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BY MICHAEL PETRO
May 5, 2022
Grocer with greenhouse opening first location in Southtowns
The competition in local produce sales is heating up, just in time for spring planting season.
Fresh produce has become a big selling point for local supermarkets, who market the freshness and the ties they build with the local vegetable farmers who supply them.
Then there are the community farmers markets that are seasonal staples across the region.
And now, Niagara Produce is making a big play of its own. It opened the greenhouse at its new Elma location over the weekend as it finishes construction on the shopping center on Transit Road.
Store officials are calling it part one of the new location, with the produce and deli side of the store slated to open in late July or early August.
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The entire store was initially scheduled to open in March, but that plan was put on hold due to pandemic-related manufacturing and production delays, according to store officials.
Niagara Produce has locations on Transit Road in East Amherst and Chestnut Street in Lockport. The entrance of the retailer into the Southtowns creates more competition in an already competitive grocer marketplace for Western New York.
At the same time, it also fills a void on the border of Elma and West Seneca, as it is situated between a pair of Tops stores in Depew and Orchard Park on Transit Road/Southwestern Boulevard.
The store first opened in East Amherst 60 years ago as more of a large farmers market, and in 1994, a deli and fresh meats were added. The Lockport location opened in 1998. The family business is run by Jody Chesko. Her father, Richard Dorr, started the company.
The owners are completely renovating the Elma site of the former JNC Family Fun Center, which was torn down to build the 40,000-square-foot shopping center and 37,000-square-foot greenhouse next to it.
MORE OPENINGS
Elmwood Avenue gets a new KFC restaurant. A new Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened in North Buffalo, a year after plans for one in the same area fell through.
The restaurant at 2230 Elmwood Ave. is bringing 50 new jobs to the area, according to Tonya Mangels, vice president of marketing activation of KBP Brands, the QSR franchisee responsible for the North Buffalo store.
The 40-seat, 2,900-square-foot restaurant features the latest designs from KFC’s “Next Generation” concept and includes built-in, quick pick-up shelving and dedicated parking for KFC app or KFC.com orders.
A KFC was originally slated to open at 1893 Elmwood Ave. last year, but instead became a Taco Bell after the franchise operator ran into unexpected issues.
Tumble Play Café opens. An imaginative play area for children combined with a coffee shop for their parents has opened on Clinton Street in Buffalo.
Owner Timea Braun opened Tumble Play Café at 1373 Clinton St. Braun is hoping the play center will help revitalize the Clinton Street corridor, she said.
The play area features oversize Lego blocks and "Tumbles Town,” while the shop includes coffee sourced from Tipico and pastries from Blue Eyed Baker.
RETAIL
Used appliance and electronic service started by Best Buy
Best Buy is now offering an e-waste pick-up service that would allow unwanted electronic devices to be collected from customers' homes and then recycled.
The standalone haul-away service will provide for the take away of electronics – including major appliances, computer monitors and select fitness equipment – after customers make an online request. Best Buy already offers in-store recycling of up to three electronics a day for free.
The cost of $199 per pickup or $159 for customers who have Best Buy Totaltech membership includes the pickup of two large products, along with an unlimited amount of select smaller products such as laptops, cameras and cords.
Little Caesars looks to add Buffalo franchisees
National pizza chain Little Caesars is looking to make a bigger move into the Buffalo Niagara market. But first, it needs to find people to run the franchises.
The chain said it is looking to add 11 Buffalo-area stores in the coming years. It would like to sign three multi-unit franchise agreements by 2023. Little Caesars has four franchise locations currently operating in the area.
SNAP can be used for Dash’s online shopping
Dash’s Market is now accepting Supplement Nutritional Assistant Program (SNAP) payments from online shoppers at checkout.
Offering SNAP online removes financial barriers for families in the community, allowing them to access healthy products, according to Alexa Dash, Dash’s director of e-commerce. SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp program, provides food-purchasing assistance for families living in the U.S. Dash's participated in the SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot program, which began in 2017.
In 2015, Dash's became the first supermarket in Western New York to offer online grocery shopping with in-store pickup or home delivery options.
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Welcome to Buffalo Next. This newsletter from The Buffalo News will bring you the latest coverage on the changing Buffalo Niagara economy – from real estate to health care to startups. Read more at BuffaloNext.com.
THE LATEST
Catch up on news tied to Buffalo Niagara's economy:
Union Workers at a Starbucks store at Delaware and Chippewa held a one-day strike, after Starbucks interim CEO's comments about extending pay increases and enhanced benefits to workers at stores that are not organizing.
The Super Flea is back, and its coming to the Buffalo Outer Harbor for a four-month span on select weekend dates starting June 4 with at least 350 vendors selling their wares.
Roswell Park is planning to rehab a historic 1,300-square-foot house at 907 Michigan Ave., while constructing a significant modern addition to the south that will more than double its size.
In the largest deal in the firm’s nine-year history, Buffalo-based private equity firm Lorraine Capital acquired ICM Controls, a North Syracuse manufacturer of electronic controls.
Jericho Road Community Health Center has purchased a former assisted-living facility in Buffalo for $2.05 million, with plans to renovate the structure and use it to assist asylum seekers.
Niagara University received its largest gift in the university’s 166-year history as Jeff and Mary Helen Holzschuh gave their alma mater $10 million, earning their name on its business school.
Ellicott Development Co. is planning a mixed-use project of some type at a former KeyBank branch on the Elmwood Avenue property it recently purchased.
Buffalo-based golf ball company OnCore Golf Technology is once again caught up in the controversy started by a marketing stunt at last year's Masters tournament.
Gary Quenneville is retiring from KeyBank on June 1, after helping oversee its recent growth as a top local executive, which included the bank's purchase of First Niagara Bank in 2016.
Frontier Group of Companies is wrapping up its $1.7 million transformation of the former Sheehan Residence for Retired Priests on Linwood Avenue into the new Residences@Linwood Manor, with 20 apartments.
As it pursues plans for a new "gateway" to downtown Buffalo, Legacy Development hopes to save two historic buildings on North Oak Street.
Buffalo city officials are hoping to turn the LaSalle Metro Rail station and surrounding land in University Heights into a new mixed-use project.
A consultant's report is recommending layoffs and early retirement incentives to reduce the size of SUNY-ECC's workforce, but it isn't calling for the shutdown of its South Campus.
Moog Inc. has closed its Russian office and expects to lose a few million dollars in sales because of the war in Ukraine.
Buffalo Next reporters Jonathan D. Epstein, Jon Harris, Natalie Brophy, Janet Gramza and Mike Petro contributed to this roundup.
ICYMI
Five reads from Buffalo Next:
1. BryLin will close its outpatient clinic in Amherst amid financial struggles, meaning it will no longer offer outpatient mental health programs for children, adolescents and adults as well as its outpatient addiction clinic for adolescents and adults.
2. Costco will open its first Western New York store in what is considered one of the busiest shopping districts in the Buffalo Niagara region – the Niagara Falls Boulevard retail corridor. So how will it fit?
3. Buffalo's angel investors all hope to hit it big, but that's not their primary motivation. They see investing in startups as their way of contributing to the region's economic resurgence.
4. Energy road map calls for sweeping changes for WNY homeowners: A new statewide energy plan being debated would gradually phase out the use of natural gas in homes and buildings, in favor of greater reliance on electricity.
5. Buffalo Niagara housing prices are still soaring: When there's competition among buyers, it pushes prices through the roof – and that's exactly what is happening here.
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CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed OF Andrew Vaughn on the 10-day IL, retroactive to May 2. Recalled INF Danny Mendick from Charlotte (IL).
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned C Rene Pinto to Durham (IL).
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DL Devonte Wyatt to a four-year contract.
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned D Ronan Seeley to Chicago (AHL) from Everett (WHL).
COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled G Hunter Miska from Colorado (AHL) loan.
NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Jeremy Davies from Milwaukee (AHL) loan.
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Reinstated D Nathan Beaulieu from injured reserve.
ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled D Steve Santini from Springfield (AHL) loan.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled F Brett Leason from the Hershey (AHL).
BELLEVILLE SENATORS — Acquired RW Carson Latimer.
WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS — Signed G Sam Harvey to a professional tryout contract (PTO).
INTER MIAMI CF — Re-acquired Indiana Vassilev on a season-long loan from Aston Villa.
ORLANDO CITY SC — Acquired a first round pick in the 2023 MLS SuperDraft, $250,000 in general allocation money (GAM) for the 2022/2023 seasons and the discovery priority to an unnamed player from Chicago Fire FC in exchange for MLS priority to F Chris Mueller. Acquired W/M Jake Mulraney from Atlanta United FC in exchange for $200,000 in general allocation money (GAM), $100,000 in 2022/2023, Atlanta could receive an additional $75,000 in 2023 GAM should certain performance-based conditions be met. Acquired F Gastón González from Club Atlético Unión as a U22 Initiative player on a three-year contract with options in 2025-27, pending receipt of his international transfer certificate (ITC).
CREIGHTON — Named Matt Giller associate athletic director/assistant vice president for athletic development.
MILWUAKEE — Announced Jason Potthoff is resigning as head women's tennis coach. | https://www.clintonherald.com/ap/transactions/article_df57b35e-ccbf-11ec-9d2f-abfb7c0faf75.html | 2022-05-05T23:22:16Z | https://www.clintonherald.com/ap/transactions/article_df57b35e-ccbf-11ec-9d2f-abfb7c0faf75.html | false | 4 |
CLINTON – Clinton Community College will celebrate its 75th commencement ceremony on Friday, May 6.
The ceremony will take place at W.J. Yourd Gymnasium, 817 Eighth Ave. South, at 6 p.m.
A Grab ‘n Go cupcake reception will immediately follow the ceremony. The CCC Commencement Ceremony will be live streamed on Clinton Community College’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/clintoncommunitycollegeia.
Clinton Community College President Brian Kelly has invited family and friends of the graduates to join the celebration.
“Our graduates have achieved an amazing accomplishment in two very difficult years,” he said. “This is a chance for us to recognize and celebrate this milestone with family and friends.”
Involved in the CCC Commencement ceremony are:
• Faculty marshals: Catherine Petersen, Shawn Hamerlinck
• Student marshals: Kaylee Vos, Chris Dorsey
• Speakers: Graduates MacKenzie Jackley, Peter Carlson, and Claire Blinkinsop, and Gina Schwartz of the CCC Nursing Class of 1972
• Vocalist: Juliana Clark
• Instrumentalists: Sally Meyers playing the keyboard and Dave Layton playing the saxophone
• Commencement assistants: Briana Banker, Paige Bauer, Alice Coats, Cristian Nocelott Grant, Nicholas Mann, Brent Moore, Gideon Mussmann, Chelsea Stowers
• Signer: Sheryl Gray
The first graduating class had 86 graduates, including many veterans who had returned from World War II. The 2022 class totals 176 graduates, with 11 earning High Honors signified by cords, and 57 graduates earning Honors. Regarding the degrees earned:
• Associate of Arts: 83
• Associate of Arts & Associate of Science: 8
• Associate of Science only: 15
• Associate of Applied Science: 31
• Associate of Applied Science & Certificate: 1
• Diploma & Certificate: 2
• Diploma: 7
• Certificate: 29
Twenty graduates from the classes of 2020 and 2021 will be attending as well. These students were part of the virtual commencement ceremonies held due to the pandemic.
The CCC Nursing Pinning Ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. Friday, May 6 in the CCC Auditorium, 1000 Lincoln Blvd., Clinton. Speakers for the Nursing Pinning include nursing instructors Ramon Tieso and Kara Spooner, CCC Nursing Class of 1972 graduate Gina Schwartz, and CCC Dean of Instruction Amy Madsen-Smith.
Student speakers include Abigail Grau and Keira Fullick. Kara Spooner will present Licensed Practical Nursing pins and Sarah Lassen will present Associate Degree of Nursing pins. Seventeen students have earned their ADN degree and four have earned the LPN degree.
The pinning ceremony will be live streamed at https://zoom.us/s/92549378271.
Graduates of the Clinton Community College Class of 2022 are:
Bellevue
Ryan Patrick Dunn
Adrian Julianna Humphrey
Alex Knief
Adrianna Kay Trenkamp
Bryant
Melissa Margaret Holdgrafer
Makenzie Aaron Petersen
Calamus
Alison Renee Edens
Camanche
Morgan Butt
Leslie Anne Deters
Jay William Eversoll
Jennifer Elizabeth Eversoll
Courtland Richard Taylor Filgo
Katarina Kay Ann Forari
Lexie Hart
James Dillon Holmes
Mitchell Lawrence Jahns
Payton Thomas Nicol
Caitlyn Marie Rasso
Mark Nicholas Riehm
Zachery Schutte
Emyrson Faith Seeser
Jordan Nicole Smith
Jaelyn Elizabeth Snyder
Charlotte
Miya Elizabeth Messerich
Aubrey Marie O’Dell
Alexis Ellyn Vetter
Clinton
Shalaya Austin
Nicholas Bails
Cassidy Jo Balk
Morgan Elizabeth Bennett
Claire Julia Blinkinsop
Morgan Renee Bork
Richard Dominic Capella
Molly Jo Chapman
Brecken Lee Craig
Bailey Noel Crigger
Aurora R. Cuatlacuatl
Samantha Elsie Dann
Summer Lynne Davis
Sarah Jean Demeyer
Josalynn Marie Drake
Eli Eugene Eggers
Noah Aloysius Eggers
Alec J Evers
Travis Patrick Eversoll
Kathryn LaRue French
Keira Ann Fullick
Elizabeth Xavia Green
Karlee R. Griswold
Zachary David Hahn
Evan Hessing
Kylie Alivia Housenga
Mackenzie Mae Jackley
Danyka Michele Jaeger
Samantha Jo Kilburg
Anna Louise Kurtz
Logan Boyd Lemke
Kayla Lubben
Danielle Elaine Malone
Xena Gisella Mangler
Stephanie M. Manning
Ashley Rae Maze
Baylee McNamara
Ethan N. Melvin
Travis Howard Morehead
Zavion Thomas Moses
Macy Mulholland
James Joseph Napolitano
Elisa Isabel Nuno
Emma Marie Raab
Jaime L. Rekenthaler
Kayla Robinson
Olivia Dale Schroeder
Robin Lynn Schultz
Diana Sue Katherine Schumacher
Nicholas A. Scott
Casey Michael Shannon
Jaclyn Nicole Sisneros
Casey Jean Slade
Alison R. Smith
Christina Snodgrass
Makenzi Jean Sparks
Sage Icaro Steen
Paige Elizabeth Stickell
Evan M. Tiesman
Jordan Renee Voss
Jordan Christopher Walters
Crystal Rose Watts
Travis James Welch
Kaneesha Williams
Davenport
Lindy Lor-Ann Heister
Fawn Taya Moncrief
Delmar
Tenley Rae Cavanagh
Kaitlin Christine Felderman
Eliza Jane Linden
Des Moines
Grace Marie Rowland
DeWitt
Joseph E. Bock Jr.
Jesse Fay Everhart
Logan N. Frett
Kayla Marie Gerard
Abigail Ellen Grau
Robert Lee Howard
Jaide Josephine Kueter
Benjamin Lyle Mason
Andrew D. Ransford
Jaymie J. Ransford
Justin Thomas Vanderbilt
Hannah Lu VanderHeiden
Goose Lake
Madison Jean Martens
La Motte
Clayton Borrenpohl
Lost Nation
Dane Durkop
Low Moor
Matthew Ivan Jess
Klay Steven Schnoor
Lowden
Stephanie M. Howell
Maquoketa
Gracie Joyce Blair
Peter Kristian Carlson
Carley Rae Davis
Dane Elmegreen
Angela Hope Evans
Harley Marie Eye
Joshua D. Grigg
Breann Naomi Lu Harpole
Abbey Nicole Hosch
Amber Marie Humphrey
Hunter Johnson
Cael J. Koob
Ella Leigh Lemke
Levi Livermore
Hunter Robert Manning
Jaxon Manning
Tessa Salina McCutcheon
Darrell Miller
Jackie Anna Miller
Autumn Renae Mitts
Dylan Said
Wyatt Schwenker
Joshua Shubrook
Autumn Katarina Storm Sonstegard
Caide Michael Steffen
Samantha Jo Streeper
Sean Swanson
Benjamen Lynn Thines
Russell Voss
Jenna Marie Wiebenga
Marion
Blais Henry Richards
Miles
Bridget Marie Dunkel
Princeton, Iowa
Lisa E. Moore
Sabula
Abagail Jane Green
Lacey Beth Ritchie
Madalyn Frances Rixen
Aleigha Marie Robinson
Emily Jean Struve
Chelsy M. Welch
Springbrook
Garrett Roth
Waterloo
Glenn Paul Dalbey
Wyoming, Iowa
Aubrey Gene Bahl
Cornell, Illinois
Mattison Bartley
Fulton, Illinois
Katie Marie Beyer
Keegan Marie Lynne Eyer
Hunter D. Gossard
Alyssa Milder
Adelie Alice Mure-Ravaud
Devin Scott VanZuiden
Morrison, Illinois
Maria Suzanne Kempthorne
Mt. Carroll, Illinois
Kristen Marie Houzenga
Peoria, Illinois
Alissa Elizabeth VanStechelman
Prophetstown, Illinois
Kayleen Alexis Church
Savanna, Illinois
Zoe Ann Marie Bird
Kathleen Frances Dersham
Michelle Jo Green
Kyla Elaine Kampas
Sterling, Illinois
Shawna Leigh Snapp
Thomson, Illinois
Caitlyn Teri Bailey
Pippin Clayton Zach Legel
Lyndon, Illinois
Heather J. Allison
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Technology
Some 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Models Backordered Into 2022 – MacRumors
Two weeks after Apple’s redesigned MacBook Pro models launched, some configurations of the notebooks remain in tight supply.
While standard configurations of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models ordered through Apple’s online store are estimated for delivery in the first week of December, many custom configurations are shipping in late December, and some are even backordered into 2022. In the United States, for example, a 14-inch MacBook Pro configured with an M1 Max chip, 64GB of unified memory, and a 512GB SSD is estimated for delivery by January 3.
In-store availability is also scarce at the moment, with many MacBook Pro configurations unavailable for Apple Store pickup around the world.
There are likely several factors behind the lengthy shipping delays, including strong demand for the new MacBook Pro models, an industry-wide chip shortage, and pandemic-related manufacturing disruptions. On an earnings call last month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said supply constraints had an estimated $6 billion impact on Apple’s revenue last quarter, and he said he expected the supply constraints to continue through the holiday season.
Key features of the new MacBook Pro models include Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, mini-LED displays with ProMotion for up to a 120Hz refresh rate, longer battery life, and the return of ports like an SD card slot, HDMI, and MagSafe. Pricing starts at $1,999 for the 14-inch model and at $2,499 for the 16-inch model in the United States.
Apple on March 14 released iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, bringing Universal Control across iPad and Mac, support for Face ID while wearing a mask, new emojis, anti-stalking changes for AirTags, and more.
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New high-end model will move from Intel to Apple silicon.
Apple is working on a redesigned version of the larger-screened iMac that could bring back the “iMac Pro” name.
The next-generation MacBook Air refresh coming in 2022 will see Apple introduce the biggest design update to the MacBook Air since 2010
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VNT Chain (VNT) traded up 1.6% against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 18:00 PM E.T. on May 5th. Over the last week, VNT Chain has traded up 3.3% against the US dollar. VNT Chain has a market cap of $516,557.16 and $3,700.00 worth of VNT Chain was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One VNT Chain coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0002 or 0.00000001 BTC on exchanges.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $38,348.47 or 1.00033396 BTC.
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002748 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002744 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 9.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.06 or 0.00002899 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 10.5% against the dollar and now trades at $10.86 or 0.00029818 BTC.
VNT Chain Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “VNT Chain was born for empowering the distributed economy system. VNT Chain’s target is to build a global distributed smart value network based on blockchain technology to provide reliable, secure, efficient, friendly and low-cost value transfer services, and to gain widespread use in different vertical markets, such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, gaming, etc. “
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It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as VNT Chain directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade VNT Chain should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Gemini, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy VNT Chain using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — When the final whistle blew, Rodrygo kneeled to apparently say a prayer or ask for thanks before joining the celebrations and throwing on a T-shirt reading “Let’s go for the 14th.”
The young Brazilian was trying to absorb how he had etched his name into Real Madrid’s long love story with the European Cup.
After all, “We were dead,” he said.
Rodrygo’s goals in the 90th minute and in stoppage time had inspired another win for the ages.
The 3-1 victory over Manchester City gave Madrid yet another comeback and set it up for a showdown with Liverpool in the Champions League final on May 28 in Paris.
“I don’t have words for what happened today. God looked at me and said, ‘Today is your day’,” Rodrygo said about his two goals that sent Wednesday’s match into extra time at the Santiago Bernabéu.
City was moments away from returning to the final before the substitute forward stunned the English team with his back-to-back goals, inspiring Madrid to victory like a bruised boxer who lands a knockout combination.
Madrid, which had trailed City ever since minute 2 of their first-leg match in Manchester, was finally level.
Pep Guardiola’s team still had another half hour of extra time, but it never recovered. It seemed inevitable that once resuscitated there was no stopping Madrid. And fittingly it fell to Karim Benzema, the man who had carried Madrid to the final four with hat tricks in the previous two rounds, to earn and convert the decisive penalty that clinched a 6-5 aggregate victory.
“I couldn’t hear what my teammates were saying to me because I couldn’t believe what was happening,” the 21-year-old Rodrygo said about the mayhem that erupted after his goals. “We were dead, and then what happened was what happened.”
Indeed. Surely Guardiola and his players were asking themselves the same question: What had just happened?
Perhaps City can take solace in that Paris Saint-Germain and defending champion Chelsea were also zombified by whatever wizardry Madrid somehow conjures up at the biggest moments of the biggest games.
All good teams occasionally score against the flow of the game. But most, and especially this City engineered by soccer’s top stylist in Guardiola, need to dominate stretches of play to produce lots of goals.
Not Madrid. Not when it plays in front of its fans.
The clock becomes meaningless for Madrid at home. The 13-time European Cup winners produce those magic moments when time is suddenly compressed, the crowd roars, opponents freeze, and the goals just flow in quick succession.
Ask PSG how Benzema was able to score three goals in less than 20 minutes of the second leg of their round-of-16 series that Kylian Mbappé’s team had once controlled to advance 3-2 overall.
Ask Chelsea how it was they could have the momentum going into the final period of their quarterfinal in Spain’s capital only for Rodrygo and Benzema to score late for a 5-4 aggregate win in extra time.
City entered the second leg against Madrid with the advantage after coming out on top of their 4-3 shootout last week. Riyad Mahrez’s goal in the 73rd minute appeared to give it the cushion it needed to avoid any last-minute scares. Jack Grealish then went oh-so-close to padding that lead.
But that just set the scene for Rodrygo, who coach Carlo Ancelotti had sent on for a tired Toni Kroos, looking to spark his attack.
First he slipped to the near post to tap in a cross knocked to him by Benzema just when City suffered a momentary drop in concentration. Seconds later, with Madrid seizing the moment, came his header when the slight forward managed to open up a bit of space in a packed area to push in a cross by Dani Carvajal flicked on by Marco Asensio.
Once again, faith had trumped reason at the Santiago Bernabéu.
“The whole world thought the game was nearly over — it was a little detail, a good combination, the goal of Rodrygo, and from there we put in all the energy we had. You need a bit of luck,” Ancelotti said.
“A big amount of merit goes to the players and also a fanbase who push and push and push. And the weight of the shirt, which the players feel when they wear it — the pride of the club.”
Spanish sports daily Marca summed it up with its front-page headline: “Let God come down and explain it.”
While Ancelotti embraced his son and assistant Davide Ancelotti, Guardiola was left to run a hand over the top of his head and put on his best sportsman’s grin as he shook hands with the players.
The Catalan coach had just witnessed his grand design to finally win a European Cup for City succumb before that gift that Madrid has of making its players believe that by donning the all-white shirt they are destined for glory. Only the golden years of Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, which Guardiola helped forge, was able to somewhat dim that mystique.
“In that moment we didn’t have the feeling we were in trouble,” Guardiola said about the loss. “(But) they score a goal at the end. They have done it many times in their history.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Citizens Inc. (CIA) on Thursday reported a loss of $1.3 million in its first quarter.
The Austin, Texas-based company said it had a loss of 3 cents per share.
The insurance company posted revenue of $55.4 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $55.9 million.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) _ Eiger BioPharmaceuticals Inc. (EIGR) on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of $22.6 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
The Palo Alto, California-based company said it had a loss of 64 cents per share.
The biopharmaceutical company posted revenue of $2.7 million in the period.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ Green Dot Corp. (GDOT) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $38.6 million.
The Pasadena, California-based company said it had net income of 70 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.06 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 85 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $400.6 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $394.7 million, also exceeding Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $389.4 million.
Green Dot expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.32 to $2.46 per share, with revenue in the range of $1.39 billion to $1.43 billion.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota has become the latest in a growing number of states that is investigating a mysterious case of hepatitis in a child where all the usual causes have been ruled out.
The child from Grand Forks County is recovering at home after a brief stay in the hospital, North Dakota Health Department officials said Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been looking into cases of the sudden liver disease in children that has health authorities around the world looking for clues. The illness is being called hepatitis of unknown origin.
The cases have no known connection, although a link with a virus that can cause colds is being investigated. Several cases have been reported in Minnesota.
“We are encouraging medical providers to review their records back to October 2021 for any patients that warrant further investigation,” said Kirby Kruger, medical services section chief in North Dakota.
A link between cases of hepatitis and adenovirus infection has been suggested and the CDC is asking physicians to consider adenovirus testing. Adenovirus infections are common and occur among persons of all ages.
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The End of Roe v. Wade Will Be Good for America
The mistaken abortion decision, a product of vanity, roiled and distorted our politics and poisoned our culture.
Let’s start with true anger and end with honest hope. The alarm many felt at the leaking of an entire draft Supreme Court decision shouldn’t be allowed to dissipate as time passes. Such a thing has never happened. Justice Samuel Alito’s preliminary opinion being taken from the court, without permission or right, and given to the press was an act of sabotage by a vandal. It hardly matters whether the leaker was of the left or right. It reflected the same spirit as the Jan. 6 Capitol riot—irresponsible destructiveness. As the book has been thrown at the rioters, it should be thrown at the leaker.
The justices can’t sit around and say oh no, we’re just another victim of the age. If they have to break some teacups to find who did it, break them. Chief Justice John Roberts worries, rightly, about the court’s standing. This is the biggest threat to it since he joined. At the very least it might be good if the justices would issue a joint statement that they are appalled by the publication of the decision, don’t accept it, won’t countenance it.
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The National Auto Body Council’s Recycled Rides program and its charity partner, Family Promise of Orange County, surprised two deserving Southern California families with a car.
The first car, a like-new 2014 Jeep Cherokee, was given to Lauren and her partner, Frankie. Despite working full-time jobs, the couple still struggles to make ends meet living in Orange County with their three young children.
Their vehicle broke down repeatedly, burning through their savings and it still was not reliable and couldn’t pass a smog check.
The cover is removed from a 2014 Jeep Cherokee to be given to Lauren and her family of Orange County by the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and their charity partner Family Promise of Orange County during a presentation ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The vehicle was donated by Farmers Insurance and repairs donated by Auto Art Collison Specialists.(Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren is overcome with emotion and excitement after examining the 2014 Jeep Cherokee her family was presented with by the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and their charity partner Family Promise of Orange County during a presentation ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren, right, reaches back to her daughter Harlow, 3 climbing out from the cargo area as her other daughter, Wisdom, 5, her 4-month-old son Axle, looks back to her daughter Wisdom as they check out the 2014 Jeep Cherokee her family was presented with from the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and charity partner Family Promise of Orange County at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The 2014 Jeep Cherokee that was presented to Lauren and her family by the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and charity partner Family Promise of Orange County during a presentation ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The vehicle was donated by Farmers Insurance and repairs donated by Auto Art Collison Specialists.(Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren, left, and her family, son, Axle, 4 months, partner Frankie and daughter Harlow, 3, reacts after being given a giant key for the 2014 Jeep Cherokee her family was presented with by the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and charity partner Family Promise of Orange County at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren, holding her 4-month-old Axel, reacts after seeing the 2014 Jeep Cherokee her family was presented with by the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and their charity partner Family Promise of Orange County during a presentation ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren, holding her 4-month-old son Axle, looks back to her daughter Wisdom, 5, as they check out the 2014 Jeep Cherokee her family was presented with from the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and charity partner Family Promise of Orange County at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren, holding her 4-month-old son Axel, wipes tears when the resent death of her father was mentioned by Cyndee Albertson of Family Promise of Orange County while speaking about the reasons Lauren was selected to receive a car from the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides, Family Promise of Orange County and other partners during a presentation ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Bill Garoutte, CEO of the National Auto Body Council, left, holds Axel, 4 months, son of car recipient Lauren, while she speaks speaks to a gathering of people representing National Auto Body Council, Nationwide and Farmers Insurance, Auto Art Collision Specialists, Mission Viejo Auto Collision and Family Promise of Orange County during a ceremony to donate two refurbished vehicles two deserving Southern California residents during a ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Lauren and her family were given a 2014 Jeep Cherokee. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren, left, accompanied by Cyndee Albertson, right, of Family Promise of Orange County, becomes emotional as she speaks to a gathering of people representing National Auto Body Council, Nationwide and Farmers Insurance, Auto Art Collision Specialists, Mission Viejo Auto Collision and Family Promise of Orange County during a ceremony to donate two refurbished vehicles two deserving Southern California residents during a ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Lauren and her family were given a 2014 Jeep Cherokee. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ed Salamy, executive director, Automotive Body Parts Association speaks a gathering of people representing National Auto Body Council, Nationwide and Farmers Insurance, Auto Art Collision Specialists, Mission Viejo Auto Collision and Family Promise of Orange County during a ceremony to donate two refurbished vehicles two deserving Southern California residents during a ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Wisdom, 5, right, watches as her dad Frankie puts together new car seats given to the family after being presented with a 2014 Jeep Cherokee by the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and their charity partner Family Promise of Orange County during a presentation ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lauren, left, daughter Harlow, 3, and partner Frankie embrace just before they are presented with a 2014 Jeep Cherokee from the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides and charity partner Family Promise of Orange County at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. At the event National Auto Body Council, Nationwide and Farmers Insurance, Auto Art Collision Specialists, Mission Viejo Auto Collision and Family Promise of Orange County donated two refurbished vehicles two deserving Southern California residents during a ceremony at the Hyatt Newport Beach in Newport Beach on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
“When I break down on the side of the road with three little kids, it’s really rough,” Lauren said after being presented with the car. She asked not to use her full name. “It feels like a dream and I can’t believe it’s happening to our family.”
The second car, a 2020 Hyundai Elantra, was given to a former stay-at-home mom who is now raising two young boys on her own and trying to restart a career in real estate.
Family Promise of Orange County, which chose the recipients, is also assisting her family by paying for the vehicle registration and at least three month of insurance.
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TORONTO, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Franco-Nevada Corporation announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular for the 2022 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders were elected as directors of the Corporation. Detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at the Annual Meeting yesterday in person and by webcast are set out below.
Franco-Nevada Corporation is the leading gold-focused royalty and streaming company with the largest and most diversified portfolio of cash-flow producing assets. Its business model provides investors with gold price and exploration optionality while limiting exposure to cost inflation. Franco-Nevada is debt-free and uses its free cash flow to expand its portfolio and pay dividends. It trades under the symbol FNV on both the Toronto and New York stock exchanges. Franco-Nevada is the gold investment that works.
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A Lunar Eclipse Will Make May’s Full Moon a Blood Moon!
Whenever celestial events like this occur, I can’t help but think how people hundreds of years ago lost their dang minds!. The Forrest Preserve District of Will County did a great preview of this month’s lunar eclipse. In it they said the moon will appear to take on a deep red...
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THE IRANIAN government will offer direct cash handouts to the people in the country to offset a decision to raise the price of flour which has led to a steep increase in the price of wheat-based food.
Iran’s agriculture minister Javad Sadati Nejad said on Wednesday that direct cash handouts will be meant to compensate the rising costs of buying pasta, confectionary as well as some unsubsidised types of bread for the Iranian households.
Sadati Nejad told the state TV that the Iranian government had decided to raise the price of flour to prevent trafficking to neighbouring countries.
He said flour trafficking from Iran had surged in the wake of a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has led to a crisis in international grain markets.
The minister said that flour prices in neighbouring countries are more than 15 times the subsidised price inside Iran.
He even claimed that one of Iran’s neighbours is counting on smuggled wheat from Iran to overcome a shortage of around three million metric tons estimated for this year.
Iran has been paying direct cash handouts to households since November 2019 when a former administration announced fuel price hikes of up to 300%.
That comes on top of a separate cash subsidy being paid since a decade ago to compensate for utility price hikes.
Reports in the local media earlier this week suggested that pasta prices in Iran had increased by nearly three times in the wake of government’s decision to remove the subsidy for industrial users of flour.
Other reports said that price of baguette and confectionary items had also increased by nearly 300% after the government announced flour price hike.
- A US-based political commentator and journalist says Washington is seeking to prolong the war in Ukraine in a bid to ‘weaken’ its arch foe Russia.
In an interview with Press TV, Patrick Lawrence said recent statements by senior US officials confirm that the ‘larger objective’ in the former Soviet republic is to ‘weaken Russia’ and ‘to break it’.
‘There is no question that the US intends to prolong this war more or less indefinitely,” he said while referring to the recent unannounced visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Kiev.
Lawrence said the senior US government official’s visit to Ukraine came as Western arms shipments to the conflict-marred country and extreme animosity toward Russia have become ‘highly popular’ in the US.
‘Pelosi’s visit is meant in part to gather support ahead of the midterm elections here, which the Democrats are expected to lose quite dramatically,’ the US-based analyst noted. ‘They have little to show voters on the domestic side: A war, in this way, is timely and useful.’
He further said that US foreign policy is ‘very frequently’ and ‘most of the time’ determined by the country’s domestic politics.
Pelosi made a surprise visit to Kiev over the weekend to meet Ukraine’s embattled President Volodymyr Zelensky.
She is the highest-ranking American politician to visit the country since the start of the Russian military operation on February 24.
Her visit is seen as the latest show of American support for Zelensky against Russia, and another provocation for Moscow to expand its operations in the country.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accuses Russia of being a ‘bully’.
Lawrence said ‘a new world order’ was in the making’, adding that Moscow and Beijing ‘made this very clear’ in the February 4 joint statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, which was issued on the eve of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
‘I think it is essential to understand the Ukraine crisis in this context. We have an imperial power aggressing in the name of its claim to global ‘leadership’, meaning hegemony, and it is very clear that it will not stop until it is forced to stop,’ he told Press TV in the interview.
Lawrence noted that new world orders ‘might in some cases come peacefully, with imagination and wisdom’, but very often they are bound to ‘arrive violently’, with history as a testament.
‘It is unfortunate, but this is why I consider the Russian intervention in Ukraine ‘regrettable but necessary’. Once we see the conflict in this larger context, this conclusion seems to me beyond dispute,’ he further added.
Putin and Xi in their February 4 statement said the world was going through ‘momentous changes’, and humanity was ‘entering a new era of rapid development and profound transformation’.
The statement listed ‘multi-polarity’ as the first of the ‘momentous changes’ of the ‘new era’.
In the statement, the two leaders expressed their desire for the role of the United Nations in a world order not led by a hegemonic power that asserts its standards and poses ‘serious threats to global and regional peace and stability and undermines the stability of the world order’.
‘Certain States’ attempts to impose their own democratic standards on other countries, to monopolise the right to assess the level of compliance with democratic criteria, to draw dividing lines based on the grounds of ideology, including by establishing exclusive blocs and alliances of convenience, prove to be nothing but flouting of democracy and go against the spirit and true values of democracy,’ the statement read.
‘Such attempts at hegemony pose serious threats to global and regional peace and stability and undermine the stability of the world order.’
- CIA Director William Burns had an unannounced meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last month, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The visit, which took place in mid-April in the Saudi Arabia port city Jeddah, came as the administration of President Joe Biden pushes to repair relations with Riyadh.
Although details of what the two discussed were not available, recent sources of US-Saudi tension include oil production, the Ukraine conflict, the Iran nuclear deal and the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
‘It was a good conversation, better tone than prior US government engagements,’ one American official said of the meeting with Prince Mohammed, who runs Saudi Arabia’s daily affairs on behalf of his 86-year-old father, King Salman.
Several US officials have visited the kingdom in the past year in a bid to mend relations, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia have hit their lowest in decades over Riyadh’s reluctance to increase oil production to bring down gasoline prices in the global market.
Burns met the Saudi Prince with the Washington-Riyadh relationship at its lowest point in decades, with then presidential candidate Biden notably saying in 2019 that the kingdom should be treated like a pariah over human-rights issues such as the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
‘We were going to, in fact, make them pay the price, and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are,’ Biden said during a Democratic presidential debate.
According to a secret US intelligence assessment released last year by Biden, Prince Mohammed approved an operation to capture or kill Khashoggi, which resulted in his 2018 murder and dismemberment inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Saudi Arabia initially issued conflicting stories about Khashoggi’s disappearance, but eventually claimed that the Washington Post columnist had been killed in a ‘rogue’ operation.
Prince Mohammed has denied involvement in the murder and told Biden’s national security adviser in September that he never wanted to discuss the matter again, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The leaders of Saudi Arabia and the UAE reportedly decline calls with US President Joe Biden as Washington tries to ease surging oil prices.
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BY BEAUTY MUNYUDZANI
GOSPEL music outfit Firm Faith has postponed the launch of its ninth album titled Shoko Rengirozi Nhatu that was scheduled for tomorrow at Harare City Centre Church.
Group director Marshal Mastilele told NewsDay Life & Style that the album will now be launched on June 4 at 7 Arts Theatre in Avondale, Harare.
“We have decided to postpone our launch that was set for this Saturday to a much bigger venue which will accommodate more people and help us to celebrate our 15th anniversary,” he said.
“This was after careful deliberations on the impact of a free admission event which seeks to accommodate all interested individuals as we celebrate our 15 years of ministry in a bid to spread the three angels’ message.”
He said all those who had already purchased tickets will be reimbursed via the agents where they had paid for.
“We hope that the generous gesture coming along with it will go a long way in changing lives through music,” he said.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty Thursday to killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and hiding the body in a freezer, where police found it in February after the boy’s sister gave notes to her teacher saying that her mother was being held captive at the man’s home.
A prosecutor told a judge that a decision has yet to be made whether to seek the death penalty for Brandon Lee Toseland, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Toseland, 35, has been jailed since his arrest Feb. 22. He faces kidnapping, murder, child abuse and domestic battery by strangulation charges.
His attorney, Craig Mueller, was not immediately available for comment.
Police said the boy’s frozen body bore visible injuries of physical abuse. An indictment attributes his death to internal injuries, but the Clark County coroner’s office said Thursday that findings on a cause and manner of death are still pending.
The boy’s father died in January 2021. The mother told a grand jury that she and her two children moved into Toseland’s home two months later, that Toseland became possessive and controlling, and that she last saw the boy in December.
Authorities were alerted after the woman's daughter gave the notes to her teacher. Police said they found Toseland in a vehicle with the boy’s mother, and handcuffs in the car.
A lawyer who represented the mother alleged that she was physically, sexually and emotionally abused by Toseland.
The Associated Press is not naming the mother or children to avoid identifying a victim who alleges sexual abuse.
The woman filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Toseland in March. He responded last week with a counterclaim alleging the mother was aware the boy died in December and said she would help Toseland "preserve” the body.
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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (AP) _ Quaker Chemical Corp. (KWR) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $19.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based company said it had profit of $1.11. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.42 per share.
The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of $1.42 per share.
The specialty chemical company posted revenue of $474.2 million in the period.
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CHICAGO, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OriginPoint, a digitally driven mortgage origination joint venture between Compass, Inc. (NYSE: COMP) and Guaranteed Rate, Inc. ("Guaranteed Rate") is delighted to welcome John Stewart as its new EVP of National Sales.
In this role, Stewart will oversee all of OriginPoint's sales and recruiting operations. With more than 30 years of mortgage and finance industry experience, he will lead the company's efforts to grow market share by recruiting the "best of the best" industry talent and developing leaders in both sales and operations.
"We are thrilled to have John on board to lead our sales efforts," said James Elliott, President and Managing Officer of OriginPoint. "Having known him for most of my career, John's experience and demonstrated success in the joint venture space is virtually unmatched. Now, more than ever, OriginPoint is positioned to become a dominant player in the industry, and John will be a big part of our success."
Based out of Beverly Hills, Calif., Stewart began his career as a loan originator and worked his way up the sales management ranks, holding leadership positions with some of the largest lenders in the country. Prior to joining OriginPoint, he served as a Division Manager at Guaranteed Rate. Stewart has tremendous experience in mortgage joint ventures, including as president and co-founder of Metrocities Mortgage, a company that was a pioneer and leader in the joint venture space. More recently, Stewart was a co-founder and board member of a large national mortgage joint venture.
"When the opportunity to work at OriginPoint presented itself, I couldn't pass up the chance to join the team," said Stewart. "OriginPoint has a great value proposition for consumers and loan officers, which allows us to better serve homebuyers and deliver a hassle-free mortgage process."
OriginPoint was founded in 2021 as mortgage origination joint venture between Guaranteed Rate, the #1 non-bank jumbo lender in the country, and Compass, the #1 independent real estate brokerage in the country. OriginPoint is bringing together the power of Compass' end-to-end technology platform with Guaranteed Rate's superior digital mortgage to quickly drive growth.
For more information, visit originpoint.com.
OriginPoint, a joint venture between Guaranteed Rate Inc., and Compass Inc. (NYSE: COMP), is an independent retail mortgage company that provides personalized lending services and access to the most competitive low rates through an elite team of the industry's top mortgage professionals. OriginPoint is a digitally driven enterprise designed to accelerate growth by continuing to modernize the real estate transaction process through increased speed and efficiency for loan originators, agents and customers. By connecting the top loan officers and best real estate agents using the most innovative technology platforms, this national mortgage company is focused on the customer's ultimate success and satisfaction. To learn more, visit www.originpoint.com.
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CALGARY, AB, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL) (NYSE: PBA) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a common share cash dividend for May 2022 of $0.21 per share to be paid, subject to applicable law, on June 15, 2022 to shareholders of record on May 25, 2022. The common share dividends are designated "eligible dividends" for Canadian income tax purposes. For non-resident shareholders, Pembina's common share dividends should be considered "qualified dividends" and may be subject to Canadian withholding tax.
For shareholders receiving their common share dividends in U.S. funds, the May 2022 cash dividend is expected to be approximately U.S. $0.1639 per share (before deduction of any applicable Canadian withholding tax) based on a currency exchange rate of 0.7806. The actual U.S. dollar dividend will depend on the Canadian/U.S. dollar exchange rate on the payment date and will be subject to applicable withholding taxes.
Confirmation of Record and Payment Date Policy
Pembina pays cash dividends on its common shares in Canadian dollars on a monthly basis to shareholders of record on the 25th calendar day of each month (except for the December record date, which is December 31st), if, as and when determined by the Board of Directors. Should the record date fall on a weekend or a statutory holiday, the effective record date will be the previous business day. The dividend payment date is the 15th calendar day of the month following the record date. Should the payment date fall on a weekend or on a statutory holiday, the business day prior to the weekend or statutory holiday becomes the payment date.
About Pembina
Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a leading energy transportation and midstream service provider that has served North America's energy industry for more than 65 years. Pembina owns an integrated network of hydrocarbon liquids and natural gas pipelines, gas gathering and processing facilities, oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics services, and a growing export terminals business. Through our integrated value chain, we seek to provide safe and reliable infrastructure solutions which connect producers and consumers of energy across the world, support a more sustainable future and benefit our customers, investors, employees and communities. For more information, please visit pembina.com.
Purpose of Pembina:
To be the leader in delivering integrated infrastructure solutions connecting global markets:
- Customers choose us first for reliable and value-added services;
- Investors receive sustainable industry-leading total returns;
- Employees say we are the 'employer of choice' and value our safe, respectful, collaborative and inclusive work culture; and
- Communities welcome us and recognize the net positive impact of our social and environmental commitment.
Pembina is structured into three Divisions: Pipelines Division, Facilities Division and Marketing & New Ventures Division.
Pembina's common shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under PPL and PBA, respectively. For more information, visit www.pembina.com.
Forward-Looking Information and Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and statements (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), including forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of applicable securities legislation, that are based on Pembina's current expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "continue", "anticipate", "schedule", "will", "expects", "estimate", "potential", "planned", "future", "outlook", "strategy", "protect", "trend", "commit", "maintain", "focus", "ongoing", "believe" and similar expressions suggesting future events or future performance.
In particular, this news release contains forward-looking statements relating to: future dividends which may be declared on Pembina's common shares; the timing and the amount of such dividend payments; and the expected tax treatment thereof. The forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that Pembina has made in respect thereof as at the date of this news release regarding, among other things: the success of Pembina's operations and growth projects; prevailing commodity prices, margins, volumes and exchange rates; that Pembina's future results of operations will be consistent with past performance and management expectations in relation thereto; the availability of capital to fund future capital requirements relating to existing assets and projects; future operating costs; that all required regulatory and environmental approvals can be obtained on the necessary terms in a timely manner; prevailing regulatory, tax and environmental laws and regulations; maintenance of operating margins; and the availability of coverage under Pembina's insurance policies (including in respect of Pembina's business interruption insurance policy).
Although Pembina believes the expectations and material factors and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date hereof, there can be no assurance that these expectations, factors and assumptions will prove to be correct. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to: the regulatory environment and decisions; Indigenous and landowner consultation requirements; the impact of competitive entities and pricing; reliance on third parties to successfully operate and maintain certain assets; the strength and operations of the oil and natural gas production industry and related commodity prices; non-performance or default by counterparties to agreements which Pembina or one or more of its affiliates has entered into in respect of its business; actions by governmental or regulatory authorities; the ability of Pembina to acquire or develop the necessary infrastructure in respect of future development projects; fluctuations in operating results; adverse general economic and market conditions in Canada, North America and worldwide; risks relating to the current and potential adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; the ability to access various sources of debt and equity capital; changes in credit ratings; counterparty credit risk; the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and its potential impact on, among other things, global market conditions and supply and demand, energy and commodity prices; interest rates, supply chains and the global economy generally; and certain other risks and uncertainties detailed in Pembina's management's discussion and analysis and annual information form, each for the year ended December 31, 2021, and from time to time in Pembina's public disclosure documents available at www.sedar.com, www.sec.gov and through Pembina's website at www.pembina.com.
This list of risk factors should not be construed as exhaustive. Readers are cautioned that events or circumstances could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted, forecasted or projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release speak only as of the date hereof. Pembina does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information contained herein, except as required by applicable laws. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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Eintracht Frankfurt reached its first European final in 42 years by knocking West Ham out of the Europa League on Thursday, setting up a title game against Scottish club Rangers.
Frankfurt beat 10-man West Ham 1-0 at home to complete a 3-1 aggregate victory in the semifinals, while Rangers overturned a 1-0 deficit from the first leg by defeating RB Leipzig 3-1 at a raucous Ibrox Stadium in Glagow.
It is Frankfurt's first European final since beating Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1980 in an all-German matchup in the UEFA Cup, the predecessor to the Europa League. Rangers will be playing its first European final since losing to Zenit St. Petersburg in the UEFA Cup in 2008. The Scottish club is looking for a first European title in 50 years, after winning the Cup Winners' Cup in 1972.
In the inaugural Europa Conference League, Jose Mourinho will have a chance to add another trophy to his collection after his Roma set up a final against Feyenoord in new third-tier competition.
Tammy Abraham scored the only goal as Roma beat Leicester 1-0 at home to advance 2-1 on aggregate. Feyenoord held Marseille to a 0-0 draw in France after winning the first leg 3-2.
EUROPA LEAGUE
Rangers roared into a 2-0 lead after just 24 minutes in front of a frenzied home crowd. James Tavernier met a cross from Ryan Kent at the far post in the 19th minute for the seventh goal in the competition, and Glen Kamara doubled the lead five minutes later by calmly slotting in a shot from the edge of the area.
Christopher Nkunku pulled Leipzig back level on aggregate with a goal in the second half, but John Lundstram then netted the decisive goal in the 81st minute, converting a rebound from close range.
Frankfurt's progress was more straightforward after Aaron Cresswell was sent off for a last-man foul on Jens Petter Hauge in the 19th minute and Rafael Borre scored seven minutes later to give the team a two-goal cushion on aggregate. Cresswell was also shown a red card in the 1-1 home draw against Lyon in the quarterfinals. The defender was initially shown a yellow for his foul on Hauge but the referee changed it to a red after watching a replay on the pitchside monitor.
Trying to mount a comeback a man down, West Ham striker Michail Antonio looked too isolated up front while every attack opened space for Frankfurt’s counters.
Tomáš Souček came close to scoring for the visitors in the final seconds with a header off a corner that went just wide.
Frankfurt fans flooded the pitch to celebrate after the final whistle.
More than 30 arrests were made before the game after supporters of the two clubs clashed in several locations in Frankfurt, police said.
The final will be played at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium in Seville on May 18, with a place in next season's Champions League also at stake.
EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE
Abraham opened the scoring by beating goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel with a powerful header off a corner 11 minutes into the game at Stadio Olimpico in Rome for his ninth goal in the competition.
For Mourinho, it was a meeting against his former apprentice, Leicester coach Brendan Rodgers, who was appointed to Chelsea’s academy staff during Mourinho’s first stint with the London club.
The final will give Mourinho a chance to win his first European trophy since claiming the 2017 Europa League with Manchester United. He has also won the Champions League twice.
Marseille's chances of overturning its deficit against Feyenoord took a blow when playmaker Dimitry Payet limped off in the 33rd with an injury.
Feyenoord reached its first final since being runner-up in the 2002 UEFA Cup. The Dutch club won the European Cup in 1970.
The final is scheduled for May 25 in the capital of Albania, Tirana.
There were also violent clashes in France between Marseille and Feyenoord fans outside the Stade Velodrome stadium before the game.
One video showed a Marseille apparently unconscious on the ground as he was helped by fellow fans, another showed two groups charging at each other shortly before kickoff just outside the stadium.
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Save the date for 39th annual Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops
The 39th annual Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops will take place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 9, and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, July 10. Admission is free. Food and beverage tickets can be purchased at ticket tents located throughout the festival. Presale food...
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£164m EuroMillions win would be more than Adele and Rashford fortunes combined
A single winner of Friday’s EuroMillions jackpot could end up wealthier than Adele and Marcus Rashford combined.
The £164 million prize would beat the singer’s £130 million and make the Manchester United star’s £16 million look like small change.
The jackpot also far surpasses other Sunday Times rich list figures including fellow Premier League and England player Harry Kane’s £33 million fortune or Harry Styles’ £75 million.
A single lucky ticketholder on Friday would immediately become the National Lottery’s second-biggest winner of all time and the 14th winner of more than £100 million.
It would also be the second EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK this year after one winner banked £109 million in February.
The biggest UK winner bagged a massive £170 million in October 2019 but chose to stay anonymous after the windfall.
Scooping the top prize would also allow any winner to buy their own private island, including Rangyai Island off the coast of Thailand for around £130 million, or an alternative budget option of the roughly £49 million Cave Cay in the Bahamas.
Other purchases could include one of the UKs most expensive properties – the 10 bedroom, seven bathroom, 18,239 square foot Heathfield House in Highgate, currently on the market for £40 million.
Previous big winners include Colin and Chris Weir of Ayrshire, who won £161 million in 2011.
The couple are still the biggest winners of a jackpot that chose to publicly claim their prize.
Players are urged to get their tickets early to be in with a chance of winning.
The EuroMillions jackpot is capped when it reaches 230 million euro (£195,000). This is estimated for next Friday May 13 unless it is won beforehand.
When the jackpot is at its cap, players matching five main numbers and one lucky star can expect bigger prizes because any money that would have gone into boosting the jackpot will be shared among players in the next prize tier.
Once it reaches the cap and assuming it continues not to be won, the jackpot will stay at 230 million euro for a further four draws until it has to be won in the fifth draw.
In a EuroMillions Must Be Won draw, if no ticket matches all five main numbers and two lucky stars, the entire jackpot prize will roll down into the prize tier where there is at least one winner – likely to be five main numbers and one lucky star.
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Having healthy, thriving forests in Utah and vibrant watersheds are akin to having a prolific vegetable garden that delivers well into the fall.
It’s not enough to just look at it and appreciate its value; it takes work keeping the insects, the thieving birds and the weeds away and ensuring an adequate water supply.
That “work,” is what the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Shared Stewardship program with Utah is all about — bringing a variety of partners together to develop and protect healthy forests and safeguard critical watersheds that provide the overwhelming majority of Utah’s water supply.
“This is a document that’s going to allow us to share decisions as it should. This is a document that’s going to encourage us to look at those large landscape scale projects and figure out how to get the things done. This is a document that still allows us to coordinate those investments so that we can assure our taxpayers, at whatever level, that their resources are being used in the most efficient and effective way,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
“This is an opportunity for us to minimize to the extent possible the risk that is real of wildfire, and to be able to respond collaboratively to try to minimize this risk.”
Vilsack was in Utah to speak at Utah State University’s commencement Thursday and to participate with Utah Gov. Spencer Cox in the renewal of the Shared Stewardship agreement during a ceremonial event in the state Capitol’s Gold Room attended by a bevy of Forest Service employees, state agency representatives and county commissioners.
“(Through) the shared stewardship agreement, the state and USDA together have invested $22 million in improving the health of our forests in Utah, and we really are just getting started,” Cox said, adding those forest treatments carried out so far have helped protect the water supply for 2 million residents.
Additional work, Cox said, includes addressing watershed improvements in the Fish Lake National Forest as well as targeting insect and disease mortality.
The signing event builds on the Shared Stewardship agreement inked in 2019 between then-Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the U.S. agriculture secretary at the time, Sonny Perdue. At that signing, Utah was only the third state in the country to endorse the cooperative arrangement, but now a majority of states are on board and this most recent agreement in Utah also brings on a new partner, the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The cooperative agreement has funneled millions into shovel-ready projects to build forest resiliency and reduce wildfire risks in areas targeting the Upper Provo River watershed and the Wasatch canyons project. In the canyons, the project focused on the removal of standing and downed Englemann spruce.
With wildfires clobbering the West, razing entire towns and killing people, ensuring healthy forests is critical for landscapes, livelihoods and water supplies.
The Interior Department noted in a report that 80% of the nation’s water supply comes from forested lands, with billions of water storage and delivery infrastructure at risk or already ruined.
Utah’s Dollar Ridge Fire in 2018 forced a $28 million upgrade at the Duchesne Valley Treatment Plant after debris and sediment washed into Starvation Reservoir.
The upgrade featured an enhanced filtration system that would be more protective of water quality in the event of a future wildfire that leads to debris flows.
In 2020, the Range Fire came within a couple hundred yards of a critical water treatment plant in Orem that serves hundreds of thousands of people.
Over four years, partners in the stewardship program have successfully treated over 54,000 acres, funding 31 projects.
Due to drought, Utah’s wildfire season is off to an early and disturbing start.
The latest drought update issued by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says there have been 97 wildfires in Utah that have burned approximately 256 acres. Out of the 97 wildfires, this year 88 of them have been human-caused. Fire officials are fearing the worst, but are hopeful the protective work done so far will help.
“It’s been huge,” said Brian Steed, executive director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, describing program impacts after the ceremonial signing had concluded.
“It’s been a game changer with our federal partners and others,” he said, adding the narrative that states and the federal government are constant combatants at odds with each other is belied through programs like Shared Stewardship. | https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/5/5/23058530/stewardship-forest-agreement-climate-change-tom-vilsack-spencer-cox-resources-wildfire-risk-utah | 2022-05-06T00:10:08Z | https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/5/5/23058530/stewardship-forest-agreement-climate-change-tom-vilsack-spencer-cox-resources-wildfire-risk-utah | false | 1 |
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Recommends 47 seats for Kashmir, 43 for Jammu, redraws Anantnag parliamentary constituency
New Delhi: Redrawing the electoral map of Jammu and Kashmir, a three-member Delimitation Commission on Thursday earmarked 47 assembly seats for Kashmir division and 43 for Jammu in its final order submitted just a day before its two-year tenure was to end.
A gazette notification was issued after the panel, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, signed the final order giving Jammu six additional seats and one more to Kashmir.
Before the restructuring, which takes the total number of assembly seats in the union territory to 90, Jammu had 37 assembly constituencies and Kashmir 46.
The Commission, also comprising Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and Jammu and Kashmir Election Commissioner K K Sharma as ex-officio members, has recommended that the legislative assembly of the union territory have at least two members, one of them a woman, from the Kashmiri migrant community.
They should be at par with nominated members of the Puducherry Assembly who have the right to vote, the Commission said in a statement.
The Commission, which was set up in March 2020 and entrusted with the work of delimiting assembly and parliamentary constituencies in the union territory on the basis of the 2011 Census, has also recommended to the government to consider giving displaced persons from Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir some representation in the assembly through nomination.
Besides, for the first time, nine seats have been proposed for Scheduled Tribes — six in Jammu and three in the Valley — following consultations with representatives of political parties, citizens, civil society groups.
The panel has redrawn the Anantnag parliamentary constituency in Kashmir by adding the Rajouri and Poonch assembly seats that fall in Jammu region. There are five parliamentary constituencies in the union territory with each having 18 assembly seats.
The names of some assembly seats have been changed keeping in view the demand of local representatives and public sentiment involved in the renaming, the statement said.
Tangmarg has been renamed Gulmarg, Zoonimar is Zaidibal, Sonwar is now Lal Chowk, Padder is Padder-Nagseni, Kathua North is Jasrota, Kathua South is Kathua, Khour is Chhamb, Mahore is Gulabhgarh and Darhal is Budhal.
“The Delimitation of Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir had been a challenging task and the Commission visited the union territory twice during which it interacted with delegations as well as officials,” the statement added.
“The peculiar geo-cultural landscape of the Union Territory presented unique issues arising due to factors like competing political aspirations of the geographically and culturally distinctive regions,” the statement said.
During the public hearing, the Commission received several representations from Kashmiri migrants and displaced persons from Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The Kashmiri migrants’ delegations said before the Commission that they were persecuted and forced to live in exile as refugees in their own country for the last three decades.
It was urged that in order to preserve their political rights, seats may be reserved for them in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly as well as in Parliament. Displaced persons from PaK also requested the Commission to reserve few seats for them in J&K Legislative Assembly, the statement said.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A police officer investigating a burglary call at a shoe store in Atlanta was shot and wounded Thursday by a security guard, authorities said.
The security guard faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and reckless conduct, news outlets reported. He's being held at the Fulton County Jail.
Police investigators said that when officers arrived at the northwest Atlanta store shortly after 6 a.m., they immediately went to the back where they found burglars had broken through a wall to the store. They said the suspects had fled. While that was happening, police said a security guard fired a shot that hit an officer in the leg.
The officer was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where he was reported to be recovering.
“We’re currently speaking with him, reviewing video and looking at all aspects to give us the clearest picture of what transpired,” Assistant Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.
Atlanta police said the wounded officer was a four-year veteran of the Atlanta Police Department, but did not release his name.
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Nearly half of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, according to a survey from the Trevor Project.
The Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis support for LGBTQ youth, published its annual survey this week. The survey found rising rates of suicidal thoughts, as well as significant disparities among trans youth and LGBTQ youth of color.
"The Trevor Project's research demonstrates that suicidal thoughts have trended upward among LGBTQ young people over the last three years, making our life-saving work all the more important," Amit Paley, CEO and executive director of the organization said in a Wednesday press release. "The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and relentless political attacks during this time period cannot be understated."
This year, laws targeting LGBTQ youth have emerged across the country. In March, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed what opponents have called the "Don't Say Gay" bill. And last month, Alabama's state legislature voted to ban gender-affirming medical care for trans youth.
According to the survey, 45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Additionally, nearly 1 in 5 transgender and nonbinary youth attempted suicide.
More than 60% of LGBTQ youth said their home wasn't affirming, the survey found. Nearly 2 in 5 LGBTQ youth said they lived in a community that wasn't accepting of LGBTQ people.
More key findings
- Rates of suicide attempts were generally higher among LGBTQ youth of color, and particularly among Native/Indigenous LGBTQ youth — 21% say they attempted suicide in the past year.
- 60% of LGBTQ youth who wanted mental health care in the past year were unable to get it.
- 73% percent of LGBTQ youth reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety and 58% reported experiencing depression symptoms.
- Respondents also described their sources of joy, which included BTS, Lil Nas X, Dungeons & Dragons, wearing a binder for the first time and seeing representation of LGBTQ people of color in the media.
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
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With a little bit of a dream and a lot of bravery, more than 20 potential starlets showed off their singing and storytelling skills in hopes of getting a big part in the Barrow-Civic Theatre’s production of the hit Broadway show “Matilda the Musical.”
“We want their best,” music director Mary Beth Hutchinson said prior to the first day of auditions.
She and director Jill Lander came equipped with a “survival kit” of candy as they prepared to be entertained as they searched for their little star. And they did so with open minds about who they might find.
“It’s better for the cast if the director comes in as a blank slate,” said show producer Tom Greene, who sat in on the first day of auditions Saturday.
From there the vision starts to take shape from the first hello from the first auditionee. “You start to see the possibilities,” Hutchinson said of the audition process.
“We had a great turnout, more than I expected,” Lander said.
Lander, Hutchinson and Greene had an opportunity to see lots of possibilities – 21 to be exact. The girls who showed up ranged in age from 8 to 12, had different personalities and singing styles, unique monologues, and hailed from several different towns.
The one thing they all had in common was the bravery to try to be “Naughty” or “Quiet” just as the bookworm Matilda is in the story by Roald Dahl.
From the sounds of the lobby, many of the girls mastered the quiet side of things.
During Saturday’s and Monday’s auditions, the theatre’s entrance was characterized by the hushed whispers of nervous girls and perhaps even more nervous parents. Something a little different from the “high-energy” numbers in the musical that tells the story of one little girl’s magical journey to find happiness.
“Next time (we) will have a tumbling routine and dancing. It will be sheer madness,” Lander said of the round of auditions for the rest of the cast in June.
But for the part of Matilda, it was mostly quiet concentration leading up to the chance to answer three questions. “Why do you want to be Matilda? What song are you going to sing for us today? Do you have a story to tell us?”
Lander, whose welcome personality helped ease many of the girls into the audition process, noted they could often see each girl relax as they concluded their individual stories at the end of each audition.
“It’s the relief of I did it and I didn’t fall apart,” Hutchinson said. “It’s also a feeling of accomplishment.”
It’s a sigh of relief the directors can share now that the show moved one giant step further along the process.
“I knew we’d find somebody,” Lander said.
Following Monday’s auditions, the directing team was able to make their selection, which will be announced at a later date.
“The two-year wait is over and it’s time to work,” she said.
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Sanjay Raut slams Raj Thackeray for sharing old clips of Balasaheb expressing his views on loudspeakers
By ANI | Published: May 6, 2022 05:30 AM2022-05-06T05:30:54+5:302022-05-06T05:40:02+5:30
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday slammed Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray over sharing old clips of Balasaheb Thackeray on his views about loudspeakers in mosques and questioned why the issue was never raised when Vilasrao Deshmukh, Prithviraj Chavan and Devendra Fadnavis were Chief Ministers?
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday slammed Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray over sharing old clips of Balasaheb Thackeray on his views about loudspeakers in mosques and questioned why the issue was never raised when Vilasrao Deshmukh, Prithviraj Chavan and Devendra Fadnavis were Chief Ministers?
While addressing a public rally in the Hadapsar area of Pune on Thursday, Raut said, "There is politics over loudspeakers everywhere and some old clips of Balasaheb on his views about loudspeakers in mosques are being shared. Why this issue was never raised for 50 years when Vilasrao Deshmukh, Prithviraj Chavan and Devendra Fadnavis were CM?"
"He (MNS chief Raj Thackeray) never had any issue with loudspeakers during this period, but he has this issue now because his brother (Uddhav Thackeray) is the CM of Maharashtra," he added.
Balasaheb was a person who even accepted a Muslim Chief Minister for the state, many youngsters wouldn't know this but Abdul Rehman Antule was their favourite Chief Minister to Balasaheb.
"People had asked Balasaheb when Shiv Sena will come to the power, what kind of CM he wants. He had said he wanted CM like Antuley who could take decision instantly and who has a good command over the administration," he stated.
Earlier on Wednesday, Raj Thackeray shared an old clip of Bal Thackeray saying that 'he will remove loudspeakers from mosques when his government is formed.'
Taking to his official Twitter account, the MNS chief tweeted a 36-second long video in which Balasaheb is addressing a Shiv Sena rally and saying that religion should be in a way that it doesn't come in the middle of the nation's development.
Shiv Sena founder can be heard saying in the video, "People should not feel any inconvenience".
MNS chief Raj Thackeray shared the old clip of Bal Thackeray a day after he appealed to people to play Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers in the areas where azan is heard blaring from loudspeakers on May 4.
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Biggers inspires change
May 3, 2022
Cleo Sol’s smooth and soulful voice fills the Eastfield performance hall. On the stage sits an inspired artist, a wooden easel and a stark white canvas. With his face just inches away, he confidently places paint to paper, leaning back periodically to bob his head and shimmy his shoulders in rhythm to the music.
A constant on-beat tap of his foot proves that the music is part of his flow and helps to take the lead in his dance with the brush. Funk, vibrance and attitude surge from the auditorium speakers, the bristles of the paint brush and Jeremy Biggers’ soul. He says flamboyancy will be the painting’s essence, but subversion is the overarching goal.
Biggers explains that being bold and unapologetic while being Black could historically put you in harm’s way. But in this gallery space, it will be celebrated.
For an upcoming exhibit, he will use oversized portraits and vivid colors to make this point.
“Taking up space, being as big as possible, puts a target on us sometimes,” Biggers says. “Just being that is an act of defiance.”
After 10 years away, Biggers returns to Eastfield campus for a micro-residency to mentor current students. Upon receiving a National Endowment of the Arts grant, Biggers has had the opportunity to make appearances at many of the Dallas College campuses, including an exhibition at Brookhaven, a workshop at Cedar Valley and an artist talk at Mountain View. Biggers now joins Eastfield for two days to share his knowledge.
No longer attending classes himself, he still treasures the time he spent at this campus. Taking his lunch into one of the familiar art classrooms, Biggers takes a moment to look around and reminisce about all the time he spent here.
“I didn’t have a studio at home and didn’t have to be into work until 3 or 4 o’clock, so I would still be in the classroom working on projects,”
he said. “I owe a lot to these rooms.”
MICRO-RESIDENCY
Even with a powerful presence on stage, Biggers isn’t intimidating.
Prior to starting a slide presentation for his micro-residency at Eastfield, Biggers took the time to connect one-on-one with the occupants of the auditorium seats. Asking each person how they are feeling or what show they were currently watching broke down the imposing fourth wall between presenter and attendee.
“Jeremy is the kind of person that you would like to be a close friend,” Alison Starr, Dallas College gallery manager, said while introducing him to the crowd.
Inviting students on stage to watch him in action, he sat back down on his stool and returned to his colorful canvas. Stopping often to answer the questions of inquisitive minds, he refused to cut an answer short.
There were no secrets to his art. He allowed everyone to have access to his process.
“I love how he talked about how to make art affordable and accessible,” education major Hannah Kelley said.
When seeking advice on how to improve her painting skills without having to invest too much into the products, Biggers gave her obtainable
suggestions she could pick up at the local hardware store. He insists that art is for all people, not just those who can afford it.
A STUDENT TEACHING
Biggers liked to joke about how he spent seven years at Eastfield, but when he thought about it in depth, that exaggeration of time was not far off from reality.
As a long-term art student he made a special connection with one instructor. Taking every class Kathy Windrow offered, they built an unbreakable bond. Windrow’s name came up frequently in Biggers’ conversations about inspiration, and he influenced her just as much as she taught him.
“He kind of taught me how to teach,” Windrow said. “He taught me how to give students a lot of freedom to explore their own vision. And one way he did that was by always taking my ideas or my suggestions for a project and really running with them.”
Windrow recounts multiple times that Biggers filled every wall of her classrooms with his art. In only eight weeks’ time, he could cover many square feet with drawings, paintings and digital photography.
But it wasn’t only his work ethic that stood out. Even as a young student, Windrow said he had a knack for inspiring his peers and moving through life with patience and grace for others.
During a project that involved creating life-sized self-portraits, Biggers walked into class one day to find another student working on top of his canvas. When the mistake was pointed out to the student, Biggers sensed the embarrassment and didn’t miss a beat.
“Jeremy said ‘That’s OK, no problem. You keep drawing on that one. Should I draw on this one?’ And they just switched identities,” Windrow said. “That was such a Jeremy thing to do.”
Windrow said Biggers was always a natural leader. Comfortable in that role, he used compassion to show the people around him how to move through life.
“Other students have taught me things too, but I think Jeremey taught me more about humanity,” Windrow said.
STORYTELLING
Pulling much of his inspiration from the struggles Black Americans face while finding their place in the world, Biggers uses art in all forms to tell their stories. In respect to identity issues the Black community deals with, such as “code-switching,” he finds some solace in helping to communicate these problems with others. With some of his exhibitions, like “Influence,” he can portray these conflicting identities with the broader public.
Understanding the powerful impact of recent social justice issues such as the killing of George Floyd, he finds it necessary to represent the side of the story that he feels is often times diminished. Having an emotional response to the images of police brutality he has witnessed againsteople of color; he chooses to use his talents to convey these feelings to his audience.
“The most hurtful thing is the lack of acknowledgement that there’s two different existences for Black Americans and white Americans,” he said. “It’s disrespectful and a slap in the face to people that are seeing the same information and seeing the same video footage.”
Despite feeling like there might not ever be a way to force everyone to see eye to eye, his art will always remain a sentiment to his perspective for future generations. Acting as a time capsule, he attempts to use some of his work as documentation of current issues and conversations he thinks should be had.
“There’s no way one single painting that I create will solve the problem,” he said. “But at the very least, I’m compelled to make the work that I feel will make it digestible, at least in visual form, for certain people.”
The stories he tells with a paintbrush are meant to move his audience, but the likeness of the figures he portrays hold substantial meaning as well.
Surrounded only by white faces hung in museums for most of his adolescence, Biggers now holds representation in his art as a high priority.
“When you don’t see yourself in those spaces, it kind of makes you feel like there weren’t people in those times that look like you,” Biggers said. “I just want to make the art so that other people that are like me, that grew up in a similar community, or grew up in similar situations financially, can see that work and maybe start their art career earlier than I did.” | https://eastfieldnews.com/25147/top-news/biggers-inspires-change/ | 2022-05-06T00:30:27Z | https://eastfieldnews.com/25147/top-news/biggers-inspires-change/ | true | 1 |
The City of Oak Ridge is now accepting applications for the newly created Disability Advisory Board. The Disability Advisory Board was created by City Council at its April meeting. It is comprised of 9 members. Applicants must be Oak Ridge residents, and preference will be given to individuals who are knowledgeable of, experienced with, or familiar with disability issues. The purpose of the Disability Advisory Board is to serve as an advisory body to City Council and the City Manager, as well as City staff and other Boards and Commissions as needed on disability issues, to serve as a source of information on resources, and to serve as a sounding board for the community. Three terms each will expire on December 31, 2023, 2024, and 2025 respectively in order to stagger terms.
In addition, the City is also accepting applications for other boards: one high school representative to serve a 2-year term on the Environmental Quality Advisory Board (EQAB) and one high school representative to serve a 1-year term on the Traffic Safety Advisory Board (TSAB). To qualify for the EQAB and TSAB high school representatives, an applicant must be a high school-age student and must be a resident of Oak Ridge. The Youth Advisory Board is also taking applications to fill 16 positions, each serving a 1-year term commencing August 1, 2022. Applicants must be a resident of Oak Ridge and be a rising 8th through 12th-grade student by the start of the term.
Applications will be accepted either online or in person in the City Clerk’s office until Monday, June 6, 2022, at 5:00 p.m.
Members to the Disability Advisory Board will be elected by City Council at the June 13, 2022, City Council meeting. Representatives to the Youth Advisory Board will be chosen by a screening panel and confirmed by City Council at the July 11, 2022, City Council meeting, along with student representatives to the Environmental Quality Advisory Board and Traffic Safety Advisory Board.
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Rain-delays, flurry of action highlight Day 5 of 4th Meghalaya Games
SHILLONG, May 5: Gripping action and rain delays were the norm on day five of the 4th Meghalaya Games 2022 on Thursday. While many events saw the semi-final and final rounds being played, there were events which were marred by heavy rains across the city.
There were reports that the badminton event held at NEHU Indoor Stadium was stalled for about an hour as the roof leaked due to heavy rains, forcing the matches, especially in the centre court to be halted.
Boxing was another event affected by the rains, with the finals that were supposed to be conducted on Thursday being shifted to Friday.
Archery
On Thursday, the archery events saw the finals of the Indian Rounds being held. The event was attended by India’s chief coach Mim Bahadur Gurung, and multiple World Cup, Asian Championships and World Championships archer Atanu Das.
In the Women’s Indian Round results, Navydisha Kokil Kapoor of Ri-Bhoi came first in the 50m event, while the 30m category was bagged by Ibanisha Ryntathiang of Pyndengumiong. Ryntathiang also claimed gold in the women’s individual event. The women’s team final went to a tiebreaker but East Khasi Hills edged Pyndengumiong in the shootout.
In the men’s Indian Round, Kirdhart Gurung swept all three of the finals, in the 50m, 30m and men’s individual. He was also part of the East Khasi Hills team that won the team final against South West Khasi Hills.
Cycling concludes
Cycling concluded on Thursday at Malki Forest, with special guest Ampareen Lyngdoh MLA flagging off the cross country race.
Kevin John Khyllait of Eastern West Khasi Hills won the maiden elite MTB cross country competition.
Reuben Nicol Kharchandy, 16, and Anissa Lamare lifted their golds too in the Down Hill category for elite men and women respectively while Nicholas Syrti of West Jaintia Hills district won gold in the Down Hill (Hardtail), while Taitus Ch Marak (NGH) and Aaron Oniel Kharpuri (EKH) bagged the silver and bronze respectively.
In the cross country for women, Balasiewdor Wahlang (SWKH), Lamtimai Khyllait (EWKH) and Aidotis Khyllait (EWKH) won the top three honours.
EKH dominate Basketball finals
In basketball, East Khasi Hills swept both the women’s and men’s finals at the NEIGRIHMS Indoor Stadium. West Khasi Hills, the defending champions, lost the women’s title match 46-31, while EKH also won the men’s contest 68-55 over Ri-Bhoi.
Ri-Bhoi women claimed the bronze with a 36-24 win over West Jaintia Hills, while WKH men took the third place in the men’s division with a 57-42 victory against WJH.
Table Tennis
Table tennis concluded at the SAI Indoor Stadium on Thursday, with the gold medals being won by Tanushree Das Gupta in women’s singles and Suranjit Dey in men’s singles. Dey combined with T Yogesh Singh to win the men’s doubles, while Camelia Diengdoh and Anwesha Choudhury won the women’s doubles.
This year also featured U-17 boys’ doubles and boys’ singles, with the pair of Jeff AK Marak and Ario S Marak winning the former, while Jeff also won the singles final. Finally, the mixed doubles title was bagged by Dey and Choudhury.
Tennis
Tennis at Shillong Club was greatly affected by the weather, first on Wednesday, with the semi-finals pushed into the evening and then again on Thursday.
Sanjeev Chettri put in a convincing performance to take gold in the men’s singles 6-0, 6-0 over Joplut Kharbuli, while Ishaan Rawat won 6-4, 6-2 in the boys’ singles final against Enrick Suchiang.
Suchiang and team mate Rakshit Bajaj were also involved in an epic boys’ doubles final against Rawat and Harsh Singhania, that ended 6-7 (4), 7-6 (8), 11-9 in the former’s favour.
Football
Women’s football semi-finals saw West Khasi Hills edge West Garo Hills 2-1, while East Khasi Hills beat EJH by the same margin.
In the men’s semis, Ri-Bhoi edged West Jaintia Hills 5-4 on penalties after full time finished 1-1, while EKH came through 2-1 against East Jaintia Hills.
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FOOTBALL | TONY CASCARINO
Missed chances against Real Madrid will haunt Jack Grealish for life
The Times
Real Madrid’s Champions League semi-final comeback on Wednesday night will sit with some Manchester City players for the rest of their lives. They may replay certain moments over and over again in their head, thinking what they could have done differently to change the outcome; others could relive it in their dreams.
I’ve woken up from dreams where I was going over old matches that went wrong, even 30 years after they happened. One in particular sticks out — the stakes weren’t as high as they were for City last night, but it is my most common recurring dream.
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Watching Your Wallet: The best buys of May
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - May is the prime time for making home-related purchases.
Memorial Day sales include lots of markdowns on indoor furniture, patio furniture, appliances, and mattresses. It’s also the time of year to look for deals on coffee makers, blenders, and small kitchen appliances.
Spring apparel should also be on sale right now, but skip things like swimwear if you can -- those deals don’t happen until June.
And keep your eyes peeled for great deals on workout clothes and athletic shoes. Steer clear of buying home electronics this time of year.
The best deals on laptops and tablets and gaming consoles don’t happen until late fall/early winter.
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FAIRPORT, N.Y., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vinco Ventures, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBIG) ("Vinco"), a digital media and content technologies holding company, today announced that May 18, 2022 has been set as the record date for the dividend of shares of common stock of Cryptyde, Inc. ("Cryptyde") to be distributed to Vinco stockholders in order to effect the separation of Vinco and Cryptyde into two independent, publicly traded companies.
Each Vinco stockholder of record as of the close of business on May 18, 2022 will receive, on the distribution date, one share of Cryptyde common stock for every 10 shares of Vinco common stock held. The share dividend is expected to be distributed to Vinco stockholders on or about May 27, 2022. Following the separation, Vinco stockholders will also receive cash in lieu of any fractional shares of Cryptyde common stock that those holders would have received after application of the 10:1 distribution ratio. No action is required by Vinco stockholders in order to receive the shares of Cryptyde common stock in the dividend distribution.
In connection with this separation, Cryptyde filed a Registration Statement on Form 10 (the "Form 10"). This Form 10 contains further information regarding Vinco's plans for a tax-free spin-off of Cryptyde as a publicly traded company, including the conditions to completion of the separation. The Form 10 has not been declared effective yet by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
After the separation, Cryptyde common stock is expected to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the stock ticker symbol "TYDE" and Vinco will continue to trade on Nasdaq Capital Market under the stock ticker symbol "BBIG."
Vinco Ventures, Inc. (BBIG) is focused on [the development of digital media and content technologies]. Vinco Ventures' consolidated subsidiary, ZVV Media Partners, LLC, a joint venture of Vinco Ventures and ZASH Global Media and Entertainment Corporation, has an 80% ownership interest in Lomotif Private Limited. For more information visit Investors.vincoventures.com.
Lomotif is a video-sharing social networking platform that is democratizing video creation. A home for creators since 2014, Lomotif hosts a grassroots social community with dedicated users in Asia, Latin America and the United States. Lomotif is 80% owned by ZVV Media Partners, LLC, a joint venture of ZASH Global Media and Entertainment Corporation and Vinco Ventures, Inc. (Nasdaq: BBIG). Download the Lomotif app from Apple and Google stores or visit www.lomotif.com for more information.
Cryptyde, Inc. (anticipated: TYDE), is focused on leveraging blockchain technologies to disrupt consumer facing industries.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are based upon beliefs of, and information currently available to, Vinco Ventures' management as well as estimates and assumptions made by Vinco Ventures' management. These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historic or current facts. When used in this presentation the words "estimate," "expect," "intend," "believe," "plan," "anticipate," "projected," and other words or the negative of these terms and similar expressions as they relate to the applicable company or its management identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current view of Vinco Ventures with respect to future events and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors relating to Vinco Ventures and its subsidiaries and consolidated variable interest entities including Lomotif, their industry, financial condition, operations and results of operations. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the expected benefits from Vinco Ventures' investments in Lomotif and related growth initiatives and strategies such as the blended media, cross-platform distribution strategy, the expected benefits of Lomotif's participation in and sponsorship of live entertainment events, the expected benefits from acquisition of AdRizer and planned integration of the AdRizer technology with Lomotif and Honey Badger and synergies between AdRizer, Lomotif and Honey Badger, uncertainties as to the completion and timing of the spin-off of Cryptyde, the failure of the Form 10 to be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the failure to satisfy any conditions to complete the spin-off as specified in the Form 10, the expected tax treatment of the spin-off and the impact of the spin-off on the businesses of Vinco Ventures and Cryptyde, the expected benefits for Vinco Ventures, its shareholders and Cryptyde from the recent injection of businesses and assets into Cryptyde and the spin-off, the regulatory risks with the NFT and blockchain business lines and such other risks and uncertainties described more fully in documents filed by Vinco Ventures and Cryptyde with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors discussed in Vinco Ventures' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2021 filed on April 15, 2022 and Cryptyde's Amendment No. 2 of Form 10 filed on March 18, 2022, which are available at www.sec.gov. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ significantly from those anticipated, believed, estimated, expected, intended, or planned. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, performance, or achievements. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States, we do not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SUZHOU, China, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbour BioMed ("HBM", HKEX:02142), a global biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel antibody therapeutics, is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexander A. Zukiwski, MD, to the Company's Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Zukiwski joined CASI Pharmaceuticals in April 2017 as Chief Medical Officer. Prior to joining CASI Pharmaceuticals Dr. Zukiwski was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Arno Therapeutics and had been a Director of Arno Therapeutics. Prior to Arno in 2007, Dr. Zukiwski served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Clinical Research at MedImmune. Prior to MedImmune, Dr. Zukiwski held several roles of increasing responsibility at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development LLC (J&JPRD)and Ortho Biotech. Before joining J&J, he served in clinical oncology positions at pharmaceutical companies including Hoffmann-LaRoche, Glaxo Wellcome and Rhone- Poulenc Rorer.
Dr. Zukiwski has more than 25 years of experience in global drug development and supported the clinical evaluation and registration of many successful oncology therapeutic agents, including Taxotere®, Xeloda®, Procrit®/Eprex®, Velcade®, Yondelis®, and Doxil®. He previously served as a Member of Medical Advisory Board at Gem Pharmaceuticals, LLC and served as a Director of Ambit Biosciences Corporation and currently serves as a Director of Oncolyze, Inc. Dr. Zukiwski holds a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the University of Alberta and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Calgary. He conducted his post-graduate training at St. Thomas Hospital Medical Center in Akron, Ohio and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
"We're pleased to welcome Dr. Zukiwski to our Scientific Advisory Board," said Dr. Jingsong Wang, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Harbour BioMed. "His expertise in the field of oncology and deep experience in clinical evaluation and registration will be invaluable to HBM as we grow and advance our innovative pipeline to serve patients worldwide. He will work closely with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Humphrey Gardner and rest of the management team to drive our global clinical portfolio and to optimize the pipeline strategy."
"It's an honor to join the HBM Scientific Advisory Board. I'm impressed with HBM's global vision as well as innovative pipeline powered by its competitive research and development engine," commented Dr. Zukiwski. "I look forward to working with the other members of the SAB and Dr. Wang's talented team in bringing forward transformative therapeutics on a global basis."
About Harbour BioMed
Harbour BioMed (HKEX: 02142) is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel antibody therapeutics focusing on immunology and oncology. The Company is building its robust portfolio and differentiated pipeline through internal R&D capability, collaborations with co-discovery and co-development partners and select acquisitions.
The Company's proprietary antibody technology platforms Harbour Mice® generate fully human monoclonal antibodies in two heavy and two light chain (H2L2) format, as well as heavy chain only (HCAb) format. Building upon the HCAb antibodies, the HCAb-based immune cell engagers (HBICE®) are capable of delivering tumor killing effects unachievable by traditional combination therapies. Integrating Harbour Mice® with single B cell cloning platform, our antibody discovery engine is highly unique and efficient for development of next generation therapeutic antibodies.
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MLB Standings
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May 6 (Stats Perform) – Standings from the MLB games on Thursday
American League
East Division
W L PCT GB
1. New York Yankees 18 7 .720 —
2. Toronto Blue Jays 16 10 .615 2 1/2
3. Tampa Bay Rays 15 10 .600 3
4. Boston Red Sox 10 16 .385 8 1/2
5. Baltimore Orioles 9 16 .360 9
Central Division
W L PCT GB
1. Minnesota Twins 15 10 .600 —
2. Cleveland Guardians 11 13 .458 3 1/2
2. Chicago White Sox 11 13 .458 3 1/2
4. Detroit Tigers 8 15 .348 6
4. Kansas City Royals 8 15 .348 6
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1. Los Angeles Angels 17 10 .630 —
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2. Houston Astros 14 11 .560 2
3. Seattle Mariners 12 13 .480 4
4. Texas Rangers 10 14 .417 5 1/2
5. Oakland Athletics 10 15 .400 6
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1. New York Mets 18 9 .667 —
2. Miami Marlins 12 12 .500 4 1/2
3. Atlanta Braves 12 15 .444 6
4. Philadelphia Phillies 11 14 .440 6
5. Washington Nationals 9 18 .333 9
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1. Milwaukee Brewers 18 8 .692 —
2. St. Louis Cardinals 14 10 .583 3
3. Pittsburgh Pirates 10 14 .417 7
4. Chicago Cubs 9 15 .375 8
5. Cincinnati Reds 3 22 .120 14 1/2
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1. Los Angeles Dodgers 16 7 .696 —
2. San Diego Padres 16 9 .640 1
3. Colorado Rockies 15 10 .600 2
4. San Francisco Giants 14 10 .583 2 1/2
5. Arizona Diamondbacks 13 13 .500 4 1/2
Friday, May 6 schedules (EST/GMT)
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Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs (1420/1820)
Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds (1840/2240)
Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles (1905/2305)
Texas Rangers at New York Yankees (1905/2305)
New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies (1905/2305)
Chicago White Sox at Boston Red Sox (1910/2310)
Toronto Blue Jays at Cleveland Guardians (1910/2310)
Milwaukee Brewers at Atlanta Braves (1920/2320)
Detroit Tigers at Houston Astros (2010/0010)
Oakland Athletics at Minnesota Twins (2010/0010)
Washington Nationals at Los Angeles Angels (2138/0138)
Colorado Rockies at Arizona Diamondbacks (2140/0140)
Miami Marlins at San Diego Padres (2140/0140)
Tampa Bay Rays at Seattle Mariners (2140/0140)
St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants (2215/0215)
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Saturday, May 7 schedules (EST/GMT)
Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds (1235/1635)
Texas Rangers at New York Yankees (1305/1705)
Oakland Athletics at Minnesota Twins (1410/1810)
Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs (1420/1820)
Detroit Tigers at Houston Astros (1605/2005)
New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies (1605/2005)
Chicago White Sox at Boston Red Sox (1610/2010)
Toronto Blue Jays at Cleveland Guardians (1810/2210)
Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds (1840/2240)
Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles (1905/2305)
St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants (1915/2315)
Milwaukee Brewers at Atlanta Braves (1920/2320)
Colorado Rockies at Arizona Diamondbacks (2010/0010)
Miami Marlins at San Diego Padres (2040/0040)
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Washington Nationals at Los Angeles Angels (2107/0107)
Tampa Bay Rays at Seattle Mariners (2110/0110)
Sunday, May 8 schedules (EST/GMT)
Chicago White Sox at Boston Red Sox (1135/1535)
Milwaukee Brewers at Atlanta Braves (1335/1735)
Kansas City Royals at Baltimore Orioles (1335/1735)
Texas Rangers at New York Yankees (1335/1735)
New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies (1335/1735)
Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds (1340/1740)
Toronto Blue Jays at Cleveland Guardians (1340/1740)
Detroit Tigers at Houston Astros (1410/1810)
Oakland Athletics at Minnesota Twins (1410/1810)
St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants (1605/2005)
Washington Nationals at Los Angeles Angels (1607/2007)
Colorado Rockies at Arizona Diamondbacks (1610/2010)
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Miami Marlins at San Diego Padres (1610/2010)
Tampa Bay Rays at Seattle Mariners (1610/2010)
Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs (1908/2308)
Monday, May 9 schedules (EST/GMT)
Los Angeles Dodgers at Pittsburgh Pirates (1835/2235)
Milwaukee Brewers at Cincinnati Reds (1840/2240)
Oakland Athletics at Detroit Tigers (1910/2310)
Cleveland Guardians at Chicago White Sox (2010/0010)
Tampa Bay Rays at Los Angeles Angels (2138/0138)
Miami Marlins at Arizona Diamondbacks (2140/0140)
Chicago Cubs at San Diego Padres (2140/0140)
Philadelphia Phillies at Seattle Mariners (2140/0140)
Colorado Rockies at San Francisco Giants (2145/0145)
Tuesday, May 10 schedules (EST/GMT)
Detroit Tigers at Oakland Athletics (1310/1710)
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Oakland Athletics at Detroit Tigers (1640/2040)
Los Angeles Dodgers at Pittsburgh Pirates (1835/2235)
Milwaukee Brewers at Cincinnati Reds (1840/2240)
Toronto Blue Jays at New York Yankees (1905/2305)
New York Mets at Washington Nationals (1905/2305)
Boston Red Sox at Atlanta Braves (1920/2320)
Houston Astros at Minnesota Twins (1940/2340)
Baltimore Orioles at St. Louis Cardinals (1945/2345)
Kansas City Royals at Texas Rangers (2005/0005)
Cleveland Guardians at Chicago White Sox (2010/0010)
Tampa Bay Rays at Los Angeles Angels (2138/0138)
Miami Marlins at Arizona Diamondbacks (2140/0140)
Chicago Cubs at San Diego Padres (2140/0140)
Philadelphia Phillies at Seattle Mariners (2140/0140)
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Lincoln’s Weather Delayed Arbor Day Observance Re-Scheduled
Lincoln, NE (May 5, 2022) The Parks and Recreation Department today announced that the Arbor Day event originally scheduled for April 29 has been rescheduled for May 13 due to inclement weather and wet conditions. The celebration of the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day will be at 1 p.m. at the Roper Park parking lot, 3425 N. Eighth Street.
The event will include a proclamation from Lynn Johnson, Parks and Recreation Director, and Katie Loos, COO of the Arbor Day Foundation, information about the importance of trees, their planting and care, as well as free native tree seedlings and other items for attendees.
The Roper East Disc Golf Course and Roper Dog Run, North Seventh and Adams streets, will be closed from noon to 5 p.m. for the May 13 event.
Arbor Day began in Nebraska on April 10, 1872, when more than one million trees were planted in the state. The Parks Department and volunteers from the Arbor Day Foundation, Black Hills Energy, Leadership Link, Meadow Lane Area Residents Association, Nebraska Department of Energy and the Environment, and Woods Green Team will plant 150 trees in four city parks at this spring. | https://www.kibz.com/lincolns-weather-delayed-arbor-day-observance-re-scheduled/ | 2022-05-06T00:50:18Z | https://www.kibz.com/lincolns-weather-delayed-arbor-day-observance-re-scheduled/ | true | 2 |
Live updates l Poland urges EU sanctions on Russian energy
BRUSSELS — Poland urged its European Union partners on Monday to unite and impose sweeping sanctions on Russia’s oil and natural gas sectors over the war in Ukraine, and not to cave in to pressure to pay for their gas in Russian rubles.
EU ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss their response to Russia’s decision last week to cut gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland. Energy giant Gazprom says the two countries failed to pay their bills in April.
“We will call for immediate sanctions on Russian oil and gas. This is the next, and urgent, and absolute step,” Polish Climate and Environment Minister Anna Moskwa said. “We already have coal. Now it’s time for oil, and (the) second step is for gas. The best option is take them all together.”
Russian energy giant Gazprom cut supplies to Bulgaria and Poland last week after President Vladimir Putin said that “unfriendly” countries must start paying for gas in rubles, Russia’s currency. Bulgaria and Poland have refused to do so, like most EU countries. More Gazprom bills are due May 20, and the bloc is wary that Russia might turn off more taps then.
The 27 nation EU imports around 40% of the gas it consumes from Russia. But some member countries, notably Hungary and Slovakia, are more heavily dependent on Russian supplies than others, and support for a gradual phasing in of an oil embargo is emerging.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Evacuation of civilians from Ukrainian steel plant begins
— Israel angered by Lavrov's remarks on Hitler and Nazism
— Pelosi, in surprise Kyiv trip, vows unbending US support
— Jill Biden to meet Ukrainian refugees in Romania, Slovakia
Follow all AP stories on Russia's war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
Teams of workers strove Monday to repair a bridge in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine that was damaged in what a local governor described as an act of sabotage.
The regional administration said it expects the repair work will be completed Wednesday.
Kursk regional Gov. Roman Starovoit said Sunday that the bridge was blown up by unidentified attackers and the Investigative Committee, Russia’s top state investigative agency, has launched a criminal probe into what it described as a “terrorist act.”
Officials didn’t specify the significance of the bridge for the war, but it sits on a key railway link used to ferry supplies to Russian troops fighting in eastern Ukraine.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack on the bridge, that follows a series of explosions and fires in western Russia amid the war in Ukraine that has entered a third month.
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LVIV, Ukraine — U.S. diplomats have made a day trip back into Ukraine amid that country’s grinding war with Russia.
Kristina Kvien, U.S. Embassy charge d’affaires, attended a news conference Monday in Lviv to highlight the diplomatic return.
The U.S. pulled out of its Kyiv embassy to Lviv before the war, then pulled out entirely after Russia began its war on Ukraine in February.
In recent days, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited, promising diplomats would return.
Kvien spoke at the Lviv’s city council building in front of a Chestnut Briotti tree planted in April 2021 by America. She said America was there to support Ukraine and hoped to return to Kyiv soon.
Andriy Sadovyi, Lviv’s mayor, also attended the event. He pledged that Ukraine would “kick out the enemy from our land.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod walked the streets of Kyiv suburbs on Monday to view the devastation caused by Russian forces before they withdrew.
He tweeted to say that it was “horrible” to witness the destruction, which he viewed with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.
Kofod also said that Denmark firmly supports the work to investigate and prosecute those responsible for killing civilians in those areas, referring to the International Criminal Court’s work in investigating possible war crimes.
Denmark’s Embassy in Kyiv reopened Monday after closing earlier in the war. Kofod said he hoisted the Danish flag on the building.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities say the Russian military again has struck a strategic bridge in the country’s southwest.
Odesa region Gov. Maksym Marchenko said that the Russians on Monday hit a bridge across the Dniester Estuary west of Odesa where the Dniester River flows into the Black Sea. The bridge already had been heavily damaged in two previous Russian missile strikes.
The bridge provides the only railway connection and the key highway link to areas west of Odesa. Its destruction cuts access to shipments of weapons and other cargo from neighboring Romania.
The attacks on the bridge followed a claim by a senior Russian military officer that Russia aims to take control of the entire south of Ukraine and build a land corridor to the separatist Transnistria region of Moldova, where tensions have recently escalated.
The region broke away after a short civil war in the early 1990s, and is unrecognized by most countries. An estimated 1,500 Russian soldiers are stationed there. Ukrainian and Western officials have voiced concern that Russia could use the region to open a new front in the war against Ukraine.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says his Russian counterpart’s recent remarks about Adolf Hitler and Jews demonstrate “the deeply-rooted antisemitism of the Russian elites.”
In an interview with an Italian news channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that Ukraine could still have Nazi elements even if some figures, including President Volodymry Zelenskyy, were Jewish. “Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean anything,” he said, according to an Italian translation.
“Lavrov could not help hiding the deeply rooted antisemitism of the Russian elites,” Kuleba said in a tweet Monday. “His heinous remarks are offensive to President Zelenskyy, Ukraine, Israel, and the Jewish people. More broadly, they demonstrate that today’s Russia is full of hatred towards other nations.”
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MOSCOW — The Russian military says 69 people who came out of the the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol on Sunday chose to be evacuated to Ukraine-controlled territories, while 57 others who left the plant and the surrounding areas asked to stay in the areas under Russian control.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that on Saturday, 21 people left the plant and 25 more left their homes in the neighboring areas; all of them “voluntarily decided to stay” in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic run by Russia-backed separatists. The Ministry said that on May 1, 80 more people left the plant, of which 11 “remained in the Donetsk Republic.”
It said 69 others decided to “leave for the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime.”
The Ukrainian authorities have not yet confirmed this data, and it could not be independently verified.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Latvia’s Foreign Ministry on Monday said it “strongly urges” its nationals against visiting Transnistria and to leave if they are currently there.
Transnistria is a small strip of land that has been under the control of pro-Moscow separatist authorities since a 1992 war with Moldova near the border with Ukraine.
There have been concerns that the war between Russia and Ukraine could extend to Transnistria.
The ministry in Riga was taking into account the existing regional security threats and the Moldovan parliament’s recent decision to extend the state of emergency throughout the country for 60 days, the Baltic News Service reported.
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ATHENS, Greece — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that half a million Ukrainians have been “illegally taken to Russia, or other places, against their will.”
Speaking to Greek state TV ERT, Zelenskyy said the remaining civilians in the Azovstal factory in the city of Mariupol are afraid to board buses because they believe they will be taken to Russia.
The United Nations has begun evacuating civilians from the factory.
Zelenskyy said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres assured him that those evacuated would end up in an area controlled by the government of Ukraine.
“We want to believe this,” the Ukrainian leader said.
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WARSAW, Poland — A top-level U.S. congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in Warsaw on Monday to express gratitude to Poland for its humanitarian and other support for Ukraine.
Pelosi and a half dozen U.S. lawmakers met with President Andrzej Duda and Polish lawmakers in Warsaw. The visit followed a weekend visit to Kyiv where they met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, pledging to support his country until it defeats Russia.
In a statement after the meeting with Duda, Pelosi called him “a valued partner in supporting the people of Ukraine in the face of Putin’s brutal and unprovoked war.”
She said that during their meeting the members of her delegation “expressed America’s deep gratitude to the Polish government and Polish people for opening their hearts and homes to Ukrainian refugees, and we reaffirmed our nation’s pledge to continue supporting Poland’s humanitarian efforts.”
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A Finnish nuclear energy company said Monday it has decided to terminate with immediate effect a contract with Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom for the delivery of a nuclear power plant, in part due to the war in Ukraine “which has worsened the risks for the project.”
The company, Fennovoima, also cited “significant delays and inability to deliver the project” for terminating the deal to build the northern Finland Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant.
It was proposed to house a Russian-designed pressurized water reactor, with a capacity of 1200 MW and the nuclear power plant was to generate approximately 10% of Finland’s electricity needs, the company said.
In April 2021, the company announced that construction was to begin in 2023 and commercial operation would start in 2029.
In a statement, Fennovoimas’s CEO Joachim Specht said the decision “is estimated to have a significant employee impact in Fennovoima and is expected to impact also the supply chain companies.”
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MOSCOW — The Russian military says its forces have struck dozens of Ukrainian military targets in the east.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Russian warplanes fired precision guided missiles to hit 38 Ukrainian targets, including concentrations of troops and weapons, over the last 24 hours. He said that a Russian air strike also destroyed an ammunition depot near Chervone in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Konashenkov said that a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet was downed near the eastern town of Slovyansk.
The announcements couldn’t be independently confirmed.
In recent weeks, the Russian military has focused is efforts on Ukraine’ industrial heartland called Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military says that Russia has redeployed some of its forces from the port of Mariupol to join its offensive in the east.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said Monday that several Russian battalions had been sent from Mariupol to the town of Popasna in the eastern Luhansk region. Popasna has been one of the epicenters of fighting in the east as the Russian military has sought to break through the Ukrainian defenses there in a bid to encircle Ukrainian forces in the east.
The Ukrainian General Staff also said that the Russians were also trying to press their attacks from Izyum to the towns of Slovyansk and Barvinkove. Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov told The Associated Press that the redeployment of forces from Mariupol to the frontline in the east reflect their failure to make any gains there.
The Russian military is still struggling to uproot the last remaining Ukrainian pocket of resistance at the giant Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol. The U.N. is set to coordinate an effort Monday to evacuate civilians sheltering at the plant.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian authorities say several civilians have been killed in the latest Russian bombardment.
The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that at least three people were killed and another three, including a child, were wounded in the eastern Luhansk region over the last 24 hours. It said that four people were wounded in the shelling in another eastern region of Donetsk.
The regional administration in the Zaporizhzhia region further west said that at least two people died and another four were wounded in the Russian shelling of the town of Orikhiv.
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BERLIN — Germany says it would be able to cope if supplies of Russian oil were cut off due to an embargo or a decision by Moscow.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Russian oil now accounts for 12% of total imports, down from 35% before the war, and most of it goes to the Schwedt refinery near Berlin.
Habeck acknowledged that losing those supplies could result in a “bumpy” situation for the capital and surrounding region, with price hikes and shortages, but that wouldn’t result in Germany “slipping into an oil crisis.”
He said the issue of an oil embargo would be discussed at an EU energy ministers meeting in Brussels, attended by also India. Still, he added that “other countries aren’t so far yet and I think that needs to be respected.”
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark has summoned Russia’s Ambassador in Copenhagen on Monday to explain the violation by a Russian military reconnaissance plane of Danish airspace last week.
The plane, an AN-30 propeller plane, first briefly entered the Danish airspace late April 29 east of the Danish Baltic Island of Bornholm before flying into Swedish airspace.
Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said Monday on Twitter that it was “extremely worrying in the current situation.”
Over the weekend, Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said the violation was “unacceptable” and “unprofessional.”
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador over comments made by the Russian foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism.
In an interview with an Italian news channel, Sergey Lavrov explained that Ukraine could still have Nazi elements even if some figures, including the country’s president, were Jewish.
“Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean anything,” he said, according to an Italian translation.
In a statement Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called the remarks “unforgivable and scandalous and a horrible historical error.”
“The Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” Lapid said. “The lowest level of racism against Jews is to blame Jews themselves for antisemitism.”
Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem called the remarks “absurd, delusional, dangerous and deserving of condemnation.”
The stern reaction stands in contrast to Israel’s position on the war in Ukraine, where it has tried to maintain a semblance of neutrality. It relies on Russia for security coordination in Syria and has been measured in its criticism of Russia’s invasion. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has also tried mediating between the two countries, though the efforts appear to have stalled.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark will become the first Nordic country to reopen its diplomatic mission in Kyiv, meaning Danes “can have a direct cooperation by having our embassy and ambassador in the heart of the Ukrainian capital,” Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said Monday.
Kofod said the improved security situation meant that Ambassador Ole Egberg Mikkelsen and his staff can return to Kyiv, where their embassy reopens Monday.
However, Kofod who had traveled to the Ukrainian capital for the reopening of the embassy, told Danish media that “this is not a normal situation” as he spoke of the overall circumstances in Ukraine. Denmark, he added, still advises against all travel to the country where there “is a fierce war.”
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ISTANBUL — Turkey’s president says the war in Ukraine shouldn’t negatively affect the tourism season.
After prayers marking the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “very sensitive” about Turkey’s need for tourism revenue and has already pledged to give his support.
Turkey suffers from skyrocketing inflation and needs tourists’ foreign currencies. Erdogan added Saudi tourists would also be arriving following his visit to Saudi Arabia last week.
In an interview with Greek state broadcaster ERT, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian tourism brought revenue to neighboring Greece and Turkey and called this “blood money.” Zelenskyy pointed to a double standard where Turkey acted as a meditator between Ukraine and Russia while preparing destinations for Russian tourists.
Erdogan said he’ll speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week to discuss speeding up evacuations from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol and to find a way for grain exports from Ukraine and Russia.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The British military believes more than a quarter of all troops Russia deployed for its war in Ukraine are now “combat ineffective.”
The comment Monday came as part of a daily briefing on Twitter the British Defense Ministry has offered about the ongoing war in Ukraine. The British military believes Russia committed over 120 so-called “battalion tactical groups” into the war since February, which represents 65% of all of Moscow’s combat strength.
The ministry said, “It is likely that more than a quarter of these units have now been rendered combat ineffective.”
Combat ineffective is a term that refers to a military’s ability to wage war. Losing soldiers to wounds and death, as well as having equipment damaged or destroyed, affects that.
The British military said that some of Russia’s most elite forces, like the VDV Airborne, “have suffered the highest levels of attrition.”
It added: “It will probably take years for Russia to reconstitute these forces.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Svyatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Regiment that is helping defend the last section of Mariupol not occupied by the Russians, said he was glad evacuations had begun.
Palamar hoped the evacuations from the Azovstal steel mill continue until everyone in the plant, civilians and soldiers, has gotten out. It’s been difficult even to reach some of the wounded inside the plant, he told The Associated Press in an interview from Mariupol on Sunday.
“There’s rubble. We have no special equipment. It’s hard for soldiers to pick up slabs weighing tons only with their arms,” he said.
The Azovstal plant is strewn with mines, rockets, artillery shells and unexploded cluster ordnance, he said.
He said the presence of children and civilians makes it harder to fight, and there are many injured people in the plant. There’s not enough water, he said, and the air smells of decomposing bodies.
The fighters in the plant will continue to resist until they receive an order not to, Palamar said.
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Maa Jaisa Koi Nahi! We are clueless without mothers. Somehow, they always know exactly where our things are kept. They are our best guides and nobody can empathize like them. They have this almost supernatural ability to know everything about our lives even when we make our best attempts to keep secrets. It's like they can sense everything.
Regardless of our age, we will always be kids to them. And as we grow up, we realize how we have been unnecessarily mean to them. Safe to say, at one point in time, we all have taken our moms for granted. And mother's day becomes that yearly reminder to acknowledge their irreplaceable presence. But shouldn't this be done every day and not on just one special occasion?
When we speak of celebrating mothers and expressing how pivotal they are to our lives, there are some adorable Hindi songs that are out there that just strike the right chord with our hearts. Here's to those melodies that reiterate the importance of 'maa' in our lives in the most heartwarming way.
1. Chunar by Arijit Singh
"Jab jab mujhpe hai,
Utha sawaal
Maai teri chunariya lehraai..."
2. Aisa Kyun Maa by Sunidhi Chauhan
"Aankhein dikhaye mujhe jab zindagi,
Yaad mujhe aati hai tere gusse ki.
Daata bhi toh tune mujhe, phoolon ki tarah,
Kyun nahi maa saari duniya teri tarah..."
3. Mumma by Kailash Kher
"Yun to main sabse nyaara hoon
4. Maa by Shankar Mahadevan
"Jab bhi kabhi papa mujhe
Jo zor se jhoola jhulate hain maa
Meri nazar dhoondhe tujhe, sochu yahi
Tu aa ke thaamegi maa..."
5. Tu Kitni Achhi Hai by Lata Mangeshkar
"Apna nahi tujhe sukh dukh koi
6. Janam Janam by Atif Aslam & Pritam
"Bachpan se ab tak maa se kya seekha
7. Meri Maa by K.K. & Pritam
"Teri baton mein, apni har ik main
8. Kabhi Yaadon Mein by Palak Muchhal & Arijit Singh
"Tu aasman mera jahan lage mujhe
9. Yeh Bandhan Toh by Udit Narayan & Alka Yagnik
"Tere paavan charnon mein
10. Maa Meri Maa by Rahul Vaidya
"Tera gussa bhi jhootha hai
11. Meri Maa by Jubin Nautiyal
"Khamoshiyon ko meri,
12. Tu Kitni Acchi Hai cover by Neha Kakkar
"Dukhan laagi hai, maa teri ankhiyan
Which one stirred your soul the most? | https://www.scoopwhoop.com/music/heartwarming-hindi-songs-for-mothers/ | 2022-05-06T00:51:57Z | https://www.scoopwhoop.com/music/heartwarming-hindi-songs-for-mothers/ | true | 1 |
US panel to focus on Native American missing, slain cases
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Nearly 40 law enforcement officials, tribal leaders, social workers and survivors of violence have been named to a federal commission tasked with helping improve how the government addresses a decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans and Alaska Natives, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Thursday.
The committee’s creation means that for the first time, the voices guiding the Interior and Justice departments in the effort will include people most affected by the epidemic, said Haaland, the first Native American to lead a cabinet department.
She said the panel includes members with diverse experiences and backgrounds, representing communities from Alaska and Washington to Arizona, Oklahoma and Michigan. It will craft recommendations on how the government can better tackle a disproportionately high number of unsolved cases in which Native Americans and Alaska Natives have disappeared or been killed.
“It will take a focused effort — and time — to unravel the many threads that contribute to the alarming rates of these cases,” Haaland said during a virtual event.
Some members of Congress have expressed concern that work to address the crisis as required under the law isn’t on track. In the case of appointing members to the commission, federal officials are more than a year behind schedule.
The Not Invisible Act, signed into law in October 2020, required that the commission be named by February 2021 and that findings be made public last month.
Another law signed around the same time directed the U.S. Attorney General’s Office to find ways to increase cooperation among law enforcement agencies, provide tribes resources and address data collection. Savanna’s Act was named for 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, who went missing while pregnant in 2017 before her body was found in a North Dakota River.
U.S. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, who faces a tough reelection campaign; Jon Tester of Montana; and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the vice-chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, outlined their concerns in a letter earlier this week.
“Both of these laws outlined specific time frames and deadlines for implementation; however, it is unclear which provisions have been undertaken, and it appears that almost every deadline has been missed,” the lawmakers wrote.
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Thursday the naming of the commission marks a major milestone that follows ongoing work by a separate steering committee to marshal more federal resources to address the problem.
She also announced the creation of a new position within the executive office of U.S. attorneys that will be responsible for working with victims and families to ensure they have a voice while navigating the criminal justice system.
Federal officials also plugged work being done by the FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which now has 17 offices across the country that have at least one agent dedicated to solving casing involving missing or slain Native Americans.
As for the 37-member commission, its mission includes tracking and reporting data on missing-person, homicide and human trafficking cases and increasing information sharing with tribal governments on violent crimes investigations and other prosecutions on Indian lands.
The commission is expected to hold hearings and gather testimony before making recommendations to the Interior and Justice departments to improve coordination among agencies and to establish best practices for state, tribal and federal law enforcement. The panel also is tasked with boosting resources for survivors and victims’ families.
Meanwhile, some communities already have created their own response plans to address the problem. In New Mexico, officials on Thursday rolled out the state’s plan, highlighting goals that include building more support services for survivors and families, doing more outreach on education and prevention and leveraging resources for tribal judicial systems.
Fawn Sharp, president of the tribal advocacy group National Congress of American Indians, said during Thursday’s virtual event that although funding for law enforcement in Indian Country has increased in recent years, it doesn’t come close to meeting the needs.
She pointed to research showing that failure to provide funding undermined the ability to provide adequate public safety in tribal communities.
“Having the authority to hold perpetrators accountable is an important first step, but tribal nations cannot follow through to hold bad actors accountable without adequate and consistent funding for tribal justice systems,” she said.
Other advocates said they were hopeful the federal commission’s recommendations will cover the need for safe housing for victims of domestic violence and other social services and health care that could help prevent violence.
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Fonseca reported from Flagstaff, Arizona.
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These Are the Counties In the Boise City, ID Metro Area Where COVID-19 Is Growing the Slowest
After adding over 326,000 new cases throughout the last week, the U.S. now has more than 80.3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 980,000 COVID-19-related deaths -- the highest death toll of any country.
New cases continue to rise at a steady rate. In the past week, there were an average of 13.4 daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 Americans -- essentially unchanged from the week prior, when there were an average of 10.8 daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 people.
While COVID-19 has spread to nearly every part of the country, cities continue to be the sites of major outbreaks. Experts agree that the virus is more likely to spread in group settings where large numbers of people routinely have close contact with one another, such as colleges, nursing homes, bars, and restaurants. Metropolitan areas with a high degree of connectivity between different neighborhoods and a large population may be particularly at-risk.
In the 50 largest metro areas, the incidence of coronavirus grew at an average rate of 16.0 new cases a day per 100,000 residents in the past week -- 25.9% greater than the case growth in all counties outside of metro areas.
The Boise City, ID, metro area consists of Ada County, Canyon County, Gem County, and two other counties. In the past week, there were an average of 5.4 new coronavirus cases every day per 100,000 Boise City residents, less than the national figure. The metro area’s average daily case growth in the most recent week is essentially unchanged from the week prior, when there were an average of 3.8 daily new cases per 100,000 Boise City residents.
The spread of coronavirus depends on a variety of factors and can vary even between neighboring counties. Within the Boise City metro area, COVID-19 is growing the slowest in Boise County. There were an average of 1.1 new cases per day per 100,000 residents in Boise County during the past week, the least of the five counties in Boise City with available data.
Case growth in the Boise City metro area varies widely at the county level. In Gem County, for example, there were an average of 17.0 new cases per day per 100,000 residents in the past week -- the most of any county in Boise City and far more than the case growth rate in Boise County.
Just as Boise County has the slowest case growth in the Boise City area, it also has the lowest incidence of cases overall. As of April 28, there were a total of 14,787.2 confirmed cases per 100,000 residents in Boise County, the fewest of the five counties in the metro area. For comparison, the U.S. has so far reported 24,741.0 cases per 100,000 Americans nationwide.
The pandemic has led to the closure of thousands of consumer-facing businesses around the country. These changes have led to widespread job loss and record unemployment. These changes have led to widespread job loss and record unemployment. In Boise County, unemployment peaked at 16.2% in April 2020. As of June 2021, the county's unemployment rate was 4.5%.
To determine the county in every metropolitan area where COVID-19 is growing the slowest, 24/7 Wall St. compiled and reviewed data from state and local health departments. We ranked counties according to the average number of new daily COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in the seven days ending April 28. To estimate the incidence of COVID-19 at the metropolitan level, we aggregated data from the county level using boundary definitions from the U.S. Census Bureau. Population data used to adjust case and death totals came from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey and are five-year estimates. Unemployment data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is not seasonally adjusted.
These are all the counties in Idaho where COVID-19 is slowing (and where it's still getting worse).
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The Australian Taxation Office is cracking down on an $850 million fraud being spruiked on social media that involves people inventing fake businesses to claim GST refunds.
Operation Protego is probing potentially fraudulent payments made to about 40,000 Australians who have each claimed on average around $20,000.
The ATO is working with banks, the Reserve Bank and an AUSTRAC-led coalition of law enforcement and financial industry players to clamp down on the scam.
It involves offenders setting up sham businesses and ABN applications then submitting fictional Business Activity Statements to get a false GST refund.
ATO Deputy Commissioner Will Day says information on how to attempt the fraud is being shared online, especially via social media.
"We are working with social media platforms to help remove content promoting this fraud, but if you see something that sounds too good to be true, it probably is," Mr Day said in a statement.
"The people who have participated in this fraud are not anonymous. We know who they are and we will be taking action."
Taxpayers needed to be on high alert and remember that the ATO did not offer loans, advertise loans or hand out government disaster payments.
"People who have participated in this fraud may have unwittingly followed advice they have read online, claiming to help access a loan from the ATO, or receive other financial government support such as a disaster payment," Mr Day said.
"However, for others there was nothing accidental or unintentional about setting up a fake business in their own name and seeking an unearned refund.
"We are urging anyone involved to face the music and come forward now rather than face ... penalties and criminal charges." | https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/ato-probing-40000-aussies-for-tax-fraud-c-6698622 | 2022-05-06T00:53:58Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/ato-probing-40000-aussies-for-tax-fraud-c-6698622 | false | 6 |
Andrew Woolfolk, popularly known for being Earth, Wind & Fire's longtime saxophonist, has passed away at the age of 71; what was his cause of death?. Fellow bandmate Philip Bailey took to Instagram to confirm the tragic news and recalled their early years, saying they met in High School and quickly became friends and bandmates.
Severe weather will stretch from eastern Kentucky and. southern West Virginia to eastern Tennessee, the western. Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia and southeastern Mississippi. tomorrow. The main hazards will be flooding downpours, hail. and damaging wind gusts. Farther north, a steady and soaking. rain is expected from central Indiana to Pennsylvania. Some.
UPDATE 4:42 p.m. Oklahoma DPS reports that both lanes of US 287 and US 385 at the Oklahoma/Colorado line are back open. Original story CIMARRON COUNTY, O.K. (KMAR/KCIT) — Officials from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety reported Wednesday that northbound US 287 and US 385 between Boise City are closed due to a crash […]
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VANCOUVER, BC, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Galiano Gold Inc. ("Galiano" or the "Company") (TSX: GAU) (NYSE: GAU) reports first quarter ("Q1") operating and financial results for the Company and the Asanko Gold Mine ("AGM"), located in Ghana, West Africa. The AGM is a 50:50 joint venture ("JV") with Gold Fields Ltd (JSE: GFI) (NYSE: GFI) which is managed and operated by Galiano. All financial information contained in this release is unaudited and reported in US$.
Asanko Gold Mine Key Metrics (100% basis):
- Production: Gold production of 42,343 ounces, in line with 2022 production guidance of 100,000- 120,000 ounces of gold.
- Cost performance: Total cash costs per ounce1 of $1,361 and all-in sustaining costs1 ("AISC") of $1,559/oz during the quarter, resulting in positive cash flows from operations of $3.9 million and AISC margin1 of $12.0 million.
- Financial performance: Reported gold revenue of $77.4 million generated from 41,929 gold ounces sold at an average realized price of $1,846/oz. Reported a net loss of $13.6 million during the quarter following the recognition of a $21.0 million severance liability, and Adjusted EBITDA1 of $13.1 million.
- Focus on exploration: Deep directional drilling commenced at the Nkran deposit aimed at defining the continuity and extension of mineralization below the limits of observed Mineral Resources. The results of this program will be used to evaluate the underground potential of Nkran. Exploration drilling continued at Greater Midras South while additional resource definition drilling progressed at Miradani and Nkran Cut 3.
- Culture of Safety: Strong safety performance with no lost-time injuries ("LTI") nor total recordable injuries ("TRI") reported during the quarter, resulting in 12-month rolling LTI and TRI frequency rates of 0.11 and 0.21 per million employee hours worked, respectively. The AGM has now achieved 6.3 million employee hours worked without an LTI.
- Stable liquidity: $45.3 million in cash, $13.1 million in gold sales receivables and $4.1 million in gold on hand and no debt as of March 31, 2022.
- Workforce optimization: Undertook a process of rationalizing the AGM's workforce. Severance notifications were issued and personnel necessary to maintain current operations have been retained with new employment contracts. Management expects to realize near-term and sustainable cost savings and a more streamlined and efficient operation over the remaining life of mine as a result of the rationalization.
Galiano Gold Highlights:
- Stable balance sheet: Cash on hand of $50.4 million and $8.7 million in receivables as at March 31, 2022, while remaining debt-free.
- Earnings: Reported a net loss of $1.5 million or $0.01 per share for Q1 2022.
- Board and management changes: Marcel De Groot and Shawn Wallace confirmed that they will not be standing for re-election at the Company's upcoming Annual General Meeting, and Greg Martin, former CFO of SSR Mining Inc., will be nominated for election at that meeting. On March 23, 2022, the Company announced that Fausto Di Trapani had stepped down as CFO of the Company to pursue another opportunity, and the Company appointed Matt Freeman, SVP Finance, as its new CFO, in line with the Company's succession plan.
"Production for the quarter was in line with expectations and is on track to meet 2022 production guidance." said Matt Badylak, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are nearing completion of mining at both Esaase and Akwasiso and have started to supplement mill feed with stockpile material which currently is performing in line with our expectations. We continue to advance the technical work we have previously outlined and will provide periodic updates as we progress through these work programs. We anticipate providing an update to the AGM's Mineral Reserves post the completion of this work, in Q1 2023. Finally, during the quarter, we successfully initiated a rationalization of the AGM's workforce which, despite an upfront cost, will deliver immediate cost savings and enable a more streamlined and efficient operation going forward."
Asanko Gold Mine - Summary of Q1 2022 Operational and Financial Results (100% basis)
- The AGM produced 42,343 ounces of gold during the quarter, as the processing plant achieved milling throughput of 1.5Mt of ore processed at a grade of 1.3g/t with metallurgical recovery averaging 69%. Refer to the Company's news release dated February 25, 2022 for further details on lower plant recovery.
- Sold 41,929 ounces of gold in Q1 2022 at an average realized gold price of $1,846/oz for total revenue of $77.5 million (including $0.1 million of by-product silver revenue), a decrease of $33.3 million from Q1 2021. The decrease in revenue quarter-on-quarter was a function of a 33% reduction in sales volumes partly offset by a 5% increase in realized gold prices relative to Q1 2021.
- Total cost of sales (including depreciation and depletion and royalties) amounted to $67.0 million in Q1 2022, a decrease of $7.9 million from Q1 2021. The decrease in cost of sales was primarily due to fewer gold ounces sold and a $4.5 million positive net realizable value ("NRV") adjustment on stockpile inventory due to higher gold prices in Q1 2022, which were partly offset by higher ore transportation costs ($2.0 million increase).
- Total cash costs per ounce1 were $1,361 in Q1 2022 compared to $989 in Q1 2021, a 38% increase. Cash costs were higher in Q1 2022 due in part to lower gold sales volumes which had the effect of increasing fixed production costs on a per unit basis, higher ore transportation costs, and general inflationary pressures on fuel and consumables and government levies. These factors were partially offset by the above mentioned positive NRV adjustment on stockpile inventory in Q1 2022 that was credited against production costs.
- Income from mine operations for Q1 2022 totaled $10.6 million compared to income from mine operations of $35.9 million in Q1 2021. The reduction in income from mine operations was due to a $33.3 million decrease in revenue, partly offset by a $7.9 million decrease in cost of sales (as described above).
- The AGM generated $3.9 million of cash flows from operating activities during Q1 2022 compared to $35.4 million of cash flows from operating activities during Q1 2021. The decrease in cash flows from operations was primarily due to lower revenues from lower gold production and higher AISC1.
- In light of the changing nature of operations at the AGM, the JV has undertaken a process of rationalizing its workforce. Severance notifications were issued resulting in a $21.0 million severance liability recorded by the AGM at March 31, 2022, and personnel necessary to maintain current operations have been retained with new employment contracts. Despite the upfront cost associated with the restructuring, management expects to realize near-term and sustainable costs savings and a more streamlined and efficient operation going forward as well as ensuring the severance liability is permanently eliminated over the next two years.
Galiano Gold Inc. – Summary Q1 2022 Financial Results
- The Company reported a net loss after tax of $1.5 million in Q1 2022 compared to net income after tax of $13.0 million in Q1 2021. The decrease in earnings during Q1 2022 was due to a reduction in the JV's net earnings.
- Cash used in operating activities in Q1 2022 was $3.2 million, compared to $4.7 million in Q1 2021. The decrease in cash used in operations was primarily due to an increase in accounts payable and accrued liabilities, partly offset by an increase in receivables related to the Company's JV service fee.
- As at March 31, 2021, the Company had cash on hand of $50.4 million and $8.7 million in receivables for a gross liquidity position of $59.1 million and no debt.
1 Non-IFRS Performance Measures
The Company has included certain non-IFRS performance measures in this press release. These non-IFRS performance measures do not have any standardized meaning. Accordingly, these performance measures are intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Refer to the Non-IFRS Measures section of Galiano's Management's Discussion and Analysis for an explanation of these measures and reconciliations to the Company's and the JV's reported financial results in accordance with IFRS.
- Operating Cash Costs per ounce and Total Cash Costs per ounce
Operating cash costs are reflective of the cost of production, adjusted for share-based payments and by-product revenue per ounce of gold sold. Total cash costs include production royalties of 5%. Excluded from operating cash costs are one-time severance charges and net realizable value adjustments on stockpile inventory resulting from lower expected gold recovery recorded in Q4 2021 as the magnitude of such adjustments are not indicative of current period costs. - All-in Sustaining Costs Per Gold Ounce
The Company has adopted the reporting of "all-in sustaining costs per gold ounce" ("AISC") as per the World Gold Council's guidance. AISC include total cash costs, corporate overhead expenses, sustaining capital expenditure, capitalized stripping costs, reclamation cost accretion and lease payments made to and interest expense on the AGM's mining and service contractors per ounce of gold sold. - Adjusted EBITDA
EBITDA provides an indication of the Company's continuing capacity to generate income from operations before taking into account the Company's financing decisions and costs of amortizing capital assets. Accordingly, EBITDA comprises net income (loss) excluding interest expense, interest income, amortization and depletion, and income taxes. Adjusted EBITDA adjusts EBITDA to exclude non-recurring items and to include the Company's interest in the adjusted EBITDA of the JV. Other companies and JV partners may calculate EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA differently. - Adjusted net (loss) income
The Company has included the non-IFRS performance measures of adjusted net (loss) income and adjusted net (loss) income per common share. Neither adjusted net (loss) income nor adjusted net (loss) income per share have any standardized meaning and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to other measures presented by other issuers. Adjusted net (loss) income excludes certain non-cash items from net income or net loss to provide a measure which helps the Company and investors to evaluate the results of the underlying core operations of the Company and its ability to generate cash flows and is an important indicator of the strength of our operations and the performance of our core business.
Galiano's vision is to build a sustainable business capable of long-term value creation for its stakeholders through a combination of exploration, accretive M&A activities and the disciplined deployment of its financial resources. The Company currently operates and manages the Asanko Gold Mine, located in Ghana, West Africa which is jointly owned with Gold Fields Ltd. The Company is strongly committed to the highest standards for environmental management, social responsibility, and health and safety for its employees and neighbouring communities. For more information, please visit www.galianogold.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements and information contained in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable U.S. securities laws and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which we refer to collectively as "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are statements and information regarding possible events, conditions or results of operations that are based upon assumptions about future conditions and courses of action. All statements and information other than statements of historical fact may be forward looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "seek", "expect", "anticipate", "budget", "plan", "estimate", "continue", "forecast", "intend", "believe", "predict", "potential", "target", "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" and similar words or phrases (including negative variations) suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook.
Forward-looking statements in this news release include, but are not limited to: the operating plans for the AGM under the JV between the Company and Gold Fields; plans to transition from mining to processing stockpiles (and the benefits that may arise therefrom), and with respect to the re-start of mining operations thereafter; and activities to be completed while mining activities are temporarily paused. Such forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions, including, but not limited to: the Company and Gold Fields will agree on the manner in which the JV will operate the AGM, including agreement on development plans and capital expenditures; the price of gold will not decline significantly or for a protracted period of time; the accuracy of the estimates and assumptions underlying Mineral Resources estimates; the ability of the AGM to continue to operate, produce and ship doré from the AGM site to be refined during the COVID-19 pandemic or any other infectious disease outbreak; the Company's ability to raise sufficient funds from future equity financings to support its operations, and general business and economic conditions; the global financial markets and general economic conditions will be stable and prosperous in the future; the ability of the JV and the Company to comply with applicable governmental regulations and standards; the mining laws, tax laws and other laws in Ghana applicable to the AGM and the JV will not change, and there will be no imposition of additional exchange controls in Ghana; the success of the JV and the Company in implementing its development strategies and achieving its business objectives; the JV will have sufficient working capital necessary to sustain its operations on an ongoing basis and the Company will continue to have sufficient working capital to fund its operations and contributions to the JV; and the key personnel of the Company and the JV will continue their employment.
The foregoing list of assumptions cannot be considered exhaustive.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. The Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained herein. Some of the risks and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release, include, but are not limited to: the mineral resource estimates may change and may prove to be inaccurate; mineral reserves may not be reinstated; metallurgical recoveries may not be economically viable; risks associated with the Company ceasing its mining operations during 2022; the Company does not currently have a LOM estimate for the AGM due to the withdrawal of the mineral reserve; actual production, costs, returns and other economic and financial performance may vary from the Company's estimates in response to a variety of factors, many of which are not within the Company's control; AGM has a limited operating history and is subject to risks associated with establishing new mining operations; sustained increases in costs, or decreases in the availability, of commodities consumed or otherwise used by the Company may adversely affect the Company; adverse geotechnical and geological conditions (including geotechnical failures) may result in operating delays and lower throughput or recovery, closures or damage to mine infrastructure; the ability of the Company to treat the number of tonnes planned, recover valuable materials, remove deleterious materials and process ore, concentrate and tailings as planned is dependent on a number of factors and assumptions which may not be present or occur as expected; the Company's operations may encounter delays in or losses of production due to equipment delays or the availability of equipment; outbreaks of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases may have a negative impact on global financial conditions, demand for commodities and supply chains and could adversely affect the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations and the market price of the common shares of the Company; the Company's operations are subject to continuously evolving legislation, compliance with which may be difficult, uneconomic or require significant expenditures; the Company may be unsuccessful in attracting and retaining key personnel; labour disruptions could adversely affect the Company's operations; the Company's business is subject to risks associated with operating in a foreign country; risks related to the Company's use of contractors; the hazards and risks normally encountered in the exploration, development and production of gold; the Company's operations are subject to environmental hazards and compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations; the effects of climate change or extreme weather events may cause prolonged disruption to the delivery of essential commodities which could negatively affect production efficiency; the Company's operations and workforce are exposed to health and safety risks; unexpected costs and delays related to, or the failure of the Company to obtain, necessary permits could impede the Company's operations; the Company's title to exploration, development and mining interests can be uncertain and may be contested; geotechnical risks associated with the design and operation of a mine and related civil structures; the Company's properties may be subject to claims by various community stakeholders; risks related to limited access to infrastructure and water; the Company's exploration programs may not successfully reinstate mineral reserves; risks associated with establishing new mining operations; the Company's common shares may experience price and trading volume volatility; the Company has never paid dividends; the Company's revenues are dependent on the market prices for gold, which have experienced significant recent fluctuations; the Company may not be able to secure additional financing when needed or on acceptable terms; Company shareholders may be subject to future dilution; risks related to the control of AGM cashflows and operation through a joint venture; risks related to changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates; risks relating to credit rating downgrades; changes to taxation laws applicable to the Company may affect the Company's profitability and ability to repatriate funds; ability to repatriate funds; risks related to the Company's internal controls over financial reporting and compliance with applicable accounting regulations and securities laws; non-compliance with public disclosure obligations could have an adverse effect on the Company's stock price; the carrying value of the Company's assets may change and these assets may be subject to impairment charges; risks associated with changes in reporting standards; the Company's primary asset is held through a joint venture, which exposes the Company to risks inherent to joint ventures, including disagreements with joint venture partners and similar risks; the Company may be liable for uninsured or partially insured losses; the Company may be subject to litigation; damage to the Company's reputation could result in decreased investor confidence and increased challenges in developing and maintaining community relations which may have adverse effects on the business, results of operations and financial conditions of the joint venture and the Company and the Company's share price; the Company may be unsuccessful in identifying targets for acquisition or completing suitable corporate transactions, and any such transactions may not be beneficial to the Company or its shareholders; the Company must compete with other mining companies and individuals for mining interests; risks related to information systems security threats; the Company's growth, future profitability and ability to obtain financing may be impacted by global financial conditions; and the risk factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Information Form.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, you are cautioned that this list is not exhaustive and there may be other factors that the Company has not identified. Furthermore, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in, or incorporated by reference in, this news release if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as otherwise required by applicable law.
Neither Toronto Stock Exchange nor the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities on Staten Island have charged the grandson of former Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro with attempted murder, weeks after a shooting inside his Fort Wadsworth home.
Steven Molinaro, 33, initially was arrested for felony marijuana and gun charges after police responded to the residence on Lyman Avenue on April 27 and found a 21-year-old woman — who sources have described as the defendant’s on-again-off-again girlfriend— lying on a bed with a single gunshot wound to the chest. Authorities say Molinaro, a second male and the victim were the only three people inside the house at the time.
Considering the new charges of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault, the arraignment judge Thursday raised Molinaro’s bail to $500,000 cash or $750,000 bond. The latter requiring 10%, or $75,000, for his conditional release.
The second male, 34-year-old Almir Ramic is charged with felony possession of marijuana in connection with the incident, court documents show.
NEW DETAILS REVEALED
Prosecutors with the Richmond County District Attorney’s office allege Molinaro is responsible for the bullet that pierced the victim’s liver, hit her spine and has remained lodged in her body despite two attempts by surgeons to remove it.
“The victim remained intubated at the time the defendant was arraigned last week, thus detectives could not speak with her,” explained assistant district attorney Taylor Goodspeed, who stopped short of saying she fingered the defendant in the shooting.
A spokesman for the district attorney’s office said he was unable to elaborate any further.
Conversely, Molinaro’s attorney Chad Seigel argued Thursday that police body worn camera footage turned over by the prosecution shows the victim tell responding officers that someone other than Molinaro had pulled the trigger. He declined to repeat that name.
There also is a discrepancy with the timeline in which the incident unfolded.
Prosecutors said the defendant waited nearly an hour to call for help while the woman laid bleeding on the bed, unable to reach her own cell phone.
Seigel responded he has proof that his client, who faces 25 years in prison if convicted, in fact dialed 911 three times and that it did not take him an hour to do so.
Prosecutors stated that when emergency crews arrived, Molinaro claimed the victim’s ex-boyfriend shot her and fled the scene.
Video surveillance, however, shows that no one else besides Molinaro, Ramic or the victim entered or exited the house in the “relevant time period,” said prosecutors, who added they don’t believe Ramic was in the room where the shooting occurred.
Additionally, there’s footage of Molinaro throwing a bag into what’s believed to be his trash can, where investigators later found a loaded, 9mm semi-automatic gun that matched a shell casing inside the house, authorities said.
“Microscopic analysis confirmed that this shell casing was fired from the gun that the defendant placed in the garbage pail,” Goodspeed stated.
“TELL US THIS MAN DID IT”
Seigel said the body cam footage also shows incompetency on the part of responding officers, who were “peppering (the victim) with questions while she’s lying there bleeding — not trying to save her but pointing to (Molinaro) saying, ‘did he do it...tell us this man did it.’”
He went on to say the prosecution hasn’t specified who identified his client as the shooter.
“All we have is a complaint that references ‘witnesses’ without identifying who they are; there’s no statement that she in fact identified Mr. Molinaro and I don’t know that she did so your honor,” he said. “And if she did, it’s highly questionable given her initial statement that it was not him.”
A spokesman for the district attorney’s office said he could neither confirm nor deny whether it was the victim who identified the defendant.
Molinaro meanwhile appeared to have a black eye in court Thursday, for which his attorney said he could not explain.
The defendant’s only words during his appearance in court were “yes ma’am,” and “yes your honor.”
BLACK MARKET MARIJUANA
Authorities said a man who owns a property in California seized for being used as a marijuana grow house attempted to bail Molinaro out of jail.
The man instead was questioned by detectives and arrested for outstanding warrants in Manhattan and California, prosecutors said Thursday.
At the time of the shooting, police say they seized about 50 pounds of marijuana in vacuum sealed bags and $100,000 cash from Molinaro’s home on Lyman Avenue. Sources told the Advance/SILive.com the property is owned by his family.
Seigel refuted claims that Molinaro’s acquaintance is involved in the black market marijuana business, describing him instead as a real estate developer and adding there’s no evidence against him showing his direct involvement in the operations of the grow house.
COMMUNITY TIES
In addition to his grandfather’s political past on Staten Island, Molinaro’s mother currently serves on Community Board 2.
She was in attendance Thursday, and according to Seigel has been “extremely supportive” of her son, adding that Molinaro and his family “have strong ties to Staten Island.”
The defendant, however, also has a criminal record in New York and in California.
In 2016, he was arrested in Sonoma County, Calif., when authorities said a drug-sniffing dog found more than 100 pounds of marijuana in his rental car, Advance/SILive.com records show.
Prior to that, he had served more than three years in prison after pleading guilty in 2006 to attacking two 14-year-olds in separate incidents. He was ordered to stay away from the victims, perform community service, remain drug-free and adhere to a curfew.
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DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) _ Franchise Group, Inc. (FRG) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $12.3 million.
The Delaware, Ohio-based company said it had net income of 25 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.29 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.08 per share.
The tax preparer posted revenue of $1.14 billion in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.1 billion.
Franchise Group expects full-year earnings to be $5 per share, with revenue expected to be $4.45 billion.
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--Analyzing data from the prevaccination era, researchers say findings may help explain higher rates of COVID-19 among Black and Hispanic patients--
PHILADELPHIA, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neighborhood characteristics, including poverty and crowding within homes, were associated with higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 in pregnancy during the prevaccination era of the pandemic, according to a new study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The findings, which were published today in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, may partially explain the high rates of COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, among Black and Hispanic patients.
"By now it is well understood that the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Hispanic and Black communities in the United States, and our study identifies potential factors that contribute to this phenomenon in pregnancy," said Heather H. Burris, MD, MPH, an attending neonatologist with the Division of Neonatology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and first author of the study. "Addressing the structural racism that has led to persistently different living conditions by race and ethnicity in the United States, and investing in residential communities, will be key to advancing health equity."
Studies have shown that Hispanic and Black people are 2.8 times more likely to be hospitalized and twice as likely to die from COVID-19 compared with White counterparts. These disparities have also been reported among pregnant patients, with Hispanic and Black patients more likely to have a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy. Indeed, in prior research, CHOP investigators reported that positivity for SARS-CoV-2 was five times higher among pregnant Black and Hispanic patients compared with pregnant White patients in a hospital-based cohort in Philadelphia. However, the factors contributing to such racial and ethnic disparities were not fully understood.
To better understand the role neighborhood environments might play in driving these disparities, the researchers analyzed a cohort of 5,991 pregnant patients who gave birth at two hospitals in Philadelphia between April 13 and December 31, 2020. Using serum samples obtained for clinical purposes, researchers led by Scott Hensley, PhD at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Microbiology tested the samples for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, which would indicate current or prior infection, given that vaccines were not yet available and antibodies persist for some time after infection. Race and ethnicity were determined based on patients' self-reported answers in their medical record. The researchers also geocoded patients' residential addresses to assess three Census tract variables: community deprivation, based on factors such as the proportion of residents with income below the federal poverty line, without a high school degree, and lacking medical insurance; racial segregation, based on to what extent a neighborhood was all Black or all White or somewhere in between; and crowding, defined as the proportion of residences with more humans than rooms in the house.
Examining the entire cohort, the researchers found that 9.4% of all patients tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Higher rates of positivity were seen among Hispanic (19.3%) and Black (14%) patients, compared with Asian (3.2%) and White (2.7%) patients, as well as those of another race or ethnicity (5.9%). Using statistical tools, the researchers found that deprivation and crowding were associated with positivity for SARS-CoV-2, whereas segregation was not. Their statistical analysis showed that crowded housing might explain 6.7% of the Hispanic-White disparity and neighborhood deprivation might explain 10.2% of the Black-White disparity.
Although the paper did not examine why deprivation and crowding led to increased SARS-CoV-2 positivity, the researchers hypothesized that close quarters likely led to shared ambient air, insufficient ventilation, and an inability to quarantine, allowing the virus to spread more easily. Additionally, the authors noted that Hispanic and Black women are more likely to be essential personnel who could not work from home, which may have placed Hispanic and Black patients at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 exposure.
"This study adds to the body of work demonstrating that neighborhoods affect health and that pregnant people with fewer resources are at higher risk for complications, including infection with SARS-CoV-2," said senior author Karen M. Puopolo, MD, PhD, an attending neonatologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Chief of the Section on Newborn Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital. "The pandemic has underscored the need for structural changes to support health equity, which will lead to better outcomes for pregnant patients and their families."
Burris et al. "Neighborhood Characteristics and Racial Disparities in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Seropositivity in Pregnancy," Obstetrics and Gynecology, June 2022, DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000004791
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
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THE death of 57-year-old David Bennett, the first patient to receive a heart transplant from a pigmay have been caused by a swine virus, according to information released on Wednesday (4) by the scientific journal MIT Technology Review.
According to transplant surgeon Bartley Griffith, the heart was affected by cytomegalovirus, a pig virus, which caused an infection that, although preventable, is linked to devastating effects in transplants.
THE Historic transplant was performed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in the United States, in January of this year. However, after two months of the procedure, the patient ended up dying because “his condition began to deteriorate”, according to the note released by the university.
For Griffith, the virus may have been decisive for the death of Bennett, who had undergone a successful surgery with the prospect of optimism both for his recovery and for the future of transplants between humans and animals.
“We are beginning to understand why he passed away,” the surgeon said in an April 20 webinar hosted by the American Society of Transplantation.
innovative technique
The donor pig belonged to a herd that underwent a genetic modification procedure performed by biotech company Revivicor, which also supplied the pig used in a groundbreaking kidney transplant on a brain-dead patient in New York in October.
The donated organ remained in a machine to preserve it before surgery, and the team also used a new drug along with other conventional substances to suppress the immune system and prevent organ rejection. It is an experimental compound manufactured by Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals.
About 110,000 Americans are currently awaiting organ/transplantation, and more than 6,000 patients die each year before receiving it, according to official figures. To meet the demand, doctors have long been interested in so-called xenotransplantation, or cross-species organ donation, with experiments dating back to the 17th century.
Early research focused on the extraction of primate organs. For example, a baboon heart was transplanted into a newborn baby known as Baby Fae in 1984, but it only survived for 20 days.
Today, pig heart valves are widely used in humans, and pig skin is grafted onto people who have suffered burns.
Pigs are ideal donors because of their size, fast growth, large litters and the fact that they are readily available and raised for food. | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/05/06/man-who-received-transplanted-pig-heart-may-have-contracted-swine-virus-news/ | 2022-05-06T01:16:19Z | https://playcrazygame.com/2022/05/06/man-who-received-transplanted-pig-heart-may-have-contracted-swine-virus-news/ | false | 1 |
Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig have discovered the organ harbored an animal virus but cannot yet say if it played any role in the man’s death.
A Maryland man, 57-year-old David Bennett Sr., died in March, two months after the groundbreaking experimental transplant. University of Maryland doctors said Thursday they found an unwelcome surprise — viral DNA inside the pig heart. They did not find signs that this bug, called porcine cytomegalovirus, was causing an active infection.
But a major worry about animal-to-human transplants is the risk that it could introduce new kinds of infections to people.
Because some viruses are “latent,” meaning they lurk without causing disease, “it could be a hitchhiker,” Dr. Bartley Griffith, the surgeon who performed Bennett’s transplant, told The Associated Press.
Still, development is under way of more sophisticated tests to “make sure that we don’t miss these kinds of viruses,” added Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director of the university’s xenotransplant program.
The animal virus was first reported by MIT Technology Review, citing a scientific presentation Griffith gave to the American Society of Transplantation last month.
For decades, doctors have tried using animal organs to save human lives without success. Bennett, who was dying and ineligible for a human heart transplant, underwent the last-ditch operation using a heart from a pig genetically modified to lower the risk that his immune system would rapidly reject such a foreign organ.
The Maryland team said the donor pig was healthy, had passed testing required by the Food and Drug Administration to check for infections, and was raised in a facility designed to prevent animals from spreading infections. Revivicor, the company that provided the animal, declined to comment.
Griffith said his patient, while very ill, had been recovering fairly well from the transplant when one morning he woke up worse, with symptoms similar to an infection. Doctors ran numerous tests to try to understand the cause, and gave Bennett a variety of antibiotics, antiviral medication and an immune-boosting treatment. But the pig heart became swollen, filled with fluid and eventually quit functioning.
“What was the virus doing, if anything, that might have caused the swelling in his heart?” Griffith asked. “Honestly we don’t know.”
The reaction also didn’t appear to be a typical organ rejection, he said, noting the investigation still is underway.
Meanwhile doctors at other medical centers around the country have been experimenting with animal organs in donated human bodies and are anxious to attempt formal studies in living patients soon. It’s not clear how the pig virus will affect those plans.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The rackin’ frackin’ sassafrassin’ salty language on hundreds of Maine license plates is one step closer to being removed from the road.
Maine’s secretary of state released draft rules Thursday that would eliminate references to genitalia, sex acts and profanities that proliferated after the state severely loosened language restrictions on so-called vanity license plates in 2015.
The rough and foul language on the plates led to a steady stream of complaints.
It was all too much even for a secretary of state who previously served as director of American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, which has fought for First Amendment rights to freedom of expression.
“Incitement to violence, profanity, ethnic, racial, religious, or other slurs, or reference to illegal or criminal activity – all of which unfortunately can be seen on Maine registration plates today – are all directly contrary to the public interest,” Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in a statement.
It has been a delicate balancing act.
A federal judge ruled in 2020 that California couldn’t enforce a ban on vanity license plates it considers “offensive to good taste and decency.”
So Maine’s rules had to be narrowly tailored.
The draft rules would prohibit license plates that falsely suggest an association with a government agency; encourage violence or unlawful activities; attack race or religion; suggest genitalia or sex acts; or represent profane or obscene language. A public hearing is scheduled later this month.
There would be a mechanism for a motorist to appeal if a vanity plate was rejected because of objectionable language.
Things quickly got out of control when the state all but dropped its review process in 2015 after previously banning “obscene, contemptuous, profane or prejudicial” messages on license plates.
Cathie Curtis, deputy secretary of state overseeing the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, said the coarse and offensive language that has since cropped up routinely elicited complaints.
Last year, the Maine Legislature adopted a bill restoring a review, and the governor signed it into law.
In Maine, there are about 121,000 vanity license plates on the roads in a state with about 1.3 million residents. It’s unclear how many of them could be removed; state officials previously estimated hundreds. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/weird-news/maine-close-to-ridding-license-plates-of-obscenities/ | 2022-05-06T01:17:48Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/weird-news/maine-close-to-ridding-license-plates-of-obscenities/ | false | 32 |
Kingsport has a water rate problem.
A local government consulting firm said it’s so bad that the consultants had never seen anything like it.
“This is one of the more, truthfully, one of the most complicated rate structures we’ve seen,” said Delaney Ridgely, a consultant with Raftelis, a consulting firm for local governments and utilities.
Ridgley made her comments during a presentation to the Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday.
During the presentation, the firm proposed that the city increase sewer and water rates due to flat revenues and less consumption.
Ridgley also proposed that the city revamp its water rate structure entirely and offered a solution that she said would me more fair and equitable for all existing water customers.
“So, you’re going to fix this?” Alderman Betsy Cooper asked during the meeting.
“That’s right,” Kingsport Deputy Manager Ryan McReynolds replied.
The proposed water rate changes come after the city has had problems with billing over the past several months. City officials said that was due to failing water meters across the customer base.
Those meters are currently being replaced, but for the future, there could be changes to the structure.
Ridgley said there are currently minimum charges by meter size and variations from inside the city and outside the city for customers.
“Is this uncommon what you described?” Kingsport Mayor Pat Shull asked.
Ridgley said minimum charges were not uncommon, but to have it also looped in with meter size is. She said having varying rates from inside and outside cities is also uncommon.
City officials said the variation in the rates historically came from the city taking over smaller water utilities throughout the area. The variation in rates between city residents and non city residents was due to it being more complicated to pump water to rural areas.
Ridgley said the new rates would come under a standard differential rate for all customers. The minimum 2,000 gallons a month charge would also go away.
It would be phased in, though, with customers getting 1,500 gallons free of charge for the next two years then going to a “pure charge” by year three.
The rates would also be easy enough that they could be put on the city’s website and advertised.
She said this would be fair to everyone.
“We’re only charging people for what they are using,” she said.
The Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen is set to discuss the water and sewer rates Monday as part of its budget hearings. The BMA will then vote on the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget in June. The fiscal year starts on July 1. | https://www.timesnews.net/news/consultant-says-kingsport-has-one-of-the-worst-water-rate-structures-ever-seen/article_30867ae2-ccb8-11ec-9357-9b67afa055bd.html | 2022-05-06T01:18:56Z | https://www.timesnews.net/news/consultant-says-kingsport-has-one-of-the-worst-water-rate-structures-ever-seen/article_30867ae2-ccb8-11ec-9357-9b67afa055bd.html | true | 1 |
Clarksburg (West Virginia) reports highest ever first-quarter sales tax revenue, council approves temporary pay increase for chief and deputy chief of police
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — The city of Clarksburg brought in its highest ever first-quarter sales tax revenue during 2022, city officials reported Thursday.
The news was announced during the city manager's report in a council conference session held prior to the regular meeting on Thursday. City Finance Director Kim Karakiozis said first-quarter reports date back to 2017.
The 1% city sales tax was approved in November 2015 and went into effect on July 1, 2016. Revenue from the tax is used by the city to pay debt service on the Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center, to fund police and fire department pensions, and for infrastructure projects, with the balance going to the General Fund.
In Fiscal Year 2020-21, the last year for which full data is available, the city brought in just under $4.4 million in sales tax revenue for the year, according to budget documents.
Interim City Manager Mark Kiddy called Thursday's revenue report a "bright moment" for the city.
Clarksburg Mayor James Marino also said it is "very, very good news for our city," in his comments during the regular meeting.
"We're coming out of that COVID, and we're coming out strong," Marino said. "... I know I've been very pretty pessimistic here lately. ... I hope that the next quarter is even bigger than this one. I was very pleased to hear that, and I hope we keep that moving forward."
In the only item of new business on the agenda, the council unanimously approved temporary salary increases for the chief of police, who was named interim city manager following the departure of former-city manager Harry Faulk, and the deputy police chief, who will take on increased duties at the department while the chief serves in his interim role.
Chief Kiddy's salary will be increased to match the former city manager's salary of $100,000 for the period he is serving as the interim city manager, whereas Deputy Chief Randy Hartley's salary will increase to just under $82,800 while he takes on the duties of police chief. Both salary increases are temporary.
Kiddy and Hartley, during the conference session preceding the meeting, noted that the Clarksburg Police Department took in 71 pounds of prescription medication for proper disposal during the DEA-sponsored National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday. This was a lesser amount than what the department has taken in during previous events, Hartley said.
Senior staff Writer JoAnn Snoderly can be reached at 304-626-1445, by email at jsnoderly@theet.com or on Twitter at @JoAnnSnoderly.
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VIDEO: Hundreds of birds take over couple’s home, cleanup continues
REDDING, Calif. (KRCR) - A couple in California said they recently came home to hundreds of swallows in their house.
Gary and Patti Reitemeyer said they returned home after making a short trip to find the birds had taken over.
“As we pulled up, we were thinking, you know, 20 birds or so. That’s no big deal. We opened the door, and it was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. There were birds flying everywhere. I mean, it was crazy,” Gary Reitemeyer said.
The Reitemeyer’s home is in Redding, California, and they said apparently, the birds got into their home by going through the chimney.
“We were ducking and dodging. I was grabbing a handful of birds; I grabbed maybe three or so at a time,” Gary Reitemeyer said.
The couple said it hasn’t been easy getting things back to normal after the bird takeover as their cleanup continues.
“You can’t get all that bird stuff out of the furniture. So, all of the furniture is gone, and all of the carpets are gone. The blinds are gone, everything,” Gary Reitemeyer said.
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DENVER (AP) — Garrett Hampson and Brendan Rodgers each hit their first home runs of the season — both three-run shots — for the Colorado Rockies in a 9-7 win over the Washington Nationals on Thursday.
Randal Grichuk also homered for the Rockies, who took two of three in the series. Daniel Bard got three outs for his eighth save in nine chances. He has had six consecutive scoreless outings.
Washington outhit the Rockies 15-10, and Juan Soto and Keibert Ruiz had solo home runs. Maikel Franko added three hits, including an RBI double.
Down 2-0, the Rockies went off on Aaron Sanchez (1-2) for a four-run second inning, ignited by successive doubles from Ryan McMahon and Rodgers. Sam Hilliard reached on a fielding error by shortstop Alcides Escobar, his third error in two days, and Hampson followed with a drive into the left-field bleachers.
Washington had the makings of a big inning in the top of the fifth when César Hernández singled, Soto walked and Josh Bell doubled in a run. But catcher Dom Nunez picked Soto off at third for the first out and after a single by Yadiel Hernandez, Jhoulys Chacin (3-1) come on and got Maikel Franco to ground into an inning-ending double play.
C.J. Cron’s one-out RBI single in the bottom of the fifth chased Sanchez. One out later, Rodgers drove a 1-2 offering from Josh Rogers over the center field fence to boost Colorado’s lead 8-3.
Ruiz homered to lead off the sixth and Franco and Ruiz had RBI doubles in the seventh as Washington closed to within two runs before Grichuk’s solo shot off Kyle Finnegan in the bottom of the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Nationals: DH-INF Nelson Cruz was not in the starting lineup for a second straight game due to some muscle tightness in his back. Manager Dave Martinez said he was hopeful Cruz could return to the lineup for Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels.
Rockies: OF Kris Bryant (back) is making progress in his rehab but is not expected to be ready to come off the 10-day injured list on Friday, which is when he’s eligible for reinstatement. No timetable has been set yet for his return.
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Nationals: RHP Joan Adon (1-4, 7.33 ERA) is slated to start Friday night in the series opener at the Los Angeles Angels.
Rockies: RHP Chad Kuhl (3-0, 1.90 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday night at Arizona against RHP Merrill Kelly (2-1, 1.27 ERA).
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Northcape Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in Invesco BulletShares 2024 Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:BSCO – Get Rating) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm purchased 488,958 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $10,674,000. Invesco BulletShares 2024 Corporate Bond ETF makes up about 3.6% of Northcape Wealth Management LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 5th largest position. Northcape Wealth Management LLC owned approximately 0.54% of Invesco BulletShares 2024 Corporate Bond ETF as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Numerous parts of India, including Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and others got relief from severe heatwave conditions due to Western Disturbance. However, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD), a fresh heatwave spell is likely to commence over several parts of the country from May 5 and will spread over northwest India from May 6.
According to IMD, there possibility of formation of a low-pressure area over South Andaman Sea on 06th May, 2022 and intensification into Depression during the subsequent 48 hours with northwestwards movement. Under its influence heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely over the Nicobar Islands on today and Heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places very likely over Andaman & Nicobar Islands from 06th-08th May. Also, the fishermen are advised not to venture into the Andaman Sea during the next 5 days; into Southeast & East-central Bay of Bengal during the next 4 days and into Westcentral Bay of Bengal on 08th & 09th May.
i) Fresh spell of Heat wave conditions likely to commence over Northwest India from 07th May and over central India from 08th May, 2022:
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Meanwhile, Isolated to scattered light/moderate rainfall very likely over Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal-Sikkim and Odisha during the next 5 days with isolated thunderstorm/lightning/gusty winds (speed reaching 40-50 kmph) over the region on 05th & 06th May and also over Northeast India. | https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/mild-to-severe-heatwave-conditions-to-prevail-from-may-6-over-several-parts-of-india-imd-articleshow.html | 2022-05-06T01:31:26Z | https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/mild-to-severe-heatwave-conditions-to-prevail-from-may-6-over-several-parts-of-india-imd-articleshow.html | true | 1 |
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Don't sit in your offices, go put and preach Akufo Addo's 'good works' Allotey Jacobs challenges govt officials
Don't sit in your offices, go put and preach Akufo-Addo's 'good works' - Allotey Jacobs challenges govt officials | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/television/videos.php?ID=155942 | 2022-05-06T01:46:34Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/television/videos.php?ID=155942 | true | null |
The Public Entity Saba has raised the salary of a group of employees who earned below the minimum amount that is needed to cover their monthly costs.
The few dozen civil servants earned less than the amount that was calculated in a report by the Regioplan as the necessary minimum that a single parent needs. The Executive Council recently decided that the salaries of these civil servants go up retroactively on January 1, 2022.
The Island Council has been advocating the much-needed increase for this group of workers. However, due to financial constraints mostly caused by the free allowance which has been too low to cover the government’s operational and structural costs, it was not possible to do this sooner, explained Commissioner Bruce Zagers.
The Public Entity Saba is of the opinion that this increase can now be implemented because of the anticipated increase in the free allowance based on the new governing agreement in the Netherlands. “The Executive Council supports the position of the Island Council that correcting these salaries is a priority. Our employees work hard and should not receive a salary below the minimum amount that they need to cover their monthly costs,” Zagers said.
The Executive Council also decided that some civil servants will get a small amount added to their salary to help them with the inflation that has further raised the already high cost of living on Saba.
This measure went into effect retroactively on January 1, 2022.
The Public Entity Saba wants to have a more modern function house method for its employees. The Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) has been approached to assist the Public Entity Saba with this.
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George Russell 'will soon get on Lewis Hamilton's nerves', claims ex-F1 star Gerhard Berger after the new British star at Mercedes makes strong start to the season at the expense of his seven-time world champion team-mate
Former F1 star Gerhard Berger believes George Russell will soon 'get on the nerves' of team-mate Lewis Hamilton if he maintains his narrow early season advantage.
Although Mercedes have got off to their worst start in a season for nine years and look well short of competing for the title, Russell, in his first year with the team, is currently ahead of the seven-time world champion in the standings following positive early results.
The 24-year-old stands fourth in the world championship and is the only driver on the grid to have started the season with four consecutive top five finishes following his fourth place finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix last time out.
Hamilton by contrast endured a nightmare at Imola, finishing well outside of the points in 13th having been stuck in lower-field traffic for much of the race, leaving him seventh in the championship and already 19 points behind his British compatriot.
Berger, who won 10 grands prix in a career spanning from 1984 to 1997, believes that while the relationship between the pair has been good so far it won't take long for Russell to become an irritant to Hamilton should the early season form continue.
'He will soon get on Lewis' nerves,' the former McLaren and Ferrari star was quoted by Speedweek.com.
'Russell was one of the outstanding drivers at Imola. Like Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.'
Meanwhile, Russell expects Hamilton to bounce back at some point this year following a poor start to the season from the 37-year-old.
While Hamilton's form has been less consistent than Russell's, he has shown he can be faster than the former Williams driver, out-racing him in the season opener in Bahrain to gain a podium before applying heavy pressure at the Australian Grand Prix while the duo battled for third.
Russell believes that the best of Hamilton will soon come once the Mercedes team overcome the porpoising problem that has severely harmed the team's ability to battle Ferrari and Red Bull at this early stage of the campaign.
'Lewis has clearly got the pace,' Russell told Sky Sports F1. 'He's incredibly fast and he's showed that so far this year, but it's just been tricky for us as a team to get it done when the time is needed.
'When things have been more stable, Lewis has still been massively fast.
'I know there was a bit of a blip last weekend but I have no doubt he's going to come back and the way he's pushing the team and motivating the team is truly inspiring.
'We all want more. He wants more. Nobody is happy with the position we're in currently.' | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589674569018/george-russell-will-soon-get-on-lewis-hamilton-s-nerves-claims-ex-f1-star-gerhard-berger-after-the-new-british-star-at-mercedes-makes-strong-start-to-the-season-at-the-expense-of-his-seven-time-world-champion-team-mate | 2022-05-06T01:50:20Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2589674569018/george-russell-will-soon-get-on-lewis-hamilton-s-nerves-claims-ex-f1-star-gerhard-berger-after-the-new-british-star-at-mercedes-makes-strong-start-to-the-season-at-the-expense-of-his-seven-time-world-champion-team-mate | true | 1 |
Souths’ daunting $3.5m retention drive, longshot firms for Dally M gong: Jimmy Brings
The South Sydney Rabbitohs have started the ball rolling on the club’s $3.5 million retention drive as the Bunnies set about locking down some of the club’s biggest name players for 2024 and beyond.
Rabbitohs stars Latrell Mitchell, Cody Walker and Damien Cook are all free agents as of November 1 this year and headline a list which also includes young gun local juniors Blake Taaffe and Lachlan Ilias.
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South Sydney CEO Blake Solly confirmed to Fox League the Bunnies have kicked off negotiations around piecing the club’s long-term roster together as the Rabbitohs fight to keep the red and green premiership window open for as long as possible.
After Thursday night’s loss to the Broncos the Bunnies now sit four wins and five losses for the season.
“We’ve started things moving and in an ideal world we’d love to retain as many of our players as possible,” Solly said.
Mitchell, Walker and Cook are all clearly priority signings while the Bunnies off-contract list also extends to nine players in total including Tom Burgess, Liam Knight, Jacob Host and Saliva Havili.
Knight is signed until the end of next year but the front row forward is tipped to join supercoach and ex-Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett at the Dolphins at the end of this season.
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LONGSHOT NOW EARLY FAVOURITE FOR DALLY M GONG
Cowboys coach Todd Payten has emerged as an early contender for Dally M coach of the year with the way the Wests Tigers premiership-winner has transformed the North Queensland side.
Plenty of people were lined up about the Cowboys recruitment being way off with the signings of Chad Townsend and Tom Dearden but the under-rated halves combination have complimented one another perfectly.
Payten missed the Wests Tigers 2005 side putting on a bash for Panthers champion Royce Simmons when the Tigers upset South Sydney in round seven because the Cowboys were putting a clinic on against the Gold Coast in Townsville.
Plenty of the Wests Tigers 2005 premiership side were on hand at CommBank Stadium including John Skandalis, Pat Richards, Mark O’Neill, Dene Halatau, Robbie Farah and Daniel Fitzhenry.
Simmons was an assistant coach to Tim Sheens during 2005 and all of the club’s old boys still talk about the influence the champion Panthers hooker had on the side.
Some of the Tigers boys kicked on later in the night and didn’t leave Payten out of the celebrations by making sure they gave the North Queensland coach plenty of early morning phone calls to fill him in on proceedings.
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LEGEND WELCOMED BY SOUTHS PLAYERS TO TRAINING SESSION
Rabbitohs patriarch George Piggins was given a rock star reception when he showed up at South Sydney’s captains run on Wednesday at Redfern Oval.
Bunnies players including Latrell Mitchell, Cody Walker, Tom Burgess and coach Jason Demetriou were all more than happy to shake hands and thank the South Sydney icon for saving the Bunnies from extinction.
Piggins health battles have been well documented in recent times but thanks to the help of his great mates Norm Lipson and the Lahoods – Dr Jimmy and Peter – the Bunnies icon was able to enjoy a day out at his old stomping ground.
Rabbitohs head of football Mark Ellison played under Piggins as coach when the Bunnies were flying in the late 1980s while ex-captain Mark Andrews was also at Redfern to welcome the Bunnies champion of the people.
Still on South Sydney coach Demetriou, the Bunnies boss jokingly told the red and green dressing room they needed to get the two points against Manly in round eight because he was scheduled to appear on NRL 360 last Monday night and wanted to avoid a grilling.
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KNIGHTS $4 MILLION WORTH OF EXCUSES DON’T WASH
There’s been plenty made about Newcastle missing $4 million worth of playing talent as the Knights fight to snap a six-match losing streak.
But it’s worth remembering the Sydney Roosters were missing a similar amount of talent last season and still boxed on into week two of the finals.
The Knights have had a number of recruitment fails in recent times. From Wests Tigers halfback Luke Brooks over the summer to Broncos centre Kotoni Staggs last year to Cowboys young gun Helium Luki earlier this year – it’s becoming an extensive list.
They’ve also invested enormously in fullback Kalyn Ponga who raised plenty of eyebrows with his post-game interviews after the Knights 50-point flogging against the Melbourne Storm.
The Knights spine is the biggest problem area. With hooker Jayden Brailey injured, halfback Adam Clune injured and Jake Clifford taking some time out the Newcastle depth has been stretched to the limit. | https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2022-jimmy-brings-latrell-mitchell-rabbitohs-todd-payten-cowboys-george-piggins-kalyn-ponga-knights/news-story/3510a9b060d2dc340899959ca339cdc0 | 2022-05-06T01:53:09Z | https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2022-jimmy-brings-latrell-mitchell-rabbitohs-todd-payten-cowboys-george-piggins-kalyn-ponga-knights/news-story/3510a9b060d2dc340899959ca339cdc0 | true | 1 |
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico Military Institute secured the three seed for the upcoming state tournament. The Colts are led by pitcher Luis A. Patron, who leads the nation in strikeouts with 145 according to maxpreps. He believe his success on the mound comes down to the type of pitches he has in his arsenal.
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“I’m throwing my fastball, slider, curveball and two-seem,” Patron said. “That’s made me a good pitcher because the hitter cannot think about what pitches I’m going to throw. I’m really proud of me and my coaches that teach me how to play and the pitching coach that gives the signs to pitch.”
In other news, New Mexico United stopped the losing streak. The black and yellow didn’t get back in the win column, but did add a point in USL standings by way of a draw. Up next for New Mexico is a match with San Diego on Saturday.
Also, MMA fighter Jalin Fuller participated in weigh-ins for his upcoming LFA fight on Friday. He will get in the octagon against Myktybek Orolbay.
“You know this man is an original 155er,” Fuller said. “He’s stepping up on short notice as well to face me. He was suppose to fight on the card I just fought on but, his opponent fell through. So, he decided, hey, you know what? I need an opponent, you’re still good. Would you be that opponent? I was like yeah, but I don’t think you know what you’re asking for. I have an 80 and a half inch reach at six foot two. I believe he’s 5’10, maybe a 73 inch reach. There’s almost a foot of length between us and I am going to pick him apart from that range until he just can’t take it anymore and fold.” | https://www.krqe.com/fox-new-mexico/thursday-may-5-sports-desk/ | 2022-05-06T01:59:27Z | https://www.krqe.com/fox-new-mexico/thursday-may-5-sports-desk/ | false | 1 |
Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Announces Music Awards
The Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation (PASF) held its annual competition for music scholarships recently at the Music Academy of the West. Outstanding performers ages 16-29 competed for scholarships amounting to more than $27,000. Competition judges included musicians Paul Berkowitz, Armen Guzelimian and Emily Sommermann. Board president Deborah Bertling described...
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NICE, France (AP) — Russia’s military has launched a string of attacks on Ukraine’s railway network, which has been vital for moving Western arms to Ukrainian forces, evacuating refugees and exporting food.
A Russian official said the aim was to disrupt Western weapons deliveries. Experts say Ukraine’s railways appeared to be largely spared at the start of the invasion because Russian planners wanted them to move their own troops and arms across captured territory. The latest strikes still seem to seek more to damage than to destroy the system.
Here’s a look at the attacks, and their significance.
WHY ARE RAILWAYS SO IMPORTANT FOR UKRAINE?
The largely flat country has a vast railway network, which has proved invaluable from a military viewpoint for supplying key Western arms shipments — and has also helped in the exodus of refugees from Russian air assaults and land advances.
Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped its forces blunt Russia’s initial offensive. It also seems certain to play a central role in the battle for the Donbas in the east, which Moscow now says is its focus following its failure to take the capital, Kyiv.
The U.S. and other Western allies have increased weapons shipments at the urging of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned that Moscow will see any Western transport carrying weapons into Ukraine as a legitimate target.
The rail attacks were meant to disrupt the delivery of Western weapons, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Wednesday.
WHAT WERE THE LATEST TARGETS?
Russian forces used sea- and air-launchedprecision guided missiles to destroy power facilities at five railway stations across Ukraine over the past day.
Some attacks were concentrated in and around the western city of Lviv, close to the border with Poland that has been a gateway for the NATO-supplied weapons. Lviv’s mayor said the strikes damaged three power substations, knocking out electricity in parts of the city that has seen only sporadic attacks during the war and has become a haven for civilians fleeing the fighting.
HAS THE RAILWAY SYSTEM BEEN STRUCK BEFORE?
A Russian missile hit a crowded train station in eastern Ukraine last month, killing at least 52 people and wounding dozens more.
Thousands of civilians, mostly women and children fleeing the Donbas region, had gathered at the station in the town of Kramatorsk on April 8 when a missile hit.
Zelenskyy accused Russia’s military of deliberately attacking the station. Russia blamed Ukraine, saying its own forces don’t use the kind of missile that hit the station.
In late April, Russian targeted several railway junctions in the west of the country to disrupt weapons deliveries.
WHAT IS RUSSIA’S PLAN?
Russia seems to have largely spared Ukraine’s rail system at the outset of the invasion because it had planned to use it to move its own troops and arms across the country, which it had hoped to overrun quickly, military experts say.
“Now that they know they won’t be able to use it, they are striking the rail system that is likely carrying armor and reinforcements to the Ukrainians,” said retired French General Dominique Trinquand.
While Russians have been conducting precision attacks on the rail network and firing expensive missiles into its power supply lines in the past week, their goal still appears to be damaging rather than destroying the network.
“It won’t stop the Ukrainians, but it will disrupt them,” said Frank Ledwidge, a former British military intelligence officer. He said the Russians also aim to undermine Ukraine’s morale.
“It’s like saying, ‘Nowhere is safe’, ‘Your army can’t protect you’, ‘We reign over your country at will.’”
WHAT DOES THE US SAY?
A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the Pentagon’s assessment, said that while the Russians have tried to hit critical infrastructure around Lviv, specifically targeting railroads, there has been “no appreciable impact” on Ukraine’s effort to resupply its forces.
The official said it is not clear that the Russian strikes have been very accurate, and they also have not impeded efforts to get weapons into Ukraine.
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Jon Gambrell in Lviv, Cara Anna in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Lolita C. Baldor in Washington and John Leicester in Le Pecq, France contributed to this report.
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ST. PETE BEACH — A 23-year-old woman suffered non-life threatening injuries when she was struck by a Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputy on beach patrol about 1:08 p.m. May 4 on St. Pete Beach.
According to a media release from the sheriff’s office, Deputy Todd Brien, 58, had parked his 2017 fully Marked Chevrolet Tahoe facing west behind 4450 Gulf Boulevard. Brien was speaking to several pedestrians when he was dispatched to a 911 hang up call at another location.
When Brien made a right turn from his parked position, he struck Robin Diffenderfer while she was lying on her back in the sand, the media release said. The front driver side tire of the Tahoe drove over Diffenderfer’s right side and mid to upper back area.
Diffenderfer sustained non-life threatening injuries and was transported to the hospital. | https://www.tbnweekly.com/pinellas_county/crime_crashes_fire/article_9337135e-cc90-11ec-b713-6ba6f8f43442.html | 2022-05-06T02:05:54Z | https://www.tbnweekly.com/pinellas_county/crime_crashes_fire/article_9337135e-cc90-11ec-b713-6ba6f8f43442.html | true | null |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, May 8, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
845 PM CDT Thu May 5 2022
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Sulphur River Near Talco affecting Morris, Titus, Franklin and
Red River Counties.
For the Sulphur River...including Talco...Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive cars through flooded areas.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
For more hydrologic information, copy and paste the following website
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The next statement will be issued Friday evening at 845 PM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON TO LATE SUNDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Sulphur River Near Talco.
* WHEN...From Friday afternoon to late Sunday morning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:45 PM CDT Thursday the stage was 10.0 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
tomorrow afternoon to a crest of 22.0 feet early Saturday
morning. It will then fall below flood stage Saturday
afternoon.
- Flood stage is 20.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
22.1 feet on 05/12/2015.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
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4C Academy breaks ground on hydroponic greenhouse
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) -The 4C Academy broke ground Thursday on their hydroponics operation, which is a part of the school’s Commodore Gardens.
What started off as a school project has blossomed into something even bigger. Students at the 4C Academy have been working all school year to plant, build and ultimately, give back to the community.
“We’ve got 14 different career pathways here at the 4C Academy and each and every one of those pathways had a part in this garden, from our technology students that were developing a robotics system that sits over a raised bed garden to our construction students who built all of this infrastructure to our agri-business students who actually farm it and everybody in between,” said Chris Hatcher, CEO of 4C Academy.
Hatcher said that throughout the pandemic, 10,000 pounds of produce have already been donated to organizations around the community. But the next phase of the project, a 5,800 square foot hydroponics greenhouse, is expected to expand the garden’s mission.
“With the Hydroponics Greenhouse, it is our plan to really supply the school system and the cafeterias with some of their fresh produce,” Hatcher said.
Construction on the greenhouse starts this week and is expected to be finished in the late summer. While the goal behind the garden is to serve the community, students have also been served as the classroom has been brought outside throughout the school year.
“It’s allowed our students to take their academic knowledge, skill and technical training and apply it to real-world situations,” said Angie Gardner, 4C Acadamy principal.
Hatcher added that he’s hoping to help each of the student’s futures by exposing them to careers in the agricultural business.
“So what we’re doing in this garden space is informing our students about our state’s number one industry. There are a lot of career opportunities to participating in this industry and that’s what we’re trying to share in this space,” he said.
And according to some students, the garden has done that and more.
Devin Hall, video and audio student at 4C Academy, said the project has introduced him to a hands-on learning experience.
“It helped me get hands-on with my pathway and learn how to make videos and conduct interviews. And it’s just allowed many opportunities to showcase what I know,” he said.
Mckenzie Whitaker, agri-bussiness student, said that seeing everything come together has made her very proud to be a part of the creation of the garden. She encourages other students to also give back to their community.
“As far as students go, I want everyone to know that this is so easy to do in your backyard. It’s so easy to give back,” she said. “And as for my community, I want them to know how grateful I am that they’ll be able to take this kind of stuff home and share it with their families and help just the food insecurity we have here in Albany, Georgia.”
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S. Korea vows 'preemptive' steps against market volatility after Fed's rate hike
SEOUL, May 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance ministry vowed Friday to seek preemptive measures, if needed, to tackle market volatility "in an aggressive and swift manner" following the U.S. central bank's half-point rate hike.
On Wednesday (U.S. time), the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rates by a half-percentage point to curb the country's worst inflation in about four decades. The increase was the sharpest in 22 years.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said 50-basis point rate hikes "should be on the table at the next couple of meetings," though the committee is not actively considering even more aggressive rate hikes.
"As external uncertainties surrounding the South Korean economy have continued, concerns have increased over high volatility in South Korea's financial markets," First Vice Finance Minister Lee Eog-weon said, stressing the need for "preemptive responses."
"The government will closely monitor the market situation and risk factors with extra caution and implement stabilization measures actively and swiftly, if needed," he added.
Lee, however, noted the global uncertainties have had a limited impact on the South Korean economy up until now, citing the country's relatively resilient economic recovery and improved consumer sentiment in recent months.
South Korea's stock and currency markets got off to a weak start Friday. The benchmark stock price index had lost 1.2 percent, or 30.41 points, to trade at 2,647.16 as of 9:25 a.m., and the local currency was trading at 1,272 won per the U.S. dollar, down 5.7 won from Wednesday's close. The stock market closed Thursday for Children's Day holiday.
U.S. stocks plunged Thursday on renewed concerns over an economic slowdown due to high inflation and the Fed's monetary tightening, a sharp reversal from the previous day's large gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 3.12 percent, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite tumbled 4.99 percent.
In a separate meeting held Thursday, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said the results of the Fed's meeting largely matched market expectations and Powell's remarks appear to be regarded as "somewhat dovish."
But the BOK called for beefing up market monitoring, as surging inflation and the Fed's envisioned rate hikes are expected to boost uncertainties, along with prolonged market uncertainties caused by the war in Ukraine and the economic slowdown in China.
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Shock and disbelief gripped residents of one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods on Thursday as Toronto police revealed that the remains of a young girl had been discovered in a construction dumpster outside a home in the area.
Investigators said they haven’t been able to determine the girl’s cause of death, nor do they know just when she might have died, but they think her remains were placed in the dumpster sometime between last Thursday and Monday.
As police asked the public for help identifying the child, those who lived in the ritzy Rosedale neighbourhood, located north of the city’s downtown, said they were processing news of the discovery.
“It’s kind of crazy to think about, that that would happen,” said Mikkel Shiffman, who has lived in the house across the street from the discovery with his parents since he was four.
“It makes you feel that stuff like this happens a lot closer than you think.”
Officers responded to a call about remains found in a construction-disposal dumpster on Monday afternoon. The property where the remains were found is unoccupied and under construction, police said.
An autopsy completed on Wednesday identified the remains as those of a girl between the age of four and seven, investigators said. The girl may have died as early as the summer of 2021 or even before then, police said.
“Our first priority is to figure out who this little girl is,” Insp. Hank Idsinga told reporters. “We will get to the bottom of it no matter what it takes.”
On Thursday afternoon, yellow police tape could be seen stretched across the driveway of the home where the construction dumpster had stood. A police car was parked near the home, on a residential street.
At the end of a stone path beside the home’s driveway, a pot of pink flowers had been placed with a card that read “little one, we pray heaven has dried your tears.”
Steven Koshchuk, who lives around the corner from where the incident took place, said the news was jarring.
“I was extraordinarily shocked, not because of the neighbourhood or the demographics or whatever, just that someone would abuse and mistreat a child in that way and abandon them,” he said.
Terry Kirk, who has lived in the neighbourhood for about nine years, said it was difficult to think of “the circumstances around a child being treated that way.”
“It’s not something that’s part of everyday life that’s for sure,” she said.
Police said the remains of the girl had been found wrapped in a crochet blanket inside a plastic bag, and that bag was wrapped in a colourful blanket. Police shared images of both blankets in the hopes that someone will recognize them and help identify the child.
Jason Conover, who lives around the corner from where the remains were found, said he felt for whoever made the discovery.
“To find a child abandoned must have been awful for the person who did,” he said.
The girl was described as Black, of African or mixed African descent, and three feet, six inches tall with a thin build. Police said her hair was sectioned in four short ponytails, two of which were braided and secured with black and blue elastic bands.
“Kids don’t just die,” Idsinga, of Toronto police, said. “If anyone has any information whatsoever, please call us immediately.”
The Toronto police missing person’s unit and the homicide squad were working closely together on the case, police said. While some missing persons reports had come close to matching the profile of the girl whose remains were found, none were so far a definite match, Idsinga said.
Police would be looking at a charge of indignity to human remains in relation to the case but that could change rapidly as more information emerges, Idsinga said.
“We are investigating this death at its highest level,” he said. “We have the investigative assets in place to deal with wherever the evidence takes us.”
—Adena Ali, The Canadian Press
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And, as he recently told the Bulletin in an exclusive interview, he can not leave the island without enjoying his most popular local dish, the classic Spanish favourite, paella, and there is something quite special about having it cooked by the delightful Maria and her family at Can Paco in Banyalbufar and he always makes time for a visit when he is in Mallorca. Plus, the flavour of the paella would have been boosted by the fact that his Mallorcan dream, the Son Bunyola hotel, is coming true.
Sir Richard’s love affair with the island stretches back some 60 years. He first bought La Residencia in 1987, and transformed the hotel into one of the must luxurious and popular in the world and it was a Mecca for the rich and famous, not to mention royalty, such as the late Lady Diana, the Emperors of Japan and the Spanish royal family, leading lights from the worlds of art, culture and music and leading politicians, and guests from all over the world who, to this day, return to the hotel every year. And now, Sir Richard intends to return the Branson touch to Mallorca. | https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/05/06/100787/richard-branson-visits-new-hotel-mallorca.html | 2022-05-06T02:21:39Z | https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/05/06/100787/richard-branson-visits-new-hotel-mallorca.html | true | 1 |
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A Buffalo man who refused to allow first responders into his apartment to help a woman who had overdosed was sentenced Thursday in Erie County Court to 10 years in prison , according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Prosecutors said 29-year-old Keith Garcia was sentenced on Feb. 28 as a second violent felony offender on one count of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance in that case, one count of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in a second case, and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance in a third case.
Police broke the door down to gain entry to Garcia's apartment on June 15, 2019. He fought with first responders. The victim survived after Narcan was administered. Investigators found fentanyl, drug paraphernalia and packing material there.
On April 13, 2020, a front desk employee at a hotel on Pearl Street called 911 after receiving information that a guest had a gun. Buffalo police found a loaded illegal pistol and two ounces of cocaine inside Garcia’s room. He fled before he could be apprehended.
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The Russian military says its air force has destroyed 45 Ukrainian military facilities in the latest series of strikes. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the targets hit Thursday by the Russian air force included Ukrainian troops and weapons concentrations and an ammunition depot in the eastern Luhansk region.
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 ― The ringgit was broadly lower against the US dollar in the early session today as risk-off sentiment would continue to dominate the local note direction.
At 9.03am, the local note was pegged at 4.3635/3695 versus the greenback from yesterday’s close of 4.3465/3515.
Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd chief economist Mohd Afzanizam Abdul Rashid said the US dollar/ringgit is expected to remain weak today as concerns over possible aggressive tightening by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has spooked the market again.
He added that this was despite clear communication by the Fed after it deliberated its Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week.
“Also, the grim economic outlook shared by the Bank of England (BoE) after it hiked its interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.00 per cent may also add salt to the wound. The central bank is of the view the UK's economy to experience a contraction by 0.25 per cent in 2023 before resuming 0.25per cent growth in 2024.
“The main reason is none other than the rising inflationary pressures which may take a toll on consumer purchasing power and business margins while disruption in the supply chain along with military conflict in Ukraine would exert further pressure on inflation,” Mohd Afzanizam told Bernama.
At the moment, the US dollar-ringgit is trading above its support level of RM4.3420 while its resistant level is currently at RM4.449.
“Judging from the technical indicators, the downside risks to the ringgit are quite limited, given that the currency is already at an oversold position. We believe the ringgit could linger around RM4.35 today as risk-off sentiment will continue to dominate the ringgit direction,” he added.
Meanwhile, the ringgit was traded higher against a basket of major currencies.
It appreciated against the Singapore dollar to 3.1492/1540 from yesterday’s close of 3.1549/1588 and increased vis-a-vis the British pound to 5.3946/4020 from 5.4622/4685.
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Which camera flash is best?
To oversimplify, a camera works by recording the light that enters through its lens. If there isn’t enough light entering the lens, then you record a poor image — if you record an image at all. Many cameras, such as the ones in phones, have a built-in flash that’s just strong enough to take a simple photo in low light conditions. Professional-grade flashes like the Canon Speedlite 430EX III-RT Flash are much more powerful and can be minutely adjusted to take the best possible pictures.
What to know before you buy a camera flash
Compatibility
Compatibility comes down to how a camera flash physically connects to the camera and how its software connects. You should also consider the brand.
- Physical: Camera flashes typically connect using something called a hot-shoe bracket. Most professional-grade cameras have a hot-shoe bracket panel directly above the lens on top of their body. If they don’t have this panel, you may be able to connect it with a cable or wirelessly.
- Software: Even flashes that fit your camera may not have their full suite of functions available to you, though you should at least have access to its basic functions. Most flashes include a list of cameras they’re compatible with.
- Brand: When in doubt, consider buying a flash that matches your camera’s brand. Except in rare cases, it should work perfectly. Don’t be afraid to buy branded or generic flashes that don’t match your camera — just check its compatibility first.
Guide number
The guide number essentially relates to how powerful a flash is, and higher numbers mean higher power. You use the guide number to determine what your camera’s settings — namely its aperture and ISO — need to be in order to light your subject properly at varying distances.
Battery
Camera flashes run on their own battery or through your camera’s battery. Usually the largest and most powerful flashes require their own battery power, using either replaceable or rechargeable batteries. Flashes that use the camera’s battery access it through the hot-shoe bracket.
What to look for in a quality camera flash
Screen
The best camera flashes have screens that show the flash’s current settings, making it much easier to adjust them.
Through-the-lens and exposure compensation
Both of these optional modes make using your flash much easier.
- TTL mode lets the camera automatically adjust the flash for optimal picture quality.
- Exposure compensation mode adds a small amount of manual control when using a TTL mode. Typically, it gives you control over the flash’s intensity and your camera’s exposure.
How much you can expect to spend on a camera flash
Camera flashes typically cost $25-$750. Basic flashes for simple jobs cost less than $100 with better midrange options costing roughly $100-$200. The best flashes start at around $200.
Camera flash FAQ
Does the flash need to be connected to the camera to use it?
A. Some need to be directly connected to the camera. Others can be used remotely if connected by a cable, and a few can be used completely wirelessly.
Can I use multiple camera flashes at once?
A. Absolutely. In fact, it’s considered a standard practice to do so — if you have the time to set up a shot. In situations where you need to be relatively candid, one flash should still be enough. Take wedding photography, for example. You can set up multiple flashes for official photos after the ceremony and wander the reception with one attached flash.
How should I transport my camera flashes?
A. Cameras and their accessories are delicate, so you should transport everything in a good camera bag. Some camera flashes are compact enough to fit in a pocket, which may be necessary if your current job needs you to move around and change flashes quickly. You can also leave your flash attached to the camera. Just make sure to turn it off when you’re done with it.
What’s the best camera flash to buy?
Top camera flash
Canon Speedlite 430EX III-RT Flash
What you need to know: It offers excellent features and works with many camera brands.
What you’ll love: The body is small and lightweight, making it easy to travel with. Settings are easily adjusted, thanks to a dot-matrix LCD screen and multi-dial control button. The zoom flash head has a range of 24-105 millimeters, and it has a maximum guide number of 141 feet at ISO 100.
What you should consider: The flash may work with non-Canon cameras, but not all settings are available to them. Some consumers report issues with overheating, regardless of camera brand.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top camera flash for the money
Powerextra Flash Speedlite, 2.4G Wireless Flash Trigger Transmitter Kit
What you need to know: It’s wireless and affordable, and it works with most cameras.
What you’ll love: The kit includes the wireless camera flash, a miniature stand, a 2.4G wireless flash trigger and a user manual. The flash has a vertical and horizontal rotation angle of -7 to 90 degrees and 0 to 270 degrees, respectively. The flash trigger has a maximum range of 160 feet.
What you should consider: It isn’t compatible with most Canon cameras. Some customers had issues with battery life. Others struggled to contact customer support when issues arose.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Neewer NW561 LCD Display Flash Speedlite
What you need to know: The digital LCD display makes it a breeze to control.
What you’ll love: It’s compatible with most cameras that use a standard hot shoe mount. The flash recharges in 0.1 to 5 seconds. It has overheat protection, a power-saving mode and PC synchronization. It has vertical and horizontal rotation angles of 0 to 90 degrees and 0 to 180 degrees.
What you should consider: It isn’t compatible with recent Canon cameras. A few purchasers had issues with the flash suddenly not working after a few months.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Rock Bridge baseball lost a close one to Blair Oaks on Thursday by a score of 7-6.
The Bruins started the game down by six runs and managed to climb back to tie. The effort wasn't enough, as the Falcons scored one more to put them over the top.
This is Rock Bridge's second loss in a row after winning its previous nine games.
The Bruins are back in action at 5:00 p.m. Friday against Kickapoo High School at Rock Bridge.
Battle girls soccer defeats Laquey
Battle girls soccer is back in the win column, beating Laquey 2-1.
Battle had goals from freshman Kamryn Greer and junior Maliyah Miller.
Battle will be back on the pitch at 5:30 p.m. Friday to take on Wright City at home.
Hickman girls soccer beats Father Tolton
Fresh off a victory over Battle on senior night, the Kewpies kept the momentum going with a 2-0 victory over Tolton.
Sophomore Lucy Elfrink put the nail in the coffin, scoring the final goal for the Kewpies.
Hickman will be back in action at 7 p.m. Monday to take on Smith-Cotton on the road.
Tolton tennis fall to Moberly
Tolton boys tennis lost to Moberly 6-2.
The Blazers will be back in action at 4 p.m. Monday against Kirksville at home for the start Class 1 District 7 Tournament.
Cinco De Mayo Invitational canceled
Hickman, Battle and Tolton's Thursday tournament — Cinco De Mayo Invitational — at Lake of the Woods was canceled due to inclement weather.
The Kewpies, Spartans and Trailblazers all return to the course 9 a.m. Monday in MSHSAA Districts in Washington.
Battle baseball postponed
Battle baseball's matchup against Helias on the road was postponed due to inclement weather.
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The internal memo obtained by POLITICO of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade sent shockwaves across the country.
Roe v. Wade, decided almost 50 years ago, guarantees federal protections for women regarding reproductive rights and declared that access to legal abortion is a constitutional right.
If the U.S. Supreme Court follows through and issues this opinion, it would cause the states to fracture into those that allow abortion and those that ban it.
SF State Political Science Professor Amanda Roberti said while things could change, she’s not sure how severe the impact will be.
“Those of us who have been watching the abortion fight – have noted that we were going to get an opinion like this one that would significantly weaken Roe, or overturn it completely,” Roberti said. “So this wasn’t much of a surprise, only that the time that it came out was a surprise.”
This announcement came on the heels of a decision last fall by the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks.
On May 2, California Legislative Women’s Caucus Chair Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) and Vice Chair Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) criticized the opinion stating, “It’s about equity. This will be the first time my generation will lose a fundamental right, the right to choose.”
On Jan. 20, the California Legislative Women’s Caucus announced a united effort to strengthen and expand access to abortion with a partnership with the California Future of Abortion Council, a statewide coalition of reproductive freedom, sexual and reproductive healthcare allies, partners and leaders.
“The leak was a draft document,” Roberti said. “Abortion is still legal right now. Roe v. Wade is still the law – and because it’s a draft, also things could change in it, although I‘m not sure to what degree things will change.’’
Protest at Phillip Burton Federal Building
Hundreds of protestors gathered near the San Francisco Phillip Burton Federal Building Tuesday evening to voice their opposition to the draft opinion.
“We want abortion on demand and without apology,” said Margaret Lee, an attendee.
The movement was organized by the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice, San Francisco Chapter.
“We are out here today to defend our reproductive rights and we will stop at nothing to have our voices heard,” said Robin Campell.
Governor Newsom and top legislative leaders committed late Monday to put an amendment on the ballot this November to amend the California Constitution that will protect the reproductive rights of women and make abortion a Constitutional right in California.
“We know we can’t trust the Supreme Court to protect reproductive rights, so California will build a firewall around this right in our state constitution,” Newsom said in a joint statement with Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins.
The case in question, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court before the end of the June term.
The Center for Reproductive Rights is challenging a Mississippi ban on abortion. The state of Mississippi has asked the Supreme Court to rule there is no constitutional right to abortion, thus overruling the seminal case of Roe v. Wade.
Members of the Women’s Caucus have made women’s reproductive rights a priority for 2022. They submitted a package of 13 pending bills addressing the nationwide threat to women’s reproductive rights in accordance with recommendations from the Future of Abortion Council.
“We will never yield, we will never give up until a women’s right to choose is permanently protected,” said Mayor London Breed in opposition to the leaked SCOTUS draft opinion at the rally Tuesday evening.
Protesters gather on the corner of Market and Powell Street on Tuesday to voice their opposition to the Supreme Court’s draft opinion to reverse Roe v. Wade. This reversal would leave abortion to be decided by each individual state, a possibility that leaves women with uteruses fearful for the future of their bodily autonomy. (Garrett Isley / Golden Gate Xpress)
Protest from Powell & Market Streets
Hundreds in San Francisco took to the streets in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion to overturn abortion rights. Protestors gathered on Powell and Market Street.
Nayeli Zechman, a 20-year-old design student at SF State, felt desperate and angry about the news.
“I had to get out and say something,” Zechman said.
Attendance quickly grew as the march began. Protestors took up half of Market Street and chanted “racist, sexist, anti-gay, Christian fascist go away,” as they marched towards the Women’s Building, a women-led non-profit arts and education center located in San Francisco’s Mission District.
“The Supreme Court has declared war against women and our basic rights to control our own bodies,” said an organizer of the protest for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, in a statement. “The elitist Supreme Court is threatening war on women’s rights and the only force capable of putting a stop to them is the people of the United States mobilizing and organizing to defend our rights.”
Initially published by POLITICO, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that Roe v. Wade, “must be overruled,” because the Constitution makes no explicit reference to abortion. Alito continued in the draft to claim that Roe was “egregiously wrong from the start,” and its reasoning was “exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.”
A reversal of Roe v. Wade would leave abortion policy up to individual states. It is likely abortion access would remain accessible in Democratic-led states, while Republican-led states would pass severe limits or complete bans on the procedure.
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House Committee Approves Plan to Eliminate Sales Tax Hike by 2025
BATON ROUGE (The Center Square) — Legislation to wean the state off of a temporary 0.45% sales tax ahead of its expiration in 2025 cleared the House Committee on Ways and Means this week.
Committee members unanimously approved House Bill 438, sponsored by Rep. Tony Bacala, R-Prairieville, to address the temporary 0.45% sales tax that’s set to expire in mid-2025, which is expected to cost the state about $420 million in revenue.
HB 438 initially proposed to cut the tax to 0.35% starting with the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1, but Bacala amended the legislation to postpone the reduction until the following fiscal year. The bill would now cut the rate to 0.30% in July 2023, then to 0.15% in July 2024.
The temporary tax would then be eliminated completely on June, 30 2025.
“This a gradual reduction, equal amounts, over a two-year period, but really it’s three because the final is the natural expiration,” Bacala said.
Rep. Phillip DeVillier, R-Erath, questioned how the gradual drawdown would impact revenues.
“Next year … we would have $285 million of the $420 million to spend. In (fiscal year 2025), we would have … $152 million of $420 million to spend,” Bacala said.
Rep. Buddy Mincey, R-Denham Springs, questioned what the state would cut to compensate for the lost revenues.
Bacala said a more detailed look at the five year budget forecast is necessary to develop solutions, but stressed the bill is focused on providing a gradual adjustment rather than a fiscal cliff in 2025.
“We can have a gentle hill, or we can have a steep cliff,” he said. “That’s the choice we have here.”
“The other option is to vote to renew it, which I don’t think is appealing to anyone,” Bacala said.
Bacala noted that a tax incentive worth about $50 million sunsets at the same time as the 0.45% sales tax, so the net loss would be closer to $380 million in 2025.
“This isn’t a comfortable conversation, it’s going to be more uncomfortable the more we push it back,” he said. “As hard as it is to talk about this this year, it’s going to be tougher next year and tougher the following year.”
A similar bill, House Bill 1018, sponsored by committee Chair Rep. Rick Edmonds, R-Baton Rouge, would divert the revenue of the 0.45% sales tax to a “Temporary Sales Tax Fund.” The tax collections would then be deposited into four smaller funds dedicated to specific development projects, including a new Lake Charles bridge, a new Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge, expansion of the Interstate 49 corridor, and a Non-Federal Eligible Highway Program fund dedicated to road work.
HB 1018 also cleared the House Committee on Ways and Means on Tuesday, with a vote of 12-2.
“I think the wise thing to do is to start adjusting ourselves to the loss of that revenue,” Bacala said. “We can look at this bill. We can look at Rep. Edmonds’ bill. I’d like both of them to go to the floor so people will have choices.”
“I’d like to see two instruments go to the governor’s desk and the (legislative) body make the choice about which one is prime,” he said. | https://www.bizneworleans.com/house-committee-approves-plan-to-eliminate-sales-tax-hike-by-2025/ | 2022-05-06T02:47:05Z | https://www.bizneworleans.com/house-committee-approves-plan-to-eliminate-sales-tax-hike-by-2025/ | false | 3 |
ContextLogic Inc. (WISH) CEO Vijay Talwar on Q1 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
ContextLogic Inc. (NASDAQ:WISH) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 5, 2022 5:45 PM ET
Company Participants
Randy Scherago - Vice President, Investor Relations
Vijay Talwar - Chief Executive Officer
Vivian Lou - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Kunal Madhukar - UBS
Stephen Ju - Credit Suisse
Laura Champine - Loop Capital
Operator
Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Wish's First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only-mode. After the speakers' prepared remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to turn the conference over to Randy Scherago, Wish's Vice President of Investor Relations.
Randy Scherago
Hi everyone and welcome to Wish's first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. I am Randy Scherago, VP of Investor Relations and joining me today are new CEO, Vijay Talwar and our CFO, Vivian Lou.
Today's prepared remarks have been pre-recorded. There's also a slide deck that has been posted to our IR website, which is available for your reference. Once we are finished with Vijay, and Vivian's remarks, we will hold a live Q&A session.
The remarks made today include forward-looking statements that are related to among other things, our financial expectations, business and turnaround plans, the turnaround timelines, expectations regarding merchant relationships, the potential impacts of our strategic, marketing, and product initiatives, including ad spending, and anticipated returns of our investments and their ability to drive future growth.
Our actual results may differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements if certain risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect. Forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties which are described in today's earnings release and our periodic reports that are filed with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements that we make on this call are based on our beliefs and assumptions today, and we disclaim any obligation to update them.
Also, during this call, we will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial numbers and metrics. A reconciliation of our non-GAAP to GAAP results is included in today's earnings release, which you can find on our Investor Relations website, which is also filed with the SEC. A replay of this call will be posted to our Investor Relations website.
At this time, I would like to turn over the call to our company CEO, Vijay Talwar.
Vijay Talwar
Thank you, Randy. I would like to thank everyone for joining our first quarter 2022 earnings call today. On this investor call, I will provide a quick update for everyone on our first quarter financial highlights and operational achievements.
After my initial comments, Vivian Lou, our CFO will discuss the first quarter numbers in more detail. Then I will provide some closing comments before opening up the call to your questions.
In the first quarter of 2022, total revenues were $189 million. This was a year-on-year decrease of 76%, which was largely driven by a lower advertising spend in Q1. We generated an adjusted EBITDA loss of $40 million, which was favorable to the $60 million to $70 million EBITDA loss that we had previously forecasted. In Q1, we finished the first quarter with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of approximately $1 billion. At this time, I would like to remind our investors of the three foundational pillars that I talked about on the last quarter's call.
First, we are committed to constantly improving our consumer experience. Second, we will continue to strive to deepen our merchant relationships. And third, we will work as a cohesive team to achieve operational efficiencies. We believe that if we execute on all three pillars, we should experience better metrics, higher margins and substantial revenue growth. The first pillar is improving the consumer experience. Over the past three months, we've made many positive strides to improve our consumer experiences and consumer satisfaction rates.
On our last earnings call, we spoke about our plans for a Wish app redesign. During the first quarter, the new redesigned app was successfully deployed to Android globally, along with the addition of a deal's hub feature. The app will be deployed to iOS globally by the end of Q2. The App redesign has already begun to show some higher levels of engagement and traction with our consumers.
In February, we launched Wish Clips, which is our shoppable video feature. Wish Clips is available globally to all Android and iOS consumers. Our marketplace merchants have been rapidly adopting this feature and have already uploaded more than 170,000 high-quality shoppable videos. We are excited to share that with the deployment of Wish Clips, we're already seeing positive trends in buyer engagement.
We're making great strides to become a more consumer-focused company. We have seen improvements in customer service response times and poor shipment refund rates. I'm proud to report that our investments across our shopping experience, customer service, pricing, shipping and delivery have driven significant improvements in our Net Promoter Score, or NPS. NPS is considered a critical metric in determining a company's current success with consumers.
We experienced positive improvements in NPS from December to January and further improvement from January to February and from February to March. In total, we've seen a doubling in our NPS score in a matter of a few months. Based on the improving metrics in our business operations, we plan to ramp up our advertising spend earlier than originally forecasted. Given our early green shoots, we envision ramping up our advertising spend across our existing and new marketing channels in June 2022 rather than later in Q3.
Our second pillar is deepening our merchant relationships. In Q1, we began testing our new pricing strategies to improve marketplace orders and sales. Based on our positive pricing test during Q1, these new pricing strategies resulted in about 20% increase in orders versus our control group. Given the success with the new pricing test, we plan to roll this out to all of our merchants in Europe in Q2…..
Over the past few months, we've been stepping up our efforts to enhance our flagship program called Wish Standards and to ensure compliance with these standards. This includes a new invite-only policy for onboarding new merchants onto our marketplace. We also continued removing noncompliant merchants faster and more efficiently.
We continue to provide logistics services as part of our end-to-end solution for our merchants. The percentage of merchants using our logistics services continued to increase year-on-year during the first quarter of 2022. Time to door and on-time delivery rates will continue to remain a high priority in the near future.
Now, I would like to talk about our third pillar, which is working as a cohesive team to achieve operational efficiencies and take care of our employees. Following the reduction in workforce that took place in Q1, the current team continues to demonstrate a great deal of determination in working quickly and systematically to achieve operational efficiencies and move forward on our turnaround strategy.
For example, in March, the company’s shipping operations in Shenzhen and Shanghai were both impacted by COVID shutdowns. Our employees on the ground in China responded quickly and moved more than 90% of our shipments out of the Shenzhen and Shanghai shipping hubs into other hubs, with minimal impact on our deliveries. We’re actively monitoring the situation in China, and we will continue to adapt our logistics operations to best serve our consumers.
Wish has approximately 200 employees in Shanghai. During the lockdown, certain parts of the city experienced shortages of everyday essentials. The local Wish management team found a local partner to deliver supplies to our employees. Many Wish employees in Shanghai received the packages within days and continue to receive supplies throughout the lockdown.
Our management team remains committed to doing everything that we can to assist our employees during these challenging times across the globe. Our people are our greatest resource, and we are committed to their success and their well-being.
At this time, I will turn over the call to our Chief Financial Officer, Vivian Lou
Vivian Lou
Thank you, Vijay. Today, I will discuss the financial results for the first quarter of 2022. I will also provide adjusted EBITDA guidance for the second quarter and additional information on the revenue trend through the month of April.
Our Q1 adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $40 million, an improvement over a loss of $79 million from Q1 2021. The EBITDA performance also compares favorably to our Q1 EBITDA guidance, which was a loss of $60 million to $70 million.
Our ad spend remained at a reduced level throughout Q1, which continued to impact our user metrics and the financial performance. We had 27 million monthly active users and 28 million last 12 months active buyers in Q1, a 73% and a 54% decline, respectively, year-over-year. Total revenues were $189 million, a decline of 76% year-over-year. This revenue decline was across core marketplace, product boost and logistics.
Q1 gross profit was $64 million, a decline of 85% year-over-year. Gross margin was 34% versus 57% in Q1 2021. The decline in gross margin was primarily driven by a decline in marketplace profitability and the fact that relative to last year, the logistics business contributed a higher percentage to the total revenues.
Total operating expenses were $126 million, a reduction of 78% year-over-year. Operating expenses were 67% of revenues compared with 74% of revenues in Q1 2021. The drop in our ad spend accounted for a majority of the reduction of operating expenses.
While the decline in revenues and other top line metrics are significant from a year-over-year comp standpoint, it is important to highlight that our ad spend in Q1 was less than 10% of that in Q1 last year. We are committed to building a flywheel that is more efficient with ad spend and a platform that is propelled by affordable quality, reliable services and the fun shopping experiences.
Our Q1 free cash flow was negative $148 million, a significant improvement from a negative free cash flow of $354 million in Q1 2021. Quarter-over-quarter, the operation consumed additional $98 million in cash. The higher cash consumption was mainly driven by lower EBITDA performance, further paydown of liabilities and one-time expenses such as severance payments associated with the workforce reduction announced earlier this year.
Cash flows and EBITDA will continue to be our priorities throughout the turnaround phase. We ended Q1 with a solid position of $1 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.
Now turning to our outlook for Q2 2022. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be a loss in the range of $90 million to $100 million. Q2 EBITDA loss is expected to be higher than that in Q1, mainly due to two reasons. First, as Vijay shared earlier, we plan to increase ad spending in Q2, encouraged by positive leading indicators, such as improved NPS and the refund rates.
Secondly, the pricing experiments conducted in Q1 have proven to be effective in increasing user retention and conversion rates. Therefore, we have decided to expand the pricing changes to more markets in Q2. Increased added spend and the pricing adjustments are expected to be unfavorable to revenues and EBITDA in the near term. As a reference point, our revenues in April 2022, the first month of Q2 were down approximately 30% relative to our revenues in January, the first month of Q1.
However, we believe that both measures are the right steps to building a more robust and profitable business for the long run. The strengthened operations and upcoming new growth initiatives will put us in a strong position to restart the flywheel in the second half of 2022. We are excited by the progress made to date and as the new opportunities ahead.
With that, I will hand it over back to Vijay to discuss our new growth initiatives.
Vijay Talwar
Thank you, Vivian. Let me expand on what Vivian was just talking about. There are two major initiatives that we plan to launch in the second half of 2022 that I would like to share with you today. The first is the launch of a comprehensive women's fashion category. The second is the rebranding of WISH
Let's start with fashion. Over the past few months, we've been experimenting with various fashion buying experiences for our marketplace consumers. We have seen very encouraging results from those tests over the past few months. I'm excited to announce that we plan on relaunching our fashion category on the wish marketplace in the second half of this year. This will be a discovery first, inspirational and an engaging shopping experience.
Early beta tests will begin this quarter. The timing of the fashion launch will enable us to capture the important holiday selling season for women's fashion. Second is our plan for a complete rebrand of WISH. I've mostly talked about how we are changing operations at WISH, but we are fundamentally changing the entire WISH experience.
To amplify that to our consumers, we aim to launch in August a rebrand of WISH with a new logo, new design image and communications. The campaign, which will run in each of our key markets from August to the holiday season and will shine a light on some of the recent changes at WISH.
To close, I leave you with these final thoughts. First, we have and we will continue to make excellent progress with key metrics such as NPS and on-time delivery rates. Second, early green shoots enable us to increase our advertising spend earlier than we had originally planned as we continue our 18- to 24-month turnaround strategy.
And finally, I would like to thank our dedicated employees who have worked tirelessly to execute our turnaround strategy. We are already seeing good progress from those efforts and we are excited for vicious future. Thank you for joining us today. I will now open up the call to questions from analysts and investors.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Kunal Madhukar of UBS. Your line is open.
Kunal Madhukar
Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. Congratulations on the green shoots that you're seeing. A few, if I could, just so many questions. So on the MAU side, the 27 million MAUs what percentage of the $27 million was like organic, where you didn't have to pay anyone anything.
Vivian Lou
So I don't know if we have ever reported that level of details. What I could say is that the -- we have reduced our ad spend significantly since last August. As I mentioned in Q1, the amount of ad spend in total is less than 10% of what we spend in Q1 2021.
And therefore, the MAU of new I guess, MAU acquired through the ad dollars, it's going to be very, very small. I would say I have to put an estimate most of them will be returns or recurring users on the platform. Just for the share volume of the ad spend we spent in Q1, which is very small. And I think the existing product users will mostly be returned to customers.
Vijay Talwar
Yeah. I mean, why we can't share a number, I would just say a majority of it is through organic.
Vivian Lou
Yeah.
Kunal Madhukar
Okay, great. And then, what percentage is Android. So what percentage is seeing the new experience?
Vijay Talwar
And again, we don't share an exact number, but Android is a majority of our customers. And that's partly driven by -- it's slightly skewed towards Europe and rest of the world versus the U.S. That's one of the big differences that we see. But it is over 50%, again.
Kunal Madhukar
Okay. And then, as we think of like 2Q, how should we think of like revenue and free cash flow trends versus 1Q? What are the puts and takes on that guide?
Vivian Lou
Yeah. So we don't guide on revenue or cash flow. We do guide on EBITDA. And based on the guidance versus the actual performance in Q1, we already said at the Q2 EBITDA will be negative $90 million to $100 million versus our actual Q1 with $40 million.
And we also give the indication of the April revenue versus the month one of Q1 revenue. And you guys can take a lot of information from those two numbers, I suppose. And I think the -- from a cash flow standpoint, we think the cash -- so Q1, there is some one-time cash consumption that we do not expect to reoccur in Q2 -- but in Q2, if the EBITDA is lower than Q1, so that's a headwind from cash plan for Q2.
So a long way of saying there are takes and gives and takes an offsetting. End of the day, it will be -- I would say, probably more aligned with our EBITDA guidance for Q2 versus the cash flow versus EBITDA for Q1. Hopefully, that's enough information.
Vijay Talwar
Yes.
Kunal Madhukar
No, that totally is. And one last one, if I could, so I'm curious why you're accelerating or advancing the marketing spend to June from August or from 3Q, when you're going to do a whole rebrand with like logo and everything else, and that is going to start in August. Would that be like -- if you can help me understand the rationale there.
Vijay Talwar
Yes, I can step in on that one. So I think the thing that we did find and again, this is also talking to many of our partners where we spend our digital marketing dollars, the ramp-up in digital marketing is not as easy as kind of doing a multi-channel rebranding effort. So by starting in August from multi-channel rebranding, let me start with that day first. That's the ideal time because of the fact that we are trying to catch the holiday season, if you will, right?
So I want to kind of start early for the holiday season and ramp up from August all the way through kind of November, which is kind of our peak kind of month. In terms of June and July, there will be months that will -- what we realized is you can't go from a situation where you sort of cut back marketing by 80% to 90% and suddenly try to ramp it up all in one month. So June is specifically geared towards more of the digital channels and starting to use those channels to start to ramp up so that we can start to measure the ROS [ph], see the improvements and slowly, but surely build on that marketing base and those marketing investments.
So they will sync up. The rebranding will be just a part of it. It's almost like you think of it as Phase I, Phase II and Phase III. Phase I will be kind of the early learnings and the early testing, predominantly kind of the digital channels in June, July. August, September will be the ramp-up of digital channels as well as a lot on the branding, which will include multiple channels including things that are everything from organic SEO type stuff to affiliates, to things like TV and radio and other channels as well.
And then you get into the peak, which is much more about October -- I mean, October and November. And so it's kind of more -- it's really more smoothing out the curve in our original plan versus a much bigger spike that we had originally planned for.
Kunal Madhukar
Okay. Got it. And just a quick one then. So the June, July step-up in marketing will not be performance marketing. It would be more digital channels, basically smoothing the curve on the spend?
Vijay Talwar
No, actually, sorry, maybe I misspoke when I speak to digital, I do mean performance marketing.
Kunal Madhukar
Okay. Okay. Got it. Thank you.
Vijay Talwar
That's one of the distinctions in June, July, it will be largely driven by performance marketing, whereas the other channels kick in more in August, September, October, November. Sorry for misspoke.
Kunal Madhukar
Thank you. Thank you.
Vijay Talwar
Yes.
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] The next question comes from the line of Stephen Ju of Credit Suisse. Your line is open.
Stephen Ju
All right. So thank you. So I'm thinking that you're probably not going to be spending performance marketing dollars, as you say, unless you feel like the new site experience has been repaired. But at the same token, we're now, I suppose, looking at a completely different experience versus what Wish was before. So can you talk about what your expected customer lifetime value is now? I mean, how that has changed versus pre-pandemic levels? And how your anticipated payback period may look now versus what might have been before? So I'm just thinking that this is probably now transform business, hopefully. So I'm just wondering what the long-term margin outlook with the pace and how the business has changed overall? Thank you.
Vijay Talwar
Yes. I think as Vivian said earlier, if you think about our retention rates, right, or our consumers who are coming back, we're largely kind of dealing with a smaller subset of customers who have been shopping at Wish. And our main focus has been on how do we get them to come back and shop with us more, which will drive lifetime value, but we're not ready at this point in time to share or make any predictions on lifetime value at this point.
So -- but I guess the overall piece is exactly what you said, which is that our coming in point when we started with this whole thing, our consumer churn was a much higher rate, right? So if you go back to last year in June, July, August, September, there was a much higher rate. What the work that the team has done over the last six months, over the last nine months is really to plug that leaky bucket so that we can get more consumers back into our fold. And that is what we just reflected both in terms of our higher NPS scores, in terms of a higher customer satisfaction rates, higher on-time delivery. And just in general, people having an overall better experience as you described.
So what we are planning to do now is, kind of, then open the aperture, so that a lot more new consumers starting slowly in June and July, but much more aggressively in August through November, bringing new consumers and we will need to test the data with new consumers, because the existing consumers could potentially behave slightly differently than new consumers, right?
So -- and I think the interesting part for Wish is these consumers in some sense, given that we had such a large installed base, right, it's over 500 million people, if you think about the lifetime of Wish. What happens is, in a lot of cases, these are consumers who experience Wish or interactive with Wish before. But it's our job to convince them that this new Wish is different and the fundamental experience is different. And that's why the rebranding plays its own part in making that whole process come alive.
So hopefully, there's enough insights in there in terms of what I was talking about for you to understand how we are thinking about the problem.
Stephen Ju
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Laura Champine of Loop Capital. Your question please.
Laura Champine
Thank you for taking my question. It's about the ramp-up of advertising. You mentioned that you can't bring it all back in one month, but how significant of a ramp are you thinking about for June at this time?
Vivian Lou
We are not -- well, so it will be a material ramp, but depending on the definition material, right? So we were taking a pretty cautious approach, and it's not going to double. I mean, let me put it that way, it's not steeper ramp. But it will be mature enough to hopefully move the needle and it tested out the effectiveness of all the channels, alternative channels that Vijay described. And the more major step-up in the ad spend will really start late Q3, or I should say, August to September and throughout Q4.
So that's where the major step will take place in conjunction with our fashion launch and just overall growth strategy, as we shared in the earlier call. But yeah, we do want to test our hypothesis starting late May and even June and with a gradual ramp. But like I said, it's probably not going to be double in those two months.
Laura Champine
Got it. Just one additional question on regional trends. It's been a while since we got the mix of the business, Europe versus the Americas versus Asia, I would love to get an update on that? And any significant differences that you're seeing by region at this time?
Vivian Lou
No. The short answer is the mix is still relatively steady in the sense that from the buyer market standpoint, North America and Europe are the major buyer markets for us. And Asia is small, immaterial from a buyer standpoint, and I wanted to highlight one thing that we didn't touch on in the prepared remarks, the Ukraine war actually is impacting our bio marketing in Europe as everyone anticipated. And I think from a regional standpoint, we saw Europe is not as strong as North America in Q1. So that's the kind of indication the upward is impacting the customer behavior to the mentality, there are concerns. But from the mix standpoint, we don't think there will be a material shift. Europe will continue to be a very major strategic market for us and so is North America.
Laura Champine
Got it. Thank you.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] This concludes the question-and-answer portion of today's call. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to WISH’s CEO, Vijay Talwar for closing remarks.
Vijay Talwar
I don't have anything specifically to add other than to say, like where I left off. I wanted to just say a big thank you to the team. I know it's been a very tough three months for the team, given the reduction in workforce and all the work that's been done in the last 3 months as well as the work ahead of us. So I just wanted to end this call with a thank you to the team and also to communicate the amount of excitement that we feel as we're looking at kind of the fully redesigned WISH, and we will share more of that with you along the way. Thank you.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's conference call. You may all disconnect, and have a wonderful day. | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4507626-contextlogic-inc-wish-ceo-vijay-talwar-on-q1-2022-results-earnings-call-transcript | 2022-05-06T02:49:57Z | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4507626-contextlogic-inc-wish-ceo-vijay-talwar-on-q1-2022-results-earnings-call-transcript | false | 1 |
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‘It looks like a lake’: Flash flooding hits parts of St. Louis region
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in some counties throughout the greater St. Louis region on Thursday.
Flooding closed off roads and parks, impacting areas from St. Charles to Bonne Terre, Missouri. Over in St. Peters, even going for a walk Thursday proved to be challenging.
“We were looking for a trail or something nearby, but it’s probably safe to say all the trails are flooded,” said Caitlyn Buss, who lives in of O’Fallon, Missouri. “Every day it keeps raining, so it’s too muddy to even bother trying.”
Water from the nearby Dardenne Creek spilled over into Lone Wolff Park. Flooding is so high, that it closed down access to the road, resulting in the park being shut down to visitors temporarily.
Water submerged Dames Park in O’Fallon, Missouri. Only the bleachers and trash cans were visible on the football field.
“It just looked like a lake,” said Danny Russell, who lives in the area.
Another O’Fallon resident, Dirk Detz, said: “It looks like you can go fishing there with a boat, and it was a football field. Unbelievable.”
Even though the rain stopped by the afternoon, water continued to flow at the park. About 1 to 2.5 inches accumulated in surrounding areas.
“It was completely dry this morning, and that was just in the last seven hours or so. It just starts rising up,” said B.J. Wagner, a butcher at Highway P Market & Meats. “Last year, we had people bring kayaks out and go kayaking out there.”
Some residents aren’t surprised because they said this kind of flooding happens every time a storm moves through the area.
“Kind of the same thing over by Mid Rivers Mall. In that area, there’s another park that the same thing happens where it’s flooded, and there’s just always tons of water,” said O’Fallon resident Jonathan Tock.
Another wave of rain will be moving through late Thursday night. The U.S. Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for St. Louis, Jefferson, and Franklin counties.
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Tornadoes strike Texas, Oklahoma, cause widespread damaged
SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — A storm system spawned several tornadoes that whipped through areas of Texas and Oklahoma, causing damage to a school, a marijuana farm and other structures.
There were no reports of serious injuries following the Wednesday night tornadoes, but the system caused flooding in parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas, and more stormy weather took place Thursday.
Significant damage was reported in the Oklahoma city of Seminole, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, where Gov. Kevin Stitt said damage assessments were underway after he toured the area Thursday.
“(We’re) getting all the resources and supplies that the city wants and needs,” including generators, Stitt said. “Thank the Lord that nobody was hurt” and no deaths have been reported.
The National Weather Service said it found damage in Seminole from an EF2 tornado, which has winds speeds of up to 135 mph (217 kph).
More than 2,900 customers remained without power in Seminole late Thursday afternoon, according to Oklahoma Gas & Electric, more than 63% of the utility customers in the city.
The Academy of Seminole took a direct hit but no one was injured, the school said on Facebook.
Video footage from Oklahoma TV station KOCO showed a tornado hit a marijuana farm in the nearby town of Maud.
Several roads and highways were closed Thursday morning in parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas because of flash flooding.
In Bixby, Oklahoma, located south of Tulsa, officials opened a temporary shelter at a church after thunderstorms flooded some homes and streets in one neighborhood.
In East Texas, a tornado on Thursday damaged several campers and buildings at an RV park in Rusk County, Sheriff Johnwayne Valdez told KTRE-TV. The Rusk County Office of Emergency Management reported one person was injured after being hit by a tree.
On Wednesday, a “large and dangerous tornado” was spotted in the rural community of Lockett, about 170 miles (275 kilometers) northwest of Dallas, said the National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma.
The weather service said it found damage near Lockett from an EF3 tornado, which has winds speeds of up to 165 mph (265 kph).
There were no significant injuries or deaths to residents in Wilbarger County, where Lockett is located, Sheriff Brian Fritze told KAUZ-TV. He said several homes and barns appeared to sustain extensive damage.
In Washington County in northwest Arkansas, officials performed more than 30 water rescues as heavy rainfall flooded homes and streets in the cities of Fayetteville and Johnson, KHBS/KHOG-TV reported.
The storms on Wednesday and Thursday were the latest in several rounds of severe weather in the central United States. Last week, a tornado damaged more than 1,000 buildings in the Wichita suburb of Andover, Kansas. Three University of Oklahoma meteorology students died in a car crash while returning from storm chasing.
The storms, which were moving east into other southern U.S. states, could bring more tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds, and the threat of severe weather will continue Friday in parts of the South and over the weekend in the central Plains and Midwest, the weather service said.
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FDA restricts J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clot risk
By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Thursday strictly limited who can receive Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to the ongoing risk of rare but serious blood clots.
The Food and Drug Administration said the shot should only be given to adults who cannot receive a different vaccine or specifically request J&J’s vaccine. U.S. authorities for months have recommended that Americans get Pfizer or Moderna shots instead of J&J’s vaccine.
FDA’s vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks said the agency decided to restrict the vaccine after taking another look at the data on the risks of life-threatening blood clots and concluding that they are limited to J&J’s vaccine.
“If there’s an alternative that appears to be equally effective in preventing severe outcomes from COVID-19, we’d rather see people opting for that,” Marks said. “But we’ve been careful to say that– compared to no vaccine– this is still a better option.”
The problem occurs in the first two weeks after vaccination, he added: “So if you had the vaccine six months ago you can sleep soundly tonight knowing this isn’t an issue.”
The FDA authorized J&J’s shot in February last year for adults 18 and up.
The vaccine was initially considered an important tool in fighting the pandemic because it required only one shot. But the single-dose option proved less effective than two doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Moderna and Pfizer shots over J&J’s because of its safety issues.
As of mid-March, federal scientists had identified 60 cases of the side effect, including nine that were fatal. That amounts to 3.23 blood clot cases per 1 million J&J shots. The problem is more common in women under 50, where the death rate was roughly 1 per million shots, according to Marks.
Marks said the FDA spent extra time analyzing the problem to be sure it wasn’t connected to a separate issue, such as women taking birth control medications that raise their risk of clotting.
The J&J vaccine will carry a starker warning about potential “long-term and debilitating health consequences” of the side effect.
Under the new FDA instructions, J&J’s vaccine could still be given to people who had a severe allergic reaction to one of the other vaccines and can’t receive an additional dose. J&J’s shot could also be an option for people who refuse to receive the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and therefore would otherwise remain unvaccinated, the agency said.
A J&J spokesman said in an emailed statement: “Data continue to support a favorable benefit-risk profile for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in adults, when compared with no vaccine.”
The clotting problems first came up last spring, with the J&J shot in the U.S. and with a similar vaccine made by AstraZeneca that is used in other countries. At that time, U.S. regulators decided the benefits of J&J’s one-and-done vaccine outweighed what was considered a very rare ri sk — as long as recipients were warned.
COVID-19 causes deadly blood clots, too. But the vaccine-linked kind is different, believed to form because of a rogue immune reaction to the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines because of how they’re made. Clots form in unusual places, such as veins that drain blood from the brain, and in patients who also develop abnormally low levels of the platelets that form clots. Symptoms of the unusual clots include severe headaches a week or two after the J&J vaccination — not right away — as well as abdominal pain and nausea.
The New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company announced last month that it didn’t expect a profit from the vaccine this year and was suspending sales projections.
The rollout of the company’s vaccine was hurt by a series of troubles, including manufacturing problems at a Baltimore factory that forced J&J to import millions of doses from overseas.
Additionally, regulators added warnings about the blood clots and a rare neurological reaction called Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Pfizer and Moderna have provided the vast majority of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. More than 200 million Americans have been fully vaccinated with the companies’ two-dose shots while less than 17 million Americans got the J&J shot.
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This version corrects the rate of blood clots reported with J&J’s vaccine. It is 3.23 cases per 1 million vaccinations.
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Official: US gave intel before Ukraine sank Russian warship
By AAMER MADHANI, NOMAAN MERCHANT and LOLITA C. BALDOR
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. says it shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva prior to the strike that sank the warship, an incident that was a high-profile failure for Russia’s military.
An American official said Thursday that Ukraine alone decided to target and sink the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using its own anti-ship missiles. But given Russia’s attacks on the Ukrainian coastline from the sea, the U.S. has provided “a range of intelligence” that includes locations of those ships, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Biden administration has ramped up intelligence sharing with Ukraine alongside the shipment of arms and missiles to help it repel Russia’s invasion. The disclosure of U.S. support in the Moskva strike comes as the White House is under pressure from Republicans to do more to support Ukraine’s resistance and as polls suggest Americans question whether President Joe Biden is being tough enough on Russia.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion in February, the White House has tried to balance supporting Ukraine, a democratic ally, against not doing anything that would seem to provoke a direct war between Putin and the U.S. and NATO allies. As the war has gone on, the White House has ramped up its military and intelligence support, removing some time and geographic limits on what it will tell Ukraine about potential Russian targets.
The official who spoke Thursday said the U.S. was not aware that Ukraine planned to strike the Moskva until after they conducted the operation. NBC News first reported on the American role in the sinking of the ship.
Speaking earlier Thursday after a New York Times report about the U.S. role in supporting Ukraine’s killing of Russian generals, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said American agencies “do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military leaders on the battlefield or participate in the targeting decisions of the Ukrainian military.”
“Ukraine combines information that we and other partners provide with the intel that they themselves are gathering and then they make their own decisions and they take their own actions,” Kirby said.
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Johnny Depp Trial: Amber Heard claims Depp sexually abused her with bottle
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Amber Heard was back on the stand Thursday morning tearfully testifying about the abuse she said she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.
During her testimony in the defamation trial involving the one-time Hollywood couple, Heard shared details about the first time she says she hit Depp.
She also described an intense physical fight between her and her ex-husband where she says Depp repeated "I f****** hate you" to her.
She got emotional describing an intense physical fight between her and Depp, but said she couldn't remember parts of the altercation. Heard did recall seeing lots of broken glass and feeling like she couldn't get through to Depp.
She testified that she saw dried blood on a wall that appeared to spell something the morning after the spat.
During her testimony Wednesday as she took the stand for the first time in the trial, Heard spoke about how the couple met during their work on the film "The Rum Diary" and how they began dating while doing a press tour for the film's release in 2011.
Attorney Ben Chew speaks with his client, actor Johnny Depp at Fairfax County Circuit Court during Depp's defamation case against ex-wife, actor Amber Heard as Heard testifies in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 4, 2022. - US actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-w
She said Depp's first act of physical violence against her came in 2013 when he slapped her several times while she looked at his tattoos – specifically one that read "Wino" — an alteration to the lettering he had made when he'd been dating actor Winona Ryder.
Heard also described a 2013 incident when she said she was sexually assaulted by Depp as he performed what he called a "cavity search" on her during a drug-fueled night in California.
Through most of Heard's testimony Wednesday, Depp stared down at the table in front of him avoiding eye contact..
Outside of the courtroom, crowds of mostly Depp supporters lined up early Wednesday and again Thursday, in hopes of being allowed inside for the testimony. The court allows 100 people inside for the trial. Many who FOX 5 spoke outside the courtroom said they were longtime fans of Depp and his movie career. Many seemed to side with Depp at this point in the case.
The libel lawsuit was filed by Depp against Heard over an op-ed piece Heard wrote in The Washington Post in 2018 in which Heard refers to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse." The Post article doesn't mention Depp by name, but he says it clearly refers to her allegation that she suffered physical abuse at his hands. Depp denies the allegation.
Prior to her testimony, Heard abruptly fired her public relations team after she was reportedly angered over negative headlines about the trial.
On Tuesday, a psychologist testified that Heard suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from violence, including sexual violence, she suffered at the hands of Depp. The psychologist, Dawn Hughes, told jurors that there is corroboration of many of the instances of abuse -- including apologies and admissions made by Depp to Heard. Hughes is the first witness to take the stand on Heard's behalf in the four-week trial after Depp rested his case earlier in the day.
Earlier this week , Depp's agent testified that Heard's op-ed piece in The Washington Post describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse was "catastrophic" to his career. Agent Jack Whigham said Depp lost a $23 million deal for a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel following Heard's piece.
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The trial opened April 11, and since its start, Depp has testified regarding his past drug use, has discussed suffering a mental breakdown and talked about the disturbing details surrounding his relationship with Heard. Heard's attorneys have highlighted text messages Depp sent to friends recounting alcohol and drug use and have shown photos that showed cocaine and other drugs they say belonged to the actor.
A forensic psychologist hired by Depp's legal team testified that Heard suffers from borderline and histrionic personality disorder. The psychologist, Shannon Curry, took the stand saying she reached her diagnosis during 12 hours of interviews with Heard and after a review of her mental-health records. Curry also testified that Heard does not suffer post-traumatic stress disorder from her relationship with Depp. On cross-examination, Heard's lawyers questioned Curry for potential bias.
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Jurors have also heard testimony from Tara Roberts, the woman who managed Depp's private island in the Bahamas who testified that she never saw Heard with any kind of bruises.
Los Angeles police officer Melissa Saenz who testified about her visit to Depp's penthouses just days before Heard filed for divorce and sought a restraining order said that Heard had been crying but she saw no evidence of an injury.
Depp's cross-examination concludedafter four days on the witness stand.
During his time on the stand, Depp denied ever hitting Heard and accused her of striking him. Depp said Heard threw liquor bottles and paint cans at him during arguments the two had during their relationship. He also denied cutting off his own finger during a fight with Heard, claiming she severed it when she threw a vodka bottle at him.
Jurors also heard audio clips of Depp berating his then-wife with vulgarities. In other clips, Heard seemingly taunted Depp, suggesting he wouldn't be believed if he were to accuse her of abuse. Jurors were also shown dozens of text messages from Depp to friends regarding drinking, drug use and interactions with Heard.
Throughout the cross-examination, Heard's lawyers focused on Depp's drinking, drug use and heated interactions with her. Depp expressed disapproval and displeasure with many of the questions asked during his four days on the stand.
Earlier in the trial, Depp's older sister, Christi Dembrowski, faced a barrage of questions from Heard's lawyers about Depp's alcohol and drug use. Isaac Baruch, a longtime friend and next-door neighbor of Depp also testified that Amber Heard told him Depp had hit her but he never saw evidence of abuse on her face.
A former personal assistant to Amber Heard, Kate James, also testified in a video deposition that was played in court saying she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of her then-husband but did say Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary.
Lawyers also presented a video deposition of Laurel Anderson, a couple's therapist who worked with Heard and Depp in 2015 who said both suffered childhood abuse. As a couple, they were engaged in "mutual abuse," Anderson testified.
Depp and Heard met in 2009, were married in 2015. Heard filed for divorce a year later.
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Market Mover: PlayAGS (AGS) Drops at Midday May 3
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of PlayAGS Inc (NYSE: AGS) fell 3.17% Tuesday.
As of 11:45:31 est, PlayAGS is currently sitting at $6.43 and has fallen $0.21 per share.
PlayAGS has moved 2.00% over the last 30 days and has moved YTD 2.36% based on the most recent close.
The company anticipates its next earnings on 2022-05-05.
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About PlayAGS Inc
GS is a global company focused on creating a diverse mix of entertaining gaming experiences for every kind of player. Itsroots is firmly planted in the Class II Native American gaming market, but its customer-centric culture and growth have helped AGS branch out to become a leading all-inclusive commercial gaming supplier. Powered by high-performing Class II and Class III slot products, an expansive table products portfolio, real-money gaming platforms and content, highly rated social casino solutions for operators and players, and best-in-class service, the company offers an unmatched value proposition for its casino partners.
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