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- Achieves first quarter revenue growth of 8% reported and organic, driven by CAG Diagnostics recurring revenue growth of 8% reported and 9% organic, building on high prior year growth
- Continued strong sector demand supports record first quarter premium instrument placements, driving CAG Diagnostics capital instrument revenue growth of 19% reported and 22% organic
- Delivers EPS of $2.27, representing 3% decline as reported and 3% growth on a comparable basis, reflecting comparisons to strong prior year results and increases in commercial investments
- Adjusts 2022 guidance to reflect moderated veterinary clinical visit growth levels impacted by constraints on clinic capacity, strengthening of the U.S. dollar, and advancement of incremental discrete investments in future innovations
- Re-calibrated 2022 revenue outlook reflects 5.5% - 8% reported growth and 7.5% - 10% organic
- Updated EPS outlook of $8.11 - $8.35 includes estimated $0.72 of impact related to discrete research and development expense from the in-license of intellectual property during the second quarter, $0.10 of additional foreign exchange impact from the higher U.S. dollar and $0.05 of impact from higher interest rates
WESTBROOK, Maine, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), a global leader in veterinary diagnostics, veterinary practice software and water microbiology testing, today announced first quarter results, as well as an update on U.S. companion animal diagnostics trends.
First Quarter Results
The Company reports revenues of $837 million for the first quarter of 2022, an 8% increase as reported and organically, driven by Companion Animal Group ("CAG") Diagnostics recurring revenue growth of 8% reported and 9% organic compared to high prior year gains. Continued strong companion animal sector demand and benefits from IDEXX innovation and customer engagement drove record first quarter instrument placements and continued strong momentum in cloud-based software placements. CAG Diagnostics capital instrument revenues grew 19% as reported and 22% organically, and veterinary software, services and diagnostic imaging systems revenue increased 34% as reported and 13% organically. Overall revenue gains in the quarter were also supported by solid Water revenue growth of 7% reported and 8% organic.
First quarter earnings per diluted share ("EPS") were $2.27, a 3% decline as reported and a 3% increase on a comparable basis versus strong prior year profit levels. EPS results included $0.06 per share in tax benefits from share-based compensation, a reduction compared to high prior year benefit levels, and a $0.03 per share negative impact from currency changes.
"IDEXX's first quarter results build on the significant gains in demand for companion animal diagnostics and software solutions achieved over the last two years," said Jay Mazelsky, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Veterinarians and their staffs continue to work passionately to support their practices in a demanding environment. IDEXX solutions help to improve patient care and manage increased demands on their time, as well as to continue to advance higher standards for pet healthcare, including utilization of diagnostics. This is reflected in continued strong IDEXX premium instrument placements globally, expansion of our cloud-based software solutions and high single-digit organic growth in CAG Diagnostics recurring revenues compared to very strong prior year growth levels. These results demonstrate the benefits of our ongoing focus on innovation, the continued high level of customer-focused execution of IDEXX teams globally and our commitment as a purpose-driven company to improving the health and well-being of pets, people and livestock."
Companion Animal Diagnostics Trends Update
Continued growth in demand for companion animal healthcare supported solid gains for CAG diagnostic products and services across regions, compared to very strong prior year growth levels. U.S. same-store clinical visits at veterinary practices declined 2% in the first quarter compared to prior year period clinical visit growth of 13%, which included benefits from increases in new pet ownership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Average same-store revenue growth at U.S. veterinary practices was 6% in the first quarter (compared to 16% growth levels in the first quarter of 2021), driven by high growth in healthcare services, including increased utilization of diagnostics. Demand for pet healthcare including diagnostics has increased significantly from pre-pandemic levels, reflected in 4% compound annual clinic visit growth and 11% compound annual growth in U.S. same-store diagnostics revenues compared to 2019 first quarter, pre-pandemic levels.
Additional U.S. companion animal practice key metrics are available in the Q1 2022 Earnings Snapshot accessible on the IDEXX website, www.idexx.com/investors.
First Quarter Performance Highlights
Companion Animal Group
The Companion Animal Group generated revenue growth of 10% reported and organic for the quarter, supported by CAG Diagnostics recurring revenue growth of 8% on a reported basis and 9% organically. Solid growth was achieved across IDEXX's major modalities, building off high gains in the prior year period. Overall CAG revenue growth included CAG Diagnostics capital instrument revenue growth of 19% reported and 22% organic, reflecting record first quarter premium instrument placements.
- IDEXX VetLab® consumables generated 9% reported and 11% organic revenue growth, supported by expansion of our global premium instrument installed base and benefits from net price gains and high customer retention levels.
- Reference laboratory diagnostic and consulting services generated 7% reported and 8% organic revenue growth supported by strong growth in the U.S., offset by moderated growth in international regions compared to strong prior year levels. Revenue gains reflect benefits from same-store volume growth, new business gains and net price improvement.
- Rapid assay products revenues grew 7% as reported and 8% organic, supported by net price gains, continued solid volume growth in the U.S. and high customer retention levels.
Veterinary software, services and diagnostic imaging systems revenues grew 34% reported and 13% on an organic basis, with strong growth in recurring software services revenue supported by continued gains in cloud-based software placements. Reported growth includes benefits from the recent acquisition of ezyVet®, which continues to show strong momentum in terms of customer gains.
Water
Water revenues grew 7% on a reported basis and 8% on an organic basis for the quarter, supported by a continued solid recovery in water testing demand and net price gains.
Livestock, Poultry and Dairy ("LPD")
LPD revenues declined 21% as reported and 19% on an organic basis for the quarter, compared to prior year growth of 15% as reported and 9% organic, which benefited from African Swine Fever (ASF) testing programs and core Swine testing volumes in China. Comparisons in these areas are expected to improve in the second half of 2022.
Gross Profit and Operating Profit
Gross profits increased 6% as reported and 7% on a comparable basis. Gross margin of 59.6% decreased 90 basis points as reported and 120 basis points on a comparable basis. Gross margin declines reflect comparisons to high prior year levels, business mix effects from lower LPD revenues and high CAG Diagnostics capital instrument revenue growth, and higher freight and distribution costs. Net price gains and CAG reference laboratory productivity initiatives helped to offset inflationary effects.
Operating margin was 29.7% in the quarter, 220 basis points lower than the prior year as reported and on a comparable basis. High prior year period operating margin levels included benefits from constrained operating expense levels during the pandemic. Operating expenses increased 12% as reported and 13% on a comparable basis, reflecting comparisons to constrained prior year levels, increased investments supporting global commercial capabilities, and higher travel costs.
2022 Growth and Financial Performance Outlook
The Company is recalibrating its full year revenue growth outlook to reflect first quarter results and anticipated near-term impacts on veterinary clinical visits from factors including constraints on vet clinic capacity, as well as ~$10 million in projected revenue reductions related to the war in Ukraine and ~$40 million in impact from the recent strengthening of the U.S. dollar. These factors are reflected in a 3.5% reduction in the projected full year reported revenue growth and a 2% - 2.5% reduction in the projected full year organic revenue growth range.
The Company now projects full year operating margins of 26.8% - 27.3%. The updated operating margin estimates include a negative 230 basis point impact related to ~$80 million of discrete research and development expense associated with the in-license of intellectual property during the second quarter.
The Company's EPS outlook of $8.11 - $8.35 reflects an adjustment of $1.20 at midpoint, including $0.72 of impact from the ~$80 million discrete R&D expense, $0.10 of additional impact from the strengthened U.S. dollar and $0.05 related to higher projected interest rates.
Additionally, the discrete R&D investments reduced estimated full year operating cash flow and free cash flow as a percentage of net income by ~3% and ~5%, respectively.
The following table provides the Company's outlook for annual key financial metrics in 2022:
Amounts in millions except per share data and percentages
The following table outlines estimates of foreign currency exchange rate impacts, net of foreign currency hedging transactions, and foreign currency exchange rate assumptions reflected in the above financial performance outlook for 2022.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. will be hosting a conference call today at 8:30 a.m. (EDT) to discuss its first quarter 2022 results and management's outlook. To participate in the conference call, dial 1-866-374-5140 or 1-404-400-0571 and reference pin 35572192. Individuals can access a live webcast of the conference call through a link on the IDEXX website, www.idexx.com/investors. An archived edition of the webcast will be available after 1:00 p.m. (EDT) on that day via the same link and will remain available for one year.
2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. will hold its 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "2022 Annual Meeting") on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). The 2022 Annual Meeting will be a virtual meeting via a live audio webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/IDXX2022. The online pre-meeting forum can be accessed before the 2022 Annual Meeting at www.proxyvote.com for beneficial owners and www.proxyvote.com/idxx for registered shareholders. At this online pre-meeting forum, you can submit questions in writing in advance of the 2022 Annual Meeting, vote, view the Rules of Conduct and Procedures relating to the 2022 Annual Meeting and access copies of the Company's proxy materials and annual report.
Shareholders as of the close of business on March 14, 2022 are entitled to attend the 2022 Annual Meeting, vote their shares electronically and submit questions before and during the live audio webcast. As part of the 2022 Annual Meeting, the Company will answer the questions submitted by our shareholders during a live Q&A session, as time permits. The Company will publish the answer to each such question, including any for which there is not sufficient time to address during the 2022 Annual Meeting, on the Company's Investor Relations website as soon as practicable after the meeting. An archived replay will also be available at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/IDXX2022 after the conclusion of the 2022 Annual Meeting and will remain available for one year. Further information on the 2022 Annual Meeting can be found in the Company's proxy materials.
About IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a member of the S&P 500® Index and is a leader in pet healthcare innovation, offering diagnostic and software products and services that deliver solutions and insights to practicing veterinarians around the world. IDEXX products enhance the ability of veterinarians to provide advanced medical care, improve staff efficiency and build more economically successful practices. IDEXX is also a worldwide leader in providing diagnostic tests and information for livestock and poultry and tests for the quality and safety of water and milk and point-of-care and laboratory diagnostics for human medicine. Headquartered in Maine, IDEXX employs over 10,000 people and offers products to customers in over 175 countries. For more information about IDEXX, visit: www.idexx.com.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This earnings release contains statements about the Company's business prospects and estimates of the Company's financial results for future periods that are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are included above under "Livestock, Poultry and Dairy ("LPD")", "Gross Profit and Operating Profit", "2022 Growth and Financial Performance Outlook", and elsewhere and can be identified by the use of words such as "expects", "may", "anticipates", "intends", "would", "will", "plans", "believes", "estimates", "projected", "should", and similar words and expressions. Our forward-looking statements include statements relating to our expectations regarding LPD financial performance; revenue growth and EPS outlooks; operating and free cash flow forecast; projected impact of foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates; projected operating margins and expenses and capital expenditures; estimated research and development expense; projected tax, tax rate and EPS benefits from share-based compensation arrangements; and projected effective tax rates, reduction of average shares outstanding and net interest expense. These statements are intended to provide management's expectation of future events as of the date of this earnings release; are based on management's estimates, projections, beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this earnings release; and are not guarantees of future performance. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the matters described under the headings "Business," "Risk Factors," "Legal Proceedings," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and in the corresponding sections of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, as well as those described from time to time in the Company's other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission available at www.sec.gov. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Statement Regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The following defines terms and conventions and provides reconciliations regarding certain measures used in this earnings release and/or the accompanying earnings conference call that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"), otherwise referred to as non-GAAP financial measures. To supplement the Company's consolidated results presented in accordance with GAAP, the Company has disclosed non-GAAP financial measures that exclude or adjust certain items. Management believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information for its and investors' evaluation of the Company's business performance and liquidity and are useful for period-over-period comparisons of the performance of the Company's business and its liquidity and to the performance and liquidity of our peers. While management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful in evaluating the Company's business, this information should be considered as supplemental in nature and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures may not be the same as similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
Constant currency - Constant currency references are non-GAAP financial measures which exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates and are consistent with how management evaluates our performance and comparisons with prior and future periods. We estimated the net impacts of currency on our revenue, gross profit, operating profit, and EPS results by restating results to the average exchange rates or exchange rate assumptions for the comparative period, which includes adjusting for the estimated impacts of foreign currency hedging transactions and certain impacts on our effective tax rates. These estimated currency changes impacted first quarter 2022 results as follows: decreased gross profit growth by 2%, increased gross margin growth by 20 basis points, decreased operating expense growth by 1.3%, decreased operating profit growth by 1.6%, had an immaterial impact on operating profit margin growth, and decreased EPS growth by 1.3%. Constant currency revenue growth represents the percentage change in revenue during the applicable period, as compared to the prior year period, excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates. See the supplementary analysis of results below for revenue percentage change from currency for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and refer to the 2022 Growth and Financial Performance Outlook section of this earnings release for estimated foreign currency exchange rate impacts on 2022 projections and estimates.
Growth and organic revenue growth - All references to growth and organic growth refer to growth compared to the equivalent prior year period unless specifically noted. Organic revenue growth is a non-GAAP financial measure that excludes the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, certain business acquisitions, and divestitures. Management believes that reporting organic revenue growth provides useful information to investors by facilitating easier comparisons of our revenue performance with prior and future periods and to the performance of our peers. Organic revenue growth should be considered in addition to, and not as a replacement of or a superior measure to, revenue growth reported in accordance with GAAP. See the supplementary analysis of results below for a reconciliation of reported revenue growth to organic revenue growth for the three months ended March 31, 2022. Please refer to the 2022 Growth and Financial Performance Outlook section of this earnings release for estimated full year 2022 organic revenue growth for the Company and CAG Diagnostics recurring revenue. The percentage change in revenue resulting from acquisitions represents revenues during the current year period, limited to the initial 12 months from the date of the acquisition, that are directly attributable to business acquisitions. Revenue from acquisitions is expected to increase projected full year 2022 revenue growth by 50 basis points. For a reconciliation of first quarter 2021 LPD organic revenue growth to LPD revenue growth reported in accordance with GAAP, see the supplementary analysis of results in the Company's earnings release dated May 4, 2021.
Comparable growth metrics - Comparable gross profit growth, comparable gross margin gain (or growth), comparable operating expense growth, comparable operating profit growth and comparable operating margin gain (or growth) are non-GAAP financial measures and exclude the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates and non-recurring or unusual items (if any). Please refer to the constant currency note above for a summary of foreign currency exchange rate impacts. Management believes that reporting comparable gross profit growth, comparable gross margin gain (or growth), comparable operating expense growth, comparable operating profit growth and comparable operating margin gain (or growth) provides useful information to investors because it enables better period-over-period comparisons of the fundamental financial results by excluding items that vary independent of performance and provides greater transparency to investors regarding key metrics used by management. Comparable gross profit growth, comparable gross margin gain (or growth), comparable operating expense growth, comparable operating profit growth and comparable operating margin gain (or growth) should be considered in addition to, and not as replacements of or superior measures to, gross profit growth, gross margin gain, operating expense growth, operating profit growth and operating margin gain reported in accordance with GAAP. Comparable operating expense growth, comparable operating profit growth, and comparable operating margin gain (or growth) exclude the impacts described in the constant currency note above and reconcile reported operating expense growth, operating profit growth, and operating margin gain for the first quarter of 2022 to comparable operating expense growth, comparable operating profit growth, and comparable operating margin gain (or growth) for the same period.
The reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures is as follows:
Projected 2022 comparable operating margin expansion outlined in the 2022 Growth and Financial Performance Outlook section of this earnings release reflects projected full year 2022 reported operating margin adjusted for estimated positive year-over-year foreign currency exchange rate change impact of approximately 10 basis points.
This impact and those described in the constant currency note above reconcile reported gross profit growth, gross margin gain, operating expense growth, operating profit growth and operating margin gain (including projected 2022 operating margin expansion) to comparable gross profit growth, comparable gross margin gain, comparable operating expense growth, comparable operating profit growth and comparable operating margin gain for the Company.
Comparable EPS growth - Comparable EPS growth is a non-GAAP financial measure that represents the percentage change in earnings per share (diluted) ("EPS") for a measurement period, as compared to the prior base period, net of the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates from the prior base period and excluding the tax benefits of share-based compensation activity under ASU 2016-09, Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, and non-recurring or unusual items (if any). Management believes comparable EPS growth is a more useful way to measure the Company's business performance than EPS growth because it enables better period-over-period comparisons of the fundamental financial results by excluding items that vary independent of performance and provides greater transparency to investors regarding a key metric used by management. Comparable EPS growth should be considered in addition to, and not as a replacement of or a superior measure to, EPS growth reported in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to the constant currency note above for a summary of foreign currency exchange rate impacts.
The reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure is as follows:
Projected 2022 comparable EPS growth outlined in the 2022 Growth and Financial Performance Outlook section of this earnings release reflects adjustments including estimated positive share-based compensation activity of $0.12 and estimated negative year-over-year foreign currency exchange rate change impact of $0.18.
These impacts and those described in the constant currency note above reconcile reported EPS growth (including projected 2022 reported EPS growth) to comparable EPS growth for the Company.
Free cash flow - Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure and means, with respect to a measurement period, the cash generated from operations during that period, reduced by the Company's investments in property and equipment. Management believes free cash flow is a useful measure because it indicates the cash the operations of the business are generating after appropriate reinvestment for recurring investments in property and equipment that are required to operate the business. Free cash flow should be considered in addition to, and not as a replacement of or a superior measure to, net cash provided by operating activities. See the supplementary analysis of results below for our calculation of free cash flow for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021. To estimate projected 2022 free cash flow, we have deducted projected purchases of property and equipment (also referred to as capital expenditures) of approximately $180 million. To calculate trailing twelve-month net income to free cash flow ratio for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022, we have deducted purchases of property and equipment of approximately $131 million from net cash provided from operating activities of approximately $746 million, divided by net income of approximately $735 million.
Debt to Adjusted EBITDA (Leverage Ratios) - Adjusted EBITDA, gross debt, and net debt are non-GAAP financial measures. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, non-recurring transaction expenses incurred in connection with acquisitions, share-based compensation expense, and certain other non-cash losses and charges. Management believes that reporting Adjusted EBITDA, gross debt and net debt in the Debt to Adjusted EBITDA ratios provides supplemental analysis to help investors further evaluate the Company's business performance and available borrowing capacity under the Company's credit facility. Adjusted EBITDA, gross debt, and net debt should be considered in addition to, and not as replacements of or superior measures to, net income or total debt reported in accordance with GAAP. For further information on how Adjusted EBITDA and the Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratios are calculated, see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Contact: John Ravis, Investor Relations, 1-207-556-8155
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Players from MK Dons, Rotherham, Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland, Wigan and Wycombe all feature as WhoScored.com run through their Sky Bet League One Team of the Season 2021/22
Wednesday 4 May 2022 11:52, UK
With the regular League One season over, WhoScored.com take a look at the best XI from 2021/22.
Champions Wigan have three players make the side, while fellow promoted side Rotherham are also represented. Play-off finishers MK Dons, Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland and Wycombe have at least one representative each.
Plymouth conceded the fifth fewest goals (48) in League One this season with Michael Cooper key. Cooper was the busiest goalkeeper in the division, making more saves (141) than any other player and returned the fourth best save success rate (72.3 per cent) to feature between the sticks with a WhoScored.com rating of 6.91.
Champions Wigan have three players make the team of the season with Max Power the first Latics representative in the XI. His name was one that opponents certainly feared as he ranked third for assists (12) in League One and finished fourth for key passes (88) to star at right-back with a WhoScored.com rating of 6.99.
Ryan Tafazolli is the first of three Wycombe representatives in the League One team of the season as he returned a better WhoScored.com rating (7.29) than any other centre-back. Often in the right place at the right time, the 30-year-old made the third most clearances per game (5.7) and placed 11th for aerial duels won per game (5.4) to star in the XI.
Rotherham conceded at least 11 fewer goals (33) than any other team in League One this season with Michael Ihiekwe crucial at the heart of the defence. The Millers kept 20 clean sheets in his 42 league outings, that more than any other centre-back, while 203 aerial duels won was the fourth most of all centre-backs as Ihiekwe partners Tafazolli at the back with a WhoScored.com rating of 7.21.
Rounding off the defence is the second Wycombe player in the side with Joe Jacobson's WhoScored.com rating of 7.31 enough to make the cut at left-back. A total of 162 tackles and interceptions combined was the fourth most in the division this season to aid the 35-year-old's inclusion.
Only Will Keane (26) finished the League One season with more goals than Callum Lang (15) of all Wigan players with the 23-year-old nailing down the right-wing spot. Lang chipped in with an additional seven assists for the Latics, all of which were from open play - only two players did so more - as he makes the grade with a WhoScored.com rating of 6.99.
Scott Twine ended the regular campaign on a high as he scored four times in MK Dons' final game of the season. Twine was the only player to register double figures for both goals (20) and assists (13) in League One, while he finished second for big chances created (17) and third for key passes (104) to help return a WhoScored.com rating of 7.41.
Joining Twine in the middle of the park is Sheffield Wednesday's Barry Bannan, who garnered a WhoScored.com rating of 7.21. Bannan finished the season with the third most assists (12) and the second most key passes (123). On top of that, the Owls player created the joint-third most clear-cut chances with 14 to cap a fine campaign.
Finishing level with Bannan on 14 clear-cut chances created, James McClean completes the midfield, and the Wigan trio, as the winger earned a WhoScored.com rating of 7.34. McClean was directly involved in 16 of the Latics' 82 league goals, scoring nine times, and he worked hard off the ball, too, making two tackles per game to secure a spot on the left.
With a rating of 7.49, Wycombe striker Sam Vokes is the WhoScored.com League One player of the season. The 32-year-old scored 16 times and laid on an additional seven assists as the Chairboys booked a playoff spot. Vokes more aerial duels (447) than any other player in England's third tier this season, while 133 shots was the fifth most in the division to help the Wales striker to the individual award.
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Q: Ira, I wasn’t one of those ready to run off Duncan Robinson because of the success we have had with him in the lineup. And I’m not now. I know he has his flaws, but he deserves his minutes. – Steve.
A: But so do several players who have had to make such sacrifices this season. And I would think few would disagree now about the move of Max Strus into the first five. For as much as I believe you can’t, and shouldn’t, argue with success, I’m still not sold on playing Victor Oladipo and Jimmy Butler together when Erik Spoelstra cycles through his rotation. I just don’t see the spacing there, and believe that becomes a detriment to Jimmy. So through no fault of Victor, that still could be a situation where Duncan is the better fit. I don’t have the same issues with Victor and Tyler Herro playing together, because of Tyler’s 3-point range. But, again, hard to argue with success.
Q: I can see ESPN headlines right now, “Tensions flaring In South Beach? Jimmy skips practice after sitting out fourth quarter.” – S,R.
A: And you are probably right, since the last time the Heat got anything close this season to Lakers/Nets/Knicks attention was Jimmy Butler’s courtside flareup with Erik Spoelstra and Bam Adebayo. But the Heat made clear that Tuesday was an approved absence and Spoelstra made clear that had the Heat’s lead gone back down to single digits in Monday’s fourth quarter that Jimmy would have gone back into the same. So nothing to see here.
Q: We’re good. Rest Kyle Lowry up. Have him come back when Joel Embiid comes back. We’ll be ready. – H.B.
A: And despite Erik Spoelstra comment to the contrary, it still seems that the Heat’s 3-0 success in Kyle Lowry’s absence with this hamstring strain has made it easier to hold him out. For as much as the Heat lack in the absence of Kyle, the 76ers lack far more in the absence of Joel Embiid. It is a wash the Heat assuredly will accept, even if not by choice.
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NASA is planning its first-ever mission to bring dirt and rocks from Mars back to Earth — but before that momentous event happens, the space agency needs to figure out exactly how to protect our home planet from any alien microbes that might hitch a ride.
This week, the agency is holding public meetings and looking for feedback on its plan to land a spacecraft carrying Martian specimens at a U.S. Air Force testing range in Utah in the early 2030s.
"Maybe this is the most important environmental assessment that humans have ever done," says Peter Doran, a geologist at Louisiana State University who studies life in extreme environments.
"I think that it's a very low probability that there's anything living at the surface of Mars," says Doran, who also serves on an international committee devoted to planetary protection. "But there is a possibility."
Having a rock sample from Mars here on Earth would let scientists run exhaustive lab tests to look for evidence of whether this cold, harsh, rocky world was once habitable and maybe even inhabited.
For scientists, this is a long-held dream
Talk of such a mission has gone on for decades, and it will cost billions of dollars to accomplish. Still, Doran says no one has thought through exactly how to handle Martian specimens. Questions like how to contain any potential microbes? Or what specific features are needed for the secure lab (or labs) that will house the rocks?
"Until recently, there hasn't been a lot of focus on the details of the sample return facility and all that," he explains, "because we didn't think it was going to happen."
Now, though, the effort appears to be on a fast track, with NASA officials collaborating with the European Space Agency and making plans to launch a set of retrieval spacecraft as soon as 2027 and 2028. To get ready, NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars last year, has been drilling cylindrical samples of rock and sealing them inside metal tubes.
"We've got eight samples on board the rover now," says Jim Bell, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University who is part of the Perseverance rover team.
He explains that the rover has been exploring an ancient crater on Mars that seems to have once had water. Occasionally, the rover drills out a cylindrical core of rock about the size of a dry-erase marker. The core then gets hermetically sealed into one of the rover's 42 metal sample tubes.
Bell says a long-running joke among planetary scientists is that "Mars sample return has always been 10 years off." But at long last, it truly does seem to be 10 years off, he says.
"I'm optimistic, right? We're caching them, and we're getting them ready to be picked up," says Bell. "And so that is farther than the planetary science community has ever come before."
Critics say Martian rocks come with risks
NASA officials are hashing out a plan to safely collect the samples: A spacecraft would land on Mars and launch a container full of the previously collected rock samples into orbit around the planet. Once in orbit, this container could be engulfed by another container — like a big fish eating a little fish — to keep anything that had touched Mars inside.
It would then be sealed, and the seal would be heat-sterilized, says Brian Clement, a planetary protection expert with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is working on the mission.
"We're applying very high heat. It's going to be in excess of 900 degrees Fahrenheit," he says. "We want to be able to break apart any biomolecules that might have activity of any concern."
This is technically challenging, however, because scientists also want to keep the rock samples cold, as they were on Mars. "I liken this to welding your metal lunchbox shut while trying to keep your lunch nice and cold inside," says Clement.
The sanitized container would then go into yet another container, which would also be sealed and put into the Earth-entry vehicle, which is what would eventually land in the Utah desert, without a parachute.
"We like to refer to it as a 90-mile-an-hour fastball, where the landing site is the mitt," says Clement. "That 90-mile-an-hour landing, just like with a baseball, is well within the Earth-entry system's capabilities."
Still, some observers find this proposal disturbing.
"We're just going to bring it back and have it come back to the Utah desert, much like the Genesis solar-sample return mission, which, of course, broke up, broke open on impact," says Barry DiGregorio, a science writer with a group called the International Committee Against Mars Sample Return, which has long opposed plans to bring Martian rocks directly to Earth.
"You could imagine what would happen if you have pathogenic organisms from another planet and you had that sort of event take place," says DiGregorio.
But Clement says that multiple panels of scientific experts have weighed in on the risk of Mars sample return over the years and that "those panels have all agreed that the potential hazard is very, very low."
Even so, he says, NASA is taking a conservative approach. "Anything that has contacted Mars directly will be contained or sterilized before it is returned," says Clement.
And Bell says he's not worried about the possibility that any Martian germs mixed in with the rocks might escape into the environment and cause problems or disease, "despite the fact that many science fiction fans out there are probably concerned about that."
Any life on Mars would be ill-suited to survive on Earth, says Bell, as it would have evolved in a separate biosphere, or environment that supports life. "We're talking about a completely different ecosystem, a completely different potential biosphere," he says. "And, of course, we don't know if there is or was a biosphere on Mars at all."
In his view, the main danger of a rupture or leak would be contaminating the precious Martian samples with Earth material. That's why the samples will likely need to be opened in high-tech facilities that can replicate the environment and atmosphere of Mars, Bell says.
Public reaction to a special delivery from Mars
While the surface of Mars is currently dry, very cold and blasted with harsh ultraviolet radiation, LSU's Doran says it's still possible that microbes could eke out an existence in shielded cavities and holes or under the dust.
"The possibility is not zero," says Doran, although he thinks it's "highly unlikely."
"We definitely have to take this stance of protecting Earth, at least in the early missions, until we know what's there," he says.
One of the few efforts to ascertain what the public thinks about bringing home Martian rocks was carried out back in the 1990s. That study found that "public perception of biological hazards associated with a Mars sample return mission is not seen as a large risk relative to other technological and environmental risks and hazards, such as nuclear technologies, food risks, and ozone depletion."
But public perceptions might be different now, in part because of the coronavirus pandemic, says Margaret Race, one of the researchers involved in that 1990s study, who has worked on planetary protection with the SETI Institute.
"What we're talking about is bringing it down in Utah in a great big desert and then you pick it up and you bring it to someplace else, a lab," says Race, pointing out that people will want to know where that lab will be and exactly what protections will be in place.
"I can expect there will be lots of questions," she says.
Even with many details left to be worked out, the prospect of a Martian rock being brought to Earth is just thrilling for scientists like ASU's Bell, who has studied Mars for years.
"I just want to see this stuff with my own eyes," says Bell. "We've been looking at this world through robotic eyes for so long, and I want to see that famous red dust and I want to see the insides of some of these rocks and little grains that may have formed in a watery environment 3 or 4 billion years ago."
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(WLFI) – Good Wednesday morning! Temperatures are bottoming out in the mid 40s area-wide with mostly cloudy skies and areas of light drizzle.
The rest of the day will be dry and mostly cloudy. There may be a few peeks of sunshine by the afternoon. NE winds will keep temperatures cooler today with highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Cooler temperatures to the north will be more likely as they will be influenced by cool air coming off of Lake Michigan.
Thursday
We will begin with partly sunny conditions on Thursday. Rain is set to arrive later in the afternoon into the evening as low pressure will slowly begin to move into our area.
Severe ingredients look minimal here in the WLFI viewing area for both Thursday and Friday. Areas to the southwest and southeast of the U.S. will be more favorable for strong storms. For us, just general thunderstorms will be possible with small hail in some of the heavier storms since we have a large pool of cool air aloft.
We will begin to see rain and a few thundershowers move in by 1 to 3 PM Thursday.
As we progress through Thursday night into Friday morning, waves of rain and storms will be likely.
Temperatures for Thursday will likely warm up slightly with the help of some sun in the morning and SE winds. Look for highs in the mid 60s.
Friday
More scattered rain will be possible Friday midday as the Low will essentially be slow-moving and progressively moving right through the heart of the WLFI viewing area.
Low pressures typically will give us heavy rain chances especially when we end up on the north side of the low itself. So, expect a soggy and cloudy day on Friday.
Below is a loop of the simulated radar from Wednesday morning up until Saturday morning.
Friday’s highs will be cooler with increased cloud cover, much cooler air aloft, and rain cooled air. Highs could only reach the upper 50s to lower 60s.
Rainfall Accumulations through Saturday Morning
Another 1" to 2" of rain may be possible from Thursday afternoon through Saturday very early. Flooding may be a concern through the weekend.
The Weekend
The low ultimately moves out by Saturday morning giving way to partly sunny skies by Saturday afternoon. There may be some lingering showers for the morning but exiting by late morning and early afternoon. Highs on Saturday will be in the lower 60s.
The big warm-up begins on Sunday (Mother's Day) with mostly sunny to partly sunny skies. Highs on Sunday will be in the upper 60s to lower 70s with tranquil weather.
7-Day Forecast
Moving into next week, an upper ridge of high pressure will keep us fairly dry and warm. Temperatures are expected to reach the mid to upper 80s by Tuesday.
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The US Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling that, if upheld, will make abortion illegal in 26 states in America.
A draft opinion leaked this week by Politico showed that the initial majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito would strike down Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that led to the constitutional right to abortion in the US.
Alito was quoted as saying that the landmark ruling was “egregiously wrong from the start”, despite the law allowing hundreds of millions of women access to safe abortions since it was passed in 1973.
The draft opinion over Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation, which is the first major abortion rights challenge that aims to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, comes amid a wave of anti-abortion legislation in Republican-led states.
Last week, Oklahoma approved a bill to outlaw abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, even in the case of rape and incest.
While the bill makes exceptions for medical emergencies, such as ectopic pregnancies, state senator Warren Hamilton questioned why it should do so during a debate on the wider abortion ban.
Hamilton, who also opposed the exceptions for rape and incest, asked: “I wonder how we square that with the idea of justice for all.”
His comments prompted hundreds of women on social media to share their experiences with ectopic pregnancies and how having an abortion saved their lives, and accused Hamilton of wanting to “sentence women to death”.
“When I see lawmakers pushing the 100 per cent false claim that, actually, you can carry an ectopic pregnancy to term and it can be totally fine, it makes me want to explode,” one person wrote.
Another said: “I had to terminate an ectopic pregnancy. It was a wanted child but the pregnancy had to be terminated since I didn’t want to die. When ectopic pregnancies aren’t terminated, it’s always a disaster.”
What is an ectopic pregnancy?
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilised egg does not implant itself in the womb, but gets stuck in one of the fallopian tubes, which connects the ovaries to the womb.
According to the NHS, when this happens, it is “not possible to save the pregnancy” and could pose a major risk to the pregnant woman’s health if the pregnancy continues.
In the UK, around one in every 90 pregnancies is ectopic, equivalent to around 11,000 pregnancies a year.
What are the symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy?
An ectopic pregnancy does not always cause symptoms and may only be detected during a routine pregnancy scan. However, if you do develop symptoms, they tend to occur between the fourth and 12th week of pregnancy.
Symptoms can include a missed period or other signs of pregnancy, stomach pain that feels low on one side of the body, vaginal bleeding or a brown watery discharge, pain in the tip of your shoulder, and discomfort when using the toilet.
However, these symptoms are not necessarily signs of a serious problems and can sometimes be cause by other problems.
If you have a combination of any of the symptoms and you might be pregnant, you should contact your GP or call 111 right away as ectopic pregnancies must be treated immediately.
How is an ectopic pregnancy treated?
If you are experiencing an ectopic pregnancy, the NHS lists two types of treatment to terminate the pregnancy.
In some cases, the fertilised egg dissolves by itself but you must be carefully monitored in case it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, you can get an injection of medication called methotrexate, which will stop the pregnancy from growing and prevent it from rupturing. The pregnancy tissue then gradually becomes reabsorbed by the body.
The second treatment is surgery, which involves a keyhols surgery under general anaesthetic to remove the fertilised egg, usually along with the affected fallopian tube.
How life-threatening is an ectopic pregnancy?
If an ectopic pregnancy continues without being terminated, it will continue to grow in the fallopian tube and can cause the tube to rupture.
According to the Mayo Clinic, this can lead to heavy bleeding in the abdomen, which can become life-threatening.
If you experience severe abdominal or pelvic pain accompanied by vaginal bleeding, extreme light-headedness or fainting, and shoulder pain, you must seek emergency medical help immediately.
In the US, bleeding from ectopic pregnancy causes 10 per cent of all pregnancy-related deaths and is the leading cause of maternal deaths in the first trimester, according to parenting charity Verywell.
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Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar brings Samuel Beckett Festival to Liverpool
He's known for his no nonsense role as Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty, and now Irish actor Adrian Dunbar is bringing his talents to Liverpool.
The star who comes from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland is also a writer and is well known for his stage roles.
But for Samuel Beckett: In Confinement he will be behind the scenes, directing several plays by the author for a festival in Liverpool.
It is the first time the event which will celebrate the works of Beckett, will be held in the city.
The star said he is excited to be bringing Beckett's works to life here: "Beckett’s work finds us dealing with the fundamentals of human existence, what keeps us going when the world and our place in it feels absurd and empty.
"His work is of great comfort to those who have experienced the hardship and trials of life, affirming in us all as it does how precious and fleeting it may be.
"What we're doing is bringing Beckett to Liverpool. We're very excited about it and think it's going to be of interest to a lot of people.
"We chose Liverpool because the city has a big Irish community who we hope will want to come to see these plays."
The programme will include multiple performances of some of Beckett's most rarely performed plays – Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and Krapp’s Last Tape, in some unusual locations in Liverpool, including the atmospheric Toxteth Reservoir.
The three day event will also feature musical performances and lectures.
It is part of a collaboration with the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.
Professor Pete Shirlow, Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, said: "Many people may feel a little shy about coming to something they may see as elitist, or as something that is not for them.
"But the way in which we are presenting this - at Toxteth Reservoir and at the Black-E for example - is that we are trying to take this to the community, we are trying to break down those barriers. Samuel Beckett is accessible."
Samuel Beckett was one of the 20th century's most celebrated authors and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
A novelist, playwright, theatre director and poet, he lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both French and English.
Beckett's literary and theatrical writings feature impersonal and often tragicomic experiences of life.
He is considered one of the last modernist writers, his works examining what it means to be human, in all its absurd, existentialist and sometimes bleak comedy
It will be the first time the Beckett Festival will be held in Liverpool, a city rich in Irish heritage and culture.
Gerry Diver from the Institute of Irish Studies said: "It's absolutely fantastic to have a respected actor and director of Adrian's calibre involved, we are very proud of him and his achievements in Ireland.
"He comes from a strong theatre background - his passion is in theatre and we are really excited for him to be bringing Beckett here to Liverpool.
"The Irish connection and the cultural familiarity with all things Irish is very obvious in Liverpool and Beckett is one of Ireland's most celebrated writers so I think there is a receptive audience here.
"At the Institute, it's not just about the academic side and research, we have also started to develop a cultural offering around the events we organise, so the Beckett Festival will become a very important cornerstone of that."
And Adrian is also looking forward to experiencing Liverpool's own rich culture whilst he is in town: "I'm really looking forward to being back here and seeing a few mates and having a bit of fun - you can't come to Liverpool and not have a bit of fun, there will certainly be 'discussions' after the performances!"
Samuel Beckett: In Confinement runs from 6-8 May.
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DICK and Dom are bringing back their classic show Da Bungalow - but there's a twist.
The TV duo - Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood - hosted the BBC kids show from 2002 to 2006.
During its run, the show won two BAFTAs and also coined the catchphrase, 'BOGEYS!'.
Now, to mark the 20th anniversary of the show starting, Dick and Dom are bringing it back to the nation.
However, it won't be back on our TV screens, as the pair are taking the show on tour around the country.
It will include all the classic messy games viewers will remember, such as Creamy Muck Muck, where members of the audience get splattered with gunk.
However, causing chaos and mess in the theatres does come with its own set of challenges.
Dick told the Mirror with a laugh: "It’s been an interesting conversation with some of the theatres, like the royal theatres with nice plush velvet seats."
Dom added: "They aren’t that impressed by that. We don’t want any invoices for velvet seats from the 1800s.
"We might need to do it in something like the Crystal Maze dome."
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Meanwhile, during an appearance on Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp today, the pair revealed people still shout 'Bogeys' at them when they're out and about.
Dick said: "B&Q yesterday afternoon, I’m looking at garden pots…I’m just there with my newborn and looking at garden pots and “BOGIES!” Sometimes you forget that bogies is your thing."
The Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow 20th Anniversary Tour will be in theatres this autumn. Book tickets here.
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Hear Chester Bennington’s Emotional Tribute at Chris Cornell’s Funeral
On Thursday, fans and music lovers alike were heartbroken to hear Linkin Park frontman, Chester Bennington took his own life at the age of 41.
Up Next: Chester Bennington Had a Troubled History With Depression and Substance Abuse
But as life would have it, Bennington's untimely and tragic death also comes on the heels of what would have been fellow rocker and friend Chris Cornell's 53rd birthday. The two toured together for Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution music festival tour in 2007 and 2008, leaving much room for friendship to blossom.
However, this past May, Cornell also took his own life. The former Soundgarden and Audioslave singer and songwriter was laid to rest at a memorial service, where Bennington performed a powerfully emotional rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," joined by fellow Linkin Park guitarist, Brad Delson.
Taking place at the Hollywood Forever cemetery, the private ceremony was held outdoors with fans waiting to participate in the public service. However, some captured footage of Bennington's emotional musical tribute, that is going viral tonight.
Shortly after Cornell's death, Bennington took to Twitter to express his heartfelt condolences to his friend, writing, "I'm still weeping, with sadness, as well as gratitude for having shared some very special moments with you and your beautiful family. You have inspired me in ways you could never have know."
The 41-year-old went on to say that Cornell's voice was both "joy and pain, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all wrapped up into one."
More: Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Reacts to Bandmate Chester Bennington's Death
"I supposed that's what we all are," Bennington wrote. "You helped me understand that. I can't imagine a world without you in it."
With all of my love @chriscornell. pic.twitter.com/NFz0dnxfp8
— Chester Bennington (@ChesterBe) May 18, 2017
Bennington is survived by his wife of 11 years, Talinda Bentley, and their six children.
If you or someone you know needs help and is contemplating suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
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TYNGSBORO — Tyngsboro High School has announced its Students of the Month for March.
Ella Campbell, daughter of Kelly Campbell and Craig Campbell, is a recipient of the Principal’s Award. She is a member of PALS, Senior Sidekicks, Medical Professionals Club and Student Council. She is also a member of the track and field team, medaling at Districts and qualifying for States her junior year.
Ella volunteers her time for Toys for Tots and at Tyngsboro town events. Her hobbies include working out, spending time with her family and playing with her dog. Her favorite subjects include chemistry, biology and anatomy, and she plans to pursue a nursing degree.
Kyle Connell, son of David and Erica Connell, is a three-year recipient of the Principal’s Award. He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Media Studies, Outstanding Achievement in Computer Science, and the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. He is a three-year captain of Tyngsboro High esports, and volunteers at the Tyngsboro Recreation Center, Catie’s Closet, Middlesex Sheriff’s Department, Tyngsboro Elementary School ice cream social, Westford Rotary shred event and at LAER Realty.
Kyle’s hobbies include playing video games and esports, creating games and videos, playing nitro ball and dodge ball, swimming and hanging out with his cats. His favorite subjects are math and computer science and technology. His goal is to pursue a career in game design and to share his ideas and imagination with the world via video games and YouTube videos.
Maya McCarthy, daughter of Scott and Cheryl McCarthy, is a recipient of the Principal’s Award. She is a member of PALS, Ski Club and Student Council. Maya is also a member of the varsity soccer team. She volunteers at the Lowell Humane Society.
Her hobbies include drawing, skiing and soccer, and her favorite subjects are psychology and English. Maya is interested in pursuing further education in health sciences or medical sciences.
Joshua Savoie, son of Leigh and Craig Savoie, is a member of PALS and Senior Sidekicks. Joshua plays on varsity golf and was named Mid-Wach League All-Star and received the Coach’s Award, and is a captain of the varsity hockey team. He volunteers at food drives and coaches youth hockey players.
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Champions League semi-final Q&A: Join Man City correspondent Jonathan Smith to discuss Real Madrid showdown
Real Madrid will face Manchester City in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final, with the clash tantalisingly poised.
Pep Guardiola's side lead 4-3 from the first leg, but the tie is far from over, particularly after Madrid's comebacks in previous rounds against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea.
Manchester City correspondent Jonathan Smith will be at Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday and, ahead of kick-off, will be answering your questions on tonight's game.
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How will Guardiola approach the game? Can Karim Benzema secure the Ballon d'Or with yet another big performance? How has Jack Grealish settled at the Etihad Stadium?
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NORWELL, Mass. (AP) _ Clean Harbors Inc. (CLH) on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $45.3 million.
The Norwell, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of 83 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 63 cents per share.
The environmental services company posted revenue of $1.17 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.06 billion.
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP)The Atlanta Falcons have picked up right guard Chris Lindstrom’s $13.2 million fifth-year option while declining the option on right tackle Kaleb McGary.
The Falcons’ decision on their two 2019 first-round draft picks were no surprise.
Lindstrom, the No. 14 overall pick in the 2019 draft from Boston College, has developed into a strength of the Falcons’ offensive line. He didn’t allow a sack while starting all 17 games last season.
McGary, the No. 31 pick from Washington, gave up nine sacks. He will be a free agent after the 2022 season. Germain Ifedi, the former Chicago Bears tackle who signed a one-year deal as a free agent, will compete with McGary at right tackle.
The Falcons added one offensive lineman in last week’s NFL draft, selecting guard Justin Shaffer from Georgia in the sixth round. Shaffer will compete at left guard with Jalen Mayfield, who allowed 11 sacks as a rookie last season.
Shaffer started all 15 games at left guard in Georgia’s national championship season.
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RBI Rate Hike: RBI hikes repo rate by 40 bps to 4.40 percent with immediate effect- Know Why Here
The MPC in an off-cycle meeting voted unanimously to increase the policy repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40 percent, with immediate effect. This is the first increase in the policy repo rate by RBI since May 2020.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a sudden move on May 4, 2022 increased the policy repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40 percent with immediate effect.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das informed while addressing a press conference that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had decided to hold an off-cycle meeting on May 2nd and 4th to reassess the evolving inflation-growth dynamics and the impact of the developments after the MPC meeting of April 6-8, 2022.
Based on the assessment of the current macroeconomic situation and the outlook, the MPC voted unanimously to increase the policy repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40 percent, with immediate effect. This is the first increase in the policy repo rate by RBI since May 2020.
Repo Rate Hike Impact
The standing deposit facility (SDF) rate stands adjusted to 4.15 percent and marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate to 4.65 percent.
The MPC also decided to remain accommodative while focusing on withdrawal of accommodation to ensure that inflation remains within the target while supporting growth.
Why has RBI hiked repo rate?
- RBI Governor rationalised the MPC's decision to hike the policy repo rate by highlighting the current global scenario, wherein there has been a sharp rise in inflation due to current geopolitical tensions. Inflation has risen to its highest level in the last 3-4 decades in major economies with global crude oil prices remaining volatile and above USD 100 per barrel.
- The global food prices also touched a new record in March and have been up even further since then.
- There is also a shortage of products relevant to India such as edible oils that are inflation-sensitive due to the conflict in Europe and export bans by key producers.
- There has also been a spike in fertiliser prices and other input costs, which has a direct impact on food prices in India.
- The COVID-19 and lockdowns in major global production hubs are likely to further increase the bottlenecks in the global supply chain while suppressing growth. The global growth projections have been revised downwards by up to 100 basis points for this calendar year.
- All of these dynamics pose upside risks to India’s inflation trajectory, which were set out in the MPC resolution of April 2022 informed RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.
Watch RBI Governor's Full Address Below
Statement by Shri Shaktikanta Das, RBI Governor https://t.co/cktaninqLF
— ReserveBankOfIndia (@RBI) May 4, 2022
RBI hikes CRR
The Reserve Bank of India also increased the cash reserve ratio of banks by 50 basis points to 4.5 percent of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL). This decision will come into effect from May 21, 2022. The increase in CRR is in line with RBI's stance of withdrawal of accommodation and its earlier announcement of gradual withdrawal of liquidity over a multi-year time frame.
Global Economy Assessment
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised the global output growth for 2022 downward by 0.8 percentage points to 3.6 percent amid disruptions, shortages and rising inflation due to the current geopolitical tensions and sanctions. The World Trade Organization has also scaled down its world trade growth projection for FY 2022 by 1.7 percentage points to 3.0 percent.
Domestic Economy Assessment
RBI noted that the domestic economic activity had stabilised between March-April with the easing of restrictions after fall in COVID-19 infection cases following the third wave.
While the urban demand maintained expansion, rural demand still showed some weakness, however, the investment activity had begun gaining traction with record double-digit expansion in merchandise exports for the 14th consecutive month in April and a robust increase in the non-oil, non-gold imports.
However, there was a sharp increase in headline CPI inflation in March 2022 to 7 percent, which was particularly propelled by food inflation due to the impact of adverse spillovers from unprecedented high global food prices.
There was also a direct impact of the increase in domestic pump prices of petroleum products, beginning from the second fortnight of March, which intensified in April, feeding into core inflation prints.
The overall system liquidity though remained in large surplus with bank credit rising year-on-year by 11.1 percent as of April 22, 2022.
India’s foreign exchange reserves also declined by USD 6.9 billion in 2022-23 as of April 22 to USD 600.4 billion.
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SEATTLE (AP)For all the excitement and anticipation leading up to the first puck drop, the inaugural season for the Seattle Kraken ended up looking like nearly every other NHL expansion season from the past 30 years.
The comparisons with the last expansion team, the Golden Knights, were inevitable and the high bar set by Vegas by winning the Western Conference in its first season almost ensured Seattle’s first outing was going be disappointing at some level.
Perhaps not this disappointing.
There were injuries and illness – a concern about COVID-19 cases nearly derailed the first game in Vegas. Goalkeeping was poor early, the defense was leaky at times and scoring was up and down. The Kraken were regularly competitive and only rarely overmatched. But it took the better part of three months for Seattle to successfully execute coach Dave Hakstol’s system on a consistent basis.
”Sometimes we look at two periods and we play unbelievable, we control the game. And then we have a lapse and everything kind of crumbles a little bit,” goalie Philipp Grubauer said. ”So we need to find the structure and the belief in each other and make sure we’re consistent enough next year.”
Seattle finished the season 27-49-6, including a miserable nine-game losing streak in December and January and a stretch of 11 losses in 12 games in February and March. Making the playoffs was an afterthought even before the All-Star break.
But there were some signs of promise in the final six weeks. Seattle went 10-12-0 over its final 22 games, and while it wasn’t a winning mark, it gave the Kraken something they feel they can carry into next season.
”I think we’ve showed ourselves and other people that we’re not out of place against a lot of these teams,” defenseman Jamie Oleksiak said. ”Some nights we’ve been right in the game, and I think we’ve showed that we could skate with some of the best. And I think we’ve seen progress throughout the year.”
BREAKOUT SEASONS
The Kraken saw several players have career years when provided an opportunity to have a bigger role.
The biggest breakout came from forward Jared McCann, who led Seattle in goals (27), points (50) and was rewarded with a five-year contract extension. Defenseman Vince Dunn had a career-best 28 assists and earned a spot on the power play units. Ryan Donato scored 16 goals and was playing on the top line late in the season. Defensemen Adam Larsson and Carson Soucy each had career bests in goals with eight and 10, respectively.
GOALIE GRAB
Goaltending was expected to be one of Seattle’s strengths with the combo of Grubauer and Chris Driedger. But injuries and defensive issues early in the season created weakness that took months to stabilize.
Grubauer’s 3.16 goals-against average was the highest of his career. Driedger wasn’t much better at 2.92.
Seattle could move forward with the pair for next season and hope a year in the system leads to better results. The Kraken could also look to make a move – most likely with Driedger – with promising young goalie Joey Daccord coming off a stellar season for Charlotte in the AHL.
FUTURE GLIMPSE
Seattle got a look at the future with the 10 games Matty Beniers, the first draft pick in franchise history, played at the end of the season. Beniers was an immediate upgrade to Seattle’s attack and showed why he was the No. 2 overall pick in last year’s draft.
Beniers had a point in nine of the 10 games he played, including three goals. He played on the top line with Donato and Jordan Eberle, and looked comfortable on the bigger stage of the NHL.
Seattle also signed second-round pick defenseman Ryker Evans to an entry-level contract, giving him the shot a making the roster before next season. The Kraken also have the third-best odds of landing the No. 1 pick in next week’s NHL draft lottery.
LOOKING AHEAD
Seattle will have significant roster stability and salary cap space going into next season. The team only has three unrestricted free agents – Riley Sheahan, Victor Rask and Derrick Pauliot. Another seven are restricted free agents, highlighted by Donato.
The Kraken have a projected $23 million in cap space and draft capital, making it likely this will be an offseason of roster additions.
”The way we’ve got to win, the way we’re gonna win is to find the right identity. I think we’ve found that,” forward Yanni Gourde said. ”There’s some times that we weren’t executing, but we have the recipe, we know what to do.”
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)John King got the Texas Rangers into a jam in the seventh inning when he put Philadelphia Phillies on second and third with no outs and the meat of the order coming up. The lefty reliever simply buckled down: Pop up, punch out, punch out.
Threat over.
”It was cool to watch,” Rangers manager Chris Woodward said.
Mitch Garver and Jonah Heim homered, Zach Reks snapped a tie game with a two-RBI double and King got two big strikeouts, leading the the Rangers past the Phillies 6-4 on Tuesday night.
Garver and Heim went deep off Phillies starter Ranger Suarez (2-1) and the game was tied at 3 into the sixth inning. Heim singled and Nathaniel Lowe reached on third basemen Alec Bohm’s error. Reks broke the tie with a pinch-hit, two-RBI double off reliever Seranthony Dominguez, and Marcus Semien’s RBI single made it 6-3.
Bohm bobbled the ball before the throw and was slow to get the ball out of his glove on Semien’s infield hit. Bohm had entered 40 for 40 in total chances in the field since a three-error game April 11.
Bohm batted with two runners on base in the seventh and struck out against King. The lefty reliever then struck out Bryce Harper looking to end the threat and help the Rangers win their third straight game.
”I just think internally that the guys have kind of come together and really embrace the challenge,” Woodward said. ”Everybody in that room has belief. Guys are starting to find their roles and you can see the bullpen really starting to throw the ball well. Guys are starting to get comfortable out there and embracing the expectations.”
Brock Burke (3-0) tossed 2 1/3 scoreless innings of relief for the win. Joe Barlow worked a scoreless ninth for his second save.
J.T. Realmuto hit a solo homer in the eighth that made it 6-4 as the Phillies, no-hit on Friday by five Mets pitchers, opened a six-game homestand that includes four more with New York.
”We just didn’t get any hits with runners in scoring position,” manager Joe Girardi said. ”We had some opportunities. We weren’t able to take advantage of them.”
The Phillies scored three off starter Jon Gray in the first. Rhys Hoskins hit a low liner that bounced past diving left fielder Nick Solak for a two-RBI double. Hoskins scored on Didi Gregorius’ RBI single for a 3-0 lead.
Gray pitched three innings, allowed three runs and struck out three in his first start since April 19. He was placed on the 10-day injured list the next day with a left knee sprain. He was just 0-1 with a 7.00 ERA in two starts this season. Gray signed a $56 million, four-year deal with the Rangers in the offseason.
”It definitely feels weird pitching every 12, 15 days,” Gray said. ”Things are rolling again. It’s exactly where I want it to be. Just to kind of have something I can build off of from here on out.”
Suarez allowed five runs, three earned, in five-plus innings. Garver hit a two-run shot to left in the first and Heim tied it at 3 on a solo shot in the fourth.
BAT SCRATCH FEVER
The Phillies sent out three different starting lineups because of late scratches. Nick Castellanos was listed as the starting right fielder until he was scratched because his wife is expecting a baby. Odubel Herrera then got bumped from center field because of allergies.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: Placed RHP Albert Abreu (left ankle sprain) on the 15-day injured list.
Phillies: Harper will have his strained right elbow examined this week. He has not played right field since April 16 and remains in the lineup as the designated hitter.
VECTOR, VICTOR
Suarez is the only player in MLB history with the first name Ranger, making it, of course, the first time a Ranger faced the Rangers.
CALHOUN ASKS FOR TRADE
Rangers OF Willie Calhoun, once considered one of baseball’s top prospects, told MLB.com he requested a trade after he was optioned to Triple-A Round Rock. The 27-year-old Calhoun was acquired from the Dodgers as part of the Yu Darvish trade in 2017. He was batting just .136 in 44 at-bats this season. Calhoun told the site: ”I just respectfully asked them like, `If I’m not part of the future here with this team, is there any way that we can work out a trade or anything?”’
UP NEXT
The Phillies send RHP Zack Wheeler (1-3, 5.79 ERA) to the mound against Rangers LHP Martin Perez (0-2, 3.00 ERA) to wrap the two-game set.
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Issue 47 of The Official Ferrari Magazine is an exceptional one. Exceptional because it was realised in times that were far from normal.
We could not physically travel to meet interviewees and Ferrari clients, nor stage photo shoots of the beautiful Ferrari cars. So instead we took a journey of the imagination, both in words and in illustrations, through an idyllic version of Italy, in order to best appreciate its architecture, its food, its genius.
We bring you the stories of our drivers who, although estranged from the track, tested their limits on the virtual circuits of Esport; we tell of colleagues from around the world who work at Maranello; we celebrate an unforgettable champion, the inimitable Sir Stirling Moss and we remember the special bond that the English racer shared with the Prancing Horse.
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The premise involves a leather-bound book, named La Nuova Dolce Vita, sourced on the quiet streets of Rome and transported to countries as far afield as China, South Korea, Russia and London, where it is signed by celebrated artists who specialise in a variety of disciplines, from cuisine to ballet and photography.
Watch the Roma Cavalcade depart from the Roman town of Taormina for an inspirational drive up along the winding roads of Mount Etna
For this final journey, along the winding Sicilian mountain roads, up across the sweeping lunar landscape of Mount Etna and down to the ancient streets of the Sicilian Baroque cities, the Roma and its prized possession, La Nuova Dolce Vita, were joined by not one or two artists, as has been the case on all previous outings, but by an entire Ferrari cavalcade of over a hundred Prancing Horses.
With the turbo charged V8 Roma leading the way, piloted by Ferrari’s Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer, Enrico Galliera, the carefree, inspirational gathering of Ferrari family departed the beautiful Roman hilltop town of Taormina, with fans lining the streets to get a glimpse of some of the rare and vintage models rolling past.
For this final journey the Ferrari Roma was joined by the entire cavalcade of over a hundred Prancing Horses
From there it was out into the bright sunshine and through the terraced vineyards and hazelnut and apple trees as the Roma cavalcade wound its way up through the stunning scenery of the Etna National Park towards the summit of Mount Etna itself. Standing two and half times bigger than its more famous Italian cousin, Mount Vesuvius, the volcano really has to be seen to be believed, but today was all about the cavalcade.
As the Roma swept back down the mountain it seemed to glide through the landscape, its distinctive flair and style a clear contemporary representation of the carefree, pleasurable ways of life enjoyed by the generations of Sicilians who had travelled this road before it.
Finally, the procession purred it way back into the square of Taormina and the guests departed to prepare themselves for the evening’s festivities at the ancient Roman amphitheatre, bringing to an end the journey of the La Nuova Dolce Vita; a way of life truly epitomised both by some of the world’s greatest artists and the timeless elegance of the Ferrari Roma that travelled the world to greet them.
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The Government last night pressed pause on the plan to move the National Maternity Hospital to the St Vincent’s Hospital campus The row that subsequently broke out over the potential ownership of the hospital by a body controlled by the Catholic Church has never gone away, and has indeed intensified in recent days A mother has described as “pure evil” the actions of a woman who stole from and desecrated her daughter’s grave on three separate occasions Karin O’Shea's way of life has been turned upside down over the last year, but she still regards herself as very lucky The Department of Foreign Affairs has said there is no justification for the threatened use of nuclear weapons and reminded Russia that it said last January a nuclear war “must never be fought” While Europeans debate whether they could manage without Russian gas, and at what cost, much less has been said about how to prepare for gas shortages if Russia takes it upon itself to close the taps The successful stand taken by the Cork footballers to have Saturday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Kerry returned to Páirc Uí Rinn has given the county’s new-look panel an identity, according to interim Cork manager John Cleary. We looked at back bacon from supermarkets which is leaner than streaky created from the lower belly of the pig. Try local butchers too. It's taken a long time, but perhaps it was somewhat inevitable that the wee English boy would fall for someoneA cloudy start today with isolated patches of light rain and drizzle.
However, it will brighten up and become dry in the afternoon with spells of sunshine developing.
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Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC lessened its holdings in Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CWST – Get Rating) by 4.3% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 9,802 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after selling 441 shares during the quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC’s holdings in Casella Waste Systems were worth $837,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in CWST. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC bought a new position in Casella Waste Systems in the 4th quarter valued at $207,275,000. Invesco Ltd. grew its position in shares of Casella Waste Systems by 19.7% during the 3rd quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 1,375,763 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $104,475,000 after buying an additional 226,071 shares in the last quarter. Morgan Stanley increased its stake in shares of Casella Waste Systems by 270.6% during the second quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 265,829 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $16,862,000 after buying an additional 194,106 shares during the period. CastleArk Alternatives LLC purchased a new position in shares of Casella Waste Systems during the third quarter valued at $10,679,000. Finally, Wellington Management Group LLP increased its stake in shares of Casella Waste Systems by 1,455.3% during the third quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 99,693 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $7,571,000 after buying an additional 93,283 shares during the period. 94.88% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Shares of NASDAQ CWST opened at $76.70 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.28, a quick ratio of 0.90 and a current ratio of 0.96. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.94 billion, a P/E ratio of 95.88, a PEG ratio of 5.83 and a beta of 1.02. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $85.37. Casella Waste Systems, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $62.47 and a fifty-two week high of $92.75.
Several brokerages have recently commented on CWST. TheStreet lowered Casella Waste Systems from a “b” rating to a “c+” rating in a research note on Friday, February 18th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Casella Waste Systems from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 12th. Raymond James raised their price target on Casella Waste Systems from $92.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 22nd. Finally, StockNews.com downgraded Casella Waste Systems from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, April 25th.
In related news, Director Douglas R. Casella sold 13,431 shares of Casella Waste Systems stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $85.97, for a total transaction of $1,154,663.07. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CAO Christopher Heald sold 3,243 shares of Casella Waste Systems stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, February 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $70.34, for a total value of $228,112.62. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 141,475 shares of company stock valued at $11,268,667. Company insiders own 6.04% of the company’s stock.
About Casella Waste Systems (Get Rating)
Casella Waste Systems, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a vertically integrated solid waste services company in the northeastern United States. It offers resource management services primarily in the areas of solid waste collection and disposal, transfer, recycling, and organics services to residential, commercial, municipal, institutional, and industrial customers.
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abrdn plc lifted its position in shares of Broadstone Net Lease, Inc. (NYSE:BNL – Get Rating) by 5.9% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 33,249 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 1,841 shares during the quarter. abrdn plc’s holdings in Broadstone Net Lease were worth $825,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Millennium Management LLC increased its holdings in shares of Broadstone Net Lease by 483.4% in the 3rd quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 124,101 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,079,000 after purchasing an additional 102,828 shares in the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp increased its holdings in Broadstone Net Lease by 11.9% in the 3rd quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 775,417 shares of the company’s stock worth $19,238,000 after buying an additional 82,749 shares in the last quarter. Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd. raised its position in Broadstone Net Lease by 5.0% in the 4th quarter. Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 133,500 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,313,000 after buying an additional 6,400 shares during the last quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC bought a new position in Broadstone Net Lease during the 4th quarter valued at about $4,762,000. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG boosted its holdings in shares of Broadstone Net Lease by 40.7% during the 3rd quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 182,996 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,540,000 after acquiring an additional 52,931 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 78.66% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NYSE:BNL opened at $20.40 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $21.62 and its 200-day moving average price is $23.48. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.33 billion, a PE ratio of 30.91 and a beta of 1.06. Broadstone Net Lease, Inc. has a twelve month low of $19.60 and a twelve month high of $28.00.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 31st were given a $0.265 dividend. This represents a $1.06 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.20%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 30th. Broadstone Net Lease’s payout ratio is 160.61%.
In other news, SVP Laurier J. Lessard, Jr. sold 2,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $21.20, for a total transaction of $53,000.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, SVP Roderick Pickney sold 4,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $21.50, for a total transaction of $86,000.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 0.84% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Separately, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Broadstone Net Lease from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 20th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $25.40.
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BNL is an internally-managed REIT that acquires, owns, and manages primarily single-tenant commercial real estate properties that are net leased on a long-term basis to a diversified group of tenants. The Company utilizes an investment strategy underpinned by strong fundamental credit analysis and prudent real estate underwriting.
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And the beautiful sunshine that beamed down on us throughout our weekend stay was just the tonic for enjoying some golf, great food and, most importantly, relaxation.
Nestled in the 'heart of England' countryside alongside the River Thames, The Springs has undergone a major revamp, having recently unveiled the transformation of its 19th century Manor House into a beautiful modern boutique hotel and spa.
Owners Darwin Escapes are also in the process of adding a number of new outside wooden lodges alongside the golf course, which arrive hot on the heels of the four recently-installed two-bedroom Millpond accommodations, all of which come with hot tubs and landscaped decking.
My wife and I were staying in one of the cosy new one-bed lodges and, wishing I'd brought my shorts due to the unexpectedly-warm weather, we spent the rest of the day taking in the beautiful surroundings with drinks and a few nibbles 'alfresco' on the lodge terrace.
With the smell of 'newness' still lingering, our lodge was the perfect size for a couple, with room for a king-size bed, large wall-mounted TV, Nespresso coffee machine and ample storage space for clothes and cases.
There was the welcoming sight of a rain forest shower in the en-suite bathroom which I knew would come in handy after a six-mile walk playing 18 holes of golf.
After a blissful night's sleep and with the sun rising again the following morning, we got up knowing a good breakfast was in order before the day's activities.
All dining takes place in The Ridgeway Restaurant, situated upstairs in the clubhouse behind the 18th green, and there was no better way to start the day than to enjoy our breakfasts of bacon and egg on brioche and eggs benedict sitting out on the terrace overlooking the plush green course.
I was amused watching golfers chipping onto the green, and sometimes hacking out of the bunker, trying desperately not to finish their rounds on a bad note in front of the onlooking diners.
After a leisurely morning and kiss goodbye, it was time for my 'non-golfing' wife and I to go our separate ways for a few hours as she headed off for an afternoon of relaxation in the hotel's new 1893 Spa while I hit the practise green to prepare for my round.
With the course looking wide, spacious and with few hazards from what I could see, I drove confidently off the first tee, but wasn't fooled into thinking it would last as after a decent first two holes, I came unstuck on the third when I found my first bunker.
In what was to become an ongoing theme of the round, I relied on my sand wedge to get me out of trouble on numerous occasions, and with sand pouring out of both trouser pockets and shoes afterwards, my wife would have been forgiven for thinking I'd spent the day at the beach.
Unlike a lot of courses I've played on, The Springs is very flat, which is welcoming for a novice like myself who will grab hold of any advantage to help keep the score down.
Feeling relaxed and with tiredness not an issue, I enjoyed myself more as the round went on, although by the 15th hole I was starting to think about the refreshing pint that would be waiting for me at the bar.
Feeling proud of myself for only losing one ball, which sadly came to its demise in the water on the par three 10th, I finished the round as happy as I could be despite my rather underwhelming score.
Reports back from the spa were nothing but positive, with my glowing wife, fresh from an hour-long full body aromatherapy massage, full of praise for all the facilities, which she made full use of while I trudged my way round the course.
As well as a varied list of treatments on offer, guests can take time out in the smart relaxation pool, chill out on the underwater lounge beds and enjoy a coffee or prosecco in the beautifully-decorated lounge which also has a delightful balcony overlooking the mill pond.
Feeling hungry, it was back at The Ridgeway for dinner and protein-inspired orders of char-grilled pork cutlet and a succulent 10oz rump steak, which followed starters of crab cakes with coriander and siracha mayonnaise and mushroom fricassee.
There was just about room for indulgent desserts of warm chocolate brownie and sticky toffee pudding before winding down the evening in the relaxing Spike Bar for after-dinner aperitifs of scotch on the rocks and Tia Maria over ice.
If guests want to venture further afield the historic market town of Wallingford is just minutes down the road and if a bit more hustle and bustle is required the city of Oxford is just half an hour's drive away.
For us, after another 'sunshine terrace' brekkie, it was time to head home, knowing that we will remember our visit to The Springs for years to come. Thanks to places like this, the future of the increasingly-popular UK staycation is in good hands.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSII) on Wednesday reported a loss of $9.7 million in its fiscal third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the St. Paul, Minnesota-based company said it had a loss of 25 cents.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 28 cents per share.
The medical device developer posted revenue of $56.2 million in the period, which missed Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $57.4 million.
Cardiovascular Systems expects full-year revenue in the range of $235 million to $240 million.
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MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL REPORTS FIRST QUARTER 2022 RESULTS AND REINSTATES QUARTERLY CASH DIVIDEND
Published: May. 4, 2022 at 6:00 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
First quarter 2022 comparable systemwide constant dollar RevPAR increased 96.5percent worldwide, 99.1 percent in the U.S. & Canada, and 88.5 percent in international markets, compared to the 2021 first quarter;
First quarter 2022 comparable systemwide constant dollar RevPAR declined 19.4percent worldwide, 14.5 percent in the U.S. & Canada, and 31.7 percent in international markets, compared to the 2019 first quarter;
First quarter reported diluted EPS totaled $1.14, compared to reported diluted loss per share of $0.03 in the year-ago quarter. First quarter adjusted diluted EPS totaled $1.25, compared to first quarter 2021 adjusted diluted EPS of $0.10;
First quarter reported net income totaled $377 million, compared to a reported net loss of $11 million in the year-ago quarter. First quarter adjusted net income totaled $413 million, compared to first quarter 2021 adjusted net income of $34 million;
Adjusted EBITDA totaled $759 million in the 2022 first quarter, compared to first quarter 2021 adjusted EBITDA of $296 million;
Marriott resumes cash dividends, with the Board of Directors declaring a $0.30 per share dividend payable on June 30, 2022, to shareholders of record as of May 16, 2022;
The company added roughly 11,800 rooms globally during the first quarter, including approximately 5,300 rooms in international markets and a total of more than 2,500 conversion rooms;
At quarter end, Marriott's worldwide development pipeline totaled nearly 2,900 properties and more than 489,000 rooms, including roughly 20,800 rooms approved, but not yet subject to signed contracts. Approximately 201,400 rooms in the pipeline were under construction as of the end of the 2022 first quarter.
BETHESDA, Md., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) today reported first quarter 2022 results.
Anthony Capuano, Chief Executive Officer, said, "During the first quarter, we saw the largest surge in global demand since the pandemic began in 2020. Worldwide occupancy1 rose dramatically from 45 percent in January, impacted by the Omicron variant, to 64 percent in March, less than 10 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels. Rates further strengthened, with worldwide Average Daily Rate for March exceeding the same month in 2019 by 5 percent.
"In the U.S. & Canada, RevPAR improved significantly in February and March, particularly across our urban markets, driven by occupancy and rate gains across all customer segments. Internationally, RevPAR gains were notable during the quarter in every region except for Greater China given the stringent travel restrictions resulting from the country's dynamic zero-COVID policy. The Middle East and Africa region was again the furthest recovered, with first quarter RevPAR up 12 percent compared to 2019.
"Globally, robust demand trends continued in April, and going forward we expect leisure travel to remain strong, business travel to accelerate and cross border travel to gain momentum, supporting solid ADR performance. In the U.S. & Canada, we reached a milestone in April, as we estimate that RevPAR for the month was fully recovered to 2019 levels. RevPAR in the U.S. & Canada for the remaining quarters of this year is expected to be roughly flat with 2019 levels. While there is currently more volatility in our international regions, assuming no major change in the global economic environment or the behavior of the virus, we are increasingly optimistic that the global RevPAR gap compared to pre-pandemic levels will continue to narrow meaningfully in 2022.
"Owner preference for our brands remains strong. We signed over 19,000 rooms in the quarter, nearly half of which were in international markets. Our momentum around conversions continued, accounting for 22 percent of room additions in the quarter. Roughly 80 percent of those conversion rooms were in the high-value upper upscale and luxury tiers. For 2022, we still expect gross rooms growth approaching 5 percent and deletions of 1 to 1.5 percent, resulting in anticipated net rooms growth of 3.5 to 4 percent.
"I am very pleased to share that we are resuming capital returns to shareholders sooner than anticipated. Our focus on maximizing cash flow, managing expenses, and improving our credit profile, combined with strong first quarter results, has resulted in our Board of Directors declaring a $0.30 per share quarterly cash dividend payable at the end of the second quarter. Assuming the demand environment continues to improve and that we are within our target leverage ratio range, we also would expect to resume share repurchases in 2022.
"Our teams have navigated these challenging times incredibly well, and I think we can all look forward with real optimism. I believe Marriott remains extremely well-positioned to benefit from the continued recovery and to experience strong growth for years to come."
First Quarter 2022 Results
Marriott's reported operating income totaled $558 million in the 2022 first quarter, compared to 2021 first quarter reported operating income of $84 million. Reported net income totaled $377 million in the 2022 first quarter, compared to 2021 first quarter reported net loss of $11 million. Reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) totaled $1.14 in the quarter, compared to reported diluted loss per share of $0.03 in the year-ago quarter.
Adjusted operating income in the 2022 first quarter totaled $605 million, compared to 2021 first quarter adjusted operating income of $138 million. Adjusted operating income in the 2022 first quarter excluded impairment charges of $5 million.
First quarter 2022 adjusted net income totaled $413 million, compared to 2021 first quarter adjusted net income of $34 million. Adjusted diluted EPS in the 2022 first quarter totaled $1.25, compared to adjusted diluted EPS of $0.10 in the year-ago quarter. The 2022 first quarter adjusted results excluded $11 million after-tax ($0.03 per share) of impairment charges and a $6 million after-tax ($0.02 per share) gain on an investee's property sale. The 2021 first quarter adjusted results excluded $3 million after-tax ($0.01 per share) of impairment charges.
Adjusted results also excluded cost reimbursement revenue, reimbursed expenses and restructuring, merger-related charges, and other expenses. These items totaled a $31 million after-tax loss ($0.10 per share) in the 2022 first quarter and an after-tax loss of $42 million ($0.12 per share) in the 2021 first quarter. See pages A-2 and A-9 for the calculation of adjusted results and the manner in which the adjusted measures are determined in this press release.
Base management and franchise fees totaled $713 million in the 2022 first quarter, compared to base management and franchise fees of $412 million in the year-ago quarter. The year-over-year increase in these fees is primarily attributable to RevPAR increases due to the ongoing recovery in lodging demand and unit growth. Other non-RevPAR related franchise fees in the 2022 first quarter totaled $170 million, compared to $141 million in the year-ago quarter, aided by $36 million of higher credit card branding fees.
Incentive management fees totaled $102 million in the 2022 first quarter, compared to $33 million in the 2021 first quarter. Roughly half of the year-over-year increase in incentive management fees recognized in the quarter was earned at hotels in the U.S. & Canada.
Contract investment amortization for the 2022 first quarter totaled $24 million, compared to $17 million in the year-ago quarter. The year-over-year change largely reflects impairments of investments in management and franchise contracts in Russia and Belarus.
Owned, leased, and other revenue, net of direct expenses, totaled $65 million of profit in the 2022 first quarter, compared to a $27 million loss in the year-ago quarter. The $92 million increase in revenue net of expenses year over year largely reflects the ongoing recovery in lodging demand from the impacts of COVID-19, as well as $33 million of subsidies received from international government COVID-19 assistance programs.
General, administrative, and other expenses for the 2022 first quarter totaled $208 million, compared to $211 million in the year-ago quarter.
Interest expense, net, totaled $88 million in the first quarter compared to $100 million in the year-ago quarter. The decrease is largely due to lower interest expense associated with lower debt balances.
Equity in earnings/losses for the first quarter totaled $2 million of earnings, compared to a $12 million loss in the year-ago quarter. The improvement largely reflects an $8 million gain on a joint venture's sale of a hotel in the U.S.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) totaled $759 million in the 2022 first quarter, compared to first quarter 2021 adjusted EBITDA of $296 million. See page A-9 for the adjusted EBITDA calculation.
Selected Performance Information
The company added 75 properties (11,799 rooms) to its worldwide lodging portfolio during the 2022 first quarter, including more than 2,500 rooms converted from competitor brands and approximately 5,300 rooms in international markets. Sixteen properties (3,494 rooms) exited the system during the quarter. At quarter end, Marriott's global lodging system totaled more than 8,000 properties, with nearly 1,488,000 rooms.
At quarter end, the company's worldwide development pipeline totaled 2,878 properties with more than 489,000 rooms, including 998 properties with approximately 201,400 rooms under construction and 127 properties with roughly 20,800 rooms approved for development, but not yet subject to signed contracts.
In the 2022 first quarter, worldwide RevPAR increased 96.5 percent (a 95.5 percent increase using actual dollars) compared to the 2021 first quarter. RevPAR in the U.S. & Canada increased 99.1 percent (a 99.1 percent increase using actual dollars), and RevPAR in international markets increased 88.5 percent (an 84.8 percent increase using actual dollars).
Balance Sheet
At quarter end, Marriott's net debt was $8.5 billion, representing total debt of $9.5 billion less cash and cash equivalents of $1.0 billion. At year-end 2021, the company's net debt was $8.7 billion, representing total debt of $10.1 billion less cash and cash equivalents of $1.4 billion.
Investment Spending
Marriott anticipates that full year 2022 investment spending will total $600 million to $700 million. Total investment spending includes capital and technology expenditures, loan advances, contract acquisition costs, and other investing activities.
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) will conduct its quarterly earnings review for the investment community and news media on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). The conference call will be webcast simultaneously via Marriott's investor relations website at http://www.marriott.com/investor, click on "Events & Presentations" and click on the quarterly conference call link. A replay will be available at that same website until May 3, 2023.
The telephone dial-in number for the conference call is US Toll Free: 866-342-8591 or Global: +1 203-518-9713. The conference ID is MAR1Q22. A telephone replay of the conference call will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, until 8:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. To access the replay, call US Toll Free: 800-839-5127 or Global: +1 402-220-2692.
Note on forward-looking statements: All statements in this press release and the accompanying schedules are made as of May 4, 2022. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise these statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. This press release and the accompanying schedules contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities laws, including statements related to the possible effects on our business of the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID-19); our RevPAR estimates, outlook and assumptions; travel and lodging demand trends and expectations; occupancy, ADR and RevPAR recovery trends and expectations; our growth prospects and expectations; future performance of the company's hotels; our development pipeline, signings, rooms growth and conversions; our investment spending expectations; the timing of future dividends and share repurchases; and similar statements concerning anticipated future events and expectations that are not historical facts. We caution you that these statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to numerous evolving risks and uncertainties that we may not be able to accurately predict or assess, including the risk factors that we identify in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Any of these factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations we express or imply in this press release.
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of more than 8,000 properties under 30 leading brands spanning 139 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company offers Marriott Bonvoy™, its highly-awarded travel program. For more information, please visit our website at www.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.marriottnewscenter.com. In addition, connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram.
Marriott may post updates about COVID-19 and other matters on its investor relations website at www.marriott.com/investor or Marriott's news center website at www.marriottnewscenter.com. Marriott encourages investors, the media, and others interested in the company to review and subscribe to the information Marriott posts on these websites, which may be material. The contents of these websites are not incorporated by reference into this press release or any report or document Marriott files with the SEC, and any references to the websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
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Luke Skywalker is only the third most influential Star Wars character on baby names, new research has revealed.
Star Wars has had a major impact on baby name trends (pictured above)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) baby name data, analysed by Bitcade – the UK’s largest producer of custom-built arcade machines – reveals how characters from the Star Wars franchise have influenced baby name choices in England and Wales in 2020.
Of the 42 names analysed, 15 featured in the baby name data between 1996-2020 and 12 featured specifically in the 2020 list.
The data revealed these names are the most influential on baby name trends:
* None in 2020, but name did feature between 1996-2019
Looking at the most recent year, Rose (Tico) topped the list, with 803 baby girls being given the moniker in 2020. Finn and Luke (Skywalker) followed, with 757 and 544 baby boys being given the names respectively in the same year.
Owen (Lars), (Captain) Rex, Kylo (Ren), (Princess) Leia, Lando (Calrissian), Obi(-wan Kenobi), Rey, Mace (Windu), and Cornelius (Evezan) also featured in the 2020 list.
Unsurprisingly, the likes of Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt, Yoda, and Jar Jar Binks did not feature at all.
Other factors also affect the trends of baby names. Click here to find out how nature inspires choice of baby names
Jack England, Director at Bitcade commented:
“Here at Bitcade, our arcade cabinets have a massive library of retro games with around 2,900 games pre-loaded, but the Star Wars design is amongst our most popular cabinet styles overall.
When it comes to choosing a baby name, inspiration can come from anywhere, so with this in mind – and Star Wars Day just around the corner (4th May) – we analysed baby name data from Office for National Statistics (ONS) to discover how Star Wars characters have influenced recent baby name choices in England and Wales.
“Our research found that Rose (Tico), Finn, and Luke (Skywalker) had the most significant influence in 2020. Owen (Lars), (Captain) Rex, Kylo (Ren), (Princess) Leia, Lando (Calrissian), Obi(-wan Kenobi), Rey, Mace (Windu), and Cornelous (Evezan) all also featured in the 2020 list”.
As well as looking at the 2020 figures in isolation, Bitcade also discovered the franchise’s influence on baby names over the last 20 years (years spanning 2001-2020).
The data revealed the following names are the most influential on baby name trends over the previous decades:
Looking at the 20-year duration, Luke (Skywalker) topped the list, with 44,816 baby boys being given the moniker between 2001-2020. Owen (Lars) and Rose (Tico) followed, with 25,118 baby boys and 13,867 baby girls being given the names respectively in the same duration.
Finn, (Captain) Rex, (Princess) Leia, Kylo (Ren), Obi(-wan Kenobi), Cornelius (Evezan), Mace (Windu), Rey, Han (Solo), Lando (Calrissian), Padme (Amidala), and Bren (Derlin) also featured. | https://www.wigantoday.net/read-this/star-wars-day-the-franchises-influence-on-baby-names-3679372 | 2022-05-04T12:30:09Z | https://www.wigantoday.net/read-this/star-wars-day-the-franchises-influence-on-baby-names-3679372 | true | 21 |
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) _ Amerigo Resources Ltd. (ARREF) on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of $15.5 million.
The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had net income of 9 cents per share.
The copper and molybdenum mining company posted revenue of $53.8 million in the period.
The company's shares closed at $1.26. A year ago, they were trading at 99 cents.
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Shraddha Arya slaps Sanjay Gagnani for real on sets of Kundali Bhagya!
Shraddha Arya slaps Sanjay Gagnani for real on sets of Kundali Bhagya!
Mumbai (Maharashtra): Actor Sanjay Gagnani is playing a villain in the TV show Kundali Bhagya. Recently, Sanjay a.k.a. Prithvi Malhotra was in shock on the show when he got slapped for real by Shraddha Arya a.k.a. Preeta Arora. Though it was an accidental slap and not an intentional one. It all happened when during a dramatic sequence, Prithvi provokes Preeta so much that she slaps him. During this Shraddha accidentally slapped Sanjay for real.
The actor immediately called for a cut and apologised and asked Sanjay if he was hurt. Recalling the incident, Sanjay says: "Accidents like these keep happening on sets. When this happened, Shraddha was very apologetic. She is so sweet that she stopped the shoot, but I told her that was not needed and we could have continued.
He further said that being an actor himself he understands that such incidents happen when one gets carried away while enacting emotionally charged scenes. "We all are such professionals that we get carried away in scenes at times, but I guess, it is memories like these that we will carry for life."
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Paycom Software (NYSE:PAYC – Get Rating) was downgraded by research analysts at TheStreet from a “b-” rating to a “c+” rating in a research note issued on Monday, TheStreetRatingsTable reports.
PAYC has been the topic of several other reports. Barclays dropped their target price on Paycom Software from $380.00 to $328.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, April 19th. DA Davidson upgraded Paycom Software from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $550.00 to $385.00 in a research note on Thursday, January 27th. StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of Paycom Software in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. Mizuho boosted their target price on shares of Paycom Software from $325.00 to $350.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 9th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage on shares of Paycom Software in a report on Tuesday, February 1st. They issued a “market perform” rating and a $335.00 price target for the company. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Paycom Software presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $429.20.
PAYC opened at $288.46 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03, a quick ratio of 1.13 and a current ratio of 1.13. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $323.76 and its 200-day moving average price is $381.87. Paycom Software has a one year low of $278.37 and a one year high of $558.97. The stock has a market cap of $17.37 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 85.60, a P/E/G ratio of 2.76 and a beta of 1.54.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of PAYC. Morgan Stanley lifted its stake in shares of Paycom Software by 17.9% in the 2nd quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 155,018 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $56,344,000 after purchasing an additional 23,571 shares during the period. Raymond James & Associates raised its position in shares of Paycom Software by 5.9% in the third quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 12,452 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $6,173,000 after acquiring an additional 690 shares during the period. Dupont Capital Management Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Paycom Software during the 3rd quarter worth about $235,000. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. grew its position in shares of Paycom Software by 5.8% during the 3rd quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 2,382 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $1,180,000 after acquiring an additional 130 shares during the period. Finally, Advisor Group Holdings Inc. grew its position in shares of Paycom Software by 1.6% during the 3rd quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 20,141 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $9,994,000 after acquiring an additional 314 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 87.12% of the company’s stock.
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Paycom Software, Inc provides cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solution delivered as software-as-a-service for small to mid-sized companies in the United States. It offers functionality and data analytics that businesses need to manage the employment life cycle from recruitment to retirement.
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DUBLIN (AP) _ Horizon Therapeutics Public Limited Company (HZNP) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $204.3 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Dublin-based company said it had net income of 87 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.34 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.15 per share.
The drugmaker posted revenue of $885.2 million in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $866.9 million.
Horizon Therapeutics expects full-year revenue in the range of $3.9 billion to $4 billion.
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The number of coronavirus cases in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon increased by 132 over the bank holiday weekend, official figures show – and one more death was recorded.
A total of 81,272 cases had been confirmed in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon when the UK coronavirus daily dashboard was updated on May 3 (Tuesday), up from 81,140 on Friday.
The cumulative rate of infection in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, which covers the whole pandemic, stands at 37,413 cases per 100,000 people, higher than the Northern Ireland average of 37,368.
In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, if one person tests positive for the virus more than 90 days after the first infection, two infection episodes will be recorded, according to the UK Health Security Agency.
There was also one more coronavirus death recorded in the latest four-day period in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon.
The dashboard shows 461 people had died in the area by May 3 (Tuesday) – up from 460 on Friday.
It means there has been one death in the past week, which is a decrease on four the previous week.
They were among 3,423 deaths recorded across Northern Ireland.
The figures include anyone who died within 28 days of a positive test result for Covid-19, and whose usual residence was in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon.
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Shares of CCL Industries Inc. Cl B
CCL.B,
+2.07%
rallied 2.07% to C$57.30 Tuesday, in what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index
GSPTSE,
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rising 1.03% to 20,905.28. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. CCL Industries Inc. Cl B closed C$17.89 below its 52-week high (C$75.19), which the company reached on August 6th. Trading volume of 286,743 shares remained below its 50-day average volume of 360,729.
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Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! My sympathies are going out this morning to staff and animals at the Smithsonian National Zoo where 25 American flamingos and one Northern pintail duck were killed by a wild fox this week. Washington’s a rough town sometimes.
Democracy Live is submitting to continuous vetting for hackable bugs
One online voting provider is striving to prove its cybersecurity bona fides before the 2022 elections.
Democracy Live, which ran online voting pilots in numerous states in 2020, is partnering with cybersecurity company Synack to continuously test its platform for hackable bugs before the midterms.
It's one of the most significant efforts to date by an online voting provider to prove its services are secure. But it also comes amid long-standing warnings from election security advocates that voting online or by mobile device isn’t secure enough and raises hacking risks from Russia and elsewhere.
“We want the feedback. We want to make this as secure as possible,” Democracy Live founder Bryan Finney, told me in an interview. Democracy Live and Synack shared the news with The Cybersecurity 202 in advance of a formal announcement this morning.
- Democracy Live is gearing up for another round of online voting pilots using its OmniBallot platform this year in West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama.
- The pilots in all states will include military voters based overseas. In West Virginia and North Carolina they’ll also be open to voters with disabilities that make voting by mail impossible or impractical.
Details
The deal with Synack will open up Democracy Live’s systems to about 1,500 cybersecurity researchers vetted by the company who work on a bug bounty model — essentially meaning they get paid for the computer vulnerabilities they find and more damaging vulnerabilities pay out more.
The bug reports won’t be public, Finney told me, but he pledged to make them available to any state or locality that’s interested in his product and to cyber researchers and academics — including those who are openly opposed to online voting.
“We want to be as transparent as possible,” he said.
The dilemma in a nutshell
When people vote with secret ballots online there’s no way to definitively verify that hackers haven’t changed those votes before they reach election officials. There’s no way for voters to double check the votes after they hit send and no physical record of the vote that officials can audit if the election results are called into question. There’s also an increased danger of people voting on behalf of others because they have access to their devices.
Intense security vetting can alleviate some of those concerns but not eliminate them.
Many advocates, including Finney, say those risks are worth it in the short term — and in limited pilots — to ensure people can vote who might otherwise be disenfranchised. In the case of military servicemembers stationed abroad, those who can’t easily vote by mail often end up sending ballots in by fax machine or email attachment, which have their own security vulnerabilities.
“The whole reason why we’re doing this is to make it more secure than a fax machine or an email attachment,” Finney said.
Concerns
But election security advocates fear such efforts will be a slippery slope to everyone voting online — a move they say would take elections in the wrong direction amid widespread fear of foreign manipulation and plummeting confidence in the integrity of elections.
Some of the biggest online voting boosters are already pushing for wider adoption. Most recently, the D.C. city council considered a plan pushed by Tusk Philanthropies to allow online voting by all voters before scrapping the plan amid an outcry from residents and cybersecurity experts.
Finney says he wants to limit Democracy Live’s online voting pilots to voters who might otherwise be disenfranchised for the time being. But he also envisions a longer-range future in which the security risks have been mitigated and online voting can be rolled out more broadly — eventually to all voters.
“We're in no rush to make it universally available, but I think there are a lot of great reasons to do that eventually,” Finney told me. “The language of next generation voters is mobile, and, at some point, we have to speak that language.”
Synack CEO Jay Kaplan is on essentially the same page.
“People didn’t trust mobile banking years ago,” he told me. “I think we have to build confidence over time, and it starts at a smaller scale. It personally gives me a lot of confidence that hundreds, if not thousands, of security researchers will have looked at this environment.”
Finney also has long-term ideas about using online voting to improve voter education — for example by linking candidates’ names on the ballot to campaign finance information.
“You can be more informed as a citizen voter. You can click on a card and know if it’s the NRA or the Sierra Club [funding a candidate],” he said.
The keys
Trump official meddled with Russian election interference report, watchdog says
Former president Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security secretary, Chad Wolf, asked a top DHS official to hold a report on Russian interference in the 2020 election because it would hurt Trump’s reelection campaign, the official told the agency’s inspector general.
The report described a Russian influence campaign “spreading unsubstantiated allegations that … Biden is of poor mental health” — a line of attack Trump was also deploying at the time.
Wolf disputed the report’s characterizations of the meeting. He said the meeting focused on problems with the report, which “was not well written” and was “written at the fifth-grade level.”
DHS officials also added a section to the report about Chinese and Iranian efforts to question Trump’s mental state as a “blunting feature” to balance the report. But that shouldn’t have been a consideration, and the box “served an unclear intelligence purpose,” the inspector general said.
Lawyer Mark Zaid called the report “significant vindication” for his client Brian Murphy, a former DHS official who filed a whistleblower complaint about the report in 2020:
We are still reviewing but @DHSOIG report looks to be significant vindication for our #whistleblower client #BrianMurphy whose lawful efforts bravely reported misconduct during Trump Admin at highest levels of @DHSgov.https://t.co/XceUBKA8b5
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) May 3, 2022
Leaked Supreme Court opinion is sparking fears about data security
Cybersecurity Twitter was thick Tuesday with warnings about data collected by apps and online services that might be used to identify women seeking abortions in the event the procedure becomes illegal in some states.
The tweets were sparked by a leaked draft of a majority Supreme Court decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that affirmed abortion rights.
A case in point: Motherboard purchased a week’s worth of location data about more than 600 U.S. Planned Parenthood locations from data broker SafeGraph for around $160, Motherboard’s Joseph Cox reports. Some of those Planned Parenthood clinics offer abortions. While the data doesn’t include names of users, such data has been used in the past to identify individuals by analyzing patterns of movement and behavior. Planned Parenthood and SafeGraph didn’t respond to requests for comment from Motherboard.
Cybersecurity experts also encouraged women to take precautions when it comes to their online privacy. Principled LLC chief executive Debra J. Farber and Duke Law’s Jolynn Dellinger:
— Debra J. Farber (0.0.512836) (@privacyguru) May 3, 2022
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Eva Galperin:
If you are in the United States and you are using a period tracking app, today is good day to delete it before you create a trove of data that will be used to prosecute you if you ever choose to have an abortion.https://t.co/7L7LaQizgx
— Eva (@evacide) May 3, 2022
EA’s Amélie E. Koran:
Evaluate your threat model… also would be a good time to check your browser cookies and tracking info. https://t.co/b02oqInKFR
— Amélie E. Koran (@webjedi) May 3, 2022
The CDC also purchased location data from SafeGraph
The Centers for Disease Control paid $420,000 for access to the data to monitor whether Americans were complying with coronavirus lockdowns, Motherboard’s Joseph Cox reports.
The CDC also mulled more than 20 other coronavirus-related uses for the data, including looking at public policy effectiveness on the Navajo Nation, tracking K-12 school visiting patterns and examining whether visits to “mass gatherings” including at places of worship correlated with increased cases.
The use of the data is likely to raise concerns about invasive government use of data crunching. “It's also likely to give anti-vaccine groups a real-world data point on which to pin their darkest warnings” about vaccine passports, which some have claimed allow the government to track vaccine recipients, Cox writes. The CDC and SafeGraph didn’t respond to requests for comment from Motherboard.
Chat room
Journalist Kim Zetter pondered how the Supreme Court could identify future leakers:
There's a risk in publishing a leaked document even if metadata is scrubbed from it. It's one thing to report that justices voted to overturn Roe v Wade - that info can come from a lot of people. But few people probably had access to the actual document that got published.
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) May 3, 2022
They could do this by simply changing one word in each copy of the document distributed internally - so each justice and their staff gets a slightly different version without realizing it.
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) May 3, 2022
Government scan
CISA's getting into podcasts
The publication CyberWire will be offering an audio version of the cybersecurity agency's alerts in podcast form. The audio feed will “provide urgent information about cyberthreats, vulnerabilities, and exploits,” CyberWire said.
Global cyberspace
National security watch
Daybook
- CISA Director Jen Easterly, Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) and cybersecurity officials speak at the Hack the Capitol conference today.
- Gen. Paul Nakasone, who leads U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency; NSA cybersecurity director Rob Joyce; and deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger speak on the first day of Vanderbilt University’s two-day Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats today.
- Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the Senate Homeland Security Committee today at 2:30 p.m. after testifying before a Senate Appropriations Committee panel at 10 a.m.
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlines the Biden administration’s China policy at an Asia Society event Thursday at 11 a.m.
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PLEASANTON, Calif, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that's all about getting biologics and gene therapy researchers the right tools for the job, acquired NanoView Biosciences today. NanoView's ExoView technology sits in pole position for characterizing exosomes and their recently launched LentiView platform is a game-changer for gene therapy researchers working with lentivirus.
Exosomes are messenger particles released by cells. They are a known source of information about disease, but are also high potential vectors for gene therapy payloads. ExoView uses an antibody chip to capture exosomes by their surface proteins, confirms their size using high resolution interferometry and identifies up to 5 additional surface proteins with 4-color fluorescence. Researchers can hunt down exosomes of interest or get a real titer on the ones they are developing as gene therapies – even in crude, messy samples.
Lentiviruses are excellent at modifying the genome, which is why there's so many in gene therapy development. The problem is they are huge, hard to make and highly complex - made of lipids, proteins, and a capsid with a payload. Characterizing lentivirus today is very challenging, requiring researchers to purify and then use destructive assays like ELISA or PCR to see pieces of the puzzle. LentiView changes the game and lets researchers see every component straight up in crude samples. Using a combination of antibody capture, fluorescence, and interferometry on a microchip, LentiView tells researchers exactly what they want to know about their lentivirus - how much, big, pure, full, or empty and if targeting proteins are there.
"NanoView has been dedicated to helping exosome researchers characterize these complex particles," said Jerry Williamson, CEO at NanoView Biosciences. "We're just getting started with viral vector characterization and there's no better company than Unchained Labs to help us get LentiView into the hands of gene therapy researchers."
"Gene therapy development is exploding, and researchers are screaming for better tools," said Tim Harkness, Founder and CEO at Unchained Labs. "Our calling is to provide them with better ways to characterize these crazy complex vectors and I am fired up to add NanoView's gene therapy solutions to our portfolio and to have their team join our cause."
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With Chris Morgan ruled out of the entire campaign following knee surgery, multiple SPL title winner Walker has taken the reins once more at Havant Park.
He first skippered the club when he was 21, and later again in 2016 and 2017 - leading the club to back-to-back SPL championships. Havant were also unbeaten across both seasons in T20 cup action.
Walker certainly led from the front in 2016, his 739-run haul the highest of any SPL top flight player that year.
‘In my first seasons (as captain) I was out of my depth,’ he recalled. ‘I learnt a lot about myself as a 21-year-old player. There were disciplinary problems, I learnt some harsh lessons.
‘Second time around, there was a really good group. It was an easy job in some ways - and success always makes it enjoyable.
‘It’s a different group now, a much younger group. There’s a lot of raw talent and it’s a really nice opportunity for me to help these guys reach their potential.
‘They can be tough on themselves as they strive for success, but that’s not a bad thing.’
Walker will skipper a squad including three close season signings, though two are familiar faces.
Wicket-keeper batsman George Metzger and fast bowler Sonny Reynolds - both of whom are former Hampshire Academy players - started the 2021 campaign at Havant.
Reynolds suffered a stress fracture of the back in pre-season, though, and subsequently returned to Waterlooville, where he played mainly as a batsman in the third tier of the SPL. He is fit again now, though, and bagged 4-30 when taking the new ball in a friendly win over Portsmouth, where he also top scored with 60 batting at No 6 in his side’s three-wicket win.
Metzger left Havant mid-season to return to Basingstoke & North Hants after sharing keeping duties with veteran Jeremy Bulled.
Following Basingstoke’s failure to win promotion from SPL Division 1, Metzger is back at Havant and will keep full-time with Bulled having joined Hampshire Leaguers Fareham & Crofton.
‘Sonny’s a good operator across all three facets,’ said Walker. ‘He can take the new ball, he’s a capable batter and he’s got one of the best arms in the league. He’s worked extremely hard on his fitness.
‘George has the opportunity to be here for 10-15 years and to show he can be one of the best keepers in the league.’
Havant have also signed Portsmouth University seam bowler Nick Ward, who will get chances to impress prior to returning to parent club Folkestone when his studying commitments end.
Ward was recommended to Havant by first team batsman Harry Gadd, who is also at Portsmouth Uni.
Walker was a proven all-rounder in his younger days but an Achilles injury suffered a few years ago has restricted his bowling in more recent times. ‘
‘That ship has sailed,’ he quipped with regards his chances of bowling in 2022. ‘The body isn’t as durable as it once was.
‘But I’ve got confidence in Richard Jerry, Nick Ward and Sonny Reynolds - they’re above and beyond anything I could offer.’
Walker plans to open the batting alongside teenager Charlie Whitfield, just 15.
Elsewhere, Chris Stone is back to bolster the Havant top order after missing the entire 2021 season through a knee injury.
‘He’s like a new signing,’ said Walker. ‘Chris is one of the best natural cricketers I have ever played with. He’s a match winner.
‘He’s also another leader - people look up to him because of his ability.’
Stone has already showed signs of his talent with an unbeaten 67 in Havant’s National Cup romp against Littlehampton last Sunday.
He smote six fours and four sixes in a 32-ball innings to help Havant post 256-2 off just 25 overs.
Openers Stuart Ransley (75) and Peter Hopson (52) along with No 3 Gadd (50 not out off 28 balls) also impressed before Littlehampton were restricted to 109-2 in reply.
Veteran all-rounder Richard Hindley, who celebrated his 46th birthday last month, is another experienced campaigner Walker can call on.
Asked if he had set any pre-season targets, Walker replied: ‘No. Sometimes you set yourself goals, you don’t reach them, and you think you’ve under-achieved.
‘I just want us to play positive cricket, to try and play on the front foot.
‘The first few weeks are massive. It’ll be a case of trying to build momentum and see where that can take you.’
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Residents wary as fire burns near northeast New Mexico town
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Martina Gonzales and her grandson watched from their front yard as aircraft disappeared into a giant plume of smoke to fight a growing wildfire that has burned hundreds of square miles, destroyed about 170 homes and threatens more destruction if weekend winds whip, as predicted, through the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
“My grandson has actually, um, been a little bit scared, nervous,” Gonzales said Tuesday — the day New Mexico’s governor asked President Joe Biden to declare a disaster so federal aid can come for the largest blaze burning in the U.S.
“The smoke was really bad yesterday,” Gonzales said as 4-year-old Lukas, despite his fear, yelled “airplane” every time one flew to the fight to save Las Vegas, their small farm and ranch community in northeastern New Mexico.
Gonzales’ car is packed with valuables in case an evacuation order comes. But she said that if the entire regional hub of about 13,000 people has to flee, she’s not sure where they’ll go. The residential care home where she works as a pharmacist started moving elderly clients out on Monday.
Nearly 200 patients at the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas also evacuated Monday.
“We’ve been seeing a lot of fire trucks go up the street,” Gonzales said. “And actually, the fire looks like it’s right over this little mountain.”
During a briefing on the wind-whipped fire burning through dry landscape, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed her request for a presidential disaster declaration and said she hoped it would bring financial help for recovery efforts. She called it important to seek the declaration now, rather than waiting until the fire is out.
Lujan Grisham, a first-term Democrat who is running for reelection, said Tuesday night that the number of homes under mandatory evacuation had jumped from 6,000 to about 15,500. The governor said the number of homes destroyed would likely go much higher.
“I have families who don’t know what the next day looks like,” she said. “I have families who are trying to navigate their children and health care resources, figure out their livelihoods and they’re in every single little community and it must feel to them like they are out there on their own.”
Fire managers offered assurances, explanations and warnings at an evening briefing at the local community college. They put the amount of newly charred land up slightly on Tuesday, to about 231 square miles (598 square kilometers), but said containment remained at just 20%.
Dan Pearson, a U.S. Forest Service fire behavior analyst, called the day “a brief reprieve from the extreme conditions we have been experiencing,” but warned that dry winds are expected to increase and shift on Wednesday, pushing fire and smoke toward Las Vegas.
“Tomorrow, we’re back to red-flag criteria,” Pearson said, adding that forecasts called for better firefighting conditions Thursday and Friday before winds increase and gusts whip to 50 mph (80 kph) or more during the weekend.
“So, if I have one message out there: Please be super careful this weekend, more than you already are,” he said.
San Miguel County Sheriff Chris Lopez said he has fielded calls from people worried about safety if the fire crests a ridge just west of Las Vegas. Schools in the community canceled classes at least through Wednesday.
“I can tell you, from my training and experience, town is very defendable,” Lopez said. “As you go further into town, it becomes a lot more defensible. And you know, we’re doing everything we can to prepare for that.”
Fire engines and crews worked Tuesday on the edge of town, and bulldozers cleared more fire lines on the outskirts. Air tanker and helicopter pilots took advantage of a break in the thick smoke and falling ash to drop fire retardant and water.
Authorities said flames remain a couple of miles from Las Vegas, which is also home to the United World College and New Mexico Highlands University.
New Mexico has been swept by waves of hot, dry and windy weather across the Southwest. Forecasters have also issued warnings for parts of Arizona and Colorado, and authorities in Texas urged people there to be careful after several fires started on Monday.
Wildfires have become a year-round threat in the drought-stricken West — moving faster and burning hotter than ever due to climate change, scientists and fire experts say. Fire officials also point to overgrown and unhealthy forested areas where built-up vegetation can worsen wildfire conditions.
Nationally, the National Interagency Fire Center reported Tuesday that a dozen uncontained large fires have burned about 400 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) in five states, including New Mexico. Nearly 3,500 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to fires burning across the country.
On the northern flank of the big New Mexico fire, crews were trying to keep the flames from reaching the towns of Cleveland and Mora as winds shifted, said Todd Abel, a fire operations section chief. Fire lines were holding, but state officials urged residents who have refused to leave evacuation areas to reconsider, calling conditions dangerous.
The fire merged last week with another blaze sparked in early April when a prescribed fire set by land managers escaped containment. The cause of the other fire remains under investigation.
Lujan Grisham said Tuesday that the federal government bears some responsibility.
Another New Mexico wildfire burning through forested areas to the northeast had forced the evacuations of about 800 homes while charring 92 square miles (238 square kilometers).
A separate fire burning in the mountains near Los Alamos National Laboratory prompted the evacuation of about 200 homes. It has charred more than 39 square miles (101 square kilometers) and destroyed at least three homes.
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Montoya Bryan reported from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Associated Press writers Paul Davenport in Phoenix and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas, Nevada, contributed to this report. Attanasio is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Attanasio on Twitter. | https://thehill.com/news/ap/ap-u-s-news/residents-wary-as-fire-burns-near-northeast-new-mexico-town/ | 2022-05-04T12:47:01Z | https://thehill.com/news/ap/ap-u-s-news/residents-wary-as-fire-burns-near-northeast-new-mexico-town/ | true | 16 |
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JONESBORO — A Jonesboro man suffered a minor injury at about 4:45 p.m. Monday when he was stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver, according to Jonesboro police.
Police responding to the scene in the 1900 block of Fox Meadow Lane found Thomas Wewers, 60, of the residence, with a wound made by a Phillips screwdriver. Hunter Ray Allen Smith, 18, of the 2600 block of Travis Lane, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree battery in the stabbing, according to the report.
“The wound was superficial, and the victim refused (medical treatment). This is considered a domestic situation. The suspect was arrested,” said Sally Smith, public information specialist with the Jonesboro Police Department.
Smith is being held at the Craighead County Detention Center awaiting a probable cause hearing.
In other JPD reports:
Police arrested Stephanie Brooks, 28, of the 1800 block of Wall Street, Memphis, on Monday night following a traffic stop in the 3400 block of Arkansas 91. Brooks is being held on suspicion of possession of heroin, felony possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, no proof of insurance and driving on a suspended license.
Police arrested Emanuel Sanders, 39, of the 200 block of West Alpine Street, on Monday night in the 700 block of Craighead Road 724 following a call about a disturbance. Sanders is being held on suspicion of possession of meth or cocaine less than 2 grams and felony tampering with evidence.
Police arrested James Larkins, 46, of the 2200 block of Race Street, on Monday afternoon on Grant Avenue behind Hobby Lobby. Larkins is being held on suspicion of possession of meth or cocaine less than 2 grams and misdemeanor failure to appear and failure to pay fines.
Police arrested Kimberly Dowdy, 42, of the 200 block of East Center Street, on Monday morning at the intersection of East Gordon Street and North Church Street. She is being held on suspicion of possession of meth or cocaine less than 2 grams.
A 28-year-old Jonesboro woman reported Monday night that someone broke into her residence and stole items in the 1600 block of North Culberhouse Street. Taken were tools, clothing and knick-knacks valued at $400.
An 18-year-old Jonesboro woman told police at about midnight Tuesday someone entered her vehicle in the 900 block of Links Circle and took items. A $500 purse and $3,000 in cash were reported stolen.
A 27-year-old Jonesboro man reported that his vehicle was broken into Monday night in the 600 block of Alfred Watkins Street and items were taken. Stolen were debit cards, a $30 wallet and $20 in cash.
A 59-year-old Jonesboro woman told police Monday morning that an 80-year-old woman had 17 forged checks cashed in the 5300 block of Richardson Drive. The total amount of the checks was $8,712.20.
A 43-year-old Jonesboro woman told police Monday afternoon that someone broke into her vehicle in the 1200 block of South Caraway Road and stole her purse and its contents. Taken were credit and debit cards, a $160 gift card and $700 in cash. | https://www.jonesborosun.com/news/man-suffers-minor-injury-in-stabbing/article_5a73b94f-2859-5a05-bfee-281f8f8f61ec.html | 2022-05-04T12:48:51Z | https://www.jonesborosun.com/news/man-suffers-minor-injury-in-stabbing/article_5a73b94f-2859-5a05-bfee-281f8f8f61ec.html | true | 1 |
Llightpath announced it has reached the milestone of 2,000 connected wireless towers. This milestone comes as Lightpath has more than doubled its number of on-net wireless sites in the last 12 months, including securing its first wireless customer in the Greater Boston region. Carriers continue to choose Lightpath as they densify their 5G site deployments in preparation for tomorrow’s additional 5G applications.
Annual GDP by $500 billion
Lightpath operates the densest all-fiber network in the New York Metro region among competitive fiber providers with over 18,000 route miles and is rapidly building out its footprint in Greater Boston. Carriers can choose flexible connectivity including 10G optical, dark fiber, or custom connectivity, with optical transport services now riding on Lightpath’s state-of-the-art Ciena network. Additionally, Lightpath offers carriers geographically diverse routing options and unique POPs (points of presence) that enhance the reliability of network design.
Phil Olivero, CTO of Lightpath said,
« The Lightpath network aligns perfectly with carriers looking to deploy or densify their 5G networks. Lightpath offers carriers a unique combination of network density, customized connectivity options, reliability, and support. We are willing investors and have partnered with each of the major wireless providers to extend our reach to deliver and meet their coverage requirements. »
According to Accenture, the full potential of Smart Cities will be unlocked by 5G networks and small cells, creating jobs as well as entirely new industries. Communities that support 5G wireless technology will see significant economic and community benefits. This next generation of wireless technology is expected to create 3 million new jobs and boost annual GDP by $500 billion.
As wireless carriers deploy 5G networks, small cell density and scalable bandwidth connectivity will be critical in their abilities to support applications beyond phone usage. From smart cities and self-driving cars to IoT, and even 5G broadband services, wireless carriers need to future-proof their tower deployments with scalable connectivity that can support the robust bandwidth and latency demands of the future. Lightpath tower backhaul services can easily be upgraded in the future as wireless towers require it. | https://cloud7.news/network-internet/lightpath-reached-to-2000-wireless-sites-across-its-network-footprint/ | 2022-05-04T12:50:02Z | https://cloud7.news/network-internet/lightpath-reached-to-2000-wireless-sites-across-its-network-footprint/ | false | 2 |
Taking the lead of the vital service in 2018, Joyce has steered it through some of its toughest years since its launch in 2013.
After retiring as a midwife with the NHS in 2014, Joyce started volunteering at the foodbank because she had always been involved in helping others.
From packing food parcels at the charity’s first base in Dysart, she went on to join the foodbank’s board before being asked to stand for election to lead it as chairman.
She said: “I’ve always been involved with looking out for people one way or another – I was a midwife for 40 years at Forth Park Hospital and the skills that I had developed over the years fit very well with the nurturing nature of the foodbank.
"I started out packing boxes and crates at the hub in Dysart before the foodbank moved into Linton Lane Centre, and I’ve been there ever since!
"After a few years serving on the board I was asked to stand for the chairman position and I agreed.”
By then the foodbank was well established and it was a case of maintaining the course of the service - but as changes to the benefit system came into effect, as well as the coronavirus pandemic,, times would get tougher for a service that so many vulnerable people rely on.
"After my appointment as chairman it was just a case of directing the well oiled machine that the foodbank had become,” she said. “Little did we know that just around the corner there would be so many crises.
"When 2020 hit with the pandemic there were a lot of changes to make to an ever changing situation.
"There were so many challenges to overcome as staff were having to step back to protect themselves, food deliveries were an issue, and we were seeing a surge in visitors as a lot of people were being made redundant as companies started to close.
"We were also seeing a rise in visitors when the changes were made to the Universal Credit benefit as no one anticipated that the uplift to peoples benefits would be taken away.”
Joyce said her medical expertise and background with the NHS in having a wider knowledge of public health helped her greatly in keeping the foodbank open throughout the pandemic.
"We were only closed for one day on the first day of the first lockdown,” she said. “With working for the NHS for so long I have a great understanding of public health and infection control with the upshot being that in two years we have never had a single outbreak of COVID-19 at any of our foodbank venues.
"It really was a challenge but the volunteers stepped up and rose to the challenge to make sure the most vulnerable were still able to put food on the table.”
Joyce also said that as the cost of living continues to rise, so the demand for support grows from people and families who have to decide whether to heat their homes or feed their children.
"With the rise in the cost of living combined with benefit cuts and people being made redundant due to the pandemic there has been a continual steady rise in the demand for food in Kirkcaldy and the surrounding areas,” she said.
"If anyone has historical debt, they are fighting a losing battle and may have to make a very real decision to choose between heat or eat.
"The number of children that we support is absolutely devastating – and these numbers keep rising sharply.
"I would love to see the need for the foodbank to be gone, but it’s hard to be optimistic when you are presented with the figures that only go up and not down.
She added: “Although I’m stepping down as chairman, I’ll still be on the board and available to do whatever is needed – I don’t find volunteering with the foodbank an onerous task and I’ll be on hand to support the new chairman as much as needed.”
The new chairman, Ian Campbell, is no stranger to how it works and operates as he previously held the position before Joyce took control in 2018.
He said: “My priorities are to tackle any financial challenges that the foodbank may be facing as as we go forward and the demand for support continues we need to ensure that we have enough funding.
"As Kirkcaldy Foodbank is an independent charity we need to identify key funders to keep driving forward and to support the people who need us most.
"We have had some great support from local businesses and companies, but I sometimes wonder how much more can be asked of them?
"I’m asking people who have financial security to hopefully find it in their hearts to support us and to ask themselves is there anything they can do to help others who are less fortunate?"
Ian adds that if you were to consider the foodbank as a normal business the cost to run it would be extremely expensive and that without the support of the community and key funders all of the work the foodbank does would be possible.
"We have over 100 volunteers, and if you were to think about how many hours of work both front of house and behind the scenes go on the cost would be astronomical for a normal business!
“Without the support of the wider community we would not be able to do what we do, and we cannot become complacent in the support of our partners or we may lose them altogether.” | https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/people/kirkcaldy-foodbank-stalwart-joyce-leggate-steps-down-as-chairman-3679868 | 2022-05-04T12:50:25Z | https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/people/kirkcaldy-foodbank-stalwart-joyce-leggate-steps-down-as-chairman-3679868 | false | 1 |
Police have released an update on a man who sadly died following a garage forecourt collision in Bretton, Flinthshire. North Wales Police have confirmed he was a 64-year-old male, from Walsall, in the West Midlands.
A police spokesman said: "We can confirm that the deceased was a 64 year-old male from the Walsall area. West Midlands Police are liaising with the family at this time." His full identity has not been released.
The tragedy happened at the Premier Garage on Chester Road, in Bretton, yesterday (Tuesday May 3) shortly before 8.40am and involved a Ford Ranger truck.
Read more: Dad 'lost control of vehicle' in run up to fatal crash which killed him and teenage daughter
Police closed off the area, while investigations continue and have appealed for witnesses. Ambulance crews and the air ambulance were also called to the scene. The man was taken to the Countess of Chester by ambulance, but later died.
Following the 64-year-olds death, a North Wales Police spokesman said: "North Wales Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision in Flintshire today (Tuesday, 3 May) in which one man sadly died."
They added: "The victim’s next of kin have been informed and our enquiries into this incident remain ongoing.
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"We are appealing for any witnesses, or anyone who may have dashcam footage of this incident, to contact North Wales Police. Reports can be made online or via 101, quoting incident number B062423."
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A historic building that offers "the most amazing views" across Beverley and the Westwood has gone on the market for offers in the region of £550,000.
Grade I-listed Tower House, in North Bar Within, is believed to be the tallest habitable building in Beverley. Until recently, the iconic 18th century property, which is steeped in history, was used as solicitors' offices.
A leading local historian said she now hoped the landmark building would now be returned to its former glory as a home in the heart of the market town. Prof Barbara English added: “It would be excellent if the Tower House became a house again, so that the lucky owners will be able to enjoy this most exotic, unexpectedly tall building with the most amazing views across the town and Beverley Westwood.”
Read more: Inside the stunning £2.5m lock house with glass lift and pool
The extraordinary four-storey tower, which overlooks the medieval 15th century North Bar, boasts stunning views across leafy Beverley Westwood, towards Beverley Racecourse and the Black Mill. Dr Susan Neave, a historian of buildings, said: “It’s so rare to find a domestic building of this scale in Beverley.
“The opportunity to acquire something so grand in the heart of the town and having views of the top of North Bar is a rarity. It is an unparalleled view, to be able to see the earliest surviving brick-built town gate in England and be a part of the history of the town.”
For generations, residents of Tower House enjoyed views across Beverley Westwood from the top floor of the lofty tower, watching racehorses training on the gallops. Tower House and the adjoining grade I-listed Bar House were originally a single dwelling, built on a site where King Charles I’s officers are reputed to have met when they were trying to capture Hull, at the beginning of the Civil War.
A planning application, seeking to change the use of the building back to residential, shows indicative proposals for five bedrooms at the property, which also includes a ground floor cottage extension to the rear and a vaulted cellar. The rear of Tower House, at the end of a quiet lane just a short distance from Beverley Westwood, has a secluded courtyard and, unusual for the popular market town, parking space for seven vehicles.
Tower House is being marketed by Dee Atkinson & Harrison of Beverley. Call 01482 866844.
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A month after the Seminoles went back and forth with the Florida Gators to pull out a win in Gainesville, they will welcome their in-state rival to Tallahassee
Since the two teams have played, the Gators lost their series against Alabama, got swept by Arkansas, and won a series against LSU while also sweeping Ole Miss.
In terms of lineup changes, the Gators will be without their second baseman, Hannah Adams.
Gators softball will be without fifth-year second baseman Hannah Adams for approximately three weeks, per Tim Walton.
— Ainslie Lee (@AinsliesTwoBits) April 19, 2022
Adams sustained a hand injury against Ole Miss over the weekend.
Hitting
In Adams absence, Skylar Wallace has moved from shortstop over to second base. Head Coach Tim Walton has two players sharing time at short. Freshman Reagan Walsh has appeared in all 51 games so far, but primarily as the designated player. Batting .255, Walsh has scored 19 runs, recorded 42 hits, 6 home runs and 39 RBI.
Junior Sarah Longley is the other Gator taking time at shortstop. While only appearing in 41 games this season, Longley is batting .167 with 10 runs, 9 hits, 6 RBI and 8 walks. She is also a perfect 3 for 3 on stolen bases.
Last 10 games
Skylar Wallace has posted a .351 average, going 13 for 37 with 15 runs, 4 doubles, 1 homerun and 6 RBI. Against Ole Miss, Wallace went 3 for 3 with 2 runs and 2 RBI.
Kendra Falby has a .279 batting average, going 12 for 43 since playing the ‘Noles. Falby has 5 runs, 2 doubles and 4 RBI. Also against Ole Miss, she went 2 for 3 with 2 runs, 1 double and 2 RBI.
Sophomore Katie Kistler has been one of the best in the last 10 games. Kistler has gone 13-41, giving her a .317 batting average. She has 4 runs and 7 RBI and against LSU she went 3 for 4 with a run scored and 2 RBI.
Pitching
Last 10 games
Since the last meeting between the ‘Noles and the Gators, Senior Elizabeth Hightower still leads in innings pitched, with 128. Her ERA has gone from 1.83, when the ‘Noles squared off against her, to a now 2.52. In her last 10 games, she has given up 42 hits, 29 runs, 17 walks and recorded 33 strikeouts.
Senior Natalie Lugo, another pitcher the ‘Noles got a look at, now has a 2.15 ERA, up from her previous 1.54. Since stepping in the circle against FSU, she has 18 hits, 7 runs, 4 walks and 11 strikeouts.
In her last 10.2 innings, Sophomore Haley Pittman has given up 10 hits, 16 runs, 6 walks and 4 strikeouts.
Matchup
Fielding Percentage
FSU (.984) UF (.981)
ERA
FSU (1.85) UF (2.50)
Batting Average
FSU (.290) UF (.309)
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Frontline Workers Honored for National School Lunch Hero Day with Book Donation and Annual Celebration
OAK BROOK, Ill., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As kids advance from grade to grade with new classes and different teachers, the dedicated lunch ladies and men in the school cafeteria are often one of the few constants throughout the academic journey. Whether they're at the ready with a spoon, spatula, or welcoming smile, these school lunch heroes go above and beyond to not only serve foods kids love to eat, but to ensure that students leave the cafeteria happier and healthier than they came in.
This Friday, May 6th, Chartwells K12 celebrates National School Lunch Hero Day to recognize its 16,000 chefs, dietitians, and foodservice workers who serve 2 million meals a day in schools across the country. In honor of School Lunch Hero Day and Chartwells' 25th anniversary this year, they are hosting a #HatsOfftoOurHeroes tribute for their teams, sending a special 25th anniversary edition hat to every associate and donating 2,500 copies of the book, Lunch Lady 2-For-1 Special: The First Helping, one book to every elementary school they serve.
"We wouldn't be who we are today without our School Lunch Heroes serving up happy and healthy to kids across the country every day," said Belinda Oakley, CEO of Chartwells K12. "For 25 years, our team has been behind the scenes keeping students fed and showing endless passion and dedication to the kids and communities we serve. From the start of the school year to summer vacation, and even through a global pandemic, our associates have been going above and beyond and their inner hero keeps shining through."
School Lunch Hero Day is a national program dedicated to providing well-deserved recognition to school foodservice professionals for their role in keeping children well-fed, happy and healthy. It was founded by Jarrett J. Krosoczka in 2013 and is celebrated the first Friday of May each year. Krosoczka is also the author of the acclaimed Lunch Lady book series, chronicling the exciting adventures of the heroic Lunch Lady. To commemorate their 25th anniversary this year, Chartwells is donating 2,500 copies of Krosoczka's book to their elementary school partners.
"This is the tenth School Lunch Hero Day, and I am so incredibly honored that Chartwells will be gifting my graphic novels to elementary libraries in honor of the real heroes in the school cafeterias," said Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of the Lunch Lady series. "We too often take for granted all of the work being done to educate and care for our kids. The people working so hard in our school cafeterias make sure that our students' bellies are full so that they can be ready to learn throughout the day!"
"As Chartwells celebrates a major milestone for our 25th anniversary, we wanted to make this celebration even more special for our School Lunch Heroes," said Oakley. "We hope these books will be a lasting tribute to their extraordinary efforts and give kids a fun way to learn more about these real-life superheroes."
Beyond their national School Lunch Hero Day celebration, Chartwells teams across the country are hosting book donations and special events to honor the heroes of the cafeteria.
About Chartwells K12
Chartwells K12's goal is to make sure students leave the cafeteria happier and healthier than they came in, by serving food kids love to eat and creating custom dining programs. With more than 16,000 associates in 4,500 schools, ranging from large public institutions to small charter and private schools, Chartwells K12 is built on decades of food, education and operational experience driven by top culinary, nutrition, wellness, and sustainability talent. For more information, visit www.ChartwellsK12.com.
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SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL – Get Rating) (TSE:SOY) is scheduled to release its earnings data after the market closes on Wednesday, May 11th. Analysts expect SunOpta to post earnings of ($0.02) per share for the quarter. SunOpta has set its FY 2022 guidance at EPS.Persons that are interested in participating in the company’s earnings conference call can do so using this link.
SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL – Get Rating) (TSE:SOY) last released its earnings results on Thursday, February 24th. The company reported ($0.01) EPS for the quarter. The company had revenue of $204.23 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $204.15 million. SunOpta had a positive return on equity of 1.38% and a negative net margin of 0.51%. During the same quarter last year, the business earned ($0.03) earnings per share. On average, analysts expect SunOpta to post $0 EPS for the current fiscal year and $0 EPS for the next fiscal year.
STKL stock opened at $5.62 on Wednesday. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $5.31 and a 200 day moving average of $5.95. The company has a current ratio of 2.30, a quick ratio of 0.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70. SunOpta has a 52 week low of $4.22 and a 52 week high of $13.72.
Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Invesco Ltd. purchased a new stake in SunOpta during the second quarter worth about $194,000. Wells Fargo & Company MN increased its stake in SunOpta by 49.2% during the second quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 63,816 shares of the company’s stock worth $781,000 after purchasing an additional 21,042 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its stake in SunOpta by 3.5% during the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 80,762 shares of the company’s stock worth $720,000 after purchasing an additional 2,761 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its stake in SunOpta by 17.2% during the fourth quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 338,996 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,356,000 after purchasing an additional 49,865 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of SunOpta during the fourth quarter worth approximately $355,000. 74.13% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
A number of equities analysts have issued reports on the stock. StockNews.com assumed coverage on shares of SunOpta in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “sell” rating for the company. Canaccord Genuity Group reduced their price target on shares of SunOpta from $15.00 to $12.00 in a research report on Friday, February 25th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised shares of SunOpta from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has assigned a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $12.90.
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SunOpta Inc manufactures and sells plant-based and fruit-based food and beverage products to retail customers, foodservice distributors, branded food companies, and food manufacturers worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Plant-Based Foods and Beverages, and Fruit-Based Foods and Beverages.
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JSC recommends suspension of High Court Judge Said Chitembwe
Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has recommended the suspension of High Court Judge Said Juma Chitembwe from office.
They have also recommended to President Uhuru Kenyatta to form a tribunal to investigate his conduct with a view to remove him from office over graft and misconduct allegations.
Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, Francis Wambua, Imgrad Geige and David Leboo Ole Kilusu last year filed separate petitions at the JSC seeking Justice Chitembwe's removal over alleged bribery in succession and land disputes that the judge handled.
He was last year arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, which is also probing bribery allegations against Justice Chitembwe.
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Brinker Capital Investments LLC decreased its stake in shares of ShockWave Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWAV – Get Rating) by 3.1% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 10,649 shares of the company’s stock after selling 345 shares during the quarter. Brinker Capital Investments LLC’s holdings in ShockWave Medical were worth $1,899,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Several other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. C M Bidwell & Associates Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of ShockWave Medical during the 3rd quarter valued at $38,000. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. grew its stake in ShockWave Medical by 30.3% in the third quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 202 shares of the company’s stock worth $41,000 after purchasing an additional 47 shares during the period. Atticus Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in ShockWave Medical in the third quarter worth $99,000. Lincoln National Corp bought a new position in shares of ShockWave Medical during the third quarter valued at $203,000. Finally, National Asset Management Inc. bought a new position in ShockWave Medical in the third quarter valued at about $206,000. 89.06% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on SWAV shares. TheStreet raised ShockWave Medical from a “d” rating to a “c” rating in a research note on Monday, March 7th. SVB Leerink upped their target price on ShockWave Medical from $160.00 to $190.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, February 18th. Piper Sandler cut their price objective on ShockWave Medical from $272.00 to $245.00 in a report on Friday, February 18th. Bank of America assumed coverage on ShockWave Medical in a research report on Wednesday, March 2nd. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. Finally, Wolfe Research assumed coverage on ShockWave Medical in a report on Tuesday, April 5th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $255.00 target price for the company. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, six have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, ShockWave Medical has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $220.33.
ShockWave Medical (NASDAQ:SWAV – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 17th. The company reported $0.34 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.07 by $0.27. ShockWave Medical had a negative return on equity of 4.18% and a negative net margin of 3.85%. The business had revenue of $84.18 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $75.27 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned ($0.46) EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that ShockWave Medical, Inc. will post 1.47 earnings per share for the current year.
In other ShockWave Medical news, insider Isaac Zacharias sold 619 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, April 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $160.36, for a total value of $99,262.84. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 65,221 shares in the company, valued at approximately $10,458,839.56. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Frank T. Watkins sold 3,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $206.01, for a total value of $618,030.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 23,802 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,903,450.02. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 99,242 shares of company stock worth $16,799,585. 15.30% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
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ShockWave Medical, Inc, a medical device company, engages in developing and commercializing intravascular lithotripsy technology for the treatment of calcified plaque in patients with peripheral vascular, coronary vascular, and heart valve diseases worldwide. The company offers M5 catheters for treating above-the-knee peripheral artery disease (PAD); C2 catheters for treating coronary artery disease; and S4 catheters for treating below-the-knee PAD.
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Activision Blizzard advise shareholders against a proposal to report on harassment and discrimination
The company say they’d rather use resources to directly respond to concernsShareholders in Activision Blizzard have been advised by the company not to approve a proposal from New York state to investigate and report on how allegations of sexual harrassment and misconduct within the company are being addressed. The recommendation by Activision Blizzard’s board of directors was made unanimously ahead of their annual meeting on June 21st, picked up on by Axios.
The board state that they “do not believe this proposal is in the best interests of the company or its shareholders“. Instead of creating such a report, they say it would be better to “directly respond to employee concerns”. A vote on the proposal would take place at the company’s annual meeting.
What does the proposed report want to find out about how Activision Blizzard treat their workers? Well, the proposal seeks to include how many allegations of sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination Activision Blizzard is looking into, how much money the company have spent settling claims during the past three years, and how many more misconduct claims they’ve yet to address.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s two-year-long investigation of Activision Blizzard reportedly found that 2,500 people could be owed up to $930 million (£744 million) in compensation, but the company’s board have said this estimate “appears to be based on faulty assumptions, inaccurate guesses about factual matters, and multiple mathematical errors”.
Activision Blizzard have struggled over the past few years with reports of misconduct, sexual harrassment allegations and inadequate working conditions. Staff at Call Of Duty developer Raven Software staged walkouts in December, but have been given the opportunity to vote on unionising in the past few weeks after they were excluded from pay increases and benefit improvements given to other Activision Blizzard employees at the beginning of April. CEO Bobby Kotick remains in place despite several walkouts by Activision Blizzard staff calling for his resignation.
Last week, Activision Blizzard shareholders voted in an overwhelming majority to approve Microsoft Corporation’s $68.7 billion (£50 billion) purchase of the company. The buyout still needs to be checked and approved by the United States Federal Trade Commission, whose lead Lina Khan may strongly oppose the deal. Other global players like the European Union and China will also need to decide on it. | https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/activision-blizzard-advise-shareholders-against-a-proposal-to-report-on-harassment-and-discrimination | 2022-05-04T13:02:20Z | https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/activision-blizzard-advise-shareholders-against-a-proposal-to-report-on-harassment-and-discrimination | true | 1 |
Unilever (LON:ULVR – Get Rating)‘s stock had its “sector perform” rating reaffirmed by investment analysts at Royal Bank of Canada in a research note issued on Wednesday, MarketBeat.com reports. They currently have a GBX 3,400 ($42.47) price objective on the stock. Royal Bank of Canada’s price target points to a potential downside of 6.38% from the company’s previous close.
ULVR has been the subject of several other reports. Jefferies Financial Group set a GBX 4,130 ($51.59) price objective on Unilever in a report on Monday, March 28th. Credit Suisse Group set a GBX 4,600 ($57.46) price target on Unilever in a report on Wednesday, March 30th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. set a GBX 3,600 ($44.97) price objective on Unilever in a report on Thursday, April 28th. Citigroup reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 4,500 ($56.21) target price on shares of Unilever in a research note on Tuesday, January 25th. Finally, Morgan Stanley restated an “equal weight” rating and set a GBX 3,800 ($47.47) price target on shares of Unilever in a research note on Sunday, April 24th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Unilever currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of GBX 3,927.50 ($49.06).
ULVR stock opened at GBX 3,631.60 ($45.37) on Wednesday. The company has a 50 day moving average of GBX 3,499.62 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 3,750.82. The company has a market cap of £93.10 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.67. Unilever has a 12-month low of GBX 3,267.50 ($40.82) and a 12-month high of GBX 4,388 ($54.82). The company has a quick ratio of 0.38, a current ratio of 0.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 152.60.
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Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company. It operates through Beauty & Personal Care, Foods & Refreshment, and Home Care segments. The Beauty & Personal Care segment provides skin care and hair care products, deodorants, and skin cleansing products. The Foods & Refreshment segment offers ice cream, soups, bouillons, seasonings, mayonnaise, ketchups, and tea categories.
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Nora Fatehi and choreographer Terence Lewis recently judged together the second season of the reality show India’s Best Dancer. They also used to share videos together on social media which left netizens wondering if there is something between the two. While the dating reports of Nora and Terence made headlines, the choreographer has now finally opened up on their alleged relationship.
In a recent interview with Siddharth Kannan, Terence was asked about the rumours of him dating Nora Fatehi. To this, the choreographer shared a cryptic answer and replied that the secret must remain a secret. “Raaz ki baat raaz rehne do (Let this secret be). I will tell you off-camera,” he said.
As reported by Pinkvilla, Terence further praised Nora and said, “I think we have got great chemistry on-screen. Most importantly, she is a very free-spirited person, and I also like her energy and vibe. She has been a dancer so she understands that. She’s very hard working also."
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“I won’t say we are very good friends where we call each other every day, but we have a very healthy relationship," he added.
Meanwhile, the reports of Nora Fatehi dating Punjabi singer Guru Randhawa also made headlines recently. It all started after the two were spotted together in Goa. They even worked together for the singer’s Dance Meri Rani song.
On the work front, Nora Fatehi is currently judging Dance Deewane Junior along with Neetu Kapoor and Marzi Pestonji. The show is hosted by Karan Kundrra. Apart from this, earlier today, it was also reported that Nora is likely to be seen in Pawan Kalyan’s next, ‘Hari Hara Veera Mallu’. However, there is no official announcement so far. On the other hand, Terence was recently seen in the music video of Shaidayee. The song was also sung by him.
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THURSDAY, MAY 5 ** NICOSIA – Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel visits Cyprus. ** UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Security Council to meet on Ukraine. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to brief. Meeting convened by the United States, which is president of the 15-member body for May. – 1900 GMT ** LONDON – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for bilateral talks at Downing Street and holds news conference. PRISTINA, Kosovo – German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht travels to Kosovo. BELGRADE, Serbia – German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht travels to Belgrade. BUCHAREST / BRATISLAVA – U S. First lady Jill Biden will visit Romania and Slovakia (to May 9) BERLIN – German President Steinmeier meets Czech prime minister Petr Fiala – 1400 GMT
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UNITED KINGDOM – 2022 United Kingdom local elections
VIENNA – 28th OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting via videoconference. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, MAY 6
** FLORENCE, Italy – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks at a European University Institute event in Florence called “A Europe Fit for the Next Generation?” – 1000 GMT SLIAC, Slovakia – German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht travels to Slovakia. GEORGETOWN – President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro in official visit to Guyana. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Mexican President Lopez Obrador in official visit to El Salvador – – – – – – – – –
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Mexican President Lopez Obrador in official visit to Honduras – – – – – – – – –
SUNDAY, MAY 8 HAVANA – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives in Cuba (to May 9).
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GLOBAL – World Red Cross Red Crescent Day. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 9 ** JERUSALEM – President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso visits Israel (to May 12). ** STRASBOURG, France – French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be among the speakers at an event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg at which a report on the final outcome of the Conference on the Future of Europe will be presented. – 1000 GMT BERLIN – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo meets German federal president Steinmeier in official visit in Berlin, followed by a speech at the Friedrich-Naumann foundation.
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Senate election. MANILA, Philippines – Philippine House of Representatives election. MANILA, Philippines – Presidential election. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 10
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** Ankara – President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visits Turkey (to May 11) WASHINGTON DC – U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy to White House to discuss “ongoing coordination with Allies and partners on measures to support of the people of Ukraine and to impose economic costs on Russia for its unprovoked aggression.”
BERLIN – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo meets German chancellor Scholz in official visit in Berlin, followed by a roundtable on Belgo-German cooperation in relation to hydrogen.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 TURIN, Italy, – 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (To May 14). – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 12 WASHINGTON DC – U.S. President Joe Biden will host leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Washington (to May 13) GLOBAL – International Nurse’s Day. WEISSENHAUS, Germany – G7 Foreign Minister meeting in Weissenhaus,Schleswig-Holstein (To May 14) – – – – – – – – –
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FRIDAY, MAY 13
DUSHANBE – Foreign Ministers of Armenian Ararat Mirzoyan, Azerbaijani Jeyhun Bayramov, Russian Sergey Lavrov will meet in Dushanbe. WASHINGTON DC – U.S. President Joe Biden hosts leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Washington D.C.
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SATURDAY, MAY 14 BERLIN – Germany hosts an informal meeting for NATO foreign ministers in Berlin to discuss strengthening the alliance in the light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (To May 15). – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 15 BERN, Switzerland – Referendum Election. PARIS – EU Commission Vice-Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager meet their U.S. counterparts in the Paris suburb of Saclay to discuss transatlantic issues and how to counter China’s dominance in key technologies (To May 16). GLOBAL – U.N. International Day of Families. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 16 WASHINGTON DC – U.S. President Joe Biden meets with the Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis at White House. LISBON – 10th Anniversary of 78 billion euro bail-out of Portugal by eurozone leaders. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 17 STOCKHOLM – Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto visits Sweden and will meet Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf and members of government during the 2-day visit (to May 18).
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GLOBAL – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 BRUSSELS – EU-Armenia Partnership Council. WASHINGTON, D.C – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu revealed his plans to visit the United States to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. BONN, Germany – Germany hosts the finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 7 (G7) (to May 20) GLOBAL – International Museum Day. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 19 ** UNITED NATIONS – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to chair U.N. Security Council meeting on conflict and food security. The United States is president of the 15-member council for May. – 1500 GMT – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, MAY 20 SEOUL/TOKYO – U.S. President Joe Biden will visit South Korea and Japan and hold talks with his Korean and Japanese counterparts. (To May 24) BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, MAY 21 Australia – Australian House of Representatives Election.
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Australia – Australian Senate Election. BANGKOK – APEC holds Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) Meeting. (To May 22) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 22 GLOBAL – International Day for Biological Diversity. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 23 BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting. BRUSSELS – Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 24 JERUSALEM – Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Israel. BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, MAY 26 BISHKEK – President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Kyrgyzstan.
BISHKEK – President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will make official visit to Kyrgyzstan. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, MAY 29 BOGOTA, Colombia – Presidential election. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, MAY 30 BRUSSELS – EU special meeting of the European Council (to May 31) GENEVA, Switzerland – Human Rights Council – Organizational meeting on the 50th session. BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, MAY 31 GLOBAL – World No Tobacco Day. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 KATHMANDU – 21st anniversary of the massacre of Nepal’s royal family, in which King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and eight other members of the royal family were assassinated – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 3 BRUSSELS – EU trade ministers meet in Brussels. – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, JUNE 4 CHILE – 11th anniversary of Chile’s Puyehue volcano eruption, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia. HONG KONG – Tens of thousands attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JUNE 5 GLOBAL – World Environment Day. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JUNE 6 SEOUL – South Korea marks the 67th anniversary of Memorial Day. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 MADRID – Spain´s economy minister Nadia Calviño participates in a two-day forum organized by Expansion paper. SYDNEY – Sydney Film Festival 2020 (to June 19) – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 9 LUXEMBOURG – EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. (To June 10) – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 10 SHANGHAI – Shanghai International Film Festival 2020 (to June 19) – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JUNE 12 GLOBAL – World Day against Child Labour (ILO) – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JUNE 13 GENEVA, Switzerland – 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council (to July 8) – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, JUNE 14 GLOBAL – World Blood Donor Day. GAZA – 15th anniversary of Hamas takeover of the Gaza strip from Fatah. GLOBAL – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 16 LUXEMBOURG – Euro zone finance ministers meet on ERM2, digital euro, fiscal rules reform, banking union – 1300 GMT LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting. – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 17 LUXEMBOURG – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council. GLOBAL – United Nation’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. – – – – – – – – – MONDAY, JUNE 20 YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia to have G20 health ministers meeting (to June 21).
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GLOBAL – World Refugee Day. LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council. – – – – – – – – – TUESDAY, JUNE 21 PHNOM PENH – 16th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting. (To June 22) LUXEMBOURG – EU General Affairs Council meeting. – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 BERLIN – International Air Show (to June 25). – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 23 BRUSSELS – European Council (to June 24). – – – – – – – – – FRIDAY, JUNE 24 BERLIN – 74th anniversary of beginning of The Berlin Blockade. Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organize a massive airlift. – – – – – – – – – SATURDAY, JUNE 25 VIENNA – IAEA International Symposium on Uranium Raw Material for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Exploration, Mining, Production, Supply and Demand, Economics and Environmental Issues (to June 29). LOS ANGELES – 13th death anniversary of pop star Michael Jackson. – – – – – – – – – SUNDAY, JUNE 26 GLOBAL – International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. BERLIN – G7 summit, Schloss Elmau (to June 28) – – – – – – – – – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 MADRID – NATO Summit is be held in Madrid (to June 30) – – – – – – – – – THURSDAY, JUNE 30 FRANCE – Election for National Assembly of France. SUNDAY, JULY 3 KINSHASA – Pope Francis visits Congo (To July 4) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – NOTE: The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily mean that Reuters will file a story based on the event.
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Man Caught on Video Drinking Hand Sanitser, His Priceless Reaction Has Sa in Stitches: “Rest in Peace”
- A video of a man taking a drink of blue disinfectant liquid has been doing the rounds on social media
- According to experts ingesting sanitiser can cause symptoms that appear very similar to general alcohol poisoning, including nausea, vomiting, headaches and more
- South African online users could not help but respond with amusement and concern to the Instagram post
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One thirsty man in need of a drink went to extreme lengths to quench his thirst.
A video shared on Instagram by @younglildelty shows him taking a sip of hand sanitiser. He is seen opening the bottle filled with the blue disinfectant liquid and taking a drink to which he squirms at the imaginably bitter taste.
According to the Texas Medical Centre, people with substance abuse issues have deliberately ingested hand sanitiser for its high alcohol content.
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“Ingesting any hand sanitiser made with either ethanol or methanol can cause symptoms that appear very similar to general alcohol poisoning, including nausea, vomiting, headache, abdominal pain, decreased coordination, and blurry vision.
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Methanol’s high toxicity can lead to a chemical imbalance in the blood (called metabolic acidosis) as well as seisures, blindness, and death,” the medical page reported.
In true Mzansi fashion, many Saffas responded to the post with banter, while a selected few expressed concern for the man’s well-being.
_jadd.y__ reacted:
“Haiii drugs.”
u.charlieee said:
“MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.”
u.charlieee commented:
“Science students rn.”
danielle.pylman remarked:
“@209dyliver said he's going to be clean from drugs now.”
tiana_rihanna_ replied:
“That man drinks black label just to find out the sanitiser is better.”
Milesadcowrld responded:
“This mann needs alcohol right now but he ain't got money and doesn't have a choice.”
Lady breaks expensive tequila bottle while dancing, Mzansi roasts peeps for hitting booze bottles at groove
Mzansi thrilled by schoolkids' video dancing with sanitiser
In a separate story, Briefly News reported that a group of school pupils is becoming an internet sensation as they dance to their favourite tune in class while going around sanitising their hands. The schoolkids (from an unnamed school) took their video to the popular social networking platform TikTok.
The short video clip was shared by @OarabileMolete and the clip is going viral among South Africans. According to comments, it seems the kids are enrolled at one of the top high schools in the Free State, Navalsig in the city of Bloemfontein.
In the video, the kids are seen dancing to an Amapiano song, Mmapula by Busta 929, and they are very entertaining.
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What do a jewellery designer, a textile entrepreneur, an equestrian lifestyle club owner and a marketing executive have in common? A passion for cars produced at Maranello. TOFM interviewed each of them and asked what makes Ferrari so special.
Lepa Galeb-Roskopp grew up in Montenegro, before moving to Paris to follow an interest in fashion. She later transferred to California where she set up her jewellery design company, Misahara. She still recalls the first Ferrari she ever saw - a Testarossa - in Silicon Valley in the 1980s. Although not very interested in cars back then, nowadays as a successful jewellery designer she appreciates the similarities between her creative process and the Ferrari ethos and sees a synergy between her design work and the way Ferrari puts its cars together. She appreciates the "intensity of honing in on perfection".
Lepa owns a GTC4Lusso, as well as an F12tdf. The former is for practical "day-to-day" use; the latter is "for weekend drives", preferably along Highway 9 in Silicon Valley. Along Highway 1 to Santa Barbara, she took part in one of her most memorable journeys, as part of some 50 cars forming a cavalcade gliding along the Pacific coast. For a woman so taken up with the art of designing beautiful jewellery, Lepa's reaction to seeing a Ferrari is visceral. "When I look at one I smile," she says. "The emotion that it evokes is immediate." Even the engine's sound catches her attention: "It's amazing. The adrenaline automatically comes out."
Shindy Xin Di Meng - creative director and founder of Camin, a leading textile design company in China - remembers the first time she saw a Ferrari, an F355 Spider parked at Sydney harbour: It was "love at first sight". Shanghai-born Shindy had emigrated to Australia as a teenager, and has thus far lived in eight different countries. She is a lover of motor sports, a love that began when she witnessed the 2004 Ferrari victory at the Shanghai Grand Prix. A Corso Pilota Intro course soon followed, leading to her becoming a Cavalcade competitor. Her first Ferrari was a red 458, something she describes as "my best-ever birthday present, to myself."
In 2012 Shindy became the first Chinese competitor in a Cavalcade event, with her best finish thus far being a creditable third-place in the USA, in her Ferrari California T. But her happiest moment was her victory in last year's 70th Anniversary China Silk Road rally, in her Ferrari 458. She loves driving her car so much that she even located her company offices some 30 kilometres from the city centre "so that I can have time alone with my car."
After a career in fashion Charlotte Dunkerton is embarking on a new entrepreneurial venture, an equestrian lifestyle club in the Cotswolds with spa and restaurant. She enjoys carving her way around the little British country lanes in her Ferrari F12berlinetta, a car that, she says, "always puts a smile on my face." It's a long way from her first-ever car, a right-hand drive Fiat Panda.
Some owners may reserve their Ferrari for special occasions, but not Charlotte. "I like to drive it on every occasion I can," she insists. "It's my favourite car and I'll drive it any time, anywhere." Does this enthusiasm extend to lending the keys to her friends? "I am protective of my Ferrari! So no, I don't let anyone else drive it." Driving it so frequently means that she makes sure to have it professionally valeted once a week. When asked to describe what it is that attracts her to Ferrari, she says: "Like most Italian things, there is an excellence in its craftsmanship."
Esther Ma, CEO and founder of Prestique Limited, one of the leading marketing outfits in Hong Kong, recalls the first time she set eyes on a Ferrari. It was some 20 years ago and it was driven by her friend's father. Nowadays Esther drives what she identifies as "the most feminine of all the models": a Ferrari California. "I love the spacious seats for my two girls," she says. "And the large trunk that comfortably fits two golf bags." As a straight-talking marketing exec Esther is equally precise when asked to name the three things that sum up the brand: "Prestige. Quality. Craftsmanship."
She is as meticulous with her car-care regime - daily wash, quarterly waxing, and check-up "when needed" - as she is stern about who else may drive it: only her husband is permitted the occasional time behind the wheel. "But only short trips," she clarifies. Esther's Ferrari is also a work asset: she recalls taking one particular client for a spin in her California and blowing him away with the ride. "I impressed him with my superb driving skills" she laughs. And she closed the deal. | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/magazine/articles/women-entrepreneurs-and-their-ferraris | 2022-05-04T13:08:41Z | https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/magazine/articles/women-entrepreneurs-and-their-ferraris | false | 3 |
TC Energy Co. (TSE:TRP – Get Rating) (NYSE:TRP) – National Bank Financial cut their FY2022 earnings per share estimates for shares of TC Energy in a report issued on Sunday, May 1st. National Bank Financial analyst P. Kenny now anticipates that the company will earn $4.33 per share for the year, down from their prior forecast of $4.38.
TRP has been the topic of a number of other research reports. Wolfe Research downgraded TC Energy to a “sell” rating and set a C$57.00 price target on the stock. in a research report on Monday, April 11th. CSFB boosted their target price on TC Energy from C$74.00 to C$80.00 in a report on Monday, April 11th. Tudor Pickering & Holt lifted their target price on shares of TC Energy from C$63.00 to C$65.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 16th. Morgan Stanley lowered TC Energy to a “sell” rating and set a C$78.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Tuesday, April 26th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets boosted their target price on TC Energy from C$70.00 to C$73.00 in a research report on Wednesday, February 16th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, nine have assigned a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of C$70.50.
TC Energy (TSE:TRP – Get Rating) (NYSE:TRP) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 15th. The company reported C$1.06 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of C$1.06. The company had revenue of C$3.58 billion for the quarter.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 29th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 30th will be paid a $0.90 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, June 29th. This represents a $3.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.19%. TC Energy’s payout ratio is currently 188.71%.
In other news, Director Mark Yeomans purchased 421 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, March 30th. The stock was bought at an average cost of C$71.04 per share, with a total value of C$29,906.32. Following the purchase, the director now directly owns 2,987 shares of the company’s stock, valued at C$212,185.73. Also, Senior Officer Joel E. Hunter sold 20,282 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of C$66.47, for a total transaction of C$1,348,158.74. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 8,660 shares of the company’s stock, valued at C$575,636.26. In the last quarter, insiders have acquired 6,411 shares of company stock valued at $443,372 and have sold 128,831 shares valued at $8,895,866.
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TC Energy Corporation operates as an energy infrastructure company in North America. It operates through five segments: Canadian Natural Gas Pipelines; U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines; Mexico Natural Gas Pipelines; Liquids Pipelines; and Power and Storage. The company builds and operates 93,300 km network of natural gas pipelines, which transports natural gas from supply basins to local distribution companies, power generation plants, industrial facilities, interconnecting pipelines, LNG export terminals, and other businesses.
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Beijing: The arrest of an individual with the last name 'Ma' in China left people in utter shock who dumped shares in Alibaba that eroded a massive $27 billion in its share value, as investors thought the person arrested was the billionaire Jack Ma.
China's state broadcaster CCTV first reported that police in Hangzhou, Alibaba's home city, had taken "compulsory measures" against an individual with the last name 'Ma'.
CCTV alleged late on Tuesday that Ma had been apprehended on charges of using the internet to engage in activities endangering national security.
The shocked Investors quickly dumped their shares, causing the stock to crash by as much as 9.4 per cent, erasing about $27 billion in share value.
According to Nikkei Asia, an ambiguous news report that sparked a fall in the shares of Alibaba Group Holding became the subject of intense speculation in China on Wednesday.
CCTV had later revised its report "to reflect a clarification issued by Hangzhou's police: The arrested individual's full name has three characters".
The individual in question was a hardware research director at a Chinese tech company.
'Ma' is the 13th most common surname in China, according to a 2019 report by China's Ministry of Public Security.
Hangzhou, a city of 12 million people, may have more than 100,000 people surnamed Ma.
Earlier this year, China's state broadcaster implicated Jack Ma's Ant Group in a corruption scandal, ratcheting up pressure on the billionaire following a crackdown that has wiped billions of dollars from his internet empire.
The fintech group with more than 1 billion users struggles to overhaul its business to comply with the authorities' demands.
Chinese regulators first pulled the plug on a $37 billion initial public offer planned by the company in 2020 and forced it to restructure.
Ant this year suffered a setback to its government-led reform efforts after a state-owned asset manager pulled out of a deal to invest in the fintech's lending arm without explanation, according to reports. | https://zeenews.india.com/international-business/ma-arrested-in-china-but-what-made-investors-of-alibaba-dump-27-billion-2460220.html | 2022-05-04T13:10:25Z | https://zeenews.india.com/international-business/ma-arrested-in-china-but-what-made-investors-of-alibaba-dump-27-billion-2460220.html | false | 4 |
ARLINGTON, Va., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The National Council on Aging (NCOA), the national voice for every person's right to age well, is working with members of the aging services network to distribute ride codes from Lyft that older adults can use to get to the polls this election year. The primary season starts in earnest in May, with 13 states holding elections.
"Older adults want to participate in our democracy, but many do not have transportation to get to polling stations," said Ramsey Alwin, NCOA President and CEO. "Lyft's Voting Access Program will help ensure that older adults have access to transportation necessary to make their voices heard where it matters—in the voting booth."
As part of the company's 2022 LyftUp Voting Access Program, Lyft has provided ride codes with a value of up to $25 each to travel to polling stations. NCOA will distribute the codes to professionals at local nonprofit organizations across the country who can help their older clients use them.
During the pandemic, NCOA and Lyft partnered to provide access to reliable, affordable transportation for older adults to get their COVID vaccines and booster shots. Over 1,750 older adults and caregivers used the $50 codes to redeem more than 3,500 rides.
About NCOA
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) is the national voice for every person's right to age well. We believe that how we age should not be determined by gender, color, sexuality, income, or zip code. Working with thousands of national and local partners, we provide resources, tools, best practices, and advocacy to ensure every person can age with health and financial security. Founded in 1950, we are the oldest national organization focused on older adults. Learn more at www.ncoa.org and @NCOAging.
About Lyft
Lyft was founded in 2012 and is one of the largest transportation networks in the United States and Canada. As the world shifts away from car ownership to transportation-as-a-service, Lyft is at the forefront of this massive societal change. Our transportation network brings together rideshare, bikes, scooters, car rentals and transit all in one app. We are singularly driven by our mission: to improve people's lives with the world's best transportation.
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NEW YORK, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The global pandemic engendered a shift to hybrid workforces that most expect to have a longstanding impact on the future of work. Hybrid work, when coupled with the build-up to the metaverse, creates a fertile foundation for both the collaboration market at large and the immersive market. ABI Research, a global technology intelligence firm, expects the nascent immersive collaboration market to eclipse US$22 billion by 2030, representing nearly 35% of the total collaboration market (software/services, dedicated video collaboration, and hardware). Growth in some areas of the collaboration market is expected to slow as more of the workforce returns to the office and in-person events resume, but the growth curve is not expected to shift down to pre-pandemic trends.
"When we hear about the metaverse, many thoughts move directly to deeply immersive 3D worlds and a dramatically different way of engaging with content, services, and work. While this long-term vision could one day come to fruition, there are significant steps and transformations that must occur before we arrive to that future. When we think of the metaverse, it is equally important to consider the buildup to the metaverse future, rather than just what that future may look like," says Michael Inouye, Metaverse Markets & Technologies Principal Analyst at ABI Research.
While some companies are pushing workers to return to the office, a significant segment of the working population is committed to maintaining a more flexible, hybrid approach to in-office and remote. To support the hybrid workforce, more companies are converting (or will convert) more office space for collaboration versus individual offices. This includes an expansion of conference rooms and huddle spaces and, more critically, the penetration rates of video enabled meeting spaces, which by many accounts currently sits below 10% of meeting rooms. Virtual communications, moving workflows to the cloud, and the growing presence of immersive (i.e., avatars in video conferencing services, virtual spaces to collaborate) are all precursors to what the future of work will look like.
Inouye points out that, "The road to the metaverse will be long, but in notable cases, we can see a clearer picture of what this future will look like on the enterprise side compared to the consumer space. NVIDIA's Omniverse platform is already a testament to the power of simulations and interoperability between applications in creating workflow efficiencies. Relatedly, there is a general push toward interoperability and support for third party applications that is currently lacking on the consumer side." One key event for both consumer and enterprise will be the arrival of mainstream smart glasses. These devices will dramatically shift how and when communications and collaboration can and will happen. "Smart glasses will significantly shift the demands on connectivity, performance of services, and compute – extending opportunities from the metaverse to a wider breadth of companies and industries," Inouye concludes.
These findings are from ABI Research's Enterprise Metaverse: Future of Work market data report. This report is part of the company's Metaverse Markets & Technologies research service, which includes research, data, and ABI Insights. Market Data spreadsheets are composed of deep data, market share analysis, and highly segmented, service-specific forecasts to provide detailed insight where opportunities lie.
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Wetherspoons customers could face further price hikes amid 'cost pressures'. Tim Martin, chain boss, has spoken about how labour, food and energy costs have increased.
He said: "As many hospitality companies have indicated, there is considerable pressure on costs, especially in respect of labour, food and energy. Repairs are also running at a higher rate than before the pandemic."
These statements come after Wetherspoons upped its prices in March, adding 10p to the cost of a pint across most of the UK but 20p in London. The increase is around 4% in the capital, and 2% across the rest of the country, The Sun reports .
The company said its sales are improving and it expects to break even this year as it gave a financial update this morning. It has closed a total of 14 pubs since the beginning of the financial year.
Last year, Wetherspoon slashed the price of its popular steak and curry club deals on certain days of the week. Customers can save up to £1.60 when they order one of the offers - but only on Tuesdays or Thursdays.
It's not the only major change at the chain over the last year. In 2021 the firm announced it would axe pints of John Smiths and Strongbow from the menu as part of a shake-up of its drinks options. It ended its 41-year partnership with Heineken and signed a new deal with Budweiser.
That means Budweiser, Stella Artois, Corona, Leffe Blonde and Bud Light, as well as Bathtub Gin, Bud Light Seltzer and Mike’s Hard Seltzer are now available at all locations across the UK. | https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/wetherspoons-prices-could-rise-even-23859219 | 2022-05-04T13:17:59Z | https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/wetherspoons-prices-could-rise-even-23859219 | false | 1 |
The UK is inviting Elon Musk to discuss his plans for Twitter
Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter acquisition hasn't even been finalized yet, but UK's MPs are already inviting him to discuss the changes he wants to implement for the website. The UK House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee MPs told Musk in a letter (PDF) that they're particularly interested in hearing about his intention to roll out verification for all users. They said it echoes their calls on the government as part of a proposed legislation.
Committee Chairperson Julian Knight also wrote:
"Our 2020 Report on Misinformation in the Covid ‘Infodemic’ called for greater transparency of bots and automated and spam accounts, whilst our recent Report on the UK’s Online Safety Bill discussed ways to balance civil liberties like freedom of expression with the need to tackle pernicious, pervasive online child sexual exploitation and abuse."
That suggests that the MPs are looking to discuss the balance between freedom of speech and censorship on the platform and how Musk plans to tackle it. The multi-company exec previously described himself as a "free-speech absolutist," and it remains to be see if and how that will change Twitter's moderation practices.
Twitter under Musk might start charging users to embed tweets from verified accounts, according to a report from Reuters. He also reportedly suggested changes to Twitter Blue, the website's subscription service, to make it more appealing to paying users. In addition, he reportedly floated the idea of job cuts in talks with banks to secure financing for his buyout. More recently, he tweeted that the website will remain free for casual users, but that it might start charging commercial entities and government agencies.
Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 3, 2022
The MPs letter is only an invitation, however, and Musk isn't legally required to attend. Their committee has a history of summoning CEOs that don't show up, but that hasn't stopped them from trying to get execs to talk. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, previously refused their requests and only sent a representative to appear before the committee. | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-inviting-elon-musk-discuss-plans-twitter-121015542.html | 2022-05-04T13:22:12Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-inviting-elon-musk-discuss-plans-twitter-121015542.html | true | 2 |
- 17th annual conference will cover industry leaders from public and private companies across the full spectrum of the food value chain, including agribusiness, fertilizer, ag chemicals, food and beverage, cannabis, retail distribution, grocery and restaurant sectors
NEW YORK, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BMO Capital Markets is hosting its 17th annual Global Farm to Market Conference on May 18th and 19th, 2022 in New York. This year's conference will gather leaders from a range of businesses involved in the food chain and feature thematic panel sessions, company presentations, fireside chats and one-on-one meetings.
All businesses across agriculture and the food chain, from crop inputs to food service, have experienced volatility since the start of the pandemic, made worse by the war in Ukraine. At this event, companies, analysts and investors will discuss how companies are responding to higher commodity prices and rising inflation, shifting consumer behaviors, elasticity of demand, food security concerns, supply chain challenges and workforce issues. At the same time, ESG continues to be a priority as growers figure out how to monetize more sustainable farming practices and better integrate with the downstream food supply chain. Key topics also include how companies will deploy the current influx of cash created by higher profitability and high demand to fuel future growth and return cash to shareholders, along with how companies managing through the challenging inflationary and supply environment will balance strategic planning for the short and long terms.
BMO hosts and analysts Ken Zaslow (Food & Agribusiness), Joel Jackson (Fertilizer and Chemicals), Kelly Bania (Food Retail & Distribution), Andrew Strelzik (Restaurants and Beverages) and Tamy Chen (Cannabis) will address these and other relevant topics for an audience of institutional investors, financial sponsors and company attendees.
Senior executives from more than 70 companies leading agribusiness, fertilizer, ag chemicals, food and beverage, cannabis, retail distribution, grocery and restaurant businesses will discuss important industry trends. Participants include:
- The Andersons (ANDE)
- Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
- Bayer (BAYN)
- BHP (BHP)
- Bunge (BG)
- Cal-Maine Foods (CALM)
- CF Industries (CF)
- Corteva (CTVA)
- FMC (FMC)
- General Mills (GIS)
- Kroger (KR)
- Kura Sushi (KRUS)
- Nutrien (NTR)
- Pilgrim's Pride (PPC)
- Tyson Foods (TSN)
- Zevia (ZVIA)
News media who would like to receive a copy of the agenda or arrange an interview with BMO analysts at the conference or online are asked to contact BMO Media Relations using the contact details below. (Note: Not all speakers will be available to media at the conference. Details will be provided upon registration.)
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.02 trillion as of January 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
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Astros' Dusty Baker becomes first Black manager to win 2,000 games
HOUSTON - Just call him Mr. 2,000.
Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker won his 2,000th game Tuesday night, becoming the 12th manager in major league history to reach the milestone and the first Black man to do it.
The benchmark victory came in Houston’s 4-0 win over the Seattle Mariners and comes more than 29 years after he collected his first win on April 9, 1993, in San Francisco’s 2-1 victory over St. Louis.
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Before Tuesday’s game, while still sitting at 1,999 wins, Baker was asked what it would mean to him to reach 2,000.
"You can’t look back because you have work to do going forward," Baker said. "And you can’t gloat about what you’ve done until after your career is over with. Then when your career is over with, then you assess the entire situation. But while you’re in it, you don’t have time to do that."
But the 72-year-old Baker did acknowledge that being the first Black manager to reach 2,000 wins makes the achievement more meaningful.
"It means extra," he said. "It means extra to the culture. It means extra to society. It means extra to my race, and it means extra hopefully for others to get an opportunity (so) I’m not the last."
It’s the latest milestone in a storied career as a player and manager that has spanned more than 50 years.
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Here are some of Baker’s previous milestone wins as a manager:
- Win #1: April 6, 1993 - San Francisco at St. Louis
- Win #500: June 1, 1999 - San Francisco at Philadelphia
- Win #1000: August 30, 2004 - Chicago at Montreal
- Win #1500: May 9, 2012 - Cincinnati at Milwaukee
Baker has reached the World Series twice as a manager, last season with the Astros and in 2002 with the Giants. As a player, he went three times with the Dodgers, winning it all as a big-hitting left fielder in 1981.
Ten of the 11 other managers who have accumulated at least 2,000 wins are in the Hall of Fame. Bruce Bochy (2,003), who isn’t yet eligible, is the only exception.
Baker’s career record is 2,000-1,745 and he’s the only manager in major league history to take five different teams to the postseason.
Manager Dusty Baker Jr. #12 of the Houston Astros is honored for his 2000th career win after a game against Seattle Mariners at Minute Maid Park on May 03, 2022 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
Baker collected 840 wins in 10 years with the Giants, 322 in four seasons with the Cubs, 509 in six years with the Reds, 192 in two seasons with the Nationals and has 137 in his tenure with the Astros.
He reached 500 wins while still with the Giants in a 6-5 victory over the Phillies on June 1, 1999. His 1,000th win came on Aug. 30, 2004, while managing the Cubs to a 5-2 victory over Montreal. Win No. 1,500 came on May 9, 2012, with the Reds in a 2-1 triumph over Milwaukee.
"It’s an honor to play for somebody who loves the game and loves his team and is so knowledgeable about the game of baseball and who has had such a storied career," Houston third baseman Alex Bregman said. "To be able to learn from him, play for him and just to be able to suit up with him every single day is very special and nobody in here takes that for granted."
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There was a time Baker wondered if he’d even get a chance to chase this milestone. After being fired by the Nationals following a 97-win season in 2017, Baker didn’t get another job until 2020 after Houston’s sign-stealing scandal cost manager A.J. Hinch his job.
"If there wasn’t a scandal, I wouldn’t be in this position," Baker said. "My phone wasn’t ringing off the hook. Three different times I lost jobs and twice I was winning, and I didn’t get a call for two years... so, yeah, it’s just a matter of perseverance. And I’m here and I’m... where I’m supposed to be."
Baker, who needs 41 more wins to move all the way up to No. 9 on the career list, was asked about cracking the top 10.
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What changed in the one month since the last monetary policy review for the rate-setting committee to announce a mid-cycle rate hike? After all, the Russia-Ukraine war has been ongoing for two months now, disrupted global supply chains are no closer to being mended than they were a month ago, and even core inflation in India has been above 6 percent for quite some time, which the central bank chose to ignore. The trigger, perhaps, could be a couple of factors....
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TORONTO — Aaron Judge smiled when he heard the story. It was simple, really. A grown man wearing a Blue Jays cap just happened to be in the right spot at the right time when Judge crushed a 427-foot, sixth-inning home run Tuesday night.
After catching the ball, he turned and saw a young boy in a Yankee cap and Judge shirt, so he gave him the ball. The boy burst out in tears and hugged the man.
“That’s special right there,” Judge said when told the story. “Yankees fans are all around the world. They’re passionate about this game, and to have a little one like that, he’s starting out the right way.”
When told it was a Blue Jays fan who gave the boy the ball, Judge was impressed.
“No way,” Judge said. “That’s what’s special about this game. It doesn’t matter what jersey you wear. Everybody appreciates this game. That’s pretty cool. I’ve got to check out that video.”
The video, shown on the YES Network, was all over social media before the Yankees wrapped up their 9-1 win over the Blue Jays. | https://www.mcall.com/sports/yankees/ny-aaron-judge-blue-jays-fan-home-run-ball-20220504-ripzjzgjj5eddlol3gxwkim77u-story.html | 2022-05-04T13:26:46Z | https://www.mcall.com/sports/yankees/ny-aaron-judge-blue-jays-fan-home-run-ball-20220504-ripzjzgjj5eddlol3gxwkim77u-story.html | true | 8 |
In the last trading session, 1.28 million NextDecade Corporation (NASDAQ:NEXT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.37. With the company’s per share price at $6.31 changed hands at $0.14 or 2.27% during last session, the market valuation stood at $866.11M. NEXT’s last price was a discount, traded about -23.77% off its 52-week high of $7.81. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.84, which suggests the last value was 70.84% up since then. When we look at NextDecade Corporation’s average trading volume, we note the 3-month average coming to 1.60 million.
Analysts gave the NextDecade Corporation (NEXT) stock a consensus recommendation rating of an Overweight, calculated at a mean rating of 2.50. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 5 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended NEXT as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. NextDecade Corporation’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -$0.06.
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NextDecade Corporation (NASDAQ:NEXT) trade information
Instantly NEXT was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 11.48%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The jump to weekly highs of 6.73 on Tuesday, 05/03/22 added 2.27% to the stock’s daily price. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 121.40%, with the 5-day performance at 11.48% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, NextDecade Corporation (NASDAQ:NEXT) is -9.08% down.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $7.50, meaning bulls need an upside of 15.87% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, NEXT’s forecast low is $4.50 with $9.50 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -50.55% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 28.68% for it to hit the projected low.
NextDecade Corporation (NEXT) estimates and forecasts
Moreover, analysts have looked to higher expectations by upgrading its fiscal year 2022 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict current quarter revenue for NextDecade Corporation will rise 14.30%, while the growth in revenue is estimated to hit -80.00% for the next quarter.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -28.50%. The 2022 estimates are for NextDecade Corporation earnings to decrease by -38.40%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 0.60% per year.
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NextDecade Corporation is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report between March 23 and March 28.
NextDecade Corporation (NASDAQ:NEXT)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.59% of NextDecade Corporation shares while 83.53% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 85.75%. There are 83.53% institutions holding the NextDecade Corporation stock share, with York Capital Management Global Advisors, LLC the top institutional holder. As of Dec 30, 2021, the company held 43.88% of the shares, roughly 54.34 million NEXT shares worth $154.86 million.
Valinor Management, LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 11.90% or 14.74 million shares worth $40.97 million as of Sep 29, 2021.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 30, 2021 were Mutual Fund Ser Tr-Catalyst MLP & Infrastructure Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. With 0.87 million shares estimated at $2.48 million under it, the former controlled 0.70% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 0.69% of the shares, roughly 0.86 million shares worth around $2.39 million. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/05/04/stock-price-performance-and-outlook-of-nextdecade-corporation/ | 2022-05-04T13:29:08Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/05/04/stock-price-performance-and-outlook-of-nextdecade-corporation/ | false | 1268 |
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle firefighters were working to determine the cause of a fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon and that virtually destroyed three boats and a boathouse on the Duwamish River waterway near downtown.
It also left one person dead, KOMO-TV reported.
Firefighters said in a social media post that one person was injured during the blaze although it was not clear if anyone else was hurt. Crews were searching other boats as part of their investigation as firefighters worked to extinguish hot spots, authorities said.
Later in the day, Seattle Fire confirmed it found a person dead inside a boat, which was on fire earlier. It was not clear if anyone was in the boat at the time of the fire, which was reported around 1:45 p.m. in the 6300 block of 1st Ave. S. near State Route 99 and W. Marginal Way.
The fire sent thick plumes of black smoke into the air as flames shot airborne from the fire.
Officials did not immediately provide a damage estimate from the fire. | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/1-dead-3-boats-destroyed-in-fire-on-Duwamish-17146793.php | 2022-05-04T13:33:12Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/1-dead-3-boats-destroyed-in-fire-on-Duwamish-17146793.php | false | 11 |
Natasha David’s idea of a great cocktail is “one that encourages interaction and thoughtful debate, that lifts the spirits, and comforts a broken heart.” She’s never had the desire to get drunk, and the few times she’s had one too many, she confesses, “I had zero fun.”
Helping people create glass-raising memories that don’t include head-splitting hangovers is the mission of her debut book, “Drink Lightly: A Lighter Take on Serious Cocktails, with 100+ Recipes for Low-and No-Alcohol Drinks” (Potter, $26.99). Its colorful pages and prose are as light-hearted and luminous as the disco ball that spun inside her much-lauded New York City cocktail bar, Nitecap, until COVID-19 forced it to close.
David traveled the world’s concert halls and opera houses as a child with her parents, a Japanese-American concert pianist and an Israeli conductor, who entertained lavishly and often. She recalls how glamorous her mother looked holding a spritz of bubbly water and white wine as she prepped for her parties.
That image followed her into the Irish pub where she worked while studying theater at New York University, and through stints behind top-notch bars where she honed her cocktail-making skills. At the end of those shifts, she found herself craving her mom’s low-octane elixir of choice, while her cohorts downed shots of whiskey.
Once in control of her own bar program, she turned her focus to designing more complex drinks in that vein with alcohol content so low, “you get a lovely little buzz but can remember everything the morning after.”
David offers helpful tutorials in techniques, tools and ingredients including her favorite low-ABV spirits for recipes with names such as Cat Eye, Wiggle Room and Landscape Painting. Many made for thirst-inducing reading, though not quite enough to inspire investing in the specialty spirits to make them.
But I was intrigued enough to mix up a pitcher of Jam Session — fino sherry, ginger kombucha, watermelon juice and cucumber slices — for an alfresco potluck. It was a refreshing and memorable way to raise a toast to warm weather and good friends, with just the right buzz.
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Gareth Bale accused of ‘ugly gesture’ in another attack by Spanish media as Real Madrid transfer exit looms
GARETH BALE Has been attacked by the Spanish media yet again - this time accused of an 'ugly gesture'.
Real Madrid reclaimed their LaLiga crown with a 4-0 drubbing of Espanyol on Saturday before partying into the night.
Bale was a notable absentee for the celebrations, with the former Tottenham man the only Los Blancos player who missed the bash.
The winger - who will quit the club this summer and could even retire if Wales fail to qualify for the 2022 World Cup - explained he missed the bash due to injury.
Bale tweeted: "CAMPEONES! So disappointed that I’m not able to be part of the celebrations this evening due to a bad back spasm.
"But really proud of the team for winning the title! Enjoy tonight boys! #HalaMadrid."
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However, his tweet did not go down well with the Spanish media, who took aim at the Welshman for failing to join his Los Blancos pals at the party.
Real Madrid paper Marca called his absence "an ugly gesture on a day of joy for the squad and the fans".
Marca had previously called Bale a "parasite" after he missed the El Clasico thrashing at the hands of Barcelona - only to be deemed fit enough to play for his country days later.
Elsewhere, Spanish outlet El Mundo took aim at his recent absence, writing: "The fight to take Wales to the World Cup is his great objective.
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"If he fails, there's a good chance he'll quit football.
"None of that worries Madrid anymore."
Bale has won three LaLiga titles and four Champions League crowns during his time at the Bernabeu, scoring over 100 times in all competitions in the process.
But now, following a tough loan spell at Spurs last season, the Welsh ace is set to move to the MLS to join DC United - or even return to boyhood club Cardiff City in the summer.
However, Bale is reportedly keen to stay in Spain, albeit with a different club.
Even then, if Wales lose their World Cup play-off clash against one of Scotland and Ukraine, Bale could hang up his boots entirely. | https://www.the-sun.com/sport/5261493/gareth-bale-ugly-gesture-real-madrid-transfer/ | 2022-05-04T13:38:59Z | https://www.the-sun.com/sport/5261493/gareth-bale-ugly-gesture-real-madrid-transfer/ | false | 4 |
DESTIN, Fla. — It took all hands on deck to capture this massive fish last month off the coast of Destin, Florida.
April Sarver said her son, Devin Sarver, was a deckhand along with his friend Jett Tolbert, aboard Captain Jake Matney's 50-foot NoName when they reeled in a Bluefin tuna, weighing 832 pounds, on Saturday, April 16.
One could imagine that it took the whole team the ensure the catch. It was a four-and-a-half-hour fight to completely reel the fish in.
Family and friends greeted the crew when they arrived back on the dock the following morning. That's where they stood next to the more than 800-pound fish for a photo op. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/regional/giant-bluefin-tuna-destin-florida/67-30c3935d-ba62-408c-b736-b11805ebb725 | 2022-05-04T13:42:27Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/regional/giant-bluefin-tuna-destin-florida/67-30c3935d-ba62-408c-b736-b11805ebb725 | true | null |
Ways to celebrate mom in Northeast Ohio this Mother’s Day
CLEVELAND (WJW)– Looking for a special way to celebrate your mom this Mother’s Day?
What we know about Amazon Prime Day 2022We’ve got a few ideas:
Kentucky Derby-themed Mother’s Day celebration on May 7 and May 8 at Indigo Luxe in South Euclid.
Opening day for the 2022 season is May 7, just in time for any thrill-seeking moms out there.
Treat mom to a night out by seeing Journey and Toto at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on May 7. Tickets start at $45.
Apollo’s Fire: Mozart and the Chevalier
Performances of Mozart at Severance Music Center on May 7 and St. Raphael Catholic Church in Bay Village on May 8.
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
Live showings of the opera at the Apollo Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas and Cedar Lee Theatre on May 7.
The 5K race starts at Market Square at Crocker Park in Westlake on May 8. Registration includes a T-shirt and medal.
Free admission for all moms and grandmas on Mother’s Day.
Free admission for moms on Mother’s Day.
The Ritz-Carlton hosts brunch in the ballroom with a fresh flower bouquet station on May 8. Advance tickets are required.
Music Box Supper Club celebrates moms with Patsy Cline and Neil Diamond-themed brunches at noon and 4 p.m.
Mimosas and brunch buffet for mom at Landerhaven on May 8. You can also add floral arrangements to your ticket.
Board the Goodtime III for brunch on the Cuyahoga River. Tickets are $34.95 for children and $48.95 for adults.
Tall Oaks Signature Events offers brunch and dinner with live entertainment, photo booth, flowers and more on May 8. The event is BYOB.
Wagner’s of Westlake pulls out all the stops with its breakfast and lunch buffet with live music on May 8.
Take mom to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica to see the Grammy-nominated singer. Tickets start at $49.50.
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By Matthew Roscoe • 04 May 2022 • 15:39
BREAKING: Heavy fighting reported inside Azovstal plant in Mariupol as more than 30 children remain trapped. Image: DNR/Russia
HEAVY fighting has been reported inside the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, and despite 101 civilians being evacuated prior to Russian forces storming the facility, more than 30 children are alleged to still be trapped in shelters underneath the steel plant.
The mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, reported that heavy fighting had been heard inside the Azovstal plant on Wednesday, May 4, 24 hours after Russian troops had forced their way into the steel plant.
Video from a DNR account showing Russian/DNR strikes on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Possibly by TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS. Not sure of the date. https://t.co/ZtGmAMDnx0 pic.twitter.com/c5Zy94WpBA — Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 4, 2022
Video from a DNR account showing Russian/DNR strikes on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Possibly by TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS. Not sure of the date. https://t.co/ZtGmAMDnx0 pic.twitter.com/c5Zy94WpBA
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 4, 2022
“Russian soldiers are trying to suppress the desperate resistance of the defenders of Mariupol. Civilians still remain in bomb shelters under the plant,” he said via a United News telethon on Wednesday, May 4.
He also revealed that more civilians including children were still in the Mariupol facility.
“Today there are hundreds of locals. They came to this fortress two months ago, hid there and are waiting to be rescued. There are also children. There are more than 30 children waiting for a new negotiation procedure to evacuate civilians,” he said.
He also said that contact with the defenders had been lost. “Unfortunately, today there is no connection with the boys, there is no connection to understand what is happening, if they are safe or not. Yesterday there was a connection with them, not today.”
Communication with the defenders of Azovstal has been lost just a moment ago, the Mayor of Mariupol says. #SaveMariupol #WarCrimesOfUkraine #WARINUKRAINE pic.twitter.com/KKY7qDwXTN — SecureNews (@yoursecurenews) May 4, 2022
Communication with the defenders of Azovstal has been lost just a moment ago, the Mayor of Mariupol says. #SaveMariupol #WarCrimesOfUkraine #WARINUKRAINE pic.twitter.com/KKY7qDwXTN
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On May 3, the UN revealed that 101 civilians trapped in the Azovstal plant were evacuated before Russian forces stormed the facility in Mariupol.
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The Independent ISO-Certified Security Testing Lab's Impact of Consumer Security Software on System Performance Results is Released
INNSBRUCK, Austria, May 4, 2022 /CNW/ -- AV-Comparatives, the independent ISO-certified security software evaluation lab, has released results for the April 2022 Performance Test, which evaluates the impact of anti-virus software on system performance. As anti-virus software programs run in the background and use system resources, AV-Comparatives helps users evaluate their anti-virus protection in terms of system speed and performance. This independent testing lab is dedicated to informing users about protection against cybercrime with its systematic testing of the market's most popular security software solutions. The company creates a real-world environment for accurate testing by utilizing common use case scenarios.
The Performance Test includes both "Antivirus" and "Internet Security" consumer products, both referred to as security products. The tests conducted by AV-Comparatives for each of the products include file copying, archiving/unarchiving, installing applications, launching applications, downloading files, browsing websites and PC Mark 10 Professional Testing Suite.
The products evaluated by AV-Comparatives for its performance test include:
Avast Free Antivirus, AVG Free Antivirus, Avira Prime, Bitdefender Internet Security, ESET Internet Security, G Data Total Security, K7 Total Security, Kaspersky Internet Security, Malwarebytes Premium, McAfee Total Protection, Microsoft Defender, NortonLifeLock North 360 Deluxe, Panda Free Antivirus, TotalAV Antivirus Pro, Total Defense Essential Antivirus, Trend Micro Internet Security and VIPRE Advanced Security.
AV-Comparatives conducted its spring performance test on a machine with an Intel Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM and SSD hard disks. AV-Comparatives considers this machine configuration as "low-end." The performance tests were done on a clean Windows 10 21H2 64-Bit system (English) and then with the installed consumer security software (with default settings). The tests were done with an active Internet connection to allow for the real-world impact of cloud services/features. In autumn, a high-end machine will be used for this test.
Of the 17 security products assessed, nine were awarded the highest level, Advanced+, including: K7, Panda, ESET, G Data, NortonLifeLock, McAfee, Bitdefender, Avast, AVG. Six products were awarded the second highest level of Advanced, including Kaspersky, VIPRE, Trend Micro, TotalAV, Avira and Malwarebytes. Microsoft and Total Defense received the Standard award.
"We hope that with these tests we can keep users and vendors engaged in system security, and mitigating the ever-evolving threat landscape," said Andreas Clementi, founder of AV-Comparatives. "For these solutions to continue to grow and evolve, tests like these are extremely important to provide accuracy and accountability."
Like all AV-Comparatives' public test reports, the April 2022 Performance Test Results are available for free at this link: https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-april-2022/
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AV-Comparatives is an independent organisation offering systematic testing to examine the efficacy of security software products and mobile security solutions. Using one of the largest sample collection systems worldwide, it has created a real-world environment for truly accurate testing.
AV-Comparatives offers freely accessible av-test results to individuals, news organisations and scientific institutions. Certification by AV-Comparatives provides a globally recognised official seal of approval for software performance.
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Which egg incubator is best?
If you raise or want to start raising chickens or other birds, at some point, you’re going to need to hatch some. In fact, using an egg incubator to hatch your eggs is more successful and reliable than letting hens incubate them naturally. Plus, egg incubators today have plenty of features that take most of the work out of hatching.
The best egg incubator is the Kebonnixs 12-Egg Incubator. It has excellent features, such as automatic turning and an egg candler so you can monitor each egg’s progress.
What to know before you buy an egg incubator
Capacity
The capacity of an egg incubator is determined by its size and the size of the eggs you want to hatch. Most egg incubators will give a capacity estimate based on the average size of a chicken egg, which is the most commonly hatched animal in an egg incubator. For example, a 12-egg incubator can only hold roughly three goose eggs or up to 24 quail eggs.
You don’t need to match your intended brood size to the capacity of the incubator so long as you have enough space. To put it another way, if your prospective incubator can hold 10 eggs but you only plan to hatch five, the extra empty space won’t negatively affect the eggs. Higher capacities cost more, however, so try to balance your needs and your budget.
Forced vs. still air
Forced- and still-air incubators each have pros and cons.
- Forced-air incubators take some of the work out of incubation, especially since they’re always paired with other automatic processes. However, more automated processes mean an increased risk of mechanical failure. Additionally, they also cost more.
- Still-air incubators are more reliable and last longer due to the lack of a fan to push the air and heat around. They also cost less. However, the incubator also needs more direct oversight than one with more technology behind it.
What to look for in a quality egg incubator
Automatic turning
Eggs need to be turned throughout the incubation process for the embryo to develop properly. Egg incubators with automatic turning remove the need to manually turn the eggs, saving effort and the risk of forgetting.
However, eggs need not be turned during the final days of the process. Thus, the best automatic turners have programs to automatically stop turning the eggs. Others need to be manually disengaged.
Ease of cleaning
Eggshells are highly porous. Anything unhealthy inside a batch of eggs can make its way into the incubator and infect the next round of eggs. The best egg incubators can be taken completely apart so each piece can be rigorously cleaned in preparation for the next batch.
How much you can expect to spend on an egg incubator
Egg incubators can cost $20-$2,000. Basic small-batch incubators typically cost $40 or less, while higher capacity and more feature-rich models cost up to $100. Large capacity noncommercial incubators can hit $200, while commercial-grade models can reach or exceed $2,000.
Egg incubator FAQ
What temperature should my incubator be?
A. That depends on what kind of eggs you’re trying to hatch and what type of incubator you have. For example, if you’re hatching chicken eggs, the temperature should be 98 degrees for a forced-air incubator and 101 degrees for a still-air incubator. Use caution, as temperatures above 102 degrees will kill the embryos.
How long does it take to hatch a chicken?
A. Chicken eggs take 21 to 23 days to hatch once put in an incubator. If it’s been longer than 23 days, remove the eggs. They either won’t hatch at all, or they will hatch but into weak animals that will struggle to survive.
What other animals can I hatch in an incubator?
A. Despite incubators being chiefly designed for birds and mainly marketed for hatching chickens, they can actually be used to hatch almost any egg-based animal. That includes nearly any birds or reptiles and even turtles and tortoises. The only limiting factor is whether the incubator is large enough to hold the eggs and if it has the settings a given egg needs to be properly incubated.
What’s the best egg incubator to buy?
Top egg incubator
What you need to know: It is feature-packed and has a high capacity.
What you’ll love: The clear dome makes it easy to observe the process, plus a candler lets you double-check each egg’s progress. It has a digital humidity display and an automatic egg turner that stops turning three days before hatching is set to begin.
What you should consider: Some consumers reported sections of their incubators, such as temperature and humidity controls, stopped working halfway through an incubation period.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top egg incubator for the money
Magicfly Digital Mini Fully Automatic Egg Incubator
What you need to know: It’s simple, effective and affordable.
What you’ll love: It can hold up to 12 eggs, and it has an automatic egg turner, automatic temperature control, humidity alarm, timer and LED display. The entire process is fully automated — just insert your eggs and set the systems to match the animal you’re hatching.
What you should consider: Some customers had issues understanding the user manual and needed to research how to use their incubator elsewhere. Others had problems with the humidity control.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Brinsea Mini II Advance Automatic 7-Egg Incubator
What you need to know: It’s a good pick for hatching a handful of eggs.
What you’ll love: The compact size is perfect for those with limited space but still want a good amount of features. It has fully digital controls and programmable automatic egg turning, so eggs don’t turn close to hatching time. The ABS plastic material is easy to clean.
What you should consider: It’s expensive for the low egg count. It doesn’t have a hygrometer, though you can add one later. The inside is too tight for larger eggs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Chewy and Wayfair
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Which 5G phone is best?
Technology marches ever onward, with the latest and greatest phones of today rocking 5G connectivity. It offers less latency and interference — meaning it’s more efficient — and it’s faster. There’s been a noticeable increase in the amount of 5G phones available since its launch in 2019, which has thankfully driven prices down. Now there’s a 5G phone for everyone on anyone’s budget.
That said, if you want the best, take a look at the Apple iPhone 13 Pro. It has an excellent camera and comes in a mix of colors and data storage options.
What to know before you buy a 5G phone
What is 5G?
5G is, to use appropriate jargon, the fifth generation of a technology standard for broadband cellular networks. Think of it like the upgrade from high definition to 4K TVs — it’s essentially the same but incrementally better. 5G phones have to be built with a special chipset and modem to access it.
Operating system
5G phones use either an Android OS or iOS.
- Android OSs are developed by Google and used by most phone manufacturers outside of Apple. Google and Samsung are the biggest names in 5G Android phones, but plenty of other brands have been making 5G phones since it became available.
- iOS is Apple’s proprietary operating system and is only found on Apple’s line of iPhones. Current Apple phones that are 5G capable are the 12 and 13 product lines and the latest version of their budget SE line.
What to look for in a quality 5G phone
Camera
Many 5G phones are similar in most ways that count, except for one area that manufacturers still try to one-up the others in: the camera. Today, the best 5G phone cameras use three lenses on the back and one on the front, with better camera lenses having higher megapixel counts.
Screen
Screen quality is broken down by size and resolution.
- Size: 5G phones have screen sizes roughly 4 1/2-7 inches long, measured diagonally. What’s quality comes down to intended usage and personal preference. For example, if you plan on streaming movies and TV shows, you should consider a larger screen. However, others may think a half-foot-long phone is too big to be comfortable.
- Resolution: 5G phone resolutions are a little more complex than your TV, as the pixel counts aren’t as standardized and many use confusing brand-specific resolution names. The simplest way to gauge resolution is what quality video can it record, which does use standardized resolution names: high definition (720p), full HD (1080p) and 4K (1440p).
Data storage
Most phones have a set amount of data they can store and don’t have the ability to add more later using secure digital cards. Cloud storage can mitigate how much storage you need, but it’s still a good idea to have more than you expect you need. Most 5G phones offer at least 100 gigabytes of storage, with 250GB and 500GB being equally common. A handful offer 1 terabyte, which is 1000GB, or 2TB.
Battery
5G taxes a phone’s battery more than previous generations of connection, so despite most 5G phones having better batteries the average battery life has stayed relatively constant — roughly 8-12 hours on a full charge.
How much you can expect to spend on a 5G phone
5G phones typically cost $400-$1,200. Budget phones can be found for $400-$600, but they won’t have much in the way of features. Better phones cost $600-$800 while the most advanced models start around $800.
5G phone FAQ
Do I need to upgrade to a 5G phone right away?
A. No. The previous generation — 4G LTE — is more than enough for many users. In fact, as more users migrate over to 5G networks, the 4G LTE network will slightly improve due to the reduced traffic. However, you won’t see improvements as great as upgrading to 5G.
Do I need a special phone plan to take advantage of a 5G network?
A. That depends on your carrier. For example, most carriers include a standard 5G connection with your data plan. But, Verizon offers a special ultra-wideband tier of service only accessible with costlier data plans.
Are 5G phones safe?
A. Yes, 5G phones and 5G connections are just as safe as previous generations of both phones and services. It does not spread anything but improved performance.
What’s the best 5G phone to buy?
Top 5G phone
What you need to know: If you’re a fan of Apple, this is their latest feature-packed iPhone.
What you’ll love: The front notch is smaller than previous models. It has a 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR display and 12-megapixel telephoto, wide and ultra-wide camera lenses. Its battery can last for up to 22 hours, and the body uses a durable ceramic shield.
What you should consider: Apple phones are among the most expensive. You can’t upgrade your data storage after the fact. Apple products require specially made accessories.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 5G phone for the money
What you need to know: While it’s a quality phone overall, its camera is where it really shines.
What you’ll love: It has an 8-megapixel telephoto lens, a 12-megapixel wide and ultra-wide lens and a 32-megapixel front-facing lens. It has a 30x zoom that doesn’t lose resolution and an EngageZoom Lock to reduce camera shake while zoomed. It can recharge up to half its battery in only 30 minutes.
What you should consider: It doesn’t offer upgradable storage after purchase. Some customers had issues with the speakerphone function being too quiet. It doesn’t include a wall adapter for charging.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: The popular Pixel 6 is a complete redesign over its predecessors.
What you’ll love: It has a 50-megapixel wide lens that can capture more than double the amount of light of similar phones, plus a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens and an 8-megapixel front lens. It also has a suite of editing tools preinstalled and comes in three colors and two data storage sizes.
What you should consider: It updates frequently, which can be a hassle for active users. Some purchasers felt it was more fragile than similar phones — a case is recommended.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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By Steve Oko
Barely 24 hours after a crowd of aggrieved youths stormed the Umuahia state secretariat of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, calling for the sack of the State Chairman, Rt. Hon. Asiforo Okere, another crowd, Wednesday, besieged the venue in solidarity with the Chairman.
The group under the aegis of Abia for Better Initiative, during the solidarity march passed a vote of confidence on the Okere-led leadership of the party.
They carried placards bearing various inscriptions such as: “Leave Asiforo alone” ; “He will deliver, Asiforo Okere will lead PDP to victory”; “Propaganda doesn’t win elections”; “Go to work, Asiforo relax, no shaking”; amongst others.
The group urged the state party Chairman to disregard the calls for his sack which they said were being championed by “paid agents whose mission is to distabilise the party”.
Leader of the group, Comrade Amaogu Festus who spoke on behalf of the group, described Okere as a man of peace and a stabilising force.
He assured him of the full support of the party faithful across the state, and urging him not to succumb to intimidation by those who want to hijack the party leadership.
Responding, Okere said he was not moved “because such things are bound to happen in democracy”, adding that the people who staged the earlier protest were misinformed.
Okere said that “the PDP EXCO is united as a team to take the party to victory come 2023 as well as working tirelessly to recover all the lost political positions for the party in Abia State”.
He also said that ” the State Working Committee of PDP is working in synergy with the leader of the party, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu”, and assured that “the party is in safe hands and not divided as speculated”.
The State Executive Committee of the party, has also dismissed the protest, petitions and calls for the sack of the State Chairman as ” spurious and laughable”.
In a statement signed by the 47 members of the Committee, the party leadership said that the signatories to the petitions were faceless, adding that their claims are “baseless and unfounded.”
The statement denied the allegation that the state Chairman had secretly sold nomination forms to his preferred candidates.
It also dismissed as false, the allegation that the state Chairman had sent somebody to the national headquarters of the party to collect materials for the delegate election.
The statement further absolved Okere of any wrongdoing in the zoning of the governorship ticket of the party to Abia Central and Abia North districts simultaneously, saying it was the collective decicion of members of the SWC.
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Maybe this article lost you at hello. Maybe you read the headline about supersizing your clit and were like, Thanks, but I’m actually fine with the natural dimensions of my bean. Fair, but wait.
We’d like you to meet a person named Kristie.
Kristie is 34, a mom of two, a makeup artist in Phoenix. And the way she tells it, a drug dealer saved her sex life. Kristie and her husband, married since 2017, had a tough go of the baby years. Pregnancy and breastfeeding cratered Kristie’s libido. She wanted to want sex. She missed it. But she just wasn’t feeling it on her own.
She went to her regular gynecologist, who didn’t offer much guidance. The doctor referred her to a sexual-health specialist, but Kristie couldn’t afford the out-of-network costs. So she took matters into her own hands. Last November, she found someone online who would sell her what she’d been googling for weeks: a possible hormonal remedy, whispered about on internet forums, that she wasn’t legally allowed to acquire at all.
Using an anonymous CashApp account, she traded $150 in Bitcoin for a one-month supply of an anabolic steroid cream. The active ingredient? DHT, a potent chemical cousin of testosterone and a popular black-market substance among bodybuilders. Kristie was determined to get swole in a very specific way—by beefing up her clitoris.
She began by applying a small amount of the cream with her fingers twice each day. In less than a week, Kristie’s clitoris was plumper and more sensitive. Orgasms were suddenly easier, arriving after just 20 minutes of stimulation rather than the full hour they’d often required. Each climax was more intense too, originating from what felt like someplace deep within, radiating in waves through her entire pelvic zone. Five months later, her clit continues to tingle with growth. “I feel like a 14-year-old boy wanting to hump everything I see,” she says.
The notion of optimizing the human body for some desired benefit—brighter moods, genius brainpower, a healthier gut biome—has fueled trends like cryotherapy, UV light boxes, and keto diets. Now, led by a phalanx of online enthusiasts, the biohacking boom has come for the clitoris. In public forums like the subreddit Grow Your Clit, which some 29,000 people have joined since its founding in 2019, members share anecdotal advice. Plenty of people post close-up pics for reference. On social networking sites like FetLife, where Kristie first learned about clit enlargement, users trade similar stories, cataloging their experiences with testosterone and DHT. The medical specialists Cosmo spoke to for this story say they too have noticed an uptick in patient interest as of late.
Online clit cultivators self-identify as straight, queer, gay, cisgender, trans, non-binary, monogamously married, unpartnered polyamorous, kinky, and vanilla. Their personal goals vary just as widely: Some seek a larger clit as a solution for persistent low arousal or barely there orgasms. For others, growth is a treatment modality for gender dysphoria. For lots of people, enlargement is not a treatment at all but an aesthetic choice.
The lucky ones are able to obtain hormones through doctors, with consults and prescriptions covered by insurance. The less lucky, like Kristie, are compelled to flout the law by scoring black-market drugs and figuring out dosages on their own. Certain moralists might cluck their tongues and wonder, Who should really be using these meds? But the spirit in this community is that everyone’s reasons are valid. You could even say the bigger question—not just for people growing their clits but for any of us who like to have a say in decisions about our own bodies—is: Why should anyone have to explain their reasons?
To be clear, the clitoris is more than a nerve-rich button near the pubic bone. That’s just the visible part, called the glans. The organ actually extends inches into the body in a winglike formation, its entire structure responsive to arousal cues. Genetics is the main determinant of clit size, says Marci Bowers, MD, a gynecologist and surgeon in California specializing in gender-affirming procedures. Naturally occurring testosterone—the amount your body makes on its own—might play a role as well.
There’s no question that synthetic testosterone and related hormones—creams like Kristie’s applied directly to the clit, or gels and injections administered elsewhere on the body—can size up a clitoris by binding to its androgen receptors and increasing blood flow. (Testosterone is also a well-known driver of libido and arousal. A task force of 11 medical organizations, including the Endocrine Society, even has clinical guidelines for using it to treat chronically low sexual desire.)
But intimate satisfaction isn’t solely dependent on clit size. Right now, for example, there’s no scientific evidence that an enlarged clitoris develops additional nerve endings. What is possible, though, says Meera Shah, MD, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic in New York, is that a greater surface area may make certain sensations—the blood rush of arousal, physical touch—more noticeable.
Better understood are the potential side effects that come with taking testosterone, things like thicker body hair, thinning hair hair, acne, a deeper voice, ovulation issues, and high cholesterol, among others. Soon after she tried DIYing her DHT, Kristie experienced heart palpitations, a weird sense of rage, and insomnia, which prompted her to scale back. “I wasn’t dosing myself correctly,” she says.
Doctors, including Dr. Bowers and Dr. Shah, generally advise against using non-prescribed testosterone. “You have to get the right balance for it to work,” says Dr. Bowers. “It’s about threading the needle in terms of side-effect tolerance versus an intended benefit.” Through trial and error, Kristie eventually settled on a dose that feels good, and she’s okay with the slightly deeper voice and additional body hair it’s brought her. “I do identify as genderfluid and non-binary,” she says. “A lot of women in the community would be bothered by a voice change or hair growth, but personally, I don’t mind.” In the clit-growing world, certain side effects are not universally viewed as good or bad. (Some users want a cute little ’stache.)
All this points to another reason clit enlargement may be gaining ground: Notions of masculinity and femininity are undergoing a cultural remix. “We’ve expanded our definitions of what it is to be a gendered person,” Dr. Bowers says. “Who’s to say what is a feminine ideal anymore? Who’s to say what is a masculine ideal? Maybe coming to the middle a little bit is attractive.”
After all, a bigger, more prominent clit, a physical change that may feel ultra feminine to one person, can feel just as affirming to a non-cis person. Rachel, 33, is trans and non-binary, and after nearly two and a half years on low doses of testosterone, prescribed by a doctor and covered by insurance, their clit is now large enough to produce visible erections. “It’s basically a tiny little dick,” says the Arizona doctoral candidate. “It’s exciting and arousing. I get to walk around with a secret, and I get to share it with the people I want to share it with.” Plus, Rachel notes, “getting blow jobs is great.”
When Betty*, 30, stumbled into the Grow Your Clit community, she was intrigued. Orgasms had always eluded her, but she’d found pleasure in other ways. Still, could a larger clit make her sex life even better? She decided to find out, at first assuming that testosterone would be easy to get. She had a government job with good health insurance. “I thought I could just find any endocrinologist,” she says. But those doctors didn’t know what to do with a patient like Betty—young, healthy, and cisgender, with nothing really amiss.
The first doctor she saw rejected her reasons for wanting hormones. So did the second…and the fifth. “I found out that most of these providers were for postmenopausal or perimenopausal women who were having issues with their natural hormones.”
Finally, last March, after months on a waiting list, she got an appointment at a trans-focused health clinic in Pennsylvania. The provider didn’t demand she “prove” her need for the hormone. Instead, Betty was counseled on the drug’s potential effects, then allowed to decide for herself whether it met her needs—a model known as informed consent.
She opted in and got an $80, three-month supply of testosterone that’s since grown her clitoris enough to make contact with her husband’s penis during sex. One of the first orgasms she had in this way was, well, memorable. “I could see my clitoris pulsate,” Betty says. “It blew my mind.”
Betty considers herself fortunate but also situates herself on history’s timeline of women who have faced medical gatekeeping about their own anatomy: “It feels like when people used to say, ‘Sorry, you can’t get a hysterectomy. You don’t have three kids and your husband won’t approve it.’”
Cases like Betty’s highlight the need for much broader access to qualified care, to avoid creating burdens for clinics that cater to marginalized patients. (At least one practice that treats gender-diverse patients has posted on the Grow Your Clit forum recommending that cis women go elsewhere.) And experiences like Kristie’s point to the need for better, more affordable coverage, to avoid medically unsupervised complications.
With her own health centers, Dr. Shah advances an approach that respects patients’ desire for hormones—for clit growth and other purposes. “They know their lives better than I do,” she says. “And I trust that they know what they want in order to thrive.”
With enough time, hormonal clitoris tweaking could become as normalized as other biological upgrades. “Coffee, Adderall, diet, grooming: Everybody is biohacking,” Rachel says. “I hope that anybody who wants to try hormones can try them, for whatever reason. Theoretically, that makes access better for everyone.”
*Name has been changed.
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Anti-vax parents leaving children with disabilities unprotected from COVID-19
By Dana Daniel
Children on the National Disability Insurance Scheme are more likely to be unvaccinated against COVID-19 than their peers, as providers and health authorities grapple with parental hesitancy.
Inclusion Australia chief executive Catherine McAlpine says it is “very highly concerning” that parents of children who are NDIS participants are hesitating to consent to COVID-19 vaccination.
“Parents are saying no and substitute decision-makers are saying no, because they are part of the whole anti-vaccine movement that has grabbed a whole lot of people,” McAlpine said.
She said the National Disability Insurance Agency and NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission seemed hesitant to tackle the problem.
“It is very politically difficult to disagree with parents who are being swayed by emotional, anti-vaccination arguments not based in evidence,” McAlpine said.
“Families want the best for their loved ones, but decisions should be based on medical advice.”
About 12,000 children on the NDIS aged 12 to 15 are among more than 47,000 disability support recipients yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Of the 55,000 children aged 12-15 on the NDIS, 22 per cent have not had a single dose, compared with 15 per cent of children in this age group in the general population.
Out of almost 300,000 NDIS recipients aged 16 and over, 12 per cent are yet to receive a single dose, compared with 3 per cent in the general population — despite being at higher risk of serious disease or death, an analysis of official data shows.
Disability advocates say poor vaccination coverage is part of a wider failure by governments to protect some of the nation’s most vulnerable during the pandemic and will on Thursday launch a campaign calling for a COVID Recovery Plan for people with disability.
“COVID-19 isn’t over, and for many people with disability, the current lifting of public health measures is causing significant distress,” advocates said in a joint statement by eight groups including the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations.
“People with disability have experienced fear, illness, isolation, neglect, and death over the two years, with our needs often forgotten during COVID-19.”
NDIS Minister Linda Reynolds said the government had continued to adapt its response to the pandemic for NDIS participants.
“We already have a plan in place to ensure both COVID-19 vaccinations as well as winter flu vaccinations are delivered to NDIS participants and that plan is working,” the senator said in a statement.
“Consequently, we see vaccination rates amongst NDIS participants and workers amongst the highest in the world. We recognise that there has been complexities in ensuring some people with disability have the opportunity to access a COVID-19 vaccination.
“I have led work between the disability sector, providers and participants to understand the barriers, and how they can be addressed. As a result of the work we have done, Australia has been fortunate to see the number of infections and deaths of NDIS participants from COVID-19 much lower than the general population.”
McAlpine said some families struggled to access sedation or appropriate facilities to ensure their loved one with intellectual disability could receive a vaccine dose.
Inclusion Australia submitted a report to the federal government six months ago warning of “consent confusion” among health professionals and disability service providers, saying the issue was “a major barrier for people with intellectual disabilities to get vaccinated”.
There was confusion around how to determine whether a family member may provide consent, with some asking the wrong person and a lack of awareness of legal options to compel vaccination, the advocacy group said in the 11-page report.
In February, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal overruled family members unwilling to give consent for two men with disabilities aged in their 60s and living in group homes, enabling a group home manager and treating psychiatrist to facilitate the vaccinations.
In both cases, family members with decision-making power did not want their loved one to be vaccinated because they feared side effects, but the tribunal ruled they must not be deprived of essential medical care simply because they did not have capacity to consent.
The Council for Intellectual Disability says tribunal applications “should be considered if all reasonable attempts to obtain consent from a family member have been unsuccessful”, as people with disability have a right to be protected against COVID-19.
Greens disability spokesman Jordon Steele-John said the federal government “have failed disabled people at every stage of the pandemic, they quietly deprioritised us from the front of the vaccination roll-out schedule ... and they haven’t provided people with information about the importance of getting vaccinated.”
Labor’s NDIS spokesman Bill Shorten said the Morrison government “has left people with disability behind at every stage of the pandemic and there’s no surprises they have forgotten to care for Australia’s children with disability as well”.
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Breaking news: Something worked.
After weeks of squabbling and lobbing insults, various leaders on homelessness have come together — or, more accurately, been pushed — to open that brand-new, but unused, tiny home village in Rainier Beach that had become a symbol of bureaucratic dysfunction.
“I’m hoping this whole episode can be a teachable moment,” suggested Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis, “for how in the future we can shelter the homeless without all the drama.”
Now hold on — no drama may be too big of an ask. So let’s just stick to the immediate win, which is that 40 units of desperately needed shelter now are coming online after all.
Officials said they’ve come up with $750,000 to operate the shuttered tiny home village, which the Low Income Housing Institute, or LIHI, completed in March. It has stood there vacant since it was rejected for operating funding by the new King County Regional Homelessness Authority, or RHA.
I won’t revisit the multiple rounds of finger-pointing that ensued — other than that it culminated in the spokesperson for the authority calling the network of tiny home villages, which were painstakingly built by volunteers, “shantytowns.“
Well, that broke the dam.
Two things then happened.
One: The CEO of the authority, Marc Dones, apologized.
“Good morning all,” Dones wrote to Seattle officials. “I’m writing to apologize for an inappropriate and unauthorized comment made by a staff member in the media concerning Tiny House Villages, which — to be clear — does not represent the position of the RHA as an agency.”
Dones said there are 13 such villages with more than 500 beds, and they “serve an important role in the shelter system.” The agency doesn’t want a “significant scaling up” of more villages, but, the letter conceded, it does want to “bring more shelter online as quickly as possible.”
In other words: We’re reversing course and now willing to back the dang thing.
The other prod came from something called the “Lucky Seven Foundation.”
This is a little-known Seattle group that gives out hundreds of grants a year, usually in the $1,000 to $5,000 range, to arts and social service groups around Puget Sound. It’s named after the seven members of the Frances and Manson Backus family (two parents plus five kids). They’re old-school Seattle back to the 1800s.
“That article about an empty shelter going unused, it just put me over the top,” says John Backus, the youngest of the seven.
“It’s absurd for Seattle, with all our problems. We’ve got a new homeless shelter sitting there ready to go and we’re not going to use it? So I just thought, ‘We’ve got to get that open.’ ”
Lucky Seven is pledging $250,000 to the cause — “a pretty big deal for us,” Backus said.
Dones wrote to LIHI on Tuesday that with the private donation, the RHA could tap $500,000 in COVID relief funds to make up the rest.
Dones is due to discuss this in front of the city’s homelessness committee at 2 p.m. Wednesday. LIHI’s director, Sharon Lee, said she’s holding an opening ceremony at the village across from the Rainier Beach light rail station on Thursday, and then hopes to start sheltering people there soon after.
Lee said she’s pleased with the outcome. But she remained frustrated, especially about an RHA claim that the agency wasn’t told the shelter was finished. Lee says LIHI talked about that in an interview as part of the bid process.
Last week, she wrote to the city, asking them to take the dramatic act of pulling LIHI’s contracts back from the new regional agency.
“This is not inspiring confidence in RHA — this is a real threat to programs that benefit vulnerable homeless people,” Lee wrote about the feud.
“I feel there is still a rift over these villages,” Lee told me Tuesday. “It needs to be resolved.”
Councilmember Lewis, who chairs the homelessness committee, took a more optimistic view.
“I think what we have just proven, in admittedly a roundabout way, is that there is tremendous energy in this city to move forward on homelessness,” Lewis said. “The takeaway here is that people aren’t going to tolerate inaction. So I think you’re going to see a shift, toward more cooperation, more action.”
He concluded: “We did get there eventually. After trying everything else.”
New city motto? Just kidding. Good news doesn’t come often or easy in the fraught world of homelessness aid. So best to receive it, Seattle, no matter what strange route it took to get here. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/after-an-apology-and-a-surprise-gift-seattles-empty-homeless-shelter-will-open-after-all-danny-westneat/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-05-04T14:08:46Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/after-an-apology-and-a-surprise-gift-seattles-empty-homeless-shelter-will-open-after-all-danny-westneat/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | false | 3 |
Indian women cricketers Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Sneha Rana, Yastika Bhatia and Shefali Verma recently shot for The Kapil Sharma Show. The episode will air on Saturday, May 7 on Sony TV. In the precap of TKSS, the female cricketers can be seen performing the Srivalli hook step alongside Krushna Abhishek AKA Sapna.
WOMEN CRICKETERS TO HAVE A GALA TIME ON TKSS
This Saturday, May 7, Indian Women’s Cricket Team - Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Sneha Rana, Yastika Bhatia and Shefali Verma, will be seen gracing The Kapil Sharma Show. The women in blue will be seen shaking a leg with Krushna Abhishek's Sapna, as they perform the Srivalli hook step with a twist. This is not the first time that women cricketers have featured on TKSS. Earlier in 2017 and 2019, they appeared as special guests on the comedy show.
Here's the promo of the upcoming episode of The Kapil Sharma Show:
They are seen performing the step on the song Babul Ki Duayen Leti Ja sung by our very own Krushna Abhishek. Their unique step and song choice leaves everyone in splits. TKSS team's hilarious antics will make the guests LOL. Viewers will also see the stage of the show turn into a cricket ground as the cricketing stars will get down to play.
The Kapil Sharma Show airs on Sony TV on Saturday and Sunday at 9.30 pm. | https://www.indiatoday.in/television/reality-tv/story/indian-women-s-cricket-team-performs-srivalli-hook-step-with-a-twist-on-the-kapil-sharma-show-1945420-2022-05-04 | 2022-05-04T14:14:41Z | https://www.indiatoday.in/television/reality-tv/story/indian-women-s-cricket-team-performs-srivalli-hook-step-with-a-twist-on-the-kapil-sharma-show-1945420-2022-05-04 | true | 1 |
NATO transport with weapons for Ukraine will be destroyed: Russian Minister
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said that NATO vehicles arriving in Ukraine with weapons and ammunition for Ukrainian troops would be destroyed, RT reported
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said that NATO vehicles arriving in Ukraine with weapons and ammunition for Ukrainian troops would be destroyed, RT reported.
Shoigu stressed that the US and its NATO allies continue to pump weapons into Ukraine.
"Any transport of the North Atlantic Alliance that arrived on the territory of the country with weapons or materiel for the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces is considered by us as a legitimate target for destruction," he said.
Shoigu added that Mariupol is under the control of the Russian army. "Peaceful life is being established in the territories of the LPR and DPR and Ukraine liberated from nationalists. Including Mariupol, the largest industrial and transport hub on the Sea of Azov. It is under the control of the Russian Army," he said at the meeting.
The Russian Ministry of Defence also announced the destruction of six traction electrical substations in Ukraine.
It is noted that through these facilities the Ukrainian troops were supplied with weapons manufactured in the US and European countries.
The West can help stop "war crimes" allegedly carried out by Ukrainian forces if it uses its influence over Kiev and ceases the supply of weapons to the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, according to the Kremlin, RT reported.
During their phone conversation, which reportedly lasted for more than two hours, Putin congratulated Macron on his recent re-election and updated him on developments in Ukraine, including the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, according to a readout of the call.
Putin claimed that the EU nations have ignored "the war crimes of the Ukrainian security forces, massive shelling of cities and towns of Donbass, resulting in civilian casualties." | https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/international/nato-transport-with-weapons-for-ukraine-will-be-destroyed-russian-minister | 2022-05-04T14:16:09Z | https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/international/nato-transport-with-weapons-for-ukraine-will-be-destroyed-russian-minister | false | 4 |
U.S. Gulf of Mexico-focused oil and gas company LLOG on Wednesday announced the planned development of the Salamanca floating production facility to be used to develop two offshore discoveries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The company said that the Salamanca is comprised of a "uniquely" designed Floating Production Unit (“FPU”) that will be created from the refurbishment of a former GOM production facility that was previously decommissioned. It did not say which facility exactly it would use for the project.
The Salamanca FPU will serve as the collection point for production from the joint development of the Leon discovery located in the deepwater GOM in Keathley Canyon (“KC”) blocks 642, 643, 686 and 687 as well as from the Castile discovery in KC 736.
LLOG will operate the development, and its partners include Repsol E&P USA Inc. and Beacon Offshore Energy LLC. The facility will be located on KC 689 in approximately 6,400 feet (1950 meters) of water.
Both discoveries are expected to be jointly developed through a total of three subsea wells at initial production that will be tied back to the Salamanca FPU. Two of the initial three development wells are planned for the Leon field and one for the Castile field. Initial production from the joint development is expected mid-2025.
60,000 BPD FPU
The FPU is being refurbished to have a capacity of 60,000 barrels of oil per day and 40 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
"By modifying a previously-built production unit, the time and cost to refurbish the unit are greatly reduced compared with construction of a new facility. As important, the project has a significantly positive Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) impact as it reuses an existing unit compared with the abandonment of the unit, while also accomplishing approximately a 70% reduction in emissions impact compared to the construction of a new unit," LLOG said.
"All of the major topsides repurposing and modifications will be done in the United States. Regulatory approvals required to proceed with the development have been received. The FPU is being financed through an ownership arrangement with investment vehicles managed by ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC (“ArcLight”), a leading private equity firm based in Boston, that is focused on energy and energy transition infrastructure," the company said.
Leon is a discovery drilled by Repsol in late 2014 on KC 642 and is located about 250 miles southwest of New Orleans in approximately 6,000 feet of water. The discovery well was drilled to a total depth of about 32,000 feet and encountered nearly 700 feet of high-quality net oil pay in multiple sands in the Lower Tertiary where LLOG has significant experience from past drilling and development in the GOM.
The Castile discovery was drilled on KC 736 in over 6,500 feet of water to a total of over 31,000 feet and encountered nearly 400 feet of high quality net oil pay, also in the Lower Tertiary.
In its monthly floating production report for April, released just a few days ago, World Energy Reports said the recent uptick in oil prices supports getting on with the Leon/Castille development "and we now see the FID likely in 2022."
According to WER, Repsol had in February 2020 said the FID on Leon/Castle would be reached by end-2020, but the project progress was then delayed by the Covid-19 related industry downturn. | https://www.oedigital.com/news/496281-llog-to-develop-two-deepwater-gom-discoveries-using-refurbished-offshore-platform | 2022-05-04T14:16:41Z | https://www.oedigital.com/news/496281-llog-to-develop-two-deepwater-gom-discoveries-using-refurbished-offshore-platform | false | 1 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden declares Russia’s Ukraine war “genocide,” it isn’t just another strong word. Calling a campaign that’s aimed at wiping out a targeted group “genocide” not only increases pressure on a country to act, it can oblige it to. That’s partly because of a genocide treaty approved by the U.N. General Assembly after World War II, signed by the United States and more than 150 other nations. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2588960073290/ceo-david-arons-welcomes-the-return-of-race-for-hope-after-two-year-hiatus | 2022-05-04T14:18:04Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2588960073290/ceo-david-arons-welcomes-the-return-of-race-for-hope-after-two-year-hiatus | true | null |
First Republic Investment Management Inc. trimmed its stake in Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF (NYSEARCA:PRF – Get Rating) by 27.7% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 48,305 shares of the company’s stock after selling 18,528 shares during the quarter. First Republic Investment Management Inc. owned about 0.14% of Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF worth $8,294,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Missouri Trust & Investment Co acquired a new stake in Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF in the fourth quarter worth $26,000. TAP Consulting LLC acquired a new stake in Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF in the fourth quarter worth $62,000. Sandy Cove Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF in the fourth quarter worth $162,000. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd grew its holdings in Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF by 79.8% in the fourth quarter. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd now owns 1,030 shares of the company’s stock worth $177,000 after purchasing an additional 457 shares during the period. Finally, National Asset Management Inc. acquired a new stake in Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF in the fourth quarter worth $204,000.
Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF stock opened at $162.44 on Wednesday. Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF has a 1-year low of $154.40 and a 1-year high of $176.73. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $167.89 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $168.66.
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Digital commerce has grown exponentially and has strongly moved an entire chain formed mainly by large and small retailers, the logistics sector and means of payment. With online purchases increasingly in the hands of Brazilians – literally from the marketplaces that travel through smartphones –, e-commerce is projected to make 44,000 deliveries per hour in Brazil this year.
In total, there will be 385 million products that will reach people’s homes in 2022, according to data from Neotrust, an intelligence solutions company for the digital market, one of the main sources of information in the sector.
In 2021, e-commerce handled BRL 161 billion in the country – a record number –, with 353 million deliveries. For this year, the expectation is for an increase of 9% in online commerce, according to the consultancy. Digital sales were responsible for 58% of retailers’ revenue, according to a survey carried out by Mundi Map and E-commerce Brasil. A reflection of the pandemic, yes, but a trend that is here to stay and has only evolved with the various omnichannel possibilities for consumers.
Just with Mother’s Day on Sunday (8), e-commerce should earn R$ 7 billion, according to Neotrust estimates. Thus, online shopping should grow 4% compared to last year’s commemorative date and reach 15.7 million orders this year, up 11%.
“Every year, purchases of small appliances and beauty and perfumery items stand out on Mother’s Day, one of the most important dates on the national retail calendar,” said Paulina Dias, head of Intelligence at Neotrust. “People are increasingly taking advantage of the facilities of online shopping, especially the possibility of searching prices in different stores instantly and, in addition, having the convenience of receiving products at their residence quickly”, she said.
In 2021, more than 70% of orders in these three categories were made with free shipping and the most used payment method was credit card. More than 66% of Mother’s Day digital purchases of these products are made by women, the majority between the ages of 26 and 50.
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Governor Tom Wolf has asked the legislators of the state to approve his idea of issuing a stimulus check which would use unused federal COVID dollars. This would then be sent to the citizens in Pennsylvania. As Jon Delano, the money editor for KDKA reports, the Republicans controlling the legislature of the state don’t seem to be too keen on approving the idea. Wolf stated that he wanted to use a sum of $500 million of the $2.2 billion of unspent federal relief money that would give the citizens a one-time stimulus payment.
Tom Wolf Wants A Stimulus Check Worth $2,000 For Pennsylvanians
At an event in Reading on Thursday, Tom Wolf mentioned that this was not some grand theoretical thing. In fact, this was definitely something that would imply that the state had a large stock of unused federal money which could be transformed into stimulus check money, and further provided to Pennsylvanians- with a worth of around $2,000. The governor further stated that if there was a household in the state that made less than $80,000, they would be qualifying for this payment. And the payment of $2,000 will not be issued with any conditions. The citizens are free to use it as they wish.
Unfortunately, while both President Biden and Trump got major approval from Congress to issue their stimulus check payment, the state stimulus plan Wolf has not had a cool reception in the legislature in Harrisburg- which is controlled by the Republicans. This was then supported by Senator Devlin Robinson, a Republican from Bridgeville. Robinson mentioned that there were better ways to deal with the unused money, rather than giving it away as stimulus payment. In Pittsburgh, there are bridges all over the city that seemed to be falling down- this implies that the state government needs a lot of closures.
Robinson finally updated that their colleagues weren’t really keen on issuing stimulus check payments. Rather, they wanted the money to be spent on infrastructure. | https://www.digitalmarketnews.com/stimulus-check-gov-wolf-use-covid-money/ | 2022-05-04T14:21:58Z | https://www.digitalmarketnews.com/stimulus-check-gov-wolf-use-covid-money/ | false | 1 |
Record breaking heat wave possible Mother's Day weekend, ERCOT urging power plants to prepare
HOUSTON - ERCOT is alerting Texas power plants to get ready for emergency conditions this Mother’s Day weekend.
"That’s putting everyone on notice," said Doug Lewin, President of Stoic Energy. "We’re going to need every megawatt hour we can get."
A record-breaking heat wave is expected to impact Texas Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Temperatures could soar into the upper 90s and above 100 degrees in certain parts of the state.
RELATED: ERCOT details plan for improving reliability of Texas power grid
"The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is anticipating extreme hot weather in the region Friday, May 6 through Monday, May 9 and may experience larger than normal demand for power," said a spokesperson from ERCOT. "ERCOT will deploy all the tools available to us to manage the grid reliably. ERCOT is coordinating closely with the Public Utility Commission, generation resource owners and transmission utilities to ensure they are prepared for the extreme heat."
According to Kent Prochazka, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, this heat wave could set new high temperature records across the state. Prochazka says it’s unusual to see this sort of extreme heat this early in May.
"This is extremely unusual to get this warm this time of year," said Prochazka. "These are long-standing records we’ll be breaking, or at least tying."
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"If we see triple digits drag into Monday, we’ll probably be pretty close to the edge to whether we have enough [power] supply for demand," said Lewin.
Lewin says it’s typical for power plants in Texas to close for maintenance in April and May. As a result, the state’s power grid could be jeopardized if there’s an extreme heat wave.
"It’s this time of year when we’re clear of winter storms, and we think we’re clear of really severe heat waves, that we take off the power plants for planned maintenance," said Lewin. "No one wants those plants off for maintenance in the middle of July."
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"ERCOT has asked power plants across the region to postpone planned outages and to return from outages already in progress in order to serve Texans this weekend," said a spokesperson from ERCOT. "At this time, ERCOT projects there will be sufficient generation to meet this high demand for electricity."
A spokesperson from CenterPoint Energy provided the written statement below regarding this weekend’s anticipated Texas heat wave:
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Jamie Dimon: The Cold War is back and a recession is a real possibility
By Matt Egan, CNN Business
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve should have moved sooner to raise interest rates and conceded the odds do not favor taming inflation without sparking a recession.
“We’re a little late but remember two years ago we had 15% unemployment and no vaccine. People should take a deep breath and give them a chance,” Dimon told Bloomberg TV. “The sooner they move the better.”
The JPMorgan CEO added that the federal government needs to focus on national security in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
“The Cold War is back,” Dimon said. “Global energy is precarious…If oil goes to $185 that’s a huge problem for people and we should do everything we can today. We need to pump more oil and gas.”
The good news is Dimon says the US economy is “very strong” right now and consumers are in “great shape.”
Asked if he’s worried about the Fed starting a recession, Dimon said, “Of course.”
Dimon sees just a one in three chance that the Fed can engineer a “soft landing,” where inflation is brought under control and the economic expansion continues.
He sees the same odds for a “mild recession” that spans six to nine months, adding that there’s “a chance it’s going to be much harder than that.”
The Fed is “going to try to slow the economy enough so that 8% [inflation] starts to come down over time. I wish them the best,” Dimon said.
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Save on Hawaii Travel Even as Demand Soars
When deciding where to travel this summer, Hawaii checks all the boxes for many tourists. The islands’ lush, tropical landscape provides a contrast from two years of mostly staying at home. It’s a far-off getaway, but it won’t require a negative COVID-19 test to return to the continental U.S. And, there’s no shortage of luxury.
Within the first two weeks of Hawaii's announcement to lift travel restrictions, Expedia says it saw a nearly 30% increase in searches for spring and summer trips to Hawaii’s major ports. (Since March 26, 2022, the day after Hawaii’s indoor mask mandate ended, there have been no COVID-related requirements for arriving domestic passengers.)
Demand in some of the top destinations in Hawaii is outpacing pre-pandemic levels. Expedia says it’s already seeing six times more bookings for hotels on Hawaii’s Big Island for September 2022 than it did in September 2019. Oahu — which Expedia says is one of the most popular destinations — is seeing double digit-percentage increases in demand this summer versus 2019.
But while Hawaii might have a laid-back, low-stress vibe, the rules of supply and demand still apply. Couple that with rising travel costs everywhere due to rapid inflation, and a trip to Hawaii this year likely won’t be cheap.
However, you can still save money on a Hawaiian vacation. Here’s how to travel to Hawaii on a budget.
Airfare
If you’ve accumulated a stash of points and miles, flights to Hawaii can prove a good way to spend them. There are many ways to book cheap Hawaii flights with points and miles, especially if you’re willing to transfer miles between partner airlines. Among the biggest airlines flying to Hawaii are Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
If you can earn a Southwest Airlines Companion Pass and you’d like to save on flights to Hawaii, this is an excellent opportunity to use it. The pass is essentially a buy-one-get-one deal on your Southwest flight, where you book a flight with cash or points, and you can book another at no cost aside from taxes and fees (typically just $5.60 per one-way trip).
If you can’t choose just one island, island-hopping in Hawaii is fairly convenient, as most flights between islands take less than an hour. The key when island-hopping: flexibility. Most of the best interisland deals are for flights through Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, so consider placing Oahu in the middle of your itinerary to take advantage of its interisland availability.
Be flexible on dates, too. Southwest has plenty of interisland airfares for just $45 — but if you’re married to a specific flight time or book last-minute, realize that some flights cost more than $200.
Lodging
Most of the major hotel brands have a strong presence in Hawaii, which can be handy if you have hotel points or free night certificates.
Hilton is an especially big player in Hawaii, and its lodging runs the gamut from affordable to opulent. If you have a Hilton free night certificate, which can be earned through certain Hilton credit cards, head to Maui. There you’ll find the Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort. One of Hilton’s most grandiose resorts, the Grand Wailea hosts a 2,000-foot-long pool complete with waterfalls and slides. Standard nightly room rates can easily run more than $1,500, but free night certificates can cover it.
If you’re traveling as a family or with a group, consider booking a vacation rental through a service like Airbnb or Vrbo. They are sometimes cheaper than hotels and typically don’t require you to pay resort fees, which are otherwise common. They also often have driveways and kitchens, so you can avoid expensive hotel parking and the cost of dining out.
Other ways to visit Hawaii on a budget
Dine out strategically
Speaking of dining out, it can certainly be part of the Hawaiian experience. But it can also eat up a huge chunk of your budget. Understand when you’re paying for mediocre food but a stellar view. If you’re up for adventure, head to a convenience store for fresh poke and Spam musubi, then find a beach (there’s no shortage of them) for a free, oceanfront dinner view.
Sidestep the paid luau
As far as entertainment, you can certainly pay hundreds of dollars for your group to experience a luau. While the array of entertainment and buffet food can be worth it for some travelers, there are plenty of free ways to watch hula, hear Hawaiian music and learn about the culture. Many major malls in Hawaii, such as Waikiki’s Royal Hawaiian Center mall, offer free shows and classes in lei making, hula, ukulele, lauhala weaving and more. On the Big Island, free coffee farm tours are abundant.
Some hotels also make their entertainment available to the public. Head to Marriott’s Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa to watch the nightly lele kawa (cliff jumping).
Swap ticketed activities for cheaper counterparts
Some major, ticketed tourist attractions offer some components of their tours for free. At the Maui Tropical Plantation, you might pay $25 for a tram tour, but you can still explore a good chunk of the grounds, including its market, craft studios and cafe, at no cost. On Oahu, Dole Plantation tours start at $7.75 per person, but purchasing a ticket might not be necessary. Admission to the grounds is free, and there you can typically find no-cost activities like pineapple-cutting and chocolate-making demonstrations, as well as a fish feeding pond.
The bottom line
Travel to Hawaii was always popular — and all signs point to its popularity growing. According to a February 2022 NerdWallet survey, 28% of Americans who say the way they travel has chanced since the beginning of the pandemic say they have stopped going on international trips and only travel domestically. Meanwhile, 16% only travel to destinations that don’t require COVID-19 testing or proof of vaccination. For tourists from the continental U.S., Hawaii checks both of those boxes, and a lot more. The Aloha State might be one of the best places to travel to this year — just have a plan for how you’ll pay for it.
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Jennifer Lopez Reveals What She Got For Valentine’s Day
Jennifer Lopez showed off the gifts she received for Valentine's Day on social media, and it's clear to see that the 47-year-old musician was feeling loved.
The Shades of Blue actress shared the photo of her Valentine's Day presents on Instagram with a bunch of rose emojis in the caption.
On Tuesday night, the "On the Floor" singer posted a festive pic that showed a seemingly endless amount of flower bouquets and cakes. The stunning arrangement was complete with dozens and dozens of white, red, and pink flowers as well as a delicious looking chocolate cake.
Since posting on Instagram, J-Lo's photo racked up more than 437k likes from her loyal followers and thousands of comments from fans wishing her a happy Valentine's Day.
Jennifer Lopez is one of the busiest people in the entertainment industry, and she took no breaks after the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards this past Sunday evening.
Earlier on Tuesday, the mother-of-two posted a photo on Instagram that showed her right back at work.
Lopez shared a stunning snap that showed her striking a seductive pose while she was likely on set of one of her various television projects.
"No rest for the weary...lol #backatwork #onlean #tiredaf #butIloveit #grateful
No rest for the weary...lol #backatwork #onlean #tiredaf #butIloveit #grateful
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Just in case her fans missed the GRAMMY Awards on Sunday evening, Lopez posted several photos on Instagram of her gorgeous look from the star-studded event.
She donned a pinkish-purple gown that featured a plunging neckline that put her ample cleavage on full display. The dress was complete with a risqué thigh-slit and an eye-catching large bow around her neck.
Jenny from the block posted the pic with the caption: "#grammys2017 dress by @ralphandrusso Thank you @lorealmakeup and @lorealhair."
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M&T Bank Corp decreased its position in shares of AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC – Get Rating) by 8.5% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 12,038 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 1,121 shares during the quarter. M&T Bank Corp’s holdings in AGNC Investment were worth $181,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. TAP Consulting LLC acquired a new stake in shares of AGNC Investment during the fourth quarter worth about $28,000. National Bank of Canada FI acquired a new stake in shares of AGNC Investment during the fourth quarter worth about $31,000. Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of AGNC Investment by 46.3% during the third quarter. Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC now owns 3,790 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $60,000 after purchasing an additional 1,200 shares during the period. Ellevest Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of AGNC Investment during the fourth quarter worth about $60,000. Finally, Point72 Hong Kong Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of AGNC Investment during the third quarter worth about $73,000. 47.52% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
AGNC opened at $11.99 on Wednesday. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $12.65 and its 200 day moving average price is $14.35. AGNC Investment Corp. has a 12-month low of $10.86 and a 12-month high of $18.84. The company has a current ratio of 0.25, a quick ratio of 0.25 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01. The firm has a market cap of $6.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.08 and a beta of 1.05.
The company also recently announced a apr 22 dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, May 10th. Investors of record on Friday, April 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.12 per share. This represents a yield of 11.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 28th. AGNC Investment’s payout ratio is 121.01%.
A number of research analysts have issued reports on the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. downgraded AGNC Investment from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price target for the company from $14.50 to $11.50 in a report on Monday, April 25th. Barclays decreased their price target on AGNC Investment from $15.00 to $13.00 in a report on Wednesday, April 27th. TheStreet downgraded AGNC Investment from a “c” rating to a “d+” rating in a research note on Monday, January 31st. Bank of America downgraded AGNC Investment from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and reduced their target price for the stock from $17.00 to $13.75 in a research note on Monday, February 14th. Finally, StockNews.com initiated coverage on AGNC Investment in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “hold” rating for the company. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $15.39.
In related news, Director Gary D. Kain sold 400,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $14.10, for a total transaction of $5,640,000.00. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. 0.41% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
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AGNC Investment Corp., formerly American Capital Agency Corp., is a real estate investment trust. The Company invests in agency residential mortgage-backed securities on a leveraged basis. Its investments consist of residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a government-sponsored enterprise, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or by the United States Government agency, such as the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) (collectively, GSEs).
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Spoiler alert! Do not proceed if you have not watched Tuesday's episode of This Is Us.
Miguel Rivas took center stage in the latest episode of This Is Us, which revealed the heartbreaking reason why he wasn't by Rebecca's bedside on her last day in the far-off future.
Simply titled "Miguel," the hour was dedicated to his story -- from his days growing up as a kid in Puerto Rico to the fracturing of his family to his last years caring for Rebecca -- filling in many of the blanks and answering a bevy of questions people have had over the last six seasons. Viewers will recall that Miguel was one of the prominent family members missing in the future flash-forward as everyone gathered at Kevin's home to say goodbye to Rebecca. Now, we have the devastating reason why.
Signs that Miguel wasn't doing well as he got older in age were apparent in recent episodes, most notably the ones during Kate and Phillip's wedding, and only continued to worsen as Rebecca's mental state deteriorated and his own health issues became worrisome. But Miguel prioritized Rebecca's care, sidelining his own well-being (i.e. high blood pressure, fatigue, heart problems) to ensure that she would live out her last years comfortably, as he took on the primary caregiver role quite literally. He took it upon himself to do everything, from making sure he was always up at 6:45 a.m. every morning so he would be the first thing she'd see to sorting out her various medications, even though there was a hired nurse who was qualified to do all those things.
However, it became clear that this arrangement wasn't going to be sustainable. Late one evening, Miguel found Rebecca -- wearing nothing but thin pajamas -- playing outside in the winter snow with child-like wonder. Worried that she would get sick, he raced down to get her back inside Kevin's house. As he tried to bring Rebecca back into the warmth, Miguel suffered a bad fall and ended up injuring his back, of which the side effects he felt for quite some time. As he walked past the room, Kevin saw Miguel checking on his injury in the mirror and noticed large bruising on his back, which prompted him, Kate and Randall to sit him down for a frank conversation about the future.
"We think it's time to get full-time help for her," Kate opened the discussion, which wasn't received well by Miguel: "She has full-time help."
"We're talking about permanent, around-the-clock care to help you," Randall calmly explained. But Miguel, who had been in the trenches with Rebecca from Day 1 as her memory worsened, argued that the notion of hired help isn't an "easy" solution as "she doesn't respond well to strangers."
Randall asked what Miguel would've done had he became immobile or his fall was even more severe than it was. But Miguel maintained he wasn't "seriously injured." "She's my wife! I made a vow," he fired back, some of his pride showing. "I have failed at everything else in my life. My parents, [ex-wife] Shelly. I haven't seen my son in five years... I am not leaving her side, OK? Every morning at 6:45 I am the first thing she sees when she wakes up. And it grounds her. It grounds me. So as long as she needs me, I'm not going anywhere."
But Randall explained that they weren't punishing Miguel. "We're not doing this to you. We're doing this for you," he said. "You've honored your vows. You have honored them and then some. We're grateful to you. We love you."
"I have to be there for her," he continued to maintain. Randall assured him he has: "You have been. You will be. Now will you let somebody take care of you now? Please?" And finally, Miguel agreed.
Even with a full-time care nurse now looking after Rebecca and Miguel, other health issues continued to crop up for Miguel as he got older. And he continued to help Rebecca with her morning routine, but this time, Kevin was there as well to offer assistance.
One day, Kevin paid a visit to Miguel's estranged son and gave him some heartbreaking information about the severity of his declining health. "Your father may not have a lot time left. The doctors are worried about heart failure and take it from me, you don't want to leave things unfinished," Kevin advised him.
"What do you expect me to do with that?" Miguel's son asked. "You do whatever you want. Thought you should know," Kevin answered before leaving.
More time passed before it was Christmastime and everyone (and we mean everyone!), was happily celebrating the holidays. And the camera panned to reveal that Miguel's son and his family made it to the get-together, implying that the issues and conflicts between father and son were in the past.
The entire Pearson clan gathered outside in front of the cabin to enjoy the fresh air, with Miguel and Rebecca standing by the large bare-branched tree. As everyone's kids happily reported their treasured finds, Miguel and Rebecca took a moment to admire the simplicity of the leafless tree.
But as the scene changed, the tree was now seen fully in bloom -- a sign that the seasons had changed. But, Rebecca was revealed to be alone in her wheelchair and wearing all black, along with Kevin, Kate and Randall, as well as Miguel's son. They had just attended Miguel's funeral.
Amid a flashback to one of Miguel and Rebecca's early conversations where she asks him, "Who the hell are you? What's your story?," Miguel's ashes are spread at the foot of the tree by the family cabin and on the same grassy field he played at as a child in Puerto Rico. Perhaps a response to the question he's chased all his life. Back to the scene with Rebecca at the bar, Miguel answers her in Spanish before translating for her (and the audience): "I don't know, but it's a good question. Ask me again later."
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Submitted by Danielle Morgan, Executive Director, Mississippi Tourism Association
“Travel is a significant economic driver and an important part of who we are as a state.”
As Mississippi emerges from the pandemic and begins its next chapter of tourism growth, it’s time to turn the page and confidently look ahead. A time to envision a future for our state’s travel industry that is bold and imaginative, designed to help our communities, small businesses and residents thrive in today’s global marketplace.
This National Travel and Tourism Week (May 1-7), Mississippi Tourism Association recognizes the Future of Travel and the critical role the state’s $6.7 billion tourism industry will play in rebuilding our local economies, enhancing the quality of place of our communities, encouraging and championing new innovations and reconnecting Americans to each other through effective marketing and storytelling.
As we look to the future of travel, this week also gives us an opportunity to applaud state lawmakers and public leaders for recognizing the immense value tourism holds for Mississippi’s future economic growth and investing in its vitality. Mississippi has been a national leader in tourism recovery due to the forward-thinking approach that was conceived by the state’s tourism community and legislative leaders. Equipped with recovery resources, our state’s fourth-largest industry will have a strong foundation to build upon to strengthen and generate significant revenue for our state’s financial future.
Travel is a significant economic driver and an important part of who we are as a state. Before the pandemic took its toll on Mississippi’s multi-billion-dollar tourism industry, the state hosted 24.7 million visitors annually and supported more than 122,000 jobs. As we strategically grow our tourism product and visitation in Mississippi, it is critical that we maintain an awareness of consumer travel sentiment and travel trends at the national and global levels.
Nationally, travel generated $2.6 trillion in economic output, supported 17 million American jobs, and delivered a $51 billion trade surplus to the U.S. in 2019—proof that travel will have a tremendous role to play in Mississippi’s and America’s economic recovery.
However, this vital revenue source was severely diminished amid the pandemic. In Mississippi, travel losses totaled over $2.6 billion during the pandemic, which resulted in $107 million in losses of state taxes and $32 million in losses of local taxes.
Uneven recovery within the travel industry will further delay America’s overall economic recovery. To help return our industry to sustained growth, we must continue to strategically work together towards a more prosperous future for the millions of American workers whose livelihoods depend on this industry.
The future of travel is sustainable, innovative, seamless and globally competitive. From the delta and hills to the pines and rivers to our capital city and Gulf coastline, promoting Mississippi as a premier destination for global travel is more important than ever as we recover from steep losses.
The pandemic was a setback, but it’s also an opportunity to reimagine Mississippi’s tourism industry. With our industry’s continued collaboration with lawmakers and leaders, businesses in Mississippi can recover more quickly and rebuild the travel industry to be more dynamic, innovative, sustainable and competitive than ever before.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — To keep up with the Kardashians for the past two weeks, you would’ve had to spend a lot of time at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, where they’ve been watching and testifying at a trial over a lawsuit brought against them by former reality television star Blac Chyna. In a verdict delivered Monday while defendants Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner were all in New York attending the Met Gala, the Kardashians were victorious. Here’s a look at the scene, the surroundings and the case that pulled them in.
THE SETTING
The Stanley Mosk civil courthouse is among the most heavily trafficked by celebrities in the world. The famous divorces decided here alone could fill a walk of fame. Kim Kardashian appeared on video in a Mosk courtroom in February to be declared single in her ongoing divorce with Ye, and appeared here in person to finalize her divorce from previous husband Kris Humphries.
In recent years it’s been best known as home to the high drama, and colorful protests, surrounding the Britney Spears conservatorship. Keanu Reeves and Don Johnson each sat through most of civil trials they were parties to. Members of Michael Jackson’s family appeared for much of the long wrongful death case against his doctor.
Still, the courthouse has rarely seen such consistent presence from a group of such well-known stars.
THE SCENE
The Kardashian defendants had all been expected to testify in person during the trial. But many in court were surprised, and a little star struck, when all four strode in wearing business suits on the first day of jury selection, which turned into a public forum where dozens of prospective jurors got to vent their mostly negative feelings about the family. (A few proudly proclaimed their fandom.)
The women sat in the front row of the courtroom — there were too many of them to sit at the defendants’ table — for most of the trial. Kim Kardashian, who is studying law, often carried a binder and took notes.
Court security escorted the family into the courthouse through an underground parking garage. The women waited nearby in a guarded room until proceedings were about to begin, then deputies shepherded them across the hall into the courtroom. That quick walk still provided memorable moments, as when Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, greeted her with a kiss after showing up during closing arguments.
Private security guards — sharply dressed men in sportscoats with telltale earpieces — were both in the courtroom and outside it. At the midday break they brought food to the secluded room from places such as Urth Caffe, a popular LA lunch spot.
The Kardashians’ treatment is common for high-profile parties with court business, due to, as their attorney told one prospective juror, the “dark side” of fame. Some have had to get restraining orders in this courthouse due to stalkers.
But the prospective juror wasn’t entirely satisfied with that explanation, saying, “Does that mean that they need Fiji water hand-delivered to them as they sit in court?”
The courtroom with a capacity of 200 was rarely more than half full during the 11-day trial. About a dozen reporters were in the room throughout. Unlike the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial happening simultaneously in Virginia, which was televised and may have stolen some of the thunder of these proceedings, no cameras were allowed. A pair of sketch artists provided the only visuals.
THE SUIT
Chyna’s lawsuit was filed in 2017 in the aftermath of her engagement to Rob Kardashian. She originally alleged that six women from the Kardashian family had defamed her by falsely spreading word that she had physically abused him, and interfered with her contract by convincing the E! network to cancel their “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” spinoff, “Rob & Chyna.” She sought as much as $108 million.
It was the sort of inter-celebrity suit that that is usually dismissed or settled long before it gets to trial. But this one improbably survived for five years. Two defendants, Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner, were dropped during that time.
THE STORIES
Kris Jenner’s two days on the stand provided drama when she testified that she feared Chyna was going to “murder” her son Rob in December of 2016. She teared up when she described being already vulnerable because Kim Kardashian had been tied up in Paris by armed robbers who stole $10 million in jewelry just a few months earlier.
Rob Kardashian, who appeared only to testify, also had a dramatic and emotional stint on the stand, in which he said that Chyna twice held a gun to his head and beat him with a metal rod.
Chyna testified that she was never violent against him, saying she had grabbed his gun playfully, and was joking around when she put a phone cord around his neck. She conceded that she had damaged a television and a gingerbread house in her anger.
Kardashian lawyer Michael G. Rhodes seized on this in his closing argument. “Who does that? A gingerbread house?” he said. “It’s the happiest thing you can put in a house.” Davidson, in the back of the courtroom, had to stifle a laugh.
Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner were each on the stand only briefly, and their testimony was not especially eventful. The judge dismissed Kim Kardashian as a defendant in the defamation part of the case when he decided no violating statement had been identified.
The jury apparently did not find any of the Kardashians’ stories terribly convincing. They found on the verdict form that they had often acted in bad faith, and were not justified in what they told executives, but found that their statements hadn’t affected Chyna’s TV career or the fate of her show.
THE SAGA
The legal fight is far from over. Chyna’s lawyer says they will appeal the verdict. And a set of separate allegations against only Rob Kardashian will be heard at another trial in about a week.
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According to Benzinga Pro, during Q1, Perficient PRFT earned $27.14 million, a 499.16% increase from the preceding quarter. Perficient also posted a total of $222.11 million in sales, a 3.44% increase since Q4. Perficient earned $4.53 million, and sales totaled $214.73 million in Q4.
Why Is ROIC Significant?
Return on Invested Capital is a measure of yearly pre-tax profit relative to capital invested by a business. Changes in earnings and sales indicate shifts in a company's ROIC. A higher ROIC is generally representative of successful growth of a company and is a sign of higher earnings per share in the future. A low or negative ROIC suggests the opposite. In Q1, Perficient posted an ROIC of 4.55%.
Keep in mind, while ROIC is a good measure of a company's recent performance, it is not a highly reliable predictor of a company's earnings or sales in the near future.
Earnings data without context is not clear and can difficult to base trading decisions on. Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) helps to filter signal from noise by measuring yearly pre-tax profit relative to invested capital by a business. Generally, a higher ROIC suggests successful growth of a company and is a sign of higher earnings per share in the future. In Q1, Perficient posted an ROIC of 4.55%.
It is important to keep in mind that ROIC evaluates past performance and is not used as a predictive tool. It is a good measure of a company's recent performance, but does not account for factors that could affect earnings and sales in the near future.
For Perficient, the positive return on invested capital ratio of 4.55% suggests that management is allocating their capital effectively. Effective capital allocation is a positive indicator that a company will achieve more durable success and favorable long-term returns.
Analyst Predictions
Perficient reported Q1 earnings per share at $0.98/share, which beat analyst predictions of $0.95/share.
This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor.
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