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Republican candidates backed by former President Donald Trump had a good night in Ohio and Indiana primaries Tuesday night. Many of these candidates are younger and likely to make it to Congress — and if more of them win elsewhere this year, this cycle could represent something of a bridge to Trumpism, even post-Trump. They are examples of the potentially lasting effects of how Trump has changed GOP politics — although there are limits to his influence. Pro-Trump candidates continued to do best in rural areas, underscoring where his power is concentrated, but there remains a question of how well Trumpism can do in swing areas. In the more short term — and something worth tracking — there was an indication that Republican enthusiasm is up, while Democrats' is down. That's evident in how much GOP turnout rose, compared with the 2018 primaries. That's one early warning sign for President Biden and his party in the president's first midterm, when parties out of power historically do well. Biden's stature within the party, though, got a small boost when an Ohio candidate he endorsed won in a landslide over a progressive firebrand who lost only narrowly last year. The headliner of the night was J.D. Vance Vance, the Hillbilly Elegy author, won a crowded Ohio Republican Senate primary in the race to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman. Vance, who got a boost after Trump endorsed him, defeated former state Treasurer Josh Mandel by about 8 points. Vance had been much further down in the polls before Trump's endorsement, and he knew exactly who to thank Tuesday night. "Thanks to the president for everything, for endorsing me," said Vance, 37, who in 2016 called himself a "Never Trump guy" and said he "never liked him." He's changed his tune. "A lot of fake news media out there," Vance said, continuing, "wanted to write the story that this campaign would be the death of Donald Trump's 'America First' agenda. Ladies and gentlemen, it ain't the death of the 'America First' agenda." Trump also feuded with — and defeated — a powerful pro-GOP outside group, the Club for Growth, in this race. The club, which has often aligned with the former president, continued to support Mandel after Trump endorsed Vance. That drew Trump's ire and, at one point, Trump reportedly sent the head of the group a text cursing him out. Vance will face off against Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan Ryan easily won the Democratic nomination. Vance, who accused Ryan Tuesday night of running as a "Trump Democrat," starts as the favorite in a state that has trended more Republican. Democrats hope Ryan can make inroads with a working class-focused message, but the politics of this state are clear — so much so that when Ryan was asked if he wants Biden to campaign with him, he said he's running his own race. Other Trump candidates did well in congressional races - Ohio's 7th Congressional District Max Miller, a former Trump White House staffer, won the primary in Ohio's 7th district. Miller is all but assured of becoming a congressman because of the conservative bent of the district. Miller, 33, was initially running this cycle against Republican Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who voted for Trump's impeachment. But Gonzalez retired instead of face the Trump onslaught. After redistricting, Miller wound up running in a different district held by GOP Rep. Bob Gibbs. But Gibbs retired, clearing the path for Miller. Miller is a controversial figure. He's been accused of physical abuse by ex-girlfriend Stephanie Grisham, another former White House aide. Miller denies the allegations and has sued Grisham for libel and defamation. Grisham's book also described Miller as Trump's "Music Man," playing Trump show tunes, like Memories from Cats, to calm the then-president down. "We will protect life, finish the wall, fund our police, support our military, fight for fair trade deals, and stop the Biden Administration's insane runaway spending," Miller said in a statement after his win, parroting the Trump "America First" agenda. "We will stand up for our country and our citizens, and we will ensure America is respected once again." - Ohio's 9th Congressional District In a key seat that Republicans are hoping to flip this fall, a man who twice painted a 19,000-square foot Trump banner on his lawn, J.R. Majewski, will be taking on longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in Ohio's 9th district. Kaptur is facing one of the most difficult elections of her career this year, after redistricting significantly changed the district's composition. Majewski is a newcomer to politics and ran on a message reviving "Trump's America." "It's time to make America dominant again," Majewski, 42, says in one of his ads, showing the phrase — mimicking Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan — painted onto the side of an 18-wheeler truck. - Indiana's 1st Congressional District In Indiana's 1st district, another pro-Trump candidate who cuts an interesting profile won in a Democratic-held seat that is expected to be competitive this fall. Jennifer-Ruth Green, a former Iraq veteran and Air Force pilot who won the GOP nod by 25 points, ran her entire campaign bashing her main opponent for not supporting Trump in 2016. Green, who is Black, ran ads saying she would advance Trump's "America First" policies and on a platform that's anti-abortion rights and for keeping transgender girls out of girls sports. She would be the only Black woman Republican member of Congress if she beats freshman Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan. Despite pro-Trump candidate successes, there is evidence that Trump's power only goes so far Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine won the GOP nomination again. He faced a challenge from three more Trump-aligned candidates, who were critical of DeWine's management of the coronavirus pandemic. But DeWine, who had the power of incumbency on his side, beat back former Rep. Jim Renacci by 20 points. Trump didn't endorse in this race, though Renacci tried. He even hired troubled ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale to run his race. In the secretary of state's race, Trump surprisingly endorsed the man who won, incumbent Frank LaRose over a challenger who lined up far more strongly with Trump in pushing his election lies about election fraud that wasn't. LaRose previously defended U.S. elections, saying in 2020 it was "irresponsible" for anyone to "fearmonger about elections administration." But he has since softened his stance, telling NPR that he believes there were "shenanigans" in other states. So candidates who don't fully embrace Trumpism can win, especially if they have money and an established political brand. And while Trump's endorsement catapulted Vance in a crowded Senate field, Vance only won about a third of the vote — though several other candidates were pro-Trump as well. That's been one of the stories of the Trump era, even for Trump himself. He was rarely the majority choice when he ran in the GOP primary for president in 2016, but Republicans were never able to coalesce around an alternative. And it's clear, right now, Trump is and will be an important factor in these elections. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.	https://www.kyuk.org/2022-05-04/trumps-endorsement-power-was-evident-in-ohio-and-indiana-though-there-are-limits	2022-05-05T11:53:16Z	https://www.kyuk.org/2022-05-04/trumps-endorsement-power-was-evident-in-ohio-and-indiana-though-there-are-limits	true	15
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A delegation of Italian American presidents will address Italian Parliament, the Vatican's Secretary of State and other top dignitaries to fuel the creation of a world-class cultural and economic incubator. ROME, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In an unprecedented move, Italian and Italian American governmental, business and advocacy leaders are coming together from May 10-14 to spur partnerships that deepen cultural activism and create economic growth. This historic summit was organized by Judge Basil M. Russo, who leads the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO), and Hon. Mariangela Zappia — Italy's first female Ambassador to the U.S. Plans include both sides working together to cement a partnership that's designed to strengthen cultural relations, foster new trade, and bolster advocacy on issues of mutual concern. "Covid has pushed many prominent figures to an inflection point about what the post-pandemic world should look like," said Russo. "For Italians and Italian Americans alike, it's about fueling prosperity, advocating for each other's culture and history, and leaning on principles and aspirations that have been gleaned from our religious institutions and our ancestors." Russo will appear before the Italian Parliament to lay out this vision, and his delegation will meet with the Deputy of Foreign Affairs for the Italian Republic, Italian Supreme Court Justices, Italian academia, and the Vatican's Secretary of State. "The Embassy, and Italian institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, greatly appreciate all that you do, each day, to promote our language, culture, and traditions — in short, our heritage," noted Ambassador Zappia in welcoming Judge Russo and the COPOMIAO delegation. Updates will be provided in the coming days regarding next steps on this landmark initiative. In the meantime, Judge Russo is available for Zoom or telephone interviews. ABOUT COPOMIAO Formed in 1975 and based in New York City, The Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO) is comprised of 54 of the most influential cultural, educational, fraternal and anti-defamation groups in the nation. For more information, visit www.copomiao.org. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE The Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations	https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/watershed-moment-italian-american-leaders-advance-diplomatic-collaboration-strategic-partnerships-rome/	2022-05-05T11:55:01Z	https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/watershed-moment-italian-american-leaders-advance-diplomatic-collaboration-strategic-partnerships-rome/	false	10
When artist Jill Magid was asked to do a public art work for the non-profit Creative Time in 2020, she had to take a step back. "It's very hard to make a public art piece when there's no public and there's a pandemic," she said. But then she read a New Yorker article, where the co-chief investment officer at the bond fund PIMCO, Mohamed El-Erian, said this about the pandemic economy: "This is much bigger than 2008. 2008 was a massive heart attack that happened suddenly to the financial markets. You could identify the problem and apply emergency remedies and revive the patient quickly. This is not just a financial stop. This is infection all over the body, damage to virtually every limb and organ. The body was already so fragile. Those of us who have had the privilege of studying failed states have seen this before, but never in a big country like the United States, let alone a global economy." The body was already so fragile. Those were the words that stuck in Magid's head. Her project, called Tender, took shape. She had 120,000 pennies inscribed with that phrase, and distributed them through New York City's bodegas, locally-owned convenience stories which were considered essential businesses when the city was shut down in the early stages of the pandemic. She also made a short film with a provocative set of images, juxtaposing Brink's trucks filled with pennies with rows of refrigerated trucks filled with bodies. It's saying the economy is sick; our bodies are sick, too. "I was thinking of the human body, but also the government body, financial bodies and our own fragility," Magid said. Many of the film's close-ups are of hands as the coins pass from clerk to customer. It is both frightening and intimate, reminding us that pennies circulate through our economy like the virus circulates - through contact. Justine Ludwig, executive director of Creative Time, said it's those images that most resonate for her. "For myself and for so many, something that was so challenging during the pandemic was the utter lack of intimacy that as humans we need," she said. "And so seeing a pandemic moment and those hands touching one another, exchanging currency over and over, really hit home for me." This weekend is the second - and final - time audiences can view the film. It's showing at Dime Savings Bank in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a neo-Classical building that was once a cathedral of capitalism and is now all peeling paint and hollow, echoing spaces. At set times, eight musicians play the score to the otherwise mostly-silent film, their droning music recalling both the horror of that time and the meditative quality of religion, of reflection. It was important to Magid that there be a place, a time, for people to reflect on all that's happened over the past two years, especially in the place that was originally the virus's epicenter. "You feel the music, you see the musicians, you feel the subwoofer is like resonating in your body. And all of us together create a whole other kind of moment that that you can't really put into words, nor could you get online or any other way," she said. Tender Presence is running through May 8 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.	https://health.wusf.usf.edu/2022-05-05/120k-of-these-pennies-are-in-circulation-do-you-have-one-in-your-pocket	2022-05-05T12:03:32Z	https://health.wusf.usf.edu/2022-05-05/120k-of-these-pennies-are-in-circulation-do-you-have-one-in-your-pocket	true	43
Kaley Cuoco, who played the free-spirited Penny in The Big Bang Theory, has just taken her 7.2 million Instagram followers by surprise, as she casually confirmed her new relationship with Ozark actor Tom Pelphrey on the social media platform. By the looks of things, the couple have just enjoyed a romantic getaway together in the mountains, and it obviously provided the perfect backdrop to take some cute snaps for the photo albums and the grid. Kaley took to Instagram to share a carousel of sweet images from the trip - a mixture of morning coffees, incredible views, and a sprinkle of cute selfies and Polaroids in there for good measure. Her caption wrote: "Life lately ♥️🌲 🐾 💫 ‘the sun breaks through the clouds, rays of gold slipping into my eyes and heart, rays of yellow to break the grey.’" Cute! In one of the photos, the Ozark actor can be seen kissing Kaley on the cheek as she smiled and held his face. And in the series of Polaroids, (which Tom also shared on his IG account accompanied by a lengthy quote) the new couple can be seen grinning and generally looking so happy together. Tom, who played Wendy Byrde's brother Ben in the Netflix series, wrote in part on his post: "It is too simple that there is this much good in the world and you don’t know how to have it. And it makes you wonder when it was you lost your place. Then you catch a breeze, so warm and ripe, it makes you hope that someone will come who also cannot save you, but who will think you are worth saving.” Are we sensing a hopeless romantic over here? This romance also marks Kaley's first public relationship since splitting and filing for divorce from her ex-husband Karl Cook in September last year. We wish them both well!	https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a39911217/kaley-cuoco-ozark-actor-boyfriend/	2022-05-05T12:04:13Z	https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a39911217/kaley-cuoco-ozark-actor-boyfriend/	true	1
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Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TARS – Get Rating) major shareholder Vivo Capital Ix, Llc sold 41,800 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.19, for a total value of $634,942.00. Following the sale, the insider now owns 2,945,531 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $44,742,615.89. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Major shareholders that own 10% or more of a company’s stock are required to disclose their transactions with the SEC. Vivo Capital Ix, Llc also recently made the following trade(s): - On Wednesday, May 4th, Vivo Capital Ix, Llc sold 19,738 shares of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $12.67, for a total value of $250,080.46. Shares of NASDAQ TARS opened at $12.92 on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of $267.56 million, a PE ratio of -17.94 and a beta of 1.44. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $17.81 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $21.17. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $12.25 and a fifty-two week high of $39.08. Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Citigroup Inc. raised its holdings in Tarsus Pharmaceuticals by 123.0% in the 4th quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 2,145 shares of the company’s stock valued at $48,000 after acquiring an additional 1,183 shares in the last quarter. Morgan Stanley acquired a new position in Tarsus Pharmaceuticals in the 2nd quarter valued at $241,000. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP bought a new position in shares of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals in the 4th quarter valued at $202,000. Bank of America Corp DE increased its stake in shares of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals by 84.8% in the 4th quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 10,662 shares of the company’s stock valued at $240,000 after purchasing an additional 4,891 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC bought a new position in shares of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals in the 4th quarter valued at $289,000. 70.00% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. TARS has been the subject of a number of research reports. Oppenheimer lifted their target price on Tarsus Pharmaceuticals from $55.00 to $66.00 in a report on Monday. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 24th. Finally, HC Wainwright reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $40.00 price objective on shares of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals in a report on Tuesday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, three have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $48.00. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals Company Profile (Get Rating) Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutic candidates for ophthalmic conditions. Its lead product candidate is TP-03, a novel therapeutic that is in Phase III for the treatment of blepharitis caused by the infestation of Demodex mites, as well as to treat meibomian gland disease. Featured Articles - Get a free copy of the StockNews.com research report on Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS) - World Wresting Entertainment Stock is Hulking Up - High-Yield Weyco Group Returns To Reasonable Levels - MarketBeat Podcast: Alternative Investing Strategies Despite Market Volatility - Limelight Networks Stock is a Speculative Turnaround Opportunity - The Selloff In SiteOne Landscape Supply Is Overextended Want More Great Investing Ideas? - 3 Stocks to DOUBLE This Year - The 10 Best Stocks to Own in 2022 - 7 Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever - 9 "MUST OWN" Growth Stocks Receive News & Ratings for Tarsus Pharmaceuticals Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Tarsus Pharmaceuticals and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.	https://www.etfdailynews.com/2022/05/05/tarsus-pharmaceuticals-inc-nasdaqtars-major-shareholder-vivo-capital-ix-llc-sells-41800-shares-of-stock/	2022-05-05T12:05:05Z	https://www.etfdailynews.com/2022/05/05/tarsus-pharmaceuticals-inc-nasdaqtars-major-shareholder-vivo-capital-ix-llc-sells-41800-shares-of-stock/	true	1
Politician Bon Kalindo has demanded K50 million from Dollah Samson, a woman whom Kalindo accuses of creating WhatsApp Groups to attack his reputation. Kalindo through his lawyer, Kawelo Lawyers, is demanding K50 million from the woman to be paid seven days from Wednesday, 4 May 2022. In their letter to Samson, Kawelo Lawyers say the woman has for the past few weeks been carrying out a a smear campaign to tarnish Kalindo’s image through WhatsApp. According to the lawyers, the woman has also been sending some of the messages directly to Kalindo, alleging that the politician is corrupt, a dishonest person, a thief and a potential murderer. “Some of the WhatsApp groups you have created and used as a platform to attack the reputation of our client include Winiko Mbava and Citizen Voice. “We have further been informed that you added our client to these groups and you had the courage to add him back after he exited the groups. “Your above conduct shows that you have clear intentions to injure the reputation of our client and indeed you have caused a great damage to his reputation and standing to all right-thinking members of the society,” reads part of the letter. Apart from the K50 million, Kalindo is also demanding an apology from the woman on the WhatsApp groups ‘Winiko Mbava’ and ‘Citizens Voice’. He also wants the woman to close the groups within 48 hours from from Wednesday, May 4. Kalindo, who is also a comedian known as Wiiniko, through his lawyers has threatened to drag Samson to court for defamation if all the demands are not met. The former Member of Parliament was leader of anti-government demonstrations held last year over rise in cost of living. He has also been demanding the firing of Anti-Corruption Bureau director Martha Chizuma. Kalindo adzudzulidwa kamba kofuna kuti Chizuma achotsedwe ntchito	https://malawi24.com/2022/05/05/kalindo-demands-k50-million-from-whatsapp-group-admin/	2022-05-05T12:11:20Z	https://malawi24.com/2022/05/05/kalindo-demands-k50-million-from-whatsapp-group-admin/	false	1
Protester holding gallows told MP `this is what we do to traitors´, court hears A man threatened a Labour MP by holding up makeshift gallows with a noose outside Parliament and telling him “this is what we do to traitors”, a court has heard. Lance O’Connor, 57, allegedly called out the name of Hove MP Peter Kyle in Parliament Square, central London, while he was walking back to his office in Portcullis House on October 20 last year. The MP saw O’Connor standing with makeshift 6ft-tall gallows and a noose, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard on Tuesday. It is alleged the defendant then pointed at the object and said to Mr Kyle: “This is what happens to traitors.” Mr Kyle, 51, told the court that he felt “chilled” and “threatened”, especially in light of Sir David Amess being murdered a week earlier. Giving evidence, the MP said: “About two o’clock I had just finished a lunch meeting and was heading back from the lunch meeting towards Parliament.” Mr Kyle said he was walking towards the corner of Bridge Road near the Pc Keith Palmer memorial when he heard his name being called. He said: “I could hear a voice calling my name but there were multiple voices and other things being shouted. “When your name is called, you instinctively look over, and that is what I did.” Asked what the tone of the voice was, he said: “It was in an angry shout.” He added: “I looked briefly at what I was seeing and then away but then as I proceeded I turned back to have another look because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. “I saw a man standing there holding gallows with a noose in Parliament Square. “When I looked briefly the first time I did not quite take it in. It was only when I continued walking did the impact of what I had seen struck me. “The word ‘traitor’ was being used and then, when I looked across the road again, a man said ‘This is what we do with traitors’.” Mr Kyle said he also saw the man pointing up to the noose and took a photo which he later posted on Twitter, and was shown to the court. He said he then ran back to his office as he saw the action as a “direct threat to myself and a direct threat to other Members of Parliament”. “I was shocked, I was chilled, I was threatened,” he added. Mr Kyle spoke of Sir David’s killing the before, saying: “There was an atmosphere around Westminster that was chilling, so to see that was horrifying.” Martin Smith, defending, asked Mr Kyle if he had spoken to the defendant during the encounter, which the MP denied, adding that MPs are “trained” by security services not to engage with threatening protesters. He said: “I would not engage with anyone in any shape and form with someone who is making a threat to my life.” Pressed on whether he knew for certain the defendant said the words “This is what we do to traitors”, Mr Kyle replied: “To the best of my knowledge, I’m pretty sure it was the person who was pointing to the gallows whose mouth was moving.” The court heard that another man, Stephen Tiller, who was going to another protest, approached the defendant when he saw the gallows, asking “What is that for?” Mr Tiller told the court: “He said ‘All those f****** in there’ and pointed towards Parliament.” O’Connor, who appeared in court holding a wooden walking stick in the shape of a gallows with a small noose attached, told the court he was protesting about “draconian” lockdown measures that were in force at the time. O’Connor said he did not know that Mr Kyle was an MP, adding: “I had never seen him before. I do not watch anything to do with Parliament.” The defendant told the court that Mr Kyle had come up to him and asked: “Do you think that is appropriate?” O’Connor said: “I pointed across the road at the Palace of Westminster and said ‘What I think is inappropriate is the draconian measures the people in Parliament have made’.” O’Connor said he built the object “as a statement to the Government that treason is still punishable by the gallows”. Alex Alawode, prosecuting, pressed him on the gallows being “threatening” as an “instrument of execution”. O’Connor said: “I took that as a symbol. It is a bit of plastic, how am I going to hang anybody with a bit of plastic?” Mr Alawode asked him if he thought it would cause distress in the wake of Sir David’s murder, and he said: “I did not.” “I did not consider it, to be quite honest with you. Now I can see that some people can find it – not some people, MPs – but they are public servants and if they cannot take this like of criticism maybe they should be in a different career.” O’Connor repeatedly answered “I totally refute that allegation” when he was asked if he had called Mr Kyle’s name, used the word “traitor” or intended to threaten the MP. Mr Kyle, who has been the MP for Hove since 2015, was appointed shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland last year. Mr Kyle, a former charity sector executive, also previously served as a shadow justice minister and a shadow education minister. O’Connor, of Plaistow, east London, denies targeting Mr Kyle with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress. The trial continues.	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10778281/Protester-holding-gallows-told-MP-traitors--court-hears.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490	2022-05-05T12:13:44Z	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10778281/Protester-holding-gallows-told-MP-traitors--court-hears.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490	true	11
David Patrikarakos The romance and rebellion of an Iranian picnic Iranians adore a picnic. During the country’s most ancient festival, Nowruz, the Persian new year, they brandish baskets of food as they swarm into parks and gardens to celebrate Sizdah-bedar, the 13th and final day of the Nowruz celebrations and the coming of spring. In Britain, it’s only just getting warm enough to enjoy a khoresht stew or doogh, a yoghurt drink that tastes a little like Indian lassi. But venture out to Hyde Park and you’ll see groups of young and old Iranians sitting in the pale springtime sun. The Persian picnic is generally a family affair. Pretty much every Iranian has fond memories of Nowruz meals; eating fragrant rice and meats with kindly aunts. These picnics are best enjoyed in one of Iran’s ancient Persian gardens (Bagh-e Irani), which first emerged during the Achaemenid Empire of Cyrus the Great. Even ignoring the mullahs’ absurd ban on alcohol, Iran is a dry country. There’s not a lot of water, so the Iranian idea of paradise is a verdant one. Lush green with plenty of water and its ornamental offspring: flowers. Images of gardens spread throughout Persian art and have remained lodged in our collective minds ever since Cyrus launched his empire in 550 bc. The effect on Persian society has been huge. ‘Iranians are always prepared for a picnic,’ says Roham Alvandi, a historian of Iran at the London School of Economics. ‘On pretty much every road trip I’ve ever taken, a picnic seems to materialise on the way. I’ve been at airport gates waiting for a flight either to or from Iran and have seen an Iranian family suddenly produce a picnic with condiments and all the cutlery. Picnics are something really established in the culture, centred strongly around the family.’ But what was once a family jolly has become, thanks to the oppressive Islamic Republic, something more political. It’s not uncommon for families to eat on the graves of dead relatives, laying out blankets on top of memorial stones. But in recent years, Iranians have been taking their Nowruz picnics to the tomb of Cyrus the Great, widely regarded as the country’s greatest ruler. Cyrus is an avowedly Iranian hero who predates Islam by almost a millennium. Picnics at his tomb have become a way for people to embrace their Iranian – rather than Islamic – identity. Since the Islamists took control of the country after the 1979 revolution, the regime has tried to engineer the reverse: they see Iranians as, above all else, Muslims. That tension between the Islamic and the Iranian has squatted like a toad on public life. The former head of the Revolutionary Courts, Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali, a sordid murderer known as the ‘hanging judge’, was always desperate to bulldoze the great Achaemenid city of Persepolis, believed by some to have been founded by Cyrus. Scratch a religious fanatic and you’ll almost invariably find a Philistine, too. For a lot of people, picnics by the tomb of Cyrus are how they give the middle finger to the regime.‘It’s tough for the regime to respond because Cyrus is a great icon,’ Alvandi explains. It’s also hard to get too angry about a picnic without looking absurd. So the revolutionaries are stuck, watching happy Iranians munching Koobideh kebab in defiance of their austere leaders.	https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-romance-and-rebellion-of-an-Iranian-picnic	2022-05-05T12:15:03Z	https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-romance-and-rebellion-of-an-Iranian-picnic	true	1
This story is part of Try This, CNET's collection of simple tips to improve your life, fast. Sometimes those sweet-tooth cravings hit hard. And no, that box of cookies and the half-eaten chocolate bar you keep in the back of your pantry aren't going to cut it. You just want a warm, sweet, gooey treat that doesn't require an excruciating amount of time or effort to whip up. To that I say, cue the 5-minute mug cake. There are three main reasons to love the humble mug cake. First, it takes 5 minutes. Second, you prepare, bake and eat it in a coffee cup, so you can make a quick, single-serve cake when you don't want to wash a ton of dirty dishes. Third, mug cakes are an ingenious shortcut for people without an oven to cook tasty baked goods at home, since all you need is a microwave. I only recently graduated to an apartment with a conventional oven. Before that, I lived in a tiny college dorm and then a New York City apartment, both sans ovens. Before I caved in and bought a toaster oven, I was able to turn out good chocolate and peanut butter mug cakes in my microwave. Whether you're looking for a hassle-free dessert or an oven-less cake recipe, here's how to make a chocolate cake in a coffee cup that'll satisfy your cravings. I've also included a few ways to modify this recipe, if you have dairy- or egg-related dietary restrictions. You can also easily make mug cakes gluten free by using gluten-free flour blends you buy or make from scratch. For more tips, here's how to cut a cake without a knife and how to pit an avocado with stabbing yourself. Chocolate mug cake recipe During my tenure making mug cakes, I experimented with recipes from the Food Network, New York Times, Allrecipes and Tasty to uncover the simplest way to make a delicious chocolate mug cake -- one that requires minimal time and skill to prepare, and with ingredients you likely have on hand. A lot of recipes look fairly similar to the one below, with the main ingredients being flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, milk, oil and an egg. Some recipes, however, called for less common ingredients that you may not have in your pantry, like chocolate hazelnut spread. Others even called for butter (instead of vegetable oil), which required a separate cup to melt in and some skill to avoid scrambling your egg when it's hot. I tried to keep this one simple by sticking to pantry basics and oil, which is easier to incorporate and helps keep this quick-cook cake moist. For a basic chocolate mug cake recipe, all you'll need are these staples: - 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour - 3 to 4 tablespoons sugar (depending on how sweet you want your cake to be) - 3 tablespoons cocoa powder - ¼ teaspoons baking powder - A pinch of salt - 3 tablespoons milk - 1 egg - 2 tablespoons vegetable oil - A few drops vanilla extract - Chocolate chips to taste (optional, but if you have them, I recommend) 1. Add flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt to a standard-size (12-ounce) microwave-safe mug. Note that if you are using a smaller cup, your cake may rise and spill over the rim. Mix thoroughly with a fork until ingredients are well combined. 2. To the same mug, add the milk, vegetable oil, vanilla and an egg. Whisk all the ingredients together with a fork until the mixture is homogeneous and free of lumps. Stir in chocolate chips, if desired. 3. Microwave your mug cake uncovered for 90 seconds. Allow the cake to cool for a few minutes before eating -- trust me, it gets hot! 4. Top the mug cake with more chocolate chips as desired, powdered sugar or ice cream, and enjoy. How to make your mug cake dairy- and egg-free Whether you choose to omit dairy and eggs from your diet, have allergies or want to dodge increasing egg prices, you can easily hack a mug cake recipe to exclude milk or eggs. For the recipe above, simply replace the egg with an extra tablespoon of oil. It's important to note, however, that this does affect the texture of the cake, and it will not rise as much while cooking. To make the recipe dairy-free, simply use a milk alternative such as almond milk, oat milk or soy milk. The results are just as good. How does a microwave cook a cake? The microwave's history can be traced back to 1955, when the appliance was first introduced for home kitchens, but the mug cake's lineage is less clear. One of the earlier references to a microwavable dessert cooked in a coffee cup surfaced in a 2009 YouTube video titled "The most dangerous cake in the world." The woman in the video skeptically tries a recipe from her neighbor, and she concludes that it's "dangerous" because you can have a moist cake ready in less than 5 minutes any time of day. Microwaves use super-speedy electromagnetic waves to cook the food item by vibrating the water in the food. This means cooking a cake (and other dishes) can be done much quicker in comparison to ovens, which use gas or electricity to warm up the entire inside of an oven to cook food. A plus for ovens, however, is they can also caramelize and crisp up food, creating a nice crust on baked goods. For baking cakes, this means the color and texture of your dessert will be different when cooked in a microwave instead of baked in an oven. For more, take a look at the six essential kitchen tools to elevate your cooking, CNET's recommendations for the best microwaves and countertop ovens. Plus, what's the difference between sheet pans, cookie sheets and baking pans?	https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/the-best-chocolate-cake-ive-made-without-a-pan/	2022-05-05T12:16:40Z	https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/the-best-chocolate-cake-ive-made-without-a-pan/	true	2
ForFarmers N.V.: ForFarmers first quarter 2022 Trading Update Lochem, 5th of May 2022 ForFarmers first quarter 2022 Trading Update Highlights first quarter 20221 : - Volume Total Feed2 : down by -7.3%; decline in all countries except Poland of which compound feed: down by 8.2% - Gross profit: up by 9.3%; compared to weak gross profit in first quarter of 2021 - Underlying EBITDA: down by 47.2% ; substantially higher prices for raw materials, energy and diesel could not be passed on fully in the chain. Roeland Tjebbes, CFO and ad-interim CEO of ForFarmers: "The first quarter of 2022 was mainly dominated by the shocking invasion of Ukraine by Russia resulting in awful human suffering. The war also impacts the availability of raw materials, a situation which we are continuously monitoring. Up to now we have succeeded in continuing to supply feed to our customers and based on the current insights we can continue to do so. In line with our previously stated expectations, we could not fully pass on the price increases of raw materials and energy, which were eve higher than expected due to the outbreak of the war. As result, we realised a substantially lower underlying EBITDA in the past quarter despite continued cost savings. Recently, we see some movement in the food chain to make consumers pay for the heavily oppressive energy and fuel costs. It is, however, too soon to draw any conclusions from this. In the meantime, the European agricultural sector is fully committed to continuing to ensure food security in a sustainable way. We contribute to this by providing innovative solutions for livestock farmers to help them improve their production and returns on-farm while decreasing their footprint at the same time. This remains the core of our strategy, of which the review is progressing smoothly. We expect to communicate more about this after the summer, following the appointment of Chris Deen by the general meeting of shareholders.” 1. Results and developments of the first quarter 2022 are compared to those of the first quarter 2021, unless stated differently 2. Total Feed covers the entire ForFarmers product portfolio and comprises compound feed, specialties, co-products (from the feed industry, referred to as DML products), seeds and other products (such as forage) This press release contains information that qualifies as inside information within the meaning of Article 7(1) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation. Read the full press release on the website or open the pdf via the link at the bottom of this message. Attachment Wenn Sie mehr über das Thema Aktien erfahren wollen, finden Sie in unserem Ratgeber viele interessante Artikel dazu! Jetzt informieren!	https://www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/aktien/forfarmers-n-v-forfarmers-first-quarter-2022-trading-update-1031423618	2022-05-05T12:17:06Z	https://www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/aktien/forfarmers-n-v-forfarmers-first-quarter-2022-trading-update-1031423618	true	1
New Hires Focus on Data Science, Growing Lender Partnerships, Market Reach SACRAMENTO, Calif. , May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acorn Finance, the world's first embedded lending marketplace for home improvement financing, has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Ozer Elbeyli as vice president of Decision Science, Michael McGinley as vice president of Lender Relationships and Adrian Oesterreich as vice president of Contractor Channel. In 2021, Acorn's revenue and the number of customers applying for loans through the Acorn Finance platform both grew by 800%. After closing a $8.4 million Series A funding round in January, the company is working to double its team and expand its technology to meet the demand for competitive lending options at the point of need. "Ozer, Michael and Adrian's expertise and experience are a perfect fit for Acorn Finance," said Giri Addanki, founder and CEO of Acorn Finance. "Their contributions will be an important part of growing both our customer and lender networks – initiatives that have been made possible through the commitment of our investor partners." As vice president of Decision Science, Elbeyli will spearhead the analysis of multiple data streams from Acorn Finance lenders, point-of-sale partners, contractors and homeowners. He will leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies to ensure the Acorn Finance lending marketplace is working optimally to offer the best possible rates and terms to homeowners. In his new role as vice president of Lender Relationships, McGinley will focus on growing Acorn Finance's marketplace of lenders to include regional banks and credit unions to ensure homeowners have easy access to financing for their home improvement projects, with multiple choices of loan types and payment terms. McGinley's team will also help lenders grow their portfolios of home improvement loans by providing data, insights and support. As vice president of Contractor Channel, Oesterreich will lead Acorn Finance's recruitment and engagement strategies for the contractor channel with a focus on educating and building relationships. He will also analyze trends within the home improvement contractor market to position Acorn Finance for continued growth. Elbeyli brings deep experience in consumer finance, decision science, lending, credit strategies and pricing. Previously, he was Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of JoinRoost, a start-up he co-founded. He is the former Chief Credit Officer of LendUp Global, and has led multiple pilot product launches for Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Barclays and Springleaf Finance. Elbeyli holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. Prior to joining Acorn Finance, McGinley led a sales team at Experian focused on credit unions, and held other roles in sales, consulting, product marketing and product development. McGinley also worked in multiple risk, sales and operational roles at MBNA, First USA, Chase and TU. Prior to joining Acorn Finance, Oesterreich was head of Contractor Partners at Point Digital Finance, one of the growing number of lenders currently on the Acorn Finance platform. He has deep experience managing and directing channel growth in the financing for home improvement space. In addition, Oesterreich brings expertise in the general contracting, property management and real estate brokerage industries. This gives him unique insight to the market for real estate development-related financing. About Acorn Finance Acorn Finance is the world's first embedded lending marketplace for home improvement financing, driving better outcomes for borrowers, lenders, contractors and software vendors. Borrowers can shop for the best rates from the best lenders, all within a few seconds and fewer clicks. Lenders can reach more homeowners while also testing the ideal rates for optimum engagement. Contractors can increase sales by offering financing to customers at no extra cost to themselves. Lastly, software vendors to the home improvement industry can add value for contractors and enhance the homeowner's buying experience by embedding Acorn Finance's solution within their products' estimates and invoices. For more information, visit acornfinance.com. View original content: SOURCE Acorn Finance	https://www.kwqc.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/acorn-finance-expands-executive-leadership-team/	2022-05-05T12:18:01Z	https://www.kwqc.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/acorn-finance-expands-executive-leadership-team/	false	8
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Matt Kenseth was doing yardwork when wife Katie came outside with her phone in hand, letting him know he’d just been selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. A short while later Kenseth “celebrated” the night by cooking dinner for his daughters. “I never really thought about it,” the even-keeled Kenseth said on a conference call about his chances of making the Hall of Fame. Fellow driver Hershel McGriff and crew chief Kirk Shelmerdine were also selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Mike Helton was named the Landmark Award winner for outstanding contributions to the sport. They will officially be inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Jan. 20. Kenseth was a first-ballot selection, Shelmerdine was voted in on his third try on the modern day ballot. McGriff made the pioneer ballot on his seventh try. The 50-year-old Kenseth, who recently ran the Boston Marathon, drove 18 full seasons on the NASCAR circuit before retiring in 2020 with 39 Cup victories and 20 poles. He’s 21st on the career victory list with 39. “I never looked forward (to the Hall of Fame) when I was racing and I never really looked back at some of the wins that I had,” Kenseth said. “It was always the next race and what can I do better the next race?” He called the selection an honor, saying “I am really grateful for everything this spot has done for me and my family.” Kenseth reached almost every major milestone in NASCAR. He won the Daytona 500 twice, the Coca-Cola 600 and the All-Star race. He also captured the 2003 Cup Series championship capping a dominating season in which he led the points standings for the final 32 weeks of the season. He made the NASCAR playoffs in 13 of 14 seasons and finished runner-up twice. Kenseth made an impact from the beginning, winning Cup Series rookie of the year in 2000. He also won 29 Xfinity Series races. The 94-year-old McGriff won this first race at the 1950 Southern 500, in the NASCAR Cup Series’ second season at the age of 22. His final NASCAR race was at Tucson Speedway in the Pro Series West in 2018 — at the age of 90. He had the longest driving career ever in NASCAR. “Racing has always been in me,” McGriff said. “It was always been about the sport.” McGriff started 85 races in parts of 28 NASCAR Cup Series seasons, capturing four wins – all of those coming in 1954. He was one of the best drivers in what is now known as the ARCA Menards Series West. Competing in parts of 35 seasons, McGriff won 37 races — third on the all-time on the West Series wins list. His signature year came in 1986 when he won the series title. McGriff beat out the 87-year-old A.J. Foyt, who made 128 Cup Series starts over 30 years, winning seven races and finishing in the top 10 36 times. The 64-year-old Shelmerdine worked as a crew chief from 1977-92 and won 46 races with 15 poles and helped Dale Earnhardt captured four Cup Series championships (1986, ’87, ’90, ’91). Over his 16-year crew chief career with Earnhardt, Ricky Rudd, James Hylton and Richard Childress, he won 46 races and posted top-10 finishes in more than half his starts. Shelmerdine said he was “in shock” that he got in, saying he thought “it would be a few more years before it happened.” Shelmerdine said being reunited with Earnhardt and car owner Richard Childress in the NASCAR Hall of Fame is special. “It’s always been a surreal thing for me being in the middle of all these legends,” Shelmerdine said. “As the years go by the stats pile up and and you start to be in the sentence with it all.” Shelmerdine said everyone had their own role on those winning teams simply fit together well. “Everything just clicked together,” he said. Helton was the first person outside of the France family to be named NASCAR president. ___ More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports	https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/kenseth-mcgriff-and-shelmerdine-join-nascar-hall-of-fame/	2022-05-05T12:18:38Z	https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/kenseth-mcgriff-and-shelmerdine-join-nascar-hall-of-fame/	false	38
Time running out for Lordstown Motors to complete Foxconn deal Cash-starved Lordstown Motors missed its deadline for closing the sale of its plant to Taiwan’s Foxconn EV Technology Inc., a deal critical to the startup’s execution of electric light-duty trucks focused on commercial fleets. The two agreed to an asset purchase agreement (APA) in November 2021. Under... www.freightwaves.com	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589734271838/time-running-out-for-lordstown-motors-to-complete-foxconn-deal	2022-05-05T12:20:15Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589734271838/time-running-out-for-lordstown-motors-to-complete-foxconn-deal	false	null
Smarting from the welter of criticism in the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s pardon of two former governors convicted of corrupt practices while in office, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has rambled into another storm. Its decision to collect N100 million from each of its members vying for the presidential ticket of the party for the 2023 election has kicked off new controversy around the meaning of our latest effort at democratic governance. There are 13 aspirants who have so far declared interest in the race, and therefore, are expected to collectively cough up N1.3 billion. More are likely to join in the days ahead. Assessed against the backdrop of the low and rapidly deteriorating standard of living in the country, this is a humongous amount, which cannot be reasonably justified. Obscenity such as this in our political process must be eviscerated from the system sooner than later, otherwise, the toxic fumes it emits will get worse. The party had at its recent National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja, with the president in attendance, unfurled a raft of fees to be paid by aspirants for all political offices, with N30 million for expression of interest and N70 million for nomination forms, making for a total of N100 million for presidential aspirants, which tops the chart. Other charges for forms include that of the governorship at N50 million per aspirant; that of the Senate at N20 million each; House of Representatives at N10 million; and State Houses of Assembly at N2 million per contestant. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) pegged its presidential form at N40 million per aspirant. While this is lesser than the APC’s, it is still equally repugnant. Interestingly, the N100 million form currently on sale was obtained for N45 million in 2018 for the 2019 election and N27 million in 2014, ahead of the 2015 presidential contest. The geometric increase in the cost, from all indices available, cannot have been driven by anything other than an incrustation of corruption on our body polity by the APC. Unfortunately, there is no other way of looking at it. Besides, the huge roadblock this action mounts in the path of youth participation in the electoral process should trigger alarm bells. Undoubtedly, given its knock-on effects, the APC cannot deny the fact that the action is a clear erosion or reversal of the gains made by the “Not too Young to Run” crusade, which culminated in the reduction of the minimum age limit for the office of the president, hitherto constitutionally put at 40 years, but now 30 years. Yet, signing the bill into law strengthened the APC’s bragging rights, with the party advertising this as a turning point in our political process. The president, in signing the bill into law, told the youths gathered from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory that: “You can aspire for president but please postpone your campaign till after 2019.” In the present circumstances, this amounts to pure pantomime. Clearly, what the APC government gave the youth with the right hand a few years ago, it has just taken away with the left hand. The inherent lesson that seeking elective offices in the land is only for the wealthy is hard to take. Nigerians should be indignant at this treacherous display that seemingly entrenches the discredited ancient regime of money-bag politics and gerontocracy which has for decades gnawed at our democracy. It is gratifying, however, that one of the victims of this corrupted process, Senator Ken Nnamami, a former president of the Senate has excoriated it. “I believe that the nomination fees that parties ask aspirants to pay for elective offices in Nigeria need rethinking in order to improve the inclusion of youths, women and most Nigerians who earn salaries in an economy that has become distressed,” he said, shortly after his declaration and collection of the forms. He was right in asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to draw up guidelines for the parties on both the costs of nominations and campaign expenses. Regrettably, there is an extant template or law for the latter, with appropriate penal provisions, which are observed in the breach. Nevertheless, political parties are public entities that cannot be left entirely in the hands of politicians. It behoves Nigerians, civil society organisations and appropriate state institutions, to keep them in check by ensuring that they operate within the ambit of the regulatory framework in all their activities. This campaign cannot be won by dropping the ball, a process evident in how no party has been sanctioned for varied breaches of party financial regulations. It is on record, for instance, that in the 2008 audit report, most of the major political parties, save the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), had no adequate financial record, as they could neither account for funds recorded nor conduct internal audits. Weighed down by a fusillade of negative commentaries, APC apparatchiks have been trying to justify their NEC’s decision, emphasising that the N100 million fee will determine how serious an aspirant is; or will free the party from dire financial straits during electioneering. But this rationalisation is patently otiose. A concerned citizen and legal practitioner, Pelumi Olajengbesi, is miffed by the fact that serving ministers, whose salaries in the past seven years were far less than N100 million each, have bought the forms to run for president. He has given a seven-day ultimatum to anti-graft agencies, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other related Offences Commission (ICPC), to investigate the sources of finances of those involved. He has a point. The president, for example, is reported to earn N14.058 million annually, while the salary of the vice-president, Yemi Osinbajo, stands at N12.126 million per annum. If political parties are often broke, here, and need election periods like this to fleece aspirants to get funds to remain afloat, it is because those who manage their affairs have, since 1999, failed woefully to administer them in keeping with democratic ethos. Everywhere in the world, parties have registers of members, which run into millions, and who pay monthly or annual dues for their day-to-day running. The PDP presidential screening committee in Abuja, headed by Senator David Mark, has demonstrated that this is doable and enforceable when it disqualified two aspirants, one of who was reportedly found wanting in membership status and financial obligation to the party. This practice should be recommended to all the parties. It is a regimen that should be extended to delegates of party primaries, from ward to council, state and federal levels, henceforth. When this is entrenched in the DNA of parties, it will give them a lifeline and a message to members that there will always be a day each of them will need the party and, of course, judgement. Going forward, the APC nomination forms bazaar should be jettisoned for inclusive participation in our country’s general elections. 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Cameco Reports First Quarter Results, Beginning to Benefit From Strategic Decisions as Uranium Prices Improve; Well-Positioned With Leverage to Market Transition Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) today reported its consolidated financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). "With the recent uranium price increase, we are beginning to enjoy the benefits of the strategic and deliberate decisions we have made. And, with leverage to rising prices, we are well-positioned to continue to capture value from the market transition we believe is underway, and that is supported by the fundamentals; fundamentals characterized by durable, full-cycle demand against a backdrop of growing concerns about security of supply," said Tim Gitzel, Cameco's president and CEO. "Durable demand is being driven by the accountability for achieving net-zero carbon targets, while balancing the need for affordable, reliable and secure baseload electricity, all while diversifying away from reliance on Russian energy supplies. Governments and policy makers are increasingly recognizing the role that nuclear plays in achieving those objectives. It is why, since the start of 2022, we have seen announcements from countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, France, South Korea and Belgium focused on preserving and expanding the life of their existing reactor fleets as well as on building new reactors. There is also momentum building for non-traditional commercial uses of nuclear power around the world such as development of small modular reactors and advanced reactors, with numerous companies and countries pursuing projects. We're seeing countries and companies turn to nuclear with an appetite that I'm not sure I've ever seen in my four decades in this business. "The supply side is quite a different picture. For some time now we have said that we believed the uranium market was as vulnerable to a supply shock as it has ever been due to persistently low prices. The low prices and resulting lack of investment have put productive capacity at risk and not just for uranium, but for conversion and enrichment as well. We have seen the deepening of geopolitical and origin risk as supply has become increasingly concentrated. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, whether because of sanctions or because of conflict with company values, the industry now faces the challenge of disentangling its supply chain from dependence on Russian nuclear fuel supplies. It is still early days, but we are seeing what we believe is an unprecedented geopolitical realignment occurring in the nuclear fuel cycle. "With geopolitics complicating and potentially bottlenecking nuclear fuel supplies, we are seeing not just utilities but some of the intermediaries and service providers beginning to shift their attention to securing material for their uncovered requirements, and to derisk some of their origin dependencies. And we are seeing the continued thinning of the spot market by physical uranium investors. As a result, uranium prices have increased significantly with the spot price up 38% and the long-term price up 15% since the start of the year. The conversion spot price is up 65% and the long-term price is up 25%. "As the market continues to transition, we expect to continue to place our uranium and conversion services under long-term contracts and to meet rising demand with production from our best margin operations. While we have not concluded any new contracts in 2022 beyond the 40 million pounds disclosed in our fourth quarter MD&A, we have a significant pipeline of contract discussions underway. However, we will continue to exercise strategic patience in our contracting activity. "We will also take a balanced and disciplined approach to our supply decisions. Even though we have seen considerable pricing pressure resulting from the geopolitical uncertainty, we will not change our production plans. We will not front-run demand with supply. As we announced in February, we are continuing with indefinite supply discipline. Starting in 2024, with McArthur River/Key Lake and Cigar Lake operating at less than licensed capacity, we plan to be operating at about 40% below our productive capacity (100% basis). This will remain our production plan until we see further improvements in the uranium market and have made further progress in securing the appropriate homes for our unencumbered, in-ground inventory under long-term contracts, once again demonstrating that we are a responsible supplier of uranium fuel. "Thanks to our deliberate actions and conservative financial management we have been and continue to be resilient. Our strong balance sheet, with $1.5 billion in cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, positions us well to self-manage risk, including any global macro-economic or geopolitical uncertainty and volatility that may arise. "We are optimistic about Cameco's role in capturing long-term value across the fuel chain and supporting the transition to a net-zero carbon economy. We have tier-one assets that are licensed, permitted, long-lived, are proven reliable, and that have expansion capacity. These tier-one assets are backed up by idle tier-two assets and what we think is the best exploration portfolio that leverages existing infrastructure. We are vertically integrated across the nuclear fuel cycle. We have locked in significant value for the fuel services segment of our business and we are exploring opportunities to further our reach in the nuclear fuel cycle and in innovative, non-traditional commercial uses of nuclear power in Canada and around the world. "We believe we have the right strategy to achieve our vision of 'energizing a clean-air world' and we will do so in a manner that reflects our values. Embedded in all our decisions is a commitment to addressing the environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities that we believe will make our business sustainable over the long term." - Net earnings of $40 million; adjusted net earnings of $17 million: first quarter results are driven by normal quarterly variations in contract deliveries and the continued execution of our strategy in a market that we believe is in the early stages of transition. Adjusted net earnings is a non-IFRS measure, see below. - Strong performance in the uranium and fuel services segments: First quarter results reflect the impact of increased average realized prices in both the uranium and fuel services segments. In our uranium segment we produced 1.9 million pounds (our share) during the quarter and sold 5.9 million pounds at an average realized price 34% higher than the same period last year. In our fuel services segment average realized prices were 8% higher than in the first quarter of 2021. - Significant pipeline of contract discussions in strengthened price environment: As we announced in February, in our uranium segment, since the beginning of 2022, we had been successful in adding 40 million pounds to our portfolio of long-term uranium contracts. While we have not concluded any additional contracts in 2022, we continue to have a significant pipeline of contract discussions underway. Origin risk is driving interest in securing uranium supply as well as conversion services. We are being strategically patient in our discussions to capture as much value as possible in our contract portfolio. In addition to the off-market contracting interest, there has been a re-emergence of on-market requests for proposals from utilities looking to secure their future requirements and reduce origin risk. - Operational readiness for McArthur River/Key Lake is on-track: During the first quarter, at the McArthur River mine and Key Lake mill we focused on recruitment and training activities. There are now approximately 600 employees and long-term contractors employed at the mine and mill. When we resume operations later this year, we expect to have approximately 850 employees and long-term contractors. In addition, we advanced the work necessary to complete critical projects and the maintenance readiness checks at both the mine and mill. We expensed the operational readiness costs directly to cost of sales, which totaled approximately $40 million during the quarter. We continue to expect we could produce up to 5 million pounds (100% basis) this year depending on our success in completing operational readiness activities and managing the potential risks of the COVID-19 pandemic and related supply chain challenges. - JV Inkai shipments: The geopolitical situation arising as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is creating transportation risk in the region. Sanctions on Russia and restrictions on and cancellations of some cargo insurance coverage create uncertainty about the ability to ship uranium products from Central Asia, potentially complicating the logistics for deliveries from those areas, including JV Inkai's final product. We are working with Inkai and our joint venture partner, Kazatomprom, to secure an alternate shipping route that doesn't rely on Russian rail lines or ports. In the meantime, we have decided to delay a near-term delivery for our share of production from JV Inkai. In the event that it takes longer than anticipated to secure an alternate shipping route, we could experience further delays in our expected Inkai deliveries this year. To mitigate the risk, we have inventory, long-term purchase agreements and loan arrangements in place that we can draw on. See Uranium 2022 Q1 updates in our first quarter MD&A for more information. - 2022 guidance updated: Our outlook has been amended to reflect the increases in uranium prices. See Outlook for 2022 in our first quarter MD&A for more information. - Strong balance sheet: As of March 31, 2022, we had $1.5 billion in cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments and $996 million in long-term debt. In addition, we have a $1 billion undrawn credit facility. - Received dividends from JV Inkai in April: On April 28, we received dividend payments from JV Inkai totaling $83 million (US). JV Inkai distributes excess cash, net of working capital requirements, to the partners as dividends. Consolidated financial results The financial information presented for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2022 is unaudited. NET EARNINGS The following table shows what contributed to the change in net earnings and adjusted net earnings (non-IFRS measure, see below) in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021. Non-IFRS measures ADJUSTED NET EARNINGS Adjusted net earnings (ANE) is a measure that does not have a standardized meaning or a consistent basis of calculation under IFRS (non-IFRS financial measure). We use this measure as a more meaningful way to compare our financial performance from period to period. Adjusted net earnings is our net earnings attributable to equity holders, adjusted to better reflect the underlying financial performance for the reporting period. We believe that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use this information to evaluate our performance. Adjusted net earnings is one of the targets that we measure to form the basis for a portion of annual employee and executive compensation (see Measuring our results in our 2021 annual MD&A). In calculating ANE we adjust for derivatives. We do not use hedge accounting under IFRS and, therefore, we are required to report gains and losses on all hedging activity, both for contracts that close in the period and those that remain outstanding at the end of the period. For the contracts that remain outstanding, we must treat them as though they were settled at the end of the reporting period (mark-to-market). However, we do not believe the gains and losses that we are required to report under IFRS appropriately reflect the intent of our hedging activities, so we make adjustments in calculating our ANE to better reflect the impact of our hedging program in the applicable reporting period. See Foreign exchange in our 2021 annual MD&A for more information. We also adjust for changes to our reclamation provisions that flow directly through earnings. Every quarter we are required to update the reclamation provisions for all operations based on new cash flow estimates, discount and inflation rates. This normally results in an adjustment to an asset retirement obligation asset in addition to the provision balance. When the assets of an operation have been written off due to an impairment, as is the case with our Rabbit Lake and US ISR operations, the adjustment is recorded directly to the statement of earnings as "other operating expense (income)". See note 8 of our interim financial statements for more information. This amount has been excluded from our ANE measure. Adjusted net earnings is a non-IFRS financial measure and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information prepared according to accounting standards. Other companies may calculate this measure differently, so you may not be able to make a direct comparison to similar measures presented by other companies. The following table reconciles adjusted net earnings with net earnings for the first quarter and compares it to the same period in 2021. Selected segmented highlights Management's discussion and analysis (MD&A) and financial statements The first quarter MD&A and unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements provide a detailed explanation of our operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to the same period last year. This news release should be read in conjunction with these documents, as well as our audited consolidated financial statements and notes for the year ended December 31, 2021, and annual MD&A, and our most recent annual information form, all of which are available on our website at cameco.com, on SEDAR at sedar.com, and on EDGAR at sec.gov/edgar.shtml. Qualified persons The technical and scientific information discussed in this document for our material properties McArthur River/Key Lake, Cigar Lake and Inkai was approved by the following individuals who are qualified persons for the purposes of NI 43-101: MCARTHUR RIVER/KEY LAKE - Greg Murdock, general manager, McArthur River/Key Lake, Cameco CIGAR LAKE - Lloyd Rowson, general manager, Cigar Lake, Cameco INKAI - Sergey Ivanov, deputy director general, technical services, Cameco Kazakhstan LLP Caution about forward-looking information This news release includes statements and information about our expectations for the future, which we refer to as forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is based on our current views, which can change significantly, and actual results and events may be significantly different from what we currently expect. Examples of forward-looking information in this news release include: our views that we have leverage to rising prices and are well-positioned to continue to capture value from the market transition we believe is underway; our view that uranium fundamentals are characterized by durable, full-cycle demand against a backdrop of growing concerns about security of supply; our view that governments and policy makers are increasingly recognizing the role that nuclear plays in achieving net-zero carbon targets and other objectives; our view that there is momentum building for non-traditional commercial uses of nuclear power around the world; our belief that the uranium market is vulnerable to a supply shock; our belief that we are seeing an unprecedented geopolitical realignment occurring in the nuclear fuel cycle; our belief that we are seeing utilities and some intermediaries and service providers beginning to shift their attention to securing material for their uncovered requirements; our expectation to continue to place our uranium under long-term contracts and to meet rising demand with production from our best margin operations; our continuing commitment to our supply discipline strategy; our plan, starting in 2024, to be operating at about 40% below our productive capacity (100% basis); our intention to maintain our announced production plan pending further improvements in the uranium market and progress in our long-term contracting; our anticipation that we will continue to be resilient; our views regarding our balance sheet and ability to self-manage risk; our optimism about Cameco's ability to capture long-term value across the fuel chain and support the transition to a net-zero carbon economy; the reliability and expansion capacity of our tier-one assets and quality of our exploration portfolio; our efforts to further our reach into the nuclear fuel cycle and innovative uses of nuclear power; our commitment to addressing environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities that we believe will make our business sustainable; our belief that we are in early stages of a market transition; our view that we have a significant pipeline of contract discussions in a strengthened price environment; our view that operational readiness for McArthur River/Key Lake is on track; our expectation that in 2022 we could produce up to 5 million pounds (100% basis) of uranium at McArthur River/Key Lake; we have inventory, long-term purchase agreements and loan arrangements in place that mitigate the risk of delay of Inkai deliveries in 2022; and the expected date for announcement of our 2022 second quarter results. Material risks that could lead to different results include: unexpected changes in uranium supply, demand, long-term contracting, and prices; changes in consumer demand for nuclear power and uranium as a result of changing societal views and objectives regarding nuclear power, electrification and decarbonization; our expectations regarding the market fundamentals and demand for nuclear power, geopolitical realignment in the nuclear fuel cycle, and the shifting attention of utilities and some intermediaries and service providers may be incorrect; our contract portfolio may not realize the expected benefits of rising uranium prices or we may not be successful in our contracting strategy; we may not have the expected degree of financial strength and ability to self-manage risk; our tier-one assets may not have the expected levels of reliability or expansion capacity; our exploration portfolio may not have the expected quality; we may be unsuccessful in furthering our reach in the nuclear fuel cycle, or pursuing innovative uses of nuclear power, or capturing value from a transition to a net-zero carbon economy; the risk that we may not continue with our supply discipline strategy; the risk that we may not be able to implement changes to future operating and production levels for Cigar Lake and McArthur River/Key Lake to the planned levels within the expected timeframes; the risk that we may not be able to meet sales commitments for any reason; the risk that we may not be able to continue to be resilient; the risks to our business associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, related global supply chain disruptions, global economic and political uncertainty and volatility; the risk that we may not be able to implement our business objectives in a manner consistent with our environmental, social, governance and other values; the risk that the strategy we are pursuing may prove unsuccessful, or that we may not be able to execute it successfully; disruption or delay in the transportation of our products, including our share of Inkai production; we fail to mitigate the consequences of delay in delivery of our share of Inkai production; and the risk that we may be delayed in announcing our future financial results. In presenting the forward-looking information, we have made material assumptions which may prove incorrect about; uranium demand, supply, consumption, long-term contracting, and prices; growth in the demand for and global public acceptance of nuclear energy; our production, purchases, sales, deliveries and costs; our ability to expand into additional areas of the nuclear fuel cycle and pursue innovative uses of nuclear power; our ability to address ESG risks and opportunities successfully; plans to transport our products succeed, including our share of Inkai production; our ability to mitigate adverse consequences of delay in delivery of our share of Inkai production; the market conditions and other factors upon which we have based our future plans and forecasts; the success of our plans and strategies, including planned operating and production changes; the absence of new and adverse government regulations, policies or decisions; that there will not be any significant unanticipated adverse consequences to our business of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, supply disruptions, and economic or political uncertainty and volatility; and our ability to announce future financial results when expected. Please also review the discussion in our 2021 annual MD&A and most recent annual information form for other material risks that could cause actual results to differ significantly from our current expectations, and other material assumptions we have made. Forward-looking information is designed to help you understand management's current views of our near-term and longer-term prospects, and it may not be appropriate for other purposes. We will not necessarily update this information unless we are required to by securities laws. Conference call We invite you to join our first quarter conference call on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern. The call will be open to all investors and the media. To join the call, please dial (800) 319-4610 (Canada and US) or (604) 638-5340. An operator will put your call through. The slides and a live webcast of the conference call will be available from a link at cameco.com. See the link on our home page on the day of the call. A recorded version of the proceedings will be available: - on our website, cameco.com, shortly after the call - on post view until midnight, Eastern, June 5, 2022, by calling (800) 319-6413 (Canada and US) or (604) 638-9010 (Passcode 8606) 2022 second quarter report release date We plan to announce our 2022 second quarter results before markets open on July 27, 2022. Profile Cameco is one of the largest global providers of the uranium fuel needed to energize a clean-air world. Our competitive position is based on our controlling ownership of the world's largest high-grade reserves and low-cost operations. Utilities around the world rely on our nuclear fuel products to generate power in safe, reliable, carbon-free nuclear reactors. Our shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges. Our head office is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As used in this news release, the terms we, us, our, the Company and Cameco mean Cameco Corp. and its subsidiaries unless otherwise indicated. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220504006226/en/ Contact Investor inquiries: Rachelle Girard 306-956-6403 rachelle_girard@cameco.com Media inquiries: Jeff Hryhoriw 306-385-5221 jeff_hryhoriw@cameco.com	https://www.goldseiten.de/artikel/538293--Cameco-Reports-First-Quarter-Results-Beginning-to-Benefit-From-Strategic-Decisions-as-Uranium-Prices-Improve-Well-Positioned-With-Leverage-to-Market-Tran~.html	2022-05-05T12:21:51Z	https://www.goldseiten.de/artikel/538293--Cameco-Reports-First-Quarter-Results-Beginning-to-Benefit-From-Strategic-Decisions-as-Uranium-Prices-Improve-Well-Positioned-With-Leverage-to-Market-Tran~.html	true	11
- 80% of respondents say their firm is prepared to adopt new cloud-based legal software solutions. TORONTO, May 5, 2022 /CNW/ - Nearly eight-in-10 Canadian legal professionals say their industry is overdue for a digital transformation and the vast majority recognize the many benefits cloud-based solutions provide when it comes to practice management, client service and operational efficiency, according to a new survey among members of the Angus Reid Forum commissioned by global legal software provider Dye & Durham. The national survey found that 87% of respondents have adopted new digital tools to operate in the COVID-19 remote work environment, and 79% say they plan on continuing to use these products going forward. In addition, the vast majority of those surveyed (83%) agree that implementing cloud-based software solutions increases productivity and operational efficiency across their firms. "The pandemic accelerated the pace at which law firms have embraced new digital tools, and we anticipate this trend to continue even as employees begin heading back into the office," said Dye & Durham Canada President Dennis Barnhart. "Using cutting-edge software and cloud-based technology enables lawyers and their teams to accomplish more in less time while reducing manual paperwork and the potential for costly errors. That frees up time for pursuing high-value growth strategies and new market and service expansion." While many industries have gone paperless, the legal profession is often viewed as a laggard in this regard. Despite this, 70% of legal professionals anticipate going paperless this year, 75% say it will take two to three years, and 85% expect to do so in the next five to 10 years. When adopting new digital solutions, upskilling and training staff was one of the top challenges for 51% of respondents. Firms vary on how they train their staff, with most reporting they rely on a combination of their technology provider, their IT department and, to a lesser extent, external consultants. "About 42% of respondents noted they have cybersecurity concerns when it comes to using cloud-based digital tools," said Dye & Durham Chief Information Officer John Sulja. "Protecting our customers' data is a top priority for us, and that is why we are continuously investing in the security of our platforms. This includes partnering with cybersecurity experts to constantly evaluate and improve our defence posture to ensure we are providing best-in-class protection." The survey also found that 50% of respondents prefer purchasing their cloud-based solutions from a single provider, compared to 14% who prefer multiple providers. "Lawyers want ease of purchase, ease of use and ease of support, all in one place," Barnhart said. "We've seen this reflected in the enthusiastic response to our real estate software bundles in Canada, as well as a number of our other products globally." About Angus Reid Forum Surveys These are the findings of a survey conducted by Dye & Durham from March 24th to March 31st, 2022, with a representative sample of 200 legal professionals across Canada who are members of the Angus Reid Forum. The objective of the survey was to gauge the attitudes and perceptions of legal professionals towards the digitization of the legal profession. The precision of Angus Reid Forum online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within +/- 6.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Canadians been polled. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error. About Dye & Durham Dye & Durham Limited is a leading provider of cloud–based software and technology solutions designed to improve efficiency and increase productivity for legal and business professionals. Dye & Durham provides critical information services and workflows, which clients use to manage their process, information and regulatory requirements. The Company has operations in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, and has a strong blue-chip customer base that includes law firms, financial service institutions, and government organizations. About the Angus Reid Forum The Angus Reid Forum is Canada's most well-known and trusted online public opinion community consisting of engaged residents across the country who answer surveys on topical issues that matter to all Canadians. SOURCE Dye & Durham Limited For further information: Media Contact: Morgan McLellan at [email protected] or 647-802-4825	https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/77-of-canadian-legal-professionals-say-their-industry-is-overdue-for-a-digital-transformation-841601794.html	2022-05-05T12:23:08Z	https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/77-of-canadian-legal-professionals-say-their-industry-is-overdue-for-a-digital-transformation-841601794.html	true	1
Hot Girl Holiday: Houston Mayor Awards Megan Thee Stallion With Her Own Day & Key To The City Mayor Sylvester Turner has proclaimed May 2nd, 2022 as Megan The Stallion Day in Houston, Texas, a day that coincides with Meg’s grandmother and late mother’s birthdays. Megan Thee Stallion has hit records , sold-out shows, and endorsement deals for days, but her work outside the music is what is building her legacy in her hometown. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Meg partnered with companies to provide assistance to the elderly in Houston, Texas. A year later, she launched her nonprofit Pete and Thomas Foundation to honor her parents. This weekend, Meg furthered her legacy by surprising three people with $5,000 each for education, wellness expenses, and housing. Luckily, her philanthropy isn’t going unnoticed as Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has proclaimed May 2nd, 2022 Megan The Stallion day and given her a key to the city. “Megan Thee Stallion has an extraordinary entertainment career, but we wanted to honor her for what she does offstage to lift people’s lives in underserved communities,” Mayor Turner said. “She assisted people after the 2021 winter storm, during the pandemic, and helped those struggling with homelessness. I look forward to watching her grow as an artist and humanitarian.” Megan joins Bun B and Travis Scott among others from the world of Hip-Hop who have received a key to the City of Houston. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Megan Thee Stallion (@theestallion) View this post on Instagram“I really can’t believe I got my own key to my own city,” Billboard reports Megan said during the ceremony while acknowledging how special it is that her day also coincides with her late mother’s and granny’s birthdays. Both ladies passed away in 2019. “Both of these women helped me grow into the woman that I am today. I don’t know what kind of lady I would be if granny didn’t raise me to be so kind and so giving. You could walk by these ladies’ house and they givin’ out dollars, candy — whatever they’ve got, they’re givin’ it out the door. And I always felt like I wanted to be just like that,” she added. “I wanted to be nice like them. They made me feel so beautiful and so loved, and they made everybody they met feel just like that.”	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589734995586/hot-girl-holiday-houston-mayor-awards-megan-thee-stallion-with-her-own-day-key-to-the-city	2022-05-05T12:23:50Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589734995586/hot-girl-holiday-houston-mayor-awards-megan-thee-stallion-with-her-own-day-key-to-the-city	true	2
Famous Japanese streetwear and sneaker boutique, atmos, has unveiled its much-anticipated Nike Air Presto x Hello Kitty collection lookbook, featuring a capsule of limited apparel range and footwear. While the collection is slated for a 10 May retail release in Japan, South Korea and other select Asian regions, it will arrive on US SNKRS on 27 May. Here’s all we know about the Nike x Hello Kitty collaboration Features of the apparel and footwear collection The Nike Air Presto and Hello Kitty collaboration is centred on Hello Kitty, Sanrio’s prominent character, that appears as a floating monogram print on sky blue cuffed sweatpants, thick cotton hoodies and oversized tees. It also includes a white T-shirt with Nike Air and Hello Kitty branding, which was showcased in January 2022. A closer look at the exclusive kicks reveals that the upper lining is dyed in sky blue and is adorned with images of the character’s face designed by Yuko Shimizu. What might further attract fans are the side cages and laces that are in a white colourway, complementing a prominent red bow tie atop the sneakers’ tongues. The heel moulds look extremely glamorous, with another bow tie, black whiskers and eyes, representing Hello Kitty. While the kicks’ insides are made using a delicate black velour material, the insoles are printed with rainbows, green grass and blue skies, taking inspiration from Sanrio’s world. They are packed in a special box that showcases Nike Swoosh logos below the Hello Kitty bow. Nike and Hello Kitty partnership In 2004, Nike partnered with Hello Kitty to commemorate Hello Kitty’s parent company, Sanrio’s 30th anniversary. At the time, three pairs of Air Prestos sneakers, which were designed by Steven Smith and Hiroshi Fujiwara, were released. However, they did not launch the sneakers in retail but distributed them to friends and family. It is exciting to see the duo collaborate again, after almost two decades. (Hero and Featured Image Credit:atmos/Instagram) The story first appeared on Lifestyle Asia Singapore.	https://www.augustman.com/my/style/fashion/atmos-reveals-nike-x-hello-kitty-collab-lookbook/	2022-05-05T12:25:32Z	https://www.augustman.com/my/style/fashion/atmos-reveals-nike-x-hello-kitty-collab-lookbook/	false	5
John Hynes has been a pleasant surprise in a little more than two years as Nashville Predators coach, a guy who inherited a team on a sharp downward trajectory and managed to push things back the other way. He’s reached three postseasons in three tries, two with teams that were not expected to get there. He has integrated and developed young players. He has, in tandem with transparent roster changes, turned one of the lightest and softest teams in the NHL into one of the heaviest and toughest. He has essentially triumphed in a battle of wills with established stars, won them over and elicited the best hockey of their careers. He should be the Predators coach next season no matter what happens in the first-round series with the Colorado Avalanche. The Preds should pick up his one-year option. He should also be judged on the rest of this series — every period, every shift — no matter how long it lasts, which might not be long. The embarrassment of a 7-2 loss in Tuesday’s Game 1 — following the disaster of Friday’s blown 4-0 lead at Arizona, which forced Nashville to face the Avs in the first round and followed several recent stretches of opponents fattening their stats at the Preds’ expense — has to be answered in some way in Thursday’s Game 2. A win would be preferable, but a performance that brings to mind professional hockey would be a start. Another one after that would be nice. The Preds haven’t had consecutive thorough performances since college basketball was still being played. “We will be better in Game 2 than we were in Game 1,” Hynes said after the opener, but his team can achieve that and still get thumped three more times in a row and be dispatched to the golf course. The Preds have to be much better. And Hynes has to figure out a way to help make that happen. He must foster an emergence from their worst funk of the season, four weeks of play not befitting a playoff team. There was a 4-5-3 record in that stretch as they gave up four goals or more in nine of those 12 games. The absence of Juuse Saros, if he can’t return from a leg injury suffered April 26 (he’s been ruled out only through Thursday so far), would make this a very difficult series for the Preds to win. But it isn’t an excuse for what the Preds put on the ice Tuesday. His presence wasn’t a deterrent to this team’s second-half fade from briefly atop the Western Conference to barely making the playoffs. His presence won’t change the likelihood that a six-game series win over Colorado in 2018, when these franchises were in opposite roles, will stand as Nashville’s most recent playoff success. Colorado is much better than Nashville. Colorado is the favorite to win the Stanley Cup. The Preds defied most preseason predictions by making the tournament. But Saros’ absence doesn’t exclude the Preds from judgment. That certainly includes Hynes and his coaching staff. The rest of this series is going to tell us something about him and them. It’s not as dramatic as some may want it to be, even in a league that scapegoats and fires coaches with more ease than any other in America. The idea that Hynes’ seat should be warm is extreme, and the idea that general manager David Poile would be retained and allowed to fire Hynes and search for another coach is preposterous. Poile — who chose the bargain rate with David Rittich as Saros’ backup and is under tremendous pressure to get a deal done with Filip Forsberg so the pending free agent doesn’t get away for nothing but a first-round whimper — is a totally different story here. If by some unforeseen development Preds ownership decided to move on from him, well then, new management would probably want to hire a new coach. Under this management, Hynes is the coach. And much of what we’ve seen during the past two years speaks well of his work. Individual success stories far outweigh disappointments, Eeli Tolvanen being the obvious exception. Tanner Jeannot, Alexandre Carrier, Yakov Trenin and Philip Tomasino are among the counters, and there’s no way to give Matt Duchene and Ryan Johansen credit for their bounce-back seasons without also giving a nod to Hynes’ role — unyielding in his expectations, willing to talk things out, ultimately finding common ground and getting the best the players have to give. Hynes didn’t come with much of an NHL track record. He had four-plus seasons with rebuilding New Jersey, a 150-159-45 record and one playoff appearance, a five-game loss to Tampa Bay. That track record relative to some of the other coaches Poile could have targeted to replace Peter Laviolette made Hynes an easy scapegoat for fans in times of duress. Recent times qualify. It’s fair to wonder if he’s lost his grip on things a bit. All coaches are process-oriented to some extent, but Hynes rarely departs from that message publicly. He values physicality, and many of Poile’s roster moves reflect that. Some have been quite effective, too. But the second-half play of the Preds, more specifically the April and May play, necessitates questions about Hynes that aren’t easy to answer. Is there a disconnect in his messaging? Is he making the right adjustments and lineup decisions? For example, keeping Luke Kunin up with Johansen despite virtually zero offensive contribution. Or keeping Jeannot from an intriguing partnership with Johansen because of a commitment to the “Herd” line. Did Hynes overwork Saros before the goalie got hurt? Has the style he demands left his team too spent to play effectively when it matters most? Remember, this is the first 82-game season Hynes has coached since he led the 2018-19 Devils to a 31-41-10 record. It’s possible he has made some miscalculations. It’s also difficult to accurately divvy up the pies of blame and credit in this sport. Poile builds the team. Some of the players he has found and paid (and hopes to pay more), players all would agree are of high value and have tons of postseason experience, didn’t rise to the occasion in Game 1. It’s hard to hammer Hynes for a Mattias Ekholm mistake that led to an Avs short-handed goal or for Forsberg’s general invisibility. You can’t blame him for Rittich. You can look at the trend of costly mistakes and goals-against gluttony during the past month and shoot a glance his way, though. And you should look closely at him now. The Preds told reporters in Denver on Wednesday that they had team meetings to address their debut performance and talked about chips on their shoulders and the things you’d expect after a game like that. Hynes said he’s going to sleep on his goalie decision, though it seems obvious that Connor Ingram should get the nod after a solid turn Tuesday in relief of Rittich. Less obvious: what Hynes can say and adjust to make things competitive. It’s a big job. It’s his job. (Photo: Michael Martin / NHLI via Getty Images)	https://theathletic.com/3293998/2022/05/05/rexrode-john-hynes-predators/	2022-05-05T12:26:17Z	https://theathletic.com/3293998/2022/05/05/rexrode-john-hynes-predators/	true	1
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) _ Shift4 Payments, Inc. (FOUR) on Thursday reported a loss of $7.5 million in its first quarter. On a per-share basis, the Allentown, Pennsylvania-based company said it had a loss of 13 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, came to 15 cents per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 10 cents per share. The company posted revenue of $401.9 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $148.8 million, which also topped Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $140.9 million. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on FOUR at https://www.zacks.com/ap/FOUR	https://www.sheltonherald.com/business/article/Shift4-Payments-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149803.php	2022-05-05T12:27:20Z	https://www.sheltonherald.com/business/article/Shift4-Payments-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149803.php	false	null
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) _ Ingles Markets Inc. (IMKTA) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $68.6 million. The Asheville, North Carolina-based company said it had profit of $3.61 per share. The grocer posted revenue of $1.38 billion in the period. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on IMKTA at https://www.zacks.com/ap/IMKTA	https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/business/article/Ingles-Fiscal-Q2-Earnings-Snapshot-17149876.php	2022-05-05T12:29:24Z	https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/business/article/Ingles-Fiscal-Q2-Earnings-Snapshot-17149876.php	false	null
Coun Neil Clarke says he has requested a meeting with Grant Shapps about getting ‘actual support’ for more bus services in Nottinghamshire. It follows the release of council figures showing passenger numbers on countywide services are yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, with buses seeing about 70-80 per cent of their pre-Covid activity. For concessionary fare holders, usage is stalled at 55 to 60 per cent of pre-pandemic levels. The authority has confirmed it will use Government funding to help increase passenger numbers while also trailing Demand Responsive Transport, an ‘on-demand’ bus service scheme in Mansfield and Ollerton, involving services being booked by phone or by an app. This will be piloted during the summer, with the £1.5 million pot seeing buses operated on a ‘fully-flexible, on-demand basis’. However, Coun Clarke said he has also requested a meeting with Mr Shapps to see how the authority can further improve existing services across Nottinghamshire. The council’s £4.1 million budget for buses supports more than 100 services across the county, while various funding schemes are being announced by the Government to target public transport. However, Coun Clarke says many Government funding pots target the ‘equipment that goes along with bus services’, rather than funding for services directly. He told the latest committee meeting: “I have written to the Transport Secretary and his colleagues to request a meeting to talk about bus services and their funding. “I’m sure every member can quote instances with timings of bus services not always being very good for people who actually work. “It is an opportunity for me to say we are doing something proactive to speak with the Secretary, in order to forward our ambitions for increased bus services.” In response to the ‘slow recovery’, the Government has extended bus funding for a further six months until October 2022 through the Local Transport Fund. Whitehall had already given financial support through the Bus Recovery Grant, which ended in March. And Nottinghamshire County Council has been successful in its bid for the National Bus Strategy Rural Mobility Fund, which is helping to trial the on-demand service this year.	https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/transport/nottinghamshire-transport-chairman-wants-meeting-with-minister-about-improving-bus-services-3681234	2022-05-05T12:29:54Z	https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/transport/nottinghamshire-transport-chairman-wants-meeting-with-minister-about-improving-bus-services-3681234	false	2
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Whether you see a bright red cardinal, a perky little chickadee, a vociferous wren or a boisterous mockingbird, know that they all had a mother, just like you did. A mother bird designs and constructs a nest out of twigs, leaves, spider webs and other materials. The male helps by collecting nesting material and bringing food to his hardworking mate, who conceals the nest within a bush, tree or nest box. The male protects the nest against predators and defends the territory he laid claim to before breeding. Changes in the mother’s hormones create a bare patch of belly skin called a “brood patch.” After laying her eggs, the mother jiggles her belly muscles to stretch the brood patch and increase blood flow. The mother then incubates, or broods, the eggs to supply warmth to chicks, which develop much in the same way a human embryo develops in its mother’s womb. The male also develops a brood patch to help the mother incubate eggs. After a couple of weeks, the chicks hear their mother’s voice letting them know it’s time to hatch. Chicks then break out of the shell — but they are blind, naked, helpless and dependent on their parents for warmth, food and protection. Both parents hunt insects to feed chicks. Even if the parent birds, such as cardinals, eat a diet of seeds, they will nonetheless nourish chicks on a protein-rich diet of insects. But chicks are not born with a developed crop — the esophageal pouch for storing food — nor have they developed the ability to digest full-bodied insects. Bird families A group of eggs in a nest is called a clutch. Backyard resident songbirds, such as the Carolina wren, usually produce more than two clutches per season. Migratory songbirds that breed here during spring and summer, including summer tanagers, may lay only one clutch per season. Bird eggs are permeable with thousands of pores to allow for the exchange of oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor. A songbird nestling on the ground should be gently placed back in the nest. A fledged songbird on the ground should be protected until parents arrive to take care of it. An orphaned fledged songbird should be referred to Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition; 713-468-8972; twrcwildlifecenter.org. Therefore, a mother bird crushes up insects to store in her crop for pre-digestion. She will then feed her chicks digestible mushy food, much like human mothers feed babies softened foods. Doves feed chicks a protein-rich, fat-laden milky liquid called “crop milk.” The milky ingredients nourish chicks until they can digest seeds, the mainstay of a dove’s diet. The saying goes that a mother bird feeds the chick that squawks the loudest. But a mother is wise. She knows which chicks got the most handouts last time and feeds the ones left out the next time. The mother nourishes all chicks, but more robust chicks end up pushing aside weaker chicks for a larger share of food. After chicks leave the nest, the mother bird stays busy by raising a few more broods before August. Gary Clark is the author of “Book of Texas Birds,” with photography by Kathy Adams Clark (Texas A&M University Press). Email him at Texasbirder@comcast.net.	https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/home-garden/article/Mother-birds-stay-busy-all-summer-with-their-17145753.php	2022-05-05T12:30:21Z	https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/home-garden/article/Mother-birds-stay-busy-all-summer-with-their-17145753.php	false	1
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) _ Arrow Electronics Inc. (ARW) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $364.7 million. On a per-share basis, the Centennial, Colorado-based company said it had net income of $5.31. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $5.43 per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $4.53 per share. The electronics maker posted revenue of $9.07 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $8.67 billion. For the current quarter ending in July, Arrow Electronics expects its per-share earnings to range from $5.48 to $5.64. The company said it expects revenue in the range of $9.04 billion to $9.64 billion for the fiscal second quarter. Arrow Electronics shares have declined 7% since the beginning of the year. The stock has increased 12% in the last 12 months. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ARW at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ARW	https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/Arrow-Electronics-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149910.php	2022-05-05T12:33:17Z	https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/Arrow-Electronics-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149910.php	false	24
DALLAS, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GI Alliance, the nation's largest independent gastroenterology practice, is pleased to announce a partnership with Gastroenterology Consultants, expanding GI Alliance's greater Houston area locations. Gastroenterology Consultants consists of nine physicians and six advanced practice providers who provide GI care in six locations. Offices are in Ellington, St. John (Nassau Bay), Pasadena, Pearland, Clear Lake (Webster), and League City. The physicians also deliver outpatient care at 2 endoscopy centers and an infusion center. Gastroenterology Consultants joins existing Houston-based practices, bringing GI Alliance's total GI physicians in the greater Houston market to 35 and over 65 providers. "Houston is one of the fastest growing markets in the nation and Gastroenterology Consultants is one of the largest private GI practices in the area," said Jim Weber, M.D., CEO of GI Alliance. "Joining GI Alliance will provide necessary infrastructure for the group's continued success and allows GI Alliance to better meet the needs of Houston-area patients." "GI Alliance's focus closely aligns with our goal of providing high-quality, patient-focused, low-cost care," said Nat Bala, M.D., Gastroenterology Consultants. "This partnership provides us with immediate access to operational efficiencies, so we can focus on better serving our patients." About GI Alliance GI Alliance is a physician-led and majority physician-owned GI practice with over 670 independent physicians operating in Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, and Washington. GI Alliance practices focus on providing the highest-quality care to their patients. In addition to providing operational support for practices, GI Alliance is working to unite gastroenterologists nationwide by aligning interests and improving patient care. Contact: Dee Dee Brooks GI Alliance 214.998.3434 deedee.brooks@GIAlliance.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE GI Alliance	https://www.wmbfnews.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/gi-alliance-expands-houston-market-with-gastroenterology-consultants/	2022-05-05T12:34:09Z	https://www.wmbfnews.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/gi-alliance-expands-houston-market-with-gastroenterology-consultants/	false	11
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 140 former Justice Department officials, including two past attorneys general, are throwing their support behind President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The ex-officials, who worked for both Democratic and Republican presidents, are urging congressional leaders to quickly confirm Steve Dettelbach to the post. Their endorsement comes on the heels of support from several law enforcement organizations, including the Major County Sheriffs of America. Dettelbach’s nomination comes as the Biden administration and the Justice Department are fighting to combat a surge in violent crime, gun violence and mass shootings that has touched both big cities and small rural communities across the nation. Dettelbach is a former federal prosecutor who served as U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016 and has run in the past for attorney general of Ohio. He worked in several other positions in the Justice Department and was involved in the prosecution of a man who firebombed an Ohio courthouse. He also served as the chairman of the civil rights subcommittee as part of the attorney general’s advisory committee under former attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. “With the surge in gun crime across our country in recent years, it is all the more important to have confirmed leadership at the helm of the ATF who will help keep our communities safe by taking gun traffickers and other violent criminals off our streets,” says a letter by the more than 140 former Justice Department officials, dated Wednesday. The letter — to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and the panel’s top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa — is signed by Holder and Lynch, along with several other prominent former Justice Department officials. Those others include former deputy attorneys general Rod Rosenstein, Sally Yates and James Cole, along with former Sen. Doug Jones. The ex-officials emphasized Dettelbach’s work as a career prosecutor who earned votes from both Democrats and Republicans for his confirmation as U.S. attorney. The signers said he has “conducted himself with the highest level of integrity and character.” “Throughout his exceptional career, Steve has also been recognized for being inclusive and even-handed in his approach to law enforcement,” the letter states. “He also understands that there can be no room for partisanship or divisiveness among those who are vested with the sacred mission of fighting crime and defending the rule of law.” Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first ATF nominee, gun control advocate David Chipman, after it stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate. The nominee will need a simple majority to be confirmed. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have failed to get nominees for the ATF position through the politically fraught process since the director’s position was made confirmable in 2006. Since then, only one nominee, former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, has been confirmed. Jones made it through the Senate in 2013 but only after a six-month struggle. Jones was acting director when President Barack Obama nominated him in January 2013. In the last few weeks, the Biden administration removed the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from his position and replaced him with the U.S. attorney in Arizona, Gary Restaino, who’s expected to remain in charge while Dettelbach’s nomination wades its way through the Senate. The previous acting director, Marvin Richardson, was demoted to deputy director and will remain at ATF for now to advise Restaino.	https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Biden-s-ATF-pick-endorsed-by-ex-Justice-17149738.php	2022-05-05T12:34:36Z	https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Biden-s-ATF-pick-endorsed-by-ex-Justice-17149738.php	true	31
Home News Sport Subscribe Digital Editions Network Classifieds Advertise Contact About Our Community Login Search Leader Today Subscribe Digital Editions Network Classifieds Advertise Contact About Our Community Login Sign in Welcome! Log into your account your username your password Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password your email A password will be e-mailed to you. Home News Sport LONGREACH \| CENTRAL WEST QUEENSLAND Home News Out and About News Out and About 05/05/2022 Facebook Twitter Email Latest News Ride West 05/05/2022 Ride West, a charity event that raised approximately $500,000, finally arrived in Longreach after a gruelling bike ride from Longreach. Director of Ride West... Going ahead with goats 05/05/2022 Out and About 05/05/2022 Basin meeting held today 05/05/2022 Littleproud on infrastructure 05/05/2022	https://leadertoday.com.au/news/2022/05/05/out-and-about-9/	2022-05-05T12:37:17Z	https://leadertoday.com.au/news/2022/05/05/out-and-about-9/	true	null
OPEC+ opens oil taps gradually as Russian war roils markets LONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries decided Thursday to stick to a modest increase in production, even as Europe’s proposed phaseout of Russian oil threatens to yank millions of barrels off a global market already thirsty for crude. At an online meeting, the alliance known as OPEC+ — which includes non-member Russia — stayed with its road map to gradually open the oil taps, agreeing to add 432,000 barrels per day in June. The plan is to make those regular increases to restore cuts made in 2020 during the worst of the pandemic recession. That cautious approach will exacerbate a global energy crunch, with prices expected to rise further for oil and the gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel made from it. Those higher prices will worsen global inflation, eating away at people’s ability to spend money that would otherwise support the economic recovery. Analysts from Rystad Energy foresee the global market potentially losing up to 2 million barrels within six months if the 27 European Union countries approve a proposal to sanction Russian oil. Russia is expected to see production fall after losing its biggest oil customer — Europe. OPEC has made it clear to European officials that the oil cartel is not going to increase production to compensate for lost Russian oil. Some members of the oil cartel already are not able to meet their quotas. Oil prices are up more than 40% this year. Bigger increases have been held back by the U.S. and other members of the International Energy Agency releasing oil from strategic reserves and diminished demand due to COVID-19 lockdowns and other restrictions in China. Russia is the world’s largest oil exporter with some 12% of global supply. Before the invasion of Ukraine, Russian sent around 3.8 million barrels of oil per day to the European Union, where refineries turn it into gasoline and diesel fuel. If the EU carries through on its plans to phase out crude imports in six months, Russia could try to sell those barrels to countries in Asia that are not participating in the boycott. But it might not be able to find customers for all of the oil displaced from Europe, even at tempting knockdown prices. There is limited pipeline and rail capacity to Asia. And while some oil could be redirected by sea, that will depend on the availability of oil tankers willing to deal with Russian crude, given the risk of sanctions. Banks and companies that insure tanker fleets may be reluctant to facilitate the sale of Russian oil. “Higher prices could be around the corner,” said Bjornar Tonhaugen, head of oil markets research at Rystad Energy. “The oil market has not fully priced in the potential of an EU oil embargo, so higher crude prices are to be expected in the summer months if it’s voted into law.” U.S. oil prices rose Thursday, up 1.2% after the meeting to $109.01 per barrel, or 43% higher since the start of the year. International benchmark Brent crude rose 1.7%, to $111.81 per barrel. For U.S. consumers, average gasoline prices stood at $4.19 per gallon Wednesday, up $1.29 from a year ago. The price of crude oil accounts for about 60% of the price at the pump in the United States. Diesel for trucks and farm equipment has risen even more over a year ago, by $2.34, to $5.43 per gallon. Drivers in Europe, where taxes make up a larger proportion of the price at the pump, are paying more, too. Gasoline prices are averaging 1.95 euros per liter in Germany, or the equivalent of $7.77 per gallon, while diesel has been at 2.02 euros per liter, or $8.05 per gallon. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.	https://www.cbs7.com/2022/05/05/russian-war-china-lockdowns-roil-oil-markets-opec-meets/	2022-05-05T12:38:32Z	https://www.cbs7.com/2022/05/05/russian-war-china-lockdowns-roil-oil-markets-opec-meets/	false	44
Friends of the Millbury Seniors expanding van services MILLBURY -- The Friends of the Millbury Seniors has been offering the transportation services to the town for 35 years and is partnered with the WRTA. Need a ride? Just call. We will take you to medical appointments, markets, work, social events, etc. It’s called general-dial-rides. Let’s get back to normal and start traveling out and about. Van services are offered to the elderly and disabled Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. The ADA van service is offered 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. On Fridays from 9-11 a.m., we have a special shopping trip to the Fair Plaza. We are now expanding our service to a trip on the third Thursday of the month to the Walmart in Northbridge. If you would be interested in going, please call and make a reservation. Pickup will start at 9:30 a.m. and will return at 11:30 a.m. Our regular service is one town out in each direction: Grafton, Auburn, Worcester, Sutton and Shrewsbury. All rides require a 48-hour advance reservation and ADA clients only require 24-hour advance reservation. All the vans are wheelchair accessible, and the rides are currently free. You are always welcome to take your own escort, but you must make a reservation for them also. Reservations are made by calling the transportation line at the Senior Center, 508-865-9247. Volunteers needed We are currently looking for transportation escorts to accompany elderly clients to medical appointment. There is a small stipend for your service that is being sponsored by the “Friends” group. If you would like to volunteer for this very important service, please call 508-581-7424. .	https://www.millburysutton.com/story/news/2022/05/04/friends-millbury-seniors-expanding-van-services/9618779002/	2022-05-05T12:40:38Z	https://www.millburysutton.com/story/news/2022/05/04/friends-millbury-seniors-expanding-van-services/9618779002/	true	1
UNCASVILLE, Conn., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment, or MGE, will host a conference call regarding its second quarter fiscal 2022 operating results on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). Those interested in participating in the call should dial as follows: (866) 901-1124 (918) 922-6131 (International) Conference ID: 2173977 Please call five minutes in advance to ensure that you are connected prior to the initiation of the call. Questions and answers will be reserved for call-in analysts and investors. Interested parties also may listen to a taped replay of the entire conference call commencing two hours after the call's completion on Thursday, May 12, 2022. This replay will run through May 26, 2022. The access number for a taped replay of the conference call is as follows: (855) 859-2056 (404) 537-3406 (International) Conference ID: 2173977 About Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment MGE is a master developer and operator of premier integrated entertainment resorts, including Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, Inspire in Incheon, South Korea and Niagara Casinos in Niagara, Canada. MGE is owner, developer, and/or manager of integrated entertainment resorts throughout the United States, including Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, Pennsylvania, as well as Northern Asia, Niagara Falls, Canada and Las Vegas, Nevada. MGE is owner and operator of Connecticut Sun, a professional basketball team in the WNBA. For more information on MGE and our properties, visit www.mohegangaming.com. Contact: Carol K. Anderson Chief Financial Officer Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment (860) 862-8000 View original content: SOURCE Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment	https://www.ky3.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/mohegan-gaming-amp-entertainment-invites-you-join-its-second-quarter-fiscal-2022-operating-results-conference-call/	2022-05-05T12:45:49Z	https://www.ky3.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/mohegan-gaming-amp-entertainment-invites-you-join-its-second-quarter-fiscal-2022-operating-results-conference-call/	true	11
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) _ Lifetime Brands Inc. (LCUT) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $380,000. On a per-share basis, the Garden City, New York-based company said it had profit of 2 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 6 cents per share. The kitchen products company posted revenue of $182.7 million in the period. Lifetime Brands expects full-year earnings in the range of $1.50 to $1.64 per share, with revenue in the range of $904 million to $924 million. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on LCUT at https://www.zacks.com/ap/LCUT	https://www.trumbulltimes.com/business/article/Lifetime-Brands-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149759.php	2022-05-05T12:46:02Z	https://www.trumbulltimes.com/business/article/Lifetime-Brands-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149759.php	true	null
HOUSTON (AP) _ Quanta Services Inc. (PWR) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $84.6 million. The Houston-based company said it had net income of 57 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.37 per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.22 per share. The specialty contractor for utility and energy companies posted revenue of $3.97 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.67 billion. Quanta Services expects full-year earnings in the range of $6 to $6.50 per share, with revenue in the range of $16.2 billion to $16.7 billion. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on PWR at https://www.zacks.com/ap/PWR	https://www.thehour.com/business/article/Quanta-Services-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149746.php	2022-05-05T12:49:40Z	https://www.thehour.com/business/article/Quanta-Services-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149746.php	false	null
The Warriors will be without Gary Payton II indefinitely, almost certainly through the remainder of the second-round series against the Memphis Grizzlies. Not only will Payton — a unique defensive talent who couldn’t find an NBA home before landing with Golden State — miss most of his first playoff run, but the Warriors will be without their best defender against Ja Morant. And Morant has been a killer, scoring 34 points in the Warriors’ Game 1 win and 47 in their Game 2 loss. News that Payton fractured his left elbow on a reckless foul by Dillon Brooks will force Golden State to scramble for other ways to limit Morant’s explosive game. Not many in the entire NBA have Payton’s quick hands and feet defensively, but the Warriors have a few defensive options heading into Games 3 and 4 at Chase Center. Here’s where they might turn: Andrew Wiggins defends Morant Wiggins was one of the Warriors’ better defenders in the regular season, but he’s playing with an edge in the playoffs that his teammates clamored for all year. Though he struggled to keep Morant in front of him as his primary defender after Payton’s departure in Game 2, Wiggins has the athleticism and length to get in front of Morant, who speeds downhill to the cup and scores on tricky finishes with eye-opening efficiency. Wiggins has shown he can step up to the task at hand — his physicality in this series has been both a surprise and necessary for Golden State to match Memphis’ aggressive style of play. He’s pushing for rebounds on both ends, diving for loose balls and finding spots to get to the rim. In the touted (and now tested) three-guard lineup featuring Jordan Poole, Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, Wiggins has been playing his best ball at power forward during these playoffs, a new role. If Wiggins is tasked with guarding Morant, he will have to move back to a wing position. That would likely force coach Steve Kerr to take out either Thompson or Poole when Wiggins is in to guard Morant. Trap or blitz Morant The Warriors might also consider this: Morant is all the Grizzlies have working right now. And he can be quite the silver bullet. But Desmond Bane’s back injury is clearly bothering him: The ace shooter has gone 2-of-9 from 3 in two games so far. Tyus Jones and De’Anthony Melton haven’t been much more productive, either. Jaren Jackson Jr. went off for six 3-pointers in Game 1 — should the Warriors expect that regularly from the seven-footer? So why not trap Morant? Golden State tried this at least once in Game 2 and was successful in getting the ball out of Morant’s hands. Wiggins and Poole were sent to trap Morant at halfcourt, and Morant nearly turned the ball over before finding Xavier Tillman for a pass, who found Zaire Williams beyond the arc. Williams hit the 3-pointer — he was 4-for-6 on the night — but the rookie was 3-for-12 from 3 in the playoffs leading up to Game 2. In the aggregate, Golden State may be happy with Williams taking that shot. They may be happy with anyone else but Morant having the ball. Create a defensive “shell” The Warriors are at their best defensively when they can create a strong shell near the perimeter with Green playing free safety as a secondary line of defense. They have lost that shell during this Memphis series, perhaps because the Grizzlies generate a lot of their offense in transition before the Warriors can set their defense. Whether they use a zone or switching man-to-man defense, the Warriors must prioritize stopping dribble penetration — in particular by Morant. Getting back in transition and communicating cleanly on defense would go a long way toward limiting him off the dribble and forcing Memphis to rely on zipping the ball around the perimeter to shooters. Let Morant go off The Grizzlies needed every bit of Morant’s 47-point performance on Tuesday night. Maybe a young star like Morant can carry a team to a series win, but the Warriors may find they’re better off letting Morant tire himself out while they rediscover their scoring groove. Morant got whatever he wanted with ease, but each game could have gone differently if Curry, Thompson and Poole shot better from 3-point land. Golden State is shooting a dismal 27.6% from 3 in this series. In this series, maybe the best defense is a better offense.	https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/05/05/how-will-the-warriors-defend-ja-morant-with-payton-out/	2022-05-05T12:51:54Z	https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/05/05/how-will-the-warriors-defend-ja-morant-with-payton-out/	false	10
Ingredients: - 1/4 cup sake - 1/4 cup light soy sauce - 1/4 cup Juice of 1 lemon - 1 Tbsp. sesame oil - 1 Tbsp. agave nectar - 1 fresh ginger (1-inch piece thinly sliced) - 3 cloves large garlic (peeled) - 2 green onion (scallion) (trimmed and knotted together or lightly crushed) - 1 tsp. freshly crushed black pepper - 1 tsp. tapioca starch or cornstarch (diluted with 2 Tbsps. water) - 2 Tbsp. grapeseed oil - 2 lbs. flank steak (often labeled “London broil”) Directions: - In a saucepan, add the sake, soy sauce, lemon juice, sesame oil, agave nectar, ginger, garlic, scallions, and pepper, and cook over low heat. Simmer until heated through. Stir in the tapioca starch continuously until the sauce is slightly thickened. Remove sauce from the heat, and cool. Use 2 Tbsp. of the sauce to season the steak. Add the oil to a large nonstick skillet. When it starts to smoke, add the steak, and pan-fry over medium heat, until golden, about 5 minutes per side. Remove from heat, and serve hot, topped with remaining teriyaki sauce. STAY INFORMED. SIGN UP! Up-to-date agriculture news in your inbox!	https://www.farmanddairy.com/recipes/beef-teriyaki	2022-05-05T12:57:09Z	https://www.farmanddairy.com/recipes/beef-teriyaki	true	1
International Finance Forum Calls for Global Cooperation as Inflation Continues BEIJING, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Finance Forum (IFF) is urging countries and regions to work better together to fight against worsening global inflation, in a bid to bring recovery of the global economy back on track. On April 27 at the IFF spring meetings, world leaders and industry experts teased out the main economic challenges faced by the global community at the moment and discussed potential solutions as to how countries could cooperate to introduce policy adjustments amid the ongoing pandemic. In a keynote speech, Domenico Siniscalco, IFF Vice President and Former Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy, said most countries injected a lot of liquidity into their economies between 2008 and 2011 to tackle economic crises and again during the global Covid-19 pandemic, and that rate of inflation has remained at a high level in emerging economies. Siniscalco pointed out that relatively speaking, inflation in Asia has been generally well managed and controlled, primarily thanks to sound management of the economy as a whole. While price rises in energy, food and agricultural products may bring enormous pressure on economic growth and result in societal issues, governments will thus have to introduce measures to deal with the issues and control inflation, Siniscalco added. Specifically, Siniscalco said that China, Europe and the U.S. should work together to tackle the issues of increasing food and energy prices. From a supply chain and industrial chain perspective, Song Min, IFF Academic Committee Member and Dean of Economics and Management School of Wuhan University, said at the IFF meetings that while Western countries are entering a post-pandemic phase, the strain in industrial chain and supply chain may be alleviated in the short term. Song noted that as geopolitical turbulence continues, uncertainties remain as to how the global industrial chain and supply chain would be affected. Robin Xing, Chief China Economist of Morgan Stanley, holds a positive view on Asian economic outlook amid a global inflation situation, and remains confident in China's measures to offset the slowdown of the economic growth. Despite ongoing headwinds, including factors such as geopolitical unrest, inflation and Fed rate spike, Asian economies are better able to manage these headwinds than they did in previous cycles over the past few decades. Xing said Morgan Stanley remains optimistic that China would be able to make timely policy adjustments to boost economic recovery to some degree in the second half of this year and next year. About International Finance Forum IFF is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental international organization founded in Beijing in 2003. Established by financial leaders from more than 20 countries, regions and international organizations including China, the US, EU and UN, the forum is a long-standing, high-level platform for dialogue and communication. For more information, please visit: http://www.iff.org.cn/php/list.php?tid=477 SOURCE International Finance Forum (IFF)	https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/international-finance-forum-calls-for-global-cooperation-as-inflation-continues-301540649.html	2022-05-05T12:58:01Z	https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/international-finance-forum-calls-for-global-cooperation-as-inflation-continues-301540649.html	false	12
Making theatrical props is a thriving industry. Every movie, TV show and theatrical production uses props (short for “properties”). They are incidental, often quotidian, but in the current high-definition world, props can be the difference between a seamless film and one where the narrative is disrupted by anachronism. Sometimes the smallest detail, like a typeface used in a context before it was ever created, can drive diehard viewers into fits of pique. Illustrator Ross MacDonald unintentionally became a leading actor in the prop industry, having done his share of reproduction relics, including newspapers, postage stamps, bills of sale, letterheads, book covers, matchboxes and so much more over the years since his first film title sequence for Baby’s Day Out met with acclaim. MacDonald’s quest for extreme precision in making his props is equaled only by the intense micro-research he does in order to reproduce the correct elements (and so, avoid the humiliation of being called out by a snot-nosed typography nerd who might admonish him that Helvetica did not exist during the period covered in the film). Macdonald is in the details. At 5 p.m. on May 12, Prop Man MacDonald will debut his book Prop Man (Princeton Architectural Press) at Rizzoli in New York City (register here). Together, MacDonald and I will have lively conversation about the intensive labor that goes into every piece to achieve the right outcome, how props have become increasingly more collectible, fetching large sums at auction, and what are his favorite props, especially “The Book of Secrets.”	https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-giving-the-prop-man-his-props/	2022-05-05T13:01:10Z	https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-giving-the-prop-man-his-props/	true	1
SARAWAK PM ABANG JO GETS FOR PN’S BREAKUP & OUSTER FROM GOVT? – GPS TO CONTEST ALL 31 SEATS IN GE15 – SO WHAT’S LEFT FOR MUHYIDDIN’S BERSATU & AZMIN’S FROGS? Abang Jo reiterates GPS will contest all 31 parliamentary seats in Sarawak GABUNGAN Parti Sarawak chairman Abang Johari Openg has again ruled out sharing seats with any party, even its erstwhile partners in the Perikatan Nasional federal coalition, in the 15th general election. The election is widely expected after the anti-hopping law is passed in July. “I have said it. We will fill all 31 seats,” the Sarawak premier told reporters at his Gedong constituency Raya gathering today. The four parties that constitute ruling coalition GPS are Abang Johari’s Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), which currently holds 13 seats, Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP), which has one, and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), with two seats each. The four parties, which then contested as members of the Barisan Nasional, won 19 of the 31 seats but had the number reduced to 18 in 2019 when PRS’ Sri Aman MP Masir Kujat defected to the opposition Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB). PBB was allocated 14 seats to contest, SUPP, seven; PRS, six and PDP, four. Abang Johari’s announcement is expected to unsettle Bersatu’s two MPs in Sarawak – Willie Mongin (Puncak Borneo) and Ali Biju (Saratok). Mongin, the deputy minister of plantation industries and commodities, is aware of the predicament he is in and only last week had said as the incumbent of the Bidayuh-majority seat on the outskirts of Kuching, he should be given the chance to defend the seat he snatched from PBB in the 2018 general election on a PKR ticket. Mongin was one of the PKR MPs who did not support his party president Anwar Ibrahim to take over as prime minister from Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the night of the Sheraton Move. Faced with a sure sacking, Mongin jumped to join Bersatu. “As incumbents, it is normal for us to defend our seats. “It is quite incorrect if we as incumbents do not defend our seats,” he told reporters after officiating a Women’s Day programme in a village in his constituency. PBB, which had held the seat unbroken since it was created in 1999, surprised many when it lost the seat. Other PBB leaders, like deputy president Douglas Uggah, had similarly said the party will field its candidate there in the next general election. Uggah insisted Puncak Borneo is a PBB seat, and will field its candidate there. TMI Abang Jo calls on Sarawakians to stay united under GPS PETALING JAYA: Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) chairman Abang Johari Openg has called on Sarawakians to remain united under the coalition to enable it to win all 31 parliamentary seats in the next general election (GE15). Abang Johari, who is Sarawak premier, said such unity was necessary for Sarawak to have a strong voice. “We must have one strong voice from Sarawak and that one voice should be demonstrated through GPS’ victory. “If possible, we must win all the 31 seats in Sarawak in the coming general election,” Borneo Post quoted him as saying. Abang Johari said the Sarawak government would then be able to negotiate better for the return of state rights and revenue under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and the Federal Constitution. “We don’t want more than that and we also don’t want less. “It must be based on whatever is written in the provisions of the Constitution,” he said during an Aidilfitri open house in Gedong today. He said that if Malaysia was strong, Sarawak too would be strong, and added that the state would always play a role in strengthening Malaysia as a nation. GPS comprises Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Parti Rakyat Sarawak, the Sarawak United People’s Party and the Progressive Democratic Party. The coalition won 76 of the 82 seats in a landslide victory in the last state elections. FMT	https://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/?p=216566	2022-05-05T13:03:00Z	https://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/?p=216566	false	1
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday launched a recruitment drive to fill 26,454 posts in various departments, the day his government marked 50 days in office. He said recruitment to all these posts will be merit-based and he ruled out scope for recommendation or bribe. "We took various big decisions in 50 days and implemented them too," Mann said in a video message here. "Today, I want to share good news with people of the state. An advertisement of 26,454 jobs has been published in newspapers," the chief minister said. "Jobs will be given on the basis of degrees. There will be no recommendation or bribe. Recruitment will be done in a transparent manner," he added. The government has issued an advertisement for vacancies in 25 departments, including agriculture, excise and taxation, finance, police, revenue and water resources. The Punjab cabinet had on Monday approved recruitment to fill the 26,454 posts. Mann said more job opportunities in government and private sectors will be rolled out in the coming days. He said recruitment to all these posts will be merit-based and he ruled out scope for recommendation or bribe. "We took various big decisions in 50 days and implemented them too," Mann said in a video message here. "Today, I want to share good news with people of the state. An advertisement of 26,454 jobs has been published in newspapers," the chief minister said. "Jobs will be given on the basis of degrees. There will be no recommendation or bribe. Recruitment will be done in a transparent manner," he added. The government has issued an advertisement for vacancies in 25 departments, including agriculture, excise and taxation, finance, police, revenue and water resources. The Punjab cabinet had on Monday approved recruitment to fill the 26,454 posts. Mann said more job opportunities in government and private sectors will be rolled out in the coming days. Read More News on (Catch all the Business News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.) ...moreDownload The Economic Times News App to get Daily Market Updates & Live Business News.	https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/punjab-cm-bhagwant-mann-launches-drive-to-fill-over-26000-vacancies-in-govt-depts/articleshow/91348061.cms	2022-05-05T13:03:06Z	https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/punjab-cm-bhagwant-mann-launches-drive-to-fill-over-26000-vacancies-in-govt-depts/articleshow/91348061.cms	true	2
CHICAGO (AP) _ Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc. (DFIN) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $26.4 million. On a per-share basis, the Chicago-based company said it had profit of 77 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and stock option expense, came to 82 cents per share. The financial communications and data services provider posted revenue of $211 million in the period. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on DFIN at https://www.zacks.com/ap/DFIN	https://www.michigansthumb.com/business/article/Donnelley-Financial-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149826.php	2022-05-05T13:10:31Z	https://www.michigansthumb.com/business/article/Donnelley-Financial-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149826.php	false	null
WICHITA, Kan. (AP)Wichita State fired athletic director Darron Boatright on Wednesday amid growing criticism over the university’s inability to compete in the new market of name, image and likeness payments to athletes. University President Rick Muma said in a news release that Boatright had achievements and successes during his tenure, but ”there were significant, ongoing concerns that became acute in recent weeks, ones that I did not believe could be addressed.” Muma did not elaborate. Sarah Adams, the schools senior associate athletic director and senior women’s administrator, will become interim athletic director while a search is conducted for Boatright’s replacement. Critics targeted Boatright in recent weeks because Wichita State had not raised funds after the Supreme Court lifted a ban on college athletes being compensate for their names, images and likenesses, The Wichita Eagle reported. They said it was Boatright’s responsibility to ensure the school’s donors were aware of the new rules and be prepared with incentives to retain current players and attract new ones. The men’s basketball program had eight scholarship players enter the NCAA transfer portal this spring. ”Where we erred was focusing on educating our athletes about NIL and not just collecting cash and paying kids to come to Wichita State,” Boatright said in a previous interview. ”We were told all along this was not pay-for-play, but now it appears the NCAA has no problems with that, so why not?” Boatright, who was athletic director for six years, was given a two-year contract extension through June 2024 that gave him a 37.5% raise to $275,000 a year. Fans were critical because the extension was never publicly announced and came during the coronavirus pandemic, The Eagle reported. — More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25	https://www.ketk.com/sports/ncaa/ncaa-basketball/wichita-state-fires-its-athletic-director-boatright/	2022-05-05T13:11:12Z	https://www.ketk.com/sports/ncaa/ncaa-basketball/wichita-state-fires-its-athletic-director-boatright/	true	18
Google has purchased a startup called Raxium specializing in MicroLED displays as part of its Devices & Services group, 9to5Google has reported. Raxium is developing what it calls “ultra-compact, low-power, high resolution” displays, so Google may be planning to use it in future augmented or virtual reality devices. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “Today we’re announcing that Google has acquired Raxium, an innovator in single panel MicroLED display technologies,” wrote Google senior VP of Devices & Services, Rick Osterloh in a short blog post. “The team at Raxium has spent five years creating miniaturized, cost-effective and energy efficient high-resolution displays that have laid the foundation for future display technologies.” A deal with Raxium was rumored last March in a report from The Information. Google was supposedly interested in owning the company to gain more control over key display components for future AR/VR products, rather than outsourcing as it generally does now. It could also use the tech on future Pixel phones or its Starline immersive videoconferencing product, according to the report. To date, MicroLEDs have seen meager commercial production due to high manufacturing costs, apart from some very exotic products. Raxium, by contrast, says its on the “cutting edge of bringing monolithic integration” like that used in silicon computer chips, to MicroLEDs. That could allow them to be mass-produced far more cheaply. Unlike Meta and other rivals, Google hasn’t said much about its augmented reality plans, but that doesn’t mean the company isn’t working on it. Last year, news of Google’s Augmented Reality OS leaked out late last year through job listings and the company reportedly plans to release an AR headset by 2024. All products recommended by The Hamden Journal are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.	https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/technology/google-acquires-microled-startup-raxium-to-help-boost-its-ar-ambitions/172937/	2022-05-05T13:13:32Z	https://www.thehamdenjournal.com/technology/google-acquires-microled-startup-raxium-to-help-boost-its-ar-ambitions/172937/	false	1
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) _ PPL Corp. (PPL) on Thursday reported earnings of $273 million in its first quarter. The Allentown, Pennsylvania-based company said it had profit of 37 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 41 cents per share. The energy and utility holding company posted revenue of $1.78 billion in the period. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on PPL at https://www.zacks.com/ap/PPL	https://www.michigansthumb.com/business/article/PPL-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149928.php	2022-05-05T13:13:38Z	https://www.michigansthumb.com/business/article/PPL-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17149928.php	false	null
ST. JOSEPH — The St. Joseph Village Board is expected to vote next week on whether to approve a study to determine the feasibility of growing the town to the north. Village President Tammy Fruhling-Voges said the board will likely place on its agenda a measure to authorize an engineering study for the possible future expansion. “It’s been talked about for many years,” Fruhling-Voges said, “but no one’s done a study about what the feasibility would be to have such a project.” The area north of town around the Interstate 74 overpass seems to be the most likely option for possible expansion. Fruhling-Voges said village officials would like to see the Champaign County community expand both residentially and commercially. Options east, west and south don’t appear to offer as many benefits, nor are they as likely to occur. “We’ve always talked about north because we have the interstate and some potential for commercial growth,” she said. “That might be a little more costly, but more desirable due to interstate traffic.” The area east of town is open farmland that could one day become available if the property owner decides to develop it. “To the south, over time, there could be potential there,” Fruhling-Voges said, “but the current property owner is not interested in doing anything there, and a part of that land is owned by the church, which is in a trust. “On the west side, we have the (Salt Fork) River. Not that that would entirely prevent you from going to the west. You would have to bore under the river” to expand some services such as sewer. Fruhling-Voges said she believes in exploring as many potential advantages as there are available. “If you open the door to all options, it might put the village in a better position for more potential,” she said. “I don’t like to be cornered into anything. I think for the taxpayers’ and the village’s sake ... it’s good to look at everything and the big picture. “If the study is not outrageously expensive, I think it will be valuable information, whether two years, five years or 10 years down that road that the village needs to have.” Northward expansion seems to be the logical choice at present due to the visibility and traffic afforded by the interstate. Fruhling-Voges said there is also some potential for additional commercial development just south of the interstate.	https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/st-joseph-may-be-looking-north-for-future-expansion/article_3e0a773c-70b3-506a-81c7-95345798e1f6.html	2022-05-05T13:14:10Z	https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/st-joseph-may-be-looking-north-for-future-expansion/article_3e0a773c-70b3-506a-81c7-95345798e1f6.html	true	1
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate MADRID (AP) — Andy Murray withdrew from his showdown against Novak Djokovic at the Madrid Open on Thursday because of illness. The announcement came not long before Murray was scheduled to take the court against the top-ranked Djokovic in the third round. It would have been the first time Murray and Djokovic played against each other since Djokovic won the Doha final in 2017. Murray had won his first two matches in Madrid, defeating Dominic Thiem and Denis Shapovalov. The former No. 1 hadn't won consecutive matches since January and hadn't played in a clay-court tournament in nearly two years. Ranked 78th in the world, the 34-year-old Murray has been making his way up the rankings since having hip surgery in both 2018 and 2019. He had arrived in Madrid with a 10-8 record in eight tournaments. He lost the Sydney final to Aslan Karatsev in January. There were no further details on Murray’s illness. He had said after the win over Shapovalov that he was feeling fine physically. With Murray's withdrawal, Djokovic automatically advanced to the quarterfinals — his second of the year after losing the Serbia final last month. He had lost in his first match in Monte Carlo in his first tournament on clay this season. Djokovic is also trying to regain his best form after not being allowed to play in the Australian Open because he was not vaccinated. This is only his fourth tournament of the season. The Serb opened in Madrid with a two-set win against Gael Monfils. Third-seeded Rafael Nadal, in his first tournament after a six-week injury layoff, takes on David Goffin, while Spanish sensation Carlos Alcaraz, celebrating his 19th birthday, faces Cameron Norrie. Andrey Rublev, who beat Djokovic in the Serbia final, plays Daniel Evans, while defending champion Alexander Zverev meets qualifier Lorenzo Musetti. Fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas faces Gregor Dimitrov. In the women's semifinals, eighth-seeded Ons Jabeur faces qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova, while 12th-seeded American Jessica Pegula meets Jil Teichmann. ___ More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports ___ Tales Azzoni on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tazzoni	https://www.thetelegraph.com/sports/article/Murray-withdraws-before-match-against-Djokovic-in-17149889.php	2022-05-05T13:15:54Z	https://www.thetelegraph.com/sports/article/Murray-withdraws-before-match-against-Djokovic-in-17149889.php	true	23
Wave Life Sciences to Webcast Conference Call of First Quarter 2022 Financial Results on May 12, 2022 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (Nasdaq: WVE), a clinical-stage genetic medicines company committed to delivering life-changing treatments for people battling devastating diseases, announced today that management will host a live webcast and conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, May 12, 2022, to discuss the company’s first quarter 2022 financial results and provide a business update. The webcast of the conference call may be accessed by visiting “Events” at the investor relations section of the Wave Life Sciences corporate website: ir.wavelifesciences.com. The live teleconference may be accessed by dialing (866) 220-8068 (domestic) or (470) 495-9153 (international) and entering conference ID: 8092347. Following the conference call, an archived version of the call will be available on the website. About Wave Life Sciences Wave Life Sciences (Nasdaq: WVE) is a clinical-stage genetic medicines company committed to delivering life-changing treatments for people battling devastating diseases. Wave aspires to develop best-in-class medicines across multiple therapeutic modalities using PRISM, the company’s proprietary discovery and drug development platform that enables the precise design, optimization, and production of stereopure oligonucleotides. Driven by a resolute sense of urgency, the Wave team is targeting a broad range of genetically defined diseases so that patients and families may realize a brighter future. To find out more, please visit www.wavelifesciences.com and follow Wave on Twitter @WaveLifeSci. Investor Contact: Kate Rausch 617-949-4827 [email protected] Media Contact: Alicia Suter 617-949-4817 [email protected]	https://itbusinessnet.com/2022/05/wave-life-sciences-to-webcast-conference-call-of-first-quarter-2022-financial-results-on-may-12-2022/	2022-05-05T13:18:18Z	https://itbusinessnet.com/2022/05/wave-life-sciences-to-webcast-conference-call-of-first-quarter-2022-financial-results-on-may-12-2022/	false	3
Walgreens reaches $683 mln opioid settlement with Florida By Dietrich Knauth May 5 (Reuters) - Walgreens Boots Alliance said on Thursday it has reached a $683 million settlement with Florida to resolve claims that the pharmacy chain exacerbated an opioid epidemic in the state. The settlement includes $620 million to be paid to Florida over 18 years, plus $63 million for legal fees. It ends a trial that began on April 11, after Walgreens decided not to join a combined $878 million settlement with four other healthcare companies. (Reporting by Dietrich Knauth; Editing by Bill Berkrot and Chizu Nomiyama) Advertisement	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10785999/Walgreens-reaches-683-mln-opioid-settlement-Florida.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490	2022-05-05T13:21:26Z	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10785999/Walgreens-reaches-683-mln-opioid-settlement-Florida.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490	false	null
Glynn’s Take: RBA Likely Planning Assertive Path to 2% Cash Rate by Year’s End The job of getting inflation back to the central bank’s 2%-3% target band will be drawn out, and require the use of a big stick SYDNEY--The Reserve Bank of Australia’s assertive raising of the cash rate by 25 basis points in the wake of the biggest inflation print in 20 years has likely set in motion what will likely be an unbroken string of rate increases stretching all the way to December. That scenario would take the cash rate to around 2.0% by the end of 2022, from 0.35% currently, and the RBA is unlikely to rule out 50 basis-point moves in any given month, especially if the inflation outlook deteriorates further, or there is an expected jump in...	https://www.wsj.com/articles/glynns-take-rba-likely-planning-assertive-path-to-2-cash-rate-by-years-end-11651741375	2022-05-05T13:22:07Z	https://www.wsj.com/articles/glynns-take-rba-likely-planning-assertive-path-to-2-cash-rate-by-years-end-11651741375	true	null
At its annual general meeting on 4 May 2022, Holcim confirmed Beat Hess as the new chairman of the board. All members of the board standing for re-election were also confirmed in office, while Leanne Geale and Ilias Läber were both elected as new members. Shareholders also confirmed Claudia Sender Ramirez and Hanne Birgitte Breinbjerg Sørensen as members of the Nomination, Compensation & Governance Committee, while Ilias Läber and Jürg Oleas were elected as new members. Ms Sørensen will serve as chair. The meeting also saw shareholders approve Holcim’s first Climate Report sharing its net zero journey with 2030 and 2050 targets, validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The report details Holcim’s decarbonisation actions, from green building solutions with innovative raw materials such as calcined clay, and construction and demolition waste, all the way to circular construction. Published under Cement News	https://www.cemnet.com/News/story/172644/holcim-board-welcomes-new-members.html	2022-05-05T13:22:17Z	https://www.cemnet.com/News/story/172644/holcim-board-welcomes-new-members.html	true	1
WESTFORD, Mass. (AP) _ NetScout Systems Inc. (NTCT) on Thursday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $7.3 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Westford, Massachusetts-based company said it had a loss of 10 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 29 cents per share. The provider of products that gauge network performance posted revenue of $191.2 million in the period. For the year, the company reported profit of $37 million, or 49 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $855.6 million. NetScout expects full-year earnings in the range of $1.97 to $2.03 per share, with revenue in the range of $895 million to $925 million. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on NTCT at https://www.zacks.com/ap/NTCT	https://www.nhregister.com/business/article/NetScout-Fiscal-Q4-Earnings-Snapshot-17149885.php	2022-05-05T13:22:21Z	https://www.nhregister.com/business/article/NetScout-Fiscal-Q4-Earnings-Snapshot-17149885.php	false	null
Firefighters rescue three dogs from drainage tunnel SAN ANTONIO - Local firefighters came to the rescue of three unfortunate dogs who were trapped inside a drainage tunnel. The San Antonio... abc7amarillo.comSAN ANTONIO - Local firefighters came to the rescue of three unfortunate dogs who were trapped inside a drainage tunnel. The San Antonio... abc7amarillo.com	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589812118432/firefighters-rescue-three-dogs-from-drainage-tunnel	2022-05-05T13:22:21Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589812118432/firefighters-rescue-three-dogs-from-drainage-tunnel	false	null
Meet Betty Thompson, the CPO helping Booz Allen be in the right markets at the right time Booz Allen is moving fast: This year alone, the giant consulting firm has sold a consulting unit, acquired a cybersecurity firm, and invested in two AI startups, all while being named as one of the best employers for women last year by Forbes. In 2021, the company’s CFO, Lloyd Howell, announced... www.morningbrew.com	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589825366285/meet-betty-thompson-the-cpo-helping-booz-allen-be-in-the-right-markets-at-the-right-time	2022-05-05T13:24:16Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589825366285/meet-betty-thompson-the-cpo-helping-booz-allen-be-in-the-right-markets-at-the-right-time	false	null
Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer is here, as Disney+ and Lucasfilm celebrate May the Fourth — or Star Wars Day. The upcoming six-episode Star Wars limited series follows the story of the titular character (Ewan McGregor, returning after three Star Wars movies) a decade after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and is set to release on May 27. In the final trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi after the teaser trailer shared in March, the hunt for the Jedi continues — especially for Obi-Wan, while Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen), Kenobi's former apprentice, suits up for his return. The trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi shows us visuals of Jedi-hunting Inquisitors and Stormtroopers marching down streets and visiting Tatooine. “They're coming. Stay hidden. Or we will not survive,” says Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by McGregor (Moulin Rouge!, Trainspotting) who first played the Jedi master in the prequel Star Wars trilogy. Tatooine moisture farmer Owen Lars is shown telling Obi-Wan “leave us alone”, to which the latter says, “when the time comes, he must be trained”. “Like you trained his father?” Lars asks sarcastically. Reva — also known as the Third Sister — played by Moses Ingram (The Queen's Gambit, The Tragedy of Macbeth) also appears in the new trailer and appears more determined than ever to hunt down the iconic Jedi master. She hires every “lowlife” and bounty hunter to “squeeze him”, and it looks like Obi-Wan will have his work cut out for him, if the trailer is any indication. He is seen fighting thugs with a blaster and knocking them out in melee combat. We see two views of an Imperial stronghold in the Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer, believed to be Fortress Inquisitorius, from the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game. "You can't run, Obi-Wan!", yells Reva as the Jedi master is shown using a blaster to keep his foes at bay. Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick, Life as We Know It) appears briefly in the trailer, although his role is currently unclear. At the end of the Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer, we finally see the return of Darth Vader/ Anakin Skywalker, played by Christensen (Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Jumper). The evil Sith Lord is shown suiting up, including his prosthetic arm. We hear a threatening hiss and Vader's iconic laboured breathing, as the Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer ends with Obi-Wan's troubled expression, who realises he is finally up against his former apprentice. Once again. Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres in India on May 27 on Disney+ Hotstar in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam.	https://gadgets360.com/entertainment/news/obi-wan-kenobi-trailer-darth-vader-ewan-mcgregor-reva-hotstar-disney-plus-may-27-2947349	2022-05-05T13:31:44Z	https://gadgets360.com/entertainment/news/obi-wan-kenobi-trailer-darth-vader-ewan-mcgregor-reva-hotstar-disney-plus-may-27-2947349	true	1
Billionaire Elon Musk has strengthened the equity stake of his offer to buy Twitter with commitments of more than $7 billion from a range of investors, including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Other investors include Sequoia Capital Fund, which pledged $800 million, and VyCapital, which pledged $700 million, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But Ellison, who is also a and Tesla board member, is making the biggest contribution, pegged at $1 billion. Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud has pledged 35 million in Twitter shares in support of Musk, according to the filing. Musk in earlier regulatory filings revealed that he has sold roughly $8.5 billion worth of shares in Tesla to help fund the purchase. Musk later tweeted that he doesn’t plan any further sales of the company’s shares, meaning he would need outside commitments to help fund the $44 billion deal. Because of the new funding listed in the SEC filing Thursday, Musk will cut the $12.5 billion in margin loans he was leaning on in half, to $6.25 billion. The transaction is also now being funded by $27.25 billion in cash and equities, up from $21 billion. The Thursday filing also said that Musk is in ongoing talks with other parties including former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who is the second largest individual stakeholder in the company after Musk. “This was a smart financial and strategic move by Musk that will be well received across the board and also shows the Twitter deal is now on a glide path to get done by the end of this year," wrote analyst Dan Ives who follows Twitter for Wedbush. Shares of Twitter Inc. have remained below the per-share offering bid by Musk of $54.20 because there are still doubts on Wall Street about whether the deal will go through. Shares of the San Francisco social media platform rose 2% before the opening bell, to $50.10.	https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Musk-gets-7B-backing-for-Twitter-bid-from-tech-17149932.php	2022-05-05T13:33:35Z	https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Musk-gets-7B-backing-for-Twitter-bid-from-tech-17149932.php	false	26
DENVER — Jose Iglesias had a two-run double and Connor Joe a two-run triple in consecutive at-bats in the fourth inning after a crucial error by shortstop Alcides Escobar, and the Colorado Rockies rallied to beat the Washington Nationals 5-2 on Wednesday night. Charlie Blackmon added an RBI groundout in the five-run inning, while Austin Gomber (2-2) pitched 6 2/3 strong innings in the Rockies' fourth win in five games. "They opened up the door for us and (Iglesias) delivered with a big blow," manager Bud Black said of the shortstop who replaced departed free-agent Trevor Story. "We took advantage of a couple mistakes and that's what you need to do." Lane Thomas hit his first homer and Cesar Hernandez went 2 for 4 with an RBI to extend his hitting streak to 10 games for the Nationals, who committed three errors. Escobar also struck out three times and Washington hit into four double plays as its two-game winning streak was stopped. With the Nationals up 1-0, Escobar booted a grounder that could have been an inning-ending double play for his second error of the game to load the bases. Iglesias followed with a liner to right off Patrick Corbin (0-5), and center fielder Victor Robles then couldn't make a diving catch of Joe's hard-hit ball. "I fielded the ground ball perfectly and then when I tried to transfer it, it just got tangled up in my hand," Escobar said through an interpreter. "They're errors that I call dumb. I don't want to commit them and I feel extremely bad. And I feel even worse since Corbin did a tremendous job for us out there." Corbin went all eight innings, giving up five runs — three earned — and nine hits with no walks and three strikeouts. Corbin became the first pitcher to throw a complete-game loss in the majors since Miami's Sandy Alcantara on June 16 last year at St. Louis. His five losses are tied with Cincinnati's Vladimir Gutierrez for the most in the majors. "We've got to catch the ball," manager Dave Martinez said. "The story today should be about Patrick. For me, he's back." Gomber allowed two runs and seven hits with six strikeouts in his third straight strong outing. Daniel Bard pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save in a game that took just 2 hours, 18 minutes after being delayed 25 minutes before the start by rain. Yadiel Hernandez, the 34-year-old Cuban in his third season in the majors, had two more hits for Washington in his fourth straight multihit game while batting cleanup in place of the injured Nelson Cruz. Hernandez is batting .377. ROSTER MOVE The Nationals claimed RHP Cory Abbott off waivers from San Francisco and optioned him to Triple-A Rochester. LHP Sean Doolittle (elbow) was moved to the 60-day IL to open a spot on the 40-man roster. "With spring training shortened, you can never have enough pitchers," Martinez said. "He's kind of a depth piece for us." TRAINER'S ROOM Nationals: Martinez said Abbott had a plasma injection in his left elbow last week and won't be able to throw for at least another five weeks. ... Martinez said DH Cruz (back) was "still a little stiff" and kept out of the lineup, a day after he was lifted for a pinch hitter. Cruz was available to pinch hit and could return Thursday. ... RHPs Stephen Strasburg (neck) and Joe Ross (elbow) threw live batting practice in Florida. ... Gary DiSarcina continued to coach third base after taking a foul ball off the back of his head while standing in the dugout in the fourth. Rockies: OF Kris Bryant (back) is still only throwing and not hitting, manager Bud Black said, making it unlikely he'll be ready to play when he's eligible to come off the injured list Friday. BUDDY AND DUSTY A day after Houston's Dusty Baker won his 2,000th game as a manager, Black recalled being a part of Baker's first win. Black was on the San Francisco team, but didn't pitch, when Baker won his managerial debut at St. Louis on April 6, 1993. Black said Baker later encouraged him to stay in baseball. "He's been a great influence on my career, from the back end to my playing career to when I got into coaching and managing," Black said. "He was always a great sounding board to me. He's a Hall of Fame manager, for me." UP NEXT The three-game series concludes Thursday with Nationals RHP Aaron Sanchez (1-1, 6.75 ERA) facing RHP Antonio Senzatela (2-1, 3.36). ___ More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports	https://m.startribune.com/joe-rockies-take-advantage-of-nats-miscues-in-5-2-win/600170606/	2022-05-05T13:36:46Z	https://m.startribune.com/joe-rockies-take-advantage-of-nats-miscues-in-5-2-win/600170606/	true	15
Arsenal legend Michael Thomas has admitted he thinks his old club could now be back in the mix for the race to finish third ahead of Chelsea. The Gunners great, scorer of that famous title-winning goal against Liverpool at Anfield in 1989, believes the Blues have lost a bit of focus towards the end of the season after thinking they probably had third spot sewn up. Arsenal beat West Ham at the weekend, while Chelsea suffered a surprise defeat away to relegation strugglers Everton. This means Mikel Arteta’s side are now just three points behind Thomas Tuchel’s men, in what could end up being an intriguing twist at the end of this campaign. “It was a massive win against West Ham with the team not playing particularly well. At this point in the season it’s all about results and that’s what Arteta is getting from his players right now,” Thomas told CaughtOffside. “The club need two big results in the next two games and I think the top four will be theirs. “Chelsea are in a tough position because they had third wrapped up for so long that they took got too relaxed and now it’s looking very open again. “I do think they will still qualify for the Champions League, but as you can see, it can quite easily change at any game week. “As for Arsenal, they should just be looking to win all their remaining games and see where that leaves them.”	https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/05/05/arsenal-could-overtake-chelsea-says-gunners-legend/	2022-05-05T13:36:51Z	https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/05/05/arsenal-could-overtake-chelsea-says-gunners-legend/	false	1
OFS Credit Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:OCCIN – Get Rating) was the recipient of a large increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,400 shares, an increase of 21.4% from the March 31st total of 2,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.1 days. Shares of OFS Credit stock opened at $24.30 on Thursday. OFS Credit has a 1 year low of $23.78 and a 1 year high of $25.54. The company also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 29th. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 22nd were paid a dividend of $0.1094 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 21st. This represents a dividend yield of 5.41%. OFS Credit Company, Inc is a fund of OFS Advisor. Read More - Get a free copy of the StockNews.com research report on OFS Credit (OCCIN) - World Wresting Entertainment Stock is Hulking Up - High-Yield Weyco Group Returns To Reasonable Levels - MarketBeat Podcast: Alternative Investing Strategies Despite Market Volatility - Limelight Networks Stock is a Speculative Turnaround Opportunity - The Selloff In SiteOne Landscape Supply Is Overextended Receive News & Ratings for OFS Credit Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for OFS Credit and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.	https://www.com-unik.info/2022/05/05/ofs-credit-company-inc-nasdaqoccin-short-interest-update.html	2022-05-05T13:39:02Z	https://www.com-unik.info/2022/05/05/ofs-credit-company-inc-nasdaqoccin-short-interest-update.html	true	2
KAGC series shifts to Railways What you need to know: - Double legs of Johnnie Walker Series, at Royal and Nyanza clubs - Railway Invitational also attracts top rated Sandhu, Ciera, Lejirmah The 2022 Kenya Amateur Golf Championship (KAGC) Series shifts to the par 72 Kenya Railway Golf Club course this weekend for the Railway Invitational. Coming after the Trans Nzoia Open Championship where Golf Park’s Sammy Mulama scored his maiden KAGC title, this weekend’s tournament on the nine-hole course, has attracted only 85 players. On-form Michael Karanga will miss out as he has some family commitments. In the title hunt is newly crowned Trans Nzoia Open champion Sammy Mulama formerly of Nyali Golf and Country Club, but now based at the semi-public Golf Park club. Also watch out for Royal Nairobi’s Jay Sandhu, Muthaiga’s Bo Ciera, and home player John Lejirmah, who has always played well at Railway. Other top amateurs the likes of Nelson Koech of Nandi Bears Club, Limuru’s Dennis Maara, Ruiru’s Chris Andrea, Kevin Juma of Royal and Muthaiga’s Daniel Kiragu will be in action in this Safaricom-sponsored tournament. The Railway course is in its best condition and easy for one to bring low scores, but players must read the tricky greens well. Action at Railway will however start today with the Machakos School Alumni Association Charity tournament that has attracted over 100 players. Being a fund-raising event, more players are likely to turn up to support the event which is in aid of various projects of the 70-year-old Machakos School. Elsewhere, the century-old Royal Nairobi Golf Club, and the Lake-side Nyanza Golf Club in Kisumu, will this weekend be hosting the last two legs of the ‘Road to Gleneagles’ Johnnie Walker Golf Series’ marking the first double-header of the Series. The two tournaments, which will be the 17th and 18th legs of the 2022 Johnnie Walker golf series calendar, have attracted over 300 golfers. They will battle it out for the slots available for the two clubs in next Friday’s semi-finals dubbed the “Eagles Round” at the par 71 Muthaiga Golf club course. Teams qualifying at Muthaiga will then move to Karen Country Club on May 20, for the grand finale where the winners will earn a trip to Gleneagles Scotland. The Royal leg had been scheduled for April 29, but was postponed to this week in respect to the death of former President Mwai Kibaki.	https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/golf/kagc-series-shifts-to-railways--3805456	2022-05-05T13:43:34Z	https://nation.africa/kenya/sports/golf/kagc-series-shifts-to-railways--3805456	true	1
IIROC Trading Halt - NI VANCOUVER, BC, May 5, 2022 /CNW/ - The following issues have been halted by IIROC: Company: Victory Nickel Inc. CSE Symbol: NI All Issues: Yes Reason: At the request of the Company Pending News Halt Time (ET): 9:11 AM IIROC can make a decision to impose a temporary suspension (halt) of trading in a security of a publicly-listed company. Trading halts are implemented to ensure a fair and orderly market. IIROC is the national self-regulatory organization which oversees all investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada. SOURCE Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) - Halts/Resumptions View original content: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2022/05/c5099.html	https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/iiroc-trading-halt-ni-133000483.html?src=rss	2022-05-05T13:43:55Z	https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/iiroc-trading-halt-ni-133000483.html?src=rss	true	null
The reimagined bottle pays tribute to Chinaco's heritage and reinvigorates the brand's presence in the U.S. market. SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From La Gonzaleña Distillery, and imported by San Francisco's Hotaling & Co., Chinaco commemorates 50 years of premium, authentic Mexican tequila with a reimagined bottle that signals a celebration of the brand's heritage and incorporates a modern touch to reintroduce American consumers to this history-making brand. The new bottles are currently rolling out to retailers nationwide. "This new look is a tribute to one of our most iconic bottles, but it's much more than just an updated design," says Guillermo Gonzalez, head of La Gonzaleña Distillery and Chinaco. "It's the representation of Chinaco's revival, of our family heritage and of Chinaco's unique taste profile achieved by using only agave from Tamaulipas." La Gonzaleña Distillery was built in 1972 in Tamaulipas, and since its consecration, the Gonzalez family has been making a name for themselves in the tequila world, earning the ability to distill tequila outside of Jalisco and paving the way for premium tequila in America. Just a decade after its inception, Chinaco became the first artisanal, high-quality tequila to become available in the United States, and it revolutionized the way that Americans drink tequila. "We're excited to join the Chinaco team in celebrating 50 years," says Hotaling & Co. CEO and president Dan Leese. "With its history-making standing as the first premium tequila to be sold in the US and the distillery's commitment to the Tamaulipas region, Chinaco is a truly unique tequila that fits beautifully into Hotaling & Co.'s portfolio of likeminded spirits including artisanal gins, whiskeys, liqueurs and more." Chinaco is currently available in three expressions—Blanco, Reposado and Añejo—each featuring unique taste profiles as the only tequila produced in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where the different terrain and proximity to the ocean infuses the agave with complex flavors, including tropical and salty notes. Chinaco Blanco (40 proof; 700ml; $49.99 SRP) Chinaco Blanco is distinguished by its fresh 100% agave taste. Bottled within five days of distillation, this tequila has a remarkably fresh, clean taste that is perfect for sipping, making premium margaritas or adding to mixed drinks. Pristinely clear, Chinaco Blanco offers a bouquet of pear, quince, dill and lime, tinged with aloe. It is clean, smooth, fresh and bright on the palate, with exceptional depth and balance, followed by a smooth, long, lingering finish. Chinaco Reposado (40 proof; 700ml; $59.99 SRP) Chinaco Reposado is aged for eleven months in white oak barrels from France and England, some of which were used at one time for aging Scotch and are now over 35 years old and impart a gentle woody character. This tequila mixes beautifully, but also stands proudly on its own. A golden light amber color, Chinaco Reposado has a generous nose of citrus zest, peach, and apple, hints of dill and quince. Clean, fresh flavors carry through on the palate, with full depth and balance, capped by a medium-long, lingering, fruity, spicy finish. Chinaco Añejo (40 proof; 700ml; $79.99 SRP) Chinaco Añejo is aged for thirty months in a similar mix of barrels as Chinaco Reposado, along with some American bourbon casks, ensuring its consistent smoothness and character. The result is a remarkably smooth and rich complexity that is best savored like a fine cognac. A rich golden amber in color, Chinaco Añejo offers subtle aromas of pear, wildflowers, vanilla, smoke, and baked apple, edged with papaya and mango. The flavors are rich and complex, with exceptional depth, balance and style, ending in a luscious, spicy, smoky finish. To find Chinaco near you, use Hotaling & Co.'s product finder tool. Photos can be found here. For more information, please visit https://www.hotalingandco.com/portfolio/chinaco/. Follow Chinaco on Instagram @chinaco_tequila. About Chinaco Chinaco Tequila proudly holds two distinct titles: it is the only tequila produced in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas and the first premium tequila to become available in the US back in the 1980s, which changed the history of tequila in America forever. Chinaco's distillery, La Gonzaleña Distillery, is a family-owned and -operated business that can be traced back to the Cinco de Mayo battle and is honored to exclusively produce Chinaco, making quality and tradition in excellence a signature for Chinaco's three expressions—Blanco, Añejo and Reposado. At its core, Chinaco is a family affair, a labor of love and superior tequila unlike any other. Chinaco is currently available nationwide. For more information, visit https://www.hotalingandco.com/portfolio/chinaco About Hotaling & Co. Hotaling & Co., the leading San Francisco distiller & importer, creates, curates, and builds artisanal brands of unmatched character and quality. Hotaling & Co., originally named Anchor Distilling Company, was established in 1993 and is credited with releasing America's first craft whiskey (Old Potrero) and American craft gin (Junipero Gin) after Prohibition. In 2010, Anchor Distilling Company was sold to a business partnership that included Tony Foglio and London's oldest wine and spirit merchant, Berry Bros. & Rudd and began expanding to incorporate a collection of super-premium artisanal spirits imported from around the world. In 2017, Anchor Distilling became Hotaling & Co. The new name is a nod to one of Anchor Distilling's most beloved small batch whiskies (Old Potrero Hotaling's Whiskey) and to the San Francisco legend A.P. Hotaling, who came out West during the Gold Rush and quickly became one of the most reputable spirits dealers in the country. Today, Hotaling & Co. celebrates exciting growth and achievements; marking its 28th year of distilling and its 11th year of commercially uniting likeminded distillers from around the world to share the passion and raise the bar. Hotaling & Co.'s portfolio includes Luxardo Liqueurs & Cherries, Nikka Whisky, Junipero Gin, No.3 Gin, HINE Cognac, Lot 40 Rye Whisky, Convite Mezcal, Kavalan Whisky, Denizen Rum, HIRSCH Selected Whiskeys, Writers' Tears Whiskey, Old Pulteney Whisky, Speyburn Whisky, Balblair Whisky, Arran Whisky, Old Potrero Rye Whiskey, and more. Visit HotalingandCo.com for a full list of brands. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Hotaling	https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/chinaco-tequila-debuts-new-design-honor-50th-anniversary/	2022-05-05T13:44:30Z	https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/chinaco-tequila-debuts-new-design-honor-50th-anniversary/	true	12
Wesley’s New Employee Tuition Reimbursement Program The Wesley Community is happy to announce our new Employee Tuition Reimbursement Program benefit. The program has been created to assist employees in furthering their careers and expanding their skills while working at Wesley. Flexible in nature to serve a variety of employees, it offers tuition reimbursement for eligible employees enrolling... www.thewesleycommunity.org	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2590293832752/wesley-s-new-employee-tuition-reimbursement-program	2022-05-05T13:45:26Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2590293832752/wesley-s-new-employee-tuition-reimbursement-program	true	null
MARION (WSIL) -- Krispy Kreme is closed after an early morning fire Thursday. Marion Fire Department responded to the restaurant around 1 am to a fire in the kitchen area. Manager Partner Eric Schneider told News 3 the fire suppression system and firefighters were able to contain the blaze to a small area. A News 3 viewer shared this video of heavy smoke coming from inside the building. No employees were in the building during the fire and no injuries have been reported. The store will closed for the foreseeable future while they work to clean up and replace the damaged equipment.	https://www.wsiltv.com/news/top-stories/marion-krispy-kreme-closed-after-fire/article_d8f60e50-cc71-11ec-b244-0fb9ac31f096.html	2022-05-05T13:47:40Z	https://www.wsiltv.com/news/top-stories/marion-krispy-kreme-closed-after-fire/article_d8f60e50-cc71-11ec-b244-0fb9ac31f096.html	false	null
MADRID — A judge in Spain on Thursday ordered the provisional release of Anatoly Shariy, a Ukrainian politician-blogger accused of treason in his home country. Shariy was arrested on Wednesday in the coastal city of Tarragona on an international arrest warrant issued by Ukraine, according to Spain’s National Court. Court documents said Shariy is accused of “high treason and incitement of hatred.” Shariy, who has reportedly lived in Spain since 2019, was ordered to turn in his passport and remain in the country. The court said officials in Ukraine now have 40 days to formally present a request for Shariy’s extradition. His arrest was announced by Ukraine’s security services on Thursday, who said there was reason to believe Shariy “was acting on behalf of foreign entities.” Shariy, the founder of a political party considered by many Ukrainians to be pro-Russian, has been a vocal and active critic of Ukraine’s government. Ukrainian media reported that one of the members of the party said in February, prior to the start of the war, that Shariy had been granted asylum in the European Union. ___ KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: — Ukraine repels Russian attacks; Mariupol plant battle rages — The AP Interview: Belarus admits Russia's war 'drags on' — Europeans weigh costs of cutting Russian energy over Ukraine — Easy out from steel mill seen as unlikely for Ukraine troops — Ukraine: Russia using ' missile terrorism ' in wide attacks — AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike Follow all AP stories on Russia's war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine ___ OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says that $6.5 billion has been raised at an international donors’ conference in Warsaw to provide humanitarian help for war-torn Ukraine. The conference on Thursday was co-hosted by Poland and Sweden and attended by prime ministers and ambassadors representing many European countries, as well as countries further afield and some businesses. Much of the world has responded to the war in Ukraine with an outpouring of humanitarian support. But as the war drags on for weeks, the humanitarian needs in Ukraine have grown more acute. In addition to the thousands killed, millions of people have been displaced, and there are increasing reports of people being tortured and raped. ___ VILNIUS, Lithuania — A 500-million-euro ($530 million) Lithuanian-Polish natural gas transmission pipeline was inaugurated Thursday, completing another stage of regional independence from Russian energy sources. The Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania pipeline that runs more than 500 kilometers (310 miles), comes “at a time when Russia has once again tried to blackmail us using gas,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said at the inauguration. Lithuania’s Prime Minister Ingridas Simonyte added that “any reduction or disappearance of this source of funding would have a very significant impact on the Russian economy and the ability to continue financing the war in Ukraine.” The Lithuania-Poland leg is integrated with pipelines in the other two Baltic states — Estonia and Latvia — and Finland, and into the European Union gas transmission system. Before the pipeline was built, the four countries could only receive pipeline gas from Russia. ___ Ukraine’s government has launched a global fundraising platform so individuals can donate to help rebuild Ukraine, offer humanitarian aid, and raise money for demining. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the initiative, called United24, on Thursday. The United States and Europe, among others, have offered billions of dollars in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress for $33 billion to bolster Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Ukraine’s newest fundraising drive is intended to give individuals a way to donate on their own with a single click, Zelenskyy said. ___ MADRID — Spanish authorities have arrested a Ukrainian politician-blogger accused of treason in his home country. An official with the Spanish national police confirmed that Anatoly Shariy had been detained Wednesday in Tarragona under an international arrest warrant. Shariy is being transported to Madrid to appear before a judge, who will decide upon his extradition, the official said. Ukraine’s security services announced the arrest on Thursday and said there was reason to believe Shariy “was acting on behalf of foreign entities.” Shariy has been a vocal and active critic of Ukraine’s government. As recently as Tuesday he tweeted that he had been warned that Ukrainian intelligence was trying to track him down. He is the founder of a political party that many Ukrainians consider pro-Russian. Ukrainian media reported that one of the members of the party said in February, just before the start of the war, that Shariy had asylum in the European Union. ___ COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said Thursday that Russia has decided to expel four diplomats with Denmark’s Embassy in Moscow. “They have wrongfully become pieces in Putin’s cynical power play,” Kofod said. “It is a completely unjustified and deeply problematic decision, which underscores that Russia no longer wants real dialogue and diplomacy.” Moscow said seven Danish diplomats were expelled. Danish media said that those expelled include four diplomats and three others without diplomatic status. They must leave within two weeks. Moscow’s tit-for-tat decision came after Denmark last month expelled 15 Russian intelligence officers who worked at Russia’s Embassy in Copenhagen. Several other European countries also expelled Russian intelligence officers. ___ SOFIA, Bulgaria — In anticipation of a European Union embargo on Russian crude oil Bulgaria says it's looking for an exemption due to its dependence on supplies from Russia. Bulgaria's only oil refinery near the Black Sea port of Burgas is owned by Russia’s oil giant LUKOIL and is the main fuel supplier in the country. Still, Deputy Prime Minister Assen Vassilev told reporters that the refinery is already processing up to 50% non-Russian crude and theoretically should be able to fully eliminate Russian crude. “Bulgaria, technologically, can do without Russian crude oil, but this would significantly increase fuel prices,” Vassilev said. “In case the European Commission weighs some exemptions, we would like to take advantage of it, because it will be in the best interest of Bulgarian consumers.” Slovakia and Hungary have already asked for such exemptions. Russia stopped gas deliveries to Bulgaria last week in response to Sofia’s refusal to pay for it in rubles saying it violates existing contracts. ___ NICOSIA, Cyprus - The prime minister of Luxembourg says the European Union should carefully weigh a total embargo on all Russian oil gas imports given that some member nations “have no alternative” supply for energy generation. Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said after talks Thursday with the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades that “just to say no to the gas today when we know that some countries then will have no alternative tomorrow is something we should put on the balance.” What’s paramount at this time is to maintain EU solidarity and for all 27 members to find ways of becoming energy self-sufficient and less dependent on energy from third countries, Bettel said. He said one option is solar energy, referring to the east Mediterranean island nation’s potential to generate much more than Luxembourg. Anastasiades said the war in Ukraine has refocused attention on discovered and potential natural gas reserves found in east Mediterranean waters off Cyprus and elsewhere as an alternative source of energy for Europe. On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on the EU member states to ban oil imports from Russia and target the country’s biggest bank and major broadcasters in a sixth package of sanctions over the war in Ukraine. ___ WARSAW, Poland — Poland and Sweden are co-hosting an international donors’ conference on Thursday in Warsaw to raise funds for humanitarian efforts to help war-torn Ukraine, where thousands have been killed, cities devastated and millions of people displaced by Russia’s attack. Poland’s government says that Ukraine’s needs are huge despite funds already donated due to the large scale of damage from the war, and that millions of Ukrainians require urgent help. The High-Level International Donors’ Conference for Ukraine is jointly organized by the Polish and Swedish prime ministers in collaboration with the European Commission and European Council presidents. The aims are to allow the international community to announce new pledges to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of Ukrainian society and to create a forum to discuss how to support Ukrainian society over the longer term. The co-hosts are prime ministers Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland and Magdalena Andersson of Sweden. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to address the participants by video, who are gathering in Warsaw’s National Stadium. ___ PARIS — France’s ecology minister says she is confident that the European Union’s 27 nations will quickly agree to a proposed ban on oil imports from Russia. Speaking to FranceInfo radio Thursday, the minister, Barbara Pompili, said the embargo could be agreed upon within days. “I am confident,” she said. “It is normal that there are discussions because some countries are more dependent than others on Russian oil, so we have to try to find solutions so they can get on board with these sanctions.” She added: “I think we’ll get there perhaps by the end of the week or at least as soon as possible.” The European Union’s top official, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, proposed Wednesday that EU member nations phase out imports of Russian crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of the year. The proposals must be unanimously approved to take effect. Von der Leyen said that getting all 27 member countries — some of them landlocked and highly dependent on Russia for energy supplies — to agree on oil sanctions “will not be easy.” Pompili said the embargo would be “for everyone” in the bloc and that “is to show Russia that Europe, from the end of this year, will completely do without its oil.” ___ KYIV, Ukraine — Five people were killed and at least 25 more wounded in eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours because of the Russian shelling, Ukrainian officials said Thursday. Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai said the Russian troops shelled the region 24 times on Wednesday, hitting the cities of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Girske and Popasna, damaging at least 23 houses and killing five people. An overnight shelling of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region wounded at least 25 people, Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said Thursday. He added that nine houses, a school and other civilian infrastructure were damaged as the result. ___ KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s General Staff says the country’s forces made some gains on the border of the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv and repelled multiple Russian attacks in the east. In its daily morning update, the General Staff said that the Russians “lost control over several settlements on the border of Mykolayiv and Kherson regions.” Ukrainian forces also repelled 11 attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the update said. At the same time, fighting over the Azovstal plant in Mariupol continued, the General Staff said. “With the support of aircraft, the enemy resumed the offensive in order to take control of the plant,” the update said, adding that the Russian troops were “trying to destroy Ukrainians units” at this last remaining pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the ravaged port city. The General Staff also noted Russian efforts to stir tensions in the Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova, which borders with Ukraine and has a Russian peacekeeping contingent. The Russian military “carries out regrouping of troops in certain areas, takes measures to replenish reserves” and is “trying to improve the tactical position of its units.” The General Staff’s statements could not be independently verified. ___ LVIV, Ukraine — The British military is saying an ongoing military drill in Belarus “is not currently anticipated” to threaten Ukraine. The British Defense Ministry made the statement Thursday in a daily intelligence briefing posted to Twitter. It comes after Belarus announced snap military drills. That sparked suspicion in Ukraine as Russia used Belarus to funnel troops through at the start of the war in February before Ukrainian forces repelled an advance targeting the capital, Kyiv. “Russia will likely seek to inflate the threat posed to Ukraine by these exercises in order to fix Ukrainian forces in the north, preventing them from being committed to the battle for the Donbas,” the British military said. It added: “Deviation from normal exercise activity that could pose a threat to allies and partners is not currently anticipated.” ___ UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says more than 300 civilians from the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol and four other towns have been evacuated to Ukrainian-held Zaporizhzhia in a second successful operation to get civilians out of areas subject to Russian shelling and attacks. Osnat Lubrani, the U.N. humanitarian chief in Ukraine, said in a statement that many of the civilians from Mariupol, Manhush, Berdyansk, Tokmak and Vasylivka came Wednesday with nothing but the clothes they were wearing and are now getting humanitarian assistance. She said they’ll also receive “much-needed psychological support.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the 344 evacuated Wednesday are in addition to the more than 150 people who were evacuated earlier this week from the bunkers under the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, which is surrounded by Russian troops and reportedly came under renewed fire on Wednesday. No civilians were reported evacuated from the plant on Wednesday. Zelenskyy said they are trying to reach an agreement to save those remaining at Azovstal, including women and children. ___ The commander of the main defending force at the Azovstal steel mill in the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol says Russian troops have broken into the territory of the mill, where limited evacuations of besieged civilians occurred last week. The Russian government, meanwhile, pledged to facilitate humanitarian corridors from Thursday through Saturday to enable more evacuations. In a video posted Wednesday, Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Ukrainian Azov regiment, said the incursions had continued a second day “and there are heavy, bloody battles.” Azovstal remains one of the biggest hubs of Ukrainian military resistance and has been subjected to massive Russian aerial bombardments and shelling. Russian State TV showed smoke rising over Azovstal. Hundreds of Ukrainian forces from different parts of the army, as well as civilians, remain in the plant’s underground shelters. ___ A Russian government statement said its armed forces and their allies would open a humanitarian corridor on specified hours from Thursday through Saturday from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine, so civilians can be evacuated. The statement appeared on the Telegram messaging app Wednesday and pledged the forces would refrain from military actions, withdraw to a safe distance and facilitate the withdrawal of the civilians to any destination they choose. But there was no immediate confirmation of those arrangements from other sources and similar promises to set up evacuation corridors have collapsed, because of what the Ukrainians blamed on continued fighting by Russians. A United Nations spokesman said discussions about future evacuations were ongoing. 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WABAUNSEE COUNTY (KSNT) – A search for two suspects ended in Wabaunsee County when the K-9 unit tracked them to I-70. A Kansas Highway Patrol pursuit ended on Windy Hill Road in Wabaunsee County when two suspects took off on foot just south of the 24/7 Travel Store Wednesday evening, according to the Wabaunsee County Sheriff’s Office. Residents who live in the area were cautioned by the sheriff’s office to lock their doors and call 911 to report any suspicious activity. Deputies from the Wabaunsee County and Shawnee County Sheriff’s Offices plus the Kansas Highway Patrol were all involved in the search. The K-9 tracked them to I-70 east of Keene-Eskridge. In a social media post, the Wabaunsee County Sheriff’s Office informed the community they believed the suspects had left the area. “When this happens it means they probably called someone and got a ride,” the sheriff’s office said. Residents were cautioned to still be alert and call if they see anything suspicious.	https://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/search-for-suspects-stops-at-i-70-in-wabaunsee-county/	2022-05-05T13:48:01Z	https://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/search-for-suspects-stops-at-i-70-in-wabaunsee-county/	true	null
Before hitting it big, Lil Nas X used to work at Taco Bell. Now, he’s teaming up with his old employer to inspire the next generation of leaders. Following last year’s announcement that he was named Taco Bell’s Chief Impact Officer, in charge of designing new brand experiences, Nas is ready to unleash his new project: the Ambition Accelerator. According to a press release, the initiative is “specifically designed to help young people seeking to make change in their communities and around the world.” Those between the ages of 16 and 26 are encouraged to submit their ideas about how to tackle critical issues impacting people and the planet — such as climate change or social justice — to Taco Bell. The goal is to encourage a wave of positive change. “This is a program for the dreamers and disruptors,” the Grammy winner declared. “Be delusional and chase your dreams, and find the right support you need along the way, which just might be from Taco Bell.” Applications are open now through July 21 on the Ambition Accelerator website. Winners will be awarded up to $25,000 and be connected with a mentor to help shape and grow their vision. They will also present at the Ambition Accelerator Summit, taking place November 3 through November 6 at Taco Bell Headquarters. The initiative also includes help from the global network Ashoka, which aims to inspire young entrepreneurs. Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.	https://www.ks95.com/lil-nas-x-teams-with-taco-bell-to-inspire-youths-to-bring-change-to-their-communities/	2022-05-05T13:52:54Z	https://www.ks95.com/lil-nas-x-teams-with-taco-bell-to-inspire-youths-to-bring-change-to-their-communities/	true	3
One of the most recent breaking news that made headlines was that the famous Hollywood actress Kaley Cuoco is dating Tom Pelphrey. They are in the position to make a beautiful couple together with each other. The famous Hollywood actress was in the position to disclose this news through her Instagram portal. Who Is Kaley Cuoco Dating? She posted a beautiful and overwhelming Post with a wonderful caption. She was able to acknowledge that she was madly in love with Tom. The 36-year-old actress shared an intimate picture with Tom. This post has received approximately 15 million likes in less than 24 hours. Previous relationships The famous Hollywood actress who has acted in so many movies was a part of a very malfunctioning relationship. She was in a relationship for approximately 17 years with Karl cook. That was a kind of an abusive relationship in which she had to suffer a huge amount of torture and disrespect for a continuous duration of at least 17 years of marriage. She can finally take a bold step by filing for divorce in the year 2020. She dared to separate from an abusive relationship so that she could move ahead in her life in the way she wanted to. All her friends and family, including her fans, congratulated her and even applauded her bravery. This was the biggest kind of achievement that she could ever make in her life. Official relationships She had been doubtful about whether she would be able to love another time in her life or not. But things did take a positive turn. Despite feeling out of love so many times in her life, she was again bestowed with the gem of love. She met Tom in a magazine interview, and there has been no turning back ever since. They continuously met each other at the shooting sets of different types of web series. The couple became so close to each other that they did many web series, such as the flight attendant. This web series was very successful for Netflix and achieved great success. Couple Goals They have even acted together in the famous Big Bang Theory web show. They have appeared for the magazine covers of many brands. It is also important to mention that they have been in the position to understand almost every type of perspective. They have to get the appearance and endorse different products and services based on the face value. This has been the best type of experience noted by them so far. Conclusion The couple went to indulge in a lot of PDA. Many intimate pictures of the couple have been released on the Internet, and they have been creating a sensation altogether. This is also helping them to increase their popularity and create further controversy. It becomes important to mention that this is the time they are going to focus on their career and the related goal. All of the internet photographs are a piece of living evidence that they are trying to develop sensations and controversy with every passing day. Read More: - Zendaya Reveals New Short Hair Makeover After Skipping Met Gala!! - Laine Hardy Net Worth 2022: Why Was The American Idol Winner Arrested? - Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck Hold Hands & Match Their Looks, Spotted Out !!	https://chamberlainsun.com/kaley-cuoco-dating/	2022-05-05T13:52:56Z	https://chamberlainsun.com/kaley-cuoco-dating/	false	1
Life can return to normal for fully-vaccinated, healthy people: MOH Article content SIMCOE Healthy people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can return to life as normal during the pandemic, Haldimand-Norfolk’s acting medical officer of health says. Advertisement 2 Article content But others should evaluate their risks with their physicians, Dr. Matt Strauss said at this week’s meeting of the Haldimand-Norfolk board of health. “If you’re fully vaccinated, in general, COVID-19 is about as risky as to you, at least in terms of hospitalization or death, as influenza,” Strauss said. “If you’re a healthy 25-year-old who’s fully vaccinated and you get COVID-19, the treatment is chicken noodle soup and ginger ale.” However, Strauss said the response to COVID-19 symptoms changes for those who have medical problems, are older and are not fully immunized against the virus. Those individuals should get tested and see a physician or nurse practitioner about getting a prescription for the antiviral drug, Paxlovid, he said. Paxlovid helps stop COVID infections from progressing to more severe symptoms in people who are at higher risk, potentially averting a hospital stay. But the drug needs to be taken within five days of first experiencing symptoms, so anyone who might benefit from it needs to be able to get it quickly. Strauss said efforts to make Paxlovid more readily available in Haldimand-Norfolk paid off. “I’m delighted to report that our advocacy on the subject of local Paxlovid availability was successful,” he said. “I do not have statistics, but I know from conversations with local physicians and community members that several high-risk community members availed themselves of this treatment of the last two weeks.” Advertisement 3 Article content Lsat month, Strauss, with the backing of the health board, lobbied the province to ensure the Paxlovid was readily available in Haldimand-Norfolk. The province announced expanded access to the drug on April 12. Speaking about COVID-19 safety measures, Strauss said people should follow the advice of Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, and Ministry of Health officials. “We’re at a stage where we have to do more of our own personal risk evaluation rather than this idea that one size fits all and that everyone should undertake the same precautions.” Strauss said he that COVID-19 is a low-risk disease for people who are up-to-date on their vaccines and healthy. “In terms of their risk evaluation, I don’t think they should be avoiding any activities.” He said the sixth wave of COVID-19 was the least deadly in Haldimand-Norfolk largely because of the vaccine rollout and natural immunity from previous infections. Overall COVID-19 mortality in Haldimand-Norfolk is declining relative to neighbouring and comparable health units, Strauss said. Meanwhile, temporary foreign workers are returning to local farms, Strauss said. “I do not expect to see any COVID-19 deaths in this highly vaccinated population, particularly as standards of medical monitoring have been improved and Paxlovid is now readily accessible,” Strauss said. Vball@postmedia.com twitter.com/EXPVBall	https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-news/life-can-return-to-normal-for-fully-vaccinated-healthy-people-moh-2	2022-05-05T13:56:56Z	https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-news/life-can-return-to-normal-for-fully-vaccinated-healthy-people-moh-2	true	1
Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Singular Genomics Systems (NASDAQ:OMIC – Get Rating) from a hold rating to a buy rating in a report published on Wednesday, Zacks.com reports. They currently have $4.50 price objective on the stock. According to Zacks, “Singular Genomics Systems Inc. is a life science technology company. It focused on delivering genomic technologies for the advancement of science and medicine. Singular Genomics Systems Inc. is based in LA JOLLA, Calif. “ OMIC has been the subject of several other research reports. The Goldman Sachs Group reduced their price target on shares of Singular Genomics Systems from $17.00 to $11.00 and set a buy rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, April 13th. UBS Group reduced their price target on shares of Singular Genomics Systems from $32.00 to $25.00 and set a buy rating for the company in a report on Thursday, January 6th. They noted that the move was a valuation call. Finally, Bank of America upgraded shares of Singular Genomics Systems from a neutral rating to a buy rating and set a $21.00 price target for the company in a report on Friday, January 7th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of Buy and a consensus price target of $18.30. Singular Genomics Systems (NASDAQ:OMIC – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March 2nd. The company reported ($0.27) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of ($0.35) by $0.08. Analysts forecast that Singular Genomics Systems will post -1.52 EPS for the current year. Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. FNY Investment Advisers LLC bought a new position in Singular Genomics Systems during the fourth quarter worth about $57,000. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its position in Singular Genomics Systems by 257.2% during the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 136,281 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,524,000 after acquiring an additional 98,132 shares during the period. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. grew its stake in Singular Genomics Systems by 18.1% during the third quarter. UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. now owns 609,847 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,824,000 after buying an additional 93,589 shares in the last quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund grew its stake in Singular Genomics Systems by 25.8% during the third quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 27,208 shares of the company’s stock worth $304,000 after buying an additional 5,575 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Millennium Management LLC grew its stake in Singular Genomics Systems by 114.8% during the third quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 454,193 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,082,000 after buying an additional 242,771 shares in the last quarter. 59.24% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. About Singular Genomics Systems (Get Rating) Singular Genomics Systems, Inc, a life science technology company, develops next generation sequencing and multiomics technology to build products for researchers and clinicians to advance science and medicine. The company manufactures G4 Instrument, a benchtop next generation sequencer to produce genetic sequencing results, as well as associated menu of consumable kits. Further Reading - Get a free copy of the StockNews.com research report on Singular Genomics Systems (OMIC) - Uber Fails To Impress - World Wresting Entertainment Stock is Hulking Up - High-Yield Weyco Group Returns To Reasonable Levels - MarketBeat Podcast: Alternative Investing Strategies Despite Market Volatility - Limelight Networks Stock is a Speculative Turnaround Opportunity Get a free copy of the Zacks research report on Singular Genomics Systems (OMIC) For more information about research offerings from Zacks Investment Research, visit Zacks.com Receive News & Ratings for Singular Genomics Systems Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Singular Genomics Systems and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.	https://www.wkrb13.com/2022/05/05/singular-genomics-systems-nasdaqomic-upgraded-to-buy-by-zacks-investment-research.html	2022-05-05T13:57:11Z	https://www.wkrb13.com/2022/05/05/singular-genomics-systems-nasdaqomic-upgraded-to-buy-by-zacks-investment-research.html	false	2
Murphy is an accomplished leader with more than 20 years of experience in building and managing dynamic sales teams with a track record of constantly overcoming expectations, guaranteeing the integrity of the customer experience in the financial industry. MIAMI, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veritran, a leading global Low-Code solutions provider, today announced that Shelba Murphy has joined as Senior VP of Sales in the US. She will be responsible for building out the company's U.S. salesforce and identifying opportunities to generate revenue and translate the company's success in Latin America to new markets. "Shelba brings a unique mix of experience with fintechs, community banks and credit unions, which will be incredibly valuable as we continue to expand our reach with financial institutions in the U.S. market," said Marcelo Fondacaro, CCO at Veritran. "In addition to having a deep understanding of the finance space, Shelba is passionate about helping institutions meet the increasing demands of today's digital-first world, which is a core part of our work and values at Veritran." Prior to joining Veritran, Murphy spent over two years with NXTSoft as SVP of Sales. She ran North America's sales for three different business lines, including the company's data conversation and connections solutions, which grew 25% from 2019 to 2020 and had 115% growth margin over the prior year under Murphy's leadership. Additionally, she served as a Digital Client Executive at digital banking companies, where she worked with financial institutions and credit unions across the Southeast region. Earlier in her career, she joined SaaS provider Jack Henry and Associates as a Sales Manager to drive product penetration and adoption in the retail banking space, eventually moving into a global sales management role. Before that, Murphy worked at Intreive Incorporated, selling solutions in the community banking space and as a reseller of Kirchman Corporation. She started her career at Southeastern Bank, a community bank in Georgia, where she supported technology transformation and implementation. "Veritran is a pioneering company with a global presence, and I look forward to the challenge of building their U.S. sales infrastructure from the ground up," said Murphy. "My goal is to help bring Veritran's business solutions to credit unions and banks across the nation, empowering them to provide an elevated customer experience and innovate more quickly. I look forward to working with this entrepreneurial, creative team to do so." About Veritran At Veritran, we believe in improving our clients' business by making their customers' lives better. Through our enterprise Low-Code platform, we speed up and simplify the development of future-proofed immersive digital channels that create a top-notch user experience. We are innovation drivers serving companies worldwide, reaching millions of users, and running billions of secure transactions annually. For more information, visit www.veritran.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Veritran	https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/veritran-appoints-shelba-murphy-senior-vp-sales-us/	2022-05-05T13:58:26Z	https://www.weau.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/veritran-appoints-shelba-murphy-senior-vp-sales-us/	false	11
Havila Voyages` second ship, Havila Castor, docked in Bergen early Thursday morning ahead of its debut on the classic coastal route between Bergen and Kirkenes. “This is a milestone for our shipping company, and it was great to see the beautiful Havila Castor arrive here to Bergen," said CEO Bent Martini, as the ship arrived in Norway having sailed from Tersan in Turkey, where she was built. "The crew onboard has made a fantastic effort on the voyage from Turkey and arrived much earlier than expected in Bergen. At the same time, they gained a lot of experience from the return voyage with Havila Capella last year and have performed the sailing with significantly less consumption of natural gas (LNG). It is simply impressive what they have achieved." The Havila Castor has an energy-efficient hull design, created to handle the varied weather along the Norwegian coast. The ship has the world's largest battery pack on a passenger ship with 6.1 megawatt hours (MWh), which means that the ship can sail emission-free for up to four hours. "Our ships are the most environmentally friendly passenger ships that have ever sailed the classic coastal route between Bergen and Kirkenes, and already in June, Havila Castor will be the first ship to sail into the world heritage in the Geirangerfjord silently and emission-free," added Martini. “Our investment in climate, environment and sustainability is more than just words. We will deliver, and we deliver from day one on the requirements that were set in the contract with the Ministry of Transport," he said. The Havila Castor is also built for climate-neutral fuel alternatives such as hydrogen and ammonia. With current technology, gradual blending of biogas will further reduce CO2 emissions. The ship will now go through the final preparations before the first roundtrip starts from Bergen on on May 10.	https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/27413-havila-castor-arrives-in-norway.html	2022-05-05T14:01:42Z	https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/27413-havila-castor-arrives-in-norway.html	false	1
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Supreme Court has upheld a long-standing expulsion order against eight Palestinian hamlets in the occupied West Bank, potentially leaving at least 1,000 people homeless, an Israeli rights group representing the villagers said Thursday. The verdict, issued late Wednesday as Israel largely shut down for its Independence Day, marks the end of a more than two-decade legal struggle by Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta region of the southern West Bank to maintain communities they say go back decades. “Without warning in the middle of the night, the Israeli High Court of Justice published a verdict with unprecedented consequences,” the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which has represented the residents throughout the process, said in a statement. “The High Court has officially authorized leaving entire families, with their children and their elderly, without a roof over their heads,” it said. Roni Pelli, an attorney at the association, said the verdict is final and it's not clear if there are any further legal steps that can be taken. The forcible displacement of the communities could happen at any time, she told The Associated Press. The military declared the area a firing and training zone in the 1980s. Israeli authorities have argued that the residents only used the area for seasonal agriculture and had no permanent structures there at the time. In November 1999, security forces expelled some 700 villagers and destroyed homes and cisterns, the association said. The legal battle began the following year. In its ruling late Wednesday, the Supreme Court sided with the state and said the villagers had rejected a compromise that would have allowed them to enter the area at certain times and practice agriculture for part of the year. The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The families say they have been there for decades, from long before Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war. They practice a traditional form of desert agriculture and animal herding, with some living in caves at least part of the year, but say their only homes are in the hardscrabble communities now at risk of demolition. “The occupation court just decided: My community will be destroyed,” tweeted Basel Adra, a prominent activist from the area. “The army can now place us on trucks, 2,400 people, and expel us from our ancient villages, one by one.” The West Bank has been under Israeli military rule for nearly 55 years. Masafer Yatta is in the 60% of the territory where the Palestinian Authority is prohibited from operating. The Palestinians want the West Bank to form the main part of their future state. Jewish settlers have established outposts in the area that are not officially authorized by Israel but are protected by the military. Last fall, dozens of settlers attacked a village in the area, and a four-year-old boy was hospitalized after being struck in the head with a stone. Israel halted plans to formally annex parts of the West Bank in 2020, but it retains overall control over the territory, with the Palestinian Authority administering major population centers and cooperating with it on security matters. Nearly 500,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, which is home to nearly 3 million Palestinians. David Mintz, one of the Supreme Court justices issuing the verdict on Masafer Yatta, lives in the West Bank settlement of Dolev. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is opposed to Palestinian statehood and routinely refers to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria, the biblical name of the region. He and other nationalist leaders view the West Bank as the historical heartland of the Jewish people. The last serious peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians broke down more than a decade ago. Bennett's government has ruled out any major initiative to end the conflict but has taken steps to improve economic conditions for the Palestinians. Three major human rights groups have said Israel's policies, particularly in the West Bank, amount to apartheid, allegations Israel rejects as an attack on its very legitimacy. One of those groups, the Israeli organization B'Tselem, said that in the Masafer Yatta ruling the justices “once again fulfilled their role in Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy and paved the way for the crime of forcible transfer to be committed.”	https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4529091	2022-05-05T14:05:17Z	https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4529091	true	23
ARLINGTON, Va. (WGN) — Gerber has officially announced the winner of its 12th Annual Photo Search. The company’s 2022 Gerber Spokesbaby is Baby Isa of Oklahoma. She now fills the important and honorary role on Gerber’s Executive Committee as Chief Growing Officer (CGO). The company says Isa captivated the judges with her overwhelming happiness and bright, shining personality. Now Isa will work with Gerber to help the next generation of babies grow and thrive. She will have the opportunity to serve as the official Chief Taste Tester to taste and review new baby food products and provide the Gerber executive team with “advice” about what babies need for the future, according to the company. “Isa is a strong, amazing little girl that loves to interact with the world around her and nothing will stop her. Her smile lights up the room and her laughter is irresistible,” said Meredith Slish, Isa’s mother. “Before she was born in September of 2021, we knew Isa was special, and she has shown us that every day since she came into our lives. We found out when I was 18 weeks pregnant that Isa would be born without a femur or a fibula in her right leg. We hope Isa’s story can bring more awareness for limb differences and create greater inclusion for children like her. Because, just like Isa, they too can be or do anything they want!” In addition to the opportunity to be featured on Gerber’s social media channels and marketing campaigns throughout the year, Isa and her family were awarded a $25,000 cash prize, free Gerber products for up to a year, a CGO wardrobe valued at $1,000 provided by Gerber Childrenswear and $1,000 gift card from ezpz for all of Isa’s mealtime dishware and utensils. Isa loves spending her days babbling to her 4-year-old sister, Temperance, and enjoying the breeze outside in the evening with her dad, John. Her favorite foods include Gerber Sweet Potato Puffs and Gerber 1st Foods Butternut Squash. Her family says Isa is a super happy baby and really enjoys playing with her hippo and listening to soundtracks form her favorite movies. Gerber will also match Isa’s $25,000 with a donation to support March of Dimes’ maternal and infant health programs.	https://www.valleycentral.com/news/meet-gerbers-2022-spokesbaby/	2022-05-05T14:05:35Z	https://www.valleycentral.com/news/meet-gerbers-2022-spokesbaby/	false	29
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EverQuote, Inc. (NASDAQ:EVER – Get Rating) – Research analysts at William Blair issued their Q1 2023 EPS estimates for EverQuote in a research report issued on Tuesday, May 3rd. William Blair analyst R. Schackart expects that the company will earn ($0.45) per share for the quarter. William Blair has a “Market Perform” rating on the stock. William Blair also issued estimates for EverQuote’s Q2 2023 earnings at ($0.33) EPS, Q3 2023 earnings at ($0.19) EPS and Q4 2023 earnings at $0.01 EPS. A number of other equities analysts also recently commented on EVER. Oppenheimer lowered their price objective on EverQuote from $20.00 to $15.00 in a research report on Tuesday. B. Riley began coverage on EverQuote in a research note on Monday, April 18th. They set a “buy” rating and a $20.00 target price for the company. Needham & Company LLC decreased their target price on EverQuote from $19.00 to $16.00 in a research note on Tuesday. Raymond James cut EverQuote from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group decreased their target price on EverQuote from $25.00 to $22.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, EverQuote currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $21.44. EverQuote (NASDAQ:EVER – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, February 16th. The company reported ($0.29) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.32) by $0.03. EverQuote had a negative return on equity of 25.33% and a negative net margin of 5.02%. The company had revenue of $102.07 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $96.31 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted ($0.13) EPS. EverQuote’s revenue was up 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year. In related news, insider Tomas Revesz, Jr. sold 7,119 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.29, for a total transaction of $108,849.51. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 460,409 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $7,039,653.61. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CFO John Brandon Wagner sold 3,600 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, February 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $17.00, for a total value of $61,200.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 12,734 shares of company stock valued at $201,279 in the last 90 days. Company insiders own 45.70% of the company’s stock. A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Royal Bank of Canada lifted its position in shares of EverQuote by 21.3% in the second quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 3,445 shares of the company’s stock valued at $112,000 after acquiring an additional 604 shares in the last quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY lifted its position in shares of EverQuote by 19.3% in the third quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY now owns 5,193 shares of the company’s stock valued at $97,000 after acquiring an additional 839 shares in the last quarter. Legal & General Group Plc lifted its position in shares of EverQuote by 11.3% in the fourth quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 9,454 shares of the company’s stock valued at $149,000 after acquiring an additional 962 shares in the last quarter. Credit Suisse AG lifted its position in shares of EverQuote by 13.9% in the fourth quarter. Credit Suisse AG now owns 11,648 shares of the company’s stock valued at $182,000 after acquiring an additional 1,425 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Brown Advisory Securities LLC lifted its position in shares of EverQuote by 12.7% in the fourth quarter. Brown Advisory Securities LLC now owns 14,197 shares of the company’s stock valued at $223,000 after acquiring an additional 1,600 shares in the last quarter. EverQuote Company Profile (Get Rating) EverQuote, Inc operates an online marketplace for insurance shopping in the United States. The company's online marketplace offers consumers shopping for auto, home and renters, life, and health insurance. It serves carriers and agents, as well as indirect distributors. The company was formerly known as AdHarmonics, Inc, and changed its name to EverQuote, Inc in November 2014. See Also - Get a free copy of the StockNews.com research report on EverQuote (EVER) - World Wresting Entertainment Stock is Hulking Up - High-Yield Weyco Group Returns To Reasonable Levels - MarketBeat Podcast: Alternative Investing Strategies Despite Market Volatility - Limelight Networks Stock is a Speculative Turnaround Opportunity - The Selloff In SiteOne Landscape Supply Is Overextended Receive News & Ratings for EverQuote Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for EverQuote and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.	https://theenterpriseleader.com/2022/05/05/analysts-offer-predictions-for-everquote-inc-s-q1-2023-earnings-nasdaqever.html	2022-05-05T14:08:14Z	https://theenterpriseleader.com/2022/05/05/analysts-offer-predictions-for-everquote-inc-s-q1-2023-earnings-nasdaqever.html	false	2
TriNet Group, Inc. (NYSE:TNET – Get Rating) Director Paul Edward Chamberlain sold 125 shares of TriNet Group stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $88.50, for a total value of $11,062.50. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 36,784 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,255,384. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Paul Edward Chamberlain also recently made the following trade(s): - On Friday, April 1st, Paul Edward Chamberlain sold 125 shares of TriNet Group stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $98.50, for a total value of $12,312.50. - On Tuesday, March 1st, Paul Edward Chamberlain sold 125 shares of TriNet Group stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $87.35, for a total value of $10,918.75. TriNet Group stock opened at $88.40 on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.50 billion, a PE ratio of 15.32 and a beta of 1.29. TriNet Group, Inc. has a 12 month low of $69.43 and a 12 month high of $109.40. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $92.50 and a 200-day simple moving average of $93.77. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 1.17 and a quick ratio of 1.17. Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. PrairieView Partners LLC purchased a new stake in shares of TriNet Group during the fourth quarter worth approximately $59,000. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of TriNet Group by 72.7% during the fourth quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 950 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $81,000 after purchasing an additional 400 shares in the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp purchased a new stake in shares of TriNet Group during the fourth quarter worth approximately $88,000. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. increased its position in shares of TriNet Group by 18.8% during the third quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 988 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $93,000 after purchasing an additional 156 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Dark Forest Capital Management LP increased its position in shares of TriNet Group by 951.1% during the third quarter. Dark Forest Capital Management LP now owns 1,976 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $187,000 after purchasing an additional 1,788 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 96.56% of the company’s stock. Several research analysts recently weighed in on the company. StockNews.com cut TriNet Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 14th. Zacks Investment Research cut TriNet Group from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, TriNet Group has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $91.48. About TriNet Group (Get Rating) TriNet Group, Inc provides human resources (HR) solutions, payroll services, employee benefits, and employment risk mitigation services for small and midsize businesses in the United States. The company offers multi-state payroll processing and tax administration; employee benefits programs, including health insurance and retirement plans; workers compensation insurance and claims management; employment and benefits law compliance; and other HR related services. Featured Stories - Get a free copy of the StockNews.com research report on TriNet Group (TNET) - World Wresting Entertainment Stock is Hulking Up - High-Yield Weyco Group Returns To Reasonable Levels - MarketBeat Podcast: Alternative Investing Strategies Despite Market Volatility - Limelight Networks Stock is a Speculative Turnaround Opportunity - The Selloff In SiteOne Landscape Supply Is Overextended Want More Great Investing Ideas? - 3 Stocks to DOUBLE This Year - The 10 Best Stocks to Own in 2022 - 7 Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever - 9 "MUST OWN" Growth Stocks Receive News & Ratings for TriNet Group Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for TriNet Group and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.	https://www.etfdailynews.com/2022/05/05/trinet-group-inc-nysetnet-director-paul-edward-chamberlain-sells-125-shares/	2022-05-05T14:09:24Z	https://www.etfdailynews.com/2022/05/05/trinet-group-inc-nysetnet-director-paul-edward-chamberlain-sells-125-shares/	true	1
MIAMI -- The Miami Dolphins had four picks in this year's NFL draft, including just one in the first three rounds. But in the third round (102nd overall), they grabbed a player who is an ideal fit for their defensive scheme. Georgia linebacker Channing Tindall flew somewhat under the radar playing on a defense that included linebackers Nakobe Dean and Quay Walker. In fact, he was the ninth of the Bulldogs' record 15 players selected this past weekend. Despite the star power around him, the Dolphins never lost sight of Tindall throughout the pre-draft process. "He was a player that we had been targeting throughout the process," general manager Chris Grier said. "We met with him in Indianapolis [at the NFL combine] and really enjoyed our time with him. We brought him down here on a [top] 30 visit, spent a lot of time with him here as well. For us, it's the versatility, the speed is what we like. He can play, he has the ability to play all three downs and play special teams, as well. "In talking to [Georgia coach] Kirby Smart the other day again about him, he was just talking about what tremendous speed and toughness and the character of the kid and how Kirby really loved [Tindall] and thinks he's going to be a really good player in the NFL." After playing sparingly in his first three seasons with the Bulldogs, Tindall turned in his best collegiate season as a senior in 2021, posting 67 tackles, 5.5 sacks and 7.5 tackles for loss. He called his uptick in production the result of extra time spent with Georgia linebackers coach Glenn Schumann, and a renewed mentality entering the season. "I just took extra time and watched film with him. I feel like I knew what I had to do," Tindall said. "I was on a mission before the season started ... like I have to get this done. I would say the biggest thing is probably just my mindset. My mindset was do or die." How Tindall was used last season helps in deciphering what his role with the Dolphins will be, particularly as a rookie. Grier said Georgia took advantage of Tindall's 4.47 speed in the 40-yard dash, using him as a pass-rusher, quarterback spy and in coverage. Miami blitzed on 38% of its opponents' dropbacks last season, the second-highest rate in the NFL. That type of aggression is why Tindall feels his skill set perfectly suits his new team. "The way they use their linebackers is different," he said. "They use their linebackers everywhere. They put them on the edge sometimes, they put them on the line, they put them at Mike, Will. They are very versatile and I feel like I fit into it." As enticing as his skill set is, Tindall's shortest path to early playing time will come on special teams, where Grier said he expects him to contribute. He will compete with Elandon Roberts, Duke Riley and Brennan Scarlett for defensive reps at inside linebacker, but his ability to cover sideline to sideline sets him apart. He is likely to be worked into the Dolphins' rotation as soon as he grasps the scheme. Miami also added an outside linebacker in the seventh round, Cameron Goode, who has an uphill battle to crack the initial 53-man roster but could sneak into the team's pass-rush rotation with a strong summer camp. With only four picks to work with and an unwillingness to part with any of its five picks in the first three rounds of next year's draft, the Dolphins had to take what they could get, whichever way the board fell. They left their facility Saturday thrilled with the way it did. "You want to feel good about the players that you add," coach Mike McDaniel said. "The bottom line is that we need some Miami Dolphins that our locker room can embrace and that can make the players that we have better and make the team better. "That's what we did and we feel great about that."	https://www.espn.com/blog/miami-dolphins/post/_/id/33666/miami-dolphins-excited-about-channing-tindalls-versatility-speed	2022-05-05T14:09:31Z	https://www.espn.com/blog/miami-dolphins/post/_/id/33666/miami-dolphins-excited-about-channing-tindalls-versatility-speed	false	1
College student creates granola with insect protein DENVER — A college student is making her own granola with a special ingredient. “I usually start with almonds, they’re all organic and local, hand-chopped,” said Clare Whetzel. The University of Denver student decided to make her unique granola mix when she entered a... www.wkbw.com	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589728847023/college-student-creates-granola-with-insect-protein	2022-05-05T14:10:31Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589728847023/college-student-creates-granola-with-insect-protein	false	null
ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — While most crab pots dropped into the Salish Sea are recovered, many are not, and the Northwest Straits Foundation is going after them. Pots remaining on the seafloor can cause havoc for years, trapping and killing marine wildlife, the Skagit Valley Herald reported. The organization will be in the waters near Anacortes late this month or early June to remove derelict crab pots located in the Cap Sante Marina and Guemes Island areas. “The goal is to have the removals done before the recreational crabbing opener, which is typically mid-July in that area,” said foundation Marine Projects Manager Jason Morgan. The group will use side scan sonar to identify the location of lost pots, which allows divers to enter the water at the exact spot to make a retrieval. In 2018, a sonar survey revealed 614 derelict crab pots and 486 were recovered. “What was unique about it, with an estimated 12,000 crab pots lost in the Puget Sound each year, about 70% of those are from the recreational sector,” Morgan said. “In this area, that was flip-flopped and we saw about 70% commercial.” Of that number, Morgan said there is a loss of about 180,000 harvestable male crabs each year. A single lost crab pot can kill up to 15 crabs annually.	https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Group-to-retrieve-lost-crab-pots-save-marine-17149949.php	2022-05-05T14:17:29Z	https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Group-to-retrieve-lost-crab-pots-save-marine-17149949.php	false	25
Molly-Mae Hague tucks into enormous breakfast – but Tommy Fury is only allowed a cup of coffee MOLLY-MAE Hague tucked into a huge full English breakfast today while boyfriend Tommy Fury was only allowed a cup of black coffee. The professional boxer, 22, is getting into shape for his next fight, which he hopes will be on the undercard of his brother Tyson's showdown with Dillian Whyte in April. It means he's sacrificing calorific meals to keep himself lean and light on his feet. He captioned the snap "diet life" while Molly gave a cheeky smile as she got stuck into her food. Tommy was left devastated in December when he was forced to pull out of his celebrity grudge match against Jake Paul with a broken rib and chest infection. He recently insisted he is not pinning his boxing hopes on fighting the American YouTuber. But he is willing to settle the score once and for all, with his promoter Frank Warren still trying to renegotiate the bout. He told Sky Sports: "I'd like to see the fight happen back end of the year. Most read in Celebrity "I'm not really really waiting around for him, he knows I'm here and I'm ready to fight at all times. I've put that out there countless times. "I'm not the issue here, if we wanted to fight the man would have rescheduled date by now but the ball's in his court. "I'm ready to fight whenever. I'd like to see the fight happen at the end of the year. "I know Frank is still trying to reach out to him and stuff like that."	https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8484801/molly-mae-hague-enormous-breakfast-tommy-fury-coffee/	2022-05-05T14:17:59Z	https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8484801/molly-mae-hague-enormous-breakfast-tommy-fury-coffee/	true	1
13-year-old pleads not guilty to killing 14-year-old in Maple Heights By Julia Bingel cleveland19.com 2 days ago CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A 13-year-old boy accused in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy last November in Maple Heights pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Cuyahoga County... Judge Maureen Sweeney in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court agreed to a request to dismiss without prejudice the case against Shawta Hasley, 27, on Friday. MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. -- Investigators say they have made a shocking arrest after a Mastic Beach mother was sexually assaulted in a home invasion.As CBS2's Jennifer McLogan reports, the alleged rapist is a 14-year-old boy, now held without bail.The 23-year-old mother, who has been released from the hospital, has moved from the Mastic Beach home where she was strangled, stabbed, robbed and brutally raped on April 19."This is a case that is both shocking and extremely disturbing," Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney said.Police say the video they distributed of the perpetrators led to tips and eventually a DNA profile that... A juvenile has been arrested in connection with the death of Lily Peters, the 10-year-old girl whose body was found Monday morning in a wooded area in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, police said in a press conference on Tuesday evening. "Earlier this evening we arrested a juvenile suspect in this case,"... A California woman stabbed two pit bulls, killing one of them, after they reportedly attacked her one-year-old daughter at their home in Pico Rivera.Authorities said the incident occurred around 10.30pm on Sunday when the dogs ran into the kitchen where the toddler was with her grandmother.The child’s grandmother, Margaret Morales, said one of the dogs jumped on top of the toddler and started attacking her, reported KTLA.Jamie Morales, the child’s mother, said she fought off the dogs to protect her daughter.“I stabbed him [one of the dogs] to get him off of my daughter. It was either him or my... A sheriff in Florida arrested his own daughter on drug charges as his department continues its war on addictive substances. Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith gave a statement on April 19 confirming that his daughter, Kristen Kent, had been arrested under suspicion of meth trafficking two days prior. "Methamphetamine does... A teenager was “unsettled” on the day she was last seen alive because of the imminent release from prison of the man she had accused of raping her, an inquest heard.Gaia Pope-Sutherland, 19, had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after revealing she had been raped by a man when she was 16.Dorset Coroner’s Court heard the student, who suffered from severe epilepsy, was reported missing from her home in Swanage, Dorset, on November 7 2017.A large search operation was launched in the Swanage area for the teenager, including police, HM Coastguard, National Police Air Service, Dorset Search and Rescue... A 37-year-old man has been charged with murder after a 23-year-old hockey player was stabbed and killed over the weekend in Moscow. According to reports, the man will be kept in custody until at least June 24th, when he is expected to face trial. Newer details from Sport24.ru state Roman... TOLEDO (WJW) — A seven-month-old baby was killed after shots were fired into a vehicle being driven by her father Wednesday. According to Toledo Police reports, Desire Hughes was with her father, Jeremiah Hughes, 20, when occupants in another vehicle fired shots at their car. Desire Hughes was taken to the hospital but died as […] A security guard was gunned down by her ex-boyfriend as she left her place of work at the McArthur Dairy plant in Miami because she refused to go home with him on Friday afternoon. A Florida woman has been arrested after allegedly making a bomb threat to her son’s high school, enraged that her son wasn't being fed enough at the cafeteria. Anaya Metoya Smith, 41, was arrested Wednesday in connection with a threatening voicemail she left at Cocoa High School on Feb. 3 around 5:30 p.m., saying she’d "blow ... up" the school, according to the probable cause affidavit. The city of Cocoa is about 45 miles east of Orlando.	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589733335675/13-year-old-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-14-year-old-in-maple-heights	2022-05-05T14:18:32Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589733335675/13-year-old-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-14-year-old-in-maple-heights	true	1
A 38-year-old widower wants a High Court judge to allow him to use an embryo created using his sperm and the eggs of his late wife after IVF treatment. Investment manager Ted Jennings, of Highbury, north London, has asked Mrs Justice Theis to rule that it would be lawful for him to use the embryo, which was created in 2018 and has been stored, “in treatment with a surrogate mother”. Lawyers representing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said Mr Jennings’ application should be dismissed. They argued that it would not be lawful to use the embryo because Mr Jennings’ wife, accountant Fern-Marie Choya, who died in 2019, aged 40 after becoming pregnant, had not provided written consent. The judge considered Mr Jennings’ application at a public hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London on Thursday and is expected to deliver a written ruling in the near future. Jenni Richards QC, who led Mr Jennings’ legal team, told the judge that Mr Jennings and Ms Choya, who both moved to Britain from Trinidad, had married in 2009. She said they had struggled to conceive naturally and underwent three cycles of IVF treatment in 2013 and 2014 without success. Ms Choya had conceived naturally in 2015 and 2016 but both pregnancies ended in miscarriage. The couple had undergone further IVF cycles, in 2017 and 2018, and re-mortgaged their home in order to afford private treatment. Ms Richards said a positive pregnancy had been confirmed in late 2018. She said Ms Choya had developed complications with her pregnancy at 18 weeks, which resulted in a uterine rupture, and died in February 2019. Ms Richards said one embryo, the subject of the application, remained in storage. She said the “issue” related to a legal “requirement” that consent “be recorded in writing and signed by the person giving it”. “… the evidence is that Ms Choya would have wanted Mr Jennings to be able to use their partner-created embryo in treatment with a surrogate in the event of her death,” said Ms Richards in a written case outline. “In all the circumstances, it can, and should, be inferred that Ms Choya would have provided written consent to Mr Jennings being able to use their partner-created embryo in treatment with a surrogate in the event of her death had she been given the opportunity to do so.” Ms Richards added: “… Ms Choya had no opportunity, through no fault of her own, to provide that consent in writing.” She said preventing Mr Jennings using the embryo would be a “significant interference” with his human right to respect for private and family life and prevent him from fulfilling the couple’s wish to have a child. Kate Gallafent QC, who led the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s legal team, argued that without written consent it would not be lawful to use the embryo. She said the authority was sympathetic and told the judge that its “sole interest” was to “promote compliance” with a “statutory scheme”. “Mr Jennings seeks a declaration from the court that it is lawful to use an embryo created using his gametes and those of his late wife Ms Choya in the treatment of a surrogate,” she told the judge in a written case outline. “However, it is common ground between the parties that Ms Choya did not provide written consent to the embryo being used by Mr Jennings in treatment with a surrogate in the event of her death.” She said the authority’s “primary submission” was that: “In the absence of such written consent, it is not lawful to use the embryo in treatment with a surrogate.” Ms Gallafent said the requirement of written consent was an “express statutory condition” set out in the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act and “central to the legislative regime”. Mrs Justice Theis said she aimed to deliver a written ruling in the near future.	https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2022/05/05/widower-in-high-court-fight-over-use-of-embryo-created-after-ivf-treatment/	2022-05-05T14:18:55Z	https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2022/05/05/widower-in-high-court-fight-over-use-of-embryo-created-after-ivf-treatment/	true	9
The May 19th forum is open to the public and will discuss holistic strategies for successful, lasting outcomes. CLEARWATER, Fla., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether addressing the health of a person or building, it all begins with understanding the baseline conditions that are being presented. Both are complex systems that are affected by many external and internal factors. That's why a holistic strategy is needed to produce positive, lasting, outcomes! The health and IAQ experts Dr. Ovadia, Dr. Sahay and Alan Wozniak will share where many of us may have missed the boat medically and building health wise by focusing on treating symptoms and not causes. The expert panel will share with you why it's not too late for better health by identifying and treating the causes of ill health and unhealthy buildings. Join Pure Air Control Services and Ovadia Heart Health for the very special expert panel: Metabolic Health & Healthy Buildings Strategies for Lasting Outcomes Thursday, May 19, 2:00pm ET Register for Free https://info.pureaircontrols.com/Metabolic-Healthy-Buildings-Registration It will illustrate the similarities between proactive measures for good metabolic health in humans and preventive maintenance for optimal indoor air quality in buildings. Topics of Discussion - Understanding Baseline Conditions - Treating the Causes NOT the Symptoms - Metabolic Health, Building Health & Productivity - And More! The Expert Panel Dr. Philip Ovadia, MD Cardiac Surgeon, Founder of Ovadia Heart Health Alan Wozniak, CIEC, CIAQP Vice President, (founder) Pure Air Control Services Dr. Rajiv Sahay, PHD, FIAS, CIAQP Director, Environmental Diagnostics Laboratory Special guest Dr. Philip Ovadia is a board-certified Cardiac Surgeon and founder of Ovadia Heart Health. He graduated from the accelerated Pre-Med/Med program at the Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College. This was followed by a residency in General Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey and a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Tufts - New England Medical School. His mission is to optimize the public's metabolic health and help people stay off his operating table. This is sure to be a lively discussion. The expert panel will last approximately 45 minutes including a time allotted for questions and answers. We hope to see you there! Contact: Troy Raszka, (727) 572-4550 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Pure Air Control Services	https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/health-amp-iaq-expert-panel-discuss-importance-baseline-conditions-better-health/	2022-05-05T14:23:03Z	https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/health-amp-iaq-expert-panel-discuss-importance-baseline-conditions-better-health/	false	10
Exclusive: UNBOWED Premiere “The Holy Momentum” Video May 5, 2022, 34 minutes ago Unbowed is a melodic death/black metal band formed in Guelph, ON, Canada in 2011. The band has to date released two full-length albums, two EPs, and two Singles. Unbowed consists of Ioan Tetlow (Vocals), Steven Rowlands (Guitars), Aiden Watkinson (Bass), Alex Snape (Guitars), and Cory Hofing (Drums). Unbowed is now gearing up to release their third full-length album and strongest effort to date, the ten song LP Colour The Soul. BraveWords is premiering new single and video for “The Holy Momentum” featuring Mother Of All’s Frederik Jensen – watch below! The band comments: “This song takes up the responsibility to represent the concept of ‘Lich’ which concerns itself with mind and body synchronicity. This concept can be found within ancient concepts leading back to the ancient myths of Mesopotamia. It is the symbolism of two serpents endlessly chasing one another, it is the DNA helix, etc. The symbol indicates movement, and an endless chase; thus creating a generation of energy and power, a concept crucial to the creation of all art forms. This is the left brain, right brain, Apollo and Dionysus, or mind and body. In order for one to generate the power and energy needed to go the distance along the journey, the soul must be nurtured by the experiences and stresses put on both mind and body. This song represents the endurance through all forms of extreme resistance against the path forward.” Colour the Soul features artwork by illustrator Marta Sokołowska. Marta was also responsible for the artwork on Unbowed’s debut self-titled EP released in 2013. The album was written and recorded by Unbowed at Nomadic Arts Studios in Guelph, ON, Canada. Featuring guest appearances from Joel Violette (Thrawsunblat, Woods of Ypres), Mathias "Vreth" Lillmåns (Finntroll, And Oceans, Dispyt) and Frederik Jensen (Mother Of All, Plained). The album was mixed and mastered by Alex Snape. Preorder Colour The Soul on Bandcamp. Tracklisting: “Hero Lux” “Eigi Einhamr” “Fire Of Wode” “Stream Of Life / Flow Of Death” “The Holy Momentum” (feat. Frederik Jensen) “As I Step Mountains Sway” (feat. Joel Violette) “Home” “The Anthem Of I” “Umbra Cruciata” (feat. Mathias “Vreth” Lillmans) “The Mourning Shade”	https://bravewords.com/news/exclusive-unbowed-premiere-the-holy-momentum-video	2022-05-05T14:34:19Z	https://bravewords.com/news/exclusive-unbowed-premiere-the-holy-momentum-video	true	1
Reagan Wawzycki scored five goals for New Providence in a 15-14 win over the Sparta Spartans on April 16. Grace Kelly and Cara Lawton scored four goals apiece. Callista Slabaugh scored two goals for the Pioneers (5-1). Uma Kowalski scored six goals for Sparta (3-4). Leah Moore scored three goals. Aine Byrne scored two goals. Jordyn Kelly and Norah Monaghan and Catherine Siipola scored one goal apiece for Sparta.	https://www.spartaindependent.com/news/sports/new-providence-edges-sparta-15-14-ND2050791	2022-05-05T14:34:55Z	https://www.spartaindependent.com/news/sports/new-providence-edges-sparta-15-14-ND2050791	true	null
Jaguars GM Trent Baalke defends decision to draft another early round LB in Chad Muma The Jacksonville Jaguars turned a lot of heads when they drafted Wyoming linebacker Chad Muma with the 70th overall pick, their second selection in the third round. It was surprising the Jags went that direction after trading back into the first round to take Utah linebacker Devin Lloyd and signing former Atlanta Falcon Foyesade Oluokun this offseason Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke and head coach Doug Pederson met with the media on Friday where Baalke defended his decision to take Muma. “He was highly rated on our board for one,” Baalke said about Muma. “He fits the culture we’re trying to build. I don’t think we can ever have enough good linebackers. He’s a green dot guy. He can run the defense. He’s a really good special teams player as well. There’s just a lot to like.” He added that they also wanted to take a linebacker just in case an injury happens. Baalke then explained the role they envision Muma playing in Jacksonville. “How they fit into the system and how much they are going to be used and what packages they are going to be used on, that’s up to Coach Caldwell and the defensive coaching staff,” he said. “I know special teams-wise, he’s going to fit in day one and then you grow your role from there. All these guys have to come in and earn their (spot). “We’ve got some guys that are here also that are competing for these jobs. It’s not like they come in and a role is given to them. They’ve got to go earn it. We’re very confident at the value, it was a pick we needed to make.” This was the second straight answer where he mentioned that Muma would have a big role on special teams, which doesn’t make a ton of sense considering Jacksonville used a third-round pick on him. Hopefully, Muma will come in and earn some significant playing time on defense, not just special teams. Maybe a key to that could be a third-down package, but ultimately time will tell what the Jags have in mind for Muma. “Touchdown Jaguars!” will be published weekly, giving Jags Wire readers a new go-to podcast to hear the latest in news, rumors, and more. To stay up to date, subscribe via Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and feel free to rate and comment.	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589822720539/jaguars-gm-trent-baalke-defends-decision-to-draft-another-early-round-lb-in-chad-muma	2022-05-05T14:37:49Z	https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589822720539/jaguars-gm-trent-baalke-defends-decision-to-draft-another-early-round-lb-in-chad-muma	false	2
A Girl Scout Troop in Healy donated 75 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to Neighbor to Neighbor, a nonprofit group that helps people in need in the Denali Borough. Girl Scout Troop 329 has 10 members — two Daisys, seven Brownies and one Junior — and they were very good at collecting orders for Girl Scout cookies this year. “These girls are amazing,” said scout leader Katie Griebe. Six of the Girl Scouts had “Gift of Caring” on their orders, meaning people could buy boxes of cookies knowing they would go to a good cause. Those Girl Scouts include Gage, Nora, Grace, Lucy, Adelynn and Paisley. The biggest seller was third-grader Gage. The 8-year-old sold 781 boxes of cookies and 29 of those boxes went to Neighbor to Neighbor. “It’s a good thing she came from a big family,” said Letitia Stratton, Gage’s mom. Gage was not shy about reaching out to people during cookie sales, her mother said. “She set a goal to fill her page and ended up overflowing and needed more room,” she said. “Even if she didn’t have her sheet, she had a note pad and pen and of course, her mom and dad have pictures of the cookies for her to sell.” This week, volunteer Courtnee Shreeve graciously accepted the Girl Scout donation for Neighbor to Neighbor. This nonprofit in the Denali Borough helps people in need year round. In December, the group provides food and gift boxes for families in need. On the average, about 70 families receive help every year. Neighbor to Neighbor also spearheads the Denali Food Bank, thanks to a CARES grant from the Denali Borough and the state, as well as Covid relief funds from the United Way of Tanana Valley. Throughout 2020 and 2021 Neighbor to Neighbor partnered with the Fairbanks Community Food Bank to deliver TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program) food boxes to Denali Borough residents once a month. The program will transition to a local Food Box Program modeled off of the TEFAP program.	https://www.newsminer.com/news/kris_capps/little-girl-scouts-sell-cookies-for-charity/article_c44094de-cc0e-11ec-aad7-5b759bdcace4.html	2022-05-05T14:38:41Z	https://www.newsminer.com/news/kris_capps/little-girl-scouts-sell-cookies-for-charity/article_c44094de-cc0e-11ec-aad7-5b759bdcace4.html	true	1
Orange Cookies effects Reported by real people like you 355 people told us about effects: - Feelings - Negatives - Helps with Relaxed 72% of people report feeling relaxed Happy 70% of people report feeling happy Euphoric 56% of people report feeling euphoric Dry mouth 22% of people report feeling dry mouth Dry eyes 13% of people report feeling dry eyes Anxious 4% of people report feeling anxious Stress 25% of people say it helps with stress Anxiety 21% of people say it helps with anxiety Depression 21% of people say it helps with depression THC Strength 20% \| medium-high CBD Strength 0% \| very low No product reviews Have you tried this product? Be the first to leave a review!	https://www.leafly.com/brands/viola/products/viola-orange-cookies-live-resin-1g-solvent	2022-05-05T14:39:58Z	https://www.leafly.com/brands/viola/products/viola-orange-cookies-live-resin-1g-solvent	false	null
Senate acts to launch formal talks on China competition bill Billions will go towards semiconductor chip production and supply chain issues The Senate took action on Wednesday to begin formal talks on a bill that will allot $52 billion for semiconductor chip production and supply chain issues and to help boost competition with China. Although the chamber's votes on the motion – as well as multiple others – are nonbinding, they are indicative of what the lawmakers would like to see in the final legislation. ARIZONA SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANY OFFERS SOLUTION TO CHIP SHORTAGE The House of Representatives passed the 2,900-page America COMPETES Act of 2022 in February, though largely without bipartisan support. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the bill ensures the U.S. is not depending on "countries of concern" for critical goods, House Republicans balked at being left out of the drafting of the bill, claiming that it has too many provisions that leave the U.S. vulnerable to China's malign activity. Formal negotiations in the House and Senate will start through a conference committee, and congressional aides told Reuters that discussions could span months. A global shortage of semiconductors has threatened multiple industries. The chips are used in computers, cars, smartphones, TVs, refrigerators and more. A Volkswagen executive reportedly said in April that the semiconductor chip supply is unlikely to be enough to fully satisfy demand again until 2024. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned earlier this year that there is no quick fix. "We didn't get in this mess overnight, and we're not going to get out overnight. This has been a problem decades in the making," she explained. "There has been a slow deterioration of our manufacturing base in America over decades, and we need to start now to rebuild." Raimondo urged Congress to negotiate and move "as swiftly as possible to get a final version of the bill to President Biden's desk." Legislators have been working on Chinese competition legislation for more than a year. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS "One of the reasons the price of cars have gone up, the price of some electronic goods has gone up, is we have a shortage of semiconductors, where it's too dependent on Taiwan and South Korea," Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said last month. "We need to make those have those good, high paying jobs here in the United States so that we also aren't dependent on shipping those products for thousands of miles. And with China's expansionist ambitions in Taiwan, it's critically important that that be in the United States." Fox Business' Marisa Schultz, Lucas Manfredi and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.	https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/senate-acts-launch-formal-talks-china-competition-bill	2022-05-05T14:40:00Z	https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/senate-acts-launch-formal-talks-china-competition-bill	true	1
Amber Heard Leak Exposed: Legal Team Quizzed On Elon Musk Allegations & Accusations Of ‘Deliberately Misleading Information’ Given To PEOPLE Magazine May. 5 2022, Published 6:00 a.m. ET A sensational leaked pre-trial deposition reveals that Amber Heard’s former lawyer was grilled about “misleading information” claims in the press — as well as the nature of Heard’s relationship with Elon Musk while she was still married to Johnny Depp. Eric George served on Heard’s legal team in 2019 but was sacked by the actress in the fall of that year after his attempts to dig up dirt on her ex-husband met a dead end. But in an April 2021 deposition seen by Radar, Depp’s lawyer Ben Chew cited George as the source of several inflammatory stories about the actor published by publications like People Magazine — including one in which George claimed Depp “repeatedly beat” his ex-wife. In one fiery exchange Chew asks, “Did you tell a reporter for The Blast, quote, ‘This bogus story is just another lame attempt by Johnny Depp and his team to spread deliberately misleading information through the media so he can continue to attack and abuse his ex-wife?'” George replies, “Yes I did.” He’s also asked: “And then you make the following statement to the press, ‘Johnny Depp and his team have been trying – and failing – to place a salacious story based on this irrelevant footage for weeks. It’s pathetic.’ What basis did, if any, did you have for making that statement to the press?” George declined to answer, citing a legal position called “attorney-client relations.” In perhaps the most extraordinary exchange, Chew quotes from an issue of People Magazine in which George even claims that Depp “repeatedly” beat Heard. “Heard’s lawyer, Eric George, denied the allegations against the actress,” he reads, “saying in a statement obtained by People, ‘The evidence in this case is clear: Johnny Depp repeatedly beat Amber Heard.' Did you ever make that statement to the press?” “Yes. I did,” replies George. In another heated confrontation, George is quizzed about Heard’s relationship with billionaire Elon Musk. Depp has previously accused Heard of cheating on him with the Tesla kingpin during their marriage, and George is asked, “Did Ms. Heard ever inform you that she was involved in a romantic relationship with Elon Musk… while she was still married to Mr. Depp?” He's also quizzed about rumors of a threesome between Heard, Musk, and British model Cara Delevingne. "Did Ms. Heard ever inform you that she spent the night with Ms. Delevingne and Mr. Musk three times after – shortly after the issuance of the ex-parte TRO [Heard’s temporary restraining order, filed in May 2016]?” Mr. George refused to answer the questions, again citing attorney-client privilege. He claimed the privilege again when grilled about the nature of Heard’s relationship with Musk — including rumors that they were locked in a legal battle over her frozen embryos. “Did Ms. Heard at any time inform you… that Elon Musk was controlling, abusive, and that she was in a legal battle with him over the rights to embryos that they had created together?” he is asked. “Did Ms. Heard ever tell you, in words or substance, that Elon Musk wanted to destroy the embryos, and Amber tried to keep them to have a baby?” As both sides accuse each other of dirty tricks in a trial that is gripping the world, it seems there may be more fireworks to come.	https://radaronline.com/p/amber-heard-elon-musk-leak-people-magazine/	2022-05-05T14:46:53Z	https://radaronline.com/p/amber-heard-elon-musk-leak-people-magazine/	false	1
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Nate Skinner is the Chief Marketing Officer at facial recognition tech firm Onfido and answers our questions in the latest of Press Gazette’s Marketing Maestro interviews. This series is produced in association with Lead Monitor, New Statesman Media Group’s content marketing arm. What has been your proudest achievement in your current role? I joined Onfido just before Christmas, and while it has only been a few months, there’s so much that I’m already proud of. In particular, we’ve pulled together the biggest product marketing launch in the company’s 10 year history – scheduled for May 25, so watch this space! As we build up to the launch, the collaboration I’ve seen across marketing, sales, product and customer success is a testament to our commitment to doing amazing work. I can’t wait to see it all come together. Which media channels do you see as most important and best value when it comes to marketing spend and activity? First and foremost, businesses should not overlook the value of organic search. Fundamentally, it’s how customers search and find the business, so investing time and resources into developing content that establishes market or subject authority can make all the difference in building awareness and generating leads. But paying attention to organic search can lead to underwhelming results without an appropriate focus on the company website. If a website does not speak directly to the prospective audience and provide the relevant information to ensure they can engage with and understand the brand, the prospect is easily lost. In a remote-first world where digital is the primary engagement channel, a convoluted customer journey or confusing content will likely lose a sale. Lastly, we couldn’t discuss media channels without mentioning podcasts. In my previous roles, I’ve built podcasts through partners and developed the branding – they are a great vehicle for customer acquisition and provide us with new prospects to engage with. [Sign up to Marketing Matters, our fortnightly newsletter with leading articles about marketing, advertising and publishing] What are the key differences between B2C and B2B marketing? I’ve come across this question multiple times during my career and it allows me to say, with absolute certainty, that the key difference between the two is the overall objective. The intention of B2B marketing is to build the sales pipeline, support the sales division in driving new conversations and help orders to be placed with sellers. On the other hand, B2C marketers need their spend and campaigns to lead directly to a purchase. This applies across different industries and purchases. For instance, even with the most considered purchases, such as jewellery or cars, B2B marketing will focus on tactics such as nurtures, lead queues and conversation starters. In contrast, B2C marketers will be measured against the number of sales. In your opinion, how is the role of CMO changing most rapidly? The most rapid change has been driven by the pandemic. In his book ‘Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity’, Scott Galloway discusses how Covid-19 accelerated business transformation with traditionally offline businesses, such as higher education institutions or healthcare, moving online to stay accessible. Now this shift has taken place, there’s little chance of it being reversed. For marketers, this means that previously useful tactics, like in-person events or automated email, are no longer as effective because customers and prospects have changed how they consume information. In many ways, CMOs need to head back to school and reconnect with the marketing fundamentals to deliver simple, clear messaging or risk losing customers. But CMOs must also be more agile and think about how to break through the noise. For example, at Onfido we’ve found hybrid events can meet the best of both worlds – those that want to connect in-person and online, while maintaining consistent, relevant communication. What for you is the key to any successful marketing campaign – what actually makes a ‘good lead’? The key to a successful marketing campaign is to generate awareness and demand for your product or service. Simply put, if it doesn’t do that, it’s not working. In that respect, a ‘good lead’ is an individual who has a problem and has come to you as they know you have the solution. It’s important to caveat, however, that in those first interactions with a lead, they may not want to solve the issue immediately. Instead, it’s about recognising that there will come a time where they need support. Using a marketing campaign should therefore ensure it’s as easy as possible for them to buy and use your service when that time comes. How important is technology in modern marketing? Technology is critical to modern marketing but it still comes second to marketers who can put themselves in their customers’ or prospects’ shoes, and educate them on how a product or service can help them. Fundamentally, if technology evolves to this point – it will be a game-changer in marketing. But as it stands, it needs to be used by professionals who can understand a customer problem and demonstrate how digital can accelerate the solution. What are the biggest pain points in a marketing campaign? Breaking through the noise is undoubtedly one of the biggest pain points in a marketing campaign. Between social channels, ad banners, texts, messaging and automated emails, there’s an incredible amount to compete with for a buyer’s attention. How you navigate this is not through ‘shock’ tactics or even news, but by speaking to your audience directly in clear and concise language. And finally, if you could ask your peers for one piece of advice or help, what would it be? Funnily enough – this is something I’ve just done! I worked with Sara Varni, the CMO of Attentive, twice during my time at Salesforce. I recently spotted her awareness advertising campaign in the Wall Street Journal and Times Square, and asked for her advice on how she justifies the expense of such a big campaign, when there’s no direct link to lead generation or sales activations. I loved her advice – she said that while her leadership team wanted to improve brand awareness, which is always helpful, she always follows the ‘70/20/10 rule’. This is where 70% of the marketing budget is designated towards pipe and demand generation, 20% is funnelled towards awareness campaigns, and 10% is left for experimentation.	https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing-maestro-cmo-of-onfido/	2022-05-05T14:48:33Z	https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing-maestro-cmo-of-onfido/	true	1
TECHART has forayed into the India market with an exclusive flagship store in Bangalore today. Its first flagship store in Bangalore will provide a complete spectrum of services such as full vehicle conversions and more. TECHART, the leading international premium refinement brand for all Porsche vehicles has forayed into the India market with an exclusive flagship store in Bangalore today. TECHART is the specialist for refining Porsche cars and stands for some of the fastest, powerful, and yet everyday friendly sports cars. Commenting on the announcement, Tobias Beyer – CEO, TECHART, said, “We are incredibly excited to bring TECHART to the Indian market today. Individuality is ingrained in our DNA, aligning to this core philosophy of TECHART; our products further accentuate the sport-focused attitude of Porsche models. Our entry is a strategic step with India being one of the future key markets for individualisation and refinement.” He added, “This launch will help broaden our customer base and appeal to every individual who has a distinctive perspective on life. With today’s announcement we aim to enable our customers to showcase their unique individuality by utilising our exquisite aesthetic customisation options combined with athletic performance.” TECHART’s first flagship store in Bangalore will provide a complete spectrum of services such as full vehicle conversions, carbon fibre refinement, performance enhancements and handcrafting of individual luxury interiors. The company believes in knowing what people need, how they behave, and what services and products can enrich their daily life. All TECHART products adhere to provide utmost flexibility of choice so the customers can experience long-lasting personalised driving pleasure. Through this investment, TECHART is poised to position itself as the paramount refinement brand amongst Porsche owners in the region. The company will enable customers to reconfigure and optimise their Porsche vehicle to their personal liking with the finest products and services available. In addition, TECHART is branching into major metro cities around the globe enhancing client accessibility as well as expanding the service portfolio into electric car customisation.	https://www.financialexpress.com/express-mobility/techart-launches-its-first-customer-experience-showroom-in-bengaluru/2514319/	2022-05-05T14:48:34Z	https://www.financialexpress.com/express-mobility/techart-launches-its-first-customer-experience-showroom-in-bengaluru/2514319/	true	1
From Adewale Sanyaolu, Houston (Texas) The annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) appears to be losing its glamour as the 2022 edition recorded a low turnout of participants, especially top industry operators, policy moulders, and government functionaries, among others. The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), an association of indigenous technical oilfield service companies providing specialized services to the upstream and downstream sectors of the Nigerian oil and gas industry has been responsible for leading the Nigerian delegation to the prestigious event annually and is still offering tangible business opportunities for the supply chain. Conspicuously absent at this year’s event was the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr.Timipre Sylva, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, among other top government functionaries. Traditionally, the Nigerian stand is usually declared opened by the Minister of Petroleum or State with support from the NNPC and other high top-ranking Federal Government officials and National Assembly members. Also, conspicuously missing were most of the panellists which included MDs of the IOCs except the Managing Director of TotalEnergies, Mr Mike Sangstar Also absent was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission(NUPRC), Mr Gbenga Komolafe. Some of the participants who spoke to Daily Sun in separate interviews, expressed disappointment at the organisation of this year’s event as put up by PETAN. They maintained that the level of awareness by PETAN was poor, saying most of the regulators that ought to have interacted with operators to know their challenges and how best to address same were absent. A participant who simply identified himself as Victor said this is the worst OTC put by PETAN, saying the organization lacks the quality expected of an international event. Another participant and industry stakeholder, Mrs Abosede Junaid, said having attended the last 10 editions of the event, the 2022 PETAN organized OTC falls far below pass mark. She urged the organizers to ensure that subsequent ones are improved upon in order to give stakeholders value for attendance.	https://www.sunnewsonline.com/otc-2022-records-low-turnout-as-fg-iocs-shun-event/	2022-05-05T14:49:02Z	https://www.sunnewsonline.com/otc-2022-records-low-turnout-as-fg-iocs-shun-event/	true	3
Man sentenced to 8 years in fatal 2020 New Years Day crash A 30-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison after admitting to recklessly driving a vehicle that caused a crash that killed his passenger on New Years Day two years ago. Raymundo Miguel Gamboa pleaded guilty in the 364th District Court to a count of manslaughter, a second-degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 20 years in prison. Gamboa admitted to driving a Ford Fusion recklessly by failing to stop at a red light, apply brakes in a timely manner and driving while intoxicated, causing the Jan. 1, 2020 crash on Slide Road and Marsha Sharp Freeway that killed 28-year-old Jose Friere. Gamboa has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since September 2021, after he was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska about a week after the July 7, 2020 warrant was issued for his arrest. A Lubbock police crash investigation indicated Gamboa was driving the Ford Fusion Southbound on Slide Road and collided with a Ford Edge traveling eastbound on the freeway access road. After the initial collision, the Fusion crashed into a Ford Explorer. Friere, the front passenger in the Fusion, suffered serious injuries and was taken to University Medical Center where he died. Gamboa and the driver and passenger in the Ford Edge suffered moderate injuries and were hospitalized. There were no injuries reported in the Ford Explorer. Gamboa told police at the hospital that he was "racing" a black Camaro RS when the Explorer ran a red light and collided into his car, the warrant states. However, the driver of the Camaro told police he refused to race Gamboa, who overtook him and drove through a red light seconds before it turned green. The driver of the Edger also told police she entered the intersection on a yellow light before the collision, the warrant states. Gamboa told police he was drinking vodka 12 hours before the crash. The officers who spoke with Gamboa at the hospitals noted that his breath did not smell of alcohol. However, police found an empty alcohol bottle near the driver's seat of the Fusion. An analysis of Gamboa's blood showed he had a blood-alcohol level of .180, the warrant states	https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/courts/2022/05/05/raymundo-gamboa-pleads-guilty-manslaughter-charge-january-2020-crash/9655580002/	2022-05-05T14:49:17Z	https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/courts/2022/05/05/raymundo-gamboa-pleads-guilty-manslaughter-charge-january-2020-crash/9655580002/	true	2
For scientist – and former farmer – Cynthia Rosenzweig, her work on climate change has always revolved around one big question: "So what?" "Impacts of climate change are crucially important," she says. "If the climate changes and nothing happened, why would we care?" In the early days of climate science in the '80s, she was one of the first researchers making projections of how the changing climate would affect North American crops. Still, the researcher at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies knew she needed to go further. That's why years before her NASA colleague James Hansen gave key 1988 Congressional testimony outlining the link between greenhouse gasses and climate change, Rosenzweig wrote him a note about climate change. She told him she wanted to expand her computer modeling to better understand its potential impact on global crops. For the better part of the last four decades that's what Rosenzweig has done. She tells NPR that while her first climate modeling work may have started with her sitting at a computer, her more recent work means she's on farms around the world, engaging with stakeholders to determine how crops are already affected by the climate crisis and what can be done about it. She's the founder of the "Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project" or "AgMIP," a multi-disciplinary team of more than 1,000 researchers worldwide working on climate modeling and agriculture. Now Rosenzweig has won the World Food Prize for her work helping the global community recognize and predict climate change's effect on food systems and her leadership to give countries new solutions to ease the impact. In our interview, Rosenzweig, the head of the Climate Impacts Group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University, explains why tackling the climate crisis and food requires new approaches to research, fields a question from a worried farmer in Nigeria and tells how she keeps her own eco-anxiety at bay. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. You've been looking at climate change and farming since the 1980s. What in your work has surprised you? The surprise is that the extreme events have started to become more severe, longer duration, more frequent, earlier, I think, than we had anticipated. Starting around the turn into the 2000s, this increase in extreme events in agricultural regions around the world – that's been the surprise. In the 1980s when did you think that we'd see a 40% reduction in crop yield? By 2030? Or the 2050s, maybe even beyond 2050. Can you tell me more about what you put into these models and how you designed [them] on a 1980s computer? There had been groups around the country developing crop models to answer management questions – "how much fertilizer to put on to help farmers?" Things like that. But what I realized was that these are the models that will be very, very useful to answer climate change questions. So what these models do is basically grow crops in the computer. You actually specify a planting date when you put the seeds in. And then the inputs of daily weather, daily temperature, daily precipitation and also solar radiation and the CO2 level in the atmosphere. So I worked with crop modeling colleagues and we added in the equations for higher CO2 effects on the crops. When did you realize climate change was the most significant threat to planetary food systems? In 1994 with the first global study that we did with crop modelers. The results started coming in from all over the world, and we were so excited we started making a hand-drawn map of the changes in the yields from the climate change scenarios. And when we made the hand-drawn map, we saw in developing countries in the lower latitudes all the yellows, oranges and browns [signifying lower crop yields]. And that's when we realized that the food systems in developing countries located in those lower latitudes are facing the greatest impact of climate change. This really was the "aha moment" for me to see the significance of climate change, the downward pressure on yields, especially for the poorest farmers in the world. Northern Nigeria would have been an area that would be brown — the biggest drops in crop harvests? Would have been brown, yep. I'm going to share with you a question from a farmer in Northern Nigeria, whom I spoke to yesterday. Nasir Abdullahi. He was telling me what he's been seeing in the last few years on his farm. He sees so much hunger in his region, not just from the loss of crops with climate change, but also the lack of food from political insecurity with Boko Haram, plus violence between farmers and herdsmen, which is also related to climate change. What we're really facing now is triple threats, or quadruple threats, quintuple threats. So we have climate change, which is happening already, projected to worsen in the coming decades. We also have the COVID pandemic. And then we see conflict arising as well. Abdullahi has already experienced a 30% loss of his millet crop last year. He says the rains come late, then they stop, and then they come again harder with flooding. He's wondering if you have any solutions? AgMIP now has an "A-team," which stands for the Adaptation teams. We work with developing countries to help ask, "Well what can we do about it?" If the pattern of rainfall is changing, let's develop and evolve the agricultural systems to have planting dates when the rain is occurring. We're looking at heat and drought tolerant crops to recommend. So for example, in Ghana, also in West Africa, we have an AgMIP A-team there, the team found those kinds of results that [Abdullahi] was experiencing. And then they recommended to the [Ghanaian] government to develop longer life cycle varieties [of crops] which adjust to that potential change. It sounds like the fact that I brought you a question from a farmer isn't that revolutionary. It sounds like you're already integrating questions from people on the ground. This is what we call stakeholder-driven research. We don't think of the questions that we want to ask with our AgMIP model toolkit. We first go into listening mode. And you're listening to ... Whoever it is – farmers, planners, national decision-makers. So first we listen and we ask them: What would you like to know about? In Zimbabwe, stakeholders urged the AgMIP A-Team to include a market for mucuna in the regional economic model protocols. Mucuna is a legume that helps productivity in the small-scale farmer crop and livestock system there. So it's not just us thinking about what, "You know what, oh we think you need this." We go back and incorporate those stakeholder-driven responses into our protocols. It reminds me of how people who've developed "long COVID" are sharing their symptoms and insights with scientists so that they can rapidly develop the research based more acutely on the specific questions. That's absolutely right. We used to do the science and then really kind of literally throw it over the fence. We realize now that with climate change, we have to bring policy experts with us as well. So we call it the double helix of science and policy. Now, from the beginning, we are saying, "Here's what the science is showing. What policies could be used right away?" For example, payment for soil-carbon sequestration – how do you design a model that's actually going to work? Modelers can do the modeling of soil carbon sequestration in the fields. Right? But the policy experts are figuring out what's the best way to do payment for ecosystem services programs. I feel like there are a lot of people who, when they think about crop failure, when they think about hunger, when they think about all the challenges we're tackling, there's eco-anxiety, there's this immense sadness. And that can be immobilizing and make people feel as if there's nothing to be done. It sounds like even in 1994, you weren't immobilized. How do you keep going? How do you combat those feelings? Because I've been so fortunate in my career to work with people all over the world, my fellow crop modelers, my wonderful climate scientists, the AgMIP community, to help their countries respond to climate change – it gives me hope. There is such an energy around helping save the planet. That's why food is so important because everybody on the planet eats. The food system offers all these opportunities to roll up sleeves and work on solving climate change. AgMIP models are verifying how farmers' practices such as no-till and cover crops are actually helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AgMIP is holding a workshop this month on these activities. And it's real, the challenges are very real. But what I see is so many people in the food system collectively getting going on creating the solutions. So it sounds like you don't even consider the concept of failure. No, I don't. I don't. You know why? We cannot fail. We must solve it. We must solve it for the health of every single person on the planet. You were enthusiastic from the get-go. Yes, very much so. [Laughs.] You've known me for a half an hour, you can tell, that's how I am! Do you have a plan for what you plan to do with the money? Well, yes. Not an exact plan, but I'm going to donate it all to research on climate change and food. All of it. Julia Simon is a regular contributor to NPR's podcasts and news desks, focusing on climate change, energy and business news. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.	https://www.wuwm.com/term/environment/2022-05-05/world-food-prize-goes-to-former-farmer-who-answers-climate-change-question-so-what	2022-05-05T14:49:43Z	https://www.wuwm.com/term/environment/2022-05-05/world-food-prize-goes-to-former-farmer-who-answers-climate-change-question-so-what	false	23
Consolidated Comms Hldgs CNSL reported its Q1 earnings results on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 08:00 AM. Here's what investors need to know about the announcement. Earnings Consolidated Comms Hldgs beat estimated earnings by 166.67%, reporting an EPS of $0.02 versus an estimate of $-0.03. Revenue was down $24.49 million from the same period last year. Past Earnings Performance Last quarter the company beat on EPS by $0.09 which was followed by a 9.72% drop in the share price the next day. Here's a look at Consolidated Comms Hldgs's past performance: To track all earnings releases for Consolidated Comms Hldgs visit their earnings calendar here. This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor. © 2022 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.	https://www.benzinga.com/news/earnings/22/05/27020580/consolidated-comms-hldgs-q1-earnings-insights	2022-05-05T14:53:26Z	https://www.benzinga.com/news/earnings/22/05/27020580/consolidated-comms-hldgs-q1-earnings-insights	true	null
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — There was a man hunt Wednesday afternoon, in search of a suspect involved in the Opelousas shooting that killed a 4-year-old girl and a 46-year-old man. Davieontray Breaux of Lafayette is wanted in connection with the shooting. While authorities made several arrests after a police pursuit, Breaux was not apprehended. One Lafayette woman says police searched her home for the suspect during the manhunt and says officers believed the suspect was hiding in her home. Darcas Wokoma says she was loading some things into her vehicle to head to New Orleans for her Lupus treatment Wednesday morning when she noticed her purse, wallet, and two guns were stolen from her vehicle. Wokoma canceled her trip and was in the process of canceling her credit cards when she says officers began searching her home. “I was already dealing with all of that, and then these officers came with helicopters all over. They were just telling us, ‘Get down, get out of the yard.’ After an hour and a half, they told me what was going on, and they asked me to search my house,” Wokoma said. She says after searching her home, officers explained what was happening. Police told her that her purse was found with an individual they had been tracking down. Opelousas police say they were searching for Davieontray Breaux, the suspect involved in the deadly shooting of a 4-year-old girl and man from Opelousas. They received information Breaux was in a vehicle in Lafayette. Lafayette police say they located the vehicle, and after a short pursuit, the men inside jumped out and ran into Wokoma’s neighborhood. While running, one of those men threw her purse into a yard. Although the suspect police were searching for was not in the vehicle, the people were apprehended on existing warrants. “I believe it may be connected because I found my purse out of the people’s car who they believed was connected to the murder suspect,” Wokoma told News Ten. She says the theft of her purse turned into police questioning her about a murder suspect, while a SWAT team and canines continued searching for Breaux. “We was out there in the hot sun for an hour and a half. They had the whole neighborhood blocked off, surrounding my street with helicopters, surrounding my street with guns pointing through all the yards. It was just very crazy and depressing for me, everything I’m going through,” Wokoma added. Davieontray Breaux is wanted in connection with a shooting that killed a four-year-old girl and a 46-year-old man in Opelousas last week. Three other children: a one-year-old, a seven-year-old, and a 16-year-old were also injured in the shooting. Another suspect, Felton Martin of Lafayette, was arrested in Baton Rouge. Martin was transported to the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Department and is facing charges of first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, home invasion and felon in possession of a firearm.	https://www.wkrg.com/state-regional/womans-home-raided-during-manhunt-for-opelousas-murder-suspect/	2022-05-05T14:54:51Z	https://www.wkrg.com/state-regional/womans-home-raided-during-manhunt-for-opelousas-murder-suspect/	false	6
SHANGHAI and GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- I-Mab ("I-Mab" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: IMAB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel biologics, today provided updates on its status under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the "HFCAA"). The Company is aware that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") provisionally identified I-Mab as a "Commission-Identified Issuer" after the Company filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 with the SEC on April 29, 2022, which included an audit report issued by a public accounting firm that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the "PCAOB") has determined that it is unable to inspect completely. I-Mab understands that the SEC made such identification pursuant to the HFCAA and its implementation rules issued thereunder, which will not directly result in the delisting of the Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") from Nasdaq. Pursuant to the HFCAA, the SEC will prohibit a company's shares or ADSs from being traded on a national stock exchange or in the over-the-counter trading market in the United States if the Company has been identified by the SEC for three consecutive years due to the PCAOB's inability to inspect the registered public accounting firm's working paper related to such company. I-Mab is in the process of engaging a selected U.S.-based independent registered public accounting firm as its principal auditor that is subject to the inspection by the PCAOB. This firm also needs to comply with the applicable rules and regulations concerning information confidentiality and archives administration for compliance purposes in China. The Company aims to complete the engagement in the second half of 2022 and subsequent change of its principal auditor is expected to take place in conjunction with the filing of its annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. About I-Mab I-Mab (Nasdaq: IMAB) is an innovation-driven global biopharma company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel and highly differentiated biologics for immuno-oncology diseases. The Company's mission is to bring transformational medicines to patients around the world through innovation. I-Mab's globally competitive pipeline of more than 20 clinical and preclinical-stage drug candidates is driven by its internal discovery and global partnerships for in-licensing, based on the Company's Fast-to-Proof-of-Concept and Fast-to-Market development strategies. The Company is progressing from a clinical-stage biotech company into an innovative global specialty biopharmaceutical company with cutting-edge R&D capabilities, a world-class GMP manufacturing facility, and commercial capability. I-Mab has established its global footprint in Shanghai (headquarters), Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Lishui and Hong Kong in China, and Maryland and San Diego in the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.i-mabbiopharma.com and follow I-Mab on LinkedIn, Twitter, and WeChat. Forward Looking Statements This press release includes certain disclosures which contain "forward-looking statements." You can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and "aims." Forward-looking statements are based on I-Mab's current expectations and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements, which are neither statements of historical fact nor guarantees or assurances of future performance. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are set forth in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I-Mab undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law. I-Mab Contacts Investor Inquiries SOURCE I-Mab	https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/i-mab-provides-updates-on-status-under-holding-foreign-companies-accountable-act-301540527.html	2022-05-05T14:57:49Z	https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/i-mab-provides-updates-on-status-under-holding-foreign-companies-accountable-act-301540527.html	false	11
VERDUN, Quebec (AP) _ BCE Inc. (BCE) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $737.4 million. On a per-share basis, the Verdun, Quebec-based company said it had net income of 76 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 70 cents per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 64 cents per share. The Canada's largest telecommunications company posted revenue of $4.62 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $4.59 billion. BCE shares have increased slightly more than 5% since the beginning of the year. The stock has risen 15% in the last 12 months. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on BCE at https://www.zacks.com/ap/BCE	https://www.registercitizen.com/business/article/BCE-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17150105.php	2022-05-05T15:00:31Z	https://www.registercitizen.com/business/article/BCE-Q1-Earnings-Snapshot-17150105.php	false	11

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