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Mercedes-Benz is recalling 292,000 SUVs and advising owners of the vehicles to stop driving them until a potential problem, which could cause the power brake system to fail, can be fixed, if needed.
The recall and advisory apply to Mercedes ML-, GL-. and R-class SUVs from the 2006 through 2012 model years. Brake boosters, which provide power assistance to the brakes, can corrode over an extended period of time, especially when exposed to significant amounts of water, according to announcements from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Mercedes. Corrosion can allow air to leak into the system, weakening the power brakes. This would cause drivers to have to exert more force to bring the vehicle to a stop and could lead to increased stopping distances.
In "rare cases of very extreme corrosion" sudden hard braking could damage the brake booster leading to brake system failure, according to the advisory. The parking brake is not affected by these issues.
Mercedes will ask owners of vehicles involved in the recall to take their SUV to a dealer for an inspection. If the brake booster does not show corrosion, no further action will be needed, according to NHTSA. SUVs that exhibit brake booster corrosion will undergo further tests to determine if the brakes are functioning normally. In this case, owners of SUVs that have brakes that are functioning well will be asked to return later, possibly up to two years, for re-inspection and possible repairs. If the brakes are not functioning normally, the booster will be replaced immediately.
There will be no charge for any recall-related repairs or inspections and Mercedes will provide free towing of vehicles to the dealer for inspections and repairs. Mercedes dealers can also help arrange alternative transportation for owners whose vehicles need recall-related repair work that cannot be done immediately, the automaker said.
There have been no crashes, injuries or deaths related to the issue, according to Mercedes. Owners with questions can contact Mercedes at 888-548-8514 or NHTSA at 888-327-4236. Owners can also go to NHTSA's website and enter their vehicles' VIN number to see if it is involved in the recall.
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Analysts have provided the following ratings for Jackson Finl JXN within the last quarter:
In the last 3 months, 4 analysts have offered 12-month price targets for Jackson Finl. The company has an average price target of $42.25 with a high of $47.00 and a low of $40.00.
Below is a summary of how these 4 analysts rated Jackson Finl over the past 3 months. The greater the number of bullish ratings, the more positive analysts are on the stock and the greater the number of bearish ratings, the more negative analysts are on the stock
This current average represents a 0.59% decrease from the previous average price target of $42.50.
Analyst Ratings: What Are They?
Analysts are specialists within banking and financial systems that typically report for specific stocks or within defined sectors. These people research company financial statements, sit in conference calls and meetings, and speak with relevant insiders to determine what are known as analyst ratings for stocks. Typically, analysts will rate each stock once a quarter.
Some analysts also offer predictions for helpful metrics such as earnings, revenue, and growth estimates to provide further guidance as to what to do with certain tickers. It is important to keep in mind that while stock and sector analysts are specialists, they are also human and can only forecast their beliefs to traders.
This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor.
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Dozens of Berkeley dogs recently had the rare chance to mingle with other pups and splash around in West Campus pool before renovations started to prepare the aquatic venue for human activities this summer.
Steph Chu, a recreation programs supervisor, said the city’s parks, recreation and waterfront department had schemed to do a similar event in the past after seeing other cities host pool days for dogs, but the Berkeley Health Department vetoed the decision.
Timing aligned perfectly, however, when renovations were planned for West Campus pool, as well as King pool, and the health department agreed that dogs could be allowed in the pool if it would be drained afterward and humans wouldn’t be swimming in it.
“Doggie Dip Day” was a huge success
On April 17, more than 60 dogs arrived for the sold-out event (with their owners) and enjoyed a spring celebration with a prize wheel, treats table, an extremely popular “puppecino” station (cups with whipped cream), an air-dry clay table to make paw prints, a raffle, photobooth, button printer and a bandana for every canine guest.
“We could tell the dogs were having a blast but was weirdly fun for everybody,” Chu said. “Our tagline was ‘We want to give the dogs a chance to swim in our pools just like their humans do every day.'”
The parks department only had about a week to pull the $10 event together and publicize it, but Chu said it came together well. It was a unique opportunity to host an event for Berkeley residents who may not usually visit the pools, as well as their dogs.
“To be honest, a lot of dogs don’t like to swim,” Chu said, explaining that swimming was only one highlight of the event, and some ambitious activities like an “Easter egg hunt” were simplified down to just throwing tennis balls in the water.
Berkeley residents Aarjav Trivedi and Bhumi Shah heard about the event from their neighbors and headed down to the pool with their dog, Mowgli, who spent the afternoon in “bliss.” They’d never been to a similar event in Berkeley before.
“Mowgli loves to swim and always stares wistfully when my son goes for a swim in a backyard pool with friends,” Trivedi said. “It was amazing for him that he got to swim in a pool with his two favorite things: his doggie friends and tennis balls. We loved watching him have a ball!”
Shah added some thoughts from Mowgli’s perspective.
“[If] Mowgli could speak human, this is what he would say. ‘Having only been able to smell the pool from the outside until now, I was thrilled to finally make it past the fence. It was blissful swimming in a pool full of tennis balls, woofing, and drenching the human bystanders on a lovely day. Can’t wait to do it again. Lots of lickies!’”
Scott Ferris, director of the parks department, said West Campus and King pools (which didn’t have a dog event because renovations started earlier) are on track to open by Friday, June 10 — with summer programming scheduled to start that following Monday.
He said contractors are doing a great job installing new tile and plaster at the pools, and they’re going to return the pools to the public “better than ever.”
Sadly, he said it’s unlikely dogs will be welcomed back in the near future. Until renovations happen again in about a decade, it’s unlikely the parks department could get the clearance from the health department. But that doesn’t mean dog-friendly events at city parks are out the window overall.
“We’ve been talking about [dog events] more than ever because there’s so many dog owners in Berkeley,” Ferris said. “Theres nothing planned at this point, but my staff loves special events and they’ve got all kind of ideas. Stay tuned.” | https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/05/12/dogs-pool-berkeley | 2022-05-12T22:47:58Z | https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/05/12/dogs-pool-berkeley | true | 1 |
ATLANTA (AP) — South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group is expected to announce next week it’s building a massive electric vehicle plant near Savannah, Georgia, according to a U.S. official familiar with the anticipated announcement.
Hyundai is finalizing its plans for the new plant as President Joe Biden is set to travel to South Korea next week as part of his first visit to Asia during his administration.
The White House and Hyundai have been in discussions about the plant that’s expected to bring thousands new jobs to Georgia, and the formal announcement is likely to come during Biden’s May 20-21 visit to Seoul, according to the official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The official stressed though that details of the formal announcement are still being worked out.
The plant could grow to include 8,500 employees and would be built on a 2,200-acre (890-hectare) site that state and local governments own near the hamlet of Ellabell, Georgia, said two people familiar with Georgia’s talks with Hyundai.
That’s about 25 miles (40 kilometers) inland from Savannah. The second person said Hyundai would invest more than $7 billion and could also build some cars powered by gasoline engines at the site, with an announcement in Georgia set for May 20. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the confidential talks.
It would be the second massive electric vehicle plant announced in Georgia in less than a year. Rivian Automotive in December announced it would build a $5 billion, 7,500-job electric truck plant about 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of Atlanta.
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DALLAS – Today in Aviation, One of the world’s most iconic airlines, Braniff International (BN), ceased operations in 1982.
Speaking at the time, the airline blamed the half-price fare war it had been embroiled in with American Airlines (AA). This had resulted in ticket prices that undercut BN’s lowest fares resulting in significantly lower yields.
Over-Expansion
Also to blame was Braniff’s substantial over-expansion following the United States airline Deregulation Act of the 1970s. On December 15, 1978 Braniff announced the “largest single-day increase by any airline in history.” This was to its domestic network, adding 16 new routes to 32 new cities and increasing its offering by 50%.
International expansion came in 1979. Two hubs were opened in Boston and Los Angeles to offer new transatlantic and transpacific routes. Meanwhile, the airline also launched flights from Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt and Paris.
However, this expansion came at an unprecedented time for the aviation industry. Rising fuel prices and a significant economic downturn left the carrier reporting its first operating loss (US$39 million in 1979) since 1970.
Failed Restructuring
Most of BN’s international routes were quickly discontinued, leaving just the DFW to London Gatwick (LGW) rotation by 1981.
Despite numerous restructurings, including simplifying fares and negotiating the sale of its South American routes to Eastern Airlines (EA), losses continued.
The airline’s then CEO Howard Putnam attempted to get an extension from lenders and creditors on its debts of US$733.2 million. Despite the 39 private lenders agreeing to withhold the payment of interest and principal until October 1983, management had no choice but to suspend all of its flights.
BIA-COR Holdings of New York subsequently purchased the carrier’s assets to resurrect the airline. However, the plans failed to materialize.
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WASHINGTON — House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
The Jan. 6 panel’s subpoenas for McCarthy, R-Calif., and Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama come as the investigation is winding down and as the panel prepares for a series of public hearings this summer.
The committee has been investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack and meetings that the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides conspired how to overturn his defeat.
Congressional subpoenas for sitting members of Congress, especially for a party leader, are almost without precedent in recent decades. The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel.
“These members include those who participated in meetings at the White House, those who had direct conversations with President Trump leading up to and during the attack on the Capitol, and those who were involved in the planning and coordination of certain activities on and before January 6th,” the committee said as it announced the subpoenas.
In a Jan. 10, 2021, audio recording released by The New York Times, McCarthy tells fellow Republican leaders that Trump's far-right allies in the House are “putting people in jeopardy” with their public tweets and comments that could put other lawmakers at risk of violence.
Earlier, the Times reported that McCarthy, in conversations with House Republicans, had blamed Trump for the attack. | https://www.fox61.com/article/news/nation-world/jan-6-capitol-riot-panel-subpoenas-kevin-mccarthy-four-other-gop-lawmakers/507-9bc8d5f8-00ed-4683-8c67-6a63ccd80dce | 2022-05-12T22:51:11Z | https://www.fox61.com/article/news/nation-world/jan-6-capitol-riot-panel-subpoenas-kevin-mccarthy-four-other-gop-lawmakers/507-9bc8d5f8-00ed-4683-8c67-6a63ccd80dce | true | 28 |
The House passed a resolution Tuesday night allowing congressional staff to unionize, approving the measure by a party-line vote of 217 to 202.
The move, sponsored by Democratic Congressman Andy Levin from Michigan, allows House staff members to form unions and collectively bargain, although it limits their ability to negotiate on wages and benefits. It only applies to staffers in the House, not the Senate.
"The Congress has long been strengthened by the skill, dedication and patriotism of our hard-working staffers, who enable us to fulfill our legislative and constituent responsibilities," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday night. "The Democratic House is committed to honoring their service, while ensuring the Congress is well-positioned to compete for outstanding and diverse staff."
House staffers will be able to join a union, if they choose, but it isn't a requirement under the resolution. Congressional staffers announced they were founding the Congressional Workers Union in February. The group describes itself as a volunteer group of staffers organizing to unionize members' offices and committees' offices, with the "common goal of providing congressional staffers the right to organize."
Congress approved the framework for Hill staffers to unionize when they passed the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, but never followed up by formally passing a set of regulations to allow staffers to begin the process.
Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, argued that unions aren't feasible for Congress because of the unique office structures — each of the 435 member offices act like a separate workplace — as well as frequent turnover and partisan changes. Plus, he said, it wouldn't address a chief concern of low staff pay, because that is forbidden by federal law.
"Union dues would just take more money out of staff's hard-earned paychecks without really anything to show for it," Davis said in a statement. "Unionization also creates potential conflicts of interest that could impact a member's constitutional responsibilities, including unique influence over members' development and passage of certain legislation, and political contributions to members using dues paid by their staff. As a reminder, under current law, congressional staff are not allowed to make political contributions to their employers."
The unionization resolution was approved shortly after Pelosi announced a new minimum salary for House staffers of $45,000. There had previously been no minimum salary.
"These new steps build on the actions that I have been proud to take as Speaker to strengthen and diversify our Capitol Hill workforce, including establishing the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion to help open the doors to public service for underrepresented communities," Pelosi said in her statement Tuesday night.
Entry-level staffers on Capitol Hill are notoriously underpaid in of the most expensive cities in the country, often preventing young people without access to family money from working on the Hill, and skewing the congressional staffer population to be Whiter than the rest of America on average. The lower salaries mean more experienced congressional staffers often leave for the private sector, where they can earn more, taking with them institutional knowledge that's supplemented by lobbyists.
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After much anticipation, the NFL schedule for 2022 is starting to trickle out. The Las Vegas Raiders are one of the most exciting teams in the NFL and opened their season during primetime last year. This upcoming season won’t feature a primetime opener but it will feature one of the most exciting matchups of Week 1.
The Los Angeles Chargers announced that they will be hosting the Raiders at SoFi Stadium for the first game of the 2022 season.
The Raiders still have a strong fan presence in Los Angeles and their fans frequently outnumber Chargers fans when the two teams play. Raiders offensive lineman Jermaine Eluemunor has had a lot of fun taking shots at the Chargers since moving to Las Vegas. He didn’t miss his chance to take a shot at Los Angeles for their lack of a home crowd.
Obviously, there will be Chargers signs and marketing all over SoFi Stadium but Eluemunor is correct that it will be a home game for the Raiders. There will be waves of silver and black that overcome the powder blue.
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Chargers out for Revenge
While the Raiders will have the home-field advantage in the Chargers’ building, Los Angeles will be out for blood. The Raiders sent the Chargers home packing during the last game of the season. Had the Raiders settled for a tie during the overtime thriller, both teams would’ve made the playoffs. Instead, Las Vegas had Daniel Carlson kick the game-winning field goal that sent Los Angeles packing.
There’s no doubt that the Chargers remember Derek Carr’s smirk as he called the timeout that sealed their fate. That’s not to mention that it will be Khalil Mack’s first game playing against his former team as a member of the Chargers. It should make for one of the most intense matchups of Week 1.
Carr Referred to Games Against Chargers as ‘Another Home Game’
The Raiders and Chargers don’t like each other and the rivalry only got more contentious after last season. However, the Raiders have never been worried about the Chargers having a home-field advantage no matter where they’ve played. Carr has played in three different Chargers stadiums since joining the Raiders but the story is always the same.
“In my past, before playing in SoFi last year with no fans, whether it was in Los Angeles at that soccer stadium or in Qualcomm in San Diego, it was another home game,” Carr said of facing the Chargers last year. “You always looked at it as another home game and that was no disrespect, it’s just a fact. The way you practice, the way you meet, it felt like a home game. And I fully expect Raider Nation to take over the majority of the stadium again, they usually do in my time. Before I was here, that’s what everyone would talk about. [Charles Woodson] would say ‘hey, when we go down there it’s another home game’ and I fully expect that this time.”
Luckily for Carr, he won’t have to be dealing with a hostile crowd in Week 1.
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Fidelis David in Akure
Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has promised to pay workers in the state their outstanding salaries before the end of his tenure.
THISDAY reported that workers in the state under the umbrella of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) during the 2022 Workers’ Day celebration called on Akeredolu to pay their salary arrears from December 2021 till date.
The state Chairman of the TUC, Mrs. Hellen Odofin, said part of their demands included outstanding leave bonuses.
The governor also commended the state Head of Service (HoS), Pastor John Adeyemo, for his commitment and dedication to duty.
Akeredolu, while speaking at an investiture and public lecture in Akure in honour of Adeyemo, commended the civil servants for their commitment to duty and support for the government, promising to leave the state better than he met it.
The governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Princess Oladunni Odu, described the Head of Service as a quintessential public servant who navigates the slippery terrain of the civil, adding that he is serving well.
Speaking on the topic: ‘The Life of an Administrator’, the guest Speaker, Mr. Ife
Oluwole, who doubles as the registrar of Ekiti State University, said: “The civil service is at the centre of the governmental activity. In the recent past, it was the envy of every graduate and brilliant mind. An example is the celebrant. Sadly, it is no longer so. The allure of the past is long gone. It is now a case of suffering and smiling.”
He added that though the public feels that civil service is corrupt, it is not true of everybody in the civil service, as there are some good names in there.
In his response, Adeyemo thanked God for the occasion and for the journey so far in his career.
He said he would not allow undue interference in the management of the civil service, adding: That we enjoy industrial harmony in the state is not ordinary. It’s because of the governor’s good leadership. In spite of lean resources, the governor has been creating a lot of infrastructure in the state and revamping ailing industries.” | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/05/10/akeredolu-assures-ondo-workers-of-payment-of-outstanding-salaries/ | 2022-05-12T23:01:42Z | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/05/10/akeredolu-assures-ondo-workers-of-payment-of-outstanding-salaries/ | true | 1 |
About a year ago, Dr. Jesse Clark was taking care of people hospitalized with COVID when he met a man he'll never forget.
"I thought he was sleeping," says Clark, who's an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles. The man was lying still in the bed. "But when I got around to the other side of the bed, he looked up at me and said, 'My mother just died of COVID. My cousin brought this into the family. She said she was wearing a mask, but she didn't. She got COVID. Now she's dead, too. She has two kids. What's going to happen to them?' "
Then the man says, "Am I going to die of COVID?"
The man was doing well enough to fight off SARS-CoV-2, Clark says. And eventually he recovered. But that moment lingered in Clark's memory because it reminded him of another incredibly sad – and scary – moment in his life.
It happened when he was a young man during the early stages of the HIV pandemic.
"I am a gay man who grew up in the '80s and '90s, long before we had an effective treatment for HIV. And friends, colleagues, people were dropping dead left and right. And there was nothing you could do about it," Clark says, with a lump in his throat. "And the question was always, 'Am I next?' "
At that time, many people in the LGBTQ community had a constant fear of losing their life, Clark says. "You're trying to help take care of people around you, but you're also wondering, is this going to happen to me?"
But many people outside that community didn't understand the fear prompted by HIV, he says – at least not until early 2020 when COVID hit. "COVID brought that feeling home to a lot of people in a way that HIV had not."
That shift in perspective – or that new understanding – has reignited the fight against HIV, which still kills about 700,000 people each year. "It has spurred people to try to end the HIV epidemic again," Clark says.
While SARS-CoV-2 has a handful of variants, HIV has hundreds of thousands
During the COVID pandemic scientists around the world made history. They developed and launched a new vaccine in record-breaking time. Researchers at the Commonwealth Fund estimate the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have averted about 2 million deaths and prevented more than 17 million hospitalizations in the U.S. alone.
And there's been a spillover effect: "The pandemic probably accelerated the HIV vaccine field 5 or 10 years within the span of a year," Clark says.
The technology that made that breakthrough possible, the mRNA technology, is giving a much needed boost to the development of an HIV vaccine.
And boy, does the field need that boost..
For nearly 40 years, scientists have been trying to develop an HIV vaccine. Since 2000, the U.S. government, together with philanthropic institutions and pharmaceutical companies, have spent more $15 billion on the endeavor, the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates. And scientists have made little progress.
"Until this point, we've failed, and I hate to say this, but we failed dismally," says Derseee Archary, who's an immunologist at the AIDS research center CAPRISA in Durban, South Africa.
Developing an HIV vaccine has been incredibly challenging for one big reason. Coincidentally, it's the same reason SARS-CoV-2 keeps coming back. That's variants.
Compared to SARS-CoV-2, HIV has many more variants than SARS-Cov-2. We're talking about many, many ... many more.
SARS-CoV-2 has a few variants that keep emerging, but with HIV, there are thousands of variants in each person infected with HIV," says immunologist William Schief at the Scripps Research Institute.
Given that about 38 million people are infected with HIV, there are literally millions of HIV variants on Earth. "All those variants aren't being transmitted [between people], but many are," Schief says. "Hundreds of thousands probably are being transmitted."
COVID pandemic serendipitously gives researchers a new shot at an HIV vaccine
To prevent an HIV infection, a vaccine has to protect against all of those variants – as many as 100,000.
On the surface, that sounds nearly impossible. Nevertheless, Schief and his colleagues have been working to develop such a vaccine for the past decade. It's arguably the most sophisticated vaccine ever attempted.
The vaccine's goal is to teach the immune system to recognize and stop thousands of HIV variants. And it does that by slowly training the immune system, over the course of a series of shots, to create broadly neutralizing antibodies – or antibodies that can take down the HIV virus even when it starts to mutate and evolve inside the body.
In several studies, Schief and his colleagues, along with another research team at the National Institutes of Health, have shown that the experimental vaccine can trigger the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies in mice. It took 7 to 9 shots to create these antibodies, Schief says. But he hopes the vaccine will work more efficiently in people.
"In humans, we don't think it's going to take us 9 shots or even 7, but we're not totally confident because we haven't done it yet. So we won't really know until."
Such a complicated vaccine will take a huge amount of testing in more than a dozen clinical trials. All this testing will be very expensive and time-consuming, Schief points out.
That's where the mRNA technology comes to the rescue. Vaccines made with the mRNA technology have immense flexibility. They can be tweaked, tinkered with and optimized very easily. If scientists want to change the shape of the vaccine a tad, it's super easy.
"For an [m]RNA vaccine, the process will be much faster and cost much less," Schief says. "I don't want to say cheap because it's not. It's still not cheap, but it's a lot less expensive to make the [m]RNA."
So serendipitously, the COVID pandemic greatly accelerated the development of this experimental vaccine, and in many ways, actually made it plausible. Because the pandemic pushed researchers and pharmaceutical companies, who had no choice but to take a risk and test the mRNA technology in people. Within a year, they proved the technology not only works but actually works really well, Schief says.
"We didn't know before COVID that mRNA technology was going to be as safe and as effective as it has proven to be," he says. "The mRNA vaccines induce really good responses."
So this past January, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, along with National Institutes of Health and Moderna, launched the first clinical trials of an mRNA vaccine for HIV.
After nearly 40 years of trying, researchers are optimistic about having an approved vaccine in the near future. "Because technology has come so far now," says Derseree Archary in Durban, South Africa. "I know this experimental vaccine sounds like science fiction, but I think in the next 5, 6 years, we should have a vaccine, hopefully, that may be able to confer some degree of protection against HIV."
Back in Los Angeles, Dr. Jesse Clark is helping to lead one of the trials at UCLA's Vine Street clinic in East Hollywood, which also helped to test Moderna's COVID vaccine.
While chatting with Clark at the clinic, I can see how proud he is to be a part of this historic trial.
"I actually went to medical school to be an HIV specialist," says Clark, who also directs the UCLA South American Program in HIV Prevention Research program in Lima, Peru, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "I wanted to help people that other people didn't seem to really want to help that much, partly because I could see myself in them and also just because they needed help."
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Antisemitism is often not taken seriously until it becomes deadly, said Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar whose nomination to be the State Department’s antisemitism monitor was delayed as she tangled with Republican senators who were peeved at her criticisms of their side of the aisle.
Lipstadt chose the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for her first talk Thursday since her Senate confirmation in March after contentious hearings.
She made good on her pledges to skeptical Republicans in the body that she would identify and target antisemitism on all sides.
“Antisemitism does not come from one end of the political spectrum,” Lipstadt said. “It is ubiquitous and is espoused by people who agree on nothing else or, better put, disagree on everything else.”
She spoke of the threat from the far-right, mentioning the 2017 neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville that convinced President Joe Biden, who named her to the post, to run for the presidency. But she also alluded to her frustrations with the left.
“Too often, when there is an act of antisemitism, those who condemn it cannot bring themselves to focus specifically on this particular prejudice,” she said. In 2019, Jewish groups, Republicans and some Jewish Democrats were unhappy when a resolution condemning antisemitism was amended to include condemnations of other forms of bigotry, including Islamaphobia.
In her remarks and later in a conversation with Sara Bloomfield, the museum’s director, Lipstadt said that antisemitism is often not taken seriously until it is too late.
“Too many people, organizations and institutions do not take antisemitism seriously,” she said. “They fail to include it in their litany of legitimate prejudicial hatreds. They wonder what is it that Jews are complaining about? After all, they are wealthy and powerful.”
Talking to Bloomfield, she said people tend not to take antisemitism seriously until it turns deadly, citing attacks on Jews in Pittsburgh in 2018, in New Jersey in 2019 and in Paris in 2015. “Then they suddenly stop but like if it’s something else it’s not taken seriously to some percent, at least at first glance, as many other victims of oppression,” Lipstadt said.
The post of antisemitism monitor was established in 2004 to track antisemitism overseas and make representations to foreign governments to address it, but Lipstadt said those lines were now blurred. She noted the hostage-taking crisis at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas in January, carried out by a radicalized British Muslim. “It is increasingly hard to differentiate between antisemitism that is foreign and that which is domestic,” she said.
That was a view adopted by her Trump administration predecessor, Elan Carr, who was in the audience and whom Lipstadt acknowledged in her remarks. In another nod to continuity with the Trump administration, Lipstadt praised the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and four Arab countries, brokered by the Trump administration in its final months.
“Working together with the countries that have signed on to the Accords and the normalization agreements, we can address some of the violent extremist antisemitism which often has had lethal consequences,” she said.
A number of Republicans had opposed and delayed Lipsdtadt’s nomination because while campaigning for Biden, she had lacerated the Trump administration as showing fascist tendencies and had described a statement by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson as white supremacism.
The weight of her Holocaust scholarship attached to these claims unnerved Republicans, but the Jewish community rallied behind her and she reached out to Republicans assuring them she would be nonpartisan in her ambassadorial role. In the end, she was confirmed in a bipartisan vote.
In her talk, Lipstadt singled out Russian officials for “soft” Holocaust denial because of their claims that Russia’s war against Ukraine is aimed at “denazifying” the country.
Lipstadt said she was “outraged by this exploitation of the history and suffering of the Holocaust and World War II for a coldblooded war of choice.” | https://www.jta.org/2022/05/12/politics/in-her-first-talk-as-antisemitism-monitor-deborah-lipstadt-decries-those-who-do-not-take-it-seriously | 2022-05-12T23:04:25Z | https://www.jta.org/2022/05/12/politics/in-her-first-talk-as-antisemitism-monitor-deborah-lipstadt-decries-those-who-do-not-take-it-seriously | true | 7 |
Man dies after being hit by driver on Morrison Bridge
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A pedestrian was hit and killed by a driver on the Morrison Bridge late Sunday afternoon, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Just before 5 p.m., Central...
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Post Doctoral Onderwijspositions 2 / 846 Postacademische job 28 februari 2OO7\nSolar Carpology for Phytorhaphenotechnische Oosterhoff Wagenwage Tornado touched down in Coon Rapids, Minn. during Wednesday's storms
COON RAPIDS, Minn. (FOX 9) - A tornado touched down in Coon Rapids, Minnesota Wednesday night, as strong storms hit the Twin Cities metro during the evening, survey crews confirmed on Thursday.
According to the National Weather Service survey crews, the tornado touched down shortly before 8:30 p.m. in a neighborhood off University Avenue, just south of Morningside Memorial Gardens cemetery.
Survey crews say it appears the tornado left a path of about three miles, with a width of about 50 yards and max winds of 80 mph.
There were multiple reports of damage across Coon Rapids as a result of Wednesday's storms. Our chopper spotted a tree down on the porch of a home. Our news crews also found a home that had been split in half by a large tree that came down during the storms.
Beyond tornadoes, much of the damage on Wednesday was caused by heavy straight-line winds that took down trees and power lines.
Wind gusts top 75 mph during Wednesday's storm
Here are the recorded wind gusts from National Weather Service observations:
- Morristown: 79 mph (8:01 p.m.)
- Shakopee: 77 mph (8:07 p.m.)
- Windom: 76 mph (6:10 p.m.)
- Waseca: 68 mph (8:08 p.m.)
- Eden Prairie: 67 mph (8:10 p.m.)
- Hopkins: 64 mph (8:13 p.m.)
- Anoka: 64 mph (8:24 p.m.)
- Richfield: 61 mph (8:20 p.m.)
- Roseville: 61 mph (8:27 p.m.)
More storms are possible for Thursday night
It's looking like another stormy night for much of Minnesota Thursday. But if severe weather does develop, it's likely it will be a few hours later than the storms Wednesday night that knocked out power for thousands, downed trees and caused flooding across the Twin Cities metro.
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ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Denver Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy was arrested on Thursday, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Office confirmed he was arrested around noon for second-degree criminal tampering with a domestic violence enhancer, the ACSO tweeted. The charge is a misdemeanor and he’s on a no bond hold.
He is scheduled to be in court at 9:30 a.m. Friday.
KOA Radio, which partners with Nexstar’s KDVR, said the Broncos are aware of the situation but have no comment at this time.
What these charges mean
KDVR legal analyst George Brauchler said this is a domestic situation between two people in an intimate relationship and that the violence enhancer wording is from 2021 changes to domestic violence sentencing law.
Brauchler said if Jeudy is found guilty, he could possibly serve up to six months in jail.
How Jerry Jeudy became a Denver Bronco
Jeudy was the Broncos’ first pick, 15th overall in the 2020 NFL draft. He was a star at the University of Alabama where he racked up 159 receptions for 2,742 yards (17.2 avg.) with 26 touchdowns during his time with the Crimson Tide from 2017-19. He was awarded the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s best wide receiver as a sophomore in 2018.
Jeudy’s development during his rookie year was challenging as it was in the midst of the COVID pandemic. But he was determined to improve in his second year and finished last season with 467 yards on 38 receptions in 10 games played.
Jeudy was born and raised in Deerfield Beach, Florida where he attended Deerfield Beach High School. Between his junior and senior seasons, he caught 117 passes for 1,554 yards (13.2 avg.) with 25 touchdowns.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | https://www.wtnh.com/news/national/broncos-wide-receiver-jerry-jeudy-arrested-in-colorado/ | 2022-05-12T23:12:43Z | https://www.wtnh.com/news/national/broncos-wide-receiver-jerry-jeudy-arrested-in-colorado/ | true | 35 |
VIDEO: Armed robbery at T-Mobile in Seal Beach
SEAL BEACH, Calif. - Authorities need the public's help identifying two suspects wanted in connection with an armed robbery at a T-Mobile in Seal Beach.
It happened around 3:20 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, at the store located at 12800 Seal Beach Boulevard.
According to police, the two suspects entered the store and tried to steal high-end cell phones by cutting the security cables attached to the displays.
An employee tried to stop one of the suspects by blocking his exit from the store. That's when a struggle ensued, police said. A witness told police they observed this suspect holding a gun in his hand during the fight. The gun was not fired.
The suspect was able to get away from the employee and run away with the other suspect.
They were last seen in a gold Lexus sedan.
The employee was not injured.
Both suspects are described as men in their late 20s, between 5'8" and 6' tall, weighing between 160 and 180 pounds.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Terri Young and Brent Miller, both of Madisonville, announce the birth of their daughter, Aryzona Rayne Miller, on Nov. 28, 2021, at Starr Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 20 inches long. She is the sister of Damian Charles Miller. Her grandparents are Toni Carter of Madisonville, and Shannon Miller of Tellico Plains. She is the great-granddaughter of Judy Young of Madisonville, and Mary and John Miller Sr. of Vonore.
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It’s do or die. The Hurricanes took Game 5 — meaning the Bruins have no room for error in Game 6.
The B’s biggest concern ahead of puck drop — their top line efficiency.
Carolina completely shut down the first-line of Brad Marchand, David Pastrnak and Patrice Bergeron in Game 5.
The Hurricanes third line, along with back-end support, held firm against the Bruins top attackers, who had plenty of chances, but couldn’t hit the back of the net.
It’s a reoccurring issue stacking Pasta, Marchand and Bergeron because it makes them that much more vulnerable with no offensive reinforcement from their second, third or fourth lines.
Connor Clifton was the lone wave maker with the sole goal last game.
Plus defensively — Charlie McAvoy made an unexpected return in Game 5, but didn’t play at full capacity — and therefore wasn’t much help.
If the first-liners don’t get help tonight — Game 6 will likely be the Bruins last. It’s B’s or bust. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/05/12/bruins-hurricanes-the-bs-biggest-concern-ahead-of-game-6/ | 2022-05-12T23:17:19Z | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/05/12/bruins-hurricanes-the-bs-biggest-concern-ahead-of-game-6/ | false | 1 |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. (CORR) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter.
The real estate investment trust, based in Kansas City, Missouri, said it had funds from operations of $2.3 million, or 15 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had a loss of $84,000, or 1 cent per share.
The traded fund, based in Kansas City, Missouri, posted revenue of $32.9 million in the period.
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Survey: 60% Of Business Services Companies Polled Say 50% To 100% Of Their Staff Prefer Hybrid Work Model
May 12, 2022
Survey: 60% Of Business Services Companies Polled Say 50% To 100% Of Their Staff Prefer Hybrid Work Model.
The number of employees willing to work only from the office is below 15% in about 90% of companies in the business services industry and 60% of the firms polled say 50% to 100% of their staff prefer the hybrid work model, as per a survey by the Association of Business Service Leaders in (...)
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Nga tupuna hakoke whenua
He tuakana, he taina a Tuhoromatakaka rāua ko Kahumatamomoe nā Tamatekapua rangatira o Te Arawa ēnei tāne.
He ahakoa tēnei hononga he pēnei te noho o tātou ngā tāne i ēnei rā. I tētehi rā ka whawhai rāua he koretake noaiho te putake i whati ai te hamuti i a rāua.
E takaoreore ana ka whiua e Kahumatamomoe tona tuakana kai raro ki te whenua ko ōna rekereke ki te rangi, ka whakamā a ia.
Nā tēnei āhuatanga me ētehi anō take ka wehe atu ai rāua ko tōna matua tāne i Maketu. Ka haere ki Moehau ki reira noho ai. Ka riro i a Kahumatamomoe te pā o Whitingakongako i Maketu. Ka roa rātou ko tōna hūnuku e noho mai nā i Moehau ka manawa kiore a Tuhoromatakaka, ka karangangia tana whakapakanga, ka whakatata mai a Ihenga ki a ia.
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Advertise with NZME.He whakamarama kau tana uhunga, whaihoki ki a pēwhea te horoi me te whakarite i tōna tupapaku ka hemo ai. Ka mate a Tuhoromatakaka ka tapu a Ihenga.
E tapu ana ka wehe i Moehau ka ahu ki tōna matua tāne kaokaoroa ki a Kahumatamomoe kai Maketu e noho ana.
Te kitehanga noa i tana pōtiki he mōhio nōna kua mate tōna tuakana, ka tapu te marae.
Ka roa e tapu ana ka kitea e Ihenga te tamāhine a Kahumatamomoe ko Hinetekakara tōna ingoa whaihoki ka takapouwharangia a Hinetekakara e Ihenga. Ka puta i te whare me tana whakakai ko Kaukaumatua ki te hoi taringa ka tangi a Kahumatamomoe, ko tētehi tēnei o ngā take i whakatetetete ai rāua ko tōna tuakana.
Ka kī atu a Kahumatamomoe ki a Ihenga kia haere ki te kimi whenua mō rāua me tōna wahine rangatira. Ka wehe rātou me tana tira haere, e whakatetonga ana, ka hipa te pae hiwi tuatahi, nā wai te pae hiwi tuarua, tuatoru mai tuawha mai ka noho i Te Hiapo, he kāinga tēnei i tapangia ai ki te ingoa o tō Kuiwai rāua ko Haungaroa taina i mate noa atu i ngā tau ki muri i tā rātou haerenga ki tō rātou Ariki ki a Ngātoroirangi.
Kāti, ka rere ngā hīhī o te rākura ki runga ki ngā hiwi e tāhere manu ana ngā toa he mahi kai.
Ka roa e mahi kai ana, ka puta te mōkai kurī a Potakatawhitinui nā Ihenga, ka whakaruakina e ia he īnanga, nā reira a Ihenga i mōhio ai he roto, he awa he hopua wai e pātata nei ki a rātou. Ka arumia tana kurī ka roa e oma ana ka puta ki te pari, ko Pariparitetai te ingoa o tēnei wāhi, me tāna e kite ai he wai whāiti e takoto kau ana me te whakaaro hai koha mā tōna matua tāne kaokaoroa, nā reira i tapangia ai e Ihenga ko Te Rotowhāiti i kite ai e Ihenga ariki ai Kahumatamomoe.
Nā tēnei kitehanga āna ka kaha ngā waewae ka mahue mai a Pariparitetai ka ahu tō rātou tira haere ki te hauāuru o te moana, ka kitea te nui o te moana me tōna pōhēhē he whāiti, ehara! E hao īnanga ana e hoe tahi ana, ka ū ki uta e mā raro ana ka kitea e ia te moana tuarua e hora rā, ka tapangia ko Te Rotorua nui a Kahumatamomoe. Nā reira te kī ko Kahumatamomoe te ariki nui o te takere waka o Te Arawa i mana ai tēnei tupuna o tātou i a Ihenga
Ka whia kē ngā marama te hunuku ki ngā waiariki ka hoki atu ki Maketu me te rahi o te kai, he manu, he īnanga, he kākāhi he aha noa atu mātua ko ngā kōrerotanga o te whenua hou, he whenua mahana, he whenua momona, kāore hoki he rahi o te tangata, ka whāki hoki e Ihenga e rua ngā moana i kitea, pūhakehake ana ki te īnanga me te kākāhi kāore i kōrerongia te mana o tana mōkai – he aha hoki ! Ka ingoangia e ia ēnei moana e rua nei ki te ingoa o Kahumatamomoe.
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Advertise with NZME.Nā tēnei ka whakahīhī te kauwae o tōna mātua tāne kaokaroroa. Maranga ake te korokē nei me tana kauwhau ki te iwi, kua kitea e Ihenga he whenua ururua he whenua hou. Ka tae te whakaaro ki a Kahumatamomoe taro ake nei rātou katoa e hoki atu ai ki te takahi i te nuku roa o te whenua.
Ae, nā Ihenga te whenua hou i tūhura, nāna hoki ngā ingoa nui, nāna hoki te mana whenua ki tōna matua tāne kaokaoroa ki a Kahumatamomoe. Hai whakaparanga māu tō tātou tupuna hakoke whenua.
English Translation
Tuhoromatakaka and Kahumatamomoe were the sons of the great chief Tamatekapua.
Unfortunately, these two men had a falling out while living in Maketu. In the heat of a scuffle, Tuhoromatakaka was overcome by his younger brother, which caused him much embarrassment.
There is much more to the story; however, Tuhoromatakaka eventually left the area with his father. They both made off towards the Coromandel region, whilst Kahumatamomoe remained at Maketu, occupying Whitingakongako.
Before Tuhoromatakaka died, he instructed Ihenga on preparing his body correctly; he then told his son that following such a ceremony, he needed to find his Uncle to purify him.
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Advertise with NZME.Following the passing of Tuhoromatakaka, Ihenga followed the words of his father. Though a terrible situation, it strengthened the heart of Kahumatamomoe that his brother had sent his son to him to be cleansed.
This unusual situation would eventuate with Ihenga marrying the daughter of Kahumatamomoe. She made her way out onto the courtyard wearing the prized ear pendant, Kaukaumatua, that was buried under the window sill of the house these two brothers once occupied.
On seeing Kaukaumatua, Kahumatamomoe was overcome with great sadness and happiness. He then encouraged his nephew to explore the lands to find areas befitting his status.
Moving south from Maketu with his entourage, they undertook an extraordinary journey travelling for many days pushing over the first set of ranges, then the second, the third and fourth, where they decided to settle at Te Hiapo, an area named after the brother of Kuiwai and Haungaroa.
Te Hiapo had died whilst searching for their elder brother Ngatoroirangi. From this site, Te Hiapo, Ihenga and his men set out daily, snaring birds and collecting the fruits of the forest.
One day, his pet dog Potakatawhitinui took off, exhausted after a significant period of hunting for his master, and returned dripping wet. Noticing this, Ihenga knew that Potakatawhitinui had come across a body of water.
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Advertise with NZME.Encouraged by what his pet had discovered, he pressed his dog to return to where it had made its discovery. He came upon a cliff face after a long toil weaving and meandering throughout the bush.
Below him lay what seemed a relatively narrow body of water from his point of view. He named the lake, The slim body of water discovered by Ihenga in honour of Kahumatamomoe.
A significant amount of fish was caught, and the haul from the forest truly made for a masterful return to his Uncle and his future wife.
Ihenga continued his exploration, naming many places as he moved down the corridor of the lake; only then did he realise the actual size of the first lake. Eventually, they would cross over to another area where he chanced upon a more significant body of water still – again, and he called this after his Uncle; the second lake was named in honour of Kahumatamomoe.
With these two powerful statements, Ihenga publicised that the area's overlord was his Uncle, Kahumatamomoe. When they had completed their exploration, they returned to Maketu.
They presented Kahumatamomoe with the new stories of land discovery, revealing the remarkable natural wonders they had discovered, more so the magnificent bounty of food that they had secured - amongst all food served was a particular fish found only in the freshwater.
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Advertise with NZME.Ihenga mentioned that he, not his dog, had found a body of water teeming with freshwater fish – in honour of his Uncle, he relayed how he had named the lake after him, to which Kahumatamomoe felt most humbled.
Kahumatamomoe again encouraged a migration this time; they would all return to this great place that had been discovered by Ihenga and share the wonders of what we today know as Rotorua. | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/kahu-ki-rotorua-the-story-of-ihengas-discovery-of-rotorua/7KRGJM5AOVECO7IKE6YLDUBAYU/?c_id=252&objectid=12523980 | 2022-05-12T23:28:02Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/kahu-ki-rotorua-the-story-of-ihengas-discovery-of-rotorua/7KRGJM5AOVECO7IKE6YLDUBAYU/?c_id=252&objectid=12523980 | true | 3 |
Resident: Neighbor shot at police, prompting shelter-in-place in Whitehall
WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - An apparent shooting incident prompted a large response from law enforcement in a Whitehall Township neighborhood early Monday. Several police departments and an emergency response team responded to the Parkview Apartments on Jordan Drive some time before 6 a.m. A photographer who works for 69...
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DEBORAH James has said she will “miss every chance that I could have had” with her children, but knows they “are going to be fine”.
The mum-of-two is receiving hospice care for incurable bowel cancer and has raised over £3.5 million on bowelbabe.org as a legacy.
“You always want to know as a mother, are your kids going to be ok? And my kids are going to be fine,” Deborah said in a tearful interview with BBC Breakfast.
“But it doesn’t mean that I’m not gonna miss every chance that I could have had with them.”
She also said on BBC Radio 5 Live on Tuesday: "The more I tell them they are going to be ok, the more I tell myself they are going to be ok, I know they are surrounded by love.”
Deborah has expressed her hopes that her kids - Eloise, 12, and Hugo, 14 - will remember her after her death, due to their age.
“But [they are] still very young, so my image will fade and they will have to rely on videos or photos”, she told The Times.
The Sun columnist, 40, who was diagnosed at the age of 35, revealed earlier this week her body is too weak to carry on.
The former deputy headteacher has shared how awful it was to tell her children she was stopping active treatment.
In heartbreaking interviews from her parents home in Woking, Deborah has spoken of her wishes for her final moments, and hopes for her children in the future.
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She revealed she wants to be part of her kids' wedding days and birthdays through notes she'll leave for them to open, which will also include advice on first dates.
Deborah said: "It’s hard to work out what to do: you don’t want to rip off the Band-Aid every birthday and ruin it for them.
"But at the same time I want them to have letters at milestones, and funny messages.”
In her final column for The Sun, Deborah said she has made her kids memory boxes.
She wrote: "I’ve gone into mental overdrive and with the help of my husband, Seb, we have made sure that the kids have memory boxes - we’ve bought them gifts for certain key future birthdays.
"I do not want to die – I can’t get my head around the idea that I will not see my kids' weddings or see them grow up – that I will no longer be a part of life that I love so much.”
For the past five years, the former teacher has raised awareness of her disease and its symptoms, becoming a national treasure.
And as her last wish, she urged people to donate to the Bowel Babe Fund, which last night received support from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
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Deborah said she and her children, husband Seb, brothers, sisters and other family are all together “having sleepovers, doing loads of talking” and spending time in the sunshine.
She said: "What I desire is simple things, which is holding my husband's hand, curling up and watching movies with my daughter, telling them both that I love them.
"Just spending time watching the people I love in awe, to just know that they are ok.”
Yesterday Deborah moved her podcast producer Mike Holt to tears as she signed off with her final poignant episode, saying "that's it from me".
Mike struggled to contain his emotion as Deborah said she was comforted by the thought she would be with Rachel Bland - her co-host on the podcast who tragically died in 2018.
In her final episode of her BBC podcast titled You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer, she told Mike: "We'll see each other again, somewhere, somehow, dancing.
"And until then please, please just enjoy life because it is so precious. All I want right now is more time and more life." | https://www.thesun.ie/health/8783654/deborah-james-ill-miss-every-chance-could-had-kids/ | 2022-05-12T23:28:50Z | https://www.thesun.ie/health/8783654/deborah-james-ill-miss-every-chance-could-had-kids/ | false | 5 |
CHICAGO (WLS) -- For Alfonso and Ray Quiroz, this was a walk down memory lane.
"I was born in Pullman, raised my family in Pullman worked at Pullman Standard," Alfonso said.
The brothers were just in their 20s when they first started working at the legendary Pullman company, building train cars that moved America.
"I had a lot of fun working on the cars... when the cars rolled, out I was proud that I built that car," Alfonso said.
Now in their 80s, that pride is still on display.
The brothers helped build the last Pullman passenger car in 1981. Still in service, the Amtrak superliner will roll back to its birth place for the first time this weekend as part of Pullman Railroad Days at the Pullman National Monument. The monument was opened on Labor Day last year, allowing visitors to experience the once bustling company town and the country's labor movement.
It was in Pullman in the late 1800s where factory workers walked off the job. That fight led to new worker rights and the national recognition of Labor Day.
"Now, we're going back to the 1800s. I wasn't around at that time, but we benefited from what their struggle was at the time. Whatever they benefited in 1800s, I benefited by it," Ray said.
But for the brothers, Thursday was about reminiscing and sharing stories not necessarily included in official tours.
"If you take these panels down, you see notes people write notes that they have to get a loaf of bread before going home," Alfonso said.
There was one more story they shared. It was about the penny that was drilled in behind the doors before the train car was finished.
"To this day, the pennies are still there the reason I did that, to give good luck to railroad cars, bring back good memories." Alfonso said.
'Good memories': Brothers revisit last Pullman passenger rail car they helped build
Still in service, Amtrak superliner will roll back to its birth place for 1st
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Italian energy infrastructure company Snam has signed an agreement with Spain’s energy provider Enagas to explore the construction of an offshore gas pipeline between the two countries.
Snam, Europe’s major energy pipeline operator, announced the move as European countries are searching for alternative gas suppliers as Russia-Ukraine tensions rise, Xinhua news agency reported.
Russia has been a major supplier of gas to European states.
Connecting Italy to Spain is significant, given that Spain has the largest capacity for re-gasifying liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the European Union (EU).
But the country’s pipeline connection with most of the rest of the EU is limited because of the high Pyrenees Mountains that form the border between Spain and France.
The deal between Snam and Enagas would work around that problem by laying the pipeline under the Mediterranean Sea.
“We are working to take the necessary steps to contribute to security and to support the diversification of Italy’s energy supply,” Stefano Venier, Snam’s chief executive, said in a statement.
For the first quarter of 2022, Snam posted net profit growth of 3.8 per cent, reaching 325 million euros ($337 million).
The company did not specify when the project would be launched.
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Midday Report: ViewRay (VRAY) Shares Up on May 12
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of ViewRay Inc. (NASDAQ: VRAY) moved 15.10% Thursday.
As of 12:16:14 est, ViewRay is currently sitting at $2.79 and has moved $0.37 so far today.
ViewRay has moved 30.00% over the last 30 days and has a YTD change of 55.54% based on the previous close.
The company anticipates its next earnings on 2022-08-04.
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The United States will stage a Rugby World Cup for the first time after being voted as host of the men’s tournament in 2031 and the women’s tournament two years later.
World Rugby announced host nations for all the World Cups from 2025-33 following a Thursday meeting of its council in Dublin, with Australia also staging back-to-back tournaments in 2027 (men) and 2029 (women).
The sport is breaking new ground by moving its most prestigious tournament to North America, with World Rugby regarding it as an area of untapped potential in both a commercial and sporting sense.
Hosting the two World Cups will cost around US$500 million, with profits and losses shared between World Rugby and USA Rugby. More than 20 American cities are potential hosts for World Cup matches, USA Rugby has said.
There could be Canadian involvement with the U.S. bid group including Vancouver in an original list of cities under consideration for participation.
“We congratulate USA Rugby and are excited the events are coming to North America,” acting Rugby Canada CEO Jamie Levchuk said in a statement. “We look forward to exploring opportunities with potential host partners in Canada in the years ahead.”
B.C. Place Stadium has drawn sizable crowds for the Canada Sevens, Canada’s stop on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series. The two-day event drew total attendance of 77,096 in 2018.
Canada hosted the women’s World Cup in 2006.
U.S. cities under consideration are Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Glendale, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York/New Jersey, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
The bid received support from the White House, with U.S. President Joe Biden sending a letter to World Rugby last month giving governmental guarantees and his backing for the “development of rugby in the United States.”
The men’s Rugby World Cup is regarded in some parts of the world as the third-biggest sporting event, after the soccer World Cup and the summer Olympics.
The U.S. is hosting all three events in a five-year span from 2026, starting with the men’s soccer World Cup that year — with Mexico and Canada as co-hosts — and then the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.
—The Associated Press
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Rehabilitated dolphin leaves quarantine at Florida facility
May 12, 2022 Updated: May 12, 2022 6:35 p.m.
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1of 11 In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Linda Erb, vice president of animal care and training at Dolphin Research Center, feeds Ranger, a juvenile bottlenose dolphin, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Marathon, Fla. The male was flown March 25, to the Florida Keys from the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center after being rescued in June 2021 from Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother's death. Because the dolphin can't be released, National Marine Fisheries Service chose DRC to be his forever home. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) Andy Newman/AP Show More Show Less
2of 11 In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Ranger, a juvenile bottlenose dolphin, is weighed at Dolphin Research Center Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Marathon, Fla., during transfer from a medical pool to one of the facility's Florida Bay-fed lagoons. The male was flown March 25, to the Florida Keys from the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center after being rescued in June 2021 from Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother's death. Because the dolphin can't be released, National Marine Fisheries Service chose DRC to be his forever home. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) Andy Newman/AP Show More Show Less 3of 11
4of 11 In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Dolphin Research Center staff transfer Ranger, a juvenile bottlenose dolphin, from a medical pool to one of the facility's Florida Bay-fed lagoons Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Marathon, Fla. The male was flown March 25, to the Florida Keys from the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center after being rescued in June 2021 from Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother's death. Because the dolphin can't be released, National Marine Fisheries Service chose DRC to be his forever home. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) Andy Newman/AP Show More Show Less
5of 11 In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Sarah Zigmond, left, of the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center, and Linda Erb of Dolphin Research Center hug as they watch Ranger adapt to his new home at DRC Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Marathon, Fla. The male was flown March 25, to the Florida Keys from the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center after being rescued in June 2021 from Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother's death. Because the dolphin can't be released, National Marine Fisheries Service chose DRC to be his forever home. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) Andy Newman/AP Show More Show Less 6of 11
7of 11 In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Adam Keaton, director of animal care and habitat at Dolphin Research Center, moves Ranger, a juvenile bottlenose dolphin, off a stretcher and into one of the facility's Florida Bay-fed lagoons Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Marathon, Fla. The male was flown March 25, to the Florida Keys from the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center after being rescued in June 2021 from Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother's death. Because the dolphin can't be released, National Marine Fisheries Service chose DRC to be his forever home. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) Andy Newman/AP Show More Show Less
8of 11 In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Dolphin Research Center staff transfer Ranger, a juvenile bottlenose dolphin, from a medical pool to one of the facility's Florida Bay-fed lagoons Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Marathon, Fla. The male was flown March 25, to the Florida Keys from the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center after being rescued in June 2021 from Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother's death. Because the dolphin can't be released, National Marine Fisheries Service chose DRC to be his forever home. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) Andy Newman/AP Show More Show Less 9of 11
10of 11 In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Ranger, a juvenile male bottlenose dolphin, adapts to his new home at Dolphin Research Center Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Marathon, Fla. Ranger was flown March 25, to the Florida Keys from the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center after being rescued in June 2021 from Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother's death. Because the dolphin can't be released, National Marine Fisheries Service chose DRC to be his forever home. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP) Andy Newman/AP Show More Show Less 11of 11
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A rescued juvenile bottlenose dolphin, flown from Texas to the Florida Keys-based Dolphin Research Center seven weeks ago, was moved to the facility’s primary dolphin lagoon Thursday.
The transfer marks the male marine mammal's final integration into a “forever family” of other permanent dolphin residents.
Ranger convalesced in a medical quarantine pool specially designed to increase his eating and weight, while strengthening both his immune system and his bond with human caregivers.
He was rescued a year ago after being discovered stranded in waters around Goose Island State Park in Texas, suffering from an underlying respiratory infection and dehydration following his mother’s death.
After determining that Ranger hadn't learned enough eating and survival skills from his mother to successfully live in the wild, National Marine Fisheries chose Dolphin Research Center in Marathon as his forever home.
To safely maneuver Ranger from quarantine, DRC staff employed a special marine mammal stretcher and placed him into the natural Florida Bay water of the facility’s main lagoon. Several dolphins in neighboring pools observed as Ranger speedily explored his new home, taking in their sonar signals for the first time since arriving at the rehabilitation facility in late March.
It took less than an hour for Ranger to begin interacting and accepting food from Linda Erb, DRC’s vice president of animal care and training.
“We were surprised he decided to eat within 45 minutes of getting in the pool,” Erb said. “He hasn’t heard dolphin sounds for over a year." | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Rehabilitated-dolphin-leaves-quarantine-at-17169364.php | 2022-05-12T23:36:42Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/article/Rehabilitated-dolphin-leaves-quarantine-at-17169364.php | false | 10 |
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ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Denver Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy was arrested on Thursday, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Office confirmed he was arrested around noon for second-degree criminal tampering with a domestic violence enhancer, the ACSO tweeted. The charge is a misdemeanor and he’s on a no-bond hold.
He is scheduled to be in court at 9:30 a.m. Friday.
In a news conference, Sheriff Tyler Brown said a woman called 911 around 10:15 a.m. accusing Jeudy of controlling her property. But Brown said there was no physical contact and it “solely involved property.”
Brown said the woman involved has a 1-month-old child with Jeudy and the baby was present during the incident. There is a temporary protection order against Jeudy that goes into place on Friday.
FOX31 has received the affidavit in Jeudy’s arrest. The document says the woman said “things got crazy” between her and Jeudy. She said he “put her wallet and medical paperwork for their child in his car and would not let her get access to it.”
KOA Radio, which partners with Nexstar’s KDVR, said the Broncos are aware of the situation but have no comment at this time.
What these charges mean
KDVR legal analyst George Brauchler said this is a domestic situation between two people in an intimate relationship and that the violence enhancer wording is from 2021 changes to domestic violence sentencing law.
Brauchler said if Jeudy is found guilty, he could possibly serve up to six months in jail.
Brown said that domestic violence enhancer would have been added because Jeudy has a child with the woman in the case.
Domestic violence cases require an appearance before a judge before the defendant can be released from jail, Brown said. That way, the victim can be notified of the person’s release. All such cases, including Jeudy’s, require a no-bond hold.
How Jerry Jeudy became a Denver Bronco
Jeudy was the Broncos’ first pick, 15th overall in the 2020 NFL draft. He was a star at the University of Alabama where he racked up 159 receptions for 2,742 yards (17.2 avg.) with 26 touchdowns during his time with the Crimson Tide from 2017-19. He was awarded the Fred Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s best wide receiver as a sophomore in 2018.
Jeudy’s development during his rookie year was challenging as it was in the midst of the COVID pandemic. But he was determined to improve in his second year and finished last season with 467 yards on 38 receptions in 10 games played.
Jeudy was born and raised in Deerfield Beach, Florida where he attended Deerfield Beach High School. Between his junior and senior seasons, he caught 117 passes for 1,554 yards (13.2 avg.) with 25 touchdowns.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | https://cw39.com/cw39/broncos-wide-receiver-jerry-jeudy-arrested-in-colorado/ | 2022-05-12T23:40:09Z | https://cw39.com/cw39/broncos-wide-receiver-jerry-jeudy-arrested-in-colorado/ | false | 35 |
ALL CLEAR: Louisiana State Capitol briefly evacuated due to suspicious package
Published: May. 12, 2022 at 5:43 PM CDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana State Capitol was temporarily evacuated due to a suspicious package on Thursday, May 12.
Reports indicate a bag was found unattended. Everyone was allowed back inside minutes later.
Lawmakers had not yet begun to debate the controversial abortion bill.
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ATLANTA (AP) — South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group is expected to announce next week it’s building a massive electric vehicle plant near Savannah, Georgia, according to a U.S. official familiar with the anticipated announcement.
Hyundai is finalizing its plans for the new plant as President Joe Biden is set to travel to South Korea next week as part of his first visit to Asia during his administration.
The White House and Hyundai have been in discussions about the plant that’s expected to bring thousands new jobs to Georgia, and the formal announcement is likely to come during Biden’s May 20-21 visit to Seoul, according to the official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The official stressed though that details of the formal announcement are still being worked out.
The plant could grow to include 8,500 employees and would be built on a 2,200-acre (890-hectare) site that state and local governments own near the hamlet of Ellabell, Georgia, said two people familiar with Georgia’s talks with Hyundai.
That’s about 25 miles (40 kilometers) inland from Savannah. The second person said Hyundai would invest more than $7 billion and could also build some cars powered by gasoline engines at the site, with an announcement in Georgia set for May 20. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the confidential talks.
It would be the second massive electric vehicle plant announced in Georgia in less than a year. Rivian Automotive in December announced it would build a $5 billion, 7,500-job electric truck plant about 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of Atlanta.
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Madhani reported from Washington. Associated Press auto writer Tom Krisher contributed from Detroit and writer Russ Bynum contributed from Savannah, Georgia. | https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_times/sources-hyundai-to-set-7b-georgia-plant-during-biden-visit/article_2ea762bf-318c-587d-a02b-00d1186ab8c7.html | 2022-05-12T23:41:36Z | https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_times/sources-hyundai-to-set-7b-georgia-plant-during-biden-visit/article_2ea762bf-318c-587d-a02b-00d1186ab8c7.html | false | 36 |
MHK woman honored with National Caregiving Award
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - A Manhattan woman has been recognized for providing support to individuals with developmental disabilities for 20 years.
LaToya Witcher, a residential supervisor for ResCare, was named the 2022 Direct Support Professional of the Year by the American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR).
ANCOR is a disability advocacy group, representing employers of more than 500,000 professionals.
LaToya works to help her clients live happy, healthy lives, assisting with everyday tasks which includes mealtime decisions, and personal hygiene.
Her positive presence with her client’s, ensuring they recognize they matter and deserve the services she provides them.
“I just treat them like they are somebody, they have feelings, they have heart, you know, so I just put that energy out here and so I get it back through the way they treat me.” ResCare Residential Supervisor, LaToya Witcher says.
Latoya was chosen from the thousands of Direct Support Professionals who were nominated for the award.
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BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) _ Air Industries Group (AIRI) on Wednesday reported a loss of $28,000 in its first quarter.
The Bay Shore, New York-based company said it had a loss of less than 1 cent on a per-share basis.
The maker of parts for the aerospace industry and defense contractors posted revenue of $12.1 million in the period.
In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, the company's shares hit 66 cents. A year ago, they were trading at $1.15.
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Tories have ‘big mountain to climb’ if they want to win next election, Jeremy Hunt warns Boris Johnson
Former foreign secretary says now is not right time for change of leadership
Boris Johnson has been warned by former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt that the Tories have a “big mountain to climb” if they are to win a majority at the next general election.
Mr Hunt said that asking the public to choose between tax cuts and a well-funded NHS would cost the Conservatives votes, and insisted the party’s drubbing at the local elections should not be dismissed merely as “mid-term blues”.
But he also said that now was not the right time for a change of leadership, while suggesting he still had ambitions to lead the party in the future.
Speaking to Times Radio and the station’s sister paper, Mr Hunt said: “To win an election, the Conservative Party has to promise a well-funded NHS and the prospect of tax cuts. If we make people choose between one or the other, we’re not going to win the election.
“I do think that we would be wrong to say that the setbacks the Conservative Party have are just mid-term blues, and there’s a big mountain to climb to win the next election.”
The former health secretary – who came second to Mr Johnson in the 2019 leadership contest – did not rule out another bid before 2024.
He said: “When you’ve done a few big jobs in the cabinet, and the prime minister goes through a rocky patch then you’re always gonna have that speculation. I personally don’t believe that it’d be right to have a leadership contest right now, because we’re in the middle of a terrible war in Ukraine.”
Mr Hunt added: “I don’t think it’s the right time, but I would be very open with you that I don’t rule out a return in the future.
“I’d have done some things better than Boris Johnson and I’d have made some mistakes that he didn’t make. I think my approach to the pandemic would have been different but on the other hand I wouldn’t have gotten the majority that he got in the 2019 general election.”
Mr Hunt said that while lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street had “horrified” some, they were not the only reason that the Tories lost nearly 500 seats last week.
“Underneath it, I think the reason that we got such a kicking was economic concerns that many families had,” he said.
“We are faced with a situation now where we have very, very low underlying growth in the economy.”
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Consortium aims to speed the development and delivery of customized or 'bespoke' gene therapies
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) announced that it has joined the Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (BGTC). Launched in October 2021, the BGTC will generate gene therapy resources that the research community can use to streamline gene therapy development for rare disorders, making the process more efficient and less costly. Danaher's Life Science companies join the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), twelve pharmaceutical and biotech companies and nine non-profits, and will be represented by experts from Danaher Corporation and its companies, notably Pall Corporation, Aldevron and Cytiva. The project is managed by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) as part of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® program.
"Danaher's companies have a history of working with drug developers to provide new technologies and services that enable the advancement of breakthrough genomic medicines," said Sadik Kassim, Chief Technology Officer, Genomic Medicines for the Life Sciences companies at Danaher. "We are committed to continuing our work in this space and to collaborating with the NIH, FDA, and like-minded industry partners to accelerate the development of platform technologies and diagnostics that enable the next generation of breakthrough therapies."
The BGTC was formed in response to shortcomings in the current drug development model that make it difficult for companies to recover the costs required to develop gene therapies to treat rare and ultra-rare diseases.
"The Life Sciences companies of Danaher have the global presence and broad capabilities to support Genomic Medicine researchers and the industrial scale-up of biological treatments, making them ideal contributors to the BGTC. We are confident that their reach and expertise will help the BGTC realize its goal of streamlining the drug development process to reduce costs and enable companies to bring more gene therapies to patients," said Courtney Silverthorn, Associate Vice President of Research Partnerships at the FNIH.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world what is possible when partners from the public, private and non-profit sectors come together to solve big, societal challenges," said Jose-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos, Chief Science Officer at Danaher. "We believe collaborations like the BGTC are critical to unlock bottlenecks in the development of therapies for rare and ultra-rare diseases."
Learn more about BGTC by visiting https://fnih.org/our-programs/AMP/BGTC.
ABOUT DANAHER
Danaher is a global science and technology innovator committed to helping its customers solve complex challenges and improving quality of life around the world. Its family of world class brands has leadership positions in the demanding and attractive health care, environmental and applied end-markets. With more than 20 operating companies, Danaher's globally diverse team of approximately 80,000 associates is united by a common culture and operating system, the Danaher Business System, and its Shared Purpose, Helping Realize Life's Potential. For more information, please visit www.danaher.com.
ABOUT BGTC
The Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (BGTC) is part of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® (AMP®) program, a public–private partnership among NIH, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), multiple pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, and nonprofit and other organizations. The AMP program, which is managed by the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH), aims to improve current models for developing diagnostics and therapies. The BGTC is establishing platforms and standards to speed the development and delivery of customized or "bespoke" gene therapies that could treat millions of people affected by rare diseases, including diseases too rare to be of commercial interest. The BGTC is the first AMP initiative focused on rare diseases and the sixth AMP initiative overall. It also is the first to focus on a therapeutic platform.
ABOUT THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health creates and manages alliances with public and private institutions in support of the mission of the NIH, the world's premier medical research agency. The Foundation, also known as the FNIH, works with its partners to accelerate biomedical research and strategies against diseases and health concerns in the United States and across the globe. The FNIH organizes and administers research projects; supports education and training of new researchers; organizes educational events and symposia; and administers a series of funds supporting a wide range of health issues. Established by Congress, the FNIH is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. For additional information about the FNIH, please visit fnih.org.
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Production of 17,913 gold equivalent ounces with $33.4 million in revenues; planned stripping contributing to higher costs, expected to normalize in H2 2022
(All dollar amounts expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted)
TSX: GPR | NYSE American: GPL
VANCOUVER, BC, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Great Panther Mining Limited (TSX: GPR) (NYSE-A: GPL) ("Great Panther" or the "Company"), a growth-oriented precious metals producer focused on the Americas, announces consolidated financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2022, from its three wholly-owned mines: the Tucano Gold Mine ("Tucano") in Brazil, and Topia and the Guanajuato Mine Complex ("the GMC") in Mexico, both primarily silver mines.
"First quarter 2022 results were in line with expectations and good progress was made on numerous fronts as we build back steady-state production at Tucano," stated Alan Hair, Chair and Interim CEO. "The first half of 2022 is focused on capital intensive programs required to safeguard production in the back-half of the year. Stripping of the TAP AB, TAP C and Urucum North pits is advancing in preparation for ore production in the third quarter, as is mobilization of the new mining contractor. Although still on the road to recovery, I believe we are turning a corner and expect to see improving results as the year progresses."
During the first quarter of 2022 ("Q1 2022"), progress was made in stripping the TAP AB, TAP C and Urucum North ("URN") pits despite rain levels being over 30% higher in the quarter than historical averages. The combination of significant stripping against anticipated low production of gold ounces in Q1 2022 resulted in higher unit costs than the comparative quarter in 2021, however these costs are expected to normalize in the second half of 2022.
- Consolidated metal production of 17,913 gold equivalent ounces ("Au eq oz"), inclusive of 14,319 gold ounces ("Au oz") and 173,698 silver ounces ("Ag oz")
- Consolidated cash costs of $1,725 per gold ounce sold compared with $954 in the first quarter of 2021 ("Q1 2021")
- Consolidated all-in-sustaining-costs ("AISC")1, excluding corporate G&A, of $2,740 per gold ounce sold compared with $1,557 for the same period in 2021
- Revenue of $33.4 million compared with $52.6 million in the same period in 2021
- Mine operating loss of $3.4 million compared with mine operating earnings of $11.0 million in Q1 2021
- Net loss of $8.9 million compared with net loss of $0.3 million in Q1 2021
- EBITDA1 of negative $1.2 million compared with EBITDA of $10.3 million for Q1 2021
- Updated Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource ("MRMR") estimate for the Tucano gold mine successfully replaced mining depletion and extended mine life by 1.5 years
- New mining contractor, MINAX, on track to be fully mobilized during Q2
- Reported positive exploration results for the Coricancha development project in Peru that confirm the potential of the Escondida vein
- Recognized for executive gender diversity by The Globe and Mail's "Women Lead Here" benchmark
- Both Topia and the GMC received "Socially Responsible Company" distinctions, awarded by CEMEFI (the Mexican Center for Philanthropy).
As previously disclosed, the additional pushback of the UCS pit was postponed until the second half of 2022 following the rainy season. In Q1 2022, geotechnical studies were completed by the Company with the assistance of SRK Consulting that confirmed the value of ore in the UCS pit will support the pushback design. The pushback is estimated to total 8.5 million tonnes of waste removal.
During Q1 2022, 4,912 metres were drilled completing the 11,000-metre infill drilling program to support technical studies for the URN underground project. Final assays are being received and will be reported this quarter. Final results are also being received for more than 700 line-kilometres of multi-element soil geochemistry sampling carried out in 2021. This geochemical database will be interpreted to define and prioritize targets for follow-up and drilling in the second half of 2022.
For Q1 2022, the Company recorded a net loss of $8.9 million compared with net loss of $0.3 million for Q1 2021. Lower metal sales volumes due to low production, as explained above, offset partially by higher realized prices for gold, lead and zinc, resulted in a decrease in revenue to $33.4 million and mine operating loss of $3.4 million compared with revenue of $52.6 million and mine operating earnings of $11.0 million for Q1 2021.
Net working capital declined $18.4 million in Q1 2022 to negative $18.1 million. For Q1 2022, the Company incurred cash outflows from operating and investing activities of $20.1 million. The Company expects to generate positive cash flows from its mining operations in 2022 prior to capital investments, debt repayment obligations, and exploration and evaluation and development costs. The Company has determined that it will require further financing and will consider additional equity financing (including through use of the ATM facility) and debt financing, in order to meet long-term objectives, improve working capital, fund planned capital investments and exploration programs for its operating mines, pursue acquisitions and meet scheduled debt repayment obligations.
The Company's operations are on track to meet previously announced consolidated production guidance for 2022 of 100,000 to 119,000 Au eq. As disclosed in the Company's news release dated January 19, 2022, the second half of 2022 is expected to account for a least 65% of annual production guidance. The mine plan for Tucano reflects more stripping in the first half of 2022 and therefore consolidated AISC is expected to be higher in the first half and offset by increased production rates in the second half of 2022.
Production and AISC guidance here and elsewhere in this news release is forward-looking information that should be read in conjunction with the Cautionary Statement on Forward-Looking Statements section at the end of this news release and the Company's most recently filed Management Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2021. The Company may revise guidance during the year to reflect actual results to date and those anticipated for the remainder of the year.
Refer to the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2022 ("MD&A") for more details of the financial results and for reconciliations of the Company's non-GAAP performance measures to the nearest GAAP measure. The full version of the Company's unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and MD&A can be viewed on the Company's website at www.greatpanther.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com or on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml. All financial information is prepared in accordance with IFRS, except as noted in the Non-GAAP Measures section of the Company's MD&A.
The Company will host a conference call and webcast to discuss Q1 2022 financial and operating results on Friday, May 13, 2022, at 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET.
Live webcast and registration: https://www.greatpanther.com/investors/webcasts/
Conference Call:
Canada and US Toll-Free: + 1 800 319 4610
International Toll: + 1 604 638 5340
A replay of the webcast will be available on the Webcasts section of Great Panther's website. Audio replay will be available until June 13, 2022.
Audio Replay:
Canada and US Toll-Free: + 1 800 319 6413
International Toll: +1 604 638 9010
Replay Access Code: 8842
Great Panther is a growth-oriented precious metals producer focused on the Americas. The Company owns a diversified portfolio of assets in Brazil, Mexico and Peru that includes three gold and silver mines, an advanced development project and a large land package with district-scale potential. Great Panther is focused on creating long-term stakeholder value through safe and sustainable production, reinvesting into exploration and pursuing acquisition opportunities to complement its existing portfolio. Great Panther trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange trading under the symbol GPR and on the NYSE American under the symbol GPL.
The technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Fernando A. Cornejo, P. Eng., Chief Operating Officer, a non-independent Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws (together, "forward-looking statements"). Such forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding (i) the Company's ability to build back to steady-state production in the second half of 2022 and to see improved results as the year progresses,(ii) the Company's ability to complete stripping in the TAP AB pit to access ore in the third quarter, (iii) the timing for completion of the mobilization of the Company's new contractor, MINAX, (iv) the Company's expectation that production costs will normalize in the second half of 2022, (v) the expectations that the Company's updated MRMR for Tucano is indicative of an extension of mine life by 1.5 years, vi) the Company's expectation that positive Coricancha drill results will confirm the potential of the Escondida vein, vii) the expected timing and size of the UCS pushback and the Company's ability to generate value from UCS, (viii) whether the Company's 11,000-metre infill drilling program will support a decision to commence the Urucum North underground project and whether regional exploration to date will lead to further definition of targets for the second half of 2022, (ix) the Company's ability to secure further financing to meet long-term objectives, improve working capital, fund planned capital investments and exploration programs for its operating mines, pursue acquisitions and scheduled debt repayment obligations, and * the Company's ability to achieve production within the range of its stated guidance and produce in the range of 35% of that production in H1 2022.
These forward-looking statements and information reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant operational, business, economic and regulatory uncertainties and contingencies. These assumptions include: continued operations and exploration work, including plans to complete infill drilling at Tucano in 2022 without significant interruption due to COVID-19 or any other reason; the accuracy of the Company's geological modeling at Tucano and the assumptions upon which they are based, ore grades and recoveries; prices for gold, silver, and base metals remaining as estimated; currency exchange rates remaining as estimated; prices and inflation rates for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services (including transportation); all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals for the Company's operations and exploration work are received in a timely manner on favourable terms, including permitting for tailings dam construction in Tucano; Tucano will be able to continue to use cyanide in its operations; the Company will not be required to impair Tucano as the current open pit mineral reserves are depleted through mining; the ability to procure equipment and operating supplies without interruption including the Company's ability to work with its current mining contractor in Tucano, U&M, to resolve equipment availability issues and restore contracted volume deficits without escalating to a formal dispute; the ability to fully mobilize the Company's new mine contractor, MINAX, in Q2; that there are no material unanticipated variations in the cost of energy or supplies; operations not being disrupted by issues such as pit-wall failures or instability, mechanical failures, labour disturbances and workforce shortages, illegal occupations or mining, seismic events, and adverse weather conditions; the Company's ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws; the Company's ability to comply with Brazil's new tailings dam criteria and review processes and to secure the required permits for new tailings storage capacity beyond mid-2024 at competitive costs; and the Company's ability to maintain its stock exchange listings. The foregoing list of assumptions is not exhaustive.
These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements to be materially different. Such factors include, among others, risks and uncertainties relating to: the impact of COVID-19 on the Company's ability to operate and conduct exploration work, including drilling plans, as anticipated, and the risk of an unplanned partial or full shutdown of the Company's mines and processing plants, whether voluntary or imposed, which would adversely impact the Company's revenues, financial condition and ability to meet its production and cost guidance and fund its capital programs and repay its indebtedness; the inherent risk that estimates of Mineral Reserves and Resources may not be accurate and accordingly that mine production will not be as estimated or predicted; planned exploration activities, including plans for further exploration drilling and infill drilling may not result in the discovery of new Mineral Resources/definition of Mineral Resources and readers are cautioned that Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves have no defined economic viability; there is no certainty that the Company will be able to define a mineral resource with infill drilling and the Company is undertaking new mineral resource studies at URN and is not treating the AMC historical estimate as a current mineral resource estimate; open pit mining operations at Tucano have a limited established mine life and the Company may not be able to extend the mine life for Tucano open pit operations beyond 2025 as anticipated; gold, silver and base metal prices may decline or may be less than forecasted; fluctuations in currency exchange rates (including the U.S. dollar to Brazilian real exchange rate) may increase costs of operations; operational and physical risks inherent in mining operations (including pit wall collapses, tailings storage facility failures, environmental accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown, unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations, cave-ins, flooding and severe weather) may result in unforeseen costs, shut downs, delays in production and drilling and exposure to liability; potential political and social risks involving Great Panther's operations in a foreign jurisdiction; the potential for unexpected costs and expenses or overruns; shortages in the ability to procure equipment and operating supplies without interruption including the inability of the Company to resolve concerns over lost production and equipment availability issues with contractor U&M and avoid any escalation to a formal dispute; employee and contractor relations; relationships with, and claims by, local communities; the Company's inability to obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in a timely manner on favourable terms; changes in laws, regulations and government practices in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates; legal restrictions related to mining; diminishing quantities or grades of mineral reserves as properties are mined; operating or technical difficulties in mineral exploration; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; the Company's inability to meet its production forecasts or to generate the anticipated cash flows from operations could result in the Company's inability to meet its scheduled debt payments when due or to meet financial covenants to which the Company is subject or to fund its exploration programs as planned; the Company's ability to raise additional financing to fund its operations, capital requirements or maturing debt obligations as required; the ability to maintain and renew agreements with local communities to support continued operations; ability to identify or complete acquisition opportunities or to complete acquisitions that are accretive to the Company; the potential for incremental closure bond requirements with respect to the Company's Coricancha mine and whether such requirements would have a material and adverse effect on the Company's liquidity and could require additional financing to be raised; the risk that the Company does not maintain its listing on the exchanges where it trades and that any delisting may have a material impact on the liquidity of its stock and its ability to raise capital; the potential for TSF permitting regulations in Brazil to negatively impact the Company's ability to maintain its existing tailings facilities without any modifications and to secure new tailings capacity at competitive costs or at all; and other risks and uncertainties, including those described in respect of Great Panther in its most recent annual information form and material change reports filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators available at www.sedar.com and reports on Form 40-F and Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
There is no assurance that these forward-looking statements will prove accurate or that actual results will not vary materially from these forward-looking statements. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, described, or intended. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements and information are designed to help readers understand management's current views of our near- and longer-term prospects and may not be appropriate for other purposes. The Company does not intend, nor does it assume any obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, changes in assumptions, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by applicable law.
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One $500 purchase has saved the lives of people using drugs on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside numerous times.
When Lorna Bird bought her three-month-old Havanese-schnauzer-Scottish terrier cross in 2018 though, she was mostly thinking about saving her own life. She says she was extremely lonely, losing weight and struggling to eat.
With her new puppy Joy to take care of, she had to take care of herself too.
“It made me start having to cook. I’d cook her a steak and therefore I’d start eating,” Bird says. “So I ended up putting on weight… now I’m exactly the perfect weight I’m supposed to be.”
Bird was in the injection room at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), where she serves as president, when she realized Joy could save other people’s lives too.
Someone was overdosing in another room, but Bird never would have known it was happening if Joy hadn’t run up to her and started barking and pawing at her.
“She kept jumping at me and putting her paws on me and pulling,” Bird says.
Ever since then, anytime someone overdoses Joy makes sure to notify who ever is around.
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One time, Bird says it was her overdosing alone in her office. She’s sure if Joy hadn’t been there and gone running for Bird’s boyfriend, she would have died.
“I was meant to get her,” Bird says.
Joy is intelligent in other ways too.
Bird says she has to be careful to spell out certain words like “S-T-O-R-E” and “O-U-T-S-I-D-E” or Joy will get too excited. When they do go to the S-T-O-R-E together, Joy insists of carrying her own food home or she won’t eat it.
One time, Bird says her son dropped a five dollar bill and Joy went and nudged it with her nose repeatedly until someone noticed it. Another time, one of her puppies lost her collar and Joy went and retrieved it and brought it to her.
Her puppies are smart too.
Long-time VANDU goer Alain Camac-Marquis bought one of Joy’s first ones, Choo Choo, when she was just five weeks old.
“She could fit in my hand,” he recalls fondly.
Camac-Marquis’s wife suffers from seizures and soon Choo Choo was predicting them a minute or two ahead of time, Camac-Marquis says.
“She runs to her before it happens and stays with her,” he says.
Some research suggests dogs can detect people’s seizures by a change in their behaviour or scent. Camac-Marquis says he thinks the same may be true for overdoses.
The owner of Choo Choo’s sister, Laura Shaver, agrees.
“They’ve learned to react to stressful situations. When there is somebody that looks bent over in an awkward position or something, they respond to it,” says the VANDU board member and president of the British Columbia Association of People on Methadone.
As with Bird and Camac-Marquis, Shaver’s dog Guess serves a vital purpose for her outside of VANDU too.
Her husband is ill with advanced Crohn’s disease and liver cirrhosis, and Shaver says she believes Guess is a big part of why he is still alive.
“When he’s stuck in bed, she takes care of him,” Shaver says.
None of the three owners are sure what makes their dogs so intuitive, but each agrees the pups are a large part of what gets them and their loved ones through the day.
Close to 10,000 people have died from toxic drug overdoses since B.C. declared a public health emergency in 2016, but not a single one has happened inside VANDU. Bird says until drugs are decriminalized and there is a safe supply, their dogs can play a small part in keeping it that way.
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To the Super Bowl winner goes the spoils of opening the entire schedule at home.
So the Los Angeles Rams will host the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night, Sept. 8, to begin the 2022 season.
It's a juicy matchup of the team generally considered the title favorite by oddsmakers in the Bills traveling to SoFi Stadium, where the Rams won the championship over Cincinnati in February.
The Bengals are home to their division rivals, the Steelers, on Sunday, Sept. 11 when all but two other teams get started. Those two clubs playing on Monday night also offer an enticing story line: Russell Wilson bringing his Broncos to Seattle. The Seahawks traded their longtime quarterback to Denver in the offseason.
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Sunday's prime-time game features Tom Brady — unless he retires again before September — and the Buccaneers at Dallas. Brady's decision to unretire after a short hiatus forced NFL schedule makers to scramble and redo some of the game slots.
The rest of the opening Sunday has some eye-opening matches, such as Jacksonville, with new coach Doug Pederson, at Washington, with new quarterback Carson Wentz. Pederson coached Wentz in Philadelphia and won a Super Bowl with the Eagles, although Nick Foles was behind center with Wentz injured.
Several key division matchups are on tap for Sept. 11: New Orleans at Atlanta, Indianapolis at Houston, New England at Miami, Las Vegas at the Los Angeles Chargers and Green Bay at Minnesota.
"Expecting to have an unbelievable crowd there,” Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell told the Vikings' website. “I’ve talked a lot about being on that visitor’s sideline, so I know what the Packers will be in store for on opening weekend. I expect to see a stadium full of purple. It’s a great opportunity for us and a challenge.
“What a way to start your season — a challenge but also a great way to kick-start what is hopefully going to be a great 2022."
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Also, it will be Cleveland at Carolina, San Francisco at Chicago, Philadelphia at Detroit, Baltimore at the New York Jets, Kansas City at Arizona, and the New York Giants at Tennessee.
Teams that will open on the road and will be home in Week 2 include Kansas City hosting the Chargers in the first Amazon Prime Video game on Thursday night. Also, it will be Miami at Baltimore, the New York Jets at Cleveland, Indianapolis at Jacksonville, Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Carolina at the New York Giants, New England at Pittsburgh, Seattle at San Francisco, Houston at Denver, Arizona at Las Vegas, Chicago at Green Bay at night, Tennessee at Buffalo on Monday night, followed by Minnesota at Philadelphia.
Finally playing at home in Week 3 will be Indianapolis against Kansas City, Minnesota against Detroit, New England vs. Baltimore, and Tampa Bay vs. Green Bay, with Brady facing Aaron Rodgers.
The remainder of the entire schedule will be released later Thursday evening.
Previously revealed was that one of the Christmas Day tripleheader games, Denver at the Rams, will be televised by Nickelodeon as well as CBS. Slime, anyone?
Another twist will have that doubleheader on the second Monday night of the schedule — with an overlap. On Sept. 19, the Titans at Buffalo starts 7:15 p.m. EDT. At 8:30 p.m., Minnesota takes on the Eagles in Philadelphia.
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Previously announced were the international games:
▪ Nov. 13, the first regular-season NFL game in Germany, Tampa Bay vs. Seattle in Munich.
▪ Oct. 9, Green Bay becomes the final team to play in Europe, facing the Giants at the home of Premier League soccer team Tottenham in London. The previous week, Minnesota plays New Orleans there.
▪ Oct. 30, Wembley Stadium will host the Broncos against the Jaguars.
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Muscat - Trade between Oman and India is expected to cross $5 billion in the coming years as both countries make efforts to push bilateral relations forward.
According to Redha bin Juma Al Saleh, Chairman of the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI), direct interactions between Omani business owners and their Indian counterparts are crucial to forging valuable partnerships that will help both sides understand the needs of each other.
Al Saleh is part of a business delegation travelling to India along with Qais Al Yousef, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, as well as a number of business owners and other key figures involved with trade and economy.
“I call on the two sides to make strong efforts to develop our bilateral trade, as we hope that the volume of trade exchange will exceed $5 billion during the coming years, in view of various attractions that the two countries enjoy and the remarkable geographical location that provides great ways to enhance trade and investment relations,” said Al Saleh, during a meeting with his Indian counterparts.
“I urge businesses in India to take advantage of the investment opportunities and advantages that are offered by Oman, as our country allows 100 percent foreign direct investment,” he added.
While in India, Minister Qais Al Yousef attended the 10th Oman – India Joint Commission Meeting on Wednesday, holding discussions with Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry and Raj Kumar Singh, Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy.
With the goal of forging a new business agenda to help drive growth for both Oman and India, the highly productive meeting took place on the second day of a five-day trade and investment mission to India, one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a country with which Oman has historic cultural and commercial ties.
Indian investment in Oman, which topped $7.5 billion in 2022, was one of the key topics discussed by participants with Minister Al Yousef emphasising the great interest expressed in the success of the Invest Easy portal of Oman’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion (MOCIIP). Noting his satisfaction with the outcomes on Wednesday’s 10th Oman – India Joint Commission Meeting, Al Yousef said, “Today’s session underlined the fact that this is a partnership that can boost exports and investment as well as deliver growth, jobs and opportunities for our people.”
He added: “Under the wise guidance of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik and with the ambitious framework provided by Oman Vision 2040, I see enormous possibilities for what our two countries can achieve together in areas like renewable energy and pharmaceuticals to new partnerships in small business development and manufacturing – areas where Oman and India have common interest and expertise.”
Commenting on Oman’s $1.2 billion non-oil exports to India in 2021, a jump of 172 percent over the previous year, Al Yousef said, “This is a remarkable achievement given the serious disruptions we have seen to business during the pandemic and is testament to the hard work and dedication of manufacturers in the length and breadth of Oman.”
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CLIFTON, N.J. – Madelene Sagstrom shot a flawless 9-under 63 during a round she felt holes kept getting larger to take one-stroke lead over Megan Khang after the first round of the Cognizant Founders Cup on Thursday.
Nasa Hataoka, who won in Los Angeles in April before taking time off, was third after a 65 on the Upper Montclair Country Club course, roughly 10 miles from New York City.
Bianca Pagdanganan, Amy Yang and Giulia Molinaro were tied for fourth at 66, a shot ahead of group that included Lexi Thompson and Minjee Lee. Two-time defending champion and top-ranked Jin Young Ko shot a 69.
Sagstrom, a runner-up last year in the Women's British Open, made birdies in batches, finishing with nine in a bogey-free round. The two-time European Solheim Cup from Sweden birdied the first four holes and had another run at Nos. 12-14.
“It was one of those days," Sagstrom said. “Like everything was easy. It’s like I was hitting the fairways, hitting the greens, and I was making all the putts. The hole just kept growing.”
Sagstrom recalled turning to her caddie, Sean Codd, and telling him, everything felt like a tap-in
“It’s one of those days," she said. “You just trying to hold on to momentum and just keep it going.”
The round was her best of the season and one shot off her career best of 62 in winning the 2020 Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio. Yuka Saso had the low round on tour this year, a 62 at the LPGA Hondo in Thailand in March.
Khang, who like Sagstrom played in the afternoon, was almost as good, making eight birdies on the course laid bare because of soft, slower-than-normal greens and a lack of wind.
“Definitely stroking it really well, reading the greens well,” said Khang, who tied for third at Palos Verdes in the last event.
The event, which is being played on its third course since 2019 — the pandemic canceled the 2020 edition, honors the 13 founding members of the LPGA Tour. The field of 144 will be cut to the low 70 and ties after the second round of the 72-hole tournament Friday.
Hataoka ignited her round with a 10-foot eagle putt on the par-5 second and added five birdies the rest of the way in posting her fifth straight round in the 60s.
“I was originally planning to play in Palos Verdes last week, but I decided take the two weeks off and gear up for this tournament,” Hataoka said.
Ko, who finished second at Palos Verdes in the last event, had six birdies and three bogeys — caused by failing to hit the fairways.
“I want to play a bogey-free round next three days,” she added. “This course is really tough, so hit the fairway and hit the greens, make a par. Birdie or par.”
Anna Davis, the 16-year-old who won the recent Augusta National Women’s Amateur, shot a 70 playing on a sponsor's exemption. She made the cut in the Palos Verdes Championship in California, which was won by Marina Alex.
Alex of nearby Wayne, New Jersey, will have to rally to make the cut after shooting a 74.
Ally Ewing had a 67 in a round that included a 63-foot eagle putt and a flubbed chip shot from the edge of the green on No. 13.
"It is what it is. I laughed it off,” Ewing said.
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Amy Coney Barrett's Neighbor Has a Message for Leftist Protesters Picketing Her House
Protesters won’t stop hassling Supreme Court justices at their homes, upset about the leaked draft ruling that would overturn the Roe v. Wade precedent.
One man who has witnessed the brunt of the protests is sick of it.
Amy Coney Barrett‘s neighbor spoke out against the harassing protests in an impromptu interview on Wednesday.
The unnamed neighbor spoke with Douglas Blair of the Daily Signal.
“It’s none of their business. Why are they here?” the man said of the street protests.
Spoke with one of Justice Barrett’s neighbors. He says the protestors should “Go home and get a family.” pic.twitter.com/wBWLWOJfAt
— Douglas Blair (@DouglasKBlair) May 11, 2022
“They have a right to protest, but not in front of someone’s house … They live here this is where she lives.”
The man told the protesters to “go home and get a family.”
Handmaid’s Tale is at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home. pic.twitter.com/mCQrrgo4Lt
— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) May 11, 2022
The protesters staged a “Handmaid’s Tale” stunt outside Barrett’s home, a tactic they’ve done before in attempts to disrupt church liturgies and services.
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has directed law enforcement to secure a perimeter outside the homes of the SCOTUS justices that live in the commonwealth.
Critics of the protests have suggested that this kind of action targeting Supreme Court justices is illegal.
Federal law bans protests with the intent of “interfering with, obstructing or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness or court officer.”
FEDERAL LAW 18 U.S. Code 1507 makes it ILLEGAL to protest near the home of judges.
A.G. Merrick Garland is too busy looking for 1/6/2021 Capitol trespassers & unhappy parents of children being taught racism & sex in school.
Should Garland be impeached?https://t.co/p5vUVeUbVk
— ProsperousUSA (@Prosperous1776) May 11, 2022
The same law specifies that a protester who targets a court building or residence “occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness or court officer” will face a fine or a year of imprisonment.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on whether the protests at Supreme Court justices’ homes are illegal:
“I just asked the Attorney General to enforce the law that’s on the books.” pic.twitter.com/8lP1LgPKwb
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 11, 2022
Attorney General Merrick Garland finally directed the U.S. Marshals to provide additional security for Supreme Court justices targeted by protests on Wednesday.
Five Republican-appointed justices reportedly support the draft, with Barrett thought to be one of them.
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Some environmental safeguards built into British Columbia mine approvals are being gradually whittled away without enough public or scientific oversight, says new university research.
A recently published paper from researchers at Dalhousie University’s School for Resource and Environmental Studies concludes that mining companies have been able to amend their original operating conditions in ways that can have serious effects on water resources. Those amendments, it says, are often granted with little apparent scientific justification or followup.
“We express concern that the amendment process is being used as a loophole, intentionally or unintentionally, to evade the rigour and scrutiny of the full environmental assessment process,” said Ben Collison, lead author of the paper published in the journal Facets.
Collison said that, while his research was restricted to B.C., the same thing may be happening across the country.
“This could be part of a bigger picture,” he said.
David Karn, spokesman for B.C.’s department of Environment and Climate Change, disputed the paper’s conclusions.
“The Environmental Assessment Office has a robust process to review any application to amend an environmental assessment certificate,” he said in an email.
Collison and his colleagues looked at 23 mines in British Columbia that were approved between 2002 and 2020 after going through an environmental assessment. Of those mines, 15 requested a total of 49 amendments to the original conditions of their operating licence, most within three years of opening.
Almost all — 98 per cent — were granted.
The researchers concluded 20 of those approved amendments were likely to damage water resources. The amendments permitted changes to effluent discharge, increased water withdrawals and damage to fish habitat. One allowed a mine to increase its production 50 per cent.
Collison said those amendments were accompanied by little scientific justification, oversight or monitoring.
“It was very, very difficult to find information in those amendment documents that gave us numerical, quantitative descriptions of the proposed changes,” he said. “Oftentimes, these were being approved without any followup monitoring studies or enforcement actions or compliance checkups after the fact.”
The report includes examples of amendments being granted despite the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office acknowledging information on their effects was lacking. In 2017, one mine was allowed to change its tailings storage on the understanding that a water treatment plant would be up and running — a plant that, said Collison, still wasn’t operating as of earlier this year.
“There were changes that could have potentially serious impacts,” he said.
But Karn said that the paper didn’t look at the whole story.
“This research project was conducted using only documents posted on the (assessment office’s) project information website, which does not provide a complete account of (its) rigorous assessment process and project information,” he said.
Karn said all amendments are carefully assessed. First Nations are consulted and public engagement may be sought.
“Amendments do not weaken the requirements for proponents to protect environmental values, conditions and actions, which are part of their environmental assessment certificates, and in many cases will result in strengthened requirements,” Karn said.
Collison said the situation has improved in the province since its new environmental assessment legislation became law in 2019, as it has made information more publicly available.
But he warned that his study was narrowly focused. It only dealt with mines, water impacts and one province. And the amendments it examined remain in force.
“This is only a small piece of the puzzle,” Collison said.
“The findings call into question the credibility of the entire environmental assessment process. I think there are other impacts that other researchers should look at.”
—Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
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HAYWARD – Hayward Unified Superintendent Matt Wayne is leaving to take a job as the next superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District beginning on July 1, following five years at his job.
Wayne’s contract is scheduled to be approved at the San Francisco Unified school board’s May 24 meeting.
Wayne became superintendent in Hayward in 2017 after a year as the interim superintendent. Before that, he was assistant superintendent for education services in Hayward for four years.
“I am humbled and excited by the opportunity, but saddened at the thought of leaving this wonderful community I have served for the past 10 years,’’ Wayne said in a statement. “The Hayward Unified School District is such a special place with amazing students, caring families, and incredibly dedicated educators and staff.”
Hayward school board President April Oquenda praised Wayne in a statement.
“It’s been an honor to work alongside Dr. Wayne to serve the HUSD community,” she said.
“His leadership, energy and enthusiasm for student success have helped carry HUSD through tumultuous times. We have been very fortunate to have him, and I wish him much success in San Francisco,” Oquenda continued.
The Hayward Unified board will meet in the next few days in a special session to discuss filling the superintendent position and may select an interim superintendent, Bazeley said. He added that they will not have a permanent candidate in place before Wayne leaves.
Hayward Unified has one pre-school, 21 elementary schools, five middle schools, three high schools, one alternative high school and one adult education center. There are about 18,000 students in the district. San Francisco Unified has nearly triple the enrollment at about 49,000 students.
In a news release, United Educators of San Francisco, the union representing that district’s teachers and other employees, said that it had worked hard to ensure that San Francisco Unified would apply for a community schools grant of $34 million that was recently awarded.
“We understand that Matt Wayne was an advocate for and supporter of the community schools model during his tenure in the Hayward School District. Community schools can be the cornerstone of building the schools our students deserve, and we look forward to working together to grow our community school presence here in San Francisco,” the union said in a statement. | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/12/hayward-superintendent-to-lead-san-francisco-schools/ | 2022-05-13T00:18:44Z | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/12/hayward-superintendent-to-lead-san-francisco-schools/ | true | 2 |
Eagles 2022 Schedule Released: Philadelphia's 17 Opponents, Game Dates
Jalen Hurts aims to lead the Eagles past the wild-card round of the playoffs in the 2022 season after finishing 9–8 in the 2021 campaign. Philadelphia could be headed in that direction after the franchise traded for former Titans receiver AJ Brown in this year’s draft.
In addition to Brown to pair up with Philadelphia’s other receivers, general manager Howie Roseman drafted Georgia defensive tackle Jordan Davis at No. 13 as well as Georgia linebacker Nakobe Dean.
With a majority of its core returning and some new faces, Philadelphia will go into the new season with confidence in believing it can win the NFC East division.
Here’s who Philadelphia will face next season.
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- Week 1: Sunday, September 11 at Lions
- Week 2: Monday, Sept. 19 vs. Vikings
- Week 3: Sunday, September 25 at Commanders
- Week 4: Sunday, October 2 vs. Jaguars
- Week 5: Sunday, October 9 at Cardinals
- Week 6: Thursday, October 13 vs. Cowboys
- Week 7: BYE
- Week 8: Sunday, October 30 vs. Steelers
- Week 9: Thursday, November 3 at Texans
- Week 10: Monday, November 14 vs. Commanders
- Week 11: Sunday, November 20 at Colts
- Week 12: Sunday, November 27 vs. Packers
- Week 13: Sunday, December 4 vs. Titans
- Week 14: Sunday, December 11 at Giants
- Week 15: Sunday, December 18 at Bears
- Week 16: Saturday, December 24 at Cowboys
- Week 17: Sunday, January 1 vs. Saints
- Week 18: Pool Date TBD vs. Giants
Home Games
- Week 2: Monday, Sept. 19 vs. Vikings
- Week 4: Sunday, October 2 vs. Jaguars
- Week 6: Thursday, October 13 vs. Cowboys
- Week 8: Sunday, October 30 vs. Steelers
- Week 10: Monday, November 14 vs. Commanders
- Week 12: Sunday, November 27 vs. Packers
- Week 13: Sunday, December 4 vs. Titans
- Week 17: Sunday, January 1 vs. Saints
- Week 18: Pool Date TBD vs. Giants
Away Games:
- Week 1: Sunday, September 11 at Lions
- Week 3: Sunday, September 25 at Commanders
- Week 5: Sunday, October 9 at Cardinals
- Week 9: Thursday, November 3 at Texans
- Week 11: Sunday, November 20 at Colts
- Week 14: Sunday, December 11 at Giants
- Week 15: Sunday, December 18 at Bears
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Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Philadelphia Phillies Live Stream, TV Channel, Start Time
Freddie Freeman and the Los Angeles Dodgers take the field on Thursday at Dodger Stadium against Zack Wheeler, who is starting for the Philadelphia Phillies. First pitch is set for 10:10 PM ET.
Dodgers vs. Phillies Live Streaming and TV Channel
- Game Day: Thursday, May 12, 2022
- Game Time: 10:10 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
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Dodgers vs. Phillies Batting Stats
- The Dodgers' .238 batting average is ninth-best in the league.
- The Dodgers are the fourth-highest scoring team in MLB play averaging 5.1 runs per game (149 total).
- The Dodgers' .324 on-base percentage is third-best in the league.
- The Phillies' .249 batting average is among the best in baseball, ranking fifth in MLB.
- The Phillies have scored the seventh-most runs in the league this season with 139.
- The Phillies have an OBP of .314 this season, which ranks 12th in MLB.
Dodgers Impact Players
- Freeman paces the Dodgers with a team-leading batting average of .315.
- Freeman ranks 83rd in homers and 88th in RBI among all hitters in MLB.
- Mookie Betts has shown his power as he paces his team with five home runs.
- Betts ranks 33rd in homers and 88th in RBI among all hitters in MLB.
- Trea Turner has a team-high 22 runs batted in.
- Max Muncy is hitting .138 with three doubles, a triple, three home runs and 25 walks.
Phillies Impact Players
- Bryce Harper leads Philadelphia in runs batted in with 19 and has a batting average of .269.
- Among all hitters in the big leagues, Harper ranks 22nd in home runs and 25th in RBI.
- Nicholas Castellanos has 33 hits and an OBP of .366 to go with a slugging percentage of .509 this season.
- Castellanos is 33rd among all hitters in the big leagues in homers, and 33rd in RBI.
- Jean Segura has 29 hits this season and a slash line of .299/.364/.474.
- Rhys Hoskins has 24 hits and an OBP of .309 to go with a slugging percentage of .444 this season.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
The Jan. 6 panel’s subpoenas for McCarthy, R-Calif., and Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama come as the investigation is winding down and as the panel prepares for a series of public hearings this summer.
The committee has been investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack and meetings that the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides conspired how to overturn his defeat. They have been debating for months over whether to issue the subpoenas.
Congressional subpoenas for sitting members of Congress, especially for a party leader, are almost without precedent in recent decades. The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel.
“These members include those who participated in meetings at the White House, those who had direct conversations with President Trump leading up to and during the attack on the Capitol, and those who were involved in the planning and coordination of certain activities on and before January 6th,” the committee said as it announced the subpoenas.
McCarthy has acknowledged that he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, which happened as Trump’s supporters were beating police outside the Capitol and forcing their way into the building. But he has not shared many details. The committee requested information about his conversations with Trump “before, during and after” the riot.
McCarthy took to the House floor after the rioters were cleared and said in a forceful speech that Trump “bears responsibility” for the attack and that it was the “saddest day I have ever had” in Congress — even as he went on to join 138 other House Republicans in voting to reject the election results.
The GOP leader soon made up with Trump, though, visiting him in Florida and rallying House Republicans to vote against investigations of the attack. | https://www.wltx.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/jan-6-panel-subpoenas-jim-jordan-4-other-gop-lawmakers/530-cbe4f8af-a28c-4228-ac9d-4aaa73185399 | 2022-05-13T00:22:31Z | https://www.wltx.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/jan-6-panel-subpoenas-jim-jordan-4-other-gop-lawmakers/530-cbe4f8af-a28c-4228-ac9d-4aaa73185399 | false | 28 |
BJP chief JP Nadda’s third Himachal tour starts on May 13
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda will be on a tour to Himachal on Friday, his third visit in just over a month.
Nadda had visited Shimla and Bilaspur from April 9 to 12 and Nagrota Bagwan and Dharamshala in Kangra on April 22 and 23.
The former Union health minister will arrive at Kangra airport in the morning and straight head to Dharamshala, where he will inaugurate the three-day national workshop of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).
Thereafter, Nadda will fly to Kullu where he will address a public meeting. Later, the BJP chief will go to Mandi to meet family of Congress veteran and former Union telecom minister Pandit Sukhram.
A battery of senior BJP leaders will also address various sessions of the BJYM workshop, to be attended by national office-bearers and functionaries of the BJP’s youth wing from various states.
BJYM state president Amit Thakur said Nadda will deliver a lecture on the journey of the party from ‘Jan Sangh to BJP’.
Nadda will also inaugurate a magazine named ‘Sushasan Patrika’. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/bjp-chief-jp-nadda-s-third-himachal-tour-starts-on-may-13-101652396706678-amp.html | 2022-05-13T00:24:16Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/bjp-chief-jp-nadda-s-third-himachal-tour-starts-on-may-13-101652396706678-amp.html | true | 1 |
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Bahrain - Transportation and Telecommunication Ministry said that Bahrain has a strong digital infrastructure that supports the growth of the digital economy within the government’s priorities and vision, which was translated in the Fifth National Telecommunications Plan.
The ministry noted that Bahrain is among the first countries to achieve comprehensive coverage of 5G services with high download speeds exceeding 2GB to ensure that the majority of consumers in Bahrain benefit from access to 5G networks across the country.
Minister Kamal Ahmed highlighted that there are already many necessary factors to achieve the government’s vision regarding 5G services.
“The kingdom has succeeded in attracting investments in the telecommunications and information technology sector and witnessed the entry of major content companies and technology service providers,” he said.
“The volume of investments in the telecommunications sector amounted to BD72.8 million during 2020, and the total investments amounted to BD787m in the period between 2010 to 2020, and BD313m in the period between 2016 and 2020.”
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6 dead of 'fever' as Covid hits North Korea; US says 'no current plans' to share vaccines with the nation
North Korea said Friday that six people who were sick with fever have died, with one of them testing positive for Covid-19, the official Korean Central News Agency reported as per news agency AFP.
"A fever whose cause couldn't be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April... Six persons died (one of them tested positive for the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron,)" it said.
Some 187,800 people are currently being treated in isolation after a fever of unidentified origin has "explosively spread nationwide" since late April, the official KCNA news agency reported.
Around 350,000 people have shown signs of that fever, including 18,000 who newly reported such symptoms on Tuesday alone, KCNA said. About 162,200 of them have been treated so far, but it did not specify how many had tested positive for COVID-19.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the anti-virus command centre on Tuesday to check the situation and responses after declaring "gravest state emergency" and ordering a national lockdown on Thursday.
He "criticised that the simultaneous spread of fever with the capital area as a centre shows that there is a vulnerable point in the epidemic prevention system we have already established," KCNA said.
Kim singled out actively isolating and treating people having fever as a top priority, while calling for devising scientific treatment methods and tactics "at a lightning tempo" and bolstering measures to supply medications.
In another dispatch, KCNA said health authorities were trying to organise testing and treatment systems and bolster disinfection work.
“No current plans to share vaccines with North Korea,” says US
Meanwhile, the United States has said that it has no plans now to share Covid-19 vaccines with North Korea, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday as per Reuters. The spokesperson said North Korea had repeatedly refused vaccine donations from the COVAX global vaccine sharing project, and added, referring to the country by the initials of its official name: "While the U.S. does not currently have plans to share vaccines with the DPRK, we continue to support international efforts aimed at the provision of critical humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable North Koreans."
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Captain Máire O'Callaghan believes Cork will be a different team in the Championship, insisting the National League was never their priority.
Shane Ronayne's side lost to both Meath and Dublin during their Division 1B league campaign and narrowly avoided a relegation play-off thanks to a 1-14 to 0-14 win over Waterford, the goal in that evenly contested game coming in the opening minute.
Cork and Waterford will meet again this Sunday in the last four of the Munster championship in Dungarvan and Mourneabbey star O'Callaghan is expecting a considerable improvement.
"We were never really that focused on the league," said O'Callaghan, appointed captain over winter. "I know it still is a national competition but we never really wanted to come roaring into it either.
"Our form didn't look great but, internally, nobody in our camp is overly worried about how we got on in the league.
"As well, you could argue that it was a very tough group we got with the two All-Ireland finalists from 2021, away from home. It wasn't a good result for us in either game, and we were lucky enough to come out of the Waterford game unscathed to avoid the relegation play-off but we got there in the end and we've had a good six weeks training in there now. "We can't complain about our preparation."
O'Callaghan herself, who received the call from manager Ronayne about the Cork captaincy on Christmas Eve, missed the Dublin and Meath games and only came on as a sub against Waterford.
"We were given a bit of time off with Mourneabbey because we only finished up at the end of January," she explained. "I came on in the Waterford game, I had come back training a couple of weeks before that. The Mourneabbey players weren't involved at the time and there were a few others with injuries and stuff like that. A lot of different players were involved, players were trialled in different positions, which is what the league is for, so it was good to get that insight."
One player who definitely won't be involved in Cork's championship campaign is 2021 All-Star defender Erika O'Shea who has taken up an AFLW contract, reportedly with North Melbourne.
"Hopefully she'll get whatever she wants to get out of it over there and come back with renewed freshness and eagerness to get back involved in Cork," said O'Callaghan. "I do think she does ultimately want to return and to play Cork football, whether that may be one year, three years, five years, I do think she does want to come back and play football. It'll be great experience for her, and then whatever she gets out of it I'm sure she'll bring back to Cork and we'll all benefit from what she learns."
In the meantime, O'Callaghan wants Cork to return to the summit of Munster.
"Our goal is to become Munster champions hopefully and then after that it does determine what group you go into for the All-Ireland championship so you could get an easier, in quotation marks, group as Munster champions."
Then it'll be about national domination and hopefully erasing the memory of last year's painful All-Ireland semi-final mugging by Meath.
"I think Meath were meant to win that game and I know it might be a silly way to look at it but we were all like, 'It wasn't to be our day, we'll come back again next year'," said O'Callaghan.
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LONDON: Shares sank to a 1-1/2 year low on Thursday and the dollar hit its highest in two decades, as fears grew that fast-rising inflation will drive a sharp rise in interest rates that brings the global economy to a standstill.
Those nerves and the still-escalating war in Ukraine took Europe's main markets down more than 2% in early trade and left MSCI's top index of world shares at its lowest since late 2020 and down nearly 20% for the year.
The global growth-sensitive Australian and New Zealand dollars fell about 0.8% to almost two-year lows. The Chinese yuan slid to a 19-month trough while the dollar powered to its highest level since late 2002.
Nearly all the main volatility gauges were signalling danger. Bitcoin was caught in the fire-sale of risky crypto assets as it fell another 8% to $26,570, having been near $40,000 just a week ago and almost $70,000 just last November.
"We have had big moves," UBS's UK Chief Investment Officer Caroline Simmons, said referring as well to bond markets and economic expectations. "And when the market falls it does tend to fall quite fast."
Data on Wednesday had showed U.S. inflation running persistently hot. Headline consumer prices rose 8.3% in April year-on-year, fractionally slower than the 8.5% pace of March, but still above economists' forecasts for 8.1%.
U.S. markets had whipsawed after the news, closing sharply lower, and futures prices were pointing to another round of 0.2%-0.7% falls for the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial later.
"We're now very much embedded with at least two further (U.S.) hikes of 50 basis points on the agenda," said Damian Rooney, director of institutional sales at Argonaut in Perth.
"I think we probably were delusional six months ago with the rise of U.S. equities on hopes and prayers and the madness of the meme stocks," he added.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 2.3% to a 22-month low overnight. Japan's Nikkei fell 1.8%.
Treasuries were bid in both Europe and Asia, especially at the long end, flattening the yield curve as investors braced for near-term hikes to hurt long-run growth - an outcome that would most likely slow or even reverse rate hikes.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield had dropped in the U.S. and fell a further 7 bps to 2.8569% on Thursday. The gap between the highly rate-rise sensitive two-year yields and 10-year ones narrowed 4.2 bps.
In Europe, Germany's 10-year yield, the benchmark for the bloc, fell as much as 12 bps to 0.875%, its lowest in nearly two weeks.
"I think a lot of it is catch up from what happened yesterday, and also there's still a lot of negative sentiment in the U.S. Treasury curve," said Lyn Graham-Taylor, senior rates strategist at Rabobank.
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The rates outlook is driving up the U.S. dollar and taking the heaviest toll on riskier assets that shot up through two years of stimulus and low-rate lending.
The Nasdaq is down nearly 8% in May so far and more than 25% this year. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Tech index slid 1.5% on Thursday and is off more than 30% this year.
Cryptocurrency markets are also melting down, with the collapse of the so-called stablecoin TerraUSD highlighting the turmoil as well as the selling in bitcoin and next-biggest-crypto, ether.
A weakening growth picture outside the United States is battering investor confidence, too, as war in Ukraine threatens an energy crisis in Europe and lengthening COVID-19 lockdowns in China throw another spanner into supply chain chaos.
Nomura estimated this week that 41 Chinese cities are in full or partial lockdowns, making up 30% of the country's GDP.
Heavyweight property developer Sunac said it missed a bond interest payment and will miss more as China's real estate sector remains in the grip of a credit crunch.
The yuan fell to a 19-month low of 6.7631 and has dropped almost 6% in under a month.
The Australian dollar fell 0.8% to a near two-year low of $0.6879. The kiwi slid by a similar margin to $0.6240, though the euro and yen held steady to keep the dollar index just shy of a two-decade peak.
Sterling was at a two-year low of just under $1.22 as well as economic data there caused worries and concerns grew that Britain's Brexit deal with the EU was in danger of unravelling again due to the same old problem of Northern Ireland's border.
In commodity trade, oil wound back a bit of Wednesday's surge on growth worries.
Brent crude futures fell 2.3% to $104.93 a barrel, while highly growth-sensitive metals copper and tin slumped over 3.5% and 9% respectively. That marked copper's lowest level since October.
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Japan Finance Minister Suzuki says it's wrong to assume BOJ will buy bonds indefinitely
TOKYO : Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday it was inappropriate to guide fiscal policy on the assumption the central bank will keep buying government bonds indefinitely.
"The Bank of Japan is buying government bonds as part of its monetary policy efforts to achieve its inflation target," Suzuki told a news conference.
Japanese policymakers have scrambled to reassure markets the government was not forcing the BOJ to bankroll public debt, after former premier Shinzo Abe on Monday described the central bank as a government "subsidiary" that can fund its spending indefinitely. | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/japan-finance-minister-suzuki-says-its-wrong-assume-boj-will-buy-bonds-indefinitely-2682381?cid=cna_flip_070214 | 2022-05-13T00:35:54Z | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/japan-finance-minister-suzuki-says-its-wrong-assume-boj-will-buy-bonds-indefinitely-2682381?cid=cna_flip_070214 | false | null |
Today is Thursday, May 12, 2022. Let's get caught up.
Here are today's top stories, celebrity birthdays and a look back at this date in history.
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TODAY'S WEATHER
New fires have broken out across Southern California, consuming homes and causing evacuations. We also have a severe storm threat across the central US. CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast.
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TOP STORIES
This morning's top headlines: Thursday, May 12
Finland’s leaders have come out in favor of applying to join NATO, and Sweden could do the same within days. That would amount to a historic realignment on the continent 2 1/2 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine sent a shiver of fear through Moscow’s neighbors. The Kremlin has reacted to the move by Finland by warning it will be forced to take retaliatory “military-technical” steps.
The Supreme Court’s nine justices will gather in private Thursday for their first scheduled meeting since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade and sharply curtail abortion rights in roughly half the states. The meeting in the justices’ private, wood-paneled conference room could be a tense affair in a setting noted for its decorum. No one aside from the justices attends and the most junior among them, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is responsible for taking notes. Thursday’s conference comes at an especially fraught moment, with the future of abortion rights at stake and an investigation underway to try to find the source of the leak.
President Joe Biden has appealed to world leaders for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he leads the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America. Biden told the second global coronavirus summit Thursday: “This pandemic isn’t over.” The virtual meeting comes as a lack of resolve at home reflects the global response. Biden ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff to honor the dead in America. He used last year's first summit to pledge to donate 1.2 billion vaccine doses worldwide.
The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide has continued to fall except in the Americas and Africa. In its latest weekly assessment of the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said about 3.5 million new cases and more than 25,000 deaths were reported globally. Those figures represent weekly decreases of 12% for cases and 25% for deaths. The downward trend in COVID-19 began in March. However, many countries have suspended their widespread testing and surveillance policies, making an accurate case count extremely difficult. WHO said there were only two regions where reported COVID-19 infections increased week to week: the Americas, by 14%, and Africa, by 12%.
Wildfire in the West is on a furious pace early this year. Wind-driven flames tearing through vegetation that is extraordinarily dry from years-long drought exacerbated by climate change has made even small blazes a threat to life and property. A fast-moving blaze in Southern California is the latest example, where 20 multimillion-dollar homes lay in smolders Thursday. Similar factors have been at play in New Mexico, where the largest blaze is burning in the U.S. The fire has churned through mountainous forests for more than a month. Nationally, more than 2,000 square miles have burned so far this year. That's the most at this point since 2018.
South Korea says North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea in the latest of a series of weapons demonstrations this year. They came just hours after North Korea confirmed its first case of the coronavirus since the pandemic began. The launches could underscore North Korea’s determination to press ahead with its efforts to expand its arsenal despite the virus outbreak to rally support behind the leader Kim Jong Un and keep up pressure on its rivals amid dormant nuclear diplomacy. The missiles are also the North’s first weapons fired since since the inauguration of new conservative South Korean president this week. The North's nuclear threat will likely top the agenda when he meets visiting President Joe Biden in Seoul next week.
A federal appeals court has ruled that California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under age 21 is unconstitutional. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that the law violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The court in a 2-1 ruling says a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults. The Firearms Policy Coalition, which brought the case, says the ruling makes it optimistic other age-based gun bans will be overturned. The author of the law says he's disappointed it was struck down.
Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic has earned a second straight NBA Most Valuable Player trophy to become the second consecutive international player to win two in a row. The 27-year-old from Serbia averaged 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists to take home MVP honors. Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo earned the title in 2019 and 2020. International players finished 1-2-3 in this year’s MVP voting. Philadelphia's Joel Embiid finished second and Antetokounmpo was third. Phoenix's Devin Booker was fourth.
BOSTON (AP) — Bobby Portis made a putback off Giannis Antetokounmpo’s missed free throw with 15 seconds left, Jrue Holiday snuffed Marcus Smart on Boston’s final two possessions and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Celtics 110-107 on Wednesday night to take a 3-2 series lead.
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe set a Florida postseason record with a five-point night, and the Florida Panthers escaped a three-goal deficit to beat the Washington Capitals 5-3 and take a 3-2 lead in an Eastern Conference first-round series Wednesday night.
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Richard Kyte and Scott Rada debate whether we should be worried about the unprecedented breach of trust inside the nation’s highest court, or if this simply is ending the charade that our nation’s justices need to be cloaked in secrecy. Later, they discuss the similarities between Florida's so-called Don't-Say-Gay law and a high school football coach who wants to pray with his players. And in the third segment they talk about whether we should build a national COVID memorial.
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Ten years ago: Miami’s LeBron James became the eighth player in NBA history to receive the MVP award three times.
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The federal government said Thursday that artificial intelligence technology to screen new job candidates or monitor worker productivity can unfairly discriminate against people with disabilities, sending a warning to employers that the commonly used hiring tools could violate civil rights laws.
The U.S. Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission jointly issued guidance to employers to take care before using popular algorithmic tools meant to streamline the work of evaluating employees and job prospects — but which could also potentially run afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“We are sounding an alarm regarding the dangers tied to blind reliance on AI and other technologies that we are seeing increasingly used by employers,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the department’s Civil Rights Division told reporters Thursday. “The use of AI is compounding the longstanding discrimination that jobseekers with disabilities face.”
Among the examples given of popular work-related AI tools were resume scanners, employee monitoring software that ranks workers based on keystrokes, game-like online tests to assess job skills and video interviewing software that measures a person’s speech patterns or facial expressions.
Such technology could potentially screen out people with speech impediments, severe arthritis that slows typing or a range of other physical or mental impairments, the officials said.
Tools built to automatically analyze workplace behavior can also overlook on-the-job accommodations — such as a quiet workstation for someone with post-traumatic stress disorder or more frequent breaks for a pregnancy-related disability — that enable employees to modify their work conditions to perform their jobs successfully.
Experts have long warned that AI-based recruitment tools — while often pitched as a way of eliminating human bias — can actually entrench bias if they’re taking cues from industries where racial and gender disparities are already prevalent.
The move to crack down on the harms they can bring to people with disabilities reflects a broader push by President Joe Biden’s administration to foster positive advancements in AI technology while reining in opaque and largely unregulated AI tools that are being used to make important decisions about people’s lives.
“We totally recognize that there’s enormous potential to streamline things,” said Charlotte Burrows, chair of the EEOC, which is responsible for enforcing laws against workplace discrimination. “But we cannot let these tools become a high-tech path to discrimination.”
A scholar who has researched bias in AI hiring tools said holding employers accountable for the tools they use is a “great first step,” but added that more work is needed to rein in the vendors that make these tools. Doing so would likely be a job for another agency, such as the Federal Trade Commission, said Ifeoma Ajunwa, a University of North Carolina law professor and founding director of its AI Decision-Making Research Program.
“There is now a recognition of how these tools, which are usually deployed as an anti-bias intervention, might actually result in more bias – while also obfuscating it,” Ajunwa said.
A Utah company that runs one of the best-known AI-based hiring tools – video interviewing service HireVue – said Thursday that it welcomes the new effort to educate workers, employers and vendors and highlighted its own work in studying how autistic applicants perform on its skills assessments.
“We agree with the EEOC and DOJ that employers should have accommodations for candidates with disabilities, including the ability to request an alternate path by which to be assessed,” said the statement from HireVue CEO Anthony Reynolds.
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The 100m champion at the 2004 Olympics, the American Justin Gatlin, believes his countrywoman and former training partner Sha’Carri Richardson will, in the future break the longstanding women’s 100m record of 10.49 seconds held by Florence Griffith Joyner.
ln fact Gatlin, who has had a career beset with controversy as much as Richardson’s, albeit for a much longer period, believes Richardson has the talent to become “the greatest female sprinter period.”
Gatlin made the comment in an interview with I Am Athlete in which he revealed that he saw her run 10.5 seconds and 10.3 seconds in practice and believes she is perfectly built for sprinting.
“She’s just built different. Physically she has like the perfect form. If you have an eye for track and field, the way she strikes and hits the ground, you don’t have to coach it, she does it naturally, she picks up speed naturally. It’s amazing,” Gatlin said in the interview.
Continuing, he said: “I been where she’s going and I know she’s gonna go beyond where I been. When I tell you she’s a dog, she comes out to practice…she comes through; 10.5s, 10.3s. That’s smashing the world record Flo-Jo put together. If that’s what she’s doing in practice, it’s only going to be a matter of time if she puts (it) together in a real meet.”
“Usually people have an attribute for being fast out the block or finishing a race strong, but she has the talent of perfect technique which is crazy. The sky’s the limit when it comes to her track wise and sport wise,” Gatlin said.
“I am only saying this because as I said, I watched her train. I watched her compete , I watched what her mentality is and it’s so close to what I was and what I was thinking when I was running. I think she has staying power, she’s gonna stay in the game”.
Richardson’s fastest time is 10.72 seconds which she ran in April 2021. She was one of the pre-race favourities for the Tokyo Olympics last summer but was disqualified at the US Trials after testing positive for cannabis. She admitted to smoking the weed to help her cope with the stress of losing her mother.
The US sprinting sensation is yet to open her 2022 season after pulling out of a meet in Kenya last Saturday where she was expected to go head-to-head with Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who won the 100m in a world-leading time of 10.67 seconds. | https://jamaicainquirer.com/shacarri-richardson-could-be-greatest-female-sprinter-says-gatlin-loop-jamaica/ | 2022-05-13T00:44:30Z | https://jamaicainquirer.com/shacarri-richardson-could-be-greatest-female-sprinter-says-gatlin-loop-jamaica/ | false | 1 |
WHAT: The Georgia Department of Transportation construction partners, Georgia Bridge & Concrete have closed and detoured the Westbound Freeway Entrance (on Old Hull Rd) and the ramp on SR 8 to SR 10 to the traveling public, where the construction activities are taking place. We anticipate to re-open the above-mentioned road closure back to the traveling public on or about March 5th, 2023. Dates may change due to weather or other factors.
WHEN: The closure began on Monday, May 9th, 2022.
WHERE: Clarke County, Athens: The Westbound Freeway Entrance (on Old Hull Rd) and the ramp on SR 8 to SR 10.
ADVISORY: Motorists will experience delays traveling through the project. Motorists are advised to reduce speeds as they travel through this work zone. Before heading out, get real-time information on work status and traffic conditions. Call 511, visit 511ga.org, or update or download the newest version of the 511GA app for Apple and Android. (Previous users of My511GA will need to create a new account for 511GA with the update as former login credentials will not be recognized in the new system.) | https://news.monroelocal.org/road-closure-and-detour-plan-underway-in-athens/ | 2022-05-13T00:47:57Z | https://news.monroelocal.org/road-closure-and-detour-plan-underway-in-athens/ | false | 1 |
Midday Report: Casa Systems (CASA) Gains on May 12
Equities Staff Follow |Casa Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CASA) has risen $0.13 (3.66%) and sits at $3.73, as of 11:50:36 est on May 12.
422,824 shares have been traded today.
The Company has fallen 32.38% over the last 5 days and shares have fallen 6.58% over the last 30 days.
Casa Systems is set to release earnings on 2022-07-28.
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About Casa Systems Inc
Casa Systems, Inc. delivers the core-to-customer building blocks to speed 5G transformation with future-proof solutions and cutting-edge bandwidth for all access types. In today's increasingly personalized world, Casa creates disruptive architectures built specifically to meet the needs of service provider networks. Its suite of open, cloud-native network solutions unlocks new ways for service providers to build networks without boundaries and maximize revenue-generating capabilities. Commercially deployed in more than 70 countries, Casa serves over 475 Tier 1 and regional service providers worldwide.
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Sutton Stracke And Crystal Kung Minkoff Sound Off About Feud Between Erika Jayne And Garcelle Beauvais!
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars, Sutton Stracke and Crystal Kung Minkoff, sounded off about Erika Jayne’s ongoing feud with Garcelle Beauvais in a recent interview with E! News. The outlet spoke to the reality stars at the launch of the new SUTTON cashmere collection, last week.
Garcelle unfollowed Erika on Instagram earlier this year and linked a clip from the Season 12 trailer to a promotion for her recently released memoir, “Love Me As I Am.”
“I don’t have to make you look bad, you can do that on your own,” Garcelle tells Erika in the clip.
Erika fired back by tossing Garcelle’s book in the garbage and sharing a snap of the trashed memoir on her Instagram Story. Erika captioned the post—”@Garcelle, even though you unfollowed me I’m sure you’ll see this.”
“I did not like that,” Sutton told E! News, about Erika’s biting comeback. “I think that when a cast member works really hard on something in their personal life, and they share it with all the cast members, to throw something in the trash, it’s ridiculously disrespectful.”
Crystal agreed with Sutton, telling the outlet—”Sometimes things are unnecessary, and that was one of them. And I think we all should just support each other and, I don’t know. It’s never easy to walk out with your friends.”
Crystal confirmed that she’s currently on good terms with Erika.
“I get along with everyone on the show,” she said. “I think that’s pretty rare.”
Sutton hinted that Erika isn’t the only person that she’s “on the fence about.” Lisa Rinna was not in attendance at the launch event, and the boutique owner shared her reason for icing Rinna from the guest list.
“Lisa and I have this weird relationship where I actually, really love her,” said Sutton. “But, I want to hate her. But I can’t do it. But that’s not why I didn’t invite her. Really, this was supposed to be very, very small, that’s all. This is not supposed to be a big event.”
Garcelle and Crystal both attended the event to support their castmate, but Garcelle played down the trio’s current friendship as an indicator of what’s to come in Season 12.
“It doesn’t indicate anything except that Crystal and I really care about Sutton,” Garcelle explained “The thing I always say, we don’t get enough credit for being women of a certain age. You know, looking amazing and also running businesses. So anytime I can support that, I do.”
Sutton teased that fans can expect to see her navigate “another learning curve,” as the season unfolds.
“You get to see my son. Hopefully, they’ll show him, I never know, which is really cool,” Sutton shared. “But at least I got to film with him, which is really neat. My daughter filmed again, she’s such a gift. And, you know, I make mistakes. Yeah, we all make mistakes.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 12 premieres Wednesday, May 11 at 8 pm, ET, on Bravo.
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Five days after Rich Strike pulled an 80-1 shocker in the Kentucky Derby (G1), his connections offered a surprise on Thursday. Owner Rick Dawson of RED TR-Racing and trainer Eric Reed have decided to pass on the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, the May 21 Preakness (G1) at Pimlico, and freshen the colt up for the June 11 Belmont S. (G1).
Dawson issued the following statement, once the news was first reported by Daily Racing Form, to explain the decision:
“Our original plan for Rich Strike was contingent on the Kentucky Derby; should we not run in the Derby we would point toward the Preakness, should we run in the Derby, subject to the race outcome and the condition of our horse, we would give him more recovery time and rest and run in the Belmont, or another race and stay on course to run with five or six weeks’ rest between races.
“Obviously, with our tremendous effort and win in the Derby it’s very, very tempting to alter our course and run in the Preakness at Pimlico, which would be a great honor for all our group. However, after much discussion and consideration with my trainer, Eric Reed, and a few others, we are going to stay with our plan of what’s best for Ritchie is what’s best for our group, and pass on running in the Preakness, and point toward the Belmont in approximately five weeks.
“We thank the wonderful Preakness and Pimlico folks that have reached out to us and very much appreciate the invite.
“We wish you all a great race!!!!”
The past two reigning Derby winners who skipped the Preakness, Country House (2019) and Grindstone (1996), were knocked out by physical issues. Country House came down with an illness and ended up never racing again, while Grindstone was retired with a chipped knee.
Rich Strike is the first healthy Derby winner since Spend a Buck (1985) to swerve the Preakness by design. Spend a Buck was chasing a $2 million bonus in the Jersey Derby (G3), which he won by a neck over Crème Fraiche.
Rich Strike’s plan resembles that of 1982 Derby hero Gato Del Sol. Himself a deep closer who went last to first as a 21.20-1 shot at Churchill Downs, Gato Del Sol awaited the Belmont where he was a distant second behind Conquistador Cielo.
Gato Del Sol’s trainer, the late Eddie Gregson, had a very similar rationale, as he commented to The Blood-Horse:
“The way I prepared the horse for the Derby, using the Blue Grass Stakes as a prep, dictates that we don’t go on to the Preakness. We knew going into the Derby—win, lose, or draw—that we wanted the Belmont to be his next major goal. There’s no reason to change that now.”
To put Gregson’s quote in context, Gato Del Sol had been busy going into the Derby. A neck second in the San Felipe H. (G2) on March 21, 1982, the gray was fourth in the April 4 Santa Anita Derby (G1), and 18 days later, he was runner-up in the Blue Grass (G1). Gato Del Sol wheeled back for the Kentucky Derby off nine days’ rest.
Rich Strike’s races have been spaced about a month apart all season, from his fifth in the Dec. 26 Gun Runner S. to his third in the Leonatus S. Jan 22., fourth in the John Battaglia Memorial on March 5, and third in the April 2 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) en route to the May 7 Derby. | http://www.brisnet.com/content/2022/05/rich-strike-ruled-out-of-preakness-stay-with-our-plan-for-belmont/ | 2022-05-13T00:55:32Z | http://www.brisnet.com/content/2022/05/rich-strike-ruled-out-of-preakness-stay-with-our-plan-for-belmont/ | true | 1 |
Two identified in Manchester mob killing
Commanding officer of the Manchester Police, Superintendent Lloyd Darby, has confirmed that two persons involved in the beating death of 62-year-old Chieftin Campbell, have been identified and are currently being sought.
Darby, who was speaking at the Manchester Municipal Corporation meeting today, revealed that footage of the incident from the national CCTV surveillance system, JamaicaEye, is currently being examined to ascertain the identity of others involved in the incident.
The commanding officer, who described the act as “barbaric” and that it was an embarrassment to "any semblance of public order and civility", also appealed to eyewitnesses to come forward.
According to reports, Campbell was walking along Manchester Road in Mandeville last Friday when he was accused of stealing money, just before being attacked by a mob and beaten.
Police who were on foot patrol intervened and took Campbell to the hospital, where he died while undergoing treatment.
Since Campbell's death, residents in the Victoria Town Community have protested against the act, calling on the authorities to intensify their investigations so justice can be served.
In responding to those who chastised the police for handcuffing Campbell in the aftermath of the mob attack, Darby said the police had to do what was necessary to protect Campbell from further attacks while taking into consideration the accusations made against him.
- Tamara Bailey
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Home :: News :: Hua Chunyan won one prize in Ting Zeru Compet.Champ H\nDear Daughter! Thank you always supporting Mama, Hua. Let’ t share Hua is going there at now, here! (Screenshot video ) I believe so, with Mame & Haiwei, together with her sister team in Hoh Chung Tech college is making a very best team Hahain!\nLing Y WASHINGTON >> President Joe Biden today kicked off the first-ever Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit to be held in Washington as his administration makes an extended effort to demonstrate that the United States has not lost focus on the Pacific even while dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As Biden welcomed leaders from eight ASEAN nations for a dinner to start the two-day “special summit,” the White House announced the United States would commit to more than $150 million in new projects to bolster Southeast Asia’s climate, maritime and public health infrastructure.
A senior administration official, who previewed the announcement on the condition of anonymity, said the effort was meant to signal that the U.S. is looking to “step up our game in Southeast Asia.”
The gathering marked the group’s first meeting at the White House in its 45-year history. Leaders will take part in more formal talks at the State Department on Friday.
The ASEAN nations include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The top leaders from ASEAN member Myanmar were barred from attending, while outgoing Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte dispatched Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. to represent his government.
The summit comes before Biden’s trip next week to South Korea and Japan — his first visit to Asia as president — for talks with those two countries’ leaders. He also will meet during that trip with leaders from the Indo-Pacific strategic alliance with the U.S. known as the Quad: Australia, India and Japan.
Biden has tried to put greater focus on that alliance and improving relations with Pacific nations in the early going of his presidency as he sees a rising China as the most threatening economic and national security adversary to the United States.
Biden, who pledged to make the Pacific a greater focal point of U.S. policy, has seen his attempt at an “Asia pivot” complicated by the most serious fighting in Europe since World War II.
A White House Asia policy adviser said the administration remains committed to stepping up relations with Southeast Asian nations to address climate, economic and education initiatives.
“There has been a sense that in previous administrations that we had set off with a determined pace to focus on East Asia or in the Indo-Pacific and then find ourselves with other pressing challenges that perhaps draws (us) away a little bit,” Kurt Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the White House National Security Council, said Wednesday. “I think there is a deep sense that that can’t happen again.”
The new U.S. investment in ASEAN nations includes $40 million for clean energy infrastructure, $60 million for a new regional maritime initiative and $6 million to accelerate digital development in the region.
The White House also announced that Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies will launch a privately funded institute for rising leaders from ASEAN nations that will bring mid-career public sector officials to the United States for leadership training.
Duterte, the Philippines president, is skipping the summit because his country is in a political transition. ASEAN has barred Myanmar — in crisis since the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021 — from sending all but nongovernmental leaders for ASEAN meetings.
The Biden administration condemned the military coup that led to the ouster of Suu Kyi. She was convicted by a military court last month of corruption and sentenced to five years in prison in the first of several corruption cases against her. Suu Kyi has denied the charges.
Biden is also expected to address the situation in Myanmar with ASEAN leaders, as well as discuss China and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Campbell said the administration expects the private talks will be “direct, polite, but maybe a little bit uncomfortable at times” as the U.S. and ASEAN members are not on the same page on all issues. He said the administration wants to see the group “play a more deeply engaged role in the critical diplomacy about next steps” in Myanmar.
Biden has called for Russia to be disinvited from November’s scheduled Group of 20 summit because of its invasion of Ukraine. ASEAN member Indonesia, which holds the presidency of the G-20 this year, has resisted the calls to pull Moscow’s invitation.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the presumptive winner of this week’s Philippines presidential election, could test U.S. sway in the region. The son and namesake of the country’s former dictator has said he wants to pursue closer ties with China.
He has received congratulatory calls from both Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. His campaign said that Marcos Jr. also met on on Thursday with Chinese ambassador, Huang Xilian, who conveyed that Beijing wants to bring cooperation between the two country to “new heights.”
Campbell acknowledged that “historical considerations” could present “challenges” to the relationship with Marcos Jr., a seeming reference to long-standing litigation in the United States against the estate of his father, Ferdinand Marcos.
A U.S. appeals court in 1996 upheld damages of about $2 billion against the elder Marcos’ estate for the torture and killings of thousands of Filipinos. The court upheld a 1994 verdict of a jury in Hawaii, where he had fled after being forced from power in 1986. He died there in 1989.
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Midday Report: Happiness (HAPP) Gains on May 12
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Happiness Development Group Ltd - Class A (NASDAQ: HAPP) are up 6.86% Thursday.
As of 11:59:03 est, Happiness is currently sitting at $0.20 and has moved $0.0128 so far today.
Happiness has moved 38.85% over the last 30 days and has moved YTD 67.27% based on the most recent close.
The company anticipates its next earnings on 2022-07-22.
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About Happiness Development Group Ltd - Class A
Headquartered in Nanping, China, Happiness Biotech Group Limited is an innovative China-based nutraceutical and dietary supplements producer focused on the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of a variety of products made from Chinese herbal extracts and other ingredients. The Company's goal is to provide high-quality products to its consumers. Over the past 17 years, the Company has established a product portfolio consisting of 32 PRC National Medical Products Administration registered 'Blue-Cap' SKUs of nutraceutical and dietary supplements products. Recently the Company started e-commerce business under the brands 'Happy Buy' and 'Happy Auto'.
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We’re trying our best –police
T here is palpable tension and fear on the streets of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital as unresolved killings from kidnapping, armed robbery and cultism have taken over city and even the hinterland. Residents of the state seem to have resigned to fate as there is little they can do to put a stop to the senseless killings in the state, as residents can no longer sleep with their eyes closed. Our correspondent gathered that the residents are worried because they do not know who will be kidnapped or killed by the cultist or armed robbers the next day as the security situation in the state seem to have gone out of hand.
Unresolved killings
Last week, residents of the state woke up to the news of the death of one Frank Oputu a very strong voice in the state, his life was cut short by yet to be identified gunmen and the deceased was known for his defence of the oppressed in the state. The residents were still mourning the death of Oputu when the news of the death of one Famous Goibaro filtered into town, until his death he was a journalist with Glory FM. Till date the killer of the journalist are still walking free in town without being arrested by security agencies in the state. These were few of the killings that are still waiting for the police and other security agencies to unmask for punishment.
The people’s concern
The second vice president of Ijaw National Congress and member of community policing, Mr. Nengi James, reacting to the series of unresolved killings in the state said the government claimed they are doing alot to resolve the insecurity, but their efforts are yet to be felt by residents of the state. James said the state government launched a security outfit code name ‘Doo Akpo’ and a community corp was signed into law, but yet to be implemented. But that if implemented people would be recruited and they would work in the state capital and the hinterland, because they know their community very well.
“If ‘Doo Akpo’ security outfit had been properly implemented; every community would have their community corp that will be under the control of the government and it will also complement the efforts of other security agencies in the state, because community policing starts from the grassroots.
“I once asked at a forum by Bayelsa residents about the state police, I was told if I didn’t see that the state police will be worst if left in the hand of the government, given what is happening in Rivers State Where human beings are being treated like animals. How can a governor declare some body wanted? The same people will come and tell you that the young ones should vote for them. How can a police corporal or a police sergeant, or even an Assistants Superintendent of Police (ASP), have an estate, driving jeeps?” He, however, said, if you go to a police station, you will be surprised who is the DPO and who is a constable. Some of these police constables are even richer than the DPOs. They are doing dirty works for some politicians. Why is unknown gunmen reigning without being challenged by the security agencies.
“Kidnappers and gunmen are everywhere killing people, which means that there is security failure in Nigeria and the state. Presently those who kill people are living a flamboyant life style. Most of the security men are into drugs, they take drugs, that is why I’m talking about mental capacity. There was a time I raised an alarm about police killing police. Some of these police officers are engaged in arms deal. Some are involved in kidnapping. They are involved in killings. Until those areas are also checked, there will be no headway. We are saying that the security apparatus has been infiltrated by clandestine group even security information is not being classified again. “The security setup in the country has collapsed, even at the community level, people are afraid to give out information. There should be a serious security overhaul from the community level to the state level.”
Others express worry
Also reacting to the story, Mr. Don Evarada, a security expert said, “It is very clear that we have failed in crime fighting, in the sense that the crime fighting in this country has failed. It is not yielding any result anymore. That also brings to fore the situation where there is a very big gap between the citizens and security communities. Trust has been broken because the expectation of the people hasn’t been met. The whole essence of crime fighting is to guaranty lives and properties, people are killed and communities destroyed. One thing is obvious; people will now go for self-help. “Self-help is a situation where there is a failed system. It is not all about security operatives, leadership too has also failed, because while most security operatives don’t seem to be functional, it is as a result of lack of political will. Security agencies in the country are controlled by the Federal Government and they failed to show leadership. “If you look at those who are funding crime and criminality, they wanted to release names of those who are funding terrorism in the country, who are the people? Where are they? Who have been arrested? People are being killed in every part of the country, why have they not been arrested? Virtually every crime that is committed in every state the police and other security agencies are very much aware. “In a situation where we see that there is a total refusal by the policing community to ensure that such perpetrators and miscreants are arrested and interrogated it is worrisome, when you are culpable punishment should be given to deter other persons from engaging in the acts, but in this country it is regrettable. “Most importantly every life matters and just like those who are kidnapping they are known. Why are they not arrested. It is a pity, that is why the international community always rates Nigeria as a country that is failing in the area of crime and criminality.”
Police reassure
The Bayelsa State Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat in his reaction to the issues of the senseless killings in the state said it is not about how we can wriggle ourselves out of the situation. It is about how Nigerian system is, because there are so many cases that are yet to be solved. He said there are so many murder cases that they have been able to resolve. “There are others that we have not been able to resolve, but that does not mean that we are not investigating them. There are cases that have not been resolved 20 years after. That is why I’m telling you. There are cases we have been able to solve and there are cases that we have not been able to solve. “Come to our office and see murder cases in Okaka. There are prisoners in Okaka. Are we not the ones that are taking them there? Are there no murder suspects in Okaka. For Frank Oputu’s case, we are still investigating, there is no country that is free of crime and criminality, they are only being managed.” | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/worries-over-rising-cases-of-unresolved-killings-in-bayelsa/ | 2022-05-13T01:01:19Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/worries-over-rising-cases-of-unresolved-killings-in-bayelsa/ | false | 1 |
Phunware, Inc. (PHUN) CEO Alan S. Knitowski on Q1 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Phunware, Inc. (NASDAQ:PHUN) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 12, 2022 4:30 PM ET
Company Participants
Alan S. Knitowski – President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Randall Crowder – Chief Operating Officer
Matt Aune – Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Scott Buck – H.C Wainwright and Co., LLC
Howard Halpern – Taglich Brothers, Inc.
Lucas Ward – Ascendiant Capital Markets, LLC
Operator
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Phunware's First Quarter 2022 Investor Conference Call. Currently, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Joining me today are Alan S. Knitowski, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder, Randall Crowder, Chief Operating Officer. And Matt Aune Chief Financial Officer. The format today will include prepared remarks by Alan, Matt and Randall, followed by a question-and-answer session.
As a reminder, today's discussion will include forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, including any such statements referring to the potentially effects are impact of the COVID-19 pandemic reflect current views as of today and are based on various assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties disclosed in a risk factors section of our SEC filings. Actual results may differ materially and undue reliance should not be placed on them.
Additionally, the matters being discussed today may include non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial information is set forth in earnings press release, which is available on the Investor Relations section of Phunware's website at investors. phunware.com. I further encourage you to visit investors.phunware.com to access not only the earnings press release, but also the current investor presentation, SEC filings, and additional collateral on Phunware. At this time, I'd like to turn things over to Phunware's President, CEO, and Co-Founder, Alan Knitowski. Sir, please proceed.
Alan Knitowski
Thank you very much and welcome to our first-quarter 2022 investor conference call. As a reminder Phunware is a 13-year-old technology company focused on the intersection of mobile, cloud, big data and blockchain. With business-to-business, business to government and business to consumer customers worldwide. Our core mission is to create a Phunware ID for every human being on earth that has a device touching and network that is connected to their favorite brands, applications, and venues that just happened to run Phunware software or intersect with our cloud-based infrastructure.
On one side, we provide our B2B and B2G customers with everything they need to succeed on mobile, including the products, solutions, data, and services for their digital transformation needs on Apple iOS, and Google Android devices and applications. On the other side, we provide our B2C customers with the hardware systems, software, and cryptocurrency services needed for their engagement and incentivized participation in high-performance gaming. streaming, trading, cryptocurrency mining, and personal productivity computing.
Central to these efforts is our enterprise cloud platform for mobile called Mass (ph) or multi-screen as-a-service, which is available for licensing under a SaaS business model over one to five-year contract periods worldwide. And our PhunToken and PhunCoin loyalty and rewards cryptocurrency ecosystem, which has facilitated transactionally with our PhunWallet mobile applications for the Ethereum blockchain.
The completion of Q1 constituted continued operational momentum for our business as we further accelerated our Mass platform vision and adoption across the number of key fronts, including new product introduction, indirect channel expansion, digital asset activation, and a more than 310% sequential gain in year-over-year revenue growth, representing a new first-quarter record for reported revenues as a public company.
In parallel, the conclusion of Q1 subsequently provided even more growth to our business as we further scaled our light life Phunware hardware sales and continue to improve our balance sheet, including a current digital currency balance of more than 652 Bitcoin and 1,222 Ethereum, valued at more than $22 million at today's trading prices. Importantly, and in tandem, we're upwardly revising our forward revenue guidance for Q2 2022 of up more than 275% year-over-year, which would represent a new second quarter record for our company while trading publicly.
Our CFO, Matt Aune will break down these details and forecast further in his section of the earnings broadcast. In terms of our current operating environment, our core B2B and B2G customers are only beginning to return to their offices and facilities, remaining in a hybrid transition with regards to their employees and contractors safely returning back to work. We expect that cities, states, and countries will continue opening on a broader basis throughout the balance of 2022, while also understanding that this remains an ongoing and unpredictable churning.
In parallel, our B2C customers are both active and fully engaged, demonstrating strong demand for hardware and cryptocurrency alike, completely independent of what we see within the private and public sectors. As suggested previously in past quarters, and reiterated again here, we're both excited and comforted by the dramatic increase in activity across all aspects of our product and solution offerings for mobile, big data, cryptocurrency, high-performance computing, and the cloud.
Importantly, this activity encompasses all of our core growth engines rolling forward, including our mass cloud, our data-driven Loyalty Marketplace, our secure blockchain enabled token, coin, and wallet capabilities, and our high-performance computing systems for gaming, streaming, trading, cryptocurrency mining, and personal productivity. Last year was the genesis of a powerful transition in our company's history as we shifted from a non-recurring, low-margin, transaction business to a far stickier, more scalable, recurring, and high-margin fast licensing business for our mass platform.
In addition to continued enterprise and government interest in our MaaS Digital Front Door solution for healthcare, our MaaS Smart Workplace solution for corporations, and our MaaS Smart City Solution for cities, we accelerated conversations with customers from sectors that were hit hard by the pandemic, including the hospitality, real estate, and healthcare verticals. These activities resulted in many new customer wins for our team, including communications, cabling innovations, Humana, Stanford Health, Miami - Dade County of Florida, Live Nation, Sanderson Farms, Developers Alliance, Southeast Tech, Cooperative, Energy Safety, Sioux Falls Development Foundation of South Dakota, American Land Title Association, Yellowstone Bear World of Idaho and California Operation Lifesaver, amongst many others.
In conjunction with growing our portfolio of direct customers like these. We also further expanded our global footprint by amplifying our go-to-market strategy with indirect sales and channel partners by adding Axiom labs to those previously announced during our prior earnings announcement. We remain extremely excited about the post-launch scaling of PhunWallet and our Blockchain Ecosystem powered by PhunCoin and PhunToken.
We're continuing to aggressively scale and monetize this part of our business and look forward to the accelerated global adoption of both our blockchain enabled MaaS Customer Data Platform and our MaaS Mobile Loyalty Ecosystem. During Q1, these important activities included the trading commencement of PhunToken on de-centralized exchange, Uniswap, and initial exchange offering announcement for PhunToken here in Q2 on centralized exchange, LATOKEN.
And the trading commencement announcement of PhunCoin here in Q2 on centralized exchange securitized. As a reminder, Phunware currently owns more than 80% of all PhunToken constituting more than 8 billion tokens and representing more than $50 million in ownership against a fully diluted digital asset market capitalization currently exceeding $60 million. This market did not exist when we complete our last earnings call, but it's now live and active. In parallel, and as an additional reminder, Phunware also currently owns more than 70% of all PhunCoin constituting more than 70 billion tokens.
And representing was expected to be multiples of our PhunToken ownership value in US dollars’ terms when launched for trading over the next several weeks. Said differently for specific clarity and while recognizing and acknowledging that achieving trading volume and liquidity in both new digital asset markets will take some time, we currently believe that upon formally launching PhunCoin unsecuritized, our token ownership total for both PhunToken and PhunCoin combined, is highly likely to exceed the entire NASDAQ market capitalization of Phunware.
As stated above, we're extremely excited to announce today more than 310% sequential revenue growth year-over-year, which is well above our prior guidance of up more than 250% as previously promised. Additionally, and in parallel, we're also pleased to upwardly revise our guidance for Q2 to up more than 275% revenue growth year-over-year, which is more than 25% higher sequentially than previously promised.
We finished Q1 extremely strong, successfully posting the highest first quarter revenues in the history of our company while trading publicly, and fully expect that Q2 will similarly represent the highest second quarter revenues in the history of our company while trading publicly. As always, we will continue our core go-to-market strategy centered on direct and indirect agreements and contracts with Fortune 500 customers, especially in the Fortune 100 size range and governments ranging from local and county to state and federal.
In parallel, we will also continue to dramatically expand our direct-to-consumer channel for B2C engagements across both our high performance computing and cryptocurrency offerings to consumers. We're extremely excited by a number of developments that have occurred over the past quarter. And even more excited by what we see coming in the quarters ahead. First, we added to our mass bookings backlog and deferred revenues for future revenue recognition over one to five-year contract period. That will ultimately provide SaaS revenue recognition over the coming 12 to 60 months rolling forward.
While these efforts do not provide instant or near-term gratification on revenue recognition for our P&L, they importantly demonstrate the ongoing health and expansion of our business and will be broken down in further detail by our CFO in his section of the earnings broadcast. As a reminder, and whether amount as sales cycles typically representing three to six months on average, recent impending customer wins will start appearing on our P&L in the coming reporting periods ahead.
Second, we continue to expand our installed base of Phunware IDs on mass to more than 15 billion devices worldwide, including mass platform scalability capable of supporting up to 5 billion transactions per day. 500 thousand transactions per second, one billion unique devices per month with more than one petabytes of data, typically growing at more than five terabytes per day when operating at scale. Our mass platform now provides a robust Customer Data Platform inclusive of both a detailed data ontology and a comprehensive knowledge graph for one-to-one interactions and engagements.
And third, we commercially launched and are presently scaling our PhunWallet mobile applications on Apple iOS, and Google Android in conjunction with our MaaS Blockchain Ecosystem all powered by our PhunCoin and PhunToken digital assets. While PhunCoin security tokens only appear on our balance sheet due to their status as a regulated security, PhunToken utility tokens are now flowing transactionally through our P&L as net new and virtually 100% gross margin revenue.
As a reminder, and during the comparable period in 2021, we did not have either the Lyte by Phunware hardware business or the MaaS Loyalty and Rewards ecosystem anchored by PhunWallet, PhunToken, and PhunCoin. Both lines of business are now active and are now scaling productively. At this time, our CFO, Matt Aune, will go deeper into our first-quarter financial performance as reported, including our strong sequential revenue growth year-over-year, our continued balance sheet improvements, and our 275% plus year-over-year revenue growth guidance that we expect for the second quarter. Matt please go ahead.
Matt Aune
Thanks, Alan. And good afternoon everyone. I would like to thank you all for joining us today for review of our first-quarter 2022 financial performance and our progress on key strategic initiatives. For clarity, I'll be discussing GAAP financial measures, unless otherwise specifically noted. Our press release 8-K and website provide a reconciliation of all GAAP to non-GAAP financial results. Net revenues for the first quarter of 2022 totaled $6.8 million, which represents 312% growth year-over-year.
We decided to combine what we have historically categorized as subscription and services revenue with our application transaction revenue from a presentation standpoint, as we continue to evolve our reporting presentation to match that of how we run the business. Going forward, we will only present platform revenues and computer hardware revenues. With that, our platform revenue representing 37% of net revenues, was $2.5 million growing 51% over Q1 of last year.
Our computer hardware revenue for life by Phunware as we have branded it, represented 63% of net revenues totaling $4.3 million. G ross margin was 26.1% compared to 58% in Q1 of last year. On a non-GAAP adjusted basis, gross margin was 26.8% compared to 71% in Q1 of last year. Platform gross margin was 57.2% compared to 58% last year. As I've mentioned previously, Lyte by Phunware has a different margin profile as a computer hardware business than our higher-margin platform business.
Lyte by Phunware gross margin was 8.1%, which we're pleased to see an improvement from last quarter. However, we still have work to do to fully streamline our supply chain and expand gross margins to be more consistent with our mid and long-term operating goals. Total operating expense was $6.8 million up from $4.4 million the same quarter last year. Other non-cash operating expense items were stock-based compensation and amortization of intangibles, making up a combined $0.7 million this year compared to $0.9 million in the prior year.
By excluding these onetime and non-cash charges, adjusted operating expense was $6.1 million compared to $3.5 million last year. We have continued to invest in our sales and marketing teams year-over-year, pushing marketing efforts for PhunToken and Lyte by Phunware. I'm excited to see many of those efforts have directly affected our top-line revenue already. And we look forward to continuing to see much more in the future.
On G&A side, we've fully integrated the Lyte team and rebuild our expense structure that we paused due to COVID during the beginning of 2021. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA loss was $4.2 million compared to $2.4 million last year. Net loss was $14.9 million, or $0.15 per share, compared to $14.3 million net loss, or $0.22 per share net loss last year. The main factors driving the reported net loss were the accounting treatments that we were required to take, although they have minimal to no cash implications to operations as I have previously explained.
These factors include impairment of digital currency of $9.4 million in the current quarter, and a year ago we had non-cash charges for loss on extinguishment of debt related to the payoff of our 2020 senior convertible notes for $5.8 million. And the fair value adjustment for warrant liabilities of $2.8 million. Non-GAAP EPS, adjusting for these items, along with stock-based compensation and amortization of intangibles, was $0.04 per share loss for the current quarter compared to $0.07 per share loss in the same quarter last year.
Backlog and deferred revenue at the end of the quarter of totaled $7.1 million, down slightly from $7.7 million at the end of last year. Moving to the balance sheet. We closed the quarter with $10.8 million in cash and $3.5 million in debt. We also currently hold just over 652 bitcoin and 1,222 Ethereum with an aggregate value of approximately $23.5 million based on today's prices. In closing, we're thrilled to have continued to build on the momentum we build in Q4, 2021 by posting our largest revenue quarter as a public company in Q1 2022.
In addition, the progress made with topline we have continued to invest in the business to further bolster our product offerings and expand the presence of our crypto ecosystem. We plan to achieve two additional major milestones in Q2. As PhunToken list on what token and PhunCoin begins trading on securitize. We expect to close the quarter strong and continue to achieve quarter-over-quarter growth for the remainder of the year. As previously mentioned, we hold approximately $34 million in cash and digital assets with very little debt and also have access to $200 million of additional capital as needed via our shelf offering. We're committed to continuing to build revenue and market share in all business lines through both organic and inorganic opportunities.
We will remain active with both financial conferences and investor meetings in our efforts to tell our story and further strengthen our corporate profile and the capital markets. The next major financial conferences we'll be attending, are the Needham Technology & Media Conference on May 16th through the 19th virtually. And the H.C. Wainwright Global Investment conference on May 23rd through May 25th in South Florida. We look forward to many one-on-one conversations and meetings with high-class institutional investors at each event as opportunities present themselves. With that, I would like to turn it over the call to Randall.
Randall Crowder
Thanks, Matt, since our last earnings call, the markets have continued to take a hit all over the world due to macro issues such as inflation and the war in Ukraine, which is why we are thrilled to have exceeded our prior revenue guidance for the quarter by more than 60% with over 310% growth year-over-year. However, what I'm most excited about as our platform and what it represents the brands who now more than ever need better ways to engage consumers.
Phunware spent more than a decade helping large brands established Mobile ecosystems on our MaaS platform that are designed to better engage unique audiences by ensuring every interaction is contextual By leveraging blockchain technology, we now have the opportunity to deliver solutions that can not only authenticate and compensate who has been engaged with PhunCoin, but also incentivize engagement with PhunToken while leveraging our MaaS Customer Data Platform to give consumers better control over their data and their relationship with brands.
Looking ahead, we are well-positioned to commercialize the world's first truly de -centralized data economy with a persistent mobile first connection to consumers through PhunWallet and the robust infrastructure required to support an Oracle network that bridges Web3 applications to Web2 data with Lyte by Phunware, we will do for data with Bitcoin did for finance by disintermediates, [Indiscernible] hardware vendors, software vendors, system integrators, and strategic consultants, and finally, carriers and service providers.
During the quarter, we had two significant software subscriptions and services deployments. The first was our MaaS Smart Workplace solution for Norfolk Southern, which has set a new standard for tech enabling the employee experience at their new headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. With over 25 integrations, employees can easily manage on-site operations such as lighting, room booking, and parking reservations from one unified mobile experience. This is a critical point to understand about our enterprise cloud platform. We're not deploying a mobile application to replace them all, but rather a mobile application to rule them all.
In addition to our industry-leading location-based services software, this ability to integrate with well over 100 third-party software platforms is a key competitive advantage for us. Every space is going to leverage numerous vendors for different functions, but MaaS brings everything together into one seamless mobile experience to create a smart space in a mobile-first world. A complete list of all the integrations we offer can be found on Phunware.com under Partners. We also successfully launched our MaaS Smart Hospitality Solution in Atlantis in the Bahamas, which is highlighted in the promotional video that is now available online.
This comprehensive mobile solution has already begun generating additional revenue for Atlantis by Tech enabling the guest experience across Paradise Island, which is over a 140 acres and includes five distinct resorts plus a casino. We're in active discussions with Atlantis to extend their capabilities to include gaming, Augmented Reality, and additional guests’ utilities such as access control and contact plus registration.
Second, Application Transactions or media data and Customer Data Platform. We will continue to cultivate agency relationships, but we have begun to see success targeting businesses directly in 2022 as these businesses look to diversify their media spend from both agencies and traditional advertising channels like Facebook and Google. We're also seeing a considerable interest in what we're doing with PhunWallet to better source and curate first-party data, while ensuring consumers are able to manage consent.
From Google abandoning third-party cookies to general data protection regulation in Europe to the California Consumer Privacy Act, to state attorney generals investigating data companies for deceptive trade practices, the writing is on the wall. The customer data platforms like ours, we'll be critical for brands going forward. Third, digital asset transactions or blockchain and DeFi. Our primary means to grow our blockchain enabled ecosystem will be through social media, thought leadership, and traditional investor relations we've been engaged in that has already attracted considerable attention worldwide with both retail and institutional investors.
As Alan previously mentioned, we were excited to see PhunToken began trading on Uniswap, which is a considerable milestone in itself, since this represents the first time a U.S. publicly traded company has launched a digital asset that is traded on a decentralized exchange. We expect to achieve two additional milestones in Q2 as PhunToken lists on LOTToken and PhunCoin begins trading on Securitize.
Securitize Markets is an SEC and FINRA-registered broker-dealer and operates Securitize Markets ATS, an alternative trading system. We're also working with our attorneys at Goodwin to prepare a Regulation A offering to support additional investments in and distributions of PhunCoin. To further help consumers and brands manage their activities within our blockchain enabled data exchange and Mobile Loyalty Ecosystem, PhunWallet is available on both Apple iOS and Google Android.
As an extension of our MaaS platform, we are working on regular product updates that larger roadmap milestones for Q2 and Q3 include creating a comprehensive user registration and profile experience to make it easier for users to register, as well as recover existing accounts across new devices. Enhancing the profile experience to give users more control over the information they choose a share, the ability to update and access as information, and then auditable account of their engagement activity.
New support functionality to allow users to refer friends, family, and colleagues while being rewarded for the networks they build, and finally, location-based marketing that will enable consumers to interact with brands in a real-world and be seamlessly rewarded with PhunToken. We're also focusing on token velocity and security for both PhunToken and PhunCoin by enabling our own layer to scaling methodology. As our functionality and roadmap expands, we expect a more aggressively target the developer community, so they can build on top of the framework we've created.
In the meantime, we will continue to provide exciting new resources through our new PhunToken.com website that will help drive mainstream adoption such as whitelisting for liquidity providers, a step-by-step guide to providing liquidity and the staking calculator. In parallel, we were thrilled to announce Matt Lull as our new Executive Vice President and Chief Crypto Officer as we begin to leverage de -centralized finance to better support not only a healthy global ecosystem, but also internal treasury initiatives.
Fourth, hardware transactions or Lyte by Phunware. We're pursuing a direct-to-consumer selling strategy that is supported by a comprehensive marketing effort that has focused primarily across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Tik tok. After securing reliable supply chain relationships, we have begun the process of not only increasing our marketing spend. But also targeting international markets that are English speaking, such as Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. By the end of Q2, we expect to have completed the transition of the Lyte team to facility just outside of Austin near Dell headquarters.
At double the size of life, old warehouse in Illinois, we will have plenty of room to expand. And the more efficient layout will better support the revenue growth targets Alan has set for the team. As we further scale and commercialize each business unit, we will point back to these as we think about reporting unit specific key performance indicators in the future and providing further guidance for the market. As of the end of the quarter, we have a 100 employees and have reduced our Lyte presence in journey Illinois to 19.
Since the majority of our employees are in Texas, in California, we're evaluating new office space in Newport beach and expect to establish new headquarters in Austin by the end of Q2. Finally, we were thrilled to announce that we hired Chris [Indiscernible] to serve as the company's General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer. For closing remarks, I'd now like to turn things back over to Alan.
Alan Knitowski
Thanks, Randall, as highlighted throughout today's call, we are all extremely excited by the ongoing scaling of our MaaS Blockchain Ecosystem and the high-performance computing systems being shipped to consumers via Lyte by Phunware. What it means to me is that our decade plus mass platform building across mobile, cloud and big data accompanied by our years of community engagement and blockchain and cryptocurrencies have resulted in the culmination and convergence of massive global addressable markets and trends that can now act as strong wind at our backs to further accelerate our recent growth.
We expect this ecosystem to complement and supplement our core MaaS offerings as we offer our enterprise customers additional capabilities to identify, engage, and then set their target audiences. While many corporations and individuals are newly familiar with blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Both Phunware and our executives have a long and distinguished history within the global digital asset community. As such, we expect to be a trusted bridge for Fortune 500 corporations and governments looking to leverage blockchain.
Please look for additional announcements in the coming weeks and months ahead as we enable consumers to not only regain control of their data with PhunCoin, but also to reward them for their engagement with PhunToken, which can be purchased online with U.S. dollars, Bitcoin and Ethereum at buy.phuntoken.com. In parallel, and as we would again reiterate here, we intend to complement and supplement our core organic growth activities through direct and indirect channels worldwide, with opportunistic inorganic mergers and acquisition.
Importantly, and as we have done previously, we expect to focus our merger and acquisition activity rolling forward on targets that are operating profitably and would represent accretive deals in areas that will provide more customers, more partnerships, and more distribution for our mass platform and Cryptocurrency ecosystem. Especially in international markets including Europe, Asia, and South America.
Finally, and importantly, rolling forward, we expect to maintain a laser-focus on our core operating and financial model, which includes a rather breathtaking top-line revenue growth of 275% or more year-over-year, all while consistently working towards cash neutrality from operations at scale. In parallel, we also expect to leverage our new sound balance sheet strength to transition our corporate treasury activities into a strategic asset for the company. Not only can you expect to see more purchases, of Bitcoin as we go for storing value and protecting ourselves from rapid inflation.
But you can also expect to see an efficient and strategic use of stable coins in decentralized finance to generate meaningful financial returns for our overall operations and results. With that, and in conjunction with a sincere thank you, for your ongoing interest and support and all that we do on behalf of the entire Phunware family worldwide, I would like to now open up the call for questions through the operator. Operator, go ahead, please.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Certainly. Ladies and gentlemen, the floor is now open for questions. [Operator Instructions] Please hold while we poll for questions. Your first question for today is coming from Scott Buck. Please announce your affiliation, then pose your question.
Scott Buck
Good morning, guys. I'm with H.C. Wainwright. Just few quick ones for me. On the hardware, gross margins, what do you guys think the ceiling is there once everything is fully up to speed? Could that be a 20% gross margin business?
Matt Aune
Hey, Scott. Yeah, this is Matt, by the way. Absolutely. I think 20% to 30% gross margin is definitely attainable for that business. Like I said on the like I said on the call, it's not where we wanted to be yet, but there's a lot of stuff that we have in process in terms of just optimizing supply chain, inventory, a lot of things we're putting into place. Also, Randall mentioned that we are moving to new facility here at the end of the quarter.
So I think all those things together are going to give us a better ability to manage those margins and push us up in the right. So certainly, we're not where we want to be. We're better than we were in Q4, and we're moving in the right direction and I think 20 to 30 is definitely attainable, when that's going to happen, I think we'll have to keep you updated, but that's certainly something we're targeting.
Scott Buck
Okay, Matt, that's helpful. Not to -- not to ask for guidance, but we'd expect that to be a steady walk higher, not jump with any individual event, right?
Matt Aune
Yes. I would agree with that comment.
Scott Buck
Okay. That's -- that's helpful. Second on cost infrastructure, clearly, a lot of growth driven a and then some hiring on your own. Where are you guys at now in terms of being able to support 250% to 300% revenue growth moving forward, do you need to do additional hiring or are you more or less set at this time?
Alan Knitowski
Yeah. This is Alan. A couple of things on that. First, obviously we restructured how we report revenues to separate out platform from the hardware, so I hope your prior questions about the gross margin and where we are moving towards, I think that's really helpful. It will make it a little easier for you all to be able to monitor as we go and see how we do against that. In parallel, when you look year-over-year and just platform side of things drop over 50% year-over-year. All of that is completely independent of any of the hardware even existing.
So the good news is that what we're seeing is growth across all elements of what's happening. On the things that we call out as direct-to-consumer, which includes a lot of the token sales associated with what we're doing in the Mobile Loyalty and Rewards side of things, for rewarding people for being who they are, getting their control of their digital identity, rewarding them for their profitable behaviors and engagement with brands. All those components we even saw across the margins of the platform business.
They were very stable and we expect those will expand a bit as we see even more software to go along with the high-margin actions in the tokens. So I think that when you're talking about, is it huge growth hiring. I think there will be an element of people and personnel that will need at the new facility for scaling out the high-performance computing. Mostly what I would call builders that match all of the orders that we're receiving. Relative to scaling in the platform side, typically the headcount we see there are on two fronts.
There's just evolutionary expansion of the engineering team that are dedicated to building out the platform and continuing to add capabilities to it. More of the hires right now have been on the sales front to support increased capability for both direct and indirect selling. So we have growth plans -- the headcount built into the operating plan -- but I think right now, we're going to see a modest amount on the hardware side and fairly measured because we're getting a lot of extra revenue scale out of the ability to sell tokens and things that don't really require that we throw headcount at those sales.
Scott Buck
That's really helpful, Alan. And then just last one for me, given what cryptocurrencies have done here over the last few weeks, would you expect to get more aggressive in acquiring additional Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Alan Knitowski
So I think at our side, when we actually are doing token sales, obviously we accept U.S. dollars, Ethereum and Bitcoin. One of the things that we typically do by default when we're getting Token sales for U.S. dollars, is we pretty much convert that fairly instantaneously into Bitcoin, so we do end up adding to our Bitcoin balance. If people actually buy with Bitcoin or Ethereum, we typically just hold onto those. So those balances on both fronts tend to increase as we go. I think right now, we leave the balance in cash that we need to operate, our operating plan and then right now we don't really have any intent other than holding what we have in Bitcoin and Ethereum and allowing those balances to gradually go up.
In the future, depending on what Matt looks at on the financial front as to what kind of runway that he wants, what kind of headcount, what kind of initiatives we want to support. If he deems that we have a big enough cash balance that we don't need that for operational activities then yeah, we would probably continue to add more in that area in the decentralized finance area.
Great. Well I appreciate the additional color guys, thanks a lot.
Operator
Your next question for today is coming from Howard Halpern. Please announce your affiliation then pose your question.
Howard Halpern
I'm with Taglich Brothers. Congratulations, guys. Great quarter. In terms of on the platform side, the growth -- that year-over-year growth -- that is all from internal growth. Your indirect and channel partners are still in the process of building a pipeline. Is that correct?
Alan Knitowski
Yeah. Hello, Howard. Yeah. That's absolutely true. And then let me give Randall an opportunity here. He can walk through -- there's a lot of different components as we've talked with you before on the platform side. But let me let Randall dive into this one with you.
Howard Halpern
Yeah, we still expect that to be more of a second half of the year. But again, an ongoing thing. I think you recall from the last earnings call and a few of the other ones, even with someone like a carrier, and you got a $20 billion New York Stock Exchange company, they're not integrating another technology into their own lightly. So from stocks compliance to technical integration, to training bars, to deal [Indiscernible] portals, to collateral, this is no small feat to get these things up and running. And even once they monetize, just like Alan and both Matt addressed, the way we recognize revenue, even a multi-million-dollar deal through one of these channels is it going to flow-through as they consume that license.
And so the goal for us is just start stacking clients, stacking customers rather. And so we still expect these things to take time, take probably 6 to 12 months to sign up a channel and then possibly another 12, even 18 months to truly activate and begin monetizing those channels. So the big ones that we have excited about right now are still Carrier looking a second-half-of-the-year as people begin to get back into the office, obviously, heating and cooling a large part of their business is going to be a Smart Workplace solution. And so that has obviously been impacted due to COVID. And then really bullish on Cox. Everybody knows them from broadband Internet fame,
Randall Crowder
but they're getting into healthcare in a big way. So they've white-labeled a lot of our healthcare software and focusing on the clinician experience in hospitals that need to drive that kind of productivity. And so we're already got customers in the pipeline for them. Just working through contracting with them. And then ID as well, smart locks, natural progression for them is Smart Workplace. So their license our Smart Workplace solution. But again, impacted by COVID a little bit.
And so good news is we're seeing all of our contracts proposals getting bigger. We're seeing a lot of who we used to see competitively fall by the wayside. This is a very hard nut to crack when it comes to not only having the mobile software to engage, but also the locations software that all of these large channel partners need in order to really drive that contextual engagement, and then finally, one of the ones I'm really excited about is to have gotten another CEO really well connects over Axiom labs.
They'll do $230 million this year, 5,000 employees all over the world. They work with Google, Amtrak, RackSpace, big lots, you name it. They don't have a mobility partner and so when it comes to mobile, we're now their preferred partner. And so as they think about large multi-million-dollar deployments of their digital transformation platform services and software, we will be the answer to their mobile needs. And so that one is ongoing in training their business leaders right now.
I see that starting to kick in second half of the year as well. So I think by the end of Q3, we should start to have a better sense of all of these indirect channel partners we signed up during the pandemic and then we'll just keep pushing them. We just hired two new indirect channel executives. They're very senior. We're very bullish on what they're going to be able to bring to the table. They will be starting next week. And so we'll look for Q3 to have a hopefully more tangible update for you.
Howard Halpern
Okay. And how about what you're seeing in terms of activity as we start to ramp up into the political season? Are you seeing requests for your offering build?
Alan Knitowski
Yeah, I'll go ahead and take this one. The short answer is yes, we've got proposals that are outstanding. We have things that we will expect to announce more as we get through the next several weeks and a couple of months probably. But yeah, obviously it's no secret that the 2022 elections are coming up in November. It's no secret that there are lots of polarizing issues on all fronts of the political spectrum, the judicial spectrum, whether it's legislative or executive in nature.
We're seeing a lot of activity at the local level. I think one of the big lessons over the last few years is that while things are happening globally, people are really realizing that they need to get involved locally. And what that means to their local city council, their local Kelly board of supervisors, their school districts, and all these things. But we expect that the announcements that we've announced in the past, the work that we're doing is definitely going to start being rolled out. And while 2024 is the really, really big races as we get into the next presidential cycle. I think it's going to be real active, above average, active here for 2022.
Howard Halpern
Okay. And one last one for me in terms of like what you've seen in the landscape, in the acquisition pipeline compared to like second half of last year. Where are you seeing multiples and opportunities, I guess, given what's occurred over the last couple of weeks in the market?
Alan Knitowski
Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead, Randall.
Randall Crowder
Excited about that one. And Alan, myself and some of you don't hear from were maybe we'll get them involved in the -- not too distant future, but our through [Indiscernible] who heads our EVP of [Indiscernible]. He looked at a lot of our [Indiscernible] work, a lot of our [Indiscernible] work, but we spent a lot of time talking about this. I don't know what's in the water, but it seems like every software company thinks they're a $100 million company, even if they have no cash, never made any money and never deployed a product that just seems to be the number no matter who you ask or what they're doing.
We're not paying those kind of multiples for those kind of businesses, even though sometimes the tech is interesting, the reality is our tech is better than most people's tech and it's proven. And so we don't need to acquire tech. But that's actually a good thing for us as we began to deploy our MaaS Loyalty and Rewards ecosystem. And as we begin to think about how brands reached an engaged customer, a lot of what we're looking for is actually more Campaign oriented.
So a lot of these companies out there today have long standing relationships with large Fortune 500 brands, almost as a retainer. So their revenue kind of looks like SaaS, but it's more Campaign oriented. These ongoing marketing campaigns, ongoing advertising campaigns is ongoing. Even employee benefits and education campaigns. And so those are the kind of companies we're looking for right now where we can get something closer to kind of 1 - X revenue or a low multiple of EBITDA, because we're only looking for things that are profitable,
Matt Aune
that are accretive to what we're doing, but that can expand their reach of our blockchain enabled data exchange and Mobile Loyalty Ecosystem. And so think things around maybe on a low-end $7 to $8 million in top-line revenue, up to maybe $20 million in top-line revenue. But that we can acquire for a reasonable multiple. And there are a few, and especially it seems like in Canada, that love this that are trading OTC that are not trading near probably the multiple they would if they were under our umbrella or trading on NASDAQ. And so we're actively looking at both private and some public companies that would possibly be accretive to us.
Howard Halpern
Okay. That's helpful. Thanks, guys. And keep up the great work.
Operator
[Operator Instructions]. Your next question for today is coming from Darren of Toffee. Please announce your affiliation, then pose your question.
Unidentified Analyst
Hey, guys. This is Austin on for Darrin with Roth Capital Partners. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the quarter.
Matt Aune
Thank you.
Unidentified Analyst
Just have a have a couple for you guys. First, not asking for any specific guidance or anything like that, but just curious on how we should probably think about the general mix between the segments moving into the 2Q guidance, especially given the pre -significant sequential ramp and I'm just curious what your general thoughts are on that.
Matt Aune
Hey, Austin. This is Matt. Yeah, so you see a Q1 about two-thirds, one-third, like obviously Q4 was kind of a similar trajectory. So we'll see where we end up. We obviously have a lot of stuff in the pipeline, a lot of deals coming in but as Randall mentioned earlier, a lot of that is going to get recognized over longer periods of time. And so you're likely to see that mix closer to what it was in Q1 for probably the next couple of quarters.
As some of these bigger deals come in, we start to recognize that revenue. Ideally, in long run, we want to get that down. We'd rather have a 50/50 or something lower than that in terms of light versus platform revenue. But in the foreseeable future, we're probably going to see that over the next couple of quarters. And then as we get some of these bigger deals closed and delivered and start to recognize that revenue, you're going to see that mix slightly change over time.
Unidentified Analyst
Got it. No, that's very helpful. And then just the last one for me, I want to touch on the action labs partnership. I know it's still really early. I'm just curious what traction we've seen there. And I noticed that they'd probably playing some verticals that could possibly open up new doors for you guys. I'm just curious what your thoughts are on that.
Randall Crowder
Yeah, so Crowder and I can take that one. It's early days, so right now we're doing all the training for them. So they -- the way they organize their business around centers of excellence, they have them all over the world. And sometimes brand-based because they really function. Like we used to with Fox. A lot of your don't realize that Phunware was Fox's mobile arm. So we did -- if you downloaded a Fox mobile application, you have experienced Phunware software and all its greatness. And we were really just embedded with Fox. We were partners, we were founders of those products.
We worked in tandem with them. Axiom takes the exact same approach to their customers, so they'll embed teams with brands, especially the larger ones like RackSpace and Google, they work a lot with. And then sometimes they'll have centers of excellence around specific items healthcare or blockchain. But they've always focused on the back-end architecture, the platforms. How do you forklift a large company so that it's ready and it can be deployed through the cloud. And so large law firms or hospitals that are still running archaic platforms, they get them ready for the 21st century, which is great for us actually because the partnership works both ways.
Some of the really exciting opportunities we have will peel back the onion and they're actually not ready for the power of math and what we can deliver. So we've got to get their backend ready in order to deliver the mobile solutions we know we can deliver. And now Axiom can take on that aspect of the work. And so again, we just signed the partnership. We're doing all the training now. And so we've already gone to market, however, and so there's some things popping up in the pipeline and looking to close our first deal, hopefully in Q3.
Unidentified Analyst
Perfect, awesome. Well, I appreciate it, guys. Thank you.
Randall Crowder
Thank you much.
Alan Knitowski
Thanks, Austin
Operator
Your next question for today is coming from Lucas Ward. Please announce your affiliation then pose your question.
Lucas Ward
Hi. This is Lucas Ward in for Ed Woo at Ascendiant. Congratulations on a strong quarter, guys.
Alan Knitowski
Thanks, Lucas.
Lucas Ward
You seem to have a lot of momentum on the digital asset business. And so I just wanted to get a little more color on what is the road map for monetizing that and I was curious, kind of a related question -- how much is that actually contributing to the top-line today and where do we see that going? PhunCoin and token.
Alan Knitowski
We have a lot of things going on, so we always think about things in terms of the Phunware flywheel of sorts. So there's a lot of components to the ecosystem. We talk a lot about PhunToken. That's a digital asset that does drove to the P&L. So those results are aggregated in the platform revenues side, where you see that we've shown that more than 50% year-over-year on just the platform growth, kind of independent of all the circus of events going on in the world. But PhunToken was the first token that we wanted to get live.
As a reminder, that token is used to reward people for their engagement, their behavior, and their interactions with brands on that engagement. PhunCoin, which both I and Randall mentioned as well, that will go live on Securitize, which is an ATS trading for a security token, and as a reminder, PhunCoin is very specific to your personal digital identity and personal information that you choose to voluntarily share in return for benefit. We have the PhunWallet mobile applications on iOS and Android that get downloaded and then inside that PhunWallet is where you can house both your PhunToken and PhunCoin, either that you earn or that you purchase if you want to purchase.
On both of these are slightly different. Any of the PhunCoin sales, because it's the security token, all of those sales that will happen will show up as cash, Bitcoin, Ethereum on our balance sheet, but it has no relevance in terms of anything that flows through our financials in terms of the P&L as revenue. It's only the PhunToken sales that will appear within the platform section of our revenues. As we're going forward, we have one road up that is specific to the used cases and feature sets as we upgrade the IOS and Android applications for PhunWallet.
We also then two parallel roadmaps for what happens with the PhunToken and PhunCoin ecosystems that feed in, because those are two brand new markets that complement obviously our NASDAQ trading market as well. So as we go forward, you'll see us continue to include all of the PhunToken sales as both Randall and I mentioned, we're going to have an initial exchange offering for PhunToken on a Two -Two exchange that'll be coming up probably at the end of the month leading into June.
And then as we go forward, there will be a standalone road map that will allow us to get both domestic and international distribution with successive initial exchange offerings of PhunToken on those centralized exchanges. So internationally, that looks one way to mystically, ideally some of the larger ones if we got into Tier one land would be things like Coinbase and Gemini Unique to PhunCoin though, it will only trade exclusively on a worldwide basis as a security and only on Securitize on their ATS.
Lucas Ward
Alright. Thanks for clarifying that. I think that's all I have. Again, congratulations.
Alan Knitowski
Thank you very much.
Operator
There are no further questions in queue. I would like to turn the floor over to Alan for any closing remarks.
Alan Knitowski
Yes. As always we appreciate your interest in what we're doing. We appreciate all of the support. We are trying to be as communicative as possible. We're excited that the ugly part of the pandemic seems to largely be behind now we just need to see more of the corporations to the Randall's point will start getting back to their offices. When those intersect with our channels, clearly that's going to have an impact on when their sales teams start scaling that work. We're excited that we took advantage of the downturn to get stronger as a company. We're very excited by the products and solutions that we were able to launch.
We're very excited that this quarter represents the first quarter that we have two brand-new components of our business both in the blockchain and digital asset domain in addition to our direct-to-consumer high-performance computing, so it's great to see that we're finding ways to launch brand-new organic products. Were able to close an acquisition and start scaling it and as we go forward, we think that the best times are going to be ahead of ourselves. We're going to consistently keep growing.
We're excited that we were able to upwardly revise already our Q2 revenue guidance from up over 250% year-over-year to up over 275% year-over-year and the rest of this is going to be a lot of work. We're excited that over the next few weeks we have several financial conferences. We're going to be participating both remotely in the case of Needham and then in person in the case of H.C. Wainwright.
And while we keep introducing Phunware through these financial conferences and very active in our Investor Relations activity; in parallel, we're getting out on the road a lot more for our conferences, trade shows, and a lot of in-person customer and partner meetings that used to be very difficult to be able to accomplish on-site or in person. With that being said, we'll look forward to giving you updates through announcements over the coming 90-day period. And we'll very much look forward to reconvening in about 90 days to upwardly -- update everybody on Q2.
So with that, thank you very much for your support and any follow-up questions I know we're going to have with the institutional crowd will be handled through the financial conferences and some follow-up analyst meetings. And then both myself and Randall will separately set up some kind of ask-me-anything things for retail investors who we value immensely around the world and really appreciate their involvement with our company. And we want to give them an opportunity to be able to ask some Q&A just like here. So we'll have some guidance on that and we'll put that information out. So until next time, on behalf of Randall, Matt, myself, and the entire Phunware team, thank you very much and have a fantastic close to your week.
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KEENESBURG, Colo. (KDVR) — Inflation is impacting farmers across Colorado and America. As consumers navigate higher prices on goods, farmers are also feeling the pinch. Prices on fertilizer and diesel are driving factors shrinking profit margins in the agricultural industry.
On 3,000 acres near Keenesburg, farmer Marc Arnusch and his son, Brett Arnusch, a fourth-generation farmer, are grappling with higher prices.
“It’s really tough on us in agriculture right now,” Marc said.
Brett echoed that sentiment.
“This year is really hard,” Brett said.
The father-son duo runs a diverse operation that includes grains for craft beer and spirits as well as feed for livestock. They depend on diesel, fertilizer and crop protection products for a successful season.
“A lot of the situation with fertilizer prices and energy prices is coming from countries banning imports from Belarus as well as Russia,” said Chris Hughen, University of Denver finance professor.
Inflation forces farmers to put crops ‘on a diet’
Farmers in Colorado have seen dramatic increases.
“Year over year, we’re seeing about a 300% increase in fertilizer and about 150% increase in farm diesel fuel right now,” Marc told FOX31.
The higher costs impact profit margins, forcing farmers to do more with less.
“We’re basically going to put our crop on a diet this year,” Marc said. “We’re going to invest in the amount of fertilizer we can afford and hope for the best.”
That strategy is even more difficult amid current drought conditions.
“We have to look at a lot more data this year to really understand what our conditions are going to be,” Brett explained.
Inflation began impacting the Arnusch farm about six months ago, Marc said. Relief is needed.
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WASHINGTON – Taijuan Walker stood astride Juan Soto after tagging him out during a collision at third base that the Washington Nationals slugger felt was more violent than it needed to be.
Walker and the New York Mets are punishing the NL East.
Walker pitched seven innings of no-fuss, scoreless ball, and the Mets remained unbeaten in 10 series this season, cruising past the sloppy Nationals 4-1 on Thursday.
The burly right-hander tagged Soto at third after the Nationals' best hitter made an elementary baserunning gaffe, getting himself into a rundown after Josh Bell hit a grounder to the left side. Soto slid into Walker's forearm a few feet in front of the bag and argued for an obstruction call, but Walker already had the ball when Soto got there.
“It was unexpected. I got a little mad because it was a rundown and I didn't think he was going to slide into me,” Walker said. “Smart play, I guess, the guy was going to second, but in the moment I wasn't too happy about it.”
After tagging Soto, Walker threw wildly to second base, and right fielder Starling Marte threw back to third to nail Bell and end the Nationals' best chance to rally.
“Things like that, when we're behind like that, those are not good baserunning decisions,” Washington manager Dave Martinez said. “We need to make better decisions.”
Mark Canha went 3 for 4 with a homer and three RBIs for the first-place Mets, who took two of three from the last-place Nationals. New York has won nine series and split one, and hasn't lost two straight games in a month.
“We have a hitter of the day. We give the award out when we come in,” Canha said. “Today it was me, and then, what's cool about this team is, I feel like, I'm pretty sure all our hitters have won the award at some point this year. ... Someone always is the hero, and that's been the coolest part of this year.”
Walker (1-0) allowed three hits, walked one and threw 85 pitches in the longest of his four starts this season, which was interrupted by a stint on the injured list with right shoulder bursitis.
Seth Lugo struck out two in the eighth and Edwin Díaz allowed Soto’s two-out homer in the ninth before retiring Bell to complete the four-hitter.
Soto said he was at fault on the rundown play, which came after he opened the fourth inning with a double off the wall in right-center.
“I was just caught in the middle of nothing,” he said. “I tried to slide. I didn’t try to hurt him or anything like that. He’s got to give me room to at least slide on the base.”
The Mets only managed five hits, but they went ahead 2-0 in the first inning on Canha's bases-loaded single. New York took advantage of wild Nationals starter Joan Adon (1-6), who walked five of the first 10 batters he faced.
Tomás Nido added a run-scoring single with two outs in the fourth that chased Adon, who also hit J.D. Davis in the back with a fastball — the 24th time a Mets batter has been hit this season, which leads the majors.
“For what it's worth, he gave us 80-something pitches,” Martinez said of his rookie starter. “It could have been even uglier than that. It could have destroyed our bullpen for the weekend. But he battled as far as he could battle.”
Canha homered in the ninth off Steve Cishek.
ROSTER MOVE
Needing a long relief option, the Mets recalled right-hander Jake Reed from Triple-A Syracuse and optioned righty Stephen Nogosek, who threw three hitless innings Wednesday night.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Mets: C James McCann was held out of the lineup with a sore left wrist.
Nationals: SS Alcides Escobar missed a third straight game with infection under the nail on his left index finger. Martinez said the finger has been drained multiple times but Escobar is not expected to go on the injured list.
UP NEXT
Mets: Return home to face Seattle on Friday with Max Scherzer (4-1, 2.92 ERA) starting against the Mariners' Marco Gonzales (1-4, 3.91).
Nationals: Josiah Gray (4-2, 3.45) starts the opener of a weekend series against Houston.
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GREENWICH, Conn., May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AdminaHealth, a leading provider of premium billing solutions for the healthcare, insurance, and voluntary benefits marketplace, will be exhibiting and presenting the industry-recognized AdminaHealth Billing Suite™ at the BenefitsPRO Broker Expo taking place May 23 – 25. The multi-day Expo brings together the nation's top brokers, industry practitioners, and benefits experts, and highlights innovations in the sector.
Frank Bianchi, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer; Christian Morris, Director, Sales and Marketing; and Grace Brueckner, Technical Sales Executive will be demonstrating the advanced features of the AdminaHealth Billing Suite in an Automated Premium Billing – Simple as 1, 2, 3! presentation at 9:15 AM on Wednesday, May 24 on the Solutions Stage. The cloud-based digital solution offers brokers an automated platform to perform premium bill reconciliation and consolidation, and integrates with any enrollment, BenAdmin, or payroll platform.
The AdminaHealth Billing Suite platform enables a smooth transition from spreadsheet-based employee benefit premium bill reconciliation to a streamlined process where 80 percent of the effort is automated; only exceptions require manual intervention. Once reconciled, the AdminaHealth software generates a simplified bill containing all medical, insurance, and voluntary coverages.
"AdminaHealth is the first SaaS solution that offers a truly automated, vendor-agnostic platform," says Robert A. Bull, AdminaHealth CEO and Founding Member. "It is comprehensive, flexible, and enables easy invoice consolidation and premium reconciliation for both fully-insured and self-funded groups. Brokers can now offer unlimited medical, insurance, and voluntary benefit coverages with minimal administrative burden. AdminaHealth gives back time to generate revenue, increase customer retention, and delight clients."
"At the Expo, brokers and other participants can see the power of our SaaS platform for simplifying premium billing, accelerating revenue generation, and automating most functions," says Bianchi. "For brokers who need to modernize capabilities while competing for new business and renewals, the AdminaHealth platform differentiates them in the marketplace, and can be white labeled for brand consistency with a very low cost of entry."
All Expo attendees are invited to visit AdminaHealth at Booth #700 to learn more about how the AdminaHealth Billing Suite can help them compete in the new way of work. Attendees who would like to schedule a meeting during the conference can email the AdminaHealth team at info@AdminaHealth.com.
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EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) — A Palo Alto man drowned last week after falling out of a boat on Lake Tahoe.
According to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, on May 5 at around 9:20 a.m, authorities received the report that two men had fallen from their boat into the water near Meek’s Bay.
Deputies, the Coast Guard, and firefighters responded to the scene, where they discovered that one of the boaters was able to get out of the water on their own. The other boater, later identified as 58-year-old Theodore Fletcher of Palo Alto, could be seen at the bottom of the lake under approximately 15 feet of water.
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Eyoel, Han: It’s time to build a global pro-democracy movement
Democracy does not disappear by accident. Instead, all over the world, we are witnessing deliberate attempts by antidemocratic actors to weaken civil society, cripple the rule of law and activate social fragmentation.
From weaponizing fear to re-writing history to exploiting religion, today’s autocrats and their supporters leverage the same playbook. At the heart of that playbook is a multipronged attack on civil society. In 2021, among the 33 autocratizing countries, repression of civil society worsened in 22.
If a diminished civil society is the foundation of autocracy, a robust and inclusive civil society is the bedrock of democracy. Civil society serves as an intermediary between the state and the individual, composed of organizations such as schools and universities, nonprofit and advocacy groups, professional associations, churches and cultural institutions. Civil society is the connective tissue that holds any society together. It is no accident that anti-democratic actors start there.
Despite the centrality of civil society to the authoritarian playbook, efforts to strengthen democracy too often underinvest in civil society — even though it is our best line of defense.
Civil society organizations in both democracies and autocratic regimes are hamstrung by limited resources and lack of coordination. Even in the United States, with the world’s most sophisticated philanthropic culture, civil society organizations defending and strengthening democracy are grossly underfunded compared to organizations working on education, health or poverty alleviation.
For instance in 2020, U.S. philanthropists spent $71 billion on education whereas decade-long philanthropic funding of democracy organizations totaled about $14 billion. This pattern of overinvesting in issue areas and underinvesting in governance is also reflected in how the U.S. government has allocated its funding globally. For example, in Africa, the U.S. government spends 70 percent of its funds ($5.4 billion) on health initiatives and only 4 percent ($312.4 million) on democracy, human rights and governance.
Because civil society is inherently decentralized, sometimes it can be hard to know how to strategically invest in it. Investments in civil society may not seem as significant as sweeping institutional and policy reforms, such as H.R. 1 in the United States. Or, because civil life involves the messy work of bringing people together, efforts to strengthen it may seem unpredictable relative to individually targeted psychological interventions, such as traditional or social media ads to incentivize action.
It doesn’t have to be so. We can and must develop a strategic approach to shoring up and inoculating civil society against attempts to weaken it.
The first part of the solution to protect and strengthen democracy is to prioritize funding democracy issues and organizations. The second is to invest these resources strategically in civil society.
We propose two immediate priorities:
Build civic resilience:
In the U.S. and internationally, there is an overinvestment in short-term outcomes, in pursuit of a silver bullet electoral or policy win (the 2020 U.S elections cost a whopping $14 billion). While leadership and structural reforms are important to strengthening democracy, we also need civil society organizations that cultivate a shared commitment to democratic values and build resilience among individuals and communities to advance those values.
Funding for civil society organizations that are tirelessly building the culture of democracy and social cohesion through approaches such as civics education, community organizing, leadership development and facilitating deliberative dialogue for inclusive democracy should be prioritized alongside those working on structural reforms.
Facilitate transnational pro-democracy coordination:
As the Freedom House warns, “the global order is nearing a tipping point, and if democracy’s defenders do not work together to help guarantee freedom for all people, the authoritarian model will prevail.”
Today, pro-democracy organizations are siloed, lacking the level of transnational coordination and playbook sharing that their autocratic counterparts artfully orchestrate. We need to create forums such as the upcoming virtual Global Democracy Champions Summit to weave global networks and elevate the aspirations, leadership, and innovations of pro-democracy organizations, activists, academics, and philanthropists.
From journalists to think thanks to Ukrainian freedom fighters, there is outcry for resources and innovation to defend liberal democracy. In the same way, philanthropic institutions, governments, and multilateral institutions galvanized in response to COVID-19, this is the moment to rise in global solidarity for democracy.
Philanthropy, in particular, has a historic role to play by making bold investments in civil society organizations addressing both short-term crises as well as long-term civic infrastructure building efforts.
Yordanos Eyoel is the founder of Keseb and a visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Hahrie Han is the inaugural director of the institute and a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins. They wrote this for The Fulcrum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news platform covering efforts to fix our governing systems.
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Dolphins get two prime-time games plus Aaron Rodgers for Christmas as full 2022 schedule announced
The Miami Dolphins are getting their first Sunday Night Football Game since 2017 as one of two prime-time games on the 2022 schedule, plus Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to visit for Christmas for another nationally televised game, as their regular-season slate was announced on Thursday night.
Ex-coach Brian Flores’ return to Miami as a defensive assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Oct. 23 will be the nightcap of Week 7′s NFL action. Three weeks prior, the Dolphins’ trip to Cincinnati will be Week 4′s Thursday night affair on Sept. 29.
While there was speculation the Dolphins’ road game with the Detroit Lions could be a Thanksgiving game, they avoided that, but Miami will host the Packers on Christmas Day, when Rodgers plays in Miami for the first time in eight years.
The Dolphins will kick off the regular season against the New England Patriots on Sept. 11 at Hard Rock Stadium, and they also finish the season at home within the division, hosting the Jets.
Miami will not leave the country in 2022 after getting an international series game in London against the Jaguars last season, but the Dolphins, with two trips to the West Coast and several more up north, are slated to travel the fourth-most miles in the league. They could stay out west for the back-to-back December games at the San Francisco 49ers, which pits new coach Mike McDaniel against his former team, and the Los Angeles Chargers.
After getting annual trips to New England and Buffalo out of the way by Halloween last season, those two potentially frigid road games will take place in the final four weeks.
The Dolphins’ three preseason games were also announced, and Miami will not leave the state of Florida with the only road game at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and home games to follow against the Las Vegas Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles.
Here’s a breakdown of the Dolphins’ 2022 regular-season schedule:
Week 1: vs. New England Patriots, Sept. 11, 1 p.m., CBS
Last season, the Dolphins opened at the Patriots and had their finale at home against New England, sweeping both matchups. They open again with the Patriots for a third consecutive year, but this time at Hard Rock Stadium. Tua Tagovailoa is 2-0 against his former backup quarterback at Alabama in Mac Jones and 3-0 overall against coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots in his career after also winning a rookie-year matchup in 2020. This matchup no longer has the added intrigue of Brian Flores going against the team he spent a decade and a half with under Belichick, but now longtime Dolphins receiver DeVante Parker is in New England.
Week 2: at Baltimore Ravens, Sept. 18, 1 p.m., CBS
The Dolphins, who have never won at M&T Bank Stadium, visit Baltimore to begin the road slate after hosting the Ravens last season for one of the more surprising wins of the 2021 season. Miami had a 22-10 Thursday night win at Hard Rock Stadium as a double-digit underdog. Extra local interest always comes from this matchup with Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson a Pompano Beach native and Boynton Beach High grad.
Week 3: vs. Buffalo Bills, Sept. 25, 1 p.m., CBS
The Dolphins look to snap a seven-game losing streak in the rivalry series against the team that is the new king in the AFC East. Last season’s sweep at the hands of Buffalo started and ended Miami’s in-season seven-game losing streak that got the Dolphins to 1-7 before turning things around for wins in eight of their last nine.
Week 4: at Cincinnati Bengals, Thursday, Sept. 29, 8:15 p.m., Prime Video
The Dolphins get their first of two prime-time kickoffs, visiting the defending AFC champs and quarterback Joe Burrow, who has reached immense heights after going to the Bengals with the No. 1 pick in the 2020 draft. The Thursday nighter marks Miami’s first trip to Cincinnati since a 2018 loss.
Week 5: at New York Jets, Oct. 9, 1 p.m., CBS
Like the Patriots, another divisional foe the Dolphins swept in 2021. Miami has won four straight and eight of their last nine in the series against the Jets. This matchup is another showdown of young quarterbacks with New York’s Zach Wilson heading into his second season. The Jets rebuilt through the draft, much like the Dolphins did the year prior, with four of the first 36 picks in late April.
Week 6: vs. Minnesota Vikings, Oct. 16, 1 p.m., FOX
The last time the Dolphins won the Super Bowl, it came against the Vikings, to conclude the 1973 season. That’s ancient history at this point, but so is Minnesota’s last win in Miami, which came in 1976 as the Dolphins have won their last four meetings at home. Former Miami Central High and Florida State standout Dalvin Cook is set for a homecoming here.
Week 7: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, Oct. 23, 8:20 p.m., NBC
Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores, now a defensive assistant on Steelers coach Mike Tomlin’s staff, makes his return to Miami for a Sunday Night Football storyline. Flores was head coach of the Dolphins for three seasons, going 24-25. He filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL and a number of teams claiming racist hiring and retention practices against Black coaches. He alleged in the lawsuit that Dolphins owner Steve Ross offered him financial incentive to tank and lose games in 2019, which Ross has vehemently denied.
Week 8: at Detroit Lions, Oct. 30, 1 p.m., CBS
It was believed this could be a Thanksgiving Day game, but the Dolphins dodged a Turkey Day trip to Detroit instead got one on the eve of Halloween. Miami last had a Thanksgiving game in 2011, a loss to the Dallas Cowboys. The Dolphins are 7-5 all time against the Lions.
Week 9: at Chicago Bears, Nov. 6, 1 p.m., CBS
Whenever these two teams play, one has to think back to the historic 1985 Monday Night Football matchup where the Dolphins handed that year’s Super Bowl-winning Bears their one loss, defending the franchise’s 1972 reign of having the lone undefeated team. The Dolphins visited the Bears for joint practices and a preseason game in Chicago last August, but the two teams now have new head coaches.
Week 10: vs. Cleveland Browns, Nov. 13, 1 p.m., CBS
Deshaun Watson is coming to Miami — but not like that. The former Houston Texans quarterback was linked to the Dolphins in trade talks for much of the 2021 offseason and regular season up until last November’s trade deadline, but the Browns ultimately made the move for him this offseason. Watson could also still face suspension stemming from the 22 civil lawsuits against him with claims ranging from sexual misconduct to sexual assault that he will not be charged criminally for.
Week 11: BYE WEEK, Nov. 20
Week 12: vs. Houston Texans, Nov. 27, 1 p.m., CBS
Miami has historically struggled against the NFL’s last expansion franchise since it entered the league in 2002. The Dolphins lost their first seven meetings with the Texans but have since won two of three. They host Houston for a second consecutive season after last year’s 17-9 Nov. 7 win snapped a seven-game losing streak and began a seven-game winning streak.
Week 13: at San Francisco 49ers, Dec. 4, 4:05 p.m., FOX
New Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel returns to San Francisco to face the franchise he called home for the past five seasons under 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, with the last coming as offensive coordinator. This is the extra matchup under the NFL’s 17-game schedule instituted last season, like the home game against the New York Giants was last season.
Week 14: at Los Angeles Chargers, Dec. 11, 4:05 p.m., CBS
The second meeting between quarterbacks from the 2020 draft in Tua Tagovailoa, whom the Dolphins selected with the No. 5 pick, and Justin Herbert, whom the Dolphins passed on to draft Tagovailoa. Herbert has the 2020 Rookie of the Year and a 2021 Pro Bowl selection to his advantage, but Tagovailoa won their first meeting, at home in their rookie seasons. Miami gets its two West Coast trips on back-to-back Sundays.
Week 15: at Buffalo Bills, Dec. 17 or 18, Time/TV TBD
The Dolphins’ last win in Buffalo came on Christmas Eve in 2016, a key victory in Miami’s last playoff berth.
Week 16: vs. Green Bay Packers, Dec. 25, 1 p.m., FOX
Last year’s top seed in the NFC visits Hard Rock Stadium on Christmas in 2022. The Dolphins won their first eight all-time meetings against the Packers, but Green Bay has since taken five of the last seven. Could this visit for Aaron Rodgers, who is 2-1 in his career against Miami, potentially play a role in a 2023 offseason decision for him should Tua Tagovailoa struggle this year, leading the Dolphins to shop for a new quarterback?
Week 17: at New England Patriots, Jan. 1, 1 p.m., CBS
After bookend games against the Patriots in the 2021 season, the Dolphins’ penultimate game this season will be at New England after opening at home with the division rival. Last year, the Dolphins got just their second win in Foxborough since 2008 on that trip. They could be in for a cold one on New Year’s Day.
Week 18: vs. New York Jets, Jan. 7 or 8, Time/TV TBD
This time, the Dolphins wrap up the season with a home finale against the Jets. Could they make this one meaningful for playoff implications after, last season, getting eliminated in Week 17?
The Dolphins’ preseason schedule:
Week 1: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sat., Aug. 13, 7:30 p.m., CBS
Week 2: vs. Las Vegas Raiders, Sat., Aug. 20, 7 p.m., CBS
Week 3: vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Sat., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., CBS
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Ravens 2022 schedule: Ranking the 17 games from hardest (Buccaneers) to easiest (Panthers)
The Ravens pride themselves on their winning culture and on-field success, but sometimes losing has its benefits, too.
After an 8-9 season that ended short of the playoffs, the Ravens entered last month’s NFL draft with the No. 14 overall pick. (Hello, Kyle Hamilton.) And after finishing last in the AFC North for the first time under coach John Harbaugh, the Ravens also got a relatively manageable schedule Thursday, with just five opponents who made the playoffs last season and five last-place finishers. (Hello, Jacksonville Jaguars.)
There are still hurdles to clear inside and outside the division, however, including a handful of Super Bowl contenders. Four months from the Ravens’ season opener, here’s how their schedule measures up, with opponents ordered from most to least difficult.
1. Week 8 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Remember when quarterback Tom Brady was retired and Bruce Arians was still head coach? Every opponent on the Buccaneers’ schedule would’ve preferred that arrangement in 2022. Despite a string of injuries last season, Tampa Bay lost just one game at home and entered the playoffs with a share of the NFL’s best record. Tight end Rob Gronkowski’s future in football is still uncertain, but the ageless Brady led the league in passing yards last season and will have seven Pro Bowl teammates returning. It’s an ideal setup for defensive coordinator turned coach Todd Bowles, and the Ravens have a short week to prepare for their “Thursday Night Football” road trip.
2. Week 18 at Cincinnati Bengals
It can’t end up any worse than the team’s last trip to Paul Brown Stadium, right? With the Ravens’ roster ravaged by injuries and the coronavirus — most notably at quarterback, where Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley were unavailable — the team was outgained 575-334 in a day-after-Christmas loss to the Bengals, 41-21. The Ravens’ rebuilt secondary has considerable room for improvement after last year’s two blowout defeats, in which quarterback Joe Burrow set an NFL record for the most passing yards against one team in a single season (941). With this game falling in the final week of the regular season, the stakes for this matchup could be significant — a playoff berth, perhaps? Given the early expectations for both teams, it’ll probably mean something.
3. Week 4 vs. Buffalo Bills
The Bills might be the NFL’s most talented team. They’re ranked third here only because the Ravens get them in Baltimore for the first time since 2018. That Buffalo offense started Nathan Peterman over Josh Allen at quarterback and leaned on Zay Jones at wide receiver. This team has Allen, ascendant after a blistering postseason, along with wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Gabriel Davis and rookie running back James Cook. The Bills are spoiled with offensive talent, and their defense still might be the better unit. Buffalo had the NFL’s top pass defense last season, according to Football Outsiders, and now it can pair star Tre’Davious White with first-round pick Kaiir Elam at cornerback.
4. Week 5 vs. Cincinnati Bengals
The Ravens will get their first crack at the Bengals this season in Baltimore, and line play could be decisive. Cincinnati left M&T Bank Stadium last October with a decisive 41-17 win and a clear victory in the trenches. Bengals running backs rushed for 111 yards (4.6 per carry) and two touchdowns, dominating late, and Burrow was sacked just once. Ravens running backs, meanwhile, combined for just 29 yards on 11 carries, and Jackson was sacked five times. Both teams upgraded their offensive lines this season, but who’ll win out on the field?
5. Week 13 vs. Denver Broncos
The Ravens held Broncos quarterbacks Drew Lock and Teddy Bridgewater to a combined 148 passing yards in a 23-7 win in Denver last season. After the Broncos’ trade for quarterback Russell Wilson this offseason, it’s hard to imagine another defensive throttling in Baltimore. Denver is a potential Super Bowl contender, and it has the talent to return Wilson to NFL Most Valuable Player contention, with five talented receivers (wideouts Courtland Sutton, Tim Patrick, Jerry Jeudy and K.J. Hamler and tight end Albert Okwuegbunam) and an elite running back duo (Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon III). If new coach Nathaniel Hackett can help turn around the defense, the Broncos won’t remain an AFC West pushover.
6. Week 3 at New England Patriots
The Ravens’ second trip to Gillette Stadium in three years will mark their first game against homegrown outside linebacker Matthew Judon — and Pro Bowl quarterback Mac Jones. The Patriots have beefed up their skill position talent since their rain-soaked 2020 victory over the Ravens, adding tight ends Hunter Henry and Jonnu Smith and wide receivers Kendrick Bourne and DeVante Parker. But their usually buttoned-up defense will be without top cornerbacks J.C. Jackson and Stephon Gilmore. Coach Bill Belichick is 7-4 all time against John Harbaugh as New England’s coach.
7. Week 15 at Cleveland Browns
This won’t be the Ravens’ first game against the Browns this season, but considering it’s in Cleveland, as well as the relative likelihood that quarterback Deshaun Watson will be available to play, it projects as the tougher matchup. The Browns’ defense should be good enough to keep them in games, with defensive end Myles Garrett getting after quarterbacks, weak-side linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah chasing down ball carriers and cornerback Denzel Ward shadowing top receivers. But if Watson’s legal situation — he still faces 22 active lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault and sexual harassment — keeps him off the field, Cleveland’s offense will be pretty one-dimensional.
8. Week 14 at Pittsburgh Steelers
The Ravens won’t face the Ben Roethlisberger-less Steelers until December, by which point Pittsburgh will have probably figured out its quarterback situation. Will coach Mike Tomlin go with Mitchell Trubisky, the former No. 2 overall pick who threw just eight passes for the Bills last season? Or Kenny Pickett, the first-round pick from Pittsburgh? Or even Mason Rudolph, who’s started 10 games over four seasons in Pittsburgh? Whomever the Ravens face, they’ll need more from Jackson. He’s 2-3 against the Steelers in his career, with a 67.4 passer rating and just 4.6 yards per carry.
9. Week 9 at New Orleans Saints
The Saints’ win-now approach has dramatic consequences: traded-away draft picks, salary cap nightmares, many millions of dollars spent on quarterback Taysom Hill. New Orleans’ loss became the Ravens’ gain this offseason, when they signed safety Marcus Williams to a five-year, $70 million deal. In a “Monday Night Football” matchup, he’s set to take on former teammate Jameis Winston, who was one of the NFL’s better quarterbacks last season before suffering a season-ending knee injury on Halloween. The Saints should again have one of the NFL’s tougher defenses, but how much do wide receiver Michael Thomas and running back Alvin Kamara have left to give?
10. Week 2 vs. Miami Dolphins
The Dolphins blitzed Jackson and the Ravens into oblivion in their Week 10 upset last season, winning by double digits even with a banged-up Tua Tagovailoa coming off the bench in emergency quarterback duty. The Ravens will face a far more talented Miami team in September, beefed up with the additions of All-Pro wide receiver Tyreek Hill, Pro Bowl offensive tackle Terron Armstead and standout defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah. New coach Mike McDaniel’s creativity should enliven the offense, but Tagovailoa’s range as a passer can’t be Roethlisberger-esque.
11. Week 7 vs. Cleveland Browns
Yahoo Sports reported in March that some NFL teams believed Watson was likely to face a six-game suspension under the league’s personal-conduct policy. If that’s the case, he probably couldn’t find a less welcoming environment for his Browns debut. The last time the rivals met, Ravens fans watched Jackson carted off the field in Cleveland with what became a season-ending ankle injury. If the Ravens lose to the Bengals in Week 5, they can’t afford to drop another home game in the AFC North here.
12. Week 17 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
The Steelers’ unlikely postseason appearance last year helped cover up some real shortcomings on both sides of the ball. On offense, Pittsburgh has impressive young talent at running back (Najee Harris), wide receiver (Chase Claypool, Diontae Johnson and George Pickens) and tight end (Pat Freiermuth), but the team’s offensive line was among the NFL’s worst groups. And defensive end Cameron Heyward, outside linebacker T.J. Watt and safety Minkah Fitzpatrick can’t be counted on to fix every hole in an inconsistent defense. This late-season matchup, once again, could prove pivotal in the playoff race.
13. Week 1 at New York Jets
Former Ravens scout Joe Douglas has built a talented, young nucleus as the Jets’ general manager, especially on offense. Recent first- and second-round picks are projected to start at wide receiver (Elijah Moore, Garrett Wilson), running back (Breece Hall), offensive tackle (Mekhi Becton), guard (Alijah Vera-Tucker), defensive tackle (Quinnen Williams) and cornerback (Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner). But the Jets won’t level up if last year’s No. 2 overall pick, Zach Wilson, doesn’t develop into even an average quarterback. He went 3-10 as a starter last season, and breaking out in the season opener seems unlikely.
14. Week 6 at New York Giants
It’s never a good sign when a team with almost no playoff hopes has to release one of its more talented players (cornerback James Bradberry) in May because of salary cap constraints. Or when that same team puts a first-round pick (wide receiver Kadarius Toney) on the trading block after only a year in town. There’s a lot of difficult work ahead for new coach Brian Daboll. Maybe most important: finding out whether quarterback Daniel Jones and running back Saquon Barkley have a future with the team. Former Ravens defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale has good talent up front, but not the overall depth he’s used to.
15. Week 16 vs. Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons finished last season with the NFL’s fifth-worst offense and third-worst defense, according to Football Outsiders. That somehow was enough for seven wins. With Matt Ryan shipped off to Indianapolis this offseason and a youth movement underway, Atlanta and new coach Arthur Smith need a can’t-miss quarterback prospect more than they need another season of treading water. A promising draft brought more talented pieces (wide receiver Drake London and outside linebacker Arnold Ebiketie) to the team’s foundation, but Marcus Mariota’s still QB1.
16. Week 12 at Jacksonville Jaguars
Even if quarterback Trevor Lawrence makes the Peyton Manning-esque Year 2 leap that the Jaguars need, there are still a lot of holes here. Wide receiver Christian Kirk is good, but not $18 million-a-year good. Defensive lineman Travon Walker is talented, but talented enough to take No. 1 overall? New coach Doug Pederson will need at least a year to air out the stench of the Urban Meyer era. He might need at least two to get the team moved out of the AFC’s basement.
17. Week 11 vs. Carolina Panthers
The Panthers have playmakers at every level of their defense (defensive end Brian Burns, weak-side linebacker Shaq Thompson and safety Jeremy Chinn); a bona fide No. 1 wide receiver (D.J. Moore); and, when healthy, maybe the NFL’s best running back (Christian McCaffrey). They also have one of the NFL’s worst starting quarterbacks and offensive lines. Sam Darnold finished 29th in the league in QBR last year, and top pick Ikem Ekwonu can provide only so much cover up front.
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Giants full 2022 schedule with predictions from Daily News’ Pat Leonard
The Giants have one of the NFL’s softest schedules on paper in 2022, with the AFC South, NFC North and NFC East on their slate.
But their roster is in rebuilding mode, reflected by just one prime time game on their entire schedule. And the division rival Cowboys, Eagles and Washington have similarly easy roads.
So how will it shake out in year one of the Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll Era? The Daily News made predictions for the full 17-game schedule released on Thursday.
All start times are Eastern Standard. All games are on Sundays unless otherwise denoted.
Week 1: at Tennessee Titans
Sept. 11, 4:25 p.m., FOX
Drawing last year’s top AFC seed and Derrick Henry is a harsh welcome to the new season, even with former top Titans wideout A.J. Brown traded to Philadelphia.
Prediction: Titans 24, Giants 13
Record: 0-1
Week 2: vs. Carolina Panthers
Sept. 18, 1 p.m., FOX
Former Giants coach Ben McAdoo is running the Panthers’ offense with Sam Darnold now. If McAdoo walks into MetLife Stadium with his hair gelled that day, look out.
Prediction: Panthers 27, Giants 24
Record: 0-2
Week 3: vs. Dallas Cowboys
Sept. 26, 8:15 p.m., ESPN/ABC, (Monday Night Football)
Go look up Dak Prescott’s career numbers against the Giants. On second thought, don’t.
Prediction: Cowboys 23, Giants 10
Record: 0-3
Week 4: vs. Chicago Bears
Oct. 2, 1 p.m., FOX
Bears GM Ryan Poles nearly got the Giants gig that Schoen landed. He’s trying to figure out his quarterback in Justin Fields similar to how Schoen is with Daniel Jones.
Prediction: Giants 20, Bears 17
Record: 1-3
Week 5: at Green Bay Packers (in London)
Oct. 9, 9:30 a.m., NFLN
Daboll has to fly his team all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to take a beating from four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers.
Prediction: Packers 27, Giants 12
Record: 1-4
Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens
Oct. 16, 1 p.m., CBS
Giants defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale will want revenge against John Harbaugh for firing him at the end of last season. Unfortunately, Lamar Jackson won’t cooperate.
Prediction: Ravens 34, Giants 23
Record: 1-5
Week 7: at Jacksonville Jaguars
Oct. 23, 1 p.m., FOX
Trevor Lawrence minus Urban Meyer plus Doug Pederson. This isn’t the easy game it looks like.
Prediction: Jaguars 24, Giants 21
Record: 1-6
Week 8: at Seattle Seahawks
Oct. 30, 4:25 p.m., FOX
The Giants would beat Drew Lock or Geno Smith. But if the Seahawks trade for Baker Mayfield? This gets interesting.
Prediction: Seahawks 16, Giants 9
Record: 1-7
Week 9: Bye week
Week 10: vs. Houston Texans
Nov. 13, 1 p.m., CBS
Desperation and a rebuilding opponent spells some post-bye relief for Daboll’s squad.
Prediction: Giants 27, Texans 20
Record: 2-7
Week 11: vs. Detroit Lions
Nov. 20, 1 p.m., FOX
Having to stop a healthy Jameson Williams, Amon-Ra St. Brown, T.J. Hockenson and D’Andre Swift is a scary thought for this Giants secondary.
Prediction: Lions 31, Giants 24
Record: 2-8
Week 12: at Dallas Cowboys (Thanksgiving Day)
Thursday, Nov. 24, 4:30 p.m., FOX
Zeke eats.
Prediction: Cowboys 20, Giants 16
Record: 2-9
Week 13: vs. Washington Commanders
Dec. 4, 1 p.m. FOX
With Ron Rivera coaching for his job and Carson Wentz on the rebound, Washington is no longer the Giants’ annual pushover.
Prediction: Commanders 26, Giants 17
Record: 2-10
Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Dec. 11, 1 p.m., FOX
A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith are yet another receiving duo that the Giants’ secondary will have trouble containing for four quarters.
Prediction: Eagles 27, Giants 13
Record: 2-11
Week 15: at Washington Commanders
Dec. 17 or 18, TBD
It’s about pride at this point. The Giants steal back last season’s Week 2 debacle in Landover.
Prediction: Giants 19, Washington 17
Record: 3-11
Week 16: at Minnesota Vikings (Christmas Eve)
Saturday, Dec. 24, 1 p.m., FOX
Deafening road stadium against one of the NFL’s top receiving tandems in Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen. Not ideal.
Prediction: Vikings 37, Giants 19
Record: 3-12
Week 17: vs. Indianapolis Colts
Jan. 1, 1 p.m., CBS
Jim Irsay expects his new Matt Ryan-led Colts to make the playoffs this season. They’ll be in postseason mode here, with a lot on the line for Frank Reich.
Prediction: Colts 22, Giants 21
Record: 3-13
Week 18: at Philadelphia Eagles
Jan. 7 or 8, TBD
Nick Sirianni’s team clinches the NFC East division title at Lincoln Financial Field.
Prediction: Eagles 26, Giants 23
Record: 3-14
Final record: 3-14
At least Schoen gets a high draft pick in 2023.
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Temperatures in the 80s, thunderstorms, winds 35 to 45 mph forecast this week for Green Bay, Appleton, Manitowoc
GREEN BAY - With warmer temperatures coming, much of northern and central Wisconsin will get a taste of summer this week after a cold April.
"We're going to be above normal for a change for the bulk of the entire week," said Tasos Kallas, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Green Bay.
High temperatures will range in the high 60s to low 80s through Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Kallas said the Fox Cities, Green Bay and the lakeshore have less of a chance that the storms would turn severe.
The National Weather Service also issued a warning for strong wind gusts across much of the state, with wind gusts peaking from 35-45 miles per hour Monday afternoon. The wind is expected to slow down after Monday, according to Kallas.
A small craft advisory is also active for Green Bay until 7 a.m. Tuesday and for Lake Michigan until Tuesday evening.
Higher temps, risk of thunderstorms into the weekend
Severe weather is likely to continue through the weekend.
"We're going into an unsettled pattern where you'd have storms pop up any day this week, starting with this evening," Kallas said. However, he said it was too early to tell how severe thunderstorms might get later this week.
Going into Thursday and Friday, large parts of Wisconsin will experience highs in the mid- to upper 80s, according to the National Weather Service.
Kallas noted that these temperatures aren't rare for early May and aren't set to break any records.
He added residents would feel a typical Wisconsin summer in other ways. "Down in the Fox Valley ... we're going to have humidity levels, sort of a dew point break at 60 degrees, which is usually what the threshold is to feel the humidity outside," he said.
However, he said that high temperatures would return to the 50s and 60s later in the weekend and that the weather would be cooler by the lake.
Meanwhile, much of the state is under a very high fire danger , according to the state Department of Natural Resources, this includes most of the counties north of a line from Sauk to Ozaukee counties.
Contact Rebecca Loroff at 920-907-7801 or rloroff@gannett.com.
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LONDON (AP) — The name “FIFA” can bring to mind images of the World Cup and soccer’s greatest players, like Pele, Zinedine Zidane or Lionel Messi. The acronym for the sport’s governing body may also remind some of shameless bribery and corruption.
For many, though, it’s the video game that is synonymous with FIFA.
For three decades, the Switzerland-based soccer body has enjoyed a flourishing, mutually beneficial relationship with EA Sports. The annual edition of the video game, alongside related products, has raked in billions of dollars and has proven to be so lucrative that FIFA thinks it can be making even more on its own.
FIFA severed the licensing deal partnership with Electronic Arts Inc. on Tuesday, making FIFA23 the last new EA game with the involvement of both sides.
They are now becoming opponents.
EA will continue to make soccer games with best players and biggest teams, they will just be stripped of the FIFA brand and instead called EA Sports FC.
Confusingly, perhaps, FIFA24 should also be on the shelves next year because the soccer body is determined to go ahead with its own launch.
EA has already begun to highlight its advantages over the FIFA game, given it has the rights to show 19,000 players from more than 700 teams in more than 30 leagues playing in 100 stadiums. Manchester United, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain will still be there, along with their best players.
“That is the only place that you can have an authentic, famous and fully representative football experience,” David Jackson, vice president of brand for EA SPORTS FIFA, told The Associated Press. “I do think that there is an element of potential confusion in the marketplace.”
The hyperbole from FIFA is already trying to undercut EA’s marketing by claiming it is in talks with multiple rival gaming companies and has plans to enter the metaverse.
“I can assure you,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said, “that the only authentic, real game that has the FIFA name will be the best one available for gamers and football fans.”
How that will be achieved is far from clear, although FIFA does hold the rights to the biggest soccer show on earth. The World Cup will disappear from the EA game.
“The FIFA name is the only global, original title,” Infantino said. “FIFA 23, FIFA 24, FIFA 25 and FIFA 26, and so on — the constant is the FIFA name and it will remain forever and remain the best.”
That kind of bombastic talk puts pressure on FIFA to deliver on Infantino’s vision for a game that usurps the EA franchise despite not having the rights to feature leagues such as the Premier League — and the teams that play in them.
“New entrants would face a steep licensing curve to compete with EA,” said Andrew Marok, an analyst covering the digital media sector at investment bank Raymond James.
Soccer gaming is big business for EA. The annual report issued this week showed revenue of $6.19 billion.
“We’ve just had our biggest year — ever — for EA SPORTS FIFA games,” EA Sports CEO Andrew Wilson told investors on Wednesday, a day after it was announced the FIFA deal would cease at the end of the year.
A huge part of the revenue comes from the Ultimate Team mode, where customers buy extra content in EA sports games. That generated $1.623 billion in 2021.
“We have historically derived a significant portion of our net revenue from sales related to our largest and most popular game, FIFA, annualized versions of which are consistently one of the best-selling games in the marketplace,” EA told investors.
Brand loyalty will be key starting next year. Will gamers stay with EA’s rebranded product or jump to the rival being launched by FIFA?
It’s already a competitive market with eFootball, the former Pro Evolution Soccer game produced by Japanese firm Konami. That game has a partnership with Manchester United, though the record 20-time English champions will still feature in EA’s game through a Premier League agreement.
EA has already warned its investors of the risks to its soccer gaming business from rivals.
“Any events or circumstances that negatively impact our FIFA franchise, such as product or service quality, other products that take a portion of consumer spending and time, the delay or cancellation of a product or service launch, increased competition for key licenses, or real or perceived security risks, could negatively impact our financial results to a disproportionate extent,” EA said in its annual report.
EA should get an edge over FIFA by retaining its 300 license partners, 30 leagues and federations, 700 teams and 19,000 athletes, JPMorgan analyst David Karnovsky said in a client note.
“While it’s difficult to think there won’t be at least some impact from the brand shift to sales, the $150 million available from the absence of a license fee to FIFA provides ample room for marketing to drive awareness around EA Sports FC,” Karnovsky wrote.
Untangling itself from the world of soccer politics has its benefits for EA. Tensions between regional confederations have led to European body UEFA and South American counterpart CONMEBOL circumventing FIFA to launch their own meeting of champions. The debut of the Finalissima will see Italy and Argentina meet at Wembley Stadium in London on June 1. It would seem incongruous for EA to promote its FIFA game at the match.
“What name would we put on a perimeter board in a UEFA-CONMEBOL event? It’s really tough for us to put FIFA on there,” said Jackson, EA’s vice president of brand. “What has previously been a springboard for our brand, and an accelerant to it many years ago, has just become less valuable to us over time.”
EA might just have saved the FIFA brand as well. The fond association with the video game by so many fans has balanced against the toxicity of Sepp Blatter-era organization after the opening of sprawling criminal investigations into soccer corruption in 2015.
“If you ask a young football fan what FIFA is, they’re more likely to say a video game than they are the global governing body, but that value lives with us, I believe,” Jackson said. “We are the predominant voice in the world of football from an interactive entertainment perspective, and we don’t see a world where that changes.”
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Associated Press writer Michelle Chapman in New York contributed to this report.
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Arnaud Démare has won the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia. The Frenchman of Groupama-FDJ, yesterday also the best in stage five and therefore wearing the purple points jersey, was slightly faster than the Australian Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) in a millimeter sprint. Cees Bol (Team DSM) nearly fell due to a strange maneuver by Colombian Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates).
Classification leader Juan Pedro López (Trek-Segafredo) finished in the peloton and remains in possession of the pink jersey. The Spaniard took over the lead on Tuesday from Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix). The Dutchman did not sprint in stage six.
Few riders felt like setting up an early break on their way from Palmi to Scalea. In the end it was the Italian Diego Rosa (EOLO-Kometa) who started a solo tour. Rosa took a maximum lead of about four minutes, but no one doubted: a bunch sprint would come after 192 kilometers along the coast in Calabria.
That screenplay also came true. Rosa was caught at 28 kilometers from the finish, after which the preparation for the bunch sprint could begin. Despite the long preparation, it turned out to be a chaotic sprint. Gaviria nearly knocked down Bol and a DSM teammate due to an unexpected move. The trio barely managed to get up, but were clearly not happy with the incident.
Cavendish was the first to start the sprint, but the finish was a bit too far for the Briton, winner of the first bunch sprint on Sunday. Ewan and Démare went on and on. At the finish, the difference between victory and second place was extremely small: after a photo finish, Démare turned out to be just faster than Ewan and the 30-year-old Frenchman recorded his second stage win in a row in the Tour of Italy. He also remains the leader in the points classification.
In the general classification, López has a lead of 38 seconds on the German Lennard Kämna (Bora-hansgrohe), who took one second bonus on the way. Wilco Kelderman, teammate of Kämna, is the best Dutchman in sixth place. He is 1’51 behind leader López.
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LEGO Ferrari Build and Race attraction now open at LEGOLAND California
CARLSBAD, Calif. - A life-size LEGO Ferrari F40 should provide young builders plenty of inspiration to build their own car to race on several tracks or even digitally.
The LEGO Ferrari Build and Race attraction is now open exclusively at LEGOLAND California and it is included in the price of admission to the park.
Guests can enjoy three zones to this attraction that takes them from the "garage" to the "racetrack."
The Ferrari F40 model used over 358,000 LEGO pieces and weighs more than 3,000 pounds.
After snapping some photos with the racecar and learning about the successful history of Ferrari racing, guests move into the build zone.
After constructing a car, you can race it on three different tracks featuring various obstacles.
The third zone features digital racing.
Cars can be scanned and customized and then raced digitally against others on a LEGO racetrack based on Pista de Fiorano, designed after the track Ferrari uses to test their cars.
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New principal at Riverside Middle excited to return where her career began 16 years ago
Taking the principal position at Riverside Middle School is a sort of homecoming for Jennifer Roach.
Roach's first education job was student teaching at the school 16 years ago.
"Its always just had a special place in my heart," she said. "It's a small middle school and I just love the family feel that it has."
After a career of teaching and administration work, most recently as assistant principal of 7th grade at Gettys Middle School, Roach said she is ready to bring her love for 7th and 8th grade to Riverside Middle.
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Roach had a hard time socially when she was in 7th grade and after working on her master's degree, she knew that she wanted to be involved with that age group her entire career.
"I really just fell in love with that age group and just trying to be supportive of kids when sometimes I feel like they're lost in the middle," she said.
With a heavy focus on high school and elementary, those in-between years can be overlooked, she said, which makes her want to focus on them that much more.
She's taking the place of principal Jeff Boozer, who will be the director of student services for the district, said Dee Christopher, the district's superintendent.
Caring for the students is at the top of Roach'spriority list while challenging them to reach new academic successes. She plans on bringing three goals to her position:
- Positive student-teacher relationships
- Student engagement
- High expectations for all students
With the turnover of staff the education world has seen the last several years, Roach said she won't give up.
"I think that if you have a supportive team and if you work as a team in your school, that there can still be a lot of joy in teaching," she said.
Roach has two kids in college and enjoys traveling with her husband and playing volleyball when she's not working.
Her dissertation for her PHD is being published into a professional development book and Roach's education background includes:
- BA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University
- Master of Arts in Teaching from Clemson University
- Education Specialist degree from Arkansas State
- PHD in professional leadership from Converse
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Oil Extends Gains as Investors Weigh Russian Ban, China Outlook
(Bloomberg) -- Oil advanced for a third day after another tumultuous week of trading as investors weigh the prospect of a European Union ban on Russian crude imports and uncertainty over China’s virus resurgence.
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West Texas Intermediate futures rose to trade near $107 a barrel, but are still heading for the first weekly decline in three. Some EU nations said the bloc may have to consider delaying the ban on Russian oil if it can’t get Hungary to agree on the embargo. Beijing authorities have denied rumors that the capital will go into lockdown, as restrictions in Shanghai drag on.
Oil is up more than 40% this year as economies rebound from the pandemic, although China’s outbreak and Russia’s war in Ukraine have contributed to choppy trading since late February. Russian crude revenues have soared this year, with the EU the largest market in April, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly report on Thursday.
Investors are also assessing the impact of shrinking American fuel stockpiles ahead of the summer driving season, and the prospect for aggressive monetary tightening after the US consumer-price index for April increased more than analysts were expecting. The war in Ukraine has fanned inflation globally.
EU nations said a delay to the Russian oil ban would allow the bloc to proceed with the rest of a proposed sanctions package. Governments are still aiming for a deal on the full package, including a phased-in oil ban, by Monday, when foreign ministers meet in Brussels, according to diplomats.
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The NFL released its full 2022 schedule Thursday night. All 17 games for each of the 32 teams are now set. Below is the Bears’ entire 2022 schedule.
Every team will once again play 17 regular season games over 18 weeks. The season begins with the NFL’s opening night Thursday, Sept. 8. Most of the league will play its first game Sunday, Sept. 11. The regular season will run through Sunday, Jan. 8, with the postseason to follow.
The NFL calendar will conclude with Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The Bears’ 2022 schedule
Preseason
Week 1: vs. Kansas City Chiefs, noon, Saturday, Aug. 13
Week 2: at Seattle Seahawks, 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 18
Week 3: at Cleveland Browns, 6 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 27
Regular season
Week 1: vs. San Francisco 49ers, noon, Sunday, Sept. 11
Week 2: at Green Bay Packers, 7:20 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 18 (Sunday Night Football)
Week 3: vs. Houston Texans, noon, Sunday, Sept. 25
Week 4: at New York Giants, noon, Sunday, Oct. 2
Week 5: at Minnesota Vikings, noon, Sunday, Oct. 9
Week 6: vs. Washington Commanders, 7:15 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13 (Thursday Night Football)
Week 7: at New England Patriots, 7:15 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24 (Monday Night Football)
Week 8: at Dallas Cowboys, noon, Sunday, Oct. 30
Week 9: vs. Miami Dolphins, noon, Sunday, Nov. 6
Week 10: vs. Detroit Lions, noon, Sunday, Nov. 13
Week 11: at Atlanta Falcons, noon, Sunday, Nov. 20
Week 12: at New York Jets, noon, Sunday, Nov. 27
Week 13: vs. Green Bay Packers, noon, Sunday, Dec. 4
Week 14: Bye
Week 15: vs. Philadelphia Eagles, noon, Sunday, Dec. 18
Week 16: vs. Buffalo Bills, noon, Saturday, Dec. 24
Week 17: at Detroit Lions, noon, Sunday, Jan. 1
Week 18: vs. Minnesota Vikings, TBD, Sunday, Jan. 8
Bears in prime time
The Bears will play three games in primetime slots. The first will be in Week 2 against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday Night Football. At least one Bears vs. Packers matchup is almost always in a primetime slot every year. This time it will come early in the season.
The Bears will then have back-to-back primetime games in Weeks 6 and 7. In Week 6, they will face the Washington Commanders at Soldier Field on Thursday Night Football. They will then have a full 10 days off before a Week 7 game at the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football.
Last season, the Bears appeared in five national TV games.
October road tests
Four of the Bears’ five games in October will be on the road. They will visit the Giants, the Vikings, the Patriots and the Cowboys in October. Sandwiched in the middle of those games is a home matchup with the Commanders. That will likely be a season-defining stretch for Matt Eberflus’ team.
The Bears host nine games and have eight away games this season. The good thing about the early road trips in October is that the Bears’ have only one away game during the last six weeks of the season. They play three home games and have a bye in December. They will visit the Lions on New Year’s Day, and then end the season with the Vikings at Soldier Field a week later.
There will be plenty of opportunities for “Bear weather” in December and January. The Week 14 bye is quite late.
Scheduling quirks and notes
The Bears play their NFC North division opponents twice every season: the Packers, Vikings and Lions. This season, the Bears will visit Minnesota on Oct. 9. Oddly enough, this will be the first time since 2006 that the Bears visit Minnesota before Thanksgiving.
Over the past 15 seasons, the Bears’ trip to Minnesota has almost always been in frigid December or January, with one Nov. 30 matchup mixed in there.
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SALEM, Ore., May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. (NASDAQ:WVVI) (the "Company"), a leading Oregon producer of Pinot Noir, generated a loss per common share after preferred dividends of $0.11 and $0.05 for the period ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, an increase of $0.06, for the period ended March 31, 2022 over the prior year period.
Sales revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 was $6,242,318 and $5,765,338, respectively, an increase of $476,980, or 8.3%, in the current year period over the prior year period. This increase was caused by an increase in revenues from direct sales of $651,124 being partially offset by a decrease in revenues from shipments to distributors of $174,144 in the current year three-month period over the same period in the prior year. The increase in direct sales to consumers was primarily the result of increased retail sales revenues from our tasting rooms, wine club and kitchen. The decrease in revenue from the distributors was primarily attributed to the lack of available inventory to ship.
Gross profit for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 was $3,720,029 and $3,493,567, respectively, an increase of $226,462, or 6.5%, in the first quarter of 2022 over the same quarter in the prior year. This increase was primarily the result of an increase in direct sales in the first three months of the current year compared to the same period in 2021.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 was $3,856,261 and $3,317,558, respectively, an increase of $538,703, or 16.2%, in the current quarter over the same quarter in the prior year.
Net income (loss) for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 was $(98,942) and $122,685, respectively, a decrease of $221,627, or 180.6%, in the first quarter of 2022 over the same quarter in the prior year.
Jim Bernau, Founder and CEO of the winery said, "Unforeseen inventory delays have limited our ability to offset expenses related to our new developments. While we expect supply interruptions, higher supply costs and labor shortages to reduce margins and earnings in the near term, our growth initiatives are designed to produce greater profitability in the long term."
For a complete discussion of the Company's financial condition and operating results for the first quarter, see our Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR.
Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. is headquartered at its Estate Vineyard near Salem, Oregon. The Company's common stock is traded on NASDAQ (WVVI).
Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's business, and beliefs and assumptions made by management. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "should," or "will" or the negative thereof and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including, but not limited to: availability of financing for growth, availability of adequate supply of high quality grapes, successful performance of internal operations, impact of competition, changes in wine broker or distributor relations or performance, impact of possible adverse weather conditions, impact of reduction in grape quality or supply due to disease or smoke from forest fires, changes in consumer spending, the reduction in consumer demand for premium wines, the impact of supply chain and transportation disruptions, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the policies of United States federal, state and local governments in response to such pandemic. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general domestic economic conditions. Many of these risks as well as other risks that may have a material adverse impact on our operations and business, are identified in Item 1A "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as well as in the Company's other Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports.
The following is the Company's Statement of Income for the three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2021:
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Brooklyn rapper Casanova has pleaded guilty for his role in a federal racketeering case.
Casanova, real name Caswell Senior, was accused of having a leadership role in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang.
The rapper pleaded guilty to one count of “conspiring to conduct and participate in the conduct of the affairs of a criminal enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity” and another count of “conspiring to distribute over 100 kilograms of marijuana” (via Pitchfork).
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney, Casanova admitted to shooting at someone “with whom he was having a gambling dispute” at a Florida party in July 2020. He also confessed to possessing and selling marijuana and admitted to a robbery at a diner in 2018.
“Like twelve of his co-defendants, Caswell Senior, an accomplished recording artist and performer, now stands convicted of playing a leadership role in Gorilla Stone, a particularly violent Bloods gang that operates throughout New York and across the country,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
“In addition to his supervisory role, Senior was an active, hands-on participant in the gang’s senseless violence, including a shooting in Miami and contributing to a robbery at a Manhattan diner.”
Previous charges of attempted murder and assault with a dangerous weapon were dismissed.
“Mr. Senior accepted responsibility for his conduct which was possession with intent to sell marijuana and the robbery of a young lady in a diner who was filming him with her phone,” Casanova’s lawyer James Kousouros told Pitchfork.
“We hope that our presentation to the court in advance of sentencing will illuminate the facts and circumstances surrounding this case and present Mr. Senior for the person that he really is.”
Casanova faces a maximum sentence of 60 years imprisonment, with a mandatory minimum of five years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled to take place on December 6. | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/casanova-pleads-guilty-to-racketeering-conspiracy-and-drug-charges-3224478 | 2022-05-13T01:45:15Z | https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music/casanova-pleads-guilty-to-racketeering-conspiracy-and-drug-charges-3224478 | true | 4 |
2022 BAFTA TV Awards Red Carpet: Here Are The Best Dressed Celebrities
Just when you thought awards season was over, the 2022 BAFTA TV Awards arrives with jaw-dropping red carpet looks from our favorite British celebrities. Derby Girls and Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan stole the show in an effervescent bubblegum pink gown, adorned...
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Spinal Tap II, a direct sequel to legendary rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, has been announced.
The 1984 film, which produced numerous quotable scenes – including exploding drummers, “it’s such a fine line between stupid and clever” and amps that “go up to 11″ – will now see its 40th anniversary marked with more tales of rock cliché and questionable song titles.
Reiner will direct the sequel and return as filmmaker Marty DiBergi, while David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) also return to perform as the brash English band.
“The plan is to do a sequel that comes out on the 40th anniversary of the original film and I can tell you hardly a day goes by without someone saying, ‘Why don’t you do another one?'” Reiner told Deadline following the announcement.
“For so many years, we said, ‘nah.’ It wasn’t until we came up with the right idea how to do this. You don’t want to just do it, to do it. You want to honour the first one and push it a little further with the story.”
Shearer, McKean and Guest have previously toured as Spinal Tap in real life, and Reiner explained that their recent lack of time together inspired the premise for the sequel.
“The idea was that Ian Faith, who was their manager, he passed away. In reality, Tony Hendra passed away. Ian’s widow inherited a contract that said Spinal Tap owed them one more concert. She was basically going to sue them if they didn’t. All these years and a lot of bad blood that we’ll get into, and they’re thrown back together and forced to deal with each other and play this concert.”
The director also said that many of the original’s scenes were inspired by real events, and that he intends to include “guest appearances” from bands who’ve had similar misadventures over the years. “We’ve had a lot of bands share their experiences and so hopefully we’ll include some of that in the film,” he explained.
On his own returning role as the director who filmed the band in the original, Reiner said: “I’m back playing Marty DiBergi. The band was upset with the first film. They thought I did a hatchet job and this is a chance to redeem myself. I am such a big fan and I felt bad they didn’t like what they saw in the first film.
“When I heard they might get back together, I was a visiting adjunct teacher’s helper at the Ed Wood School of Cinematic Arts. I drop everything to document this final concert.”
Spinal Tap II will be released March, 19 2024. You can watch the trailer for the original film above.
The news arrives just 10 days after Shearer broke the news that Ric Parnell, who played fictional drummer Mick Shrimpton in This Is Spinal Tap, had died at the age of 70.
In the film, Parnell’s character spontaneously combusts at the end, following a running gag that all of the group’s previously drummers have died the same way. The musician also performed on the movie’s soundtrack, as well as a follow-up album ‘Break Like The Wind’ which was released in 1992. | https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/film/this-is-spinal-tap-sequel-set-for-release-40-years-after-original-3224504 | 2022-05-13T01:48:04Z | https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/film/this-is-spinal-tap-sequel-set-for-release-40-years-after-original-3224504 | false | 4 |
San Francisco Conservatory buys classical record label
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) - The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announced Monday that it bought a classical record label following its acquisition of a management agency.
The school said Monday it had bought Pentatone Music , adding to a portfolio that includes Opus 3 Artists, which it purchased in October 2020.
"Bringing Pentatone in-house creates an extraordinary backdrop to explore new ideas for performing, recording and distributing music," conservatory president David Stull said in a statement.
Pentatone is based in Baarn, Netherlands, and will have access to the conservatory's recording studio in San Francisco. The label will record a performance of the National Brass Ensemble, of which Stull is executive director, conducted by San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and will work with students at the conservatory's 2023 winter term.
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Giants’ 2022 NFL schedule: Game-by-game predictions
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The Giants are looking for a fresh start under new GM Joe Schoen and new head coach Brian Daboll. There’s a chance it could be a good one, too.
It won’t be easy, but they do have a few winnable games in the first half of their 2022 schedule, which was revealed on Thursday, including home games against the Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears in the first four weeks of the season. And even a difficult, early-season road stretch -- where they play three of four away from home, including games in London and Seattle – includes games against the very beatable Seahawks and Jaguars.
Overall, in a slate that includes games on Thanksgiving (in Dallas) and Christmas Eve (in Minnesota), they play only six games against teams that went to the playoffs last year (and four of those are division games), and seven games against teams that finished over. 500. So if they’re any good at all, the opportunity is there for at least some success this season.
Here’s a look at their entire 2022 schedule, with some analysis and some way-too-early predictions on how their season will go:
Week 1: at Tennessee Titans, Sept. 11, 4:25 p.m.
In a conference that is absolutely loaded with talent, let’s not forget that the Titans were the No. 1 seed in the AFC last year (12-5). We’ll see if Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry can do that again, especially after A.J. Brown was traded to Philadelphia. But they should be quite a test for “Wink” Martindale’s rebuilding defense right out of the gate.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 2: vs. Carolina Panthers, Sept. 18, 1:00 p.m.
A soft landing after the rough opener. After an offseason of trying to upgrade at quarterback, the Panthers are still stuck with Sam Darnold – and we’ve all seen how he does at the Meadowlands. If the Giants can’t win this game, the season could get ugly, fast.
Early prediction: WIN
Week 3: vs. Dallas Cowboys, Sept. 26 (Monday), 8:15 p.m.
The Cowboys scored 530 total points last season – more than double the Giants’ season total (258). Let that sink in for a moment. Then realize that even though the Cowboys traded away WR Amari Cooper, the gap hasn’t exactly closed. They’ve got more than enough weapons to stretch a very thin Giants secondary.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 4: vs. Chicago Bears, Oct. 2, 1:00 p.m.
The Bears remain committed to QB Justin Fields, but they weren’t exactly committed to surrounding him with talent this offseason. They’ve got a new GM (Ryan Poles) and a new head coach (Matt Eberflus) and they’re basically starting over, just like the Giants, only with less talent on the roster.
Early prediction: WIN
Week 5: vs. Green Bay Packers, at London, Oct. 9 , 9:30 a.m.
The Packers may have traded away Aaron Rodgers’ best weapon (Davante Adams) but he’s still got more than enough to work with to stay on top of the NFC. And unless the Giants’ pass rush magically transforms from what it’s been the last few years, he should have no problem picking apart their young secondary. The Giants are undefeated all-time in London (2-0), but that’s about to end.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 6: vs. Baltimore Ravens, Oct. 16, 1:00 p.m.
There really is a lot of optimism that Martindale will eventually turn around the Giants’ defense, but he’s going to need better players to do it. And his blitz-happy scheme could be a problem in a game against a quarterback as elusive as Lamar Jackson, who can avoid the rush and extend plays. It’s another game where that Giants’ secondary is going to be a huge issue.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 7: at Jacksonville Jaguars, Oct. 23, 1:00 p.m.
The Jaguars spent about $200 million in guaranteed money on free agents this offseason, but made a lot of questionable signings. Are they any better? That probably depends on QB Trevor Lawrence. He’s got a brighter future than Giants QB Daniel Jones, but it might be wise to bet on Jones in the present.
Early prediction: WIN
Week 8: at Seattle Seahawks, Oct. 30, 4:25 p.m.
It’s hard to get excited about a Seahawks team that traded away QB Russell Wilson and didn’t replace him (Drew Lock? Really?) But the new-look Giants could be exhausted by this stage and a long trip to Seattle is never easy. Consider this a letdown game, if there is such a thing for a team coming off a 4-13 season.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 9: BYE WEEK
Week 10: vs. Houston Texans, Nov. 13, 1:00 p.m.
The Texans ranked 32nd on offense and 31st on defense last season, which is just about as bad as it gets. Then they decided to stick with young QB David Mills and, after an extensive search for a new head coach, settled on Lovie Smith, whose last winning season in the NFL was 2012. I’m sure they have a plan down there. I just have no idea what it is.
Early prediction: WIN
Week 11: vs. Detroit Lions, Nov. 20, 1:00 p.m.
The Lions went 3-3 down the stretch last season and three of their five losses after their bye week were by four points or fewer. Now they’ve got stud pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson on defense and Jared Goff has a couple of new receivers to throw to, including D.J. Chark and rookie Jameson Williams, who should be ready to play by now. Ex-Giants tight end Dan Campbell will make sure this game isn’t easy at all.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 12: at Cowboys, Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving), 4:30 p.m.
The Cowboys have lost three straight and four of their last five on Thanksgiving, which theoretically could bode well for the Giants. This is awfully late in the season, though, to assume this injury-prone Giants roster will be fully healthy. Also, the Cowboys are still just too good.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 13: vs. Washington Commanders, Dec. 4, 1:00 p.m.
Four straight division games this late in the season would sure be fun if the Giants were in a playoff race – though that’s hard to see this year. They won’t lose them all, but this could be a sneaky tough game. It might all depend on how QB Carson Wentz is playing, because with Terry McLaurin, Curtis Samuel, and rookie Jahan Dotson at receiver, he sure can stretch the field against a Giants team that will struggle in coverage.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 14: vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Dec. 11, 1:00 p.m.
Here’s a theme for this season: Ugh, the secondary. This division is just so loaded with potentially good passing attacks. The Eagles now have A.J. Brown to go with DeVonta Smith, plus the best rushing team in football. Even if Jalen Hurts struggles at QB, they are a tough match for a defense still trying to figure itself out.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 15: at Commanders, Dec. 17/18, Time TBD
OK, Wentz may have weapons, but he hasn’t exactly been a reliable quarterback in recent years. And the Giants have had some recent success against Washington, winning five of the last seven matchings between them. That’s way better than they’ve done against the other two division teams the last few years.
Early prediction: WIN
Week 16: at Minnesota Vikings, Dec. 24 (Saturday), 1:00 p.m.
A team with Dalvin Cook at running back and Adam Thielen and Justin Jefferson at receiver should be much better on offense than it has been, even with Kirk Cousins at quarterback. And it will be, now that former Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell is their new head coach. They should be just about putting it all together by now. Even if the Giants are better offensively under Daboll, they might not be able to keep up.
Early prediction: LOSS
Week 17: vs. Indianapolis Colts, Jan. 1, 1:00 p.m.
By the time the calendar turns to 2023, the Giants will be focused on 2023, too, and the futures of Jones, Saquon Barkley, and many others. But there likely will be one, feel-good, late-season surprise win for this franchise, something that gives them a little bit of hope for the future. In what could be a final test (or a final goodbye) for Jones and Barkley, they could go out in style against aging QB Matt Ryan and the underachieving Colts.
Early prediction: WIN
Week 18: at Eagles, Jan. 7/8, Time TBD
The Cowboys are the best team in the NFC East, but the Eagles really are the worst matchup for the Giants. The Giants don’t have good enough linebackers to stop the run, and their secondary can’t keep up with their receivers. And if they’re out of it by now (which they surely will be), this finale on the road has a chance to get ugly, fast.
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The 49ers’ season will begin in Chicago, and their goal is to end it five months later in Arizona, site of Super Bowl LVII.
At least the regular-season finale is assured of an Arizona flair: The Cardinals will close at Levi’s Stadium.
In between those Week 1 and Week 18 affairs is a schedule that is not daunting, at least from a logistical standpoint, rather than the fact that 10 of their games are against the NFC West and AFC West, the NFL’s most challenging divisions.
Some initial impressions before a quick word about each game:
— The first half looks heavy. It offers both home and away games against the reigning Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams. It also includes a back-to-back road swing through Atlanta and Carolina, with a likely layover on the East Coast, perhaps at The Greenbrier in West Virginia for a third straight year.
— San Mateo kid Tom Brady will be 45 when he and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers voyage into Levi’s Stadium on Dec. 11. (Kickoff is scheduled for Sunday, 1:25 p.m.; flexing to prime time seems a possibility.)
— The 49ers will usher in 2023 with their first visit to the Las Vegas Raiders, a Jan. 1 reunion at Allegiant Stadium.
— Five prime-time kickoffs are on the schedule. The 2019 49ers went 6-0 in prime time, but coach Kyle Shanahan’s other teams have combined for a 2-10 prime-time mark over his four other seasons.
— There is a three-game homestand following the 49ers’ Nov. 21 game in Mexico City against the host Arizona Cardinals.
Here is the slate ahead of them, upon Thursday’s schedule release (all times PT):
WEEK 1: at Chicago Bears
Sunday, Sept. 11 (10 a.m; Fox)
While the San Francisco Giants are facing the Cubs at Wrigley Field that weekend, the 49ers will open 20 minutes down the Red Line at Soldier Field. The 49ers have won their past three visits, including Jimmy Garoppolo’s starting debut with them in 2017 as well as last October’s season-reviving victory. (Reminder: Trey Lance already made his 49ers starting debut last Halloween at Arizona.) The Bears are angling to move to suburban Arlington Heights, Garoppolo’s hometown; Chicago might host the 49ers again next year if they finish in the same spots in their divisions.
WEEK 2: vs. Seattle Seahawks
Sunday, Sept. 18 (1:05 p.m., Fox)
The 49ers haven’t returned a punt for a touchdown since their 2011 opener against the Seahawks. Maybe this breaks the curse. Since Levi’s Stadium opened in 2014, the Seahawks have won in every visit except a 2018 overtime affair. Last year, Jimmy Garoppolo sustained a calf injury in the Week 4 defeat; Trey Lance was 9-of-18 for 157 yards and two touchdowns in second-half relief, plus 41 rushing yards.
WEEK 3: at Denver Broncos
Sunday, Sept. 25 (5:20 p.m., NBC)
New Broncos QB Russell Wilson went 17-4 for Seattle against the 49ers – but, according to the anti-Garoppolo crowd, a quarterback’s win-loss record means nothing, right? Denver’s new coach is Nathaniel Hackett, a UC Davis product whose father, Paul, was a 49ers assistant from 1983-85 during a lengthy career.
WEEK 4: vs. Los Angeles Rams
Monday, Oct. 3 (5:15 p.m., ESPN)
The 49ers averaged 30 points in winning each of their last three games at Levi’s Stadium against the Rams. Deebo Samuel has accounted for seven touchdowns (three receiving, three rushing, one passing) in seven career games against the Rams.
WEEK 5: at Carolina Panthers
Sunday, Oct. 9 (1:05 p.m., CBS)
Since the Panthers left the NFC West in 2002, they’ve lost only once at home in four meetings against the 49ers, that outlier being the divisional playoffs following the 2013 season. Carolina has won just five games in each of coach Matt Rhule’s first two seasons.
WEEK 6: at Atlanta Falcons
Sunday, Oct. 16 (10 a.m., Fox)
This is the 49ers’ first game at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which opened in 2017 next door to the since-demolished Georgia Dome. Quarterback Matt Ryan, now on the Colts, went 4-4 against the 49ers, including the 2012 season’s NFC Championship Game defeat. Marcus Mariota, signed by the Falcons this offseason, is 0-1 against the 49ers.
WEEK 7: vs. Kansas City Chiefs
Sunday, Oct. 23 (1:25 p.m., Fox)
Get ready for Super Bowl LIV flashbacks. This is their first meeting since Patrick Mahomes engineered a fourth-quarter comeback in the 2019 grand finale. Alex Smith passed for 158 yards – for the Chiefs – in their only previous stop at Levi’s Stadium, a 2014 win.
WEEK 8: At Los Angeles Rams
Sunday, Oct. 30 (1:25 p.m., Fox)
SoFi Stadium was the 49ers’ ultimate Southern California vacation home, with red-clad fans and a win streak – until last season’s NFC Championship Game, when the 49ers blew a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead and fell 20-17. Thus, the Rams are the reigning NFL champs for the first time since 2000.
WEEK 9: BYE
WEEK 10: vs. Los Angeles Chargers
Sunday, Nov. 13 (5:20 p.m., NBC)
Training camp sparring partners last summer in Orange County, the 49ers and the Chargers are led defensively by brothers Nick Bosa and Joey Bosa, respectively.
WEEK 11: at Arizona Cardinals (in Mexico City)
Monday, Nov. 21 (5:15 p.m., ESPN)
Mexico City welcomes back a matchup that, in 2005, triggered the 49ers’ promotion of then-rookie Alex Smith over Tim Rattay. The Cardinals are the home team, and their State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. is the 49ers’ ultimate destination – for this season’s Super Bowl.
WEEK 12: vs. New Orleans Saints
Sunday, Nov. 27 (1:25 p.m., Fox)
The Saints lost a 2014 overtime game in their only other trip to Levi’s Stadium. Their previous trip to face the 49ers was an epic one – the January 2012 divisional playoff game that the 49ers won 36-32 at Candlestick.
WEEK 13: vs. Miami Dolphins
Sunday, Dec. 4 (1:05 p.m., Fox)
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel will be on the Levi’s Stadium sideline for the first time, having previously operated upstairs in the coaches’ booth as Kyle Shanahan’s eye in the sky. He’ll be dialing up plays for 49ers Super Bowl villain Tyreek Hill, and former 49ers running back Raheem Mostert. Miami won its only previous visit to Levi’s Stadium, 43-17 in 2020 behind Ryan Fitzpatrick’s 350 yards and three touchdowns.
WEEK 14: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Sunday, Dec. 11 (1:25 p.m., Fox)
The Bucs are 1-0 at Levi’s Stadium (2016) and Tom Brady is 1-0 when visiting the 49ers (2016 Patriots). Brady, a San Mateo native, passed for 280 yards and four touchdowns in that 30-17 win over Chip Kelly’s 49ers, when Garoppolo was Brady’s third-year backup.
WEEK 15: At Seattle Seahawks
Thursday, Dec. 15 (5:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video)
For the first time since 2011, Russell Wilson isn’t in Seattle to greet/torment the 49ers, and that’s no guarantee of success in a stadium where they’re just 5-16 all-time. Will they face Drew Lock, Geno Smith or a quarterback to be announced later?
WEEK 16: vs. Washington Commanders
Sunday, Dec. 24 (1:05 p.m. CBS)
The 49ers’ last shutout? It was against this franchise – then called by another name – in a 9-0 mud bowl in 2019. The Commanders traded this offseason not for Jimmy Garoppolo but Carson Wentz, who is looking to beat the 49ers for the third time in as many years for as many franchises (2020 Eagles, 2021 Colts).
WEEK 17: At Las Vegas Raiders
Sunday, Jan. 1 (1:05 p.m., Fox)
New Year’s Day in Vegas, baby. Yes, a third Raiders city left for the 49ers to conquer. The 49ers were 2-2 in Oakland and 1-1 in Los Angeles. The Raiders brought in Davante Adams to improve their Vegas décor with Fresno State pal Derek Carr, and although Adams averaged 130 yards per game against the 49ers, he lost to them in his Packers farewell in the playoffs.
WEEK 18: vs. Arizona Cardinals
Saturday or Sunday, Jan. 7 or 8 (TBD)
Last season’s rock bottom was a 31-17 home loss to the Cardinals and backup quarterback Colt McCoy on Nov. 7. Then the 49ers won three straight and 7-of-9 to make the playoffs. Could this season really come down to a Week 18 elimination game like last year’s at Los Angeles? It’ll be the 49ers’ first regular-season finale at Levi’s Stadium since 2016; their 2020 finale was moved to Arizona for COVID precautions. | https://www.thereporter.com/2022/05/12/49ers-schedule-opening-in-chicago-to-closing-new-years-in-vegas-then-home-finale/ | 2022-05-13T01:53:28Z | https://www.thereporter.com/2022/05/12/49ers-schedule-opening-in-chicago-to-closing-new-years-in-vegas-then-home-finale/ | false | 10 |
POMPANO BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - A South Florida man who claims members of a family beat him up and left him blind because he’s gay is sharing his side of the story.
The unidentified man said he feared for his life when he was attacked in Pompano Beach on Aug. 6, 2021.
“Definitely, they were trying to kill me. They were trying to hurt me,” he said during an interview on Thursday. “I was thinking I was going to die, and there’s no way I was going to walk out of there alive.”
The 31-year-old man spoke to a Broward Sheriff’s Office detective about the assault that, he said, left him blind for life.
Oleh Makarenko and his parents, Inna and Yevhen Makarenko are charged with attempted felony murder.
The victim said he was attacked because he was in a relationship with Oleh, 21, known as Alex.
“He was a little afraid of his family or very afraid of his family,” he said. “He was telling me that his dad was treating him like he wasn’t even his child, that his mom was trying to force him to marry a girl, and I’m quoting what his mom said to him. She wanted him to force him to marry a girl to ‘take all this [expletive] out of his head.'”
After a two-week break in the relationship, the victim said, he remotely opened his community’s gate believing it was a friend, when it was actually the Makarenko family.
The victim said he went outside but quickly went back into his apartment. Moments later, he said, Alex, his parents and his brother forced their way inside.
“Alex told me he hated me, and I told them, like, ‘Unfortunately, no matter what you do, it’s not going to change that your son is gay. I’m sorry, but your son is gay,'” he said.
The victim said he asked Alex “if that was what he wanted, and he told me ‘no.'”
The victim told detectives he doesn’t remember what happened next.
In addition to losing his eyesight, the victim said, the beating left him with brain trauma and broken bones.
When the BSO detective asked whether there’s a chance he’ll regain his sight, the victim replied, “No. Medically, what I was told was that there’s nothing they can do.”
Investigators said the victim had originally told deputies that he had fallen down some stairs before he changed his story.
Alex and his father remain behind bars. Inna has been granted a bond.
Alex’s brother, 25-year-old Vladyslav Makarenko, was also arrested. Prosecutors are reviewing his case.
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25 Things You Should Never Do With Your Money
There is possibly an endless list of things you shouldn't do with your money. But from bad habits to decisions based on wishful thinking, some of the bigger missteps can really cost you.
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Never Cash Your Paycheck Right Away
If you cash your paycheck right away, you might burn through it too quickly.
"You will most certainly spend it all if you cash your paycheck rather than have your employer directly deposit it into your bank account," said Barbara Friedberg , a personal finance consultant. "Even better is to automatically transfer a percent of your paycheck into a retirement investment account and direct-deposit the remainder into a bank account."
One advantage of having a workplace retirement plan, such as a 401(k), is that money is automatically deducted from your pay and invested. You don't see it, so you won't spend it. You can use a budgeting template to get the most mileage out of your paycheck.
Never Fall For 'Special' Finance Deals You Can't Afford
Promotional finance offers that provide zero or low interest rates on a big purchase might sound like a great deal -- until you wind up paying more than you expected. That's what happened to Grayson Bell , founder of personal finance website Debt Roundup.
"Don't finance a new vehicle, or watercraft in my case, based on the low promotional monthly payment," he said. "I financed a new $10,000 Jet Ski with no money down and no real way to pay for it based on a radio ad promoting a super low $69 per month payment. What I didn't read was the rate was only for two years, then it changes to include retroactive interest based on the loan amount."
"Those financing deals can ruin you if you're only looking at the monthly payment," he continued. "Go through the math and read all of the fine print. They get you in with the low monthly payments, but keep you paying for much longer than you anticipated."
Never Co-Sign a Loan You Can't Afford
Michelle Schroeder-Gardner of personal finance blog Making Sense of Cents said you should never co-sign on a loan for someone unless you have the means to pay it back fully.
"The fact is that you never know if the person will be able to pay every single payment, so it's best to prepare yourself," she said.
Never Live Above Your Means
One of the tenets of building wealth is to live below your means. Saving and investing should be your priorities so you can help pay for your children's college costs and live comfortably in retirement, said Cathy Curtis , a certified financial planner and author of "The Happiness Spreadsheet: How To Create A Budget Aligned with Your Values, Beliefs and Ideals."
Never Rely Only on Cash When Traveling
Sure, carrying and using cash is a good alternative to running up credit card bills. But Curtis suggested using traveler's checks or credit cards as an alternative to cash.
Holding substantial cash when you're traveling can invite unfortunate situations. You could lose it or be a victim of theft, which is not uncommon in certain tourist areas.
Never Donate Money Over the Phone
Phone solicitations often involve raising money for authentic causes and organizations; unfortunately, they're also an easy way for con artists to scam well-meaning donors.
To be safe, never give out your credit card number over the phone. Curtis advises to instead ask the solicitor to mail you the information. This way you can research the organization and verify that it's legitimate.
Never Spend Money on Gifts That No One Needs
Yes, those end of summer sales at your favorite stores can be quite enticing when everything is practically 75% off. But, stocking up on bath bombs, beach towels and other discounted fare can be just plain wasteful. A crazy sale is never crazy enough to justify spending money on something you don't really need -- and possibly don't really want.
Never Shop When You're Emotional
It's best to avoid shopping when you're feeling down because you might be tempted to spend more in order to feel better -- hence the rise of the term "retail therapy."
You should also steer clear of pushy salespeople; don't let them flatter you into buying something you can't afford or don't quite feel comfortable about. You might be seeking positive reinforcement, but getting it from a clerk whose primary interest is in making a sale isn't a healthy way to get it.
There are other ways to feel good about yourself without shelling out cash. Make decisions based on your needs and your budget, Curtis said.
Never Opt Out of Your 401(k)
Opting out of your 401(k) plan can be tempting when you're low on funds, but according to Esther Kim Trapadoux, it's one of the biggest mistakes you can make.
Many companies use automatic enrollment as a default for employees who don't elect to participate in the 401(k) plan. Make sure you choose to enroll in the plan and increase the amount you contribute above the auto-enrollment amount. Then, sign up for your plan's automatic escalation feature, which will increase your contribution percentage by an amount you specify each year.
Never Hire a Financial Advisor You Can't Trust
Choosing a financial advisor can mean the difference between building wealth for retirement or becoming a victim of fraud or paying excessive fees.
"Never invest your money with someone you don't trust, even if you can't pinpoint the source of the mistrust," said Julie Rains, personal finance writer/publisher at Hall and Rowe Media.
To choose the right financial planner, get recommendations for advisors from relatives and friends you trust. Research their designations and background at the Securities and Exchange Commission website or on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority site.
Never Put All Your Money in Illiquid Investments
Many investment products lock up your money, which limits your access to it, said Daniel Zajac, CFP and partner at Simone Zajac Wealth Management Group.
"You should be keenly aware of when and how you can get to your money, even more so if you make the decision to put a large portion of your assets in something that restricts access," he said.
Individual stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have a high degree of liquidity. By contrast, illiquid investments are those that cannot be sold quickly without incurring a significant loss in value. Examples include nontraded real estate investment trusts, some collectibles and more.
Never Lose Track of Your Money
Turning a blind eye to personal expenses and income is definitely a no-no. You should always be aware of how much money you're spending, how much money is coming in and what your financial goals are. Keeping a budget that includes your income and expenses is a great way to find out what is happening with your money alongside how much money you really have.
Never Buy Too Much Company Stock
Owning company stock can be a valuable addition to your portfolio, Zajac said, but don't put too much of your money in that investment. If your company experiences a downturn, you could lose your investment and your job in one fell swoop. A good rule of thumb is to limit your company stock exposure to 10% of your total net worth, he said.
Never Make Insurance Your Only Investment
Cash-value life insurance is often pitched as a retirement savings vehicle to high-earning business owners and professionals. While this might be a viable solution in some cases, it is generally a better idea for these folks to take advantage of more traditional retirement vehicles such as a 401(k), Zajac said.
"Insurance as an investment is rarely, if ever, a good idea," Zajac said. "It's an especially bad idea for those just getting started. Your focus should be on creating an emergency fund, creating liquidity and contributing to your retirement. Focus on buying term and investing the difference."
Never Be Unintentional With Your Money
It's important to pay close attention to your money and your budget, financial coach and motivational speaker Melissa Thomas said. "Savings accounts need to be labeled for their intended purpose," she said.
For example, you might have a separate account for your emergency fund and another to save for the holidays. Accounts for long-term goals like retirement or college should be kept separate and never be mingled with the shorter-term goals.
Never Post Money or How Much You Make on Social Media
Whether you're a millionaire or in the working middle class, your financial status should not be shared for public consumption. No one is interested in your latest black credit card, the stacks of money you have on hand or the amount you just paid for your new car. Posting these things on social media means spreading your information for all the world to see. It's also a huge sign for people to come running after your money.
Never Buy a House Without Looking At the Full Cost
Homeownership isn't just about the mortgage payment. In fact, there are many costs to owning a home that might not be apparent before you buy.
"People tend to only look at the payment amount and not consider the other costs that come with homeownership, such as needed repairs and ongoing maintenance, differing utility bills than their previous place and possible tax increases," said Josh Elledge of personal finance website SavingsAngel.
"Make sure that you factor in those costs above the monthly mortgage payments," he continued. "Otherwise, one especially hot summer or a minor accident backing out of the garage, and you're piling up additional debt on a credit card to get by."
Never Sign a Contract You Don't Understand
It's a good idea to have an attorney review any contract you're considering. And the excuse of wanting your lawyer to review the agreement is always a good way to escape a high-pressure pitch to sign something.
"You can commit yourself financially for a very long time, and at a very high cost, by signing a contract you don't understand," Elledge said. "If you don't understand what you're committing to, don't sign."
Never Loan Money to Friends and Family You Can't Trust
Think long and hard before you give your money away to a friend or family member. Otherwise, in the event that you don't get your money back, your relationship with them might suffer.
"It is hard to say 'no' to friends and family who ask to 'borrow' money, but there is very little upside to doing this," said Kirk Chisholm , a wealth manager and principal with Innovative Advisory Group. "Sure, you might get your money back, but do you really want to pester them to get it? The bigger question is, what if they don't pay you back? Are you OK with saying goodbye to that money?"
Never Spend Money on Things You Don't Really Use
You might be tempted to buy certain items that promise to save you money or make some tasks easier. But if you end up not using those items, it's just wasted money.
"It's mind-boggling the amount of money people waste on things they neither need nor use," Elledge said. "Whether it's buying a fancy phone they have no idea how to use, buying an extended warranty on a product that already comes with a warranty, or even purchasing groceries they forgot are sitting in the cupboard at home, it's wasteful spending."
Instead, Elledge suggested sticking to buying items you actually need and use on a daily basis, and "you may find a lot more money in your monthly budget."
Never Invest Money You Can't Afford To Lose
Most smart wealth-building strategies include investing as a way to grow your money, but it's a risk you need to be able to afford. Be sure to seek out expert advice if you're new to investing.
"Every investment carries a level of risk, and you should be prepared to face the worst-case scenario every time," said Pauline Paquin , personal finance blogger. "Do not invest money that would compromise your financial well being if you lost it ... One financial mistake can be devastating."
Never Buy an Investment That Sounds Too Good To Be True
If an investment seems like it's too good to be true, beware, said Joseph Carbone, CFP, founder and wealth advisor at Focus Planning Group. "If it sounds boring, then it's probably a good investment."
Often, those too-good-to-be-true investments are expensive and illiquid, he said. Staple investments -- such as stocks, bonds and certificates of deposit -- might be better performers.
Never Overspend On Lotto Tickets
The odds are against you -- significantly. While the Powerball website says you have a 1 in 24.9 chance of winning a prize in its multimillion-dollar lotteries, your chances of walking away with the jackpot are roughly 1 in 292 million. Those are terrible odds, yet roughly half of Americans try their luck at winning the Lotto, spending an average of about $86 a month on lottery tickets, reported CNBC. Consistently putting your money toward lottery tickets will likely put a dent in your financial success. Try allocating that money toward your savings or retirement plan instead.
Never Get Carried Away on Deals Websites
Just like with a brick-and-mortar discount store, the prices on deals websites can be addicting. But you might spend more than you can afford and end up with a bunch of stuff you really don't need.
"Deals websites like Groupon can be a great way to save money, as long as you don't become addicted," said Sean Cooper, financial expert and author of "Burn Your Mortgage: A Simple, Powerful Path to Financial Freedom." "Similar to coupons, deal websites can lead to overspending on stuff you may not need ... To avoid the temptation to spend, only visit deals websites for stuff you're already planning to buy."
Never Buy a New Car -- If You Can Help It
That new car smell might be intoxicating, but it's fleeting and comes with a high price tag.
"Don't ever, ever, ever buy a brand new car; buy pre-owned instead," Elledge said. "Car dealers try to lure buyers into buying new with low monthly payments that take years to pay off. You'll never be able to achieve financial freedom from debt if you always have a car payment."
Before buying a new car or making any type of large purchase, always assess your finances. Ask yourself: Can I really afford it? If not, comparison shop and see if a used car is better for your budget.
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PUC suggests consumers compare prices ahead of June 1 increase
(WHTM) — With the cost of energy going up on June 1, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission suggests consumers should “shop around.”
Last week, it was reported that PPL rates are going up 38% starting in June. According to the PUC, Met-Ed rates will also increase by 16%. Plus, Penelec rates are going up by more than 35%.
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The PUC released the following statement related to the increase in June:
The upcoming price changes, combined with the increased use of electricity typically seen during the long, hot days of summer, make this a very good time for consumers to evaluate their energy options. Between now and June 1, the PUC encourages consumers to carefully review their electric bills to understand the rates they will be paying – and explore the PUC’s official electric shopping website, PAPowerSwitch.com, for details on competitive offers, along with tips for energy conservation and savings.
To compare competitive rates, click here to access PUC’s PAPowerSwitch energy shopping website.
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The Nasdaq Composite
COMP,
+0.06%
dropped 1.0% in midday trading Thursday, putting it on track for an 18-month closing low, even though the Nasdaq exchange's internals are showing a positive reading. The number of advancing stocks topped decliners 2,145 to 2,030, while volume in advancing stocks represented 55.1% of the total volume. The NYSE is a different story, however, as decliners led advancers 1,805 to 1,263 and declined volume was 55.3% of total volume. Meanwhile, the S&P 500
SPX,
-0.13%
was down 1.1%. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nasdaq-falls-toward-18-month-low-despite-positive-breadth-readings-2022-05-12 | 2022-05-13T02:04:39Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nasdaq-falls-toward-18-month-low-despite-positive-breadth-readings-2022-05-12 | true | null |
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-8-7-0
(three, eight, seven, zero)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17169700.php | 2022-05-13T02:06:40Z | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17169700.php | false | null |
The annual Army-Navy football game has become a traveling event over recent years, opening itself up to host bidders of all shapes and sizes. Add Robert Kraft and Gillette Stadium to the most recent list.
According to WJAR in Rhode Island, the Patriots owner’s ‘Kraft Sports and Entertainment Group’ put in a multi-year bid for 2023-2027.
Following two prior bids that ended with no luck, the group has finally broken through as a finalist, hoping to land the earliest game possible in 2023.
“It’s tremendously exciting for us, and when you think about Robert Kraft in his statement about we are all Patriots, to have the honor of bidding to host the Army-Navy Game has been a passion of ours for a number of years,” Kraft Sports’ Phil Buttafuoco told WJAR.
Robert Kraft surely wouldn’t be the only Patriot excited for the game, as head coach Bill Belichick is a longtime supporter of the naval academy, while Patriots long snapper Joe Cardona graduated from the institution himself..
The city of Boston — which would host the week’s festivities prior to gameday — is one of seven finalists. Charlotte, North Carolina; Orlando, Florida; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and East Rutherford, New Jersey are the others. | https://nesn.com/2022/05/army-navy-gillette-stadium-robert-kraft-finalists-bid/ | 2022-05-13T02:07:59Z | https://nesn.com/2022/05/army-navy-gillette-stadium-robert-kraft-finalists-bid/ | false | 1 |
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