rolf showed you clearly we have a strong credit portfolio. Capital, we have no wish to keep more capital than we need.
And revenues and when it comes to revenues I talked about four things. Mortgages, we are the leading mortgage bank in all our four home markets. Advice, we have a large customer base and are working with many new things last quarter I talked about FSZ.
Third sustainability, it's in our genes and has been there for 200 years big opportunities there. Fourth, maybe this is not the right quarter to talk about it but Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; three countries that will grow more than Sweden and we are the leading, bank there. So will it be difficult to reach it? Yes. Can we do it? Yes.
Remember that the last three years we worked hard with governance, internal controls, AML, stability, resilience, credit quality. Sounds a bit boring but it sure feels good to have your house in order in times like this. And finally, if rates go up as Anders talked about we'll see an improved NII.
Andreas Hakansson
Okay. Yes I just hope you keep the discipline on the NII because all the other points you mentioned I think it's quite hard to see what's actually going to be improving. And this SEK 6 billion that sits in there and basically you decide how you want to price it but let's come back in the fall to see what you're saying. Thanks.
Jens Henriksson
Well I can just say to follow up on that we are disciplined. We follow the market on every day and as you know we have a clear pricing strategy. We will be not be the cheapest nor the most expensive, but I'm really confident that we have the best full service offering in our home markets.
Andreas Hakansson
Thanks.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Antonio Reale with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
Antonio Reale
Hi. Good morning, everyone. It's Antonio from Morgan Stanley. Two questions from me please. The first one on the outlook for volumes and secondly on costs. So what we talked about rate sensitivity. How do you see the outlook for higher rate affect demand for loans, especially, I guess in the corporate and mortgage space?
I mean when I look at Sweden more than other regions we've seen corporates disintermediate the bank channel and issue in the market directly. To what extent could we see some of this come back? And similarly in the mortgage market we've seen challenges benefit essentially from the same funding cost as the market leaders. Do you think that could change the competitive dynamics? That's my first question.
And the second question is on costs. Costs were on track. With your full year guidance you reiterated it this quarter. I guess when we look at cost inflation it's running significantly higher than any of us expected both in the Nordics while even more so in the Baltics. You seem to have built quite some buffers in the AML-related costs which have been running below budget for at least the last five years -- five quarters, sorry. So how should we think about the moving parts there and with respect to your cost base going forward? Thank you.
Anders Karlsson
Thank you. I will -- you have to help me if I missed your combination of questions into one. But if I start with the outlook for demands for loans I think what you clearly saw in this quarter were two things. One is that you had a fairly large disturbance in the capital markets in conjunction with the war breakout and some of the corporates therefore buffered up liquidity. You also saw that some of our clients that were on the verge of issuing bonds in the capital markets postponed that. So that is something I would expect to continue as long as the uncertainty continues even though the capital markets have opened up a bit but at much higher prices.
Then we have which we haven't seen yet but what you could expect is that you could see an improved demand for loans within the corporate sector when it comes to sort of building storage capacity making sure that you do not have disturbances in your production or manufacturing, but it's a little bit too early to say.
What is -- what you need to remember is that the largest issuers when it comes to bonds in the corporate markets are the commercial real estate business and there are two sort of counteracting dynamics here. Banks have as you know in Sweden risk weight floors on commercial real estate. So, they have increased the capital consumption for banks at the same time as you have seen central banks pushing down the spreads by buying those bonds. That will ultimately change, but exactly when we will meet that inflection point is difficult for me to say.
Then you had a question on the mortgage market which was a bit slower in this quarter compared to the last two quarters. I think that is seasonally the way it usually looks. I think it is a bit difficult to have any forecast on the development on the mortgage market for the remaining part of the year.
On one hand, you see that it becomes more expensive and consequently I would assume that it will sort of gradually slow down. On the other hand there is a subdued demand for housing especially if you take in the refugee situation from Ukraine. So, I think it is a mixed picture.
When it comes to cost and inflationary pressure we have said that SEK20.5 billion stands for this year. We will come back to you with 2023 when it's time for that. As far as the AML investigation cost comes the reason for that's the best estimate we can give you. We have been wrong. First time we were wrong we said -- it became SEK1.8 billion. We didn't want to do that mistake again. And then it has been a little bit lower than the SEK500 million for a couple of years. It's extremely difficult to say. It depends on how the investigations are developing.
Antonio Reale
Very clearly. Thank you.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Rickard Strand with Nordea. Please go ahead.
Rickard Strand
Hi, good morning. Two follow-ups on the cost side. If we start with the FTE development, could you say anything about the current growth there? A follow-up on the question you got before. But what do you expect that to be by year-end? Would you have stopped growing year-over-year or would you still see some continued growth by then in your forecast currently?
Anders Karlsson
Okay. For the year we have a limited -- or our ambition is to have a limited growth in FTEs, much smaller than you have seen in previous years. When it comes to this quarter, I don't have that on the top of my head but it was like 65% or something.
Rickard Strand
I think it's currently growing at slightly below 2% year-over-year base. So, you would expect that to be closer to 0 then by year-end or--
Anders Karlsson
As I said we have an ambition to grow a little bit but not as much as you have seen in the past.
Rickard Strand
Okay. And then sort of given the inflationary pressure we see and besides then using a reduced number of FTEs is one lever to reduce costs. Are there any other sort of main areas you would like to highlight in terms of sort of fighting the offsetting the inflation and keeping your costs flat for this year?
Jens Henriksson
Well, I can answer that. And the key point is that we have a cost target. We believe that are I'm sort of really much in the view that having cost control is a strategic target.
Rickard Strand
Okay. thank you.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Riccardo Rovere with Mediobanca. Please go ahead.
Riccardo Rovere
Thanks. Good morning everybody. thanks for taking my question. Two maybe one for Jens. The robust loan growth that we are seeing today I imagine Swedbank is not losing market share anymore. While that was a bit the case over the past few quarters since a while ago should we assume now that Swedbank is going to grow in Sweden I'm referring to Sweden at least in line with the industry?
And the second question probably for Rolf. It's not clear to me when you mentioned the high risk Russian exposure of SEK1.5 billion it's not clear to me whether you expected part of this or these to migrate to Stage 3? And if that is the case should we assume normal Stage 3 coverage ratios? But again I'm not sure I got it correctly. And still related to that what do you think is going to happen to the COVID overlay you charged over the past quarters? Will be those reallocated, released, and then reconstructed based on Ukraine-Russian tensions? Thanks.
Jens Henriksson
Well, thank you for two good questions. I'll let Rolf take the second one. As you know a year ago I was pretty tough that we did not live up to the standards I wanted to see in the bank when it came to the mortgage market. But since that we have been the market leader in Sweden every single month June and onwards, and the reason for that: hard work, proactive measures, increased availability and strengthening cooperation with Fastighetsbyrån and we stick to our price policy not to be the most expensive nor the cheapest.
We are still the market leader although at lower levels. In February, we had a market share of 16.6% compared to a back book of SEK 22.7 million. If you look in our own channels some of it we get from the savings banks. In our own channels market share was 14.3% compared to a back book of SEK 18.3 million.
In March, we expect our market share to be roughly the same as February reminding you that some banks only report the last month of each quarter. The competition is tough, but I'm confident we have the best full service offering a 200-year legacy and we're active in the whole of Sweden. Rolf?
Rolf Marquardt
Hi, Riccardo. So, regarding your first question about Stage 3 provisions. So what I said was that in -- among the customers that have an elevated risk as a consequence of trade with Russia or dependence on Russia, we have so far made no provisions in Stage 3 for those. You can of course not totally exclude that going forward, but this is the best assessment based on what we know today.
And then a few words on the export portfolio adjustments we have made both related to COVID and also to the crisis in Ukraine. So first of all, keep in mind that SEK 550 million out of that is related to oil and offshore, so that's just sort of have to put aside. And then what we have done in this quarter is to release a fairly large part of the reserves related to COVID, and that's because we have seen -- we see a reduced need for that. We see some customer segments that are still impacted, but less of a need.
And then when it comes to the Ukraine situation, we have adjusted or updated our macro forecast and that has led to the SEK 250 million increase in reserves. So that captures the underlying potential impact from the macro change. But then we have a sense that there might also be an additional impact, which actually could feed into credit migrations in the future as a consequence of what has happened and that's the background to that overlay.
Riccardo Rovere
All right. Okay. That's clear. Thank you very much.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Johan Ekblom with UBS. Please go ahead.
Johan Ekblom
Thank you. Can we just maybe come back to the net interest income for a second? If I understand you correctly, you say that the large kind of step-up in corporate volumes was towards the end of the quarter. Can we assume that there is -- then that there is very little NII benefit from that? And I guess given the mix that you alluded to that should be pretty attractive margins.
And then, I guess, the two follow-ups on NII is, you saw a drop in deposits in the Baltics. Is that similarly towards the end of the quarter and drawdowns relating to increased uncertainty? I'm guessing that should also have a positive impact. And then finally, if you can just comment on the relatively large negative move quarter-on-quarter in the treasury result.
Anders Karlsson
Thank you. Let me see now. The first one was on the corporate loans in the quarter. Yes, bulk of it was -- the bulk of it was at the end of the quarter. Some of it is short-term, some of it is longer-term. The margins were not sort of out of the ordinary. So that was -- some of it will probably mature in the next quarter and some of it will remain and gradually decrease over the year.
When it comes to the Baltic, it is actually a seasonal pattern that we have seen not during the COVID, but before that, and that is very much related to a number of one-offs in particular in Lithuania in the fourth quarter where we have had a huge inflow of deposits in the Baltics and then you tend to get a bit of an outflow in the first quarter. So it's not related to any uncertainty on the back of the war.
And then I actually forgot your last question sorry. Oh, NGL…
Johan Ekblom
Yes. No, so in the NII, there is a treasury effect of SEK 150 million or so.
Anders Karlsson
Yes. But that's you need to since treasury is in between we are pricing the money for deposits and for loans and you have seen a certain increase in deposit margins in the business areas and you see a corresponding decrease in treasury. So you need to put them together to understand the dynamics in NII.
Johan Ekblom
So the fact that the NGL is even more negative this quarter. Does that mean that we'll see a negative impact in NII next quarter from traffic [ph] pricing again?
Anders Karlsson
No. But I don't think that these are related. What happened it is in -- the NGL and treasury when it comes to the derivatives valuation is primarily related to the short-term funding operation that treasury is conducting in order to minimize the negative effect on NII from negative rates. And in this particular case the US dollar short-term funding, which is then swapped into Swedish krona. The swap if you look at the three months US dollar rate, it increased with 100 basis point in the quarter. So this is a -- I would say that, if I stop the clock now and we do not do any more deals in treasury and market rates are unchanged this will turn to zero at the end of the maturity.
Johan Ekblom
Perfect. Thank you.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Catherine Peterson with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Sofie Peterzens
I think they got my name wrong. It's Sofie Peterzens from JPMorgan. So my first question would be on the resolution fund fee. How do you think about that going forward? Do you expect that to kind of drop off from 2024 going onwards or how should we think about the resolution fund fee? And then my second question is it has been very helpful all the Russia exposure direct and indirect exposure you have. But also do you have any Russian deposits in the Baltic countries and if you do have how are these treated? Do you treat them to stay way as the Swiss banks i.e. any Russian can't access their deposits or savings with Swedbank? Thank you.
Rolf Marquardt
So regarding the deposits in ruble Sofie, we have nearly nothing left of ruble deposits in the Baltic countries from our customers.
Sofie Peterzens
But I mean, if a Russian person then has like a deposit in euros with Swedbank in let's say Latvia; will that Russian person still have access to the money?
Rolf Marquardt
To the extent that they are customers and residents in the Baltic countries that could be the case. But we have no customers in Russia, because we don't do business in Russia.
Sofie Peterzens
But then you have some nonresident customers?
Rolf Marquardt
We could have Russian people that live in the Baltic countries and that are residents in the Baltic countries that could be customers.
Sofie Peterzens
Okay. That’s clear.
Anders Karlsson
And Sophie on the resolution fund fee it will most likely continue for a while. I don't know. I haven't heard any change as far as that's concerned.
Sofie Peterzens
Okay. That’s – thank you. that’s helpful.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of Jens Hallen with Carnegie. Please go ahead.
Jens Hallen
Thank you. Two questions for me as well. First is just a follow-up on Rolf's answer to the management overlay. I mean you talked about SEK 550 million to oil and offshore. Can you say how much you've sort of allocated to the Baltics out of that SEK 1.7 billion?
Rolf Marquardt
That is approximately SEK 400 million slightly below.
Jens Hallen
Okay. Perfect. And then the second question is coming back to the rate sensitivity. We talked about the first 50 basis points. And then the second 50 basis points or the third 50 basis points how does that then change the story? Presumably it's more positive in euro terms with the second 50 basis points but how does it work? Is it do you assume it's linear or how would those numbers change if you go from 50 basis points to 100 basis points?
Anders Karlsson
It's not perfectly linear, as you rightly point out. When you reach zero in the euro area you will have sort of a steeper development on that one. But again the more -- the higher you assume that the rate comes the more you need to elaborate around the pass-through on the different items.
Jens Henriksson
Thank you Anders. You rounded up perfectly because now we have to leave. Thank you all for calling in and looking forward to see you hopefully in real life. Bye. | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4504836-swedbank-ab-publ-swdbf-ceo-jens-henriksson-on-q1-2022-results-earnings-call-transcript | 2022-04-28T23:40:15Z | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4504836-swedbank-ab-publ-swdbf-ceo-jens-henriksson-on-q1-2022-results-earnings-call-transcript | true | 1 |
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Cardinals’ Arenado, Cabrera suspended after brawl with Mets
ST. LOUIS — The MLB suspended Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado for two games and pitcher Genesis Cabrera for one for their roles in a benches-clearing incident during Wednesday’s game against the New York Mets at Bush Stadium.
Unless appealed, the suspensions of Arenado and Cabrera are scheduled to be effective Thursday night, when the Cardinals are scheduled to host the Arizona Diamondbacks. If either Arenado or Cabrera decides to appeal, then the discipline will be held in abeyance until the process is complete.
The Mets’ hit-by-pitch frustrations boiled over when reliever Yoan López threw a pitch near Nolan Arenado’s head, sparking a brawl that led to Arenado’s ejection in the Cardinals’ 10-5 victory.
Mets hitter J.D. Davis left in the top of the eighth inning after being hit in the left foot by a pitch from Génesis Cabrera, the major league-leading 19th hit-by-pitch for the Mets this season — including three Tuesday night against St. Louis.
New York appeared to retaliate a half-inning later against Arenado, who reached four times and drove in three runs. López zipped a 94 mph fastball near his head, and Arenado began yelling for López to “do it again.” The benches and bullpens cleared, and the teams pushed and shoved near home plate.
In addition to Arenado and Cabrera’s suspensions, three players received undisclosed fines for their actions on Wednesday. Mets pitcher Yoan López was fined for contributing to the incitement of the incident. Jack Flaherty of the Cardinals and Taijuan Walker of the Mets were also fined for participating in the incident while being on the Injured List.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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Two Cardinals suspended, Mets fined for bench-clearing brawl
MLB has meted out its punishments for Wednesday’s brouhaha in St. Louis, and the league office largely agreed with the Mets’ view that the Cardinals instigated and escalated.
Cardinals star Nolan Arenado was suspended two games for “contributing to the incitement of the incident,” also known as barking at Mets reliever Yoan Lopez and then shoving Mets catcher Tomas Nido.
Lopez, who threw up and in at Arenado after four Mets were plunked over two games, was fined.
Cardinals pitcher Genesis Cabrera was suspended one game for helping coach Stubby Clapp yank Pete Alonso to the ground.
All three were also fined, along with Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty and Mets pitcher Taijuan Walker, who were both fined for rushing the field while on the injured list.
Clapp was not fined. Alonso was irate with Clapp and Cabrera for pulling him to the ground.
“I thought that was kind of cheap, going from behind. If you want to hold me back, you want to restrain me, go at me like a man,” Alonso said Wednesday.
“I’m a big strong guy,” Alonso said. “They don’t know my temper. If I wanted to put somebody in the hospital, I easily could. But I was just out there trying to protect my guys.”
Lopez and Mets manager Buck Showalter have denied that the pitch at Arenado was intentional.
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Heat, Butler each fined $15,000 for obscene gesture; Morris fined $25,000 for bench mischief
Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat each were fined $15,000 Thursday for a gesture made by the forward and the ensuing posting of the video of the gesture during Tuesday night’s series-clinching playoff victory over the Atlanta Hawks at FTX Arena.
Amid a 17-2 Heat surge that closed the first half of that victory, Butler, who was inactive due to knee soreness, celebrated a 10-0 scoring run by teammate Max Strus with an over-the-top, sexually implicit reaction, drawing laughter from teammates.
Per the NBA:
“Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler has been fined $15,000 for making an obscene gesture, it was announced today by Byron Spruell, President, League Operations. The Heat organization has also been fined $15,000 for posting the act on social media.
“The incident, which took place from the team’s bench area, occurred with 1:43 remaining in the second quarter in the Heat’s 97-94 win over the Atlanta Hawks in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on April 26 at FTX Arena.”
With that victory, the Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals, with that series to begin Monday at FTX Arena.
The NBA has been cracking down on profanity and profane language during the playoffs, including for expletives offered during postgame interviews.
Also during that Tuesday victory, forward Markieff Morris, who also did not see action, was called for a technical foul for grabbing Hawks forward De’Andre Hunter from the bench as play continued.
That also led to a Thursday sanction by the NBA, in Morris’ case a $25,000 fine.
Per the NBA:
“Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris has been fined $25,000 for interfering with live game play while on the bench, in violation of league rules, it was announced today by Byron Spruell, President, League Operations.
“Morris, who was not in the game at the time, grabbed and held Atlanta Hawks guard De’Andre Hunter out of bounds, which prevented Hunter from completely reestablishing himself inbounds as he caught a pass from a teammate. Morris received an unsportsmanlike technical foul for his actions. The incident occurred with 7:06 remaining in the third quarter in Miami’s 97-94 win over the Hawks in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on April 26 at FTX Arena.”
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TORONTO - Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. says its net income attributable to shareholders plunged to US$125.5 million in the first quarter, in part due to a loss on investments.
The Toronto-based insurance company, which reports in U.S. dollars, says it earned US$4.49 per diluted share, compared with US$28.91 per share or US$806 million a year earlier.
The results included US$214.4 million in losses on investments, compared with a gain of US$908.7 million in the first quarter of 2021. Fairfax says it had US$262.9 million in net gains on common stocks, but had US$494.1 million in unrealized losses on bonds due to rising interest rates.
Gross premiums written up increased 21.9 per cent to US$6.62 billion while net premiums rose 27.8 per cent to US$5.3 billion.
Revenues for the three months ended March 31 were US$5.98 billion, down from nearly US$6 billion in the year-ago period.
Fairfax was expected to earn US$3.96 per share on US$6.15 billion in revenues, according to financial data firm Refinitiv.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 28, 2022.
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Many dog breeds are purely about appearance—think poodles and the Pekingese. But plenty of other breeds are devoted to specific tasks, like racing greyhounds. For many of these tasks, physical appearance isn't enough: behavior also matters. Things like herding by sheepdog breeds or fetching by various retrievers.
It's not surprising that many people ascribe these behaviors—and a wide variety of other, less useful ones—to their dog's breed and its underlying genetics. Now, a large team of US-based researchers has looked into whether this belief is accurate. And, with a few exceptions, they find that it's not. With a huge panel of volunteer dog owners, they show that the genetics of dog behavior is built from lots of small, weak influences, and every breed seems to have some members that just don't behave as we expect.
Dogs, meet Darwin
The work is based on a citizen science project called Darwin's Ark. Participants were asked to give details about their dog, including whether it belonged to an established breed (either certified or inferred). They were also asked to fill out short surveys that collectively asked about 117 different behaviors. Overall, they obtained data on some 18,000 dogs, about half of them from purebreds.
This information was combined with genetic data, including previously published genome sequences from more than 500 purebred dogs. The researchers of the new study added to the previous data by getting complete genome sequences for 27 mixed-breed dogs, collectively termed "Mendel's mutts." Less thorough genome sequencing was also done on 2,000 additional dogs with owners who filled out the behavioral surveys.
The genetic work showed that, as expected, individual breeds are mostly inbred (the significant exceptions were Tibetan mastiffs, which are distantly related to most modern dog breeds, and left out of these analyses). Despite the inbreeding, however, there was little in the way of genetic variants that are exclusive to a single breed. Out of nearly 17,000 individual variants tested, only 332 were found only in one breed.
The team found that owners generally knew what their dog's breed was (unless it was a mutt). About 90 percent of the dogs certified as belonging to a breed appeared to share 85 percent or more of their DNA with purebred members of that breed. For dogs without certified breeding, this dropped to about 60 percent.
Using this data, the researchers confirmed previously published work showing that many physical traits, like leg length and coat properties, had a clear genetic component.
Behave!
The researchers looked at the genetics of behavior in two different ways. One was to look at the answers to the individual survey questions and determine if they were associated with any genetic variants. This method had the amusing result that the individual behavior with the strongest genetic association was "gets stuck behind objects," which they narrowed down to a small region that contains a gene associated with cognitive capacity in humans. Howling ended up in a region near a gene involved in human language.
They also clustered the survey questions into groups representing general behavioral tendencies, like the willingness and capacity to follow human instructions, sociability toward other dogs, and desire for human contact. Many of these had a significant genetic component, responsible for 25 percent or more of the differences in behavior for human sociability, toy-directed behavior, and ability and interest to respond to commands. But the effects were generally pretty weak, with mutts only showing about 9 percent of their behavioral tendencies that could be explained by genetic factors.
To determine whether any of these behaviors were connected to specific breeds, the researchers compared the breed/behavior linkage of members of a breed to the same linkage in dogs randomly selected from the entire population. In general, there was not a lot there. Only 5 percent of the breed-behavior combinations were significantly linked, compared to about 40 percent for breed-appearance linkages.
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The Importance of Demographics When It Comes to Real Estate
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GILBERT, Ariz. — As Forrest Gump in the Oscar-winning 1994 film of the same name, lead actor Tom Hanks abruptly trots to a halt after more than three years of nonstop running and tells his followers: "I'm pretty tired — I think I'll go home now."
Jacky Hunt-Broersma can relate. On Thursday, the amputee athlete achieved her goal of running 102 marathons in as many days, setting an unofficial women's world record.
And she can't stop/won't stop, saying she'll run two more for good measure and wrap up her challenge on Saturday with 104. "I might as well end April with a marathon," she told The Associated Press.
Britain-based Guinness World Records did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment. It can take up to a year for the organization to ratify a world record.
Guinness lists the men's record for consecutive daily marathons as 59, set in 2019 by Enzo Caporaso of Italy.
"I'm just happy that I made it — I can't believe it," she said. "The best thing was the incredible support I've received from people around the world who've reached out, telling me how this has inspired them to push themselves."
Hunt-Broersma, 46, began her quest on Jan. 17, covering the classic 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) marathon distance on a loop course laid out near her home in Gilbert, Arizona, or on a treadmill indoors. Since then, it's been "rinse and repeat" every day for the South Africa native, who lost her left leg below the knee to a rare cancer and runs on a carbon-fiber prosthesis.
Her original goal was to run 100 marathons in 100 days so she'd beat the record of 95 set in 2020 by Alyssa Amos Clark, a nondisabled runner from Bennington, Vermont, who took it on as a pandemic coping strategy. But earlier this month, after nondisabled British runner Kate Jayden unofficially broke Clark's record with 101 marathons in 101 days, Hunt-Broersma realized she'd need to run at least 102.
On foot, day in and day out, she's covered 2,672 miles (4,300 kilometers) — the equivalent of running from her Phoenix suburb to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, or from New York City to Mexico City.
Along the way, Hunt-Broersma gained a huge social media following and raised nearly $27,000 to help fellow amputee blade runners get the expensive prostheses they need. Health insurance typically doesn't cover the cost, which can exceed $10,000.
Hunt-Broersma, who ran her 92nd at this month's Boston Marathon, hopes her quest will inspire people everywhere to push themselves to do hard things.
What's next for the endurance athlete? A 240-mile (386-kilometer) ultra race to be staged over mountainous terrain in October in Moab, Utah.
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La Niña has been with us all year, and it’s not showing any sign of leaving soon.
The climate pattern is favored to continue through the summer, according to an updated outlook released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There’s a 59% chance it will stick around through August, and the odds are about even that it will continue past August into the fall (NOAA is giving it a 50-55% chance right now).
La Niña – and its opposite, El Niño – are characterized by the temperature of the Pacific Ocean. But they have major impacts on the weather we experience on land.
La Niña typically brings drier conditions to the southern half of the country and more precipitation to pockets of the northern half. Drought conditions often worsen, and that looks to be the case for most of the West this summer. The only exception is southern Arizona, which may see an active monsoon season.
This summer, NOAA is also forecasting above-average rainfall for Florida and for the area surrounding the Ohio Valley, including Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and more (see maps below).
La Niña winters are usually warmer in the South and cooler in the Northern states. When it comes to the summer, NOAA is predicting a hot one for just about everyone. The three-month outlook shows warm weather for all states except the Great Lakes region.
The hottest temperatures are predicted out West, in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
La Niña also has an impact on hurricane season. It typically weakens storms originating in the Pacific, but leads to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic.
Hurricane season doesn’t usually peak until late summer, but meteorologists are already predicting a busier-than-average year for 2022. Colorado State University’s hurricane outlook calls for 19 named storms, nine of which they expect to be “major hurricanes.”
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Montana Right Now is learning about the death of Airmen First Class Fallon T. Montanucci.
Montanucci was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls.
Malmstrom tells us that she was on leave in Nevada on April 23, 2022, when a drunk driver crossed the lane of traffic and struck her vehicle head-on.
She was with her sister who is in critical condition as of April 26.
Right now this tragic incident is still under investigation.
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SUNBURY, Pa., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weis Markets, Inc.'s (NYSE: WMK) Board of Directors today declared a quarterly dividend of $.32 per share to shareholders of record as of May 9, 2022 payable on May 23, 2022.
Founded in 1912, Weis Markets, Inc. is a Mid-Atlantic food retailer operating 197 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and West Virginia. For more information, please visit: WeisMarkets.com or Facebook.com/WeisMarkets.
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Brave and beautiful: New book shares tips on designs that will stand the test of time
By Khristi Zimmeth
Special to The Detroit News
Some design books are little more than eye candy — pretty to look at, but ultimately light on substance and sustenance. The new book by Australian designer Charlotte Coote — published by Thames & Hudson in the United States — is an exception and refreshingly nourishing, filled equally with eye-catching images and useful information. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/home-garden/2022/04/28/new-book-shares-tips-designs-stand-test-time/7443478001/?gnt-cfr=1 | 2022-04-29T00:05:20Z | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/home-garden/2022/04/28/new-book-shares-tips-designs-stand-test-time/7443478001/?gnt-cfr=1 | true | null |
RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – NASA and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) confirmed that a fireball could be heard in South Mississippi on Wednesday, April 27.
NASA believes the meteor was about a foot in diameter, weighing about 90 pounds. Officials believe it traveled parallel to the Mississippi River at about 55,000 miles per hour. It broke into pieces as it made its way into Earth’s atmosphere.
Neighbors reported hearing a loud boom around 8:00 a.m. In Rankin County, Kristi Mueller caught the fireball falling to Earth on her car’s dashcam. Mueller said the clip is taken near Dairy Queen on Lakeland Drive in Rankin County. | https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/dashcam-shows-fireball-across-sky-in-mississippi/ | 2022-04-29T00:06:24Z | https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/dashcam-shows-fireball-across-sky-in-mississippi/ | false | null |
NISKAYUNA, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Religious leaders in the Capital Region gathered Thursday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. Albany Catholic Bishop Edward Scharfenberger joined local Jewish officials in Niskayuna at the future site of the Capital Region’s first Holocaust memorial.
The idea of the memorial came from Dr. Michael Lozman. It will sit on a two-acre plot of land along Troy-Schenectady Road that was donated by the Catholic church.
“It means that we want people to know we care. We want to make it a better world. We have to learn what has happened. It’s imperative,” Dr. Lozman said. “This is why we are doing it. This is why we are building the memorial.”
At least $5 million is still needed for the project to be fully funded. Construction is expected to begin by next year. | https://www.news10.com/news/schenectady-county/religious-leaders-gather-for-holocaust-remembrance-day/ | 2022-04-29T00:07:44Z | https://www.news10.com/news/schenectady-county/religious-leaders-gather-for-holocaust-remembrance-day/ | true | null |
Around the world, the death rate of children has been dropping dramatically. Where 1 in 11 children under 5 years old died in 1990, it was 1 in 27 children in 2020. The total number was 12.6 million in 1990 and 6 million in 2020, according to the World Health Organization.
But a new study in The Lancet Global Health points out an underlying tragedy among the childhood deaths that do occur today. Too many are coming after children have been treated and often discharged from hospitals.
For the study, a network of researchers called CHAIN (Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network), most of them from 6 sub-Saharan African and south Asian countries, collected a massive amount of data on 3,101 hospitalized children aged 2 to 23 months hospitalized between 2016 and 2019. Most had conditions such as diarrhea, pneumonia or malaria. 350 of the children died within six months of hospitalization. They looked not just at the children's medical condition at the time of hospitalization but also talked to the families about their social and economic situations, and they found that while malnutrition is at the root of the post-hospitalization deaths, other family and health problems play a role.
Among the children studied, a little more than 10% died within six months of admission. Among the malnourished, the rate was more like 20%. That's "astronomically high," says Dr. Judd Walson, a professor of global health at the University of Washington and an author of the study.
Another disturbing point emerges from the research: More than half of those 350 children who died after discharge died at home rather than in a health facility.
Understanding those deaths suggests ways to prevent them. "We know how to reduce the mortality when children are brought to the hospitals," says Tahmeed Ahmed, executive director of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research in Bangladesh and another author of the study. "Now we're learning about the factors that predispose some of these children to die. We need to harness all this information and bundle it up into a package that can be used to make children survive and thrive."
Without such a new approach, the statistics about childhood death will remain grim, the authors say. "We really think that we're at a place where without a fundamental shift in strategy, we're not going to continue to see the massive reductions in childhood deaths that we've seen in the past decades," says Walson.
NPR talked to Ahmed and Walson about what the study showed, and what can be done about it. The study was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a funder of NPR and this blog. Here are some of the key findings.
Malnutrition plays a critical role in raising risk of death
It's no surprise that malnourished children fared poorly. The study found that "wasting" or "severe wasting" factored large in whether a child would still be alive 6 months or more after a hospitalization. Infants and toddlers who came into the hospital somewhat malnourished were nearly 3 times more likely to be dead 6 months after discharge than those who were not malnourished. Those who were severely malnourished were nearly 6 times more likely to be dead.
To that end, one of the solutions proposed by the researchers is to focus on improving nutrition for children. That might prevent hospitalization in the first place; it certainly would help afterward.
The role of the mother must be addressed
The study also showed that to break the cycle of hospitalization and subsequent death, children's caregivers – mostly mothers – should be considered patients as well by the health-care team. "Maternal mental health measured in these mothers around the time of their child's sickness is a major part of the pathway to mortality," says Walson. "The markers were not things like being suicidal or having psychosis but lost pleasure in day-to-day activities. The stresses on a poor mother with a sick child are enormous."
Many of the mothers of the children who died were over-stressed as home. Says Ahmed, "In a country like Bangladesh, where I come from, mothers have many other things to do at home – household chores, taking care of the husband, taking care of other children in many circumstances. We see a lot of anxiety, and a lot of depressive symptoms." Mothers with incomes might have to choose between work – and thus food on the table – and taking a child to the hospital. "In order to take care of children with malnutrition, we also need to take care of the health and nutrition of women and mothers," says Ahmed.
In terms of addressing mental health needs of mothers, the researchers point to successful interventions now in place that could be expanded and make a big difference. Walson and Ahmed are both fans of the concept of friendship benches, where women elders who've had some training in mental health issues are available to talk to anyone who wants to come by. Walson has done work in Kenya with SMS texting among new moms. "These are not high-cost interventions," he says.
Pay more attention to the discharge process
"This concept that we treat with a one-and-done approach where a child comes into the hospital, gets successfully treated for pneumonia and you're done with it really fails to recognize that some of these children remain at elevated risk for a very long time," says Walson. But there are ways to address the risk, starting with the end of the hospital stay. "We should be thinking about guidelines to help direct discharge planning more systematically. In addition, many children leave the hospital either against medical advice or when they still have clinical signs of illness," says Walson. "There are many reasons for this. Some families are afraid of hospital bills that they may have to pay, and they flee in the middle of the night." Or they have other children at home that need care, and they just can't stick around.
Money makes a difference
Information, education and financial aid within the hospital setting can help. Financial aid especially – "actually giving money to individuals to try to help them navigate the poverty in which many of them live," Walson says – not for every child leaving the hospital, but for those in high risk groups because they were especially malnourished or their family circumstances were especially dire. "If your child was in a very high-risk group, a targeted cash transfer around the time of discharge might be enough to ensure that they can return for care if and when they're needed," Walson says.
Other ideas include having health care workers in the communities available to deal with post-hospitalization problems occur.
Nutrition and nutritional supplementation might prevent hospitalization in the first place; it certainly would help afterwards.
Mental health support for mothers would also make a big difference. Walson and Ahmed are both fans of the concept of friendship benches, where women elders are available to talk to anyone who wants to come by. Walson has done work in Kenya with SMS texting for new moms. "These are not high-cost interventions," he says.
The outlook for the future
"When we started this work people really wanted a magic bullet – proof that this drug works, or that vaccine works," says Walson. "Until we have that support for caregivers and families and the children themselves, we're unlikely to really make a meaningful impact on this mortality."
Walson sees positive signs. "The World Health Organization is moving in this direction very quickly, and the funding community is also now really embracing this." The research network that did the current study has already started clinical trials on nutritional supplements and targeted cash transfers.
What inspires the researchers to keep going
Asking impoverished families about their efforts to help a sick child, and counting children's deaths when they fail, isn't easy work. In Bangladesh, Tahmeed Ahmed has been trying to prevent malnutrition and keep children healthy for three decades. I asked him what keeps him going – why does he keep trying when the work that he's doing quantifies so much tragedy, and he told me this: "There is frustration --why should so many children suffer needlessly? But when I first started my career as a medical doctor in Dhaka, I used to take care of really malnourished children every day, hundreds of them. When they recovered, there was a smile on the face of the children and there was a smile on the face of the mother. And that still inspires me."
Joanne Silberner is a freelance journalist and former health policy correspondent for NPR. She has covered global health issues since the outbreak of HIV.
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Amid continuing heat wave-like conditions, Chinchwad remained the hottest area in Pune city for the third consecutive day on Thursday.
The maximum temperatures (in degree Celsius) recorded in various parts of the city on Thursday were — Chinchwad (43.6), Lavale (42.6), Shivajinagar and Pashan (41.8) and Lohegaon (41.7). Pune’s day temperature were 3 to 5 degrees above normal, according to data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Jalgaon, which recorded 45.6 degrees Celsius, remained the hottest city in the state on Thursday. Meanwhile, rainfall recorded over Sangli was 6 mm.
Konkan, too, remained under the influence of hot and dry winds from heat wave-affected north India regions, like Rajasthan, said a senior Met official from Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Mumbai.
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Mumbai (Santacruz) recorded 37 degrees Celsius on the day.
“Hot and dry northerly winds are prevailing over most parts of Maharashtra. Temperatures are likely to continue to remain high for another two days,” said the official.
Besides, lack of weather systems is leading to clear sky conditions and maximum solar radiation, constantly keeping day temperatures above normal, said the RMC official.
However, there may be some respite from the ongoing heat over Pune, areas in Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada after May 2 as the heat wave-like conditions are most likely to abate from major parts of Maharashtra. Instead, the heat wave is all set to intensify further and remain restricted over Vidarbha.
Due to this shift in heat, the IMD on Thursday issued an ‘orange’ alert (meaning: be prepared) ahead of severe heat wave conditions that are likely to hit between Saturday and Monday. A severe heat wave is declared when the maximum temperature of a location rises over 6.5 degrees Celsius above normal.
Yavatmal, Chandrapur, Akola and Yavatmal districts have been placed under ‘orange’ alert from April 30 to May 2. Chandrapur and Akola have persistently recorded temperatures close to 45 degrees Celsius all through this summer and there may be no improvement in heat conditions anytime soon.
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LAMAR (WBTW) – Lamar graduate Decobie Durant didn’t receive much interest from colleges after his high school career ended. Durant went the junior college route, before catching on at South Carolina State. From there, he was unstoppable at the defensive back position recording 12 interceptions and vaulting himself up the ladder to a pro prospect.
In just a couple days, Durant looks to become the sixth player out of Lamar to play in the NFL. He’s hopeful to add his name to the list.
“I’m following behind the other 5 people that got their name called in draft day so it’s a blessing not only to them, but also to me to have that support system behind me.” says Durant.
The others that have played in the NFL include:
John Abraham, BJ Goodson, Levon Kirkland, BJ Goodson, Marshall McFadden, Michael Hamlin.
“All my life, I have been an underdog. I had to make a name for myself by the end of my career at SC State. If you put the work in, an NFL scout is going to come get you.” | https://www.wbtw.com/sports/lamars-decobie-durant-eyeing-a-spot-on-an-nfl-roster/ | 2022-04-29T00:20:37Z | https://www.wbtw.com/sports/lamars-decobie-durant-eyeing-a-spot-on-an-nfl-roster/ | false | 1 |
19 Dollar Store Items That Give You the Best Bang for Your Buck
For decades, dollar stores have been winning over American consumers with their ultra-low pricing . These bargain bin loaded hubs may not look the nicest, but they typically live up to their name: the stuff is cheap — sometimes cheaper than what makes sense considering how much other retailers may charge for the same type of products.
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Cheapness can come at a cost, though. There are certain items that, no matter how heavily marked down, are simply not worth it. For example, fresh foods and produce sold at the Dollar Store are almost definitely a no-no because they may be not so fresh. Consumers should also be wary of over-the-counter medicines at dollar stores because they could be expired, or as the FDA has found with Dollar Tree OTC medications, “potentially unsafe.”
So, what items sold at dollar stores are always best buys? And how much do you stand to save shopping there instead of at traditional retailers like Walmart and Target? Let’s explore.
Greeting Cards
“It never fails to amaze me how expensive greeting cards can get at some stores — as much as $6 or more in some cases,” said Julie Ramhold, consumer analyst with DealNews.com . “Instead of shelling out a ton of cash for a card that your recipient will most likely read one time and then toss in the trash, opt for one that’ll cost you around $1.”
Gift Bags and Tissue Paper
“While I don’t recommend purchasing wrapping paper from the dollar store, as it tends to rip way too easily in my experience, gift bags and tissue paper are safer bets,” Ramhold said. “The tissue paper is most often used to hide gifts in bags anyway, and as long as you treat the bag well, they should hold up just fine for a fraction of the cost of what you’d pay at other stores.”
Vases
“If you enjoy having fresh flowers around on a regular basis, purchasing vases from the dollar store is an excellent way to mix up the look without spending a fortune on containers,” Ramhold said. “And if one happens to get broken, you can rest easy knowing you spent $1.25 or so on the vase, rather than a much more substantial amount.”
Drinkware
“Whether you’re a college student needing to bulk up your drinkware collection or you just need a few specialty glasses, the dollar store is a great place to shop,” Ramhold said. “Plastic glasses are available, but also old-fashioned, daiquiri, rocks, Irish coffee, margarita, brandy, wine, champagne and even dessert shot glasses. You can also find standard water goblets and thick-bottomed glasses as well, plus beer mugs and pilsners.”
More Advice: 30 Things You Should Never Buy Without a Coupon
Picture Frames
“This is another item that can really add up if you shop elsewhere, but you can purchase decent frames that are perfect for gifts or your own displays at the dollar store for less,” Ramhold said. “You can find ones that have a more distinctive look, such as a gold glitter frame, but there are also plenty of options for just plain black, white and wooden frames for a simpler look.”
Phone Charger Cables
“Phone cables are always up for sale at dollar stores and while they might not last as long as one you purchase from an Apple store, they’ll likely be 20 times less than the official high-street price,” said Jenna Carson, financial partner at MoneyLucid.com . “These are perfect for times you’ve forgotten a charger or left it in the office and you need a quick fix solution that doesn’t cost you a crazy price.”
Tupperware
“Tupperware or food container boxes are a great dollar store item,” Carson said. “Usually when they are found at the likes of Walmart or Target there is such a small selection that the prices are ramped up. I’ve seen them for $6 a box. A food container always does what it says on the tin and there’s no reason not to gather these up from a dollar store. They tend to come in all shapes and sizes, too.”
Dish Sponges
“Dish sponges can [usually] be found in packs of six for a dollar at the dollar store while they are $4.49 for a pack of six at Target ,” said Chloe Choe, founder and owner of Off Hour Hustle .
Helium Mylar Balloons
“Helium mylar balloons are perfect for birthdays and are $1 at the dollar store compared to $3.99 at Target ,” said Choe. “They also come prefilled with helium.”
Coffee Filters
“Coffee filters cost three to five times their dollar store price at Target or Walmart,” said Nunzio Ross, founder and CEO at Majesty Coffee . “Both bleached and unbleached coffee filters cost way less at a dollar store.”
Carpet Cleaner
“Powdered carpet cleaners at dollar stores are always less expensive than at other retailers,” said Martin Boonzaayer, CEO of The Trusted Home Buyer . “The closest cost to the dollar store is $2.50 at Lowes .”
Pine-Sol
“Pine-Sol is one of the best all-purpose cleaners on the market, and it can be found at many dollar stores,” Boonzaayer said. “This can cost $2.80 or even over $4 at a retail store.”
Bleach
“Bleach is almost always so powerful, even the dollar store brand works,” Boonzaayer said. “This can cost almost $5 at a retail store.”
Along with the above products, Annie Brown, frugal living blogger at Savvy Honey , provided GOBankingRates with a helpful list of items that are always cheaper at dollar stores (specifically Dollar Tree), and gave their alternate, much higher prices at big-box retailers. Take a look.
Mini Dry Erase Board
- Dollar Tree: $1.25
- Walmart: $8.50
Cooling Rack for Baking & Cooking
- Dollar Tree: $1.25
- Walmart: $3.97
Hummingbird Feeder
- Dollar Tree: $1.25
- Walmart: $3.67
Mesh Strainer
- Dollar Tree: $1.25
- Walmart: $6.97
Mini Hand Broom & Dust Pan
- Dollar Tree: $1.25
- Target: $5
Pizza Pan, 12″
- Dollar Tree: $1.25
- Target : $3.99
Cake Pan, 8″
- Dollar Tree: $1.25
- Target: $4
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A legal battle aimed at providing adequate services to people with developmental disabilities in New Mexico has come to a close after more than three decades.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Thursday that a final U.S. District Court order recognizes the state's establishment of a community-based system that protects the health and safety of intellectually and developmentally disabled New Mexico residents.
The case stems from a class-action lawsuit filed in 1987 that alleged civil rights violations on behalf of developmentally disabled residents at two state-supported institutions. Those facilities closed years ago, but the state’s obligations continued under a series of stipulations and decrees.
The state estimates it has spent more than $80 million on the litigation — known as the Jackson v. New Mexico case.
In a court order this week, U.S. Magistrate Judge John Robbenhaar said the original violations have been remedied with lasting improvements.
“This case matters to many New Mexican families, some of whom would prefer to see federal oversight continue, with others accepting that the state will now chart its own course,” Robbenhaar said. “The court concludes that the violations that existed at the commencement of this suit have been rectified, that the parties have crafted a durable remedy, and that the defendants have demonstrated a clear intent to safeguard in the long-term the constitutional and statutory rights ... of the developmentally disabled.”
Jason Cornwell, director of the state division for developmental disabilities and supports, said the court order “makes clear that the system of care in New Mexico is sound, sustainable, and durable.”
He also emphasized that state's mission is to ensure that individuals with disabilities can “live the lives that they prefer in the communities of their choice.” | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/New-Mexico-resolves-1987-lawsuit-by-17135139.php | 2022-04-29T00:25:58Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/New-Mexico-resolves-1987-lawsuit-by-17135139.php | true | 12 |
BlueGrace Logistics Names Adam Blankenship Chief Operating Officer and President of Managed Logistics
Combined role oversees company operations and long-term growth
TAMPA, FL. (April 26, 2022) - BlueGrace Logistics (BlueGrace), a hypergrowth, Third-Party Logistics (3PL) provider offering customizable transportation business solutions, has announced Adam Blankenship as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President of Managed Logistics, effective immediately. Blankenship’s new role expands oversight throughout the entire organization, as well as LTL (Less-Than-Truckload) products and pricing, customer experience and strategic ventures. Additionally, in his position as President of BlueGrace Managed Logistics®, Blankenship will lead all divisional aspects including innovation, supply chain engineering, integration, and customer success.
“Adam has played a pivotal role in c-suite operations for years and understands the balance of managing people and technology to drive business forward. His keen industry insight and methodical approach provides every confidence that Adam will deliver better logistics experiences to current and future customers,” said Bobby Harris, Chief Executive Officer of BlueGrace.
Blankenship’s experience has made him an expert in LTL operations, pricing, and managed logistics services. He currently represents BlueGrace on the Digital LTL Council, a joint-task initiative comprised of more than 20 industry LTL transportation providers, logistics service providers, shippers, technology providers, and organizations focused on delivering industry standardization.
Prior to joining BlueGrace, Blankenship served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Central Transport, and as a leader in sales strategy, pricing, and yield management at YRC (Yellow Roadway Corporation). Blankenship credits building a strong team from the ground up that focuses on the details as key to a strong organizational foundation and starting point for leadership.
“BlueGrace puts its people in position to succeed, which in turn, helps customers succeed. Having worked alongside some of the industry’s most knowledgeable and innovative professionals, I can honestly say that they have been a driving force in the phenomenal growth the company has experienced over the last decade. I am honored to lead BlueGrace’s Managed Logistics and Strategic Ventures teams, as well as company operations across 12 locations nationwide,” said Blankenship.
As logistics outsourcing continues to evolve, driven by current marketplace cycles including the
rapid development of logistics infrastructure across the developing regions and globalized product availability, BlueGrace chose now to expand its Managed Logistics footprint. BlueGrace Managed Logistics acts as a strategic partner to businesses that deal with a complex supply chain, carrying out all logistics operations. Blankenship will lead BlueGrace Managed Logistics to deliver a comprehensive and customized solution set for customers, which includes BlueShip® TMS, dedicated account managers, ERP integration, and optimization analysis.
About BlueGrace Logistics
BlueGrace Logistics offers customizable transportation management solutions as a full-service Third-Party Logistics (3PL) provider that helps businesses manage their freight spend through industry leading technology with a large network of established carriers to customers across the country. With 12 offices strategically located in major transportation hubs across the U.S. including its Tampa headquarters, BlueGrace serves over 10,000 customers annually through its proprietary technology platform, BlueShip®, that has connectivity with more than 250,000 carrier suppliers. BlueGrace is part of the technology portfolio of Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm. For more information on BlueGrace, visit www.mybluegrace.com.
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DENVER – Officials believe a strain of equine influenza could be to blame for the death of what as of Thursday is 95 wild horses this week at a Bureau of Land Management corral in Cañon City.
The 95 horses have all died at the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Corrals, located on the Colorado Department of Corrections East Canon Complex, since April 23, according to the BLM.
The bureau said it sent PCR lab tests to two top veterinary labs in the U.S., which identified the likely cause of the respiratory outbreak and deaths as H3N8 equine influenza, which the BLM says is “not uncommon” in both wild and domesticated horses.
The BLM said the group of horses that are dying have all come from a group called the “West Douglas horses” – which were rounded up in August 2021 after the Oil Springs Fire burned about 12,000 acres south of Rangely, Colo., last June.
The BLM said no other horses out of 2,184 others at the facility had died as of Thursday despite 10-20% of them showing “more typical mild clinical signs of influenza.”
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Most of the horses at the corral are in good condition, according to a report written by Dr. Albert Kane, with USDA APHIS Veterinary Services in Fort Collins, which says that problems first appeared to start about 5-10 days after a group of about 50 horses received vaccinations, and that those horses appeared to have the most severe outcomes at the start.
The BLM said PCR tests had also identified two different equine herpes viruses – EHV-2 and EHV-5 – but that it was unclear how those viruses might be contributing to the severity of the influenza in the West Douglas horses.
“Underlying reasons the West Douglas horses are so severely affected compared to other cohorts on the same premises are uncertain but could include previous exposure to smoke inhalation during the wildfire that prompted their capture and removal, unvaccinated or partially vaccinated status, exposure to extremely dusty conditions at the north edge of the facility, compromised immune system possibly due to a toxic plant or other exposure,” the report says.
“The Bureau of Land Management will review operations at the Canon City facility to prevent future outbreaks like this from occurring,” BLM Colorado Acting Associated State Director Ben Gruber said in a statement. “This tragic outcome was influenced by a population of horses that may have been particularly vulnerable given their time in the West Douglas area and their exposure to last year’s wildfire that prompted their emergency gather.”
Colorado Department of Corrections Executive Director Dean Williams said the DOC and BLM were trying to stem the spread of the virus and hoping to prevent similar things from happening in the future.
The BLM says the corral is under a voluntary quarantine, meaning no horses are allowed to leave for the foreseeable future until officials can determine the horses are healthy and don’t pose a risk to other horses.
The bureau said in addition to working with the diagnostic lab veterinarians, it was working with others from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Colorado State Veterinarian’s Office to figure out and mitigate the reasons some of the horses are seeing fatal cases.
Among the recommendations issued in the report were added cleaning and disinfecting procedures for trucks and equipment and bringing in a separate loader to handle the carcasses of the dead, and further sampling for more clinical signs of disease.
BLM first reported the incident Tuesday, saying the facility was under a voluntary quarantine due to an "unknown yet highly contagious" disease outbreak. | https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/officials-believe-strain-of-equine-influenza-may-have-caused-deaths-of-now-95-wild-horses-in-canon-city | 2022-04-29T00:29:08Z | https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/officials-believe-strain-of-equine-influenza-may-have-caused-deaths-of-now-95-wild-horses-in-canon-city | false | 2 |
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Lisa Vanderpump is overjoyed as she holds her beaming grandson Theodore on a private jet after opening new spot Vanderpump à Paris in Las Vegas
Lisa Vanderpump seemed to be loving being a grandmother in a cute photo with her grandson that she posted to Instagram on Thursday.
The 61-year-old restaurateur showed off a winning smile while holding up her adorable grandson Theodore, who sported his won infectious grin.
The reality star appeared to be heading back home to Southern California after opening her new restaurant Vanderpump à Paris late last week in Las Vegas.
Lisa Vanderpump, 61, looked like a proud grandmother in a photo posted Thursday as she held her adorable grandson Theodore on a private jet flight back from her restaurant opening in Vegas
Lisa looked chic in a black suit with wide textured lapels, and she wore it with a patterned white shirt that she left unbuttoned at the collar.
The Vanderpump Rules star paired her suit with casual gray sneakers, and she wore her voluminous brunette locks down and across her shoulders.
Theodore looked cute in a thick gray ribbed cardigan, which he had on atop a navy shirt.
He was dressed in distressed jeans and went barefoot as his grandmother held him at her seat.
'Couldn’t have opened @VanderpumpParis without a lot of help from my family… especially this little helper! #teddypaws,' she wrote.
Family: Theodore — who also goes by Teddy — was born in November, is Lisa's grandson from her daughter Pandora and her son-in-law Jason Sabo
Success: On Saturday, Pandora shared a snap of Lisa and her family and friends as they prepared to board the private jet on their way back from Vegas
Theodore — who also goes by Teddy — was born in November, is Lisa's grandson from her daughter Pandora and her son-in-law Jason Sabo.
On Saturday, Pandora shared a snap of Lisa and her family and friends as they prepared to board the private jet on their way back from Vegas.
The former Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star proudly held her Pomeranian in her arms, while Jason and her granddaughter had a snoozing Teddy in a carrier.
Her new restaurant, Vanderpump à Paris, is her most opulent location to date.
'Everything in here is bespoke, it's all curated and you can't replicate anything in here,' Lisa told DailyMailTV. 'It's unique and I think that's what we wanted to bring with the food and drink as well. We wanted something that was decadent, we wanted something that was visual.'
As the name signals, many of the dishes and over-the-top cocktails are inspired by the City of Lights.
New venture: Lisa was opening her new restaurant, Vanderpump à Paris, which is her most opulent location to date and is inspired by the City of Lights; seen April 21 in Las Vegas
Although Lisa opted for comfortable trainers on her way back from Vegas, she recently shared that she was once again able to wear heels despite having broken her leg in January.
While speaking to ET last week, she gushed about how she had had a 'miraculous recovery.'
'I’m back in heels. That was my target for the opening,' she revealed.
'I had four fractures. I had a plate, five pins, and two screws — but I’m here and I’m walking.'
Back at it: Although Lisa opted for comfortable trainers on her way back from Vegas, she told ET last week that she was again able to wear heels despite having broken her leg in January; seen April 21 in Las Vegas | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10765241/Lisa-Vanderpump-overjoyed-holds-beaming-grandson-Theodore-private-jet.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-29T00:37:57Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10765241/Lisa-Vanderpump-overjoyed-holds-beaming-grandson-Theodore-private-jet.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 2 |
MIAMI (AP) — The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the Caribbean territory’s ports were arrested Thursday on drug smuggling charges in South Florida, federal authorities said.
Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were taken into custody by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to launder money, according to a criminal complaint. Maynard's son, Kadeem Maynard, faces the same changes in the alleged scheme, according to the records.
Fahie and Oleanvine Maynard had been at the airport to meet Mexican drug traffickers, who in reality were undercover DEA agents, to see a shipment of $700,000 in cash that BVI officials expected to receive for helping smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Miami and New York, the complaint said.
A DEA confidential source had previously met with Maynard and her son after being introduced by a group of self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah operatives, according to the complaint. After Fahie became involved, it said, the BVI officials agreed to to let the smugglers bring the cocaine through the port at Tortola before continuing on to the U.S.
Governor Of The British Virgin Islands John Rankin released a statement clarifying that Thursday’s arrests in Florida were not connected to a Commission of Inquiry issued last year in the territory. That investigation was meant to focus on governance and corruption, not a criminal investigation into the illegal drug trade, Rankin said in a statement posted online.
It isn’t known whether the commission had found any suspected wrongdoing by Fahie or Maynard, but Rankin said he expects to have the results published urgently to avoid unnecessary speculation.
The British Virgin Islands, with a population about 35,000 people, is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea, located east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The governor is appointed by the queen, the territory’s ultimate executive authority, and acts on her behalf. The premier is the head of the government and is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/British-Virgin-Islands-officials-charged-in-drug-17135098.php | 2022-04-29T00:39:19Z | https://www.chron.com/news/article/British-Virgin-Islands-officials-charged-in-drug-17135098.php | false | 44 |
A group, Concerned Peoples Democratic Party members, Akwa Ibom State, has asked the screening committee of the party to disqualify Pastor Umo Eno from participating in the forthcoming party’s primary elections over his alleged flagrant violation of the Electoral Act 2022.
The group stated this on Thursday in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the committee obtained by SaharaReporters dated April 27, 2022.
The letter was signed by Mr. James Benson Ekpo.
It was gathered that the PDP Screening Committee for South South Zone presently sitting in Port Harcourt had been under immense pressure to cover up Pastor Umo Eno and clear him accordingly.
The group accused Eno of violating Section 84 (12) and (15) of the Electoral Act 2022 and Section 182 (1) (G) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The letter asked the committee to disqualify Eno for not resigning his appointment as required by the law as he was the director of Ibom Fadama MicroFinance Bank, an institution incorporated by the state government.
The group maintained that the provisions of the electoral act stipulated that anybody contesting in the governorship primary election should resign from office within 30 days.
The letter therefore asked the committee to disqualify him from the exercise before the electoral body be in the know of the information.
The letter read in part " We respectively write to you on the above mentioned subject matter to bring to your notice the fact that Pastor Umo Bassey Eno one of the aspirants of the office of Governor of Akwa Ibom State in the forthcoming primary electio of your great party ( PDP ) is still a serving director of Ibom Fadama MicroFinance Bank as institution incorporated by the Akwa Ibom State government to access funds from federal government through the Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN ) for Agricultural purposes.
“It is our humble request that Pastor Umo Bassey Eno should be disqualified from participating in the primary election of the party to avoid our party being sanctioned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) when this information get to the commission.”
The screening of the Governorship aspirants of the party kicked off today in the state thereby casting cloud of doubt on the eligibility of Eno over his failure to resign his appointment in violation of the Electoral Act and Party Guidelines.
It will be recalled that Pastor Umo Eno was chosen by Governor Udom Emmanuel as his preferred successor in January 2022 amid protest by many leaders and stakeholders of the party in the state. | https://saharareporters.com/2022/04/28/group-demands-disqualification-akwa-ibom-governorship-aspirant-eno-violating-electoral | 2022-04-29T00:42:56Z | https://saharareporters.com/2022/04/28/group-demands-disqualification-akwa-ibom-governorship-aspirant-eno-violating-electoral | true | 1 |
Grand Forks RCMP Have Suspect in CIBC Robbery
It’s been a week since the robbery at the Grand Forks CIBC.
It’s also been close to two months since the first of two robberies at the Creston branch which was followed by a hold up at the CIBC in Castlegar.
Grand Forks RCMP Detachment Commander Darryl Peppler said there is a development in their case.
“We do have a suspect,” said Peppler.
“However, we are working at confirming his identity and a few other things and at that point once we feel we have enough (evidence), we will present a report to crown council seeking charge approval,” he added, while stating consultations continue with investigators in Creston and Castlegar.
“We have been communicating with both of those detachments and the investigators and we do believe there are some similarities and so we will continue to work ours (the Grand Forks case) and if it advances theirs, that’s even better,” said Peppler.
In all four robberies, a masked man dressed in a hoodie, claimed to have a gun, demanded money and fled with cash. Peppler said the suspect in Grand Forks got away with a large amount of money and headed south on 2nd St.
The top cop in Grand Forks indicated investigators still want to hear from any additional witnesses, including motorists.
“If they have dash cam footage from that time and date, which is around 4 o’clock (p.m.) on Apr. 21st, please contact the investigator.”
Tips can be called into the Grand Forks Detachment at 250-442-8288, or anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/bounce/kootenays/grand-forks-rcmp-have-suspect-in-cibc-robbery-1.17678670 | 2022-04-29T00:42:57Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/bounce/kootenays/grand-forks-rcmp-have-suspect-in-cibc-robbery-1.17678670 | false | 1 |
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had “very substantive and warm talks” on energy and defense cooperation with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov during his visit to Kyiv on Thursday.
Zelenskyy said they agreed that damaged Ukrainian military equipment could be repaired at Bulgarian plants and then sent back to Ukraine.
“Another issue we agreed on was the supply of Ukrainian electricity to Bulgaria and the joint use of the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline” to diversify energy supplies in the region,” Zelenskyy said late Thursday in his nightly video address to the nation.
Russia this week cut off natural gas supplies to Bulgaria and also to Poland, two NATO members which have been among the strongest European supporters of Ukraine in the war.
Although Bulgaria gets over 90% of its gas from Russia, the cutoff does not immediately put the country in dire trouble because of other potential suppliers. The Trans-Balkan gas pipeline runs from Greece through Bulgaria and Romania to Ukraine.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Ukraine says Russian offensive in east picks up momentum
— NATO chief says Finland, Sweden could join quite quickly
— Biden seeks new powers to use oligarchs’ assets for Ukraine
— A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers
— After a rocket: ‘One second and you are left with nothing’
Follow all AP stories on Russia’s war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy was one of at least three people wounded in what emergency officials are calling the first Russian strike in a residential area of the southern city of Zaporizhzhia since Russia’s invasion began.
The city has been a crucial waypoint for tens of thousands of people fleeing the besieged southern port of Mariupol.
The rocket strike came Thursday as parts of southern Ukraine prepared for a further onslaught by Russian forces who seek to strip the country of its coastline.
Residents said at least eight homes in the modest neighborhood were damaged or destroyed.
Glass shards cut the boy’s right leg to the bone. The injured boy’s father, Vadym Vodostoyev, said “it just takes one second and you’re left with nothing.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday evening.
At least one person was killed and several were injured, including some who were trapped beneath the rubble, according to rescue officials. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the Shevchenkivskyi district in the northwestern part of the city was hit twice, causing fires in at least two high-rise buildings.
The explosions, which sent plumes of black smoke into the air, came just shortly after the two leaders held a press conference in which Guterres condemned the atrocities committed in towns like Bucha, where evidence of mass killings of civilians was found after Russia retreated. Authorities said the U.N. chief and his team were safe.
Appearing to be one of boldest attacks on Kyiv since Russian forces retreated from around the capital weeks ago, the explosions came as residents have been increasingly returning to the city. Cafes and other businesses have reopened, and a growing number of people have been out and enjoying the spring weather.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s prosecutor on Thursday identified 10 Russian soldiers she accused of atrocities in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, one of the war’s major flashpoints that helped galvanize Western support of Ukraine.
Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said on Facebook that the 10 soldiers in Russia’s 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Ground Forces Brigade who occupied Bucha were “involved in the torture of peaceful people.” She did not specifically say that her office had filed criminal charges, and appealed to the public to help develop evidence.
The Russian government denies it targets civilians. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently honored the brigade’s work, and Venediktova said he bears responsibility for the soldiers’ actions as their commander-in-chief.
“During the occupation of Bucha, they took unarmed civilians hostage, killed them with hunger and thirst, kept them on their knees with hands tied and eyes taped, mocked and beat them,” Venediktova said, adding that the Russian soldiers threatened to shoot the hostages and looted houses.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, visiting Bucha on Thursday, called for a thorough investigation of alleged war crimes. Ukrainian authorities have said they are investigating thousands of possible war crimes, including killing of civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, torture, sexual crimes and use of prohibited weapons.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his nightly video address to his nation, renewed a pledge to hold Russian soldiers accountable for crimes. He added about the 10 suspects identified Thursday: “Some of them may not, after all, live until a trial and fair punishment. But only for one reason: This Russian brigade has been transferred to the Kharkiv region. There, they’ll receive retribution from our military.”
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is rejecting the idea that Russia’s war in Ukraine could grow into a larger proxy conflict between Moscow and the United States and NATO allies that may even bring the world closer to nuclear confrontation.
At an event at the White House where Biden asked Congress for an additional $33 billion to aid Ukraine, the president said Thursday that the idea of a larger proxy war was concerning but “not true.”
He blamed Russian authorities for exaggerating such speculation, saying “it shows the desperation that Russia is feeling about their abject failure” with the invasion of Ukraine.
“Instead of saying that the Ukrainians, equipped with some capability to resist Russian forces, are doing this, they’ve got to tell their people that the United States and all of NATO is engaged,” Biden said.
He added that “no one should be making idle comments about the use of nuclear weapons” and called doing so “irresponsible.”
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LONDON — The British government says a U.K. national has been killed in Ukraine, and another is missing.
The Foreign Office confirmed Thursday that it is supporting the family of a British national killed in Ukraine. It also said it was “urgently seeking further information” on another Briton who is missing.
The government did not provide further details.
Sky News reported that the Britons were believed to have been fighting with Ukrainians against the Russian invasion.
Volunteers from Britain and many other countries have traveled to Ukraine to fight, despite being discouraged from doing so by their governments.
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ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says both U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin have told him that their talks in Moscow earlier this week were “positive.”
Erdogan told reporters before leaving for a trip to Saudi Arabia, that he held separate telephone calls with Guterres and Putin.
“Mr. Guterres … informed me that the talks (with Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov) were positive. In our discussion with Mr. Putin yesterday, Putin expressed the same views.”
Erdogan added that the Russian president had “conveyed the opinion that a U.N. intervention is positive for the future.” He did not elaborate.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops defending a steel plant that is the last Ukrainian bulwark in the key port of Mariupol say an intensive Russian bombing has inflicted more casualties.
The Azov Regiment holed up at the giant Azovstal steel plant on Thursday posted a video showing people combing through the rubble to remove the dead bodies and help the wounded after the Russian bombing overnight. The Azov said the Russians hit an improvised underground hospital and its surgery room, killing an unspecified number of people and wounding others there.
The video couldn’t be independently verified.
The Russian troops have pummeled the mammoth seaside plant with relentless airstrikes and artillery barrage, trying to uproot its defenders holed up in a 24-kilometer (15-mile) maze of underground tunnels, passages and bunkers.
Ukrainian officials say that up to 1,000 civilians also were sheltering in Azovstal. They are demanding that Russia provides a safe exit for them under the United Nations aegis.
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WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s border guard agency says that it has recorded 3 million crossings into Poland from neighboring Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, while there have been 904,000 crossings into Ukraine.
Border guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska said Thursday that the number includes people who cross a number of times because, for example, they regularly do shopping in Poland and then go back.
Polish authorities say some 1.6 million refugees have applied for and received special ID numbers that will allow them to work and receive free health care and education in Poland.
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VIENNA — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says radiation levels in “excavations” found in the exclusion zone around the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant were well below the maximum authorized levels for plant workers.
Ukraine’s state power company said after Russian troops withdrew at the end of March that they received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the area.
IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said Thursday that, during a visit this week, experts from his agency took measurements from “excavations” probably made by occupying soldiers.
He said that the levels were “three times or more lower than the authorized levels for workers in areas exposed to radiation.”
As for whether anyone was actually exposed to those radiation levels, he said: “We have asked about possible exposures or situations; we haven’t received any answer.”
Although that suggested the health risk wasn’t as great as feared, Grossi stressed that “it’s not a place to have a picnic or excavate.”
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BRUSSELS — Senior European Union officials say countries or companies bowing fully to the terms of a Russian presidential decree insisting that they pay their gas bills in rubles will be in breach of the bloc’s sanctions.
The Kremlin says importers should establish an account in dollars or euros at Russia’s Gazprombank, then a second account in rubles. They would pay the gas bill in euros or dollars and direct the bank to exchange the money for rubles.
The officials warn that Russia’s central bank could hold on to the money before converting it and in essence use the funds as a temporary loan for the national economy or to prop up the ruble. The EU’s sanctions prohibit any transaction with the Russian Central Bank.
One official said Thursday that “if the member states and the European companies apply strictly the decree … it will constitute a breach of the sanctions.” His job description does not allow him to be named publicly.
The violation essentially comes with the use of the second bank account. The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, has said that companies could remain in compliance by paying in euros or dollars, as per their contract, and then notifying Gazprombank that their payment obligations are over.
Ultimately, it’s up to the 27 EU countries to judge whether the rules are being broken. Some of those countries are heavily reliant on Russia for gas.
— By Lorne Cook.
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TOKYO — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is defending his country’s ongoing purchase of gas and other fossil fuels from Russia.
Speaking during a visit to Japan on Thursday, Scholz said that “it is a challenge that many European countries, including Germany, are dependent on imports of fossil resources from Russia.”
Scholz said his government aims to end imports of Russian coal and oil this year. He said that “the same will happen for gas, but that is a process that will require more time.”
Asked whether he was concerned Russia might stop shipping gas to Germany, like it did this week for Poland and Bulgaria, Scholz acknowledged that “any interruption would have consequences for the economic situation.”
He said this was also the reason why there no sanctions have so far been imposed on energy supplies from Russia, adding this had been decided “in close cooperation with our partners who themselves are energy exporters and therefore in a different starting position, such as the United States.”
Scholz said: “Whether and what decisions the Russian government takes in this regard one can only speculate, but it makes little sense to do so.”
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed the war in Ukraine in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The leaders also discussed a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia that took place in Turkey on Wednesday. Erdogan’s office said he told Putin on Thursday that Turkey’s mediation in the exchange was an indication of the importance Ankara attaches to “peace, dialogue and cooperation.”
He reiterated Turkey’s readiness to mediate between Russia and Ukraine and its wish to establish peace in the region “by increasing the momentum” generated in face-to-face talks that were held between the two countries’ delegations in Istanbul late last month.
It was the second telephone call between the two presidents this week. On Tuesday, Erdogan urged Putin to agree to direct talks with his Ukrainian counterpart.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is asking Congress or new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs as part of a new funding request to aid Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion.
In remarks at the White House on Thursday morning, Biden will formally ask for billions of dollars in additional U.S. spending earmarked for supplying Ukraine’s military, bolstering its economy and supporting the millions of refugees who fled Russia’s invasion two months ago. The White House said he will also seek new authorities from Congress to strengthen U.S. sanctions against the Russian government and those who profit from it, the White House said.
Biden is asking lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to “knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government,” double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years, and expand the definition of “racketeering” under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions.
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MOSCOW — Russia says that Turkey gave it advance notice before moving to bar Russian planes from flying to Syria over its territory.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday 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 comment when asked about Turkey’s weekend announcement that it had halted Russian flights to Turkey over its territory from the start of this month.
It wasn’t clear whether the move was related to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. Turkey has close relations with both countries and has positioned itself as a mediator.
Russia and Turkey have backed opposite sides in the Syrian civil war.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov has said during a visit to the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka that he hopes Bulgarian lawmakers will agree next week to send military assistance to Ukraine.
Petkov was due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv later Thursday. He said after viewing damage caused to Borodyanka during the initial Russian advance that “we cannot be indifferent. We cannot say that this is a Ukrainian problem, we cannot say some people are dying but we are not interested in that.”
He criticized the argument of some politicians in Bulgaria that denying military aid to Ukraine would bring about a faster peace.
Petkov said: “If this is the price of peace, if the Russian state continues to fire and no one can defend himself — is this the peace we want?”
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Witnesses and local authorities say that at least three people, including a child, were wounded when a rocket struck a residential area in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia — the first such residential strike since Russia’s invasion began.
They said there were no military facilities nearby.
Emergency services official Pavlo Zhukov told The Associated Press at the scene on Thursday that the rocket had been hit by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft system and that if it had struck directly, much more damage would have resulted.
Several homes were destroyed or damaged. A dog was killed by shrapnel.
The strike occurred as Russian forces move closer to the industrial city that has been a crucial waypoint for people leaving Mariupol and other occupied cities.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Mariupol authorities are sounding the alarm about unsanitary conditions in the ravaged port city that they say pose a “deadly danger” to its remaining residents.
Mariupol City Council said on the messaging app Telegram Thursday that “deadly epidemics may break out in the city due to the lack of centralized water supply and sewerage, the decomposition of thousands of corpses under the rubble, a catastrophic shortage of drinking water and food.”
It said that the lives of 100,000 people who still remain in Mariupol, out of 450,000 pre-war residents, may be in danger — pointing to diseases like cholera and dysentery.
The Telegram post cited Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko as saying that “the invaders are not able to provide the remaining population with food, water and medicines — or are simply not interested in that.” He said that “living conditions in the ruined Mariupol are now medieval” and that “an immediate and complete evacuation is needed.”
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WASHINGTON — A majority of U.S. adults say misinformation around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major problem, and they largely fault the Russian government for spreading those falsehoods.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 61% of people in the United States say the spread of misinformation about the war is a major problem, with only 7% saying it’s not a problem. Older adults were more likely to identify the wartime misinformation as an issue, with 44% of those under 30 calling it a problem, compared with 65% of those 30 or older.
Misleading social media posts, fake pictures or videos and propagandized headlines have proliferated on websites, from TikTok to Facebook, since Russia’s assault on Ukraine began in February. In recent weeks, Russian state media and social media accounts have operated in lockstep to push tweets, TV reports and posts that claim photos of bombed buildings and bodies across Ukraine have been staged or faked. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/live-updates-russia-picking-up-pace-in-eastern-ukraine/ | 2022-04-29T00:57:47Z | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/live-updates-russia-picking-up-pace-in-eastern-ukraine/ | false | 30 |
Pittsburgh Weather: Frost Advisory issued after cold front drops temperatures
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- After three days of summer-like temperatures and sunny skies, the clouds and cooler temperatures have moved back in.
The National Weather Service has issued a Frost Advisory from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday for Allegheny, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties, as well as the ridges of Fayette and Westmoreland. Parts of Ohio and West Virginia also fall under the advisory.
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We had a few sprinkles early this morning, but we are now drying out behind the cold front that brought heavy rain Monday evening.
Highs today will be slightly below normal, only in the mid-50s, and we stay mostly cloudy. It'll be a bit windy this evening, overnight and early Wednesday morning with gusts around 25 mph.
The coldest day of the week will be Wednesday with highs only in the low to mid-40s. In the morning and afternoon, north of I-80 could see a flurry.
There will be plenty of sunshine during the week, but frosty mornings Thursday and Friday.
We warm back up near normal just in time for the weekend with sunshine. A few rain showers are possible Sunday.
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Endovascular treatment in critical ischemia: more advantages
Marc Sirvent and August Ysa.
In addition, Ysa presented the case ‘Approach to complex CLI intervention through a combined strategy: discussion based on a clinical case’; and Sirvent gave a talk on Recanalization with support catheter and treatment with DCB of complex lesions in distal trunks. And they talk about their knowledge about these specializations and their future in this interview with Medical Writing.
He has given a talk on recanalization with a support catheter and treatment with DCB of complex lesions in distal trunks. Which ideas of those transmitted are the ones that provide the greatest novelty?
Marc Sirvent: The objective of the presentation was, on the one hand, to present the Sergeant support catheter, whose fantastic visibility, navigability and profile facilitates the treatment of complex injuries and, on the other hand, to establish a debate on the use of impregnated balloons of paclitaxel in the infragenicular arteries (BTK) and in which clinical scenarios would they be most indicated to use them. These balloons have widely demonstrated their effectiveness in the femoro-popliteal sector, but in BTK there is much more controversy about their use. However, during the last two years, some international studies with a high level of evidence have emerged that demonstrate the efficacy of these devices in a statistically significant way also in BTK. In this direction, we comment on the BIBLIOS study, an international, multicenter study evaluating the efficacy and safety of the Luminor 14 balloon in BTK and in which our hospital actively participated. Their results are not yet published, but internal and preliminary analyzes look promising.
In late 2018, due to a meta-analysis by Katsanos et al (doi:10.1161/JAHA.118.011245), there was a lot of controversy about the safety of paclitaxel-impregnated balloons, which facilitated the emergence of sirolimus-impregnated balloons. We also wanted to address this issue during the session and it was concluded that doubts about the safety of paclitaxel seem to have largely dissipated and that sirolimus medicalized balloons have not yet reached a high level of evidence.
The session was aimed primarily at vascular surgeons and radiologists. How do both specialties share their role in innovation in the approach to CLI?
Marc Sirvent: Endovascular interventions have progressively replaced conventional surgery in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease as they are minimally invasive procedures, with low morbidity and mortality and a high success rate in most situations. These are techniques that can be performed by both vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists, and it is not uncommon to see cardiologists treating these patients in other countries.
In Spain, it is basically the vascular surgeons who treat these patients in most centers, but in others it is the interventional radiologists, working together or not with the vascular surgeons, who perform the endovascular treatment. In my opinion, vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists can come together perfectly in the approach to critical ischemia, they simply need both the necessary training in this type of technique and good cooperation. The best thing for the patient is to be operated on by the person who is best trained and who knows how to do it the best. Unfortunately, there are centers where vascular surgeons and radiologists are at odds with what, in my opinion, is a gross error that is detrimental to good care for this type of patient.
Resulting in the multidisciplinary field for the treatment of CLI, what other specialties are involved or should be involved?
Marc Sirvent: When we talk about critical ischemia, we must take into account the high percentage of diabetic patients, which exceeds 70 percent. At this point a new problem appears, which is the diabetic foot. It is not only that a foot can be ischemic, but due to long-standing and poorly controlled diabetes, there may be, for example, a motor neuropathy that causes deformities or a sensory neuropathy that prevents patients from feeling pain, predisposing factors for appearance of wounds on the feet.
In diabetic foot, the multidisciplinary approach is essential to obtain the highest success rate in the treatment of these patients and drastically reduce their amputations. And here many specialties converge, as happens in our hospital, where our Diabetic Foot Unit is an example of coordinated teamwork and a benchmark in the diagnosis and treatment of this clinical entity, training a multitude of specialists from different specialties every year.
In this way, the specialties involved, apart from vascular surgery, are: podiatry, endocrinology and nutrition, infectious medicine, plastic surgery, traumatology, diagnostic imaging (both conventional and nuclear and interventional radiology), home care, nursing, rehabilitation, primary care, social work and some other that I may have forgotten at this time. This scenario demonstrates the great complexity of the diabetic foot and the need for multidisciplinary work to treat the patient globally.
What do you think will be the next steps in this field of healthcare innovation?
Marc Sirvent: Critical ischemia will grow just as diabetes does, since, as has already been said, it is a factor closely related to this disease. For this reason, and in line with what was mentioned in the previous question, I believe that one of the important points will be, precisely, that there be a multidisciplinary approach to this pathology, something that unfortunately does not occur in many centers today. This is essential to optimize the results.
On the other hand, if the focus is on endovascular therapy, it is obvious that the treatment of these patients will continue to advance with innovative therapies. For example, we are increasingly aware of the importance of preparing the vessel before using what we consider to be the definitive treatment of the artery, which is why the appearance and expansion of the use of tools for this purpose, such as the different types of scoring balloon, IVL or atherectomy systems, may provide better and longer-lasting results, which implies less need for reinterventions to achieve limb salvage. In the same vein, I believe that the field of drug-impregnated technology (balloons and stents) will play a prominent role in therapeutic innovation and in the future of these patients, since different sirolimus-impregnated devices are already appearing and some are being developed. self-expanding drug-eluting stents and longer than currently available balloon-expanding drug-eluting stents.
What is the greatest advantage that the physician who has attended this conference on the treatment of critical limb ischemia (CLI) has been able to extract?
August Ysa: In recent years, endovascular treatment of critical ischemia has become the technique of choice due to its advantages (less morbidity, shorter hospital stay, lower rate of complications) compared to conventional surgery.
From a technical point of view, we must have an algorithm that allows us to maneuver through the multitude of scenarios that can arise. Among the most important steps for decision making are the selection of the target vessel, the choice of access, the choice of material, and knowledge of rescue techniques for ultra-complex scenarios. This type of training allows, based on cases, to convey to professionals these situations that arise in daily clinical practice, facilitating interaction with KOL and providing them with tools for conflict resolution.
What are the latest techniques in the treatment of CLI?
August Ysa: During the last ten years major medical companies have invested a lot of effort in developing dedicated devices for the endovascular treatment of critical ischemia, with a particular focus on the BTK (Below The Knee) sector.
CLI BTK lesions are long, diffuse, and often highly calcified. Furthermore, BTK arteries are small and therefore even minimal neointimal hyperplasia or recoil after conventional angioplasty will have a more severe adverse effect compared to larger caliber vessels. These unfavorable characteristics contribute to remarkably high restenosis rates after balloon angioplasty.
In this regard, the appearance of technology aimed at the adequate preparation of the vessel with cutting balloons (balloon scoring), atherectomy or IVL, is presented as a promising alternative in conjunction with the use of DCB, particularly in calcified or fibrotic lesions.
The development of devices with lower profiles has made it possible to use retrograde access not only to traverse lesions, but also to treat them from the distal access itself. The appearance of dedicated material can facilitate the access, crossing and treatment of these complex lesions even on an outpatient basis.
Finally, the development of new therapeutic strategies such as percutaneous venous arterialization (in which our center is a pioneer with its VAST technique), opens up new possibilities for patients defined as “without treatment options” who were traditionally indicated for a major amputation. in a primary way.
What advantages do they provide for the health professional compared to the previous ones? And for the patient?
August Ysa: We are facing an epidemic of ILC, and the lack of an effective long-term treatment for BTK treatment means that there is a huge unmet need. However, promising new technologies designed to overcome these challenges are being tested.
Balloon angioplasty for BTK continues to be the standard of care, although with unsatisfactory results. The use of non-compliant balloons can reduce the rate of early recoil, but the solution for a more lasting treatment lies fundamentally in the prevention of neointimal hyperplasia in the small BTK vessels, and in this sense, DCB therapy could become the answer .
Due to multilevel arterial disease and diffuse calcifications, endovascular procedures in patients with critical ischemia are often very challenging and complex. The possibility of improving long-term results could result in a higher limb salvage rate and improvement in the patient’s quality of life, by reducing the need for iterative procedures.
You have presented the case ‘Approach to complex CLI intervention through a combined strategy: discussion based on a clinical case’. What challenges does the aforementioned combined strategy open up?
August Ysa: The challenge is to achieve standardization in training with dedicated and highly qualified professionals in the field of critical ischemia. Training to improve skills and training in this type of procedure is important. Adequate knowledge of the therapeutic arsenal available, and mastery of resource techniques such as retrograde access, allows us to improve our technical success rate and expand therapeutic options to complex patients or those with previous failed attempts.
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MOUNT DESERT ISLAND —There’s something about lighting, hair, makeup, an audience, a stage and anticipation that make a live performance hard to beat.
Acadia Community Theater (ACT), a community organization that gives annual live performances on Mount Desert Island, was working on a performance of “Matilda the Musical” two years ago before COVID-19 halted production. As Maine’s pandemic restrictions eased, ACT’s board of directors decided to move forward with a fully vaccinated cast and crew, and now ACT is set to perform “Matilda the Musical” live from April 29 through May 8 at The Grand in Ellsworth.
With the absences of Isabelle Bohrer as the show’s musical director and Dani Robbins as choreographer, Camp Beech Cliff Director Matt Cornish stepped up to fill those roles. Auditions were held in December of 2021 to recast 20 actors who also did not return.
“It’s hard to say what caused the lower turnout. We definitely had some people who did not come back this time around,” said Cornish, who added that many newcomers joined the production.
“Matilda the Musical” is taken from the pages of Roald Dahl’s book, though Cornish said there are some elements of the production that are similar to the movie. It is about a girl named Matilda Wormwood, performed for ACT by Ellsworth fifth-grader Lucia DiLena, a gifted girl forced to put up with her rude parents and evil school principal, Miss Agatha Trunchbull, played by Cornish. Matilda eventually masters the power of telekinesis and uses it to overcome her challenges. This year, some young people playing Matilda’s schoolmates were cast in different roles. Those who stayed on were able to improve their skills tremendously, Cornish said.
“It’s wonderful that we’ve had the opportunity to recreate this community after missing in-person rehearsal over the last two years and while we’re sad that we’re missing some of the folks who [were] with us the first time around, it’s been really nice to be able to work together and bring something to life.”
Despite the challenges of rehearsing during an ongoing pandemic, the organization has had systems in place to keep things running smoothly. Cornish, who joined ACT’s board of directors shortly after he got involved with the organization in 2018, said that auditions and rehearsals were held fully masked.
“This is sort of a reimagining and remounting of the production that we were working on before COVID struck,” Cornish said. He is grateful to the cast who attended rehearsals after a long day of school or work.
After plans fell through to perform at the 1932 Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor, ACT’s rendition of “Matilda the Musical” will take place on the Stanley Subaru stage at The Grand in Ellsworth. Showtimes are Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 30, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m.; Friday, May 6, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 7, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, May 8, at 2 p.m.
“The nature of theater is about creating community. It’s all about bringing people together for a common purpose with a common goal to work together. We’ve been missing some of that in-person over the last two years,” Cornish said.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.grandonline.org or by calling (207) 667-9500. General admission is $25 for adults and $20 for seniors and students (14 and under).
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SALINAS, Calif., April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Valley Bancorp (OTC Pink: PVBK) announced its unaudited earnings results for the first quarter 2022. Net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, was $1.14 million representing an increase of 64% or $445 thousand over the quarter ended December 31, 2021. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.28 compared with $0.17 prior quarter.
FIRST QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS:
- Core Loan growth, excluding PPP, from the first quarter of 2022 vs. first quarter 2021 was $78.25 million or 29%.
- Non-Performing loans to total loans for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 was 0.07% compared to 0.32% as of March 31, 2021.
- Net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, was $1.14 million representing an increase of 64% or $445 thousand over the quarter ended December 31, 2021 and 1% or $9 thousand increase from the first quarter ended March 31, 2021
- Basic earnings per share of $0.28 for the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to $0.17 for the prior quarter and $0.28 for the same period in 2021.
On January 4, 2022, we completed the formation of Pacific Valley Bancorp as the bank holding company for Pacific Valley Bank. Upon completion of the formation and reorganization, the Bank's shareholders became shareholders of the new holding company essentially in the same proportion as each shareholder's interest in the Bank. On March 21, 2022, the Company issued $17 million in subordinated debt and subsequently contributed $15.3 million in capital to the Bank.
Anker Fanoe, President and CEO, commented, "We have hit the ground running in 2022. With the strengthened team that we put together in 2021, we have seen core loan growth of 5% in the first quarter. As PPP loans are forgiven, our focus is to strengthen our customer and community relationships to deploy the liquidity back into our marketplace. We are excited for the rest of the year and the continued success of the Company."
As of March 31, 2022, total assets were $482.3 million. Since December 31, 2021, total assets have decreased $17.3 million or 3.5%, and since March 31, 2021, total assets have increased by $15.5 million or 3.3%.
Total gross loans outstanding were $379.7 million as of March 31, 2022, which includes $32 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. This exceeded gross loan balances at March 31, 2021, by $4.5 million representing an increase of 1.2% year-over-year. Since December 31, 2021 the Bank's core loan portfolio, excluding PPP, increased by $17.6 million or 5.33%.
As of March 31. 2022, total deposits were $419 million compared with total deposits of $454 million at December 31, 2021, representing a decrease of $35 million, or 7.8% during the first quarter of 2022. Total deposits have decreased by $5 million or 1.2% compared to prior year. Except for last year, where deposits balances included customer proceeds from PPP loans, the Bank experiences normal seasonality in deposits with an increase in December and a subsequent decrease in January.
Shareholder Equity was $43.9 million at March 31, 2022, representing growth of $3.6 million, or 8.9% over a year ago, related to retained earnings. As a result of the contribution of $15.3 million to the Bank by the Company due to the issuance of $17.0 million in subordinated debt, the Bank equity increased to $59.16 million at March 31, 2022. The Bank is considered to be well capitalized and its Capital Ratios exceed regulatory minimums.
Net Interest Income was $4.8 million and $3.9 million for the quarters ending March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021, respectively. The annualized net interest margin for the first quarter 2022 equated to 4.54% compared with 3.61% for 2021. The Bank has maintained consistent net interest margin over the past two years, in part due to the Bank's participation in the PPP Program which allowed for short-term forgivable loans with an interest rate of 1.00%. While the origination of PPP loans has applied downward pressure to net interest margin, the PPP loans originated in the first round during 2020 and the second round in 2021 have had a significant impact on the Bank's financial statements. During the first quarter of 2022, the Bank recognized approximately $1 million in deferred fees realized from forgiven PPP loans originated during the program. Charlotte Radmilovic, EVP and Chief Financial Officer commented "In the first quarter of 2022, we had $22 million in PPP loans forgiven for our customers. This forgiveness led to fee recognition in the quarter. We anticipate the remaining $32 million of PPP loans will be forgiven in the second quarter and have an impact the Bank's profitability and NIM."
For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Provision for Loan Losses was $177 thousand compared with $0 provision expense for the same period ending March 31, 2021. The Provision is directly correlated to the Bank's core loan portfolio growth. Allowance for Loan Losses is approximately 1.65% of total loans, excluding PPP, as of March 31, 2022.
For the quarter ended March 31, 2022, Non-Interest Income was $314 thousand compared with $237 thousand for the same period of 2021, representing an increase of 32%, primarily related to service charges on deposit accounts.
Operating expenses were $3.3 million for the first quarter of 2022, an increase of $318 thousand, or 10%, over the quarter ended December 31, 2021, primarily related to increased personnel costs and data processing costs.
ABOUT PACIFIC VALLEY BANK:
Pacific Valley Bancorp completed its formation and reorganization as a bank holding company for Pacific Valley Bank on January 4, 2022. The Company is a registered bank holding company with the Federal Reserve Bank, but it has not registered its securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and it therefore does not file periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Pacific Valley Bank is a full service business bank that commenced operations in September 2004 to provide exceptional service to customers in Monterey County. Pacific Valley Bank operates business at three locations; administrative headquarters and branch offices in Salinas, King City and Monterey, California. The Bank offers a broad range of banking products and services, including credit and deposit services to small and medium sized businesses, agriculture related businesses, non-profit organizations, professional service providers and individuals.
For more information, visit www.pacificvalleybank.com.
This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance and/or achievements to differ materially from those projected. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, economic conditions in all areas in which the Company conducts business, including the competitive environment for attracting loans and deposits; supply and demand for real estate and periodic deterioration in real estate prices and/or values in California or other states where we lend; changes in the financial performance and/or condition of our borrowers, depositors, key vendors or counterparties; changes in our levels of delinquent loans, nonperforming assets, allowance for loan losses and charge-offs; the effect of changes in laws and regulations, including accounting practices; changes in estimates of future reserve requirements and minimum capital requirements based upon periodic review thereof under relevant regulatory and accounting requirements; fluctuations in the interest rate and market environment; cyber-security threats, including the loss of system functionality, theft, loss of customer data or money; technological changes and the expanding use of technology in banking; the costs and effects of legal, compliance and regulatory actions; acts of war or terrorism, or natural disasters; and other factors beyond the Company's control. These forward-looking statements, which reflect management's views, are as of the date of this release. Pacific Valley Bancorp has no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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If you've been experiencing Coachella FOMO, have no fear — there's an even bigger event going on this weekend that you won't want to miss. On April 30, the very first eclipse of 2022 will arrive to shake things up and ring in the start of eclipse season. The new moon partial solar eclipse in Taurus is an intense one — but intensity doesn't always equate to negativity.
Each of the four eclipses of 2022 will be in either Taurus or Scorpio. "Something is trying to plant roots in our life and bring in a new chapter of beauty, wealth, stability, and growth, but not without something else buried deep beneath the surface being let go, released, or left behind," says Noush, astrologer at Girl and Her Moon. "This eclipse season offers us the opportunity to understand how we build value in our lives and what we can do to bring further stability, enjoyment, and pleasure into our experience." We'll feel an overwhelming sense of a need for release — listen to it. That way, Noush says we can allow "our roots to be healthy and our flowers to bloom" as the eclipses continue to affect us.
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Madi Murphy, co-founder of the CosmicRx, notes that this new moon solar eclipse occurs close to the North Node, which means the changes we'll experience should feel positive and easier than we may expect. "It’s as if you may finally have clarity in how you’re growing, improving, and uplevelling your life," she says.
"This new moon and solar eclipse will mark the beginning of a long period of alterations in what we have in our life," says Kalina Trifonova, astrologer at Nebula. "Whether it is about love, friends, family, home, education, our career, or ourselves — we are guided to leave or adapt."
Astrologer Stephanie Campos says that the fresh start this new moon solar eclipse is bringing is unavoidable, so step feet first into the chaos. "When we embrace the uncertainty, we will be rewarded," she tells Refinery29. "This solar eclipse is also having a supportive conversation with Mars in Pisces, which will lend us the emotional courage to follow our hearts, take a risk and invest in our dreams. It's time to make them a reality."
This new moon is shaping up to be what dreams are made of — even in the love department. "This particular eclipse is time to cement a new romantic dream, as it occurs in sensual Taurus," says Lisa Stardust, astrologer and author of The Love Deck. Venus and Jupiter will form a conjunction in Pisces on the very same day, making this eclipse an amazing time for love and romance, and even creative or artistic endeavours, Stardust says.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Placing more emphasis on pro potential than college production, the Jacksonville Jaguars chose Georgia pass rusher Travon Walker with the top pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night.
The Jaguars took the 6-foot-5, 272-pound “athletic freak” over Michigan star Aidan Hutchinson, who set a school record with 14 sacks in 2021 and finished second in Heisman Trophy voting.
General manager Trent Baalke had been leaning toward Walker for months and insisted new coach Doug Pederson was totally in agreement on selecting the former Bulldogs defender at No. 1. Critics argued that Hutchinson was the more polished product and pointed to Walker’s limited college numbers. He had 9½ sacks in three years in Athens, Georgia, including six during last season’s national championship run.
But Baalke and Pederson see a more versatile player in Walker, who logged snaps at defensive end, defensive tackle and outside linebacker in Georgia’s vaunted defense last fall. His highlights include more than sacks; he stops the run, tackles speedy receivers in the open field and tips passes that lead to interceptions.
“He's an athletic freak," Georgia defensive coordinator Will Muschamp told The Associated Press. "I swear to God he could line up at middle linebacker and go be fine. I would take him at No. 1 and not even blink.”
The Jaguars did just that.
Once a two-sport star with NBA dreams at Upson-Lee High School in Thomaston, Georgia, Walker eventually settled on football and quickly became one of the most sought-after recruits in talent-rich Georgia. He signed with the Bulldogs and played college ball a little more than 100 miles from his hometown.
He bided his time as a backup during his first two years at Georgia – he made the league’s Freshman All-SEC Team – and really started to blossom as a junior. He started all 15 games in 2021, finishing with 37 tackles, including 7½ for a loss, and two pass breakups.
Muschamp first met Walker when he was 10 years old and now considers him one of the best kids he’s ever coached.
“There’s not a single red flag,” Muschamp said. “He’s the real deal now.”
Jacksonville is the fourth NFL franchise with back-to-back No. 1 picks and is hoping to become the first to nail both selections. Tampa Bay (1976-77, 1986-87), Cincinnati (1994-95) and Cleveland (1999-2000, 2017-18) all failed to find success both times.
The Jaguars believe quarterback Trevor Lawrence, the slam-dunk top choice a year ago, is on the verge of becoming a star and just needs more help around him.
Jacksonville signed tight end Evan Engram and receivers Christian Kirk and Zay Jones in free agency to help Lawrence. They also brought in five-time Pro Bowl guard Brandon Scherff to help revamp an offensive line that allowed Lawrence to be sacked 32 times.
Offensive tackles Ikem “Ickey” Ekwonu and Evan Neal were under consideration at No. 1 but improving the team’s pass rush proved to be a more pressing priority. The Jags still expect to use at least two of their 12 total selections to bolster Lawrence’s protection and potentially his receiving corps.
But for now, they have a defensive building block to pair with fellow pass rusher Josh Allen in hopes of immediately improving a defense that ranked 20th in the league in yards allowed in 2021, tied for 27th with 32 sacks and gave up nearly 27 points a game.
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Kylian Mbappé and I will 100% be at Paris St Germain next season, says Mauricio Pochettino
Paris St Germain boss Mauricio Pochettino has claimed that the chances of both he and Kylian Mbappé being at the club next season are “100 per cent”.
Pochettino’s future with the French club has been in doubt ever since the French side were knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage last month and winning the Ligue 1 title last weekend did little to quell rumours that his departure is all but certain. Tottenham boss Antonio Conte has been strongly linked with taking over from the Argentinian at Parc Des Princes in the French media.
France international Mbappé is out of contract in the summer and has been heavily linked with a move to Real Madrid all season.
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Sometimes we need a wake-up call to take action or change things in our lives. Unless of course it's a wake-up call like this. A viral video of an Odisha woman cooking a roti on a car's bonnet has quickly caught people's attention. Clearly, and most unfortunately, climate change is happening!
The video has been posted by Twitter user @nilamadhabpanda and it shows a woman clad in a sari, cooking a roti under the scorching sun, on a car's bonnet. Now, we all know the temperatures in a lot of Indian states have reached 40 degrees Celsius. And so, it's not surprising to see this happening, but also, very saddening.
You can watch the video here, and take a look at this marvel.
Scenes from my town Sonepur. It’s so hot that one can make roti on the car Bonnet 😓 @NEWS7Odia #heatwaveinindia #Heatwave #Odisha pic.twitter.com/E2nwUwJ1Ub
— NILAMADHAB PANDA ନୀଳମାଧବ ପଣ୍ଡା (@nilamadhabpanda) April 25, 2022
Of course some people are speculating that the video is fake, but still, it seems like the possibility isn't very far off.
ROFL...at what temp is roti cooked??
— Dr.Chandrasekhar Kar (@cs143kar) April 28, 2022
45celcius!!!
Hilariously misleading
Both ladies won’t be there to eat the roti, as they would have had sunstroke by then🙏🏼
— dr chandan (@drchand43869322) April 25, 2022
At least the ladies should not use a metal spatula, imagine the scratches on the bonnet. I mean, how can anyone do that...?
— Shashwat DC (@shashwatdc) April 25, 2022
And on the heatwave and changing weather patterns -- that's climate change -- #AurKyaKaren
I can guarantee u it's a fake one.... See the shape is different
— ROFLBaba 🏹🇮🇳↗️ (@Earlarushy) April 25, 2022
I was more distracted by the fact that there seems to be a lot of scope to grow trees where the car was parked.
— Pawan Dhall (@PawanDhall) April 28, 2022
Yesterday my hand got burnt when i was moving my bike in shade from sunlight.
— username (@YashKB07) April 25, 2022
Hot 🔥 weather 🌡️ effect pic.twitter.com/QbwtaPwgnB
— Chittaranjan Panda🇮🇳 (@chittapandaa) April 25, 2022
Are garmi hai ki aag Baras Rahi hai vahan per
— Juber Ahmad (@JuberAh49358428) April 27, 2022
How ironic, do they mind planting some trees instead of doing all these?
— Subrato Das - 🐤🇮🇳 (@suberato) April 25, 2022
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Wilson & Company Names Seven Additional Shareholders to Further Company Growth
Todd Cencimino, Jon Chesser, Catherine Cochrane, Marc Devos, Ed Latimer, Lucas Reed and Amy Straquadine named company shareholders
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers & Architects has named seven esteemed individuals as the newest employee shareholders to join the ownership group. In 2003, Wilson & Company expanded its ownership structure and transitioned from a partnership to employee shareholders. These professionals will join the 40 existing employees as a part of the shareholder group.
Todd Cencimino, PE, serves as the company’s transportation operations manager with more than 25 years of experience in planning, design, and construction phases of project development. Cencimino has an extensive background working with municipal, state, and federal agencies, making him an invaluable asset in growing the company’s transportation services.
“Todd has been instrumental in our success and growth in Arizona over the past couple of years, and we are excited that he is now one of Wilson & Company’s shareholders. Todd’s strong technical, client management and leadership skills will serve him well as he continues to grow our business in Arizona,” said Edward Cordova, PE, vice president.
Jon Chesser manages Wilson & Company’s environmental program throughout Colorado and executes work in the transportation, railroad, and municipal industries. Chesser has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, making him an expert in delivering environmental management, clearance, and permitting services for private and public clients at the federal, state, and local levels.
“Jon’s approach to resolving challenges throughout his career, utilizing a strategic, clear communication style, has always served him well as a leader and is one of the reasons we have been lucky to have Jon be part of our organization. That same style and approach will now serve him, and the company well as a shareholder of Wilson & Company,” said Scott Waterman, PE, vice president.
Catherine Cochrane serves as Wilson & Company’s controller and oversees the accounting and finance department’s activities. Cochrane has more than 20 years of experience in the architecture and engineering industry as an accounting professional in various roles.
“As Wilson & Company’s controller, Catherine has responsibility for leading and managing our accounting and payroll functions. Her leadership and unwavering commitment to her team, her colleagues, and our culture of Higher Relationships, while keeping our company’s best interest a priority, is a testament to her being named a shareholder,” said Jim Ross, chief financial officer and senior vice president.
Marc Devos, PE, is a senior transportation engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the industry. His expertise includes project management for municipal, state, and private projects focusing on the design of highways, roadways, freight rail, and transit facilities.
“Repeat business is the best way to be successful in our industry, and I don’t know that I’ve ever worked with a leader that defines repeat business better on the most challenging projects Wilson & Company takes on. Regardless of the challenge, Marc has a way of finding a path forward for clients, and now that will serve him and Wilson & Company well as a shareholder,” said Scott Waterman, PE, vice president.
Ed Latimer, PH.D., PE, is an accomplished leader with 35 years of experience in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Latimer’s areas of expertise include water resources engineering, water quality regulatory compliance, irrigation engineering, and erosion and sediment control technologies.
“Ed Latimer has been instrumental to our Arizona growth vision by putting into place our Higher Relationships principles and practices. It is a great reflection of his commitment to the firm through this successful leadership,” said Steve Salazar, PE, vice president.
Lucas Reed, PE, is a civil engineer and project manager for Wilson & Company’s railroad division with 10 years of design experience in railroad, highway and roadway, structural, drainage, and construction oversight. Reed’s railroad experience includes Class I railroads, shortlines, trans-loading and intermodal facilities, and transit authorities throughout the U.S.
“Lucas has been and continues to be instrumental in anchoring and building Wilson & Company’s California presence. His exemplary relationships within Wilson & Company and externally with clients is a testament to his character and One Company leadership qualities. Wilson & Company is proud Lucas has joined us in ownership and we are looking forward to building a great future with him,” said Andrew Leifheit, PE, SE, senior vice president.
Amy Straquadine is the company’s senior human resources manager with more than 10 years of experience. Straquadine holds a master’s degree in human resources management from the University of New Mexico. She has worked at Wilson & Company since 2014.
“Amy’s leadership and commitment to Wilson & Company and our employees’ welfare and professional growth is evident in her everyday actions, communication and collaboration. Over the last two years, she was key in successfully leading us through a personal and tumultuous time, while fulfilling her human resource and recruiting responsibilities as senior human resources manager,” said Jim Ross, CFO and senior vice president.
Shareholders are leaders at Wilson & Company that are consistent with our purpose, exemplify Higher Relationships and support a “One Company” culture. To learn more about Wilson & Company’s services and core values, visit https://www.wilsonco.com/.
About Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers & Architects
Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers & Architects, has brought more than 600 people together in 15 offices over nine states to build Higher Relationships through discipline, intensity, collaboration, shared ownership and solutions with our clients, partners and communities. After nearly nine decades of business, professionals continue to hone their craft with us including civil, mechanical, electrical and structural engineering; architecture; planning; biology; surveying; mapping; GIS specializations; drone piloting; financial analyses; program and construction management; inspecting and a growing number of multi-disciplinary specialties. We seek to create value for a diverse client base, including federal and municipal governments, public transportation agencies, railroad companies, industrial and commercial corporations and private developers.
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Paramount+'s newest drama tells the story of what went on behind the scenes to make The Godfather one of the most iconic films of the century. The Offer centers on Paramount Studios producer Al Ruddy, who was only given the film because he was known for working on a tight budget.
Ruddy was up against a number of external factors. At times, he butted heads with mob boss Joseph Colombo Sr., executives from Gulf+Western—the controlling interest of Paramount Studios—who wanted to change the story, and colleagues at Paramount, who disagreed with various casting choices. Yet, by force of sheer will, Ruddy and his assistant, Bettye McCartt made the film happen, and The Offer compellingly tells their tale.
The first three episodes of The Offer premiere Thursday, April 28, and the following seven will drop once a week after that. Read on to see how The Offer actors compare to the real life figures who made The Godfather happen.
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Miles Teller as Al Ruddy
The Godfather producer Al Ruddy is the focus of this story, and series creator Michael Tolkin spent time interviewing Ruddy before starting work on The Offer. In fact, 92-year-old Ruddy serves as an executive producer on the show.
“What sealed it for me was when Al said, ‘Every day of making The Godfather was the worst day in my life,’ and that told me we had a show,” Tolkin said. “For every character in the film, getting it made or stopping it from being made was at the core of their actions, and it was a matter of life and death to them. So that’s not a gangster story, that’s a human story. That’s what gave the book and the movie so much power. Everyone is fighting for their existence.”
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Matthew Goode as Robert Evans
Paramount Studios chief Robert Evans, who passed away in 2019, is known for Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Chinatown, and, of course, The Godfather. As Evans said in 2002, "We didn't strive for commercial. We went for original. We fell on our asses on some of them, but we also touched magic."
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Dan Fogler as Francis Ford Coppola
Director Francis Ford Coppola's legacy is intertwined with The Godfather series. Coppola, born into an Italian immigrant family, was not Paramount's first choice to direct the film and disagreed with the studio over casting (particularly of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino), but now, it's impossible to imagine the film (and its sequels) without Coppola at the helm.
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Burn Gorman as Charles Bluhdorn
Gulf+Western executive Charles Bluhdorn was called "The Mad Austrian of Wall Street." Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to New York at age 16, and climbed his way up the corporate ladder. He was chairman of Gulf and Western, Paramount's parent company, as they made The Godfather, and decisions ultimately laid with him. He died of a heart attack at age 56 in 1983. The Godfather Part III is dedicated to him.
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Giovanni Ribisi as Joseph Colombo Sr.
Joseph Colombo Sr. was the boss (er, the Godfather?) of the Colombo Crime Family—one of the infamous Five Families of the Italian American mafia in New York. He created the Italian-American Civil Rights League in 1970, and was the representative of the Five Families who met with Ruddy around the production of the Godfather.
When Ruddy agreed to remove any mentions of "mafia" from the script, Colombo offered his full support. During the filming of The Godfather, he was shot at a rally and paralyzed. He died seven years later at age 54.
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Patrick Gallo as Mario Puzzo
Mario Puzo was the son of Italian immigrants, and published The Godfather—his best-known novel, by far—in 1969. He worked with Coppola on the screenplay for the film, and collaborated on both sequels. He died at age 78 in 1999.
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The 35 Most Memorable Met Gala Looks of All Time, From Kate Moss to Kim Kardashian
As we prepare for what André Leon Talley onced called the Super Bowl of social fashion events: The Met Gala, take a look back at the 30 best dresses of yore, including everyone from Rihanna, Beyonce andKim Kardashian, to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen who always interpret the theme in the most thoughtful, chic ways, to Jennifer Lopez who never strays away from the ultra-glam. Here, the most memorable looks of all time.
Rihanna in Guo Pei at the 2015 Met Gala “China: Through the Looking Glass.”
Zendaya in Versace at the 2018 Met Gala, “Heavenly Bodies.”
Madonna in Givenchy at the 2013 Met Gala “PUNK: Chaos to Couture.”
Lupita Nyong’o in Prada at the 2014 Met Gala “Charles James: Beyond Fashion.”
Harry Styles dress in Gucci at the 2019 Met Gala, “Camp: Notes on Fashion.”
Tom Brady & Gisele Bundchen in Alexander McQueen at the 2011 Met Gala “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.”
Kaia Gerber in Oscar de la Renta in 2021.
Caroline Kennedy in Carolina Herrera with husband Ed Schlossberg arrive at the 2001 Met Gala “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.”
Rihanna in John Galliano at the 2018 Met Gala.
Rooney Mara in Givenchy at the 2013 Met Gala “PUNK: Chaos to Couture.”
Doutzen Kroes in Zan Posen at the 2010 Met Gala “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity.”
Lily-Rose Depp in vintage Chanel at the 2019 Met Gala.
Cara Delevingne in Stella McCartney at the 2015 Met Gala “China: Through The Looking Glass.”
Kim Kardashian at the 2019 Met Gala.
Florence Welch in Alexander McQueen at the 2012 Met Gala “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.”
Sienna Miller in Thakoon at the 2015 Met Gala “China: Through The Looking Glass.”
Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid, wearing Tommy Hilfiger, arrive for the “Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology” Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016.
Taylor Swift in Louis Vuitton attends the 2016 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2016 in New York, New York.
Sarah Jessica Parker attends the Costume Institute Gala for the “PUNK: Chaos to Couture.”
Miranda Kerr attends the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2011 in New York City.
Solange Knowles attends the “China: Through The Looking Glass” Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City.
Linda Evangelista during 2004 Costume Institute Gala ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Katy Perry attends the Costume Institute Gala Benefit to celebrate the opening of the “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 3, 2010 in New York City.
Jennifer Lopez attends the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2011 in New York City.
Diane Kruger attends the “Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations” Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2012 in New York City.
Chloe Sevigny attends the “Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations” Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2012 in New York City.
Priyanka Chopra in Ralph Lauren attends ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons:Art of the In-Between’ Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City.
Cameron Diaz during “Poiret: King of Fashion” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Blake Lively attends the Costume Institute Gala Benefit to celebrate the opening of the “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 3, 2010 in New York City.
Anne Hathaway attends the Costume Institute Gala for the “PUNK: Chaos to Couture” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2013 in New York City.
Ashley Olsen attends the Costume Institute Gala for the “PUNK: Chaos to Couture” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2013 in New York City.
Kim Kardashian in Givenchy at the 2013 Met Gala “PUNK: Chaos to Couture.”
Amal Clooney attends the ‘China: Through The Looking Glass’ Costume Institute Benefit Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City.
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WVU football has produced 25 draft picks since joining the Big 12 Conference. The Mountaineers officially became members of the league in 2012 and still have plenty of players from that period active in the National Football League.
In no particular order, here’s a closer look at some of the most productive WVU defensive draftees from the Big 12 Conference era. This list is based on NFL stats:
Rasul Douglas, CB (2017 – Eagles, Round 3, 99th overall)
Douglas spent his first three NFL seasons in Philadelphia after being selected by the Eagles with the 99th pick in the 2017 draft.
In his rookie season, he made significant contributions en route to his first Super Bowl ring. He started five of the 14 contests he appeared in and finished with 25 tackles, two picks and 11 passes defended, his career-high at the time. He finished the 2018 season with 54 tackles and three interceptions and his final year in Philly saw 34 tackles and 10 passes defended.
He spent the 2020 season with the Carolina Panthers before becoming a standout defender for the Packers. In 2021, 51 of Douglas’ 56 total tackles were solo stops. He notched a career-best five interceptions and 13 passes defended. Two of those picks were returned for touchdowns, putting him in a tie for fourth-most in Green Bay history for a single season.
According to his current team, from week 8 on, Douglas was tied for No. 1 in the NFL in interceptions and led the league with 105 yards on INT return.
Back in March, the Packers re-signed the former Mountaineer to a three-year deal worth $21 million.
Douglas’s eight picks in the 2016 season put him at No. 2 all-time in WVU history.
David Long Jr., LB (2019 – Titans, Round 6, 188th overall)
WVU saw one of the program’s largest draft classes in 2019. Five Mountaineers heard their names called. Long Jr. was the last of the group to come off the board in the 6th round as he was selected 188th overall by the Tennessee Titans.
In 2018, Long was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and as a senior, he tied the single-season program record with 19 tackles for loss. His 40 total TFLs are tied for fourth all-time in program history.
The Cincinnati, Ohio, native appeared in 14 regular-season games as a rookie with the Titans. He also saw action in all three playoff contests. In 2020, he started a career-high five starts and tallied 50 tackles and a pair of TFLs and two passes.
Last season, Long tied Harold Landry as the second-leading tackler for Tennessee with 75 total and also had two interceptions. In the Titans’ week five matchup with the Jaguars, long tallied a dozen tackles including 10 solo stops. He followed that up with 13 tackles the following week in a win over the Bills.
Kyzir White, S (2018 – Chargers, Round 4, 119th overall)
White followed in the footsteps of his older brother Kevin when he became an NFL Draft pick. The linebacker was selected 119th overall by the Chargers in 2018.
He played four seasons in LA and his most recent, 2021, saw a career-best 144 tackles. He finished seven contests in double digits, third-most in the AFC. Through 17 starts, White also tallied seven TFLs, two INTs and a pair of forced fumbles last season. Both of his picks came in week 6 vs. the Ravens, making White the first Chargers LB with multiple interceptions in a game since 2008.
He made seven starts in 2019 and three as a rookie.
Last month, White signed a one-year deal worth up to $5 million with the Eagles.
Karl Joseph, S (2016 – Raiders, Round 1, 14th overall)
Joseph, one of the hardest hitters in WVU history, is the program’s most recent first-round selection. In 2016, he was drafted by the Oakland Raiders with the 14th overall pick.
In his rookie season, Joseph tallied 60 tackles and one interception. In 2017, he saw his production increase to 79 tackles, a sack and a pick. The numbers read 48, two and one respectively the following year.
His final season as a Raider was in 2019. He totaled 49 tackles and one INT.
Joseph spent 2020 in Cleveland and the bulk of 2021 on the practice squad in Pittsburgh. He did play in two games with the Steelers.
He will now get another shot in the Steel City as he signed a one-year deal last month.
Nick Kwiatkoski, LB (2016 – Bears, Round 4, 113th overall)
Kwiatkoski played the bulk of his NFL career in Chicago as he was selected by the Bears in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
In 57 games spanning four years, Kwiatkoski amasses 181 total tackles with Chicago. His most productive season was his last with the organization, as he tallied 75 tackles, 55 solo, three sacks, four passes defended and one interception in 19 games in 2019.
He spent the last two years in Las Vegas, where he appeared in 20 games and worked his way to a starting role. In 2020, he finished with 77 tackles, a sack, four passes defended and a pick. Last season, Kwiatkosi was limited to eight games due to an injury. He tallied 21 tackles during that time.
Unfortunately, his time in Sin City was cut short after 2021, and he is currently a free agent.
Tony Fields, LB (2021 – Browns, Round 5, 153rd overall)
WVU’s most recent draft pick is linebacker Tony Fields. He was selected in the fifth round of the 2021 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns, and logged four total tackles in his rookie season.
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Another month, another slew of TV shows to keep you entertained across your platform of choice.
While the options can seem daunting, imagine if someone had waded through all the platforms and come up with a best-of list that covers all the major providers?
A mix of old, new, funny and true; our ‘what to watch’ list for May is guaranteed to offer something for everyone. Let us know what you think in the comments, and don’t forget to tell us what you’re watching.
Find out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees. Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday.
Netflix
Our top recommendation on Netflix is The Lincoln Lawyer, which releases on May 13.
It’s been more than 10 years since Matthew McConaughey starred as the charming Mick Haller in Brad Furman’s The Lincoln Lawyer. Released in 2011, the film is generally accepted as the start of the ‘reconnaissance’ - the resurrection of McConaughey’s career, which would peak in 2014 with his Oscar-winning performance in Dallas Buyers Club. Sadly, McConaughey doesn’t return for this TV adaptation. Executive produced by David E. Kelley (whose Anatomy of a Scandal is Netflix’s latest hit), The Lincoln Lawyer stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as the car-based attorney, as well as Neve Campbell and Australia’s Angus Sampson.
If you’re into high-stakes ultimatums … The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On is unmissable. Hosted by the Lacheys (as in Nick Lachey, of 98 Degrees fame), the show’s format requires couples to split up, strip down to their togs, booze it up in the pool with the others and date around. Expect drama. - Brad Newsome
If you enjoy watching toddlers run errands … The cuteness level is off the scale in Old Enough!, which follows Japanese children – some of them essentially toddlers – on solo errands for their parents. The action begins with little Hiroki (age two years, nine months) setting off on a two-kilometre round trip to a supermarket. Stay tuned to see four-year-old Tata setting out to get a drink for his mother, only to distract himself by trying to catch a dog with a butterfly net. - Brad Newsome
If you want something scandalous … Anatomy of a Scandal is Netflix’s latest must-see series. At the centre of the scandal is James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend), a handsome British MP who went to the right school, the right university and says all the right things. Seemingly untouchable, Whitehouse’s charmed life comes undone when news breaks that he has been having an affair with a researcher on his staff.
Binge
Our top recommendation on Binge is We Own This City, which gets ★★★★.
Given the number of police shows produced for TV since the invention of the medium, it is surprising there are so few good ones. As a genre, it has delivered more than its fair share of mediocrity. Against that tapestry, We Own This City lands with an ambitious thud. In a way, what sets it apart from the great masters of the genre is the extent of its swing on the ethical axis. Set in the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force, We Own This City is a deep plunge into policing gone wrong. Sergeant Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal) and his colleagues are the worst of the worst, a bloated mess of ethical lapses and policy breaches. Into that world comes attorney Nicole Steele (Wunmi Mosaku), who is conducting an inquiry into policing. She’s a match to Jenkins’ fuse, and the series promises all sorts of explosions to come. - Michael Idato
If you need your true crime fix … The Staircase is a gripping drama based on a real case. In December 2001, Kathleen Peterson died after falling down a staircase in her North Carolina home. Her husband, Michael, was convicted of his wife’s murder in 2003 but later re-sentenced on appeal to time already served. Watching on the sidelines was director Antonio Campos (The Sinner, The Devil All the Time). His mini-series, which begins on May 5, stars Toni Collette as Kathleen Peterson and Colin Firth as the husband charged with her murder. Read our interview with Toni Collette here.
If you’re desperately missing Kyle, Lisa, Erika, Dorit and Garcella … you’ll be delighted to know that your favourite ladies are back, with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills returning for a drama-filled season 12 from May 12. Joining the ranks of rich women with plenty of time on their hands is Kathy Hilton, mother to Paris and Nicky.
If you like your romance stories with a sci-fi twist … The Time Traveler’s Wife is based on the 2003 bestselling novel by Audrey Niffenegger. The series, which premieres on May 16, stars Rose Leslie as Claire Abshire and Theo James as Henry DeTamble. Claire and Henry are in a relationship, but there’s a problem: Henry is a time traveller. While Leslie and James may not have the same chemistry as that of Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams in the 2009 film version, this is still worth checking out.
Amazon Prime
Our top recommendation on Amazon Prime is A Very British Scandal which gets ★★★★.
After Claire Foy’s defining performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown (Netflix), it’s hard not to think of this three-part mini-series as The Dirty Crown. Once again, Foy plays a real-life posh period Brit, but it’s a very different one this time. Margaret Whigham, a London-based member of the Scottish gentry, became especially famous in 1963 for the sensational revelations and allegations about her sexual infidelities aired in court during her divorce from her second husband, Ian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany). - Brad Newsome
If you loved Normal People … then you’ll be counting down to this mini-series based on an earlier Sally Rooney lit hit. Conversations With Friends is released on May 16 and follows 21-year-old college student Frances (Alison Oliver) as she navigates a series of relationships and confronts her vulnerabilities for the first time.
If you’re a Bosch fan … then you’re in luck; we’re finally getting a spin-off. Titus Welliver returns for Bosch: Legacy as the hard-nosed detective who, in this next stage of his career, finds himself working with one-time enemy Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers). Available from May 6.
If you loved the first season of The Wilds … then the wait for new episodes ends on May 6. More test subjects arrive on the island in this second season, while the stranded girls discover an identical island, complete with stranded boys, nearby.
Stan*
Our top recommendation on Stan is Gaslit, which gets ★★★★.
Julia Roberts and Sean Penn’s prosthetic head will hog the headlines, but this new look at the Watergate scandal has plenty of other compelling reasons to tune in. First and foremost is the unusual but highly pertinent focus on Martha Mitchell (Roberts), wife of Richard Nixon’s attorney-general and re-election committee boss, John Mitchell (the completely unrecognisable Penn). There’s Nixon’s rogues’ gallery of political zealots, grifters and dirty tricksters, epitomised by the deranged G. Gordon Liddy (a particularly mesmerising Shea Whigham). And there’s the wild tumult of Washington in 1972 as highlighted in an early scene in which young Nixon lawyer John Dean (Dan Stevens), slightly high on sex and pot, fangs his mustard-coloured Porsche through the city, weaving past a homeless man defecating on the street and a noisy throng of anti-war protesters - all to the raucous new sound of the Stooges. - Brad Newsome
If you haven’t had enough Busy Philipps … the much anticipated second season of musical comedy Girls5Eva returns on May 6. In the new season, Girls5Eva are doing what any self-respecting one-time popular group must: embarking on a comeback tour.
If you’re ready for more RuPaul (and who isn’t?) ... season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars sashays its way onto screens on May 20. In this season, previous Drag Race winners will compete for a grand prize of $200,000 and the title of Queen of Queens.
If you’d like to place a bet … Bust Down is a dark but goofy comedy about four black friends who work dead-end jobs in a crummy casino and have to contend with issues of race, class, sexuality and general idiocy. The comedic performances of series creators Sam Jay, Langston Kerman, Jak Knight and Chris Redd are note-perfect and their absurd set-ups allow for a thought-provoking commentary on subjects that other shows wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. - Brad Newsome
Disney+
Our top recommendation on Disney+ is Disney Gallery: The Book of Boba Fett, which drops on May the fourth (naturally).
You’ve probably binged the first season of The Book of Boba Fett by now, so it’s the perfect time to find out what goes into making a series about the most famous bounty hunter in a galaxy far, far away. This documentary will explore the behind-the-scenes story of the legendary bounty hunter’s return to Tatooine. It also includes exclusive interviews with the cast and never-before-seen clips.
If you’re not too squeamish … then Something Bit Me! is a fascinating show about individuals who been bitten by different animals in the wild. It sounds like a weird concept, but Something Bit Me! is both educational and terrifying, proving that often the smallest animals can do the most damage.
If you’re a fan of Pamela Adlon … the comedian is at her very best in Better Things, a dramedy in which she plays a working actress and ferociously funny single mother raising three teenage daughters in Los Angeles.
Apple TV+
Our top recommendation on Apple TV+ is The Essex Serpent, which begins on May 13.
A period drama with a mythical twist, The Essex Serpent takes us back to 1893. It’s here we meet London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes) who moves to the picturesque town of Essex after becoming infatuated with rumours of a mythical serpent. After relocating to the village, she crosses paths with Will Ransome (Tom Hiddleston), the local vicar. The pair hit it off, but things quickly turn sour when Cora’s fascination with the serpent becomes all too real, much to the confusion of Will and his parish. Things go from bad to worse when locals start going missing, with Cora public enemy number one.
If you want a thriller that’s caliente and heavy … bilingual thriller Now & Then is raising temperatures in May. Set in Miami, the eight-episode series was shot in Spanish and English and is part coming-of-age story and part crime thriller. Six best friends find their lives changed forever after a weekend escape ends with one of them dead. Fast-forward twenty years and the remaining five are reunited by a threat that puts their seemingly perfect worlds at risk. Debuts May 20.
If you loved the first season of Tehran … then get ready for the next instalment on May 6. The espionage thriller ups the star power in season two with Glenn Close joining the cast as Marjan Montazeri, a British woman living in Tehran. Niv Sultan returns as Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan, along with Shaun Toub and Shervin Alenabi.
Paramount+
Our top recommendation on Paramount+ is The First Lady, which gets ★★★½.
“A woman is like a teabag,” explains Gillian Anderson’s Eleanor Roosevelt. “You’ll never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” And if the former first lady of the United States has a look of self-satisfaction as she delivers this pithy maxim, well, she has undoubtedly earned it. Roosevelt, Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Michelle Obama (Viola Davis) were very different women living in very different times, but common threads quickly emerge in this engrossing new series. It seems fitting that Roosevelt is depicted as the grande dame of the three – and that Anderson delivers her lines in measured tones that border on the regal. We first meet her in 1921, playing croquet at her and hubby Franklin’s summer home. Then Franklin (Kiefer Sutherland) is unexpectedly struck by polio at the age of 39 and left paralysed from the waist down. It would be Eleanor that would encourage him to keep pursuing his political ambitions – first to become governor of New York, and then to become president. - Brad Newsome
If you’re a Trekkie … Star Trek: Strange New Worlds beats a path back to the core of the half-century-old franchise. A television series, episodic in nature, set on the iconic starship which started it all, the USS Enterprise, going boldly where no one has gone before to seek out new life forms and visit strange new worlds. If you find the long-form storytelling of the newer Star Trek shows too ponderous, then this is your show; the Star Trek franchise’s The Mandalorian. Begins May 6. - Michael Idato
If you want a brooding drama with a familiar face … Kiwi Michael Dorman delivers another tough, melancholy performance in the unheralded but involving Joe Pickett. Dorman plays a game warden trying to keep himself and his family alive as a murderer stalks the lonely hills of Wyoming. Part of the problem is that Pickett is what Americans call a hard-ass. The old warden would let things slide but Joe doesn’t, which puts him at odds with desperately poor locals who poach wildlife to make ends meet and might just be desperate enough to kill him. - Brad Newsome
ABC iview
Our top recommendation on ABC iview is Barons, which gets ★★★.
Like most things counterculture, the surfing lifestyle of the early 1970s, based around the free-spirited adventures of “beach bums” chasing waves, women and pot and sticking it to the man, inevitably intersected with capitalism, and the surfwear industry that grew out of it became a global billion-dollar industry. Barons is a fictionalised beaches-to-boardroom tale of two rival brands begun by two friends, echoing the real-life stories of brands such as Quiksilver and Billabong. Set in the fictional town of Woogonga on the NSW Central Coast, it’s the story of a group of diehard surfers, with two best mates, Snapper (Ben O’Toole) and Trotter (Sean Keenan) at the heart of the action. Snapper has his own small company, Bare Feet, and he and Trotter work together making bespoke wetsuits for surfers. Snapper is content with their laidback business model of selling the suits out of the back of a car – as long as he has enough cash for beer and drugs, and time to surf each day, he’s content to “stay salty” – but Trotter has grander visions. He’s also unimpressed with Snapper’s method of bringing in extra money, smuggling drugs inside surfboards from Indonesia. - Kylie Northover
If you want a hard-hitting docuseries … Walkley-winning crime journalist and author Debi Marshall examines a shocking series of bombings and shootings that rocked the Family Court system during the 1980s in The Family Court Murders. Starts May 10.
If you’re feeling curious … Space 22 is a six-part Australian documentary series that examines the benefits art and creativity can have on mental health. Hosted by former Rogue Traders lead singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte, the series begins May 17 and on includes experiments to test if a simple act of creativity can help heal invisible wounds.
SBS On Demand
Our top recommendation on SBS On Demand is Tribal, which gets ★★★★.
This Canadian police procedural puts a fresh spin on the genre by drawing on real stories affecting First Nations people. Set in an unnamed city - but filmed around Calgary and on the Tsuut’ina Nation - it follows police chief Sam Woodburn (Jessica Matten), appointed the tribal force’s interim Chief after her predecessor, Daniel Crowchild (Julian Black Antelope), was suspended amid allegations of corruption. The first season had her partnered with old-school detective Chuck Bukansky (Brian Markinson, Fargo), a Major Crimes Unit veteran who was sexist, racist and decidedly unhappy with the new extension of the force’s powers beyond the reserves. In this second season, as the crimes they investigate escalate, so too does their partnership. Tribal isn’t the most slickly produced series, and is occasionally victim to some leaden dialogue, but its portrayal of Indigenous people is nuanced and the drawn-from-real-life crimes make for compelling - if sobering - viewing. - Kylie Northover
If you like your lawyers Swedish and edgy … then it’s time to check out gripping legal drama Stella Blomkvist, in which Heida Reed plays the titular Stella. Season two picks up two years after the season one finale. Stella is pregnant but finds herself swept up in a conspiracy involving Prime Minister Dagbjört (Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir).
If you’re hanging out for a moody crime drama … Bang is another in a long line of strong Welsh dramas. The bilingual series centres on a small town (don’t they all?), which is upended when the shooting of a local businessman raises questions about a murky family past.
Other free streamers
Our top recommendation is Dating Naked on 9Now, which gets ★★★★.
There are few shows that sum up their entire premise in two words as well as Dating Naked. For the most part, the American reality show is your typical dating program: two strangers meet and see if there might be a connection. The only major difference is ... well ... that they’re dating naked. While the show likes to justify its gimmick with some misguided belief that ‘by stripping back the layers’ the two people can really get to know each other, the reality is far less noble. We’re all tuning in to see classic dating scenarios happening without clothes: riding horses, eating dinner, going to the beach. It’s not as sexy as you think, but it’s funnier than you could ever imagine.
If you like a bit of swift justice … bingeing a few episodes of Judge Judy should appeal. Judge Judith Sheindlin dishes out justice like she dishes out one-liners: with remarkable ease. 10Play
If you love UFC and hard-hitting family dramas … Kingdom offers the best of both worlds. Frank Grillo stars as Alvey Kulina, the hardened owner of a mixed martial arts gym. Sons Nate (Nick Jonas) and Jay (Jonathan Tucker) are aspiring fighters, but personal demons haunt them in and out of the ring. 7Plus
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After exceeding 2021’s goal of $68,000 in fundraisers and donations, the Tioga County Relay for Life planning committee plans to beat 2022’s goal as well.
Tioga County’s 2022 Relay for Life will take place on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 3 to 9 p.m. on The Green in downtown Wellsboro. All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society.
The American Cancer Society is the number one non-government funder of cancer research, helping to diminish the mortality rate by 1% each year.
Tioga County’s chair members are Ron Butler, Jenn Sporer and Coleen Evert.
“This year, our goal is to reach $75,000,” said Butler. “So many small businesses in our local communities always step up. We have great support from them and are extremely appreciative. Having our hometown state Representative, Matt Baker as a sponsor increases our reachability, as well.”
Butler has 20-plus years of advocating for the American Cancer Society. He started as a volunteer for Mansfield’s Relay for Life, previously held at the university.
“It’s personal for me,” said Butler, “I’ve lost my oldest and youngest brothers to cancer, as well as aunts, cousins and several friends.”
On Sunday, April 24, the annual kickoff event was held at the Wellsboro Annex. Attendees enjoyed food donated by several local restaurants and a silent auction. Live music was performed by Joe Callahan, Joshua Warren and Brandon Lusk. Luminaries were also available for purchase to honor those affected by cancer.
Local resident, Brenda Hopkins, was there with her family. Currently battling cancer for the third time, she knows all too well the need for ongoing research and subsequent therapies.
“I was first diagnosed with breast cancer, then non-Hodgkins lymphoma. That resulted in a stem cell transplant,” she said. “Now, I have breast cancer again. Even though I am going through this yet again, I am here to support everyone, not just me.”
Her son-in-law, Joe, is one of the guitarists in the band. During a short break, he sat down at Brenda’s table. When asked what his thoughts were about todays event, he said he and his bandmates were happy to help.
“Cancer is not fair for anyone to try to endure,” Callahan said, looking at his mother-in-law, “but for her, you’d never guess what she’s been through – she is so strong.”
Hopkins replied, “God has truly walked with me.”
Sandy Taylor, in remission from leukemia for seven years, summed up Sunday’s event.
“I’ve found a lot of good people in this area and am so thankful to them as well as my friends and people from my church,” Taylor said. “This is a wonderful event for us all.”
To volunteer for Relay or for more information, attend the Tioga County’s Relay for Life meetings held on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 29 Charles St., Wellsboro.
You can also check out Relay For Life of Tioga County, PA on Facebook or search for Relay for Life Tioga County PA.
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WINNIPEG – WEATHER – Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for the City of Winnipeg and most of Southeastern Manitoba right to the Ontario provincial boundary.
Rainfall warning in effect for:
- City of Winnipeg
- Falcon Lake and West Hawk Lake
- L.G. of Pinawa incl. Seven Sisters Falls
- Pointe du Bois
- R.M. of Lac Du Bonnet
- R.M. of Reynolds incl. Ste. Rita Hadashville and Rennie
- R.M. of Whitemouth incl. Elma
- Shoal Lake Reserves
Rain, at times heavy, is expected. The ground, already near saturation, has little ability to absorb further rainfall.
Another 20-50 mm of rain will begin Friday night in southern Manitoba as third major low pressure system in as many weeks impacts southern Manitoba.
Rain will lift northwards into the province on Friday night, bringing 20 to 50 mm of rain over the following 24-36 hours. Like the previous storm, embedded thunderstorms are also possible and could bring high rainfall rates to the region.
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It’s been heartbreaking and then some to watch the marriage of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian come to an end over the past few months, including everything from new love interests with striking resemblance, an obsessive beef involving a person who many have come to know as “Skete” and public arguing that’s overall been cringeworthy to say the least.
As Kim and fam embark on a new reality venture with their Hulu series, The Kardashians, a recent episode reminded us of a brief moment of happiness between the former power couple right before their relationship went south.
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The show is currently taking us behind the scenes of moments in The Kardashians’ private lives that we’ve only been privy to via media reports, one in specific being the Oct 2021 rumor that unseen footage exists from Kim’s now-infamous 2007 sex tape that she made with Ray J when they dating in 2002. The exchange shown on the show (seen above) sees Kanye flying all the way from New York to Los Angeles for just a few hours before flying back in order to hand-deliver the hard drive that allegedly held the unearthed sex clips.
The moment is dramatized with Kim gathering her inner circle of women as she announces what her now-ex did for her, and she understandably becomes emotional at the lengths he went for the sake of their family’s reputation. “I know Kanye did this for me but he also did this for my kids,” she says to the camera in a confessional shot, going on to add, “I want to shield them from as much as I can, and if I had the power to, or if Kanye has the power to, that is just the most important thing to me and I’m just so emotional because of it and it just means a lot to me.”
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Ironically enough, this all happens immediately before she hosts the SNL season 47 episode on Oct 9, 2021 that introduced her to cast member and current boyfriend, Pete Davidson. At the time, Kim and Kanye were reported to be working on their marriage after Kim filed for divorce months prior in February 2021.
Currently Kanye has decided to take a much-needed break from social media, so we don’t expect him to be reacting to the clip going viral. Then again, you never know what to expect when it comes to Ye.
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Court documents: Officer charged after 65-year-old pedestrian hit and killed
SEATTLE (KING) – A 33-year-old police officer is facing charges after a pedestrian was struck and killed in Washington state.
The crash data recorder of the off-duty officer’s car shows he was driving 85 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone moments before the accident.
The accident happened April 23 around 10:30 p.m. when the officer’s speeding Mercedes struck Clifford Jones, according to court documents.
Jones’s daughter, Miranda Hartman, said her father was her best friend and protector.
“It’s been hard. It’s been very hard,” she said, “We’re doing the best that we can. He’s going to be missed by a lot of people.”
Hartman said her father was a retired Marine. He attended college in Edmonds, Washington, and had two daughters and seven grandchildren.
He was 65 years old and went by the nickname “Rooster.”
“I thought he was like 33, 34,” Hartman said. “He had a young heart, a young soul, that’s for sure.”
Charging documents say the driver of the car that killed Jones was Michael Smith, an officer with the Auburn Police Department since January 2021.
The records say Smith was heading north on 15th Avenue at a high speed, when he tried to make a right turn onto a side street.
Along the way, Jones was struck and killed.
Smith’s car went over a grassy embankment and collided with three mailboxes, according to the documents.
The documents say Smith told responding officers he had alcohol at a Mariners game that night but declined a field sobriety test.
Officers on the scene noted that Smith “was obviously impaired from alcohol.”
“I just hope justice is served the way it should be on this Michael Smith,” Hartman said.
This wasn’t the only scene involving Smith. Charging records revealed that shortly before this accident, Smith had hit the back of a taxi cab.
Prosecutors say that when Smith got out of the car after the collision, he “appeared angry, opening the front passenger door and attempted to grab the driver out of the vehicle through the passenger’s side.”
That incident was an added shock to Hartman.
“Him trying to assault that man was absolutely not OK,” she said. “He should have known better, you know, he’s here to serve and protect, but yet he was the bad guy this time.”
Smith was ordered to submit a blood test after the accident, but the results are not in yet.
He’s currently out of jail on bond and scheduled to be arraigned on vehicular manslaughter and other charges May 11.
He has been placed on administrative leave from the police force.
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shares rose more than 20% in the extended session Wednesday after the lending and banking company swung to a first-quarter profit. LendingClub said it earned $40.8 million, or 39 cents a share, in the quarter, reversing a loss of $47.1 million, or 49 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue rose to $289.5 million from $105.8 million a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet expected the company to report earnings of 25 cents a share on revenue of $263 million. "We believe we are well positioned to execute on our strategy and outperform the competition while helping our members effectively navigate the ever-changing economic landscape," Chief Executive Scott Sanborn said in a statement. LendingClub shares ended the regular trading day down 0.7%. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lendingclub-stock-rallies-more-than-20-after-q1-profit-2022-04-27 | 2022-04-29T02:01:58Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lendingclub-stock-rallies-more-than-20-after-q1-profit-2022-04-27 | true | null |
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The Philadelphia Eagles traded up from Pick 15 to Pick 13 to select Georgia defensive tackle Jordan Davis.
Davis is a 6-6, 341-pound monster who is a freak-of-nature athlete for his size. At the NFL Combine, Davis ran an amazing 4.78 40-yard dash at 341 pounds. Davis will plug in with defensive tackle Fletcher Cox to give the Eagles a potentially dominant defensive front.
The Eagles’ official Twitter account shared the trade details:
The Eagles’ trade included the 15th overall pick that they got from the Miami Dolphins last year in exchange for the 6th overall pick, which the Dolphins used on WR Jaylen Waddle.
The Eagles have another first-round pick, No. 18.
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Zara Is Collaborating With Good American
Releasing your first design collaboration has become a sort of rite of passage for budding fashion brands, as these limited-edition collections have grown and grown in popularity (and the market for them more saturated). Almost six years in the business, Good American has reached this milestone — and with a somewhat surprising partner.
On Thursday, the Khloé Kardashian- and Emma Grede-founded size-inclusive label announced it was teaming up with Zara on a special drop that highlights its bread and butter: denim.
"We're always striving to make the broader fashion industry more inclusive, and partnerships allow us to do that," co-founder and CEO Greede writes in an e-mail to Fashionista. "Our mission for Good American since day one has been to build a fashion brand that is as inclusive as possible — from our product sizing and fit to the models featured in our campaigns — to make women feel empowered, represented and confident. Historically, the fashion industry has been built on standards of exclusivity, and has been notorious for catering to specific body types. My co-founder Khloé Kardashian and I have made it a priority for our full product assortment to be inclusive, without sacrificing style."
In terms of picking a partner to collaborate with, Grede says that "having a shared commitment to further our mission of making the fashion industry more inclusive is a non-negotiable" for Good American. "We infuse inclusivity and representation in everything we do, so we want our partners to have that same dedication. As we've recently earned our B Corp certification, we also look for brands that have a focus on sustainability and are conscious of impact on their community and the planet."
Zara approached Good American about this project, which has been about a year in the making, according to Grede. "I've always admired Zara for being a pioneer in bringing trend-forward fashion to a global audience, so partnering with the brand was a no-brainer for us," she says. "This partnership reflects both our commitments and furthers our mission to make the fashion industry more inclusive, and working with Zara has been such a huge milestone for Good American... Our focus has always been inclusivity in everything we do — across sizing and how we design, in campaigns and e-commerce shoots; it's ingrained into our brand DNA — and Zara has reimagined the fashion industry by making trend-setting fashion widely accessible, so we're thrilled that we were able to fuse our respective expertises for this collection."
Good American x Zara — introduced with a Mario Sorrenti-shot, Alastair McKimm-styled campaign starring Precious Lee, Devyn Garcia, Georgia Palmer, Quannah Chasinghorse, Luca Biggs, Eden Joi and Kayako Higuchi — includes jeans, a jumpsuit, a shacket and a range of shirts and tanks. According to a press release, the product is made using "ecologically grown or recycled cotton and TENCEL fibers," as well as "environmentally friendly production processes," in accordance with Zara's Join Life commitments and Good American's B Corp certification.
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"In all our partnerships, we want to work alongside companies that share our values, and we found that in Zara," Grede says, "Take sustainability for example — this is something that is top of mind for both brands, especially coming off of our recent B Corp certification announcement. With Zara, we know they share the same dedication toward sustainability when it comes to using sustainable materials and production processes. With this, it was easy for our teams to work very closely together throughout the entire design and production process." Those processes included sourcing ecologically grown cotton that "uses natural fertilizers and pesticides and avoids the use of genetically modified seeds, which helps preserve seed biodiversity and soil fertility while allowing less water usage and a reduction in emissions."
Good American has expanded into activewear, swim, footwear and more since its (very successful) launch; this Zara collaboration marks its first true product partnership with another brand. Meanwhile, the fast-fashion behemoth has only dabbled in design collaborations in recent memory. In fact, it started releasing co-branded collections in earnest just last year — first with Everlast, then Kassl Additions, then Charlotte Gainsburg, then Ader Error. (In late 2020, Zara linked up with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund on a capsule highlighting its 2019 finalists; on the beauty front, it's also partnered with Jo Malone on fragrances.)
Still, the labor practices of Zara's parent company have continued to come under scrutiny. In mid-2021, Inditex was one of four fashion retailers named in an investigation by France's antiterrorism prosecutor looking into whether they've benefited from forced labor camps in China's Xinjiang region. (In a statement to the New York Times, Inditex denied this, saying: "We have zero tolerance for all forms of forced labor and have established policies and procedures to ensure this practice does not take place in our supply chain. Inditex conducts rigorous traceability controls and we intend to fully cooperate with the French authorities to confirm that the allegations are unfounded.") It has also faced accusations of wage theft. Last year, Inditex signed on to the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, a successor agreement to the Bangladesh Accord.
Pricing on Good American x Zara ranges from $35.90 to $99.90, and sizing from 00 to 30 and XS to 5XL — a significant expansion for the Spanish retailer, whose denim typically goes from 0 to 14 and XS to XXL online. It arrives in stores and online in the U.S. on May 5; it will also be sold at an immersive, Bureau Betak-produced pop-up experience in L.A.'s West Hollywood neighborhood, that will run from launch day through May 13.
See the lookbook for Good American x Zara, photographed by Sorrenti, in the gallery below.
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Which mustard dress is best?
A mustard dress gives you a retro vibe while remaining contemporary and on-trend. Mustard is not a neutral color, but it often acts as one without blending into the background. It is also effortlessly chic and transforms from season to season when paired with bold accessories.
The best mustard dress with a universally flattering fit is the Levaca Casual Flowy Short Sleeve Midi Dress.
What to know before you buy a mustard dress
Sleeve options
Mustard dresses come in sleeveless, spaghetti strap, short sleeve, half sleeve, three-quarter sleeve and long sleeve varieties. While the perfect sleeve length varies by person, dresses with shorter sleeves tend to be the most versatile.
A short-sleeve dress will help you stay comfortable in warmer months, and when the weather cools down, you can easily pair it with a cute cardigan for a little added warmth.
Length considerations
The best hem length for your mustard dress depends on your preference. Many find that the most complimentary hem lengths land at midthigh or longer. While shorter dresses can also be flattering, longer lengths easily transition from work to play and spring to winter.
Neckline
A V-neck is the most universally flattering neckline, and they come in a wide range of plunges. Other versatile necklines for people of every shape and size include scoop, boat, round, crew and turtleneck.
What to look for in a quality mustard dress
Fabric
Mustard dresses look fantastic in a variety of fabrics. However, the best mustard dress for you will be well suited for the climate in which you wish to wear it. Natural fabrics, such as cotton, linen, hemp, satin and silk, work best in warmer months. In contrast, heavier textiles, such as wool, polyester and flannel, ensure your comfort in cooler weather.
Shape
The most flattering dress shape for nearly every body type is an A-line. This magic silhouette can define a waist for those who wish to etch one out and enhance curves for those who want to show theirs off.
The wrap is another figure-flattering shape to consider. The chic tie at the waist creates an hourglass shape, while the sleek V-neck enhances most bustlines.
Pockets
While many fantastic dresses don’t boast pockets, scoring one with pockets will immediately elevate your purchase (and day). Many dress pockets are big enough to secure a small wallet, lip stain and phone, enabling you to leave your purse at home.
How much you can expect to spend on a mustard dress
If you opt for an affordable cotton or polyester blend, expect to pay $20-$40. More premium fabrics, such as silk, satin or wool, can increase prices by hundreds of dollars.
Mustard dress FAQ
In which season should you wear a mustard dress?
A. It can be your go-to essential in any season. While mustard isn’t a neutral, it is a bit of a color chameleon in that it pairs perfectly with a wide variety of seasonal hues.
What colors complement a mustard dress?
A. Mustard pairs beautifully with blues, mauve, greens, light pink, cream, rust and camel.
How do you transform a mustard dress each season?
A. Pair it with a navy coat and grey tights in the winter, a pink cardigan in the spring, a mauve jacket with cognac boots in the fall and Kelly green sandals with a matching clutch in the summer.
What’s the best mustard dress to buy?
Top mustard dress
Levaca Flowy Short Sleeve Mustard Midi Dress
What you need to know: This dress effortlessly transforms from day to night with the right accessories.
What you’ll love: It features a flirty short sleeve, a tie waist and a scoop neck, and it lands just below the knee. Sizes range from small to 2XL. It is available in 19 other colors. Wash on the gentle cycle and hang dry.
What you should consider: The tulip sleeves might bunch up when layered under a tight cardigan.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top mustard dress for the money
Lock and Love Kimono Style V-Neck Mustard Dress
What you need to know: This casual but cute dress is perfect for warmer months.
What you’ll love: It boasts a deep V-neck, flared sleeves, a slimming empire waist and a midthigh hemline. Made of a rayon blend, it’s available in sizes small to 3XL in 21 colors.
What you should consider: It’s very casual, so you might not want to take it from day to night.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Relipop Polka Dot Floral Mustard Dress
What you need to know: This is ideal if you want to add a floral touch to your mustard dress.
What you’ll love: It seamlessly transitions from day to evening. It boasts a tie waist, trumpet sleeves and a pleated hem. It’s made of polyester, and it comes in sizes small to 2XL.
What you should consider: Its long sleeves might make it a little too warm in the summer.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which Stasher bag is best?
For households wary of storing leftovers and packing lunches in disposable containers, reusable storage bags from Stasher offer an Earth-friendly alternative to single-use plastic bags. They come in various sizes, shapes and colors to suit your needs. And though they cost more than disposable bags at first, their longevity makes them worth the investment.
If you’re looking for the best Stasher bag that’s easy to use and can fit all your snacks, meals and leftovers at a reasonable price, the Stasher Stand-Up Mega Bag is great.
What to know before you buy a Stasher bag
While there are other reusable bags, Stasher bags offer high-quality materials, multiple sizes and impressive convenience.
Material
What makes Stasher bags so durable compared to single-use plastic bags is their food-safe silicone construction. This gives them the sturdiness to stand up on their own and stay sealed against spills. They’re also free of latex; polyvinyl chloride, or PVC; and bisphenol A, or BPA, making them safe for everyone in your home.
Size
Stasher bags come in smaller sizes than most reusable bags. Stasher’s most popular sandwich-size bag measures 7 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches by 1 inch and holds up to 15 fluid ounces.
Though the bag may seem small at first glance, its sturdy yet flexible shape can hold myriad snacks, baked goods, meals for the road or leftovers. Because it’s flexible and slim, it doesn’t take up as much space in the refrigerator or freezer as a hard plastic container.
Convenience
Stasher bags are easy to use and easy to clean. They’re dishwasher safe, making cleanup a breeze. They can also withstand temperatures up to 425 degrees for when you want to reheat your leftovers in the bag.
The leakproof seal is reassuring when traveling with food, whether you’re commuting to work, sending lunches with loved ones or going on a trip. Stasher bags hold up well and are reliable for both liquid and solid snacks and meals.
What to look for in a quality Stasher bag
Food type
The variety of sizes and shapes makes Stasher bags perfect for packing up entrees, side dishes, midday snacks and leftovers. Food storage can be challenging without the right containers. These bags let you store food without crowding your fridge, freezer or pantry.
If you’re packing food, you want small hands to have easy access. Stasher bags are simple to open with thick, layered height tabs on either side of the press-lock seal. Family members of all ages can open them without any trouble.
Design
The bags come in various colors, which is great to keep foods categorized by type, user or date. You can choose between classic bags with closures straight across the top and smaller Pocket Bags or Go Bags with rounded closures on top. The Stand-Up Bag is ideal for food you want to store upright or for higher-volume storage, as its wide base offers more space inside.
Bulk discounts
Choosing reusable bags is a great way to cut down on single-use plastics, but it can be an upfront investment if you don’t have any in your kitchen yet. You can start slowly and invest in one bag at a time, or — if you can swing it — you can find discounts on bundles of bags to overhaul your kitchen storage all at once.
How much you can expect to spend on a Stasher bag
The cost of a Stasher bag can range from $12-$30 each, depending on the size of the bag.
Stasher bag FAQ
Why use reusable bags?
A. Reusable bags are a smart, sustainable way to store everyday foods. They cut down on single-use plastics, which helps keep the planet cleaner. They also provide a convenient way to carry snacks.
Are Stasher bags dishwasher-safe?
A. Yes. Stasher bags are easy to clean in the dishwasher with your regular dishes. For the best results, turn them inside out or load them upside down to ensure the wash cycle cleans the entire inside.
Are Stasher bags safe for reheating food?
A. Yes. They are microwave-safe and oven-safe up to 425 degrees. You can easily take leftovers from the fridge and reheat them in the microwave. You can also safely practice sous vide cooking by partially submerging the bag in boiling water.
Where can I store my reusable Stasher bags?
A. Anywhere you find convenient. When not in use, leave the seal open to keep the inside dry. Compress the air out of them to take up less space and store them upright on a shelf, in a drawer or in a storage basket in the pantry. Storing them vertically makes it easier to grab a bag, as needed.
What’s the best Stasher bag to buy?
Top Stasher bag
What you need to know: These wide-based reusable bags stand up on their own for storing bulkier items or larger quantities.
What you’ll love: The Stand-Up Mega bag measures 9 1/2 by 8 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches. It can hold almost a gallon of food, lending plenty of room for puffy baked goods, thick sandwiches, chopped fruit and vegetables, or leftover meals. It comes in seven colors and three sizes.
What you should consider: Some customers advised not to fill to the brim with liquid.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Stasher bag for the money
What you need to know: This classic bag offers the best of reusable storage at an affordable price.
What you’ll love: The average sandwich size of 7 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches by 1 inch is great for storing lots of other foods too, including leftovers and snacks. The slim profile of the bag saves space in the fridge and pantry. Choose from 22 colors.
What you should consider: Some customers complained the bags were not suitable for sous vide cooking.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Kohl’s and Macy’s
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What you need to know: This is a good deal if you’re looking to stock up on reusable bags.
What you’ll love: The bundle includes three sandwich bags and three snack bags. You can choose from 22 colors, including multicolor bundles.
What you should consider: Some customers complained of ripped bags.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Ministers have been accused of dragging their feet over opening up a controversial Government “clearing house” for dealing with Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to scrutiny.
The Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee said it was “unacceptable” that a promised internal review by the Cabinet Office had yet to take place.
The committee said the Cabinet Office had failed to provide a convincing explanation as to why it turned down a request by the Information Commissioner’s Office to conduct an audit of its operations.
And it said its own investigations had found evidence of “poor FoI administration” in the Cabinet Office and which appeared “inconsistent with the spirit and principles” of the FoI Act.
The Cabinet Office has previously denied the clearing house – which co-ordinates Whitehall’s response to certain FoI requests – was used to blacklist some information seekers, including some journalists.
However, a tribunal ruling in April 2021 required the Government to release information about its operations, citing a “profound lack of transparency” about what it does.
Prior to that, the committee said the clearing house had “an opaque status”.
Following the ruling, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) made a request to carry out an audit of the clearing house’s operations but was turned down – a decision the committee said was “misjudged”.
Instead the Cabinet Office announced it would conduct a short internal review but has yet to say who will conduct it or what their terms of reference will be.
“This is an unacceptable delay. From the limited amount we know, the suggested direction of the review’s terms of reference lacks the same depth as the ICO’s proposed FoI audit approach,” the committee said.
“To reassure the public and this committee, we recommend that the Cabinet Office should instead expose itself to rigorous external third-party scrutiny from the ICO and accept the ICO’s offer of an audit.”
As the lead department in Whitehall on FoI, the committee said it was important the Cabinet Office was held to a higher standard to ensure “a vibrant FoI culture across government”.
Instead, however, there was evidence suggesting that, up to 2019 at least, the Cabinet Office granted fewer FoI requests and withheld more information than other departments.
Committee chairman William Wragg said: “Our Freedom of Information laws are a crucial part of our democracy, allowing citizens to hold government to account.
“As FoI policy owner and coordinating department, the Cabinet Office should be championing transparency across government, but its substandard FoI handling and failure to provide basic information about the working of the coordinating body has had the opposite effect.
“An internal review alone won’t be sufficient to restore trust. The Government must go further and allow for an independent audit of its practices such as the one offered by the Information Commissioner.
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First Period_None. Penalties_Jokiharju, BUF (Tripping), 1:26; Frederic, BOS (Slashing), 16:41; Marchand, BOS (Slashing), 19:30.
Second Period_1, Boston, Bergeron 23, 6:16. 2, Boston, Bergeron 24 (Marchand, DeBrusk), 12:29. Penalties_Hall, BOS (Tripping), 2:55; Skinner, BUF (Tripping), 8:54; Buffalo bench, served by Olofsson (Delay of Game), 12:29.
Third Period_3, Boston, Pastrnak 40 (Marchand, Hall), 2:11 (pp). 4, Boston, Hall 20 (Pastrnak, Bergeron), 4:16 (pp). 5, Boston, Bergeron 25 (Lindholm, McAvoy), 17:47. Penalties_Krebs, BUF (High Sticking), 1:28; Buffalo bench, served by Olofsson (Delay of Game), 2:11; Nosek, BOS (Roughing), 4:30; Fitzgerald, BUF (Roughing), 4:30.
Shots on Goal_Buffalo 12-15-10_37. Boston 6-14-12_32.
Power-play opportunities_Buffalo 0 of 3; Boston 2 of 6.
Goalies_Buffalo, Tokarski 9-12-5 (32 shots-27 saves). Boston, Ullmark 26-10-2 (37-37).
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavy gunfire echoed Thursday in a once quiet neighborhood in Haiti’s capital that has become ground zero in a gang fight that has has killed at least 20 people, injured more than a dozen and forced thousands to flee their homes this week.
Parents grabbed children by the hands as they balanced bags on their heads with the few belongings they could salvage after gang members ousted them from their homes.
The fighting raging in four districts on the nothern side of Port-au-Prince is a new peak in the criminal violence that has surged as increasingly powerful gangs try to control more territory during the political power vacuum left by the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
“I left everything behind,” said Kerline Brutus, 35, who fled with her three children from one of the neighborhoods, Butte Boyer, a long quiet district where she has lived more than 25 years.
She had to abandon her 96-year-old paralyzed father because she couldn’t carry him. “I don’t know how he’s doing, if he’s still alive,” she said.
Brutus said she keeps praying for him as she struggles to find shelter for her family. They have been huddling under the front step of a store with an awning that protects them from the rain, but she is looking for more permanent shelter.
“It seems like this country has no authorities. No one came here to see us. We don’t know how long we’re going to be here or how long this is going to last,” she said, echoing the frustration of Haitians over the rise in violence.
Some 100 police officers carrying automatic weapons spread through the neighborhood checking people and their belongings, but barrages of gunfire rang out nearby.
The administration of Prime Minister Ariel Henry has struggled to improve security even as it gets help from the international community to boost an understaffed and underfunded police department.
Defenders Plus, a local human rights group, accused political leaders of being careless, incompetent and unable “to ensure one of the basic functions of any State: the security of its territory.”
It also demanded that authorities “assume their responsibilities in order to guarantee the population’s right to life and security.”
Government officials did not return calls for comment.
Authorities said the fighting between a gang known as Chen Mechan (Bad Dog in Haitian Creole) and the 400 Mawozo gang, which kidnapped 17 U.S. missionaires last year, began Sunday. The 400 Mawozo gang is considered the more powerful of the two and has long been accused of kidnapping and other violent acts.
Government officials have said they worry the violence in that area will worsen and that people will continue to flee.
“This almost cost me my life because they broke into my home and had me lay on the ground,” said Melissa Vital, 25, who has a 3-year-old daughter. “Luckily my boyfriend wasn’t there because they were killing men that they found in houses.”
She said the gang members ordered her and her daughter to leave their home in Butte Boyer.
“I don’t know where to go right now,” Vital said, adding that she is feeling weak because she is still breastfeeding her daughter but hasn’t had much to eat. “I’ve been with the same clothes since Sunday.”
Thousands of Haitians affected by a surge of gang violence last year in the Martissan community in the south of Port-au-Prince are still living in crowded and unhygienic government shelters, and it isn’t clear where newly displaced families will go.
Emmanuel Piersaint, a coordinator with Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency, told The Associated Press that officials provided displaced families with toiletry kits and gave them dishes of spaghetti, rice and beans.
“We hope the situation will not worsen,” he said.
Authorities say the fighting in the Butte Boyer, Croix-des-Missions, Marecage and Mapou neighborhoods could block the main roads leading to Haiti’s northern region. Warring gangs already occupy the main road leading to Haiti’s south, making it difficult for aid to reach those affected by a deadly earthquake last year.
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Shares of Anthem Inc.
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advanced 1.64% to $516.74 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+2.47%
rising 2.47% to 4,287.50 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+1.85%
rising 1.85% to 33,916.39. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. Anthem Inc. closed $16.94 below its 52-week high ($533.68), which the company reached on April 21st.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as UnitedHealth Group Inc.
UNH,
+2.06%
rose 2.06% to $524.42, Humana Inc.
HUM,
+3.52%
rose 3.52% to $458.99, and Centene Corp.
CNC,
+1.08%
rose 1.08% to $81.59. Trading volume (1.2 M) remained 35,850 below its 50-day average volume of 1.2 M.
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Acuña returns, Wright dominant again, Braves beat Cubs 5-1
ATLANTA (AP) - Ronald Acuña Jr. went 1 for 5 with two stolen bases in his return to the Braves lineup and Kyle Wright turned in another stellar performance, giving Atlanta its first series win of the season with a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday night.
Wright (3-0) pitched three-hit ball over a career-high seven innings as the World Series champion Braves, off to a sluggish start, made it two of three over the Cubs.
Austin Riley and Dansby Swanson hit solo homers off former Braves pitcher Drew Smyly (1-2), while Adam Duvall provided some insurance with a two-run shot against Ethan Roberts in the eighth.
Wearing sparkly, gold-topped cleats with matching armbands and batting gloves, Acuña grounded out twice, struck out twice and punched an opposite-field single to right in the seventh.
A pair of stolen bases seemed to back up his pregame assessment that his reconstructed right knee actually made him faster than before the ACL was torn last July. Playing right field, Acuña fielded the carom perfectly on Jason Heyward's liner off the fence, holding him to a single.
While much of the attention was on Acuña rejoining the Braves, it was Wright who starred again.
Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Kyle Wright works in the first inning of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
He has pitched 24 innings over his first four starts, allowing just 14 hits and three runs for an ERA of 1.13. In a sign of how nasty his stuff is, Wright has recorded 34 strikeouts with just six walks - four of those coming against the Cubs. He also hit a batter but benefitted from a couple of double plays while allowing only one runner past second base.
Wright looked like a first-round bust as he struggled to gain a foothold in the majors over the last four seasons. Bouncing up and down between the majors and minors, he combined to go 2-8 with a 6.56 ERA over 21 appearances.
Finally, the talented right-hander seems to have figured things out. Coming off a career-best 11 strikeouts against the Marlins, he rang up eight more Chicago hitters.
Smyly went 4 2/3 innings, surrendering five hits, walking one and striking out four.
The Cubs scored their lone run in the second without picking up a hit, taking advantage of Wright walking the first two hitters.
With runners at first and third and two outs, Nico Hoerner appeared to have made a baserunning blunder when he was caught off first by a pickoff throw from Wright.
But the rundown went on long enough for Alfonso Rivas to sprint home from third before Hoerner was tagged out.
TRAINER'S ROOM
The Braves placed catcher Manny Piña on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Monday, with left wrist inflammation. William Contreras was recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett to serve as the backup behind Travis d´Arnaud. The move came just in time for Contreras to be reunited with older brother Willson Contreras, the Cubs' starting catcher. Before the game, the brothers carried out the lineup cards to home plate, gave each other a hug and posed for pictures.
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Cubs: RH Kyle Hendricks (1-1, 3.98) faces Brewers RH Adrian Houser (1-2, 3.52) on Friday to start a three-game weekend series at Milwaukee.
Braves: RH Ian Anderson (1-1, 5.40 ERA) gets the start as Atlanta opens a three-game series at Texas. RH Spencer Howard (0-1, 14.40) will go for the Rangers.
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Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. steals second base during the fifth inning of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. Acuna was playing for the first time since a season-ending knee injury last year. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. grounds out during the first inning of the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. Acuna was playing for the first time since a season-ending knee injury last year. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. takes the field for the team's baseball game against the Chicago Cubs on Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. Acuna was in the lineup for the first time since a season-ending knee injury last year. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. follows through on a single next to Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras during the seventh inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Drew Smyly leaves the mound after being removed during the fifth inning of the team's baseball game against the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Drew Smyly (11) works during the second inning of the team's baseball game against the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Atlanta Braves' Austin Riley runs past Chicago Cubs first baseman Alfonso Rivas after hitting a solo home run during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Atlanta Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies can't turn a double play on Chicago Cubs' Nico Hoerner, after Jason Heyward, left, was forced at second during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10765719/Acu-returns-Wright-dominant-Braves-beat-Cubs-5-1.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-29T02:36:55Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10765719/Acu-returns-Wright-dominant-Braves-beat-Cubs-5-1.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 7 |
First Period_None. Penalties_Jokiharju, BUF (Tripping), 1:26; Frederic, BOS (Slashing), 16:41; Marchand, BOS (Slashing), 19:30.
Second Period_1, Boston, Bergeron 23, 6:16. 2, Boston, Bergeron 24 (Marchand, DeBrusk), 12:29. Penalties_Hall, BOS (Tripping), 2:55; Skinner, BUF (Tripping), 8:54; Buffalo bench, served by Olofsson (Delay of Game), 12:29.
Third Period_3, Boston, Pastrnak 40 (Marchand, Hall), 2:11 (pp). 4, Boston, Hall 20 (Pastrnak, Bergeron), 4:16 (pp). 5, Boston, Bergeron 25 (Lindholm, McAvoy), 17:47. Penalties_Krebs, BUF (High Sticking), 1:28; Buffalo bench, served by Olofsson (Delay of Game), 2:11; Nosek, BOS (Roughing), 4:30; Fitzgerald, BUF (Roughing), 4:30.
Shots on Goal_Buffalo 12-15-10_37. Boston 6-14-12_32.
Power-play opportunities_Buffalo 0 of 3; Boston 2 of 6.
Goalies_Buffalo, Tokarski 9-12-5 (32 shots-27 saves). Boston, Ullmark 26-10-2 (37-37).
A_17,850 (17,565). T_2:37.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jesperi Kotkaniemi had a goal and two assists and the Carolina Hurricanes closed out a record-setting season with a 6-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.
The Hurricanes, who clinched the Metropolitan Division title two nights earlier, added to their franchise records for wins (54) and points (116) in a season.
Ethan Bear, Martin Necas, Teuvo Teravainen, Steven Lorentz and Jordan Martinook also scored for the Hurricanes, who will carry a six-game winning streak into the playoffs.
Carolina goalie Antti Raanta made 27 saves and improved to 7-0-1 all-time against New Jersey.
Fabian Zetterlund, Jesper Bratt and Jimmy Vesey scored for the Devils, who are 0-3-2 in their last five games with one game remaining. Pavel Zacha had two assists and Andrew Hammond stopped 30 shots.
BRUINS 5, SABRES 0
BOSTON (AP) — Patrice Bergeron recorded his eighth career hat trick and his 400th NHL goal, and David Pastrnak ended Boston’s 0-for-39 power-play slump with his 40th goal of the season to lead the Bruins past Buffalo.
It was already 4-0 when Bergeron gathered in a pass from Charlie McAvoy in the center and wristed it into the net with 2:13 remaining for his third of the game. Hats came flying over the glass, and the Bruins hugged their captain, jumping up and down on their skates.
Linus Ullmark made 37 saves against his former team for his first shutout of the season as he tries to win the job as No. 1 goaltender for the playoffs.
Dustin Tokarski stopped 27 shots for the Sabres, who will miss the playoffs for the 11th straight season.
BLUE JACKETS 5, LIGHTNING 2
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Oliver Bjorkstrand led Columbus with a goal and an assist in the win over Tampa Bay, keeping the Lightning from clinching the No. 3 seed in the Atlantic Division.
Jakub Voracek, Cole Sillinger, Jack Roslovic and Andrew Peeke also scored in the Blue Jackets’ final home game of the season. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 25 shots in his 27th win.
Nikita Kucherov and Corey Perry scored for Tampa Bay, while Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman each had two assists. Brian Elliott stopped 30 shots.
Tampa Bay has a one-point lead over Boston with one game remaining for each team. The No. 3 seed will play the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the other will get the East’s No. 1 wild-card spot and a series against the Carolina Hurricanes.
PANTHERS 4, SENATORS 0
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe scored twice and Spencer Knight stopped 27 shots for his second career shutout as Florida beat Ottawa.
Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett also scored for Florida, which halted Ottawa’s four-game winning streak.
Filip Gustavsson made 26 saves for Ottawa.
With the top seed in the Eastern Conference locked up, the Panthers rested a few of their starters, including Jonathan Huberdeau, Aleksander Barkov, Claude Giroux, MacKenzie Weegar and Gustav Forsling.
ISLANDERS 5, CAPITALS 1
NEW YORK (AP) — Brock Nelson and Anders Lee scored first-period goals, Mathew Barzal had three assists and Semyon Varlamov made 26 saves as New York routed playoff-bound Washington.
J.G. Pageau, Kyle Palmieri and Josh Bailey added third-period goals for the Islanders, who swept a home-and-home series with the playoff-bound Capitals this week.
Varlamov’s shutout was ruined with 41.4 seconds left in the game when Washington’s Axel Jonsson-Fjallby scored. Vitek Vanecek made 21 saves for the Capitals.
The Islanders were coming off a 4-1 victory at Washington on Tuesday when Ryan Pulock and Dobson each scored power play goals as New York snapped a five-game winless streak. That win ended the Islanders’ road season at 17-19-5.
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Shares of Boeing Co.
BA,
-0.16%
sank 0.16% to $154.22 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+2.47%
rising 2.47% to 4,287.50 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+1.85%
rising 1.85% to 33,916.39. This was the stock's seventh consecutive day of losses. Boeing Co. closed $104.18 short of its 52-week high ($258.40), which the company reached on June 2nd.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Honeywell International Inc.
HON,
+1.92%
rose 1.92% to $189.92, Lockheed Martin Corp.
LMT,
-0.73%
fell 0.73% to $441.71, and Northrop Grumman Corp.
NOC,
+1.23%
rose 1.23% to $445.17. Trading volume (13.4 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 9.6 M.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government has finished another environmental review of a proposed transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from rural New Mexico to big cities in the West and similar reviews are planned for two more projects that would span parts of Utah and Nevada, the U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday.
The regulatory steps came a day after the Biden administration announced a $2.5 billion initiative to make the nation’s power grid more effective at withstanding catastrophic disasters caused by climate change. It’s also part of the administration’s goal to create a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.
The SunZia transmission project in New Mexico has been more than a decade in the making. After an initial review over several years, the Bureau of Land Management authorized a right-of-way grant on federal lands.
That had to be revisited when developers in 2021 submitted a new application modifying the route after the U.S. Defense Department and others raised concerns about the path of the high-voltage lines.
A final decision on the right of way application is expected this summer, following a public comment period.
The Biden administration is just the latest to promise speeding up development and modernization of the nation’s energy infrastructure through expedited federal permitting and regulatory reforms. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump also vowed to roll back bureaucracy.
While the other two transmission projects are in the early stages of the regulatory process, the experience in New Mexico illustrates the complicated nature of getting electricity from remote areas to population centers.
The siting of hundreds of miles of transmission lines, power poles and electric substations often involve a checkerboard of private, state and federal land that sometimes include environmentally sensitive areas.
Federal officials said Thursday that the projects have the potential to move 10,000 megawatts of electricity generated by wind and solar resources.
“Transmission projects like those advanced today offer a promising path for diversifying our national energy portfolio and connecting more renewable energy, while at the same time combatting climate change and investing in communities,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
Aside from new transmission lines, maintenance and repair costs for existing electricity infrastructure have ballooned to more than $40 billion annually as many utilities struggle to upgrade decades-old equipment. Customers usually bear the costs.
Ice storms, hurricanes, wildfires and other extreme weather have knocked out large parts of U.S. electrical networks with increasing frequency in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis that found power outages from severe weather doubled over the past two decade.
New Mexico’s renewable energy authority is among those invested in the SunZia project, which would include about 520 miles (836 kilometers) of transmission lines and a network of substations for getting wind and solar power to Arizona and California. The anchor tenant is Pattern Energy, which has been busy building massive wind farms in central New Mexico.
The proposed Greenlink West Transmission Project in Nevada would run through seven counties from Las Vegas to Reno.
NV Energy has said its investment of more than $2.5 billion in the project is expected to generate $690 million in economic activity and generate thousands of construction jobs.
And the proposed Cross-Tie Transmission Project would be made up of 214 miles (344 kilometers) of high-voltage lines between central Utah and east-central Nevada within federally designated utility corridors or parallel to existing transmission facilities.
Developers have said the project would relieve congestion on other key regional transmission lines and increase the ability for California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming to import and export renewable energy.
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Giovanni's Italian Grill
Welcome to Giovanni’s Italian Grill, where friends and families gather to enjoy great-tasting pizza, pasta, hamburgers, and calzones. We use fresh ingredients to top our pizzas along with homemade sauce and fresh-made dough. Our homemade Italian Sausage and meatballs have our customers coming back over and over for their delicious taste. Many customers tell us that our variation of an Alfredo sauce is their favorite. You will want to save room for dessert.
Giovanni’s Italian Grill offers friendly service, fantastic food, and a comfortable ambiance at a reasonable price. So rather if you call Rangely home or are just passing through our unique town, we want to invite you to join us at Giovanni’s for a great dining experience.
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Poster revealed for Whitney Houston movie, 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'
We finally have our first look at the poster for the upcoming Whitney Houston movie, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."
The movie's official Twitter account debuted the poster Monday, which shows star Naomi Ackie dressed in a black leather jacket, white tank, skinny jeans and black ankle boots -- the same outfit Whitney wore for her "So Emotional" music video.
Her arms are splayed wide and her head is thrown back as she strikes a joyful pose on the poster.
MORE: Whitney Houston biopic gets official title and casts its lead"Don’t you wanna dance?" the account teased. "Whitney Houston, the greatest voice, has an even greater story. 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' is exclusively in movie theaters December."
Clive Davis, who signed Houston to Arista Records, is producing the movie and previously told USA Today, "The goal...is to come up with a very realistic, very honest story...as well as capturing her losing battle with addiction, capturing her vocal genius and influence on music and contemporary musicians."
He added that his overall mission with "I Wanna Dance" is to "present the full story of Whitney Houston impeccably and [ensure] that it will be realistic in every respect."
MORE: 'The Bodyguard' remake will feature a 'young Latina' in Whitney Houston role"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" was written by Anthony McCarten, who wrote the Oscar-winning "Bohemian Rhapsody." The film told the story of another late music legend, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2583943820570/poster-revealed-for-whitney-houston-movie-i-wanna-dance-with-somebody | 2022-04-29T02:43:36Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2583943820570/poster-revealed-for-whitney-houston-movie-i-wanna-dance-with-somebody | true | 1 |
It was basically a foregone conclusion the Jets were going to draft a wide receiver at No. 10.
Now they have their guy: Ohio State’s Garrett Wilson.
First take: While improving a horrendous defense was a priority, so was acquiring help for Zach Wilson. The drafting of Wilson now provides the young quarterback with yet another target to utilize. Wilson’s speed and elusiveness will allow him to be a solid complement to Corey Davis and second-year wideout Elijah Moore. Now offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur can use both Wilson and Moore out of the slot, making for a dangerous core over the middle. The stronger the supporting cast for Zach Wilson the better.
Second guesses: This wide receiver class is stacked. So Wilson will always be compared to Buckeye teammate Chris Olave and Alabama’s Jameson Williams, who went No. 11 and 12 to the Saints and Lions, respectively. If Wilson doesn’t pan out and the others do, general manager Joe Douglas will be crushed. But that’s the risk-reward that comes with navigating the NFL Draft. Wilson will also sport a crucial quality Williams won’t, and that’s immediate availability. Williams is rehabbing from an ACL tear suffered in January. The bottom line is the Jets needed a surefire receiver prospect to add to the mix after addressing the horrid secondary with the No. 4 pick of Sauce Gardner. Wilson has the capability of answering the bell.
How does Wilson fit into the 2022 plans? The Jets wouldn’t draft a wideout at No. 10 if they weren’t looking to get the most out of him right away. Wilson will be a top-three receiver on the roster alongside Davis and Moore. His speed, athleticism, and vision will allow him to be dangerous in the open field. These qualities were crucial to his acquisition.
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Final thoughts: All of the aforementioned qualities make Wilson an incredible prospect — arguably the best in this draft at his position (which also includes Williams, Olave, USC’s Drake London, and many others). Again, this is all about assisting Zach Wilson in year two. If the Ohio State product can elevate this offense and help the second-year passer get over the hump, Douglas will have made the right choice regardless of how the other receiver prospects pan out. | https://elitesportsny.com/2022/04/28/jets-draft-garrett-wilson-improve-wr-room-analysis/ | 2022-04-29T02:49:39Z | https://elitesportsny.com/2022/04/28/jets-draft-garrett-wilson-improve-wr-room-analysis/ | true | 1 |
Graphic video shows Phoenix police officer getting shot at gas station
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5/Gray News) - Police released body camera footage on Thursday afternoon of a shootout between officers and a suspect, which left a Phoenix police officer hospitalized.
The graphic video obtained by Arizona’s Family shows suspect Nicholas Cowan shooting Officer Denise Bruce-Jones and another officer before speeding away from the Phoenix gas station, investigators said.
Cowan’s girlfriend called 911 and said she was at a Marathon gas station on April 14 near Cave Creek and Beardsley roads. She told a dispatcher to send an ambulance and not the police in the call. She then said Cowan was acting “crazy” and hitting himself with a bat on his head, body, legs and arms. The woman then told the dispatcher he had a cord around his neck.
“I think if the cops show up there, it’s going to be ... I don’t think it’s going to go good,” the woman said on the 911 call. She then told the dispatcher Cowan had a gun.
In the body camera footage, Bruce-Jones and another officer were at the gas station talking to the woman. The woman told Bruce-Jones she saw Cowan’s Prius pull up to the gas station. “Oh my god, that’s him,” the woman said in the video.
Cowan’s Prius turned into the gas station and stopped a short distance away from Bruce-Jones and the woman standing near the gas station entrance, police said. Bruce-Jones attempted to tell Cowan to get out of the car, and then he started shooting at officers from inside his vehicle, according to police. Bruce-Jones was hit by the first gunshot and immediately fell to the ground. The other officer immediately ducked behind his patrol car and started returning fire. Several bullets were seen shattering the gas station’s windows.
More than 15 gunshots could be heard as Cowan and the other officer returned fire at each other, investigators said. Bruce-Jones could be seen lying on the ground. Cowan then drove off with the second officer shooting at his car. The second officer then went to Bruce-Jones to tend to her injuries.
On Monday, Cowan was released from the hospital and booked into jail on two counts of attempted first-degree murder, among other charges. But during the booking process, officials determined Cowan had to go back to the hospital to be monitored, police said. Cowan was then on the run for three days until he was found at a Scottsdale rental property and arrested on April 17.
Bruce-Jones was moved from the hospital to a rehab facility on Friday. She is a 24-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department. Her spouse is also a Phoenix police officer.
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YAKIMA, WA - After 2 years the Yakima Taco Fest is coming back this Saturday.
Yakima Taco Fest will be on April 30th from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. at Sarg Hubbard Park.
Wendy Lopez the Secretary of Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Yakima said they have thrown this event on since 2018 but had to cancel it the last 2 years because of COVID-19. Now, they are excited to have it back.
"I just really love that it brings people together," said Lopez. "That this food can bring people together of any walk of life."
This year they have 12 different food vendors and 9 drink vendors that the chamber of commerce is highly encouraging people to vote on. The vendor who wins the best taco gets a $1,000 prize.
Yakima taco fest is one of the first public events this year.
"We decided springtime is our time of year it can kick off for Cinco de Mayo," said Lopez.
Many familiar places in Yakima are participating like 5 Salas, Avenida Cantina, Crafted Restaurant, and Fiesta Foods.
"This is our first time participating," said Veronica Avila the Deli Supervisor for Fiesta Foods. "I think we were going to do it last year but they canceled everything because of the COVID so we're excited that we're going to do it this year."
Avila said she is looking forward to meeting more of the community members and showing what type of food they offer.
"I heard that it is very successful," said Avila. "There's a lot of attendance and we want to be part of it and we love to be part of the community, you know?"
For people interested in going to the taco fest it is offering a few different types of tickets including general admission, VIP, and the Fuego Experience.
One of the unique things about the festival, Lopez said it was started to highlight local businesses and bring all different types of community members together.
"By highlighting our agriculture workers and our small businesses," said Lopez. "Were hoping to do that through this festival which will allow the community to come together." | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-taco-fest-is-back/article_378b38a0-c75e-11ec-ad15-8707904479ed.html | 2022-04-29T03:01:37Z | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-taco-fest-is-back/article_378b38a0-c75e-11ec-ad15-8707904479ed.html | false | 1 |
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.’s results were not been as bad as Wall Street was fearing, but there still isn’t much to cheer about.
Meta
FB,
Revenue has been slowing in recent quarters, as Meta Chief Financial Officer David Wehner has been warning would happen for years, but compared with the year-ago March quarter of 2021, when revenue grew 48%, the results were even more disappointing. Meta shares, however, surged 18% in after-hours trading, after suffering the worst quarter in their history and falling further in recent days.
Meta blamed the revenue slowdown on the transition of user preferences to short-form video, known on Facebook as Reels. Of course, the best-known name for those types of videos at the moment is TikToks, named for the mobile app that is stealing attention from all of Silicon Valley’s previously hot platforms, from Alphabet Inc.’s
GOOGL,
See also: Google’s troubles lead analysts to point fingers squarely at YouTube
“We’re managing headwinds from the shift to short-form video that I just mentioned,” Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told analysts on a conference call. “In the near term, this is a drag on revenue because Reels monetization is less than Feeds or Stories, but I expect that will improve over time. We’ve seen this type of media-format transition multiple times before.”
Zuckerberg has indeed managed these transitions before, including adopting the Stories format after it first took off on Snapchat. He also noted that the transition in 2012 from a desktop feed to a mobile feed for smartphones led to a revenue slowdown too — Facebook’s revenue growth in 2012 slowed to less than 40% from triple-digit gains in the first three quarters of 2011.
Single-digit growth is another thing entirely, however, and there are plenty of other complications for Facebook, from the conflict in Ukraine to privacy changes in Apple Inc.’s
AAPL,
Zuckerberg has shifted to focusing on virtual and augmented reality as social media has slowed down, but the issues Facebook faces are going to damage those plans for the rest of Meta. His desire to invest heavily in the company’s Reality Labs business is meeting actual reality, as executives lowered their capital expenditures plans for the rest of the year by $3 billion and said they would curtail some hiring plans for the year.
In case you’re adding things together, that is difficulty in the short term with trying to copy TikTok, and a drag on the long-term plan to make the metaverse happen. No matter how much the stock goes up on Thursday because results didn’t live up to investors’ worst fears, it doesn’t make those results a good thing for Meta. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-earnings-were-not-as-bad-as-feared-but-they-were-still-pretty-bad-11651107166 | 2022-04-29T03:02:10Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-earnings-were-not-as-bad-as-feared-but-they-were-still-pretty-bad-11651107166 | false | 2 |
Shares of Fortis Inc.
FTS,
+0.76%
inched 0.76% higher to C$63.71 Thursday, in what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index
GSPTSE,
+1.82%
rising 1.82% to 21,121.06. The stock's rise snapped a three-day losing streak. Fortis Inc. closed C$1.42 short of its 52-week high (C$65.13), which the company reached on April 8th. Trading volume of 1.6 M shares eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.5 M.
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Shares of Fortive Corp.
FTV,
+1.58%
rose 1.58% to $58.64 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+2.47%
rising 2.47% to 4,287.50 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+1.85%
rising 1.85% to 33,916.39. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. Fortive Corp. closed $21.23 below its 52-week high ($79.87), which the company achieved on November 22nd.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as MKS Instruments Inc.
MKSI,
+5.81%
rose 5.81% to $118.51, Mesa Laboratories Inc.
MLAB,
-1.89%
fell 1.89% to $217.08, and LGL Group Inc.
LGL,
-0.18%
fell 0.18% to $10.83. Trading volume (5.3 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 3.2 M.
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WHQR's 37th Birthday a Blast
Thanks to everyone who dropped by Hi-Wire Brewing to celebrate our 37th birthday last Friday evening! It was wonderful to be able...
www.whqr.orgThanks to everyone who dropped by Hi-Wire Brewing to celebrate our 37th birthday last Friday evening! It was wonderful to be able...
www.whqr.org | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2583993098560/whqr-s-37th-birthday-a-blast | 2022-04-29T03:05:08Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2583993098560/whqr-s-37th-birthday-a-blast | false | null |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-1-2-2
(nine, one, two, two)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.timesunion.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17135391.php | 2022-04-29T03:06:02Z | https://www.timesunion.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17135391.php | false | null |
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