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BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the military alliance stands ready to seize a historic moment and move quickly on allowing Finland and Sweden to join its ranks, after the two countries submitted their membership requests.
The official applications, handed over by Finland and Sweden’s ambassadors to NATO, set a security clock ticking. Russia, whose war on Ukraine spurred them to join the military organization, has warned that it wouldn’t welcome such a move, and could respond.
“I warmly welcome the requests by Finland and Sweden to join NATO. You are our closest partners,“ Stoltenberg said. “All allies agree on the importance of NATO enlargement. We all agree that we must stand together, and we all agree that this is an historic moment which we must seize.”
“This is a good day at a critical moment for our security,” a beaming Stoltenberg said, as he stood alongside the two envoys, with NATO, Finnish and Swedish flags at their backs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the alliance stop expanding toward Russia’s borders, and several NATO allies, led by the United States and Britain, have signaled that they stand ready to provide security support to Finland and Sweden should he try to provoke or destabilize them during the time it takes to become full members.
The countries will only benefit from NATO’s Article 5 security guarantee — the part of the alliance’s founding treaty that pledges that any attack on one member would be considered an attack of them all — once the membership ratification process is concluded, probably in a few months.
The move is one of the biggest geopolitical ramifications of the war and will rewrite Europe’s security map. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed it in a tweet and said that “Putin’s appalling ambitions have transformed the geopolitical contours of our continent.”
For now though, the application must be weighed by the 30 member countries. That process is expected to take about two weeks, although Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed reservations about Finland and Sweden joining.
If his objections are overcome, and accession talks go as well as expected, the two could become members soon. The process usually takes eight to 12 months, but NATO wants to move quickly given the threat from Russia hanging over the Nordic countries’ heads.
Canada, for example, says that it expects to ratify their accession protocol in just a few days — while in the Baltic region, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas tweeted: “I encourage a rapid accession process. We in Estonia will do our part fast.”
Stoltenberg said that NATO allies “are determined to work through all issues and reach rapid conclusions.”
The fact that the Nordic partners applied together means they won’t be losing time by having to ratify each other’s membership application.
“That Sweden and Finland go hand in hand is a strength. Now the process of joining the talks continues,” Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde told the Swedish news agency TT.
It shouldn’t take long to win approval in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Their prime ministers issued a joint statement on Wednesday saying that they “fully endorse and warmly welcome the historic decisions” taken in Helsinki and Stockholm.
Public opinion in Finland and Sweden has shifted massively in favor of membership since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Finland and Sweden cooperate closely with NATO. They have functioning democracies, well-funded armed forces and contribute to the alliance’s military operations and air policing. Any obstacles they face will merely be of a technical, or possibly political nature.
NATO’s membership process is not formalized, and the steps can vary. But first their requests to join will be examined in a sitting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) of the 30 member countries, probably at ambassadorial level.
The NAC will decide whether to move toward membership and what steps must be taken to achieve it. This mostly depends on how well aligned the candidate countries are with NATO political, military and legal standards, and whether they contribute to security in the North Atlantic area. This should pose no substantial problem for Finland and Sweden.
Moving forward, during accession talks that could be concluded in just one day once the terms of those negotiations are set, the two will be asked to commit to uphold Article 5 and to meet spending obligations concerning the NATO in-house budget, which runs to around $2.5 billion dollars, split proportionally among what would be 32 member countries.
Finland and Sweden would also be made aware of their role in NATO defense planning, and of any other legal or security obligations they might have, like the vetting of personnel and handling of classified information.
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Jari Tanner in Helsinki and Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The conformal coating market is fragmented, and the vendors are deploying various organic and inorganic growth strategies to compete in the market. The market is segmented by type (acrylic, silicone, epoxy, urethane, and others), application (consumer electronics, automotive electronics, aerospace and defense electronics, medical electronics, and other applications), and geography (APAC, Europe, North America, South America, and MEA).
The market size is expected to grow by USD 280.00 from 2021 to 2025, according to Technavio. The growth momentum of the market will accelerate at a CAGR of 6% during the forecast period.
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The conformal coating market covers the following areas:
Conformal Coating Market Sizing
Conformal Coating Market Forecast
Conformal Coating Market Analysis
Driver and Challenge
The increasing demand for smart wearables and IoT devices is driving the market. The major application areas for conformal coating are consumer electronics and communication devices. The sale of smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices will drive the demand for conformal coating. Device manufacturers are using advanced coating technology solutions to keep these devices running for a longer duration. This will boost the growth of the global conformal coating market during the forecast period.
Fluctuations in raw material prices are challenging the market. Several chemicals derived from crude oil are used to manufacture conformal coatings. The oil and gas industry is one of the key suppliers of raw materials in the global conformal coating market. Fluctuations in the price of crude oil have an adverse impact on the prices of raw materials, which affects the cost of conformal coatings. They also affect the production cost and reduce the profit margins of vendors. Therefore, volatility in crude oil prices will have a negative impact on the global conformal coating market during the forecast period.
Key Vendors and their Offerings
The conformal coating market report offers information on several market vendors, including Chase Corp., Daikin Industries Ltd., Dow Inc., Dymax Corp., H K Wentworth Ltd., H.B. Fuller Co., Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, KISCO Ltd., MG Chemicals Ltd., and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. among others. The key offerings of some of the vendors are listed below:
- Chase Corp. - The company offers a wide range of conformal coatings, including Acrylics, Urethanes, UV Curable, Synthetic Rubber, Silicones, and Water Based used in an array of industries such as aerospace, automotive, including hybrid and EV, industrial controls, white goods, telecoms, etc.
- Daikin Industries Ltd. - The company offers a distinctive fluorochemical coating solution that can be coated on PCBs with a thin film to impart waterproof, moisture-proof and corrosion protection to it.
- Dow Inc. - The company offers a wide range of conformal coating solutions, including DOWSIL 1-2577 Low VOC Conformal Coating, DOWSIL 1-4105 Conformal Coating, DOWSIL 3-1953 Conformal Coating used as a thin protective film/breathing membrane that filters water vapor and solid debris.
- Dymax Corp. - The company offers conformal coatings for printed circuit board (PCB) protection in many high-reliability applications, including military, aerospace, consumer electronics, medical, automotive, appliance, and telecom applications.
- H K Wentworth Ltd. - The company offers a range of products designed to service the electronics industry, covering the fields of lubrication, cleaning, conformal coatings and photoresists, and other areas such as anti-static flooring, surface mount products, application machinery, and de-soldering aids.
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Key Topics Covered:
Executive Summary
Market Landscape
- Market ecosystem
- Value chain analysis
Market Sizing
- Market definition
- Market segment analysis
- Market size 2020
- Market outlook: Forecast for 2020 - 2025
Five Forces Analysis
- Five forces analysis
- Bargaining power of buyers
- Bargaining power of suppliers
- Threat of new entrants
- Threat of substitutes
- Threat of rivalry
- Market condition
Market Segmentation by Application
- Market segments
- Comparison by Application
- Consumer electronics - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Automotive electronics - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Aerospace and defense electronics - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Medical electronics - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Other applications - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Market opportunity by Application
Market Segmentation by Type
- Market segments
- Comparison by Type
- Acrylic - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Silicone - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Epoxy - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Urethane - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Others - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Market opportunity by Type
Market Segmentation by Application method
- Market segments
- Comparison by Application method
- Spray coating - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Brush coating - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Selective coating - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Dip coating - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Vapor Deposition - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Market opportunity by Application method
Customer landscape
- Customer landscape
Geographic Landscape
- Geographic segmentation
- Geographic comparison
- APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Key leading countries
- Market opportunity by geography
- Market drivers
- Market challenges
- Market trends
Vendor Landscape
- Vendor landscape
- Landscape disruption
- Industry risks
- Competitive scenario
Vendor Analysis
- Vendors covered
- Market positioning of vendors
- Chase Corp.
- Daikin Industries Ltd.
- Dow Inc.
- Dymax Corp.
- H K Wentworth Ltd.
- H.B. Fuller Co.
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
- KISCO Ltd.
- MG Chemicals Ltd.
- Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd.
Appendix
- Scope of the report
- Currency conversion rates for US$
- Research methodology
- List of abbreviations
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"I believe the great pandemic still in the future, and that's going to be a bird flu pandemic for man. It's going to have significant mortality in the 10 to 50% range. It's going to be trouble."Anyone who knows a little about bird flu is likely to wonder where Redfield and other "experts" are getting their predictions from, as natural bird flu is notoriously harmless to humans.
In early April 2022, news of a highly pathogenic bird flu ripping through chicken and turkey flocks in the U.S., triggering the slaughter of millions of these animals, was reported.2,3 Historically, however, the bird flu has never posed a threat to mankind — that is until scientists started tinkering with it, creating a hybrid with human pandemic potential.
Natural Bird Flu Has Never Posed a Human Threat
As reported by Alexis Baden-Mayer, political director for the Organic Consumers Association:4
"H5N1 kills more than half of the people who get it, but H5N1 has circled the globe for decades and there have only ever been 860 human infections worldwide ...Despite that, the U.S. and other countries have already started stockpiling H5N1 vaccine, and the H5N1 vaccine Audenz is being marketed "for 2022." 6 The approval for this vaccine was granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2020, followed by a supplemental approval in 2021. As if on cue, the first-ever H5N1-positive case was identified in the U.S. at the end of April 2022.7
H5N1 isn't transmitted person-to-person5 ... There are no food safety risks associated with H5N1. If farm workers and meat packers don't get bird flu in filthy factory farms or slaughterhouses, it's no surprise the rest of us don't get bird flu from eating raw eggs or handling raw chicken."
Bird Flu Has Already Been Weaponized
By the looks of it, the only way a human bird flu would appear would be if it was created, and wouldn't you know it, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has funded gain of function research with the intention to make H5N1 transmissible to humans, as has global vaccine profiteer Bill Gates, Baden-Mayer notes.8
Some of that research has been undertaken in Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine.9,10,11 For more details on this, be sure to read Baden-Mayer's extensive article.12 Not surprisingly, Gates has warned that another pandemic will emerge — something other than coronavirus — and that this yet-to-come pandemic "will get attention this time."13
Comment: The World Health Organization recently declared plans for a new treaty in preparation for "future pandemics", which will effectively force sovereign nations into complying with the WHO's dictates on how to deal with the pandemic. If countries fail to follow the protocol, they will face economic sanctions and be punished in various ways:
- WHO planning new "pandemic treaty" for 2024
- 'Pandemic Treaty' will hand WHO keys to global government
- Objective:Health - The WHO Pandemic Treaty: Bad News for National Sovereignty"Allegedly 194 countries are poised to sign away there right to self govern in the event of a pandemic, completely giving up their national sovereignty, giving themselves over to the will of the World Health Organization.
Any country signing on to the legally binding pandemic "treaty" would be obligated to follow the dictates of the WHO any time they arbitrarily declare there to be a pandemic (or even the threat of a pandemic). No checks to their ultimate declarations, no questioning their instructions, no autonomy, no self-determination."
In the featured video, Christian Westbrook, aka the Ice Age Farmer,14 details Gates' funding of Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka in Wisconsin, to identify mutations in various bird flu viruses that might have pandemic potential. Fauci has also funded Kawaoka's work since 1990.15
In one experiment, Kawaoka mixed bird flu virus with the Spanish flu virus, resulting in a highly lethal respiratory virus with human transmission capability. Kawaoka has also played around with mixtures of H5N1 and the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) virus, creating an airborne hybrid16,17,18 capable of completely evading the human immune system, effectively rendering humans defenseless against it.19 On a side note, this extremely risky research was done at a biosafety level 2 lab!20
Around the same time, another team of Dutch researchers, led by virologist Ron Fouchier, also created an airborne version of the bird flu, using a combination of genetic engineering and serial infection of ferrets.21 Fouchier's work was also funded by Fauci.
The bird flu has been manipulated and tinkered with in a variety of different ways, making it both airborne (which it was not initially) and capable of cross-species infection.
A decade ago, the work of Kawaoka and others sparked widespread concern about gain of function research, as it was readily recognized that it could accidentally CAUSE a human pandemic.22,23 As a result, the U.S. government in 2014 issued a temporary ban on gain of function research on certain viruses, which remained in place until December 2017.24
We've recently discovered that this ban was circumvented by Fauci, who continued to fund gain of function research on coronaviruses in China during those years. And, today, it looks as though weaponized bird flu might eventually be intentionally released to achieve the geopolitical aims of the technocratic elite, to which Gates belongs.
A Ploy to Force-Eliminate Meat Consumption?
Westbrook (the Ice Age Farmer), suspects weaponized bird flu may be released to usher in The Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes the elimination of traditional farming and meat consumption in favor of patented lab-created "foods."
Indeed, millions of poultry are currently being culled in the name of food safety, and deer — a popular food among hunters — are being targeted for COVID vaccination to prevent cross-species transfer of a mutated virus.25,26 Not surprisingly, the test being used to identify these outbreaks is the fraudulent PCR test that allowed for the fabrication of COVID "cases."
In early April 2022, North Carolina chick sellers were told they will not even be permitted to restock.27 They're allowed to sell the chicks they already have on hand, but that's it. How long that restriction is supposed to remain in place is unclear, but the way things are going, it may well be permanent.
Jacob Thompson of Wine Press News also believes bird flu is being used as a convenient excuse to rid the market of natural beef and poultry:28
"... did you catch that little subtle influence and propaganda of COVID in animals transmitting to us? It is becoming clearer that that is where the narrative is heading ... The wicked handlers need to get the masses off of meats, and so, the 'solution' will be to artificially kill them off, vaccinate them to death, and mandate it be taken off the shelves."Controlled Demolition of the Protein Supply
As noted by Westbrook, we now have mainstream media warning we may one day soon face "an apocalyptic bird flu" capable of wiping out half the world's population. Meanwhile, Gates and others have funded the creation of just such a pathogen for the last 15 years, and the U.S. Department of Defense has funded research to figure out how to attach viruses to migratory birds.29
Yet we're being indoctrinated to believe that lethal human bird flu, if it does emerge, did so through natural evolution. Don't be fooled. To quote Westbrook, what we're looking at is "a controlled demolition of the protein supply." There's nothing accidental or natural about it.
Fertilizer shortages are also having a devastating impact on our food supply by limiting the amount of corn and soy that can be planted this year, and these shortages in turn mean farmers cannot feed their livestock, including chickens, so egg shortages are now looming on the horizon as well.
If you still struggle to put the puzzle pieces of manufactured food scarcity, famine and The Great Reset together, just consider how easy it will be for the global cabal to control populations when they're starving to death. In a global famine, they can then present themselves as the "saviors" and hand out digital IDs that will allow you to collect a ration of processed food.
Of course, that digital ID will also function as a vaccine passport, so to get your food you'll have to take whatever vaccine they tell you to, and it will be connected to a centrally controlled programmable currency that can be confiscated if you fail to comply. The end game is simply to create such widespread calamity that the people of the world willingly surrender all rights and freedoms.
Past Bird Flu Hoaxes
In 2005, President George Bush and U.S. officials warned bird flu would kill 2 million Americans and 150 million globally. It was a ridiculous threat that never materialized, but it did further the bioweapons industrial complex. Gain of function research was funded to the tune of billions of dollars and justified as "necessary" for the development of vaccines.
However, it was really a dual use program to create bioweapons that could then enrich Big Pharma. In 2006, I became so convinced by the evidence AGAINST the possibility of a bird flu pandemic that I wrote the book "The Great Bird Flu Hoax," detailing the massive fraud involved. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller. In it, I explained how:
- Multinational drug companies and food corporations pour billions into manipulating your perception of health and the daily news, just to increase their profits, and the health threats (and ethics breaches) they are really responsible for.
- Scientists are bought by drug companies and other big business to report whatever "research findings" they have been paid to report.
- Government is more than just complicit — it actively works with the drug companies and other stalwarts of the conventional health care paradigm, and are directly responsible for raising false alarms in order to draw your attention away from the real public health and safety issues they perpetuate.
It was exceptionally reactive, harming far more people than the virus itself. (Still, the injuries from the H1N1 vaccine are a drop in the bucket compared to the injuries caused by the experimental mRNA COVID shots.)
In 2013, mutated bird flu was back again, with the World Health Organization calling it "one of the most lethal" strains. But while it reportedly killed 22 in China, researchers could find no evidence of sustained transmission between people, which is a prerequisite for a pandemic flu virus. In the end, the pandemic narrative went nowhere.
May 6, 2022, I was contacted by Associated Press reporter David Klepper, who asked whether I still feel the avian flu was a hoax, (based on my NYT bestselling book "The Great Bird Flu Hoax") and whether I've changed my mind about the possibility of a human bird flu pandemic, in light of our recent experience with COVID-19 and the current outbreaks in poultry. The short answer is no, I have not.
Bird flu is heavily present in the U.S., and millions of birds are currently being culled, but the natural virus is not very transmissible or lethal to humans. If we do end up with a lethal human bird flu, there's every reason to suspect it was manmade. There's also every reason to suspect a bird flu vaccine will be either ineffective, hazardous or both. As I told Klepper in my emailed response:
"The truth is dangerous in an empire of lies ... The NIH and FDA are both responsible for the development and leak of this virus [SARS-CoV-2], as well as failing to provide basic and inexpensive information that would have saved people's lives.Sources and references
A two-dose injection of genetic code was promised to be 95% effective at stopping transmission of the virus, yet today four doses completely fail at preventing anyone from getting or spreading COVID-19 ... Americans clearly understand that the federal government and major media have lied to them repeatedly, and are completely corrupted by the pharmaceutical companies.
The federal government has completely failed the American people and has continued to lie about gain of function research. Hundreds of bioweapons laboratories are operating around the world, and US researchers are collaborating with them utilizing NIH taxpayer funds.
They are jeopardizing millions of lives while enriching themselves and the pharmaceutical companies. Vaccine passports will be leveraged to roll out a long planned digital identification system combined with digital currencies; it will allow for complete control of transactions based on compliance and behavior.
If the bird flu becomes highly transmissible and lethal to humans, it will be an engineered virus from U.S. or Chinese government-funded biolabs."
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QuestBook raises $8.3 million to help web3 developers secure funds
Blockchain and other web3 projects are racing to reach developers, hosting hackathons, bandying out grants and offering other perks to lure those who can build. But they currently don’t have the bandwidth to review the voluminous number of applications they receive, which pushes away some of the same builders who can bring immense value to those projects.
QuestBook, a startup that is attempting to solve that and more, said today it has raised $8.3 million in its Series A funding as it looks to scale its efforts.
The financing round was led by Lemniscap and saw participation from scores of investors, including Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Dragonfly, Hashed, Polygon, Balaji Srinivasan, Raj Gokal of Solana, Arjun Sethi of Tribe Capital and Maneesh Sharma of GitHub.
QuestBook operates an eponymous platform that allows firms to give grants to developers and invest in them in an efficient and more transparent way. It also screens projects using a number of factors such as a developer’s on-chain and GitHub history to shoulder much of the burden from various blockchain and web3 firms.
The startup, founded in May 2021, originally set out to help builders earn in crypto. But it soon realized, explained Madhavan Malolan, one of its co-founders, that there weren’t many developers who knew how to code in Solidity and Rust, the programming languages underpinning Ethereum and Solana blockchains, respectively.
There’s a large whitespace in the developer ecosystem today. Just as retail investors’ appetite slows down when crypto enters the bear cycle, many developers also start to explore other, more familiar opportunities.
But more importantly, there aren’t too many developers coding for web3 in the first place, a problem that can be solved with long-term incentives. Even as more than 34,000 new developers committed code for a web3 project in 2021, it’s still a tiny fraction of the global software engineers base, according to a recent report by Electric Capital, a venture firm that invests in web3 startups.
To kick things off, QuestBook began teaching developers how to code in these languages at no charge and also published over 100 tutorials for anyone to get started. The program quickly took off, said Malolan, and amassed over 18,000 developers. Since attracting a large enough base, QuestBook has been exploring ways to help developers secure funds to build their projects.
“That’s something we always kind of vibe with,” he said in an interview. “For example, I have never bought any crypto in my life. All the crypto that I have, I earned them by contributing to open source projects.”
“One of the things we saw during the late December break was that people were not looking at crypto as a full-time job. They were looking at it as a side-job. We wondered how we could give these people an opportunity to start earning on the side so that they can find financial mobility and then double down,” he said.
Nearly every blockchain, their foundations, or firms building atop of these projects offer grants. They typically fund these projects through their own tokens, thereby increasing the value of their own digital assets if more developers build something viable on their platforms.
But as mutually beneficial as this transaction appears, it is confusing and overwhelming at times to identify the themes the variety of firms wish to back and the rate at which they are deploying the funds. Often it may take a developer months to just hear from the protocol, for instance.
And these firms need additional assistance in credential-gating the applications to remove potential bad players. Uniswap, a decentralized network on Ethereum credited for the emergence of the DeFi ecosystem on the mothership, learned this lesson the hard way.
The firm last year offered a no-strings-attached $20 million grant to developers, which quickly saw over 50% of the capital being swapped for a stablecoin.
QuestBook today works with the Ethereum Foundation, Polygon, Aave, Near and Harmony, and has helped them provide developers over $1.5 million in grant money. The startup, which currently doesn’t monetize its software, plans to increase this grants disbursement to $30 million to $50 million over the next two quarters, it said.
It has much larger ambitions beyond helping developers secure grants, he said.
QuestBook’s tool is already helping firms create small funds across the globe so that local talent can find and invest in new projects. The investments are all transparent and if the developers think the individual running the show isn’t doing a good job, they can vote to have the person replaced.
“It’s minimal grants DAO with maximum community participation. I know we need to come up with a better name,” Malolan laughed. “The idea is that let us say you’re running a network or a protocol, and you’re able to see some innovation happening in a space or a region that you don’t have the expertise or bandwidth to evaluate, you delegate capital to others.”
QuestBook is also working to broaden the ways developers can find work opportunities.
“Right now, we are solving the capital allocation problem,” said Malolan. “What we are aiming for is to bring permissionless work to crypto. An Uber driver can tap a button and get the job and start earning. The same infrastructure is not available for developers. Of course to solve this, you will need strong credentialing, strong workflows, and capital. We are beginning to tackle the workflows.”
Malolan hesitated to talk much about it, saying the efforts are in early stage, but shared that QuestBook has built a wallet of its own that does gasless transactions (meaning users won't be required to pay transaction fees to do transactions.)
“Wallets we all use today are designed for DeFi. Since in our case, we are not transacting money, but just information, it made sense for us to build our own gasless wallet where it doesn’t cost people anything to save information. For the most part, developers will not even know, nor should they, that there’s a wallet in play,” he said. | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/questbook-raises-8-3-million-093532539.html | 2022-05-18T10:55:49Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/questbook-raises-8-3-million-093532539.html | true | 2 |
ANTONIO CONTE's Tottenham team are just ONE point away from securing Champions League football for next season.
The Italian has helped turn Spurs' fortunes around and they look set to pip North London rivals Arsenal to fourth.
Arsenal fell to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Newcastle on Monday night putting Tottenham firmly in the driving seat.
Spurs will play already relegated Norwich on the final day of the season, whereas Arsenal take on relegation-threatened Everton.
Conte said after Tottenham's win over Burnley that he hoped it put pressure on Arsenal - and it did.
He said: "I think first of all we had to do our task and to win and get three points and put some pressure on Arsenal.
"We know very well it is not easy to play against Newcastle and especially when they arrive with the new manager and in a good spell and not an easy game, but it will be the same for us in Norwich [in the final game of the season], and the last game against Everton for Arsenal.
"For sure I will watch the game because I love football and I want to watch and I want also to suffer.
"But I think it is a big achievement for the last game to have the possibility to take a place into the Champions League, because I don't forget our path since November and we will see what happens.
"I also think Arsenal did a really good job this season because they didn't play in Europe and now they have a chance to play in the Champions League."
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But with Champions League football, Tottenham could lure some top class talent to the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
And if Spurs want to keep competing for the top four every season, as well as keep Conte happy, they'll need to be prepared to splash the cash.
SunSport looks at some players who could arrive at Spurs this summer with the lure of Champions League football.
Paulo Dybala
Paulo Dybala will be one of the hottest free agents in world football.
The Argentine will leave club Juventus for FREE and he may finally sign for Tottenham having attracted interest from the Premier League club before.
Spurs have been keen on Dybala for a number of years and have launched bids to sign him.
Dybala would command a high wage.
Spurs could also face competition from a number of top clubs from around Europe.
Christian Eriksen
Former Tottenham man Christian Eriksen has had a remarkable recovery since he collapsed at Euro 2020 while playing for Denmark.
He then left Inter Milan after having a ICD fitted.
Eriksen has found himself at Brentford in the Prem and he has helped keep the Bees up on the first time of asking.
But the Danish playmaker still hopes of playing Champions League football.
Speaking to Viaplay, he said: "I do not think that there are some football players who can just pick and choose between clubs, because there are many criteria that come into play.
"There are also many clubs that need to see one's path before that happens.
"I have different offers and options, which we are considering, and then we make a decision.
"I would love to play Champions League football again. I know how much fun it is, but it isn't essential for me."
Could a return be on the cards?
Matheus Nunes
Matheus Nunes has impressed for Sporting Lisbon.
The Brazilian-born 23-year-old has been tracked by Tottenham, Manchester City and Newcastle.
He could cost around £34million, which in today's market, isn't particularly pricey.
Champions League football and a slightly easier pathway to regular minutes may give Tottenham the edge over Newcastle and Man City.
Lautaro Martinez
Inter Milan's Lautaro Martinez was heavily linked with a move to Tottenham last summer but the move didn't go through.
Tottenham could return for Martinez this summer to bolster Conte's attacking options.
The Argentine would most definitely cost upwards of £50m.
Martinez played under Conte in last season's Serie A-winning team.
Idrissa Gueye
Idrissa Gueye is being linked with a return to the Prem having had a spell with Everton.
The Paris Saint-Germain ace is entering the final year of his contract and could be picked up for a modest fee.
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Shares of Ruchi Soya zoomed over 10 per cent to hit an intraday high of Rs 1188.6 on BSE after the company announced the acquisition of the food retail business Acharya Balkrishna’s PatanjalI Ayurved at Rs 690 crore in keeping with its prospectus on the follow-on public offer (FPO) with capital markets regulator SEBI.
"Ruchi Soya Industries Limited has entered into a Business Transfer Agreement with Patanjali Ayurved Limited to acquire the food retail business undertaking of PAL which consists of manufacturing, packaging labelling and retail trading of certain food products along with manufacturing plants located at Padartha, Haridwar, and Newasa, Maharashtra, as a going concern on a slump sale basis," the company said.
"The transaction will consist of transfer of employees, assets (excluding Patanjali’s brand, trademarks, designs, and copyrights), current assets (excluding debtors, vehicles, cash, and bank balance) contracts, licenses and permits, distribution network, customers related to the Food Retail Business Undertaking of PAL," it added.
With a market capitalisation of more than Rs 42,000, the shares are trading higher than 5-day, 20-day, 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages.
Also, now the name of Ruchi Soya will be changed to Patanjali Foods post-acquisition. On April 11, Patanjali-owned Ruchi Soya stated, in a BSE filing, that its board approved the changing of the company name to Patanjali Foods Ltd.
The oil-and-food-products major launched its FPO on March 24 to garner Rs 4,300 crore. Ruchi Soya’s FPO was oversubscribed 3.6 times.
It received bids for 17.56 crore equity shares against the size of 4.89 crore equity shares on the final day. The retail quota, which constitutes 35 per cent of the issue, saw a subscription of 90 per cent.
Notably, long-term investors have made big gains by investing in this stock as it has surged over 19,000 per cent in the last three years.
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SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — Five German soccer fans have been detained following clashes ahead of the Europa League final between Eintracht Frankfurt and Rangers, Spanish authorities said Wednesday.
Spanish police said the Frankfurt fans were taken into custody after fighting with Scottish supporters and officers at about midnight in the center of the city.
Police said the Frankfurt supporters threw bricks and tables from bars, and fired flares at Rangers fans and at police officers.
There were no reports of significant injuries.
More than 5,000 security personnel are on alert in the southern Spanish city as authorities expected up to 150,000 fans to arrive for Wednesday’s match in Europe’s second-tier club competition. Most were without tickets for the final.
Frankfurt fans had already caused problems in the city ahead of the team’s game against Seville club Real Betis in the round of 16.
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Revealed to the world back in April last year, the Toyota GR86 will soon make its way to Thailand, according to Headlight Magazine. The publication reported that the entry-level sports car will be launched in the Land of Smiles in the third quarter (yes, we’re already well into the second quarter, it’s been that kind of year) of 2022, during which it will join its Subaru BRZ twin that has been on sale there since March.
There are no details regarding specs or pricing, but they should mirror the car’s Pleiades-badged sibling. The BRZ is sold in full-spec form and costs an eye-watering 2,699,000 baht (RM342,600), or 2,849,000 baht (RM361,700) if you want to lose all your petrolhead credentials (i.e. buy this thing as an automatic).
As previously reported, the GR86 is the second generation of the two-door coupé jointly developed by Toyota and Subaru and uses the base platform of the previous 86. The revised design features taller headlights, smoother front and rear fender bulges, functional front fender vents and sleeker wraparound taillights joined by a gloss black strip; the rear number plate recess has also been moved to the bumper.
The Toyota continues to get its own front end treatment with a trapezoidal “matrix” grille and slim corner air inlets with inverted L-shaped frames. The black 18-inch multi-spoke alloy wheels on higher-spec models are of a similar design to the GR Yaris‘, albeit cast instead of forged and lacking BBS branding. The 215/40R18 Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tyres are also narrower than on the hatch.
Inside, the GR86 gets a more modern cabin that features heavier seat bolstering and a new seven-inch digital instrument cluster inspired by the boxer engine under the bonnet. In Thailand, the BRZ is offered with an eight-inch infotainment touchscreen, dual-zone automatic climate control, a Track drive mode and a reverse camera, and the Toyota should get the same features there.
Under the skin, the GR86 utilises high-strength steels, as well as aluminium in the bonnet, engine underbody, roof and front fenders. This not only reduces weight but also increases torsional rigidity by a claimed 50%, helping to deliver more stable and agile handling.
While the new car has broadly similar dimensions as before, the lower height and seat hip point have allowed for a lower centre of gravity in concert with the flat-four engine. The Subaru 2.4 litre naturally-aspirated FA24D is larger than the old 2.0 litre unit; it continues to be equipped with Toyota’s D-4S direct injection system and produces 237 PS at 7,000 rpm and 250 Nm of torque at 3,700 rpm.
Those figures represent increases of 29 PS and 38 Nm, allowing the GR86 to sprint from zero to 100 km/h in 6.3 seconds – over a second quicker than before – before hitting a top speed of 226 km/h. That’s with the six-speed manual gearbox; the six-speed slushbox (which gets its own Sport mode) takes more than half a second longer to reach 100 km/h (6.9 seconds) and tops out at just 216 km/h.
Safety-wise, the GR86 finally receives Subaru’s EyeSight suite of driver assists, including autonomous emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, front departure alert, reverse AEB and automatic high beam. However, this is only offered on the automatic version; the manual car sadly continues to lack these items. Seven airbags and stability control continue to be standard across the range.
The GR86 will likely make its Malaysian debut soon after its Thai launch, following in the footsteps of the GR Yaris. This tallies with UMW Toyota Motor’s confirmation that it will introduce new models later this year. You’d better hope that the Malaysian model will adopt pricing closer to that of the local BRZ, which is available to order at dealers with more reasonable expected pricing of RM229,245 for the manual model and RM239,245 with the automatic. | https://paultan.org/2022/05/18/toyota-gr86-thai-launch-q3-2022-malaysia-after/ | 2022-05-18T11:10:50Z | https://paultan.org/2022/05/18/toyota-gr86-thai-launch-q3-2022-malaysia-after/ | true | 1 |
By Tom Decent and Phil Lutton
Cody Simpson has put the finishing touches on one of the most remarkable stories in Australian sport, completing his audacious switch from international pop star to elite athlete by blasting his way onto the national squad for this year’s FINA World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
The 25-year-old from the Gold Coast, who toured the world as a teenager and counts Miley Cyrus, Kylie Jenner and Gigi Hadad as former flames, finished third in the 100m butterfly to secure a dream call-up to the Dolphins at the Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide on Wednesday night.
The squads won’t be named until the end of the meet but with second-placed Kyle Chalmers not swimming at the World Championships and the Australians able to take three individual swimmers to the Commonwealth Games, Simpson should start getting measured for his first green and gold tracksuit.
Olympic finalist Matt Temple won in 51.50s, with Chalmers strong at the end to finish second in 51.67. Simpson wasn’t able to replicate the 51.79 heat swim from Wednesday morning but his time of 51.96 was bang on the FINA qualifying mark.
“It feels really good. Coming in on the touch, I just thought I’d messed it up. But to come in on the qualifying time and get on the podium at the nationals, it’s unreal. I certainly didn’t expect it to even be a possibility until 2024,” Simpson said.
“I’ve just put in the hours all year, trying to make some progress. I didn’t expect this much progress so soon.
“It means everything. My mum [Angie] swam for Australia. I always wanted to swim for Australia and was side-tracked for the better part of 10 years. But she’s been with me ever since I decided to come back.”
Simpson had some high-profile mentors to help along the way, with swimming legends Michael Phelps, Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe all in his corner to offer advice. This was Simpson proving them right after they told him to make his dream a reality, no matter how far-fetched it seemed given he had spent a decade away from the competition.
“I was never greeted with any doubt from any of those guys. They said they thought I could do it. That gave me the air under my wings.”
Simpson was a talented junior swimmer and his early coaches had little doubt he was good enough to compete at the very highest level. But once he was discovered singing and playing his guitar on YouTube, he was swept up in a musical journey that saw him move to LA when he was 13 and release a top 10 Billboard album.
That blossomed into a hectic touring schedule, a celebrity lifestyle, fashion and modelling contracts and even a role in a Broadway musical.
Yet his love for the water never left and it was in the stands at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016 that he realised he wanted to be back racing, not watching from afar. It took another four years for him to commit to the cause before he dipped his toe back into racing under the guidance of former Australian sprinter Brett Hawke.
He has since joined the star-studded quad of Michael Bohl on the Gold Coast and the supercoach has turbo-charged his rise up the butterfly ranks. What was always a plan to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has now seen him surge onto the team two years ahead of schedule.
Simpson will be a powerhouse promotional tool for Swimming Australia as it rides a wave of success after the brilliant returns in the Tokyo pool. He has a Twitter following of 6.7m and another 4.4m on Instagram, as well as starring in an Amazon documentary charting his return to the sport.
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Probiotic treatment for asthma hailed as breath of fresh air
By Stuart Layt
Asthma advocates are hailing research by gut health company Biome Australia confirming that its new product actually helps reduce asthma attacks.
The company developed a probiotic treatment that performed well in early studies, reducing the number of asthma attacks in children.
But founder and managing director Blair Norfolk said Biome Australia wanted to show that the therapies had a real, measurable benefit.
“There’s a huge problem at the moment in the field of natural medicine, which don’t have strong clinical evidence to back them up,” he said.
“That’s a big pain point for doctors and pharmacists, who might be reluctant to recommend these treatments, and it gives the industry limited credibility.”
In an effort to change that perception, Biome Australia did a double-blind placebo-controlled trial of its probiotic on 422 children.
The study showed 64.2 per cent fewer asthma attacks in the group given the probiotic compared to the control group.
The research has been published in the Journal of Immunology Research.
Anthony Flynn, the senior research advisor with Asthma Australia, the nation’s peak advocacy group for asthma research and treatment, said it was excited by Biome Australia’s work.
“We think these are really promising results, and we hope they’re part of an evolving story that is built upon and which leads to further work being done,” he said.
“The fundamental science making the relationship [between gut health and asthma] is there, and now there needs to be more application of that science to develop viable treatments.”
Flynn said, more broadly, there was a lot of anecdotal evidence for the health of the gut being linked to asthma, as well as a range of other conditions, but there was still not a lot of high-quality research to confirm or refute those claims.
“People with asthma tell us about how their diet can either improve their asthma or make it worse, and at the same time, people are taking more of an interest in their gut microbiome,” he said.
“The relationship seems to have been abolished between gut processes and inflammation underpinning asthma and allergies, and we’re hopeful this study, along with others of similarly high quality, can tell us what to do to take the next step in treating the condition.”
The probiotic uses two bacterial strains – Lactobacillus salivarius and Bifidobacterium breve – which were claimed to have a positive effect on inflammation.
Hundreds of Australians die every year from asthma attacks, with 417 people dying in 2020 alone, despite the condition being considered very treatable.
Aside from the death toll, the condition is also estimated to cost the Australian health system $770 million annually.
However, Norfolk said much of the treatment focused on the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes.
He said he believed treatments such as the probiotic his company developed would start to address the other side of that, and help reduce the ultimate causes of asthma, especially in young people.
“This is not a cure for asthma, but it’s something that can be used with existing therapies,” he said. | https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/probiotic-treatment-for-asthma-hailed-as-breath-of-fresh-air-20220518-p5amdp.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | 2022-05-18T11:12:02Z | https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/probiotic-treatment-for-asthma-hailed-as-breath-of-fresh-air-20220518-p5amdp.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national | false | 9 |
11-year-old with severe allergies impacted by formula shortage
O’FALLON, Ill. (KSDK) - An 11-year-old boy with severe allergies and his family are struggling to find the medical formula he needs due to the national baby formula shortage.
When Mackenzie Broyles pulls a box of Nutricia Neocate Splash from the pantry, it’s one of their last with the medical formula she needs for her 11-year-old son, Cash. She noticed she was running low, and that’s when she found out the national formula shortage was now hitting home.
Cash has eosinophilia, a condition that causes the disease-fighting white blood cells in his body to treat nearly all foods as a parasite or bacteria. The only foods he can tolerate are rice, potatoes, apples and Nutricia Neocate Splash.
The dietary requirement has been costing more every time his mom goes online for stock.
“It’s $567, and he would go through this in about five or six days,” Broyles said.
Like many parents, she turned to social media to see if anyone in her network had extra formula, finding a lot of willing kindness but no solutions.
“We’ve had I don’t know how many moms offer us breast milk. I don’t think they realized Cash was 11 when they offered that up,” Broyles said.
Neocate’s makers have an update on their website telling customers that “the Abbott formula recall in February led to a huge surge in demand for alternative amino acid-based formula, including our Neocate products.”
Broyles’ medical supplier told her that they have about 2,000 other customers in the St. Louis region in the same situation as her.
Ellyn Kodroff is the president of CURED, a foundation that’s donated $6 million for research on eosinophilic conditions, and now, they’re also trying to connect families with the formula they need.
“It is so difficult and so scary,” Kodroff said. “We knew right away there was going to be some kind of trouble. I don’t think we ever imagined that it was going to come to this.”
While the Broyles family searches for a solution, they turn to their faith, feeding their souls and hoping for a miracle. Unlike many of the infants affected by the shortage, Cash is expected to need his formula for years.
“We’re looking to God, and we’re trusting that God is going to provide for him right now because nobody else seems to know what to do,” Broyles said.
Broyles says she’s urging people in her network to contact Congress in hopes of passing the Medical Nutrition Equity Act, which would require health insurance companies to cover the medical formulas.
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Nearly a year after the tragic collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, authorities believe they've solved the mystery of the woman's voice that was heard in the rubble.
Rescue workers who were part of the initial search and rescue efforts at the site after the June 24, 2021, collapse heard the woman's voice coming from the building's ruins but her identity has remained a mystery.
But according to a newly-released Miami-Dade Fire Rescue memo, officials believe it belonged to 36-year-old Theresa Velasquez.
Velasquez was a Los Angeles-based executive for the Live Nation event promotion company. She had flown into Miami to visit her parents at the Surfside condo, both of whom also died in the collapse.
Her body was recovered on July 8. The bodies of Julio and Angela Velasquez had been recovered and identified earlier.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Alan Cominsky had spoken about rescue workers hearing the voice not long after the collapse of the 12-story oceanfront building, which killed 98 people.
"They were searching for a female voice, is what we heard for several hours, and eventually we didn't hear her voice anymore," Cominsky said at a news conference a week after the collapse.
Cominsky said the workers continued searching but never found the woman alive.
"Unfortunately we didn't have success with that," he said.
According to the 11-page memo, written by Deputy Fire Chief Ray Jadallah to Cominsky, the identification of Velasquez as the voice in the rubble came from over two months of interviews with crews who worked on the debris field pile and under the rubble in the condo's parking garage area.
According to the memo, fire rescue search and rescue dogs picked up a "live victim scent" underneath the parking garage around 6:30 a.m., nearly five hours after the collapse, and a short time later rescuers began calling out and could faintly hear a female voice.
"It was explained to this supervisor that the crews never had a whole or a long conversation with the woman in the debris pile; instead, they would only communicate for a few seconds at a time," Jadallah wrote.
He added that the various noises from rescue workers made it hard to hear the voice.
"Rescue crews explained that the only times they could communicate with the woman was when all operations ceased, and everyone was silenced," Jadallah wrote. "Even the faintest whisper from the rescue crews or sloshing in the standing water negated any ability to hear the woman."
The memo also refutes a media report that the voice came from Valeria
Barth, a 14-year-old girl visiting from Medellin, Colombia, with her parents.
Jadallah wrote that rescuers reported hearing the voice of a woman and not a young girl, and that the woman didn't have a Spanish accent.
"Considering Valeria is a 14-year-old on a visit to America, rescuers would have heard her crying, perhaps shouting in Spanish, or as expected for a young girl to do, calling out for her parents," the memo states. "Instead, the woman's voice was calm and in control, never calling out for her parents during the rescue operations, as it is expected of a 14-year-old girl." | https://www.necn.com/news/national-international/officials-id-woman-whose-voice-was-heard-in-surfside-condo-collapse-rubble/2741618/ | 2022-05-18T11:14:28Z | https://www.necn.com/news/national-international/officials-id-woman-whose-voice-was-heard-in-surfside-condo-collapse-rubble/2741618/ | false | 11 |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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FROST ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
626 AM EDT Wed May 18 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Now that it is after sunrise, temperatures are mostly in the
upper 30s to lower 40s and rising, so frost will no longer pose
a threat. Thus the Frost Advisory is being cancelled.
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Diane Boyle and husband Karl say they were robbed of their livelihoods and forced to sell their home after being removed from the carers' register by the authority
Allegations of assault were made against Diane by two teenagers who had been in her care.The boys claimed she attacked them several times in the family home. Devout Christian Diane stood trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court in December 2017. She was cleared of four assault charges and one charge of threatening behaviour. Witnesses on her behalf included a Sunday School teacher, a council social worker and the grandparents of the boys who made the allegations.Diane and Karl were removed from the foster carers' register and, despite the not guilty verdicts, an appeal against the council's decision was rejected. Backed by the Independent Workers Union, they prepared a case for unfair dismissal against the council. The authority argued that, as foster carers, they were not employees of the council and the claim was invalid.Diane, 53, and Karl, 59, were set to give evidence at a tribunal, but a settlement was reached shortly before the four-day hearing was to begin.
For more see page 6 . | https://www.glasgowworld.com/business/blacklisted-carers-in-false-accusation-case-are-handed-payout-by-council-four-days-before-tribunal-was-due-to-start-3698494 | 2022-05-18T11:15:32Z | https://www.glasgowworld.com/business/blacklisted-carers-in-false-accusation-case-are-handed-payout-by-council-four-days-before-tribunal-was-due-to-start-3698494 | false | 1 |
India to press ahead with strict cybersecurity rules despite industry concerns
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- Rajeev ChandrasekharIndian politician
By Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will not change upcoming cybersecurity rules that force social media, technology companies and cloud service providers to report data breaches swiftly, despite growing industry concerns, the government said on Wednesday.
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team issued a directive in April asking tech companies to report data breaches within six hours of "noticing such incidents" and to maintain IT and communications logs for six months.
They also mandated cloud service providers such as Amazon and virtual private network (VPN) companies to retain names of their customers and IP addresses for at least five years, even after they stop using the company's services.
The measures have raised concerns within the industry about a growing compliance burden and higher costs.
India's junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said there will be no changes despite the worries, saying tech companies have an obligation to know who is using their services.
India has tightened regulation of Big Tech firms in recent years, prompting pushback from the industry and in some cases even straining trade ties between New Delhi and Washington.
New Delhi has said the new rules were needed as cybersecurity incidents were reported regularly but the requisite information needed to investigate them was not always readily available from the service providers.
But the rules have caused widespread discontent. In a closed-door meeting this week, many social media and tech company executives discussed strategies to urge New Delhi to put the rules on hold, according to a source with direct knowledge.
The source said European authorities require data breaches to be reported within about 72 hours, adding that it was difficult to report incidents in six hours.
Chandrasekhar, however, said India was being generous, as some countries mandate immediate reporting.
The rules are set to be enforced from end of June. After they were announced, NordVPN, one of the world's largest VPN providers, said it may remove its servers from India.
Privacy activists have said the rules contradict the idea of VPN, which is to safeguard identity of individuals such as whistleblowers from surveillance.
"If you don't want to go by these rules, and if you want to pull out, then frankly ... you have to pull out," Chandrasekhar told reporters.
(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra in New Delhi; Editing by David Clarke) | https://news.yahoo.com/india-press-ahead-strict-cybersecurity-105846564.html | 2022-05-18T11:17:21Z | https://news.yahoo.com/india-press-ahead-strict-cybersecurity-105846564.html | true | 3 |
The $100,000 fund will help cover the cost of education for future therapists who are committed to supporting underrepresented communities.
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ: MTCH) This May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Hinge is announcing an industry-first fund to ensure future daters from LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities have access to empathetic therapists who can help them build healthy relationships. The fund will give ten aspiring therapists and counselors $10,000 each to help cover the cost of their education.
It's difficult for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people to find mental health support from providers who understand their lived experiences. In fact, the Trevor Project found that nearly half of transgender and nonbinary youth aren't receiving mental health care due to concerns around a provider's LGBTQIA+ competence and compassion. Additionally, only one in four mental health counselors are people of color, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor. Hinge is on a mission to change that.
To promote "Mental Health Advocates of Tomorrow," Hinge is teaming up with multidisciplinary artist and mental health champion, Fariha Róisín. Author of the forthcoming HarperWave book, "Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind", Fariha's work focuses on highlighting accessible resources for marginalized communities. Hinge is excited to work alongside and learn from Fariha, who, as the campaign ambassador, will spread awareness of the initiative across the wellness community and help select the ten winners.
"So many marginalized folks are wrestling with trauma, shame, lack of resources, and isolation. A lot don't even trust therapists and I can't blame them," says Fariha Róisín. "These times can be really dark and overwhelming in a lot of ways and that's why we need mental health advocates. This initiative is helping people become the light bearers, creating generational ripple effects of healing."
Hinge is also proud to be receiving the expert support from Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective: BEAM and Inclusive Therapists who will be helping further amplify the campaign within their own communities to ensure it reaches eligible, aspiring future advocates who are most deserving of this opportunity.
How to Apply:
- Starting May 18, 2022 through June 17, 2022, current U.S. college and graduate students in the mental health field can visit HingeAdvocatesofTomorrow.com to apply.
- Applicants must complete an application form and answer two Prompts about the mental health and wellness needs of the LGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC communities.
- 20 finalists will be selected to participate in the final round which will include submitting a video answering, "How will winning the Grand Prize support your individual education and career journey?"
- Ten winners will be selected this August to each receive $10,000 toward future education expenses.
To promote mental health awareness globally in its community, Hinge is also introducing new wellness Prompts that can be displayed on users' profiles. The "Self-Care Prompts'' encourage daters to be vulnerable by reacting to statements such as "Therapy recently taught me," "My self-care routine is," and "My last journal entry was about."
To learn more about Mental Health Advocates of Tomorrow, please visit HingeAdvocatesofTomorrow.com.
About Hinge
Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted™. In today's digital world, singles are so focused on sending likes and looking through profiles that they're not actually building meaningful connections and going on dates. Hinge is on a mission to change that by designing the most effective, 3D app experience. On Hinge, there are no rules, timers, or games. Instead, you'll have unique conversations over the text, photos, and audio you've shared on your profile. And it's resonating with daters. Hinge was the fastest-growing dating app in the US, UK, CA and AUS in 2019 and 2020. Hinge was acquired by Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH) in 2018.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The man that prosecutors call a diabolical and crafty monster who staged a deadly shooting at a Southern California church seemed to be a kind and quiet person who shared his food and proclaimed himself a Christian, his roommate says.
David Wenwei Chou gave no warning that he might be planning such an attack, Jordin Davis of Las Vegas told The Associated Press.
“At this point, and everything that’s happened, I’ve just started to wonder: ‘Did you, David, use your kindness and generosity to hide some very dark secrets?’” Davis asked.
Chou, 68, is accused of opening fire Sunday afternoon at a lunch gathering of elderly parishioners at Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in the community of Laguna Woods.
A local physician who tried to stop him was killed and five other people were injured before Chou was subdued by church members, authorities said.
Chou had his first court appearance by video link Tuesday but didn’t enter a plea to charges of murder and attempted murder. His arraignment was continued to June 10. He will be held without bail.
Chou wanted to “execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in announcing the charges, which include a sentencing enhancement for lying in wait.
If convicted, Chou could face either life in prison or the death penalty, the DA said.
“This monster crafted a diabolical plan to lock the church doors with his victims inside in order to lead what he thought were innocent lambs to slaughter,” Spitzer said. “But what he didn’t realize was the parishioners at the church that day weren’t lambs – they were lions and they fought back against the evil that tried to infiltrate their house of worship.”
Spitzer said Chou was motivated by hatred for Taiwan, where he was born after his family was forced from mainland China when Communists prevailed in a civil war that ended in 1949. He apparently chose the church at random and didn’t know anyone there before he drove to California from Las Vegas on Saturday, authorities said.
Spitzer said he is considering hate crime charges, and federal authorities are conducting their own hate crime investigation.
Balmore Orellana, a former neighbor in Las Vegas, said Chou’s life unraveled after his wife left him last year and returned to Taiwan. Spitzer said Chou’s wife is terminally ill.
Chou, a U.S. citizen who worked for years as a security guard, moved into a four-bedroom home in Las Vegas in February. Davis, his roommate, said Chou often shared his food, usually chicken dishes, and kept to a quiet routine: “come home, go to sleep, take a shower, go to work and just repeat.”
Chou never talked religion but identified himself as a Christian and made a cross in black tape on the roof of his car, Davis said.
The two had few conversations beyond small talk or chatting about Davis’ dog, Zeus, Davis said.
Chou only spoke about Taiwan once, during a conversation less than two weeks ago, Davis said. Chou said he felt the Taiwanese government was corrupt and disliked how people on the island were sympathetic to the leadership.
“He made himself seem like he was basically a political refugee,” Davis said.
At the church, Chou first walked into a worship service, giving his name to the receptionist as “Da-Wei Chou,” and sat in the back of the sanctuary reading one of the church-provided Chinese-language newspapers, according to a church statement issued Tuesday.
Later, prosecutors said Chou spent about an hour mingling with dozens of members of the congregation at a luncheon honoring the church’s former pastor, Billy Chang, who had served the church for 20 years and was returning for the first time since moving back to Taiwan two years ago.
Chou was armed with two legally purchased 9 mm handguns and concealed bags holding ammunition and four Molotov cocktail-style devices in the church hall where the luncheon was being held, authorities said.
Chou wore a black shirt with a word written on it in white that some believed said “Security,” a church statement said.
When Chou began locking the doors with chains, some parishioners who were leaving thought he was a guard. He allowed them to exit and was later seen nailing shut two other exit doors, the church said.
When the gunfire erupted, Dr. John Cheng, 52, charged Chou and was shot but authorities said he disrupted the attack and may have saved dozens of lives.
Chang, the retired pastor, said in a statement that he first thought Chou was using a toy gun as a prank. When he realized it was actual gunfire, Chang picked up a chair and threw it at Chou, who fell on the floor. Chang rushed at Chou and several congregation members held Chou down and tied him up.
“It wasn’t until then I noticed that Dr. Cheng was lying facedown to my front right with three bloody bullet wounds on the back, not moving,” Chang said.
Cheng, who practiced sports medicine, had recently lost his father and had taken his mother to the luncheon. He was well known in the community and liked by his patients.
The wounded included an 86-year-old woman and four men ranging from 66 to 92, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said. Chang said some have been released from the hospital and others were in stable condition.
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Associated Press journalists John Antczak in Los Angeles, and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report. | https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/u-s-world/roommate-no-warning-signs-before-deadly-church-attack/ | 2022-05-18T11:18:09Z | https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/u-s-world/roommate-no-warning-signs-before-deadly-church-attack/ | false | 23 |
11-year-old with severe allergies impacted by formula shortage
O’FALLON, Ill. (KSDK) - An 11-year-old boy with severe allergies and his family are struggling to find the medical formula he needs due to the national baby formula shortage.
When Mackenzie Broyles pulls a box of Nutricia Neocate Splash from the pantry, it’s one of their last with the medical formula she needs for her 11-year-old son, Cash. She noticed she was running low, and that’s when she found out the national formula shortage was now hitting home.
Cash has eosinophilia, a condition that causes the disease-fighting white blood cells in his body to treat nearly all foods as a parasite or bacteria. The only foods he can tolerate are rice, potatoes, apples and Nutricia Neocate Splash.
The dietary requirement has been costing more every time his mom goes online for stock.
“It’s $567, and he would go through this in about five or six days,” Broyles said.
Like many parents, she turned to social media to see if anyone in her network had extra formula, finding a lot of willing kindness but no solutions.
“We’ve had I don’t know how many moms offer us breast milk. I don’t think they realized Cash was 11 when they offered that up,” Broyles said.
Neocate’s makers have an update on their website telling customers that “the Abbott formula recall in February led to a huge surge in demand for alternative amino acid-based formula, including our Neocate products.”
Broyles’ medical supplier told her that they have about 2,000 other customers in the St. Louis region in the same situation as her.
Ellyn Kodroff is the president of CURED, a foundation that’s donated $6 million for research on eosinophilic conditions, and now, they’re also trying to connect families with the formula they need.
“It is so difficult and so scary,” Kodroff said. “We knew right away there was going to be some kind of trouble. I don’t think we ever imagined that it was going to come to this.”
While the Broyles family searches for a solution, they turn to their faith, feeding their souls and hoping for a miracle. Unlike many of the infants affected by the shortage, Cash is expected to need his formula for years.
“We’re looking to God, and we’re trusting that God is going to provide for him right now because nobody else seems to know what to do,” Broyles said.
Broyles says she’s urging people in her network to contact Congress in hopes of passing the Medical Nutrition Equity Act, which would require health insurance companies to cover the medical formulas.
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New lithium-Ion battery recycling facility opens in Arizona
Li-Cycle Corp. has started operations at its new Arizona Spoke facility located in Gilbert, Arizona.
The company says that Arizona presents a significant opportunity for lithium-ion battery recycling due to the emerging electric vehicle supply chain in the region, as well as its close proximity to large markets such as California, which are expected to produce an increasing supply of end-of-life batteries available for recycling from EVs, energy storage projects and consumer electronics.
Li-Cycle’s Arizona Spoke facility will utilise proprietary technology that processes full EV battery packs without dismantling them manually, making the process safer and more labor efficient. The facility is located close to the company’s existing battery and manufacturing scrap supply network in the Southwestern United States, which optimises logistics and other efficiencies for recycling services.
“We are pleased to announce that our Arizona Spoke is operational,” says Richard Storrie, Regional President, Americas of Li-Cycle in the press release. “This new state-of-the-art facility enhances our ability to serve the recycling needs of our customers, while significantly increasing our operational recycling capacity. We’re also creating an additional domestic source of critical metals to be transformed and supply lithium-ion battery production.”
Li-Cycle’s Alabama Spoke, which is of the same design as the Arizona Spoke, is scheduled to be operational in the Company’s third quarter of 2022. When both the Arizona and Alabama Spokes are operational, Li-Cycle will have a total processing capacity of 30,000 tonnes per annum. By the end of 2023, the Company expects to have a total of 65,000 tonnes of lithium-ion battery processing capacity per annum, across its Spokes in North America and Europe.
The primary output product at the 140,000-square-foot Arizona facility is black mass; consisting of a number of critical metals, including lithium, cobalt and nickel, which Li-Cycle will convert into battery-grade materials at its first North American Hub facility, which is under construction in Rochester, New York. Li-Cycle expects that the Hub will be capable of processing 35,000 tonnes of black mass annually, with targeted commissioning in 2023. | https://evertiq.com/news/51867 | 2022-05-18T11:27:16Z | https://evertiq.com/news/51867 | true | 1 |
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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has asked the Centre and the state governments to clarify their stand on the alleged targeting of places of worship of Muslims in the country.
The board has also decided to provide legal aid to the Intezamiya Masajid Committee and its lawyers in the Gyanvapi Masjid case and launch a nationwide agitation, if necessary, to apprise the public about the "real intention" of creating disputes over the places of worship.
An emergency virtual meeting of the board's Working Committee was held late on Tuesday night in which many important decisions were taken, AIMPLB executive member Qasim Rasool Ilyas told PTI on Wednesday.
The AIMPLB, a leading organisation of Muslims in the country, is a non-government body constituted in 1973 to adopt suitable strategies for the protection and continued applicability of Muslim Personal Law in India, most importantly the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act of 1937.
Referring to the issues of Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi and the Shahi Masjid Idgah in Mathura, Ilyas said, "It was regretted during the meeting that the places of worship of Muslims in the country are being targeted and Religious Places Act of 1991, which was enacted in Parliament with the consent of all, is being openly flouted.”
“It is a matter of great regret that the central government and the state governments are silent on this. Apart from this, the political parties who call themselves secular parties are also keeping silent,” he said,
The board has demanded from all of them to clarify their stand on this, Ilyas said.
He said the board also discussed that the manner in which the lower courts are making decisions regarding the places of worship is regrettable.
The courts should not dishearten the people that might end the hope of last justice, he added.
Ilays said it has been decided in the meeting that the legal committee of the AIMPLB will assist the maintenance body of the mosque -- Anjuman Intezamiya Masajid Committee -- and its lawyers in connection with the Gyanvapi Masjid case in the Supreme Court.
He said the board has appealed to Muslims to maintain peace, stand with courage and fight the legal battle to the best of their ability.
"The board has decided to bring the real intention behind all the disputes being raised regarding mosques before the people so that they cannot be misled. If needed, we can also launch agitation in the country in this connection. The truth is that whatever is happening is being done to damage the unity and integrity of the country," he said.
Ilyas said the board has also decided that different religious communities, religious leaders, civil society and social organisations in the country should be contacted and told about the “truth” because this is not a matter of any one community but of the entire country. | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/clarify-stand-on-targeting-of-muslims-places-of-worship-aimplb-to-centre/20220518.htm | 2022-05-18T11:31:59Z | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/clarify-stand-on-targeting-of-muslims-places-of-worship-aimplb-to-centre/20220518.htm | true | 8 |
Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings in iShares Global REIT ETF (NYSEARCA:REET – Get Rating) by 3.7% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 574,195 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 20,293 shares during the quarter. Bank of America Corp DE’s holdings in iShares Global REIT ETF were worth $17,576,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. boosted its position in iShares Global REIT ETF by 12.4% during the 3rd quarter. Advisor Group Holdings Inc. now owns 44,565 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,223,000 after acquiring an additional 4,911 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. boosted its position in iShares Global REIT ETF by 95.0% during the 3rd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 1,703,107 shares of the company’s stock valued at $46,682,000 after acquiring an additional 829,821 shares in the last quarter. Merriman Wealth Management LLC boosted its position in iShares Global REIT ETF by 4.9% during the 3rd quarter. Merriman Wealth Management LLC now owns 50,371 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,381,000 after acquiring an additional 2,347 shares in the last quarter. Barclays PLC boosted its position in iShares Global REIT ETF by 31,328.4% during the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 80,771 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,214,000 after acquiring an additional 80,514 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Creative Planning boosted its position in iShares Global REIT ETF by 1.1% during the 3rd quarter. Creative Planning now owns 99,712 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,733,000 after acquiring an additional 1,097 shares in the last quarter.
iShares Global REIT ETF stock opened at $26.19 on Wednesday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $28.29 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $28.77. iShares Global REIT ETF has a fifty-two week low of $24.96 and a fifty-two week high of $30.78.
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Tension engulfed Ekpaomaka community in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi on Wednesday as gunmen invaded the community, killed four persons and set a building ablaze.
Steve Orogwu, Chairman of Ikwo Local Government Council told newsmen that the hoodlums attacked Ekpaomaka, his country home, killed his elder brother, two of his brother’s sons and a security guard.
He said the assailants also set his family house ablaze in the onslaught.
“They attacked my house at night and killed my elder brother and two of his sons; they killed our security guard and also set the family house ablaze,’’ he said.
He said the corpses had been deposited at a morgue in Abakaliki.
Police spokesperson in Ebonyi, DSP Loveth Odah, declined comment as she said she was away on official assignment.
A credible police source at the Ikwo Divisional Police Station, who spoke on condition of anonymity, assured however, that the police would unmask the hoodlums and bring them to justice. | https://theeagleonline.com.ng/breaking-gunmen-kill-local-government-chairmans-brother-his-two-sons-in-ebonyi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-gunmen-kill-local-government-chairmans-brother-his-two-sons-in-ebonyi | 2022-05-18T11:38:19Z | https://theeagleonline.com.ng/breaking-gunmen-kill-local-government-chairmans-brother-his-two-sons-in-ebonyi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-gunmen-kill-local-government-chairmans-brother-his-two-sons-in-ebonyi | false | null |
— Consolidated Comparable Sales Decreased 4.0%; U.S. Comparable Sales Decreased 3.8% —
— Represents U.S. Comparable Sales Increase on a Two-Year Basis of 19.7% —
— First Quarter Diluted EPS of $3.51 —
— Affirms Fiscal 2022 Outlook —
MOORESVILLE, N.C., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) today reported net earnings of $2.3 billion, in line with prior-year results, and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $3.51 for the quarter ended April 29, 2022, compared to diluted EPS of $3.21 in the first quarter of 2021.
Total sales for the first quarter were $23.7 billion compared to $24.4 billion in the first quarter of 2021, and comparable sales decreased 4.0%. Comparable sales for the U.S. home improvement business decreased 3.8% for the first quarter. Pro customer sales increased 20%.
"Our sales this quarter were in line with our expectations, excluding our outdoor seasonal categories that were impacted by unseasonably cold temperatures in April. Because 75% of our customer base is DIY, our Q1 sales were disproportionately impacted by the cooler spring temperatures. Now that spring has finally arrived, we are pleased with the improved sales trends we are seeing in May," commented Marvin R. Ellison, Lowe's chairman, president and CEO. "This quarter we delivered over 65 basis points of operating margin improvement, driven by our Total Home strategy and the execution of our Perpetual Productivity Improvement or PPI initiatives. Despite some increased uncertainty in the macro environment, we remain confident in the outlook for the home improvement market and our ability to deliver operating margin expansion in 2022. I would like to thank our front-line associates for their ongoing commitment to our customers and our communities."
Capital Allocation
The company continues to execute a disciplined capital allocation strategy to deliver long-term, sustainable shareholder value. During the quarter, the company repurchased approximately 19 million shares for $4.1 billion, and it paid $537 million in dividends.
The company is affirming its outlook for the operating results of Full Year 2022.
Full Year 2022 Outlook -- a 53-week Year (comparisons to full year 2021 -- a 52-week year)
- Total sales of $97 billion to $99 billion, including the 53rd week
- 53rd week expected to increase total sales by approximately $1.0 billion to $1.5 billion
- Comparable sales expected to range from a decline of 1% to an increase of 1%
- Gross margin rate up slightly compared to prior year
- Depreciation and amortization of approximately $1.75 billion
- Operating income as a percentage of sales (operating margin) of 12.8% to 13.0%
- Interest expense of $1.0 to $1.1 billion
- Effective income tax rate of approximately 25%
- Diluted earnings per share of $13.10 to $13.60
- Total share repurchases of approximately $12 billion
- ROIC1 of over 36%
- Capital expenditures of approximately $2 billion
A conference call to discuss first quarter 2022 operating results is scheduled for today, Wednesday, May 18, at 9:00 am ET. The conference call will be available by webcast and can be accessed by visiting Lowe's website at ir.lowes.com and clicking on Lowe's First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call Webcast. Supplemental slides will be available approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of the conference call. A replay of the call will be archived at ir.lowes.com.
As of April 29, 2022, Lowe's operated 1,971 home improvement and hardware stores in the United States and Canada representing 208 million square feet of retail selling space, and it serviced approximately 230 dealer-owned stores.
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 19 million customer transactions a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2021 sales of over $96 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses operate or service nearly 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements including words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "plan", "desire", "project", "estimate", "intend", "will", "should", "could", "would", "may", "strategy", "potential", "opportunity", "outlook", "scenario", "guidance", and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve, among other things, expectations, projections, and assumptions about future financial and operating results, objectives, business outlook, priorities, sales growth, shareholder value, capital expenditures, cash flows, the housing market, the home improvement industry, demand for products and services, share repurchases, Lowe's strategic initiatives, including those relating to acquisitions and dispositions and the impact of such transactions on our strategic and operational plans and financial results. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties and we can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements.
A wide variety of potential risks, uncertainties, and other factors could materially affect our ability to achieve the results either expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, changes in general economic conditions, such as volatility and/or lack of liquidity from time to time in U.S. and world financial markets and the consequent reduced availability and/or higher cost of borrowing to Lowe's and its customers, slower rates of growth in real disposable personal income that could affect the rate of growth in consumer spending, inflation and its impacts on discretionary spending and on our costs, shortages, and other disruptions in the labor supply, interest rate and currency fluctuations, home price appreciation or decreasing housing turnover, the availability of consumer credit and of mortgage financing, trade policy changes or additional tariffs, outbreaks of pandemics, fluctuations in fuel and energy costs, inflation or deflation of commodity prices, natural disasters, armed conflicts, acts of both domestic and international terrorism, and other factors that can negatively affect our customers.
Investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties, risks and potential events including, but not limited to, those described in "Item 1A - Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and as may be updated from time to time in Item 1A in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or other subsequent filings with the SEC. All such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update these statements other than as required by law.
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1 Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) is calculated using a non-GAAP financial measure. The Company does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis where it is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items and the information is not available without unreasonable effort.
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Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW – Get Rating) Director Andrew Charles Kerin sold 1,550 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $125.11, for a total transaction of $193,920.50. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website.
NYSE ARW opened at $127.42 on Wednesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $8.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 7.16, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.85 and a beta of 1.37. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $119.24 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $123.51. Arrow Electronics, Inc. has a 1 year low of $107.11 and a 1 year high of $137.95. The company has a current ratio of 1.49, a quick ratio of 1.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.51.
Arrow Electronics (NYSE:ARW – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 5th. The technology company reported $5.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.53 by $0.90. Arrow Electronics had a net margin of 3.60% and a return on equity of 24.40%. The firm had revenue of $9.07 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $8.71 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.84 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 8.2% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts anticipate that Arrow Electronics, Inc. will post 21.57 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Several brokerages have commented on ARW. Truist Financial dropped their price target on shares of Arrow Electronics from $143.00 to $126.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, April 8th. StockNews.com downgraded shares of Arrow Electronics from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 11th. Raymond James upgraded shares of Arrow Electronics from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $150.00 price target on the stock in a report on Wednesday, February 2nd. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Arrow Electronics from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $146.00 target price on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 8th.
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Marcos Gains Legislative Power as Allies Join Philippine Senate
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,(Bloomberg) -- The Philippines’ presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is poised to get more support from the legislature after his allies won half of the 12 Senate seats in last week’s elections.
The Commission on Elections issued a resolution on Wednesday declaring the new senators, led by Robin Padilla, an action star and a government neophyte who garnered the most votes in the race. Padilla ran under the ticket of Marcos and Sara Duterte, who led the vice-presidential race.
Five other winning senatorial candidates who ran under the Marcos-Duterte ticket, include former Public Works Secretary Mark Villar and returning Senators Loren Legarda, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Sherwin Gatchalian, and Jinggoy Estrada. The Philippine Senate has 24 members, with half elected every three years for a six-year term.
The election wins can give Marcos leeway to pass his priority bills in Congress. He has said he’ll push for a measure giving job security for contract workers, and has also backed suspension of an excise tax to tame oil price increase. Current economic managers in government are also hoping he’ll continue with tax reforms.
Only Senator Risa Hontiveros, who was seeking a re-election, won from the opposition slate. Other incoming senators include broadcaster Raffy Tulfo and returning Senators Francis Escudero, Alan Peter Cayetano, Joel Villanueva and JV Ejercito.
Three sets of blood relatives will be in the Senate in a country where powerful clans dominate politics: Estrada and Ejercito are siblings, Cayetano will join her sister, and Villar will join his mother -- both family members of billionaire Manuel Villar. Marcos’s sister Imee is also an incumbent senator.
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Cinco De Mayo Party Leads To Wild Fight in Ellenville, 5 Arrested
Police made five arrests after they say 75 people were involved in a wild fight during a Cinco de Mayo celebration at a cafe in the Hudson Valley.
On Thursday around 10 p.m., the Ellenville Police Department responded to Gaby's Cafe on Canal Street following reports of a large fight outside the popular cafe.
Arriving officers found 50 to 75 people outside the eatery on Canal Street, police say. Many were "actively involved in several different altercations," according to the Ellenville Police Department.
Police Respond to Huge Fight on Cinco De Mayo in Ulster County, NY
While officers were trying to get the large crowd under control, another fight took place which resulted in officers using an OC spray to "regain control and compliance" of the situation, police say. After a few more minutes, officers were able to regain control of the crowd and began scattering the large group of people.
At least three people were injured, police say. Two of the three were stabbed. One was stabbed in the thumb the other in the face, according to the Ellenville Police Department.
Cinco de Mayo Event at Gaby's Cafe on Canal Street in Ellenville Leads To Fight
Gaby's Cafe is a Mexican eatery that opened up in Ellenville in 2008. It has a 4.6 out of 5 rating on Facebook.
"Established in late 2008, Gaby's Cafe offers only the finest assortments of cuisines, ranging from fresh-made guacamole to juicy steaks and burgers," Gaby's Cafe states on Facebook.
On Facebook, Gaby's advertised its Cinco de Mayo celebration as having live mariachi SONIDO BAYANEY, Banda Los de la Skywalker, and a mechanical bull. A trio drink special was also offered which came with a margarita, tequila shot, and canned beer for $20.
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Five men, all in their 30s from Ulster County, were arrested and charged with riot in the second degree.
"Per New York State bail reform, all five were issued appearance tickets to appear in Village Court on Tuesday, May 24," the Ellenville Police Department stated in a press release.
All five were also issued No Trespass Orders which prohibits them from entering the premises of Gaby's Cafe.
Police are also looking for two more people to arrest. The Ellenville Police Department did not provide more information about those two.
At Least 3 Injured, 2 Stabbed
The person who was stabbed in the face was taken to Ellenville Hospital where he received many stitches to his face. He's scheduled to have surgery on Monday at Garnett Regional Hospital in Middletown for a possible broken jaw, police say.
Another victim is undergoing treatment for a loose tooth by an orthodontist. The third injured person refused medical attention, officials say.
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Col. Roman Kostenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker, has built a reconnaissance and sabotage team to target Russian forces. His ultimate goal: free his family village from Russian control.
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Eastern Sierra history series to feature how Highway 395 was built
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Wylder Hotel Hope Valley will continue its free Eastern Sierra history series this weekend with a presentation of “Tales Along El Camino Sierra.”
Using rare and seldom seen photographs, local historian and author David Woodruff will recount the impressive and fascinating efforts promoted by boosters in Eastern California and Western Nevada, to get a modern roadway (U.S. Highway 395) built in their region. From record setting flights over Mt. Whitney to partnering with two World Fairs, the ballyhoo created by the Inyo Good Road Club was amusing, improbable and effective.
The 50-minute presentation begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 21, at Wylder (formerly Sorensons) located on California State Route 88, one mile east of the Highway 88 and California State Route 89 junction in Hope Valley.
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In line with the ‘Forever New’ campaign, Tata Motors has revised the variant lineup of its mid-size SUV - Harrier. With the introduction of new trims - XZS and XZAS, Tata Motors is bridging the gap between the XZ and XZ+ variants. The new XZS grade of the Harrier is priced at Rs 20 lakh (ex-showroom), whereas the XZAS grade will retail for Rs 21.30 lakh. Alongside, Tata Motors will offer these variants in the Dark Edition guise and with dual-tone paint scheme as well.
Over the XZ trim of the Harrier, the XZS grade boasts a price increment of Rs 1.35 lakh. However, it brings along a slew of equipment with the price premium, like panoramic sunroof, 17-inch alloy wheels, and auto-dimming IRVM. In comparison to the higher XZ+ trim, the new variant misses out on the ventilated front seats and iRA connected car tech, but it is cheaper by Rs 35,000.
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Talking of mechanical specifications, the XZS and XZAS variants continue to come with the 2.0-litre FCA-sourced oil burner that puts out 170 PS of peak power and 350 Nm of max torque. The transmission options include a 6-speed MT for the XZS trim and a 6-speed AT for the XZAS trim. With the FWD layout, the Harrier is underpinned by the OMEGARC platform, derived from the Land Rover’s D8 architecture.
The XZS and XZAS variants of the Tata Motors’ mid-size SUV are greatly loaded with features. The list includes an 8.8-inch touchscreen infotainment unit that comes with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatibility, semi-digital instrument cluster, 9-speaker JBL-tuner sound system, air purifier, automatic climate control, rain-sensing wipers and more.
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Rank-and-file wrestler Takanosho grabbed the outright lead Wednesday at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a gritty win over komusubi Hoshoryu.
The No. 4 maegashira improved to 9-2 on Day 11 at Ryogoku Kokugikan after the joint overnight leader, No. 15 Ichiyamamoto, dropped to 8-3 with a loss to No. 8 Shimanoumi (7-4).
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Special Meeting of TCAC Shareholders to Take Place on June 9, 2022
BOCA RATON, Fla. and NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- springbig (the "Company"), a leading provider of SaaS-based marketing solutions, consumer mobile app experiences, and omnichannel loyalty programs to the cannabis industry, and Tuatara Capital Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: TCAC) ("TCAC") today announced that TCAC's registration statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-262628) relating to the previously announced business combination of TCAC and the Company has been declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. TCAC also announced that it will hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (the "Special Meeting") on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at 11:00am ET to approve, among other matters, the business combination with springbig.
The Special Meeting will be held at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, located at 450 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, or shareholders can attend online via live webcast. Shareholders of record as of March 21, 2022, are entitled to receive notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting. Shareholders are encouraged to vote before 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. TCAC shareholders who need assistance in completing the proxy card or have questions regarding the Special Meeting may contact TCAC's proxy solicitor, Morrow Sodali LLC, by phone at (800) 662-5200 or via email at TCAC.info@investor.morrowsodali.com.
"We are delighted to be entering the final stages in the closing of our business combination with TCAC," said Jeffrey Harris, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of springbig. "This is a pivotal time in the evolution of springbig as we look toward the next chapter of our growth as a public company. With the support of our new public shareholders and additional capital, we are well positioned to continue to develop our innovative, market-leading loyalty and marketing communication platform and expand our offerings to our cannabis retail and brand clients."
Al Foreman, Chief Executive Officer of TCAC, commented, "springbig is a leader in the cannabis technology space and we believe with the closing of our business combination, the Company is ideally positioned to accelerate its impressive growth trajectory and generate significant shareholder value. On behalf of myself and TCAC's board of directors, we urge our fellow shareholders to support the business combination and springbig's future growth in this rapidly evolving cannabis market."
If the proposals at the Special Meeting are approved, the parties anticipate that the business combination will close shortly thereafter, subject to the satisfaction of other closing conditions. Upon consummation of the business combination, TCAC intends to change its name to SpringBig Holdings, Inc. and expects its common stock and warrants to remain listed on the NASDAQ Global Select stock market under the new ticker symbols "SBIG" and "SBIGW" respectively.
About springbig
springbig is a market-leading software platform providing customer loyalty and marketing automation solutions to cannabis retailers and brands in the U.S. and Canada. springbig's platform connects consumers with retailers and brands, primarily through SMS marketing, as well as emails, customer feedback system, and loyalty programs, to support retailers' and brands' customer engagement and retention. springbig offers marketing automation solutions that provide for consistency of customer communication, thereby driving customer retention and retail foot traffic. Additionally, springbig's reporting and analytics offerings deliver valuable insights that clients utilize to better understand their customer base, purchasing habits and trends. For more information, visit https://springbig.com/.
About Tuatara Capital Acquisition Corporation
Tuatara Capital Acquisition Corporation is a blank check company incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchaser, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, pursuing targets that are focused on businesses in the cannabis industry that are compliant with all applicable laws and regulations within the jurisdictions in which they are located or operate. For more information, visit https://tuataraspac.com/.
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Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to (i) trends in the cannabis industry and springbig market size, including with respect to the potential total addressable market in the industry; (ii) springbig's growth prospects; (iii) springbig's projected financial and operational performance, including relative to its competitors; (iv) new product and service offerings springbig may introduce in the future; (v) the potential transaction, including the implied enterprise value, the expected post-closing ownership structure and the likelihood and ability of the parties to successfully consummate the potential transaction; (vi) the risk that the proposed business combination may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect the price of TCAC's securities; (vii) the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the proposed business combination, including the approval of the proposed business combination by TCAC's stockholders; (viii) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed business combination on TCAC's or springbig's business relationships, performance, and business generally; (ix) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against TCAC or springbig related to the definitive agreement or the proposed business combination; (x) the ability to maintain the listing of TCAC's securities on the NASDAQ; (xi) the price of TCAC's securities, including volatility resulting from changes in the competitive and highly regulated industry in which springbig plans to operate, variations in performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting springbig's business and changes in the combined capital structure; (xii) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after the completion of the proposed business combination, and identify and realize additional opportunities; and (xiii) other statements regarding springbig's and TCAC's expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intends," "outlook," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would," and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject, are subject to risks and uncertainties. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of TCAC's Annual Report on Form 10-K and registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement"), the proxy statement/prospectus relating to the transaction, other documents filed by TCAC from time to time with SEC, and any risk factors made available to you in connection with TCAC, springbig and the transaction. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties (some of which are beyond the control of springbig and TCAC), and other assumptions, that may cause the actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
Additional Information About the Proposed Business Combination and Where to Find It
The proposed business combination will be submitted to shareholders of TCAC for their consideration. TCAC has filed a registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") with the SEC, which includes the proxy statement to be distributed to TCAC's shareholders in connection with TCAC's solicitation for proxies for the vote by TCAC's shareholders in connection with the proposed business combination and other matters as described in the Registration Statement, as well as the prospectus relating to the offer of the securities to be issued to springbig's shareholders in connection with the completion of the proposed business combination. The Registration Statement was declared effective by the SEC on May 16, 2022. TCAC will mail a definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents to its shareholders as of the record date established for voting on the proposed business combination. TCAC's shareholders and other interested persons are advised to read the proxy statement / prospectus, in connection with TCAC's solicitation of proxies for its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to be held to approve, among other things, the proposed business combination, because these documents will contain important information about TCAC, springbig and the proposed business combination. Shareholders may also obtain a copy of the definitive proxy statement/prospectus as well as other documents filed with the SEC regarding the proposed business combination and other documents filed with the SEC by TCAC, without charge, at the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to 655 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10017.
Participants in the Solicitation
TCAC, springbig and certain of their respective directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees may, under SEC rules, be deemed to be participants in the solicitations of proxies from TCAC's stockholders in connection with the proposed business combination. You can find more information about TCAC's directors and executive officers in TCAC's Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on March 11, 2022 and subsequently amended on April 26, 2022. Additional information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of TCAC's stockholders in connection with the proposed business combination, and a description of their direct and indirect interests in the transaction, is set forth in the Registration Statement filed with the SEC. Stockholders, potential investors, and other interested persons should read the proxy statement / prospectus carefully when it becomes available before making any voting or investment decisions. You may obtain free copies of these documents from the sources indicated above.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release relates to a proposed business combination between TCAC and springbig and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
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One of a Kind Private Lake George Island Mansion Back on Market For Almost Half
A one-of-a-kind $8 million mansion on a private island in Lake George, New York is back on the market and the price has been slashed almost in half.
The over 11,000 square foot Lake George compound, known as the 'Green Harbour Mansion,' features a spectacular home that sits on over 1,500 feet of lakefront. The 14-bedroom, 7-bathroom three-story mansion was built in 1913 by Frederick F. Peabody.
The basement in the mansion has been converted into two separate two-bedroom, one-bathroom units that can be rented out during the busy summer boating season. There's a four-bedroom, two-bathroom waterfront guest cottage, and 33 boat slips on the 3.3-acre private island at the tip of Cooper Point.
The landscaped grounds include a rock waterfall, a rope swing, and a large gathering area on the point that provides panoramic views of beautiful Lake George.
Green Harbour Mansion on Green Harbour Lane in Lake George first went up for sale in May of 2020 for a hefty $15 million. It was taken off the market at the end of July that same year.
Two years later the private island compound is back up for sale with Realize Brokers for almost half the price at $8,400,000. Take a look inside and see what more than 8 million dollars can buy you.
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Reported Consolidated quarterly numbers for EID Parry (India) are:
Net Sales at Rs 5,667.34 crore in March 2022 up 45.02% from Rs. 3,907.96 crore in March 2021.
Quarterly Net Profit at Rs. 302.52 crore in March 2022 up 4871.61% from Rs. 6.34 crore in March 2021.
EBITDA stands at Rs. 708.05 crore in March 2022 up 119.38% from Rs. 322.75 crore in March 2021.
EID Parry EPS has increased to Rs. 17.06 in March 2022 from Rs. 0.36 in March 2021.
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Northern Trust Corp lessened its holdings in America’s Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRMT – Get Rating) by 4.1% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 122,105 shares of the company’s stock after selling 5,158 shares during the quarter. Northern Trust Corp owned 1.88% of America’s Car-Mart worth $12,503,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other large investors have also modified their holdings of CRMT. BOKF NA purchased a new position in America’s Car-Mart in the 3rd quarter worth $2,791,000. Morgan Stanley raised its position in America’s Car-Mart by 44.8% in the 2nd quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 60,287 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,545,000 after purchasing an additional 18,642 shares during the period. Lewis Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in America’s Car-Mart in the 4th quarter worth $1,832,000. NFJ Investment Group LLC purchased a new position in America’s Car-Mart in the 3rd quarter worth $2,071,000. Finally, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund purchased a new position in America’s Car-Mart in the 3rd quarter worth $2,032,000. Institutional investors own 73.35% of the company’s stock.
In related news, COO Leonard L. Walthall sold 1,600 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $89.99, for a total transaction of $143,984.00. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. 11.00% of the stock is owned by insiders.
America’s Car-Mart (NASDAQ:CRMT – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 16th. The company reported $2.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $2.97 by ($0.20). America’s Car-Mart had a net margin of 9.66% and a return on equity of 25.67%. The company had revenue of $291.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $291.80 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $2.85 EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that America’s Car-Mart, Inc. will post 12.78 EPS for the current year.
A number of research firms have issued reports on CRMT. StockNews.com began coverage on shares of America’s Car-Mart in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of America’s Car-Mart from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Monday. Finally, Bank of America cut shares of America’s Car-Mart from a “buy” rating to an “underperform” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $191.00 to $123.00 in a research report on Wednesday, April 6th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $154.92.
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America's Car-Mart, Inc, through its subsidiaries, operates as an automotive retailer in the United States. The company primarily sells older model used vehicles and provides financing for its customers. As of April 30, 2021, it operated 151 dealerships in the South-Central United States. America's Car-Mart, Inc was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas.
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HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) - Authorities in Hollywood are investigating a hit-and-run that led to one fatality.
The incident happened near the Hollywood Hardrock Casino and Hotel along US Highway 441 and Sterling Road, Wednesday, just before 6 a.m.
Video footage showed police cruisers blocking off one lane, causing traffic delays in the far right lane.
Officials said a pedestrian was hit by a car on the roadway. The driver of the vehicle did not stay at the scene.
Police have yet to identify the deceased person, the vehicle, and the driver involved in the incident.
7SkyForce captured the scene above where the body could be seen covered with a tarp.
It has been advised that drivers avoid the area due to delays.
Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.
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This weekend was a big one for Megan Fox, attending the 2022 Billboard Awards - where she absolutely nailed the red carpet, might I add - before kicking on to her own A-list birthday party. Celebrating her 36th trip around the sun in Las Vegas, Megan swapped her ornate black David Koma award show look for a totally opposite design - a gold sequin mini dress by AREA.
Megan's stylist, Maeve Reilly (AKA @stylememaeve) posted pics of the star's glam get-up on Instagram, wishing her client, and friend, a very happy birthday. "Birthday Queen @meganfox in @area #ProudStylist Glam @clarissalunanyc @dimitrishair 📸 @samcahill
Hbd to you on this intense blood moon eclipse energy. Grateful to your sensitive soul and for finding you in this lifetime. Grateful for bonding over shower cries and love of therapy, tarot and all the witchy shit in between. No one deserves peace & happiness more than you. ILYSM 🖤🧙🏼♀️🪄"
Cute!
See Megan's party look here:
In the snaps, Megan sports the same killer full fringe from earlier in the eve, but her second outfit oozes major bday party vibes. The strapless ruched mini dress style features a low neckline, short hem and allllll of the sequins. Megan finishes the look with a pair of see-through tangerine-toned Gianvito Rossi pumps and a glitzy silver Jimmy Choo clutch.
Obsessed with Megan's dress? Same. Here's the exact AREA style she wore:
Buuuut, if you don't have a spare £751 to drop on a party dress (summer holiday szn is imminent, let's not forget), here are a handful of more affordable ops to shop:
Megan posted her own Instagram post from the Vegas weekend, with a sweet nod to her fiancé, Machine Gun Kelly's Billboard performance, and a mention of her actual birthday week being wayyy more chillaxed.
"Baby- so proud of you for giving such a vulnerable and emotional performance. You are magic💔🤍" writes Megan in the caption. "Also Vegas it’s been nice but you are my version of the innermost ring of hell Off to the wilderness for my birthday No one talk me for a week 🔮"
Happy bday week, Megan!
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Maiden season on new ship Queen Anne shows demand for Cunard at record levels
VALENCIA, Calif., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxury cruise line Cunard has reported that the first day of bookings for new ship Queen Anne proves the busiest booking day in a decade.
The maiden voyage, a seven-night sailing from Southampton departing January 4, 2024, has sold out and demand for Princess & Queens Grill Suites proved especially strong across each of the 10 published new voyages.
"Since we began to unveil details of our fourth ship, the reaction to Queen Anne from guests and travel advisors alike has been phenomenal," said Matt Gleaves, VP, Commercial, North America and Australasia, Cunard. "The first day of sales shows the incredible strength of demand for our new ship and the Cunard brand is at record levels."
The three busiest booking periods for Cunard in the last decade have now happened since March 2021, with the launch of the UK sailings as the brand returned to service, the launch of the summer 2023 program and now the launch of Queen Anne's maiden program.
For more information about Cunard, or to book a voyage, contact your Travel Consultant, call Cunard Line at 1-800-728-6273 or visit www.cunard.com.
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There are currently three Cunard ships, Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria and a fourth ship, Queen Anne, will be entering service in early 2024. This investment is part of the company's ambitious plans for the future of Cunard globally and will be the first time since 1999 that Cunard will have four ships in simultaneous service.
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Former longtime newspaperman and David City community member Jack Tarr will be honored with the Butler County Historical Society’s upcoming summer exhibit.
Opening Memorial Day weekend at the historical society’s museum, 200 W. D St. in David City, the exhibit will feature an advertising memorabilia collection of Tarr’s.
According to Butler County Historian Jim Reisdorff, Tarr started at the former The People’s Banner in about 1953. He remained when The People’s Banner merged with the Butler County Press, which then created The Banner-Press.
Reisdorff said Tarr left in the late ‘50s to work in public relations at Doane University in Crete, but Tarr came back in about 1960 for The Banner-Press. Around 1970, Reisdorff said, Tarr became the editor/publisher, a title he kept until retiring in 1990. According to Tarr’s obituary, the newspaperman passed away in 2004.
“During his years here in David City, he was very much a civil servant. He was very much involved in various causes to help promote and enhance the community,” Reisdorff said, noting the big projects Tarr contributed to were the construction of the current Butler County Health Care Center facility and the Hruska Memorial Public Library.
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Reisdorff said Tarr was interested in history and had accumulated quite a collection of “freebies” from various businesses in David City and Butler County at large, such as coffee cups and coin purses.
“He certainly recognized the fact that paper lived and died by its advertising and so, of course, he was interested in the history of the businesses that were all located around the city square,” Reisdorff added.
The exhibit came to be after Tarr’s widow, Betty, donated the collection to the historical society last year. When planning this summer’s exhibit, Reisdorff said, the Tarr collection immediately came to mind.
There will be four display cases filled with collection items.
“It's going to be a fun display and also because he was a newspaperman, we're putting a lot of his front pages up on the wall from Jack Tarr's era,” Butler County Historical Society President Steve Barlean said. “I think there's going to be 30 or 40 front pages from old newspapers from around the county. I wasn't aware how many newspapers were in this county over the decades.”
There were about 19 established papers from the 1800s to present day, Barlean added.
People can see the exhibit for themselves during opening weekend on May 28, 29 and 30. Attendees may notice that the walk up to the museum is being redone; fundraising is ongoing for this project to make the walkway easier to use for the public.
A special open house will be held from 1-3 p.m. on May 29 which Tarr’s family is planning to attend.
One of those family members is Tarr’s daughter, Cheri Schrader. Schrader is the executive director of the Platte County Historical Society Museum.
“I think it's wonderful. I'm pleased that Mom decided to donate these items to the museum,” Schrader said. “Since I'm the museum lady in Columbus, I thought that was the place they should go. I'm just anxious to see it and looking forward to it.”
After opening weekend, the museum will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4 p.m.
Barlean said the exhibit has been spearheaded by Reisdorff, who’s done the majority of the work.
For Reisdorff, the display will hold a special meaning.
Reisdorff has been a correspondent for The Banner-Press since graduating from college in 1978, he said. He moved back to the community after graduating.
“Jack Tarr didn't hesitate to offer me a position as a correspondent. He just allowed me the opportunity to write stuff insofar … material that and stories that might not otherwise have gotten covered in this community,” Reisdorff said. “It's a little bit of a show of appreciation on my part, to try to honor Jack for what he did for me and for other reporters he mentored and gave a start to because he was very much into having summer interns and hiring young reporters just out of J (journalism) schools. That demonstrated his commitment to journalism.”
Reisdorff described Tarr as a quiet man who was respected by his peers. Tarr was inducted into the Nebraska Press Association’s Hall of Fame in 1994.
“He didn't put him put himself out too forwardly but he was the first to pitch in when he saw a cause that needed to be undertaken in the community,” Reisdorff added. “He used his position as a newspaper reporter and editor to commit the time and resources to add to the cause.”
Reisdorff said he hopes visitors to the exhibit will learn about the old businesses that were in the area and an understanding of how much more difficult it was to own a business back then without modern technology.
“I hope they get just an appreciation of our local history, that's kind of our goal,” Barlean added.
A small room in the museum will give visitors a taste of what’s coming up.
One of the mini exhibits will feature Ardys “Art” Keller, a former Octavia man who, in the 1930s and early 1940s, was a semi-professional baseball player. According to Reisdorff, Keller was called to serve in World War II and was killed in action in France in 1994. Some of his family in Schuyler donated his baseball memorabilia to the historical society, Reisdorff noted.
Tarr was also a World War II veteran who served in France, Reisdorff said.
“It's a case of pointing out the heartbreak of war and the irony of war,” he said. “Art's promising career as a baseball player got cut short and Jack’s skill as a journalist, he of course got to live and was able to come back and have a full career here and give to the community.”
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Samsung's early Memorial Day sale: huge savings on S22 phones and foldables
By Patrick Farmer published
You could save hundreds with these Samsung deals.
It's still two full weeks away, but many online retailers are already serving up some great Memorial Day deals that you can enjoy right now, including our friends at Samsung. Leading up to the official US holiday on May 30th, Samsung is offering hefty discounts on a ton of new devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and the entire S22 lineup of smartphones.
This early Memorial Day sale includes a deal that instantly hooks you up with a $200 Samsung gift certificate when you buy the Z Fold 3, plus up to $1,100 of trade-in credit when you send them an old device. Another tempting deal gets you a straight discount of $250 off the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, no trade-in required and no strings attached.
As May 30th gets closer, you can expect Samsung and other retailers to start seriously discounting a lot of their products. It's also worth noting that some of these deals may extend beyond Memorial Day itself. We'll remain vigilant and share the offers as they appear, just like we do with Prime Day Android phone deals and other special sale events. In the meantime, let's take a look at some of the best early Memorial Day deals that Samsung is offering right now.
Early Samsung Memorial Day sale — featured deals
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3: Get $200 Instant Samsung Credit plus up to $1,100 of trade-in credit
In preparation of Memorial Day, Samsung is offering anyone who buys the Galaxy Z Fold 3 a free $200 Samsung Credit that can be used to buy accessories in the Samsung store. In addition to that e-gift certificate, they'll also hook you up with up to $1,100 of enhanced trade-in credit if you send them an eligible device.
The foldable phone usually retails for $1,799.99, so you stand to put a pretty serious dent into the balance if you meet all the eligibility requirements.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3: Get $50 Instant Samsung Credit plus up to $800 trade-in credit
Similar to the Z Fold 3 deal described above, Samsung is currently giving away a $50 Samsung Credit if you buy the more-affordable Z Flip 3 through their official store. You can also get up to $800 of trade-in credit if you send an eligible device, potentially dropping the price of the Flip 3 down to just $249.99.
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra: Get $250 off plus 30% off the Galaxy Tab S8
If you've been waiting for the right time to pick up Samsung's newest flagship device, this deal might give you the push you need. Pick up the S22 Ultra through the Samsung store and you'll get a straight discount of $250, no trade-in necessary. You can also bundle the phone with the Galaxy Tab S8 and save a whopping 30% on the premium tablet.
Samsung Galaxy S21 (Refurbished): Get a Galaxy Watch 4 for $50, plus up to $675 of trade-in credit
Samsung recently added the Galaxy S21 series to their Certified Renewed Store. These refurbished phones use 100% genuine Samsung parts and come with a standard device warranty, so they're pretty much as good as new.
Pick up a renewed S21 and you'll be able to bundle it with a 40mm version of the Galaxy Watch 4 for just $50 or the 44mm version for $80. You'll also be eligible to receive up to $675 of promo credit if you trade in your old smartphone. Unlike other Memorial Day offers on this page, this deal is good until June 30th.
If none of these early Memorial Day deals piqued your interest, don't worry. You can also find savings year-round through our regularly updated list of the best Samsung Galaxy S22 deals.
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US Soccer equalizes pay in milestone with women, men
(AP) - The U.S. Soccer Federation reached milestone agreements to pay its men’s and women’s teams equally, making the American national governing body the first in the sport to promise both sexes matching money.
The federation announced separate collective bargaining agreements through December 2028 with the unions for both national teams on Wednesday, ending years of often acrimonious negotiations.
The men have been playing under the terms of a CBA that expired in December 2018. The women’s CBA expired at the end of March, but talks continued after the federation and the players agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by some of the players in 2019. The settlement was contingent on the federation reaching labor contracts that equalized pay and bonuses between the two teams.
“I feel a lot of pride for the girls who are going to see this growing up, and recognize their value rather than having to fight for it. However, my dad always told me that you don’t get rewarded for doing what you’re supposed to do — and paying men and women equally is what you’re supposed to do,” U.S. forward Margaret Purce said. “So I’m not giving out any gold stars, but I’m grateful for this accomplishment and for all the people who came together to make it so.”
Perhaps the biggest sticking point was World Cup prize money, which is based on how far a team advances in the tournament. While the U.S. women have been successful on the international stage with back-to-back World Cup titles, differences in FIFA prize money meant they took home far less than the men’s winners.
The unions agreed to pool FIFA’s payments for the men’s World Cup later this year and next year’s Women’s World Cup, as well as for the 2026 and 2027 tournaments.
Each player will get matching game appearance fees in what the USSF said makes it the first federation to pool FIFA prize money in this manner.
“We saw it as an opportunity, an opportunity to be leaders in this front and join in with the women’s side and U.S. Soccer. So we’re just excited that this is how we were able to get the deal done,” said Walker Zimmerman, a defender who is part of the U.S. National Team Players Association leadership group.
The federation previously based bonuses on payments from FIFA, which earmarked $400 million for the 2018 men’s tournament, including $38 million to champion France, and $30 million for the 2019 women’s tournament, including $4 million to the champion United States.
FIFA has increased the total to $440 million for the 2022 men’s World Cup, and its president, Gianni Infantino, has proposed that FIFA double the women’s prize money to $60 million for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, in which FIFA has increased the teams to 32.
For the current World Cup cycles, the USSF will pool the FIFA funds, taking 10% off the top and then splitting the rest equally among 46 players — 23 players on the roster of each team. For the 2026-27 cycle, the USSF cut increases to 20% before the split.
After missing the 2018 World Cup, the men qualified for this year’s World Cup in Qatar starting in November. The women’s team will seek to qualify this year for the 2023 World Cup, cohosted by Australia and New Zealand.
For lesser tournaments, such as those run by the governing body of North America, players will earn identical game bonuses. And for exhibition games, players will receive matching appearance fees and performance payments based on the match result and opponent rank. Players who don’t dress will earn a fee that is the equivalent of participating in a national team training camp.
The women gave up guaranteed base salaries which had been part of their CBA since 2005. Some players had been guaranteed annual salaries of $100,000.
“I think we’ve outgrown some of the conditions that may look like we have lost something, but now our (professional) league is actually strong enough where now we don’t need as many guaranteed contracts, you know, we can be on more of a pay-to-play model,” Purce said.
Child care, covered for women for more than 25 years, will be extended to men during national team training camps and matches.
The women and men also will receive a portion of commercial revenue from tickets for matches controlled by the USSF, with bonuses for sellouts, and each team will get a portion of broadcast, partner and sponsor revenue.
Players will get a 401(k) plan and the USSF will match up to 5% of a player’s compensation, subject to IRS limits. That money will be deducted from the shares of commercial revenue.
“There were moments when I thought it was all going to fall apart and then it came back together and it’s a real credit to all the different groups coming together, negotiating at one table,” said federation President Cindy Parlow Cone, a former national team player who became head of the governing body in 2020. “I think that’s where the turning point really happened. Before, trying to negotiate a CBA with the women and then turn around and negotiate CBA terms with the men and vice versa, was really challenging. I think the real turning point was when we finally were all in the same room sitting at the same table, working together and collaborating to reach this goal.”
Women ended six years of litigation over equal pay in February in a deal calling for the USSF to pay $24 million, a deal contingent on reaching new collective bargaining agreements.
As part of the settlement, players will split $22 million, about one-third of what they had sought in damages. The USSF also agreed to establish a fund with $2 million to benefit the players in their post-soccer careers and charitable efforts aimed at growing the sport for women.
Mark Levinstein, counsel for the men’s union, said the agreement ended “more than 20 years of federation discrimination against the USWNT players.”
“Together with the USWNTPA, the USMNT players achieved what everyone said was impossible — an agreement that provides fair compensation to the USMNT players and equal pay and equal working conditions to the USWNT players,” he said. “The new federation leadership should get tremendous credit for working with the players to achieve these agreements.”
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Tel Aviv, Israel , May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HUB Security (TASE: HUB) today announced that Italian software solutions provider Teamsystem S.p.A. has signed an agreement with HUB to launch D.Storm, HUB's DDoS Attack Simulation Platform for the development and testing its DDoS remediation strategy.
DDoS Attack means "Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)" and it is a cybercrime in which the attacker floods a server with internet traffic to prevent users from accessing connected online services and sites.
Successful DDoS attacks have a direct and significant monetary impact on the target company operations and financial performance. DDoS attacks have become a preferred method of attack registering a 26% increase in volume in 2021 alone.
Teamsystem is a 2,500 employees accounting, payroll, and tax management software company, serving a wide range of Italian industries. Using HUB's D.Storm, the company can significantly reduce its exposure to cyber risks and take corrective measures to withstand possible DDoS attacks against their data silos. .
Many leading European financial institutions have already adopted HUB's D.Storm platform in response to an unprecedented volume of DDoS attacks, which have threatened organizations across the globe with costly disruptions of their operations. D.Storm automates a variety of DDoS attacks simulations in a controlled environment, allowing enterprises to identify vulnerabilities in their cyber infrastructure by using attack protocols that mimic real world methods used by cybercriminals. Learn more about D.Storm.
About Teamsystem S.p.A.
TeamSystem is a leading Italian tech company that provides digital business management solutions for companies and professionals (accountants, consultants, lawyers, building managers). In 2021, the Group recorded a turnover of €545 million. TeamSystem has a network of over 550 software partners and direct offices, serving over 1.7 million clients operating on proprietary digital platforms and on Cloud.
TeamSystem employs more than 2500 people, who are constantly engaged in research, to develop advanced and avant-garde solutions in accordance with the latest standards and law variations.
About HUB Security
HUB Security was established in 2017 by veterans of the 8200 and 81 elite intelligence units of the Israeli Defense Forces. The company specializes in unique Cyber Security solutions protecting sensitive commercial and government information. The company debuted an advanced encrypted computing solution aimed at preventing hostile intrusions at the hardware level while introducing a novel set of data theft prevention solutions. HUB operates in over 30 countries and provides innovative cybersecurity computing appliances as well as a wide range of cybersecurity professional services worldwide.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The US Soccer Federation has reached milestone agreements to pay its men’s and women’s teams equally.
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The MCU is growing faster than ever, thanks to Disney Plus, with three new shows hitting the streaming service this year. Moon Knight is over, Ms Marvel arrives next month, and now it’s time to see what She-Hulk has to offer in its first proper trailer.
Well technically it’s been renamed She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Judging from what we’ve seen in the trailer, the newly minted She-Hulk (aka Jennifer Walters, played by Tatiana Maslany) is going to have to balance her work life with the burgeoning Hulk-flavored superpowers. So pretty par the course for a superhero origin story.
Fortunately superheroics runs in the family, since Walters’ cousin is Bruce Banner — the equally emerald-hued hero Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). If you're having trouble mastering explosive transformations into a giant green rage monster, there’s no better person to talk to.
But if the whole “green” thing wasn’t enough, Walters is tasked with heading up her firm’s newly-formed superhuman law division. Considering Walters is a defence attorney in the comics, it would make sense that the show would see her defending all kinds of superpowered types in the courtroom.
That includes long-time Hulk villain Emil Blonsky/Abomination, evidently still in prison after the events of The Incredible Hulk. That suggests the show likely takes place before his cameo appearance as an underground fighter in Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings. The fact Hulk’s right arm is still intact, which it wasn’t in Shang Chi’s end-credits scene, may even point to She-Hulk taking place before Avengers: Endgame.
We even get a glimpse of Z-list Marvel hero Frog-Man. He is literally a man dressed in a special frog suit, which gives him the power to jump great distances. Marvel has some truly weird characters in its back catalogue.
Also on show in the trailer is the trademark humor She-Hulk comics are known for, including a shot of her cradling one of her dates like a baby. There’s also some of the worst CGI I’ve seen in a Marvel project to date. I can see the logic in using CG to make Tatiana Maslany taller and more muscular, but the quality of it is less uncanny valley and more uncanny canyon.
Fortunately, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law arrives on August 17, meaning there’s still three months for Marvel’s special effects teams to get it right.
The show stars Tatiana Maslaney as Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk, Tim Roth as Emil Blonskey/Abomination, Jameela Jamil as supervillain Titania, Ginger Gonzaga as Walters’ best friend Nikki and Renee Elis Goldsberry as Amelia. Benedict Wong will also be back as Wong, Sorcerer Supreme and seemingly one of the mainstays of the MCU’s fourth phase. | https://www.tomsguide.com/news/marvels-she-hulk-hits-disney-plus-on-august-17-heres-our-first-trailer | 2022-05-18T12:19:38Z | https://www.tomsguide.com/news/marvels-she-hulk-hits-disney-plus-on-august-17-heres-our-first-trailer | false | 2 |
The Best Books Age by Age: Babies
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Pat the Bunny
By Edith Kunhardt Davis
This classic is still one of our favorites because it's so interactive -- we love touching the bunny's fur, playing peekaboo, and more.
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Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown
There's no denying that this bedtime routine classic deserves space on every kid's bookshelf.
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Go, Dog, Go!
By P.D. Eastman
Perfect for young children's short attention spans, this book is simple, straightforward, and silly.
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Goodnight, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann
This story is told almost entirely through the illustrations -- making it very easy for babies to follow along.
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Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
By Dr. Seuss
This book will have you making all sorts of sounds from pop to klopp, all of which will delight your baby -- and bring on plenty of those smiles and giggles you love.
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Toes, Ears & Nose!
By Marion Dane Bauer
Teach older babies to ID their body parts with this fun read.
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Mrs. Mustard's Baby Faces
By Jane Wattenberg
Babies loooove looking at other babies. These close-up pics of other gorgeous baby mugs are sure to fascinate your infant.
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C Is for Coco: A Little Chick's First Book of Letters
By Sloan Tannen
Get your baby on the fast track to preschool with this book teaching numbers 1 to 10.
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Baby Faces
By DK Books
This tome of different babies making expressive faces (happy, sad, etc.) helps boost your baby's social IQ. Plus, the squishy cover is perfect for mouthing, teething babies.
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Belly Button Book
By Sandra Boynton
What baby or toddler isn't obsessed with his belly button? This book on the subject is full of Boynton's signature illustrations and silly rhymes.
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White on Black
By Tana Hoban
This wordless book of white shapes on a black background is perfect for young babies, who love looking at bold, contrasting colors while their eyes are developing.
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MIAMI, Fla. — A co-owner of the Boston Celtics is donating $2 million toward protecting the Florida manatees and their habitat following two seasons of record-breaking manatee mortalities in the state.
Fox Rock Foundation will give $1 million each to the nonprofits Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida and Save the Manatee Club, the groups announced Tuesday. The foundation is a family charity overseen by Celtics co-owner Rob Hale and his wife, Karen. The Hales have a home in Naples.
“Our family feels called to manatee conservation not only because they are intelligent, curious creatures, but also because of the critical role they play in aquatic ecosystems,” Karen Hale said in a statement. “We are proud to partner with both of these incredible organizations that are working tirelessly to protect manatees and improve the health of our oceans and other waterways.”
The Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida is using the money to expand current projects to restore the Indian River Lagoon’s overall health by replanting eight acres of vegetation at six sites in the lagoon with promising water quality, according to news release.
The Save the Manatee Club will use the money to fund a perpetual endowment, supporting projects to preserve, remediate and restore critical manatee habitat for the long and short terms, the group said.
Last year, a record 1,100 manatees died largely from starvation because water pollution from agricultural, septic tank, urban runoff and other sources has diminished their main winter food source along Florida’s east coast, especially the Indian River Lagoon that stretches from Cape Canaveral to the south.
So far this year, Florida officials have confirmed more than 500 manatee deaths, compared with more than 700 last year at this same time. Both are well above the five-year average of about 350 manatee deaths in the time period.
Estimates place the manatee’s wild population as low as 7,520, according to the state wildlife commission.
Manatees are gentle round-tailed giants, sometimes known as sea cows, and weigh as much as 1,200 pounds (550 kilograms) and live as long as 65 years or so. Manatees are Florida’s official state marine mammal and are closely related to elephants.
Officials ask anyone who sees a distressed or dying manatee to call the FWC hotline at 888-404-3922. | https://www.fox4now.com/news/state/celtics-co-owner-donates-2m-to-protect-florida-manatees | 2022-05-18T12:19:44Z | https://www.fox4now.com/news/state/celtics-co-owner-donates-2m-to-protect-florida-manatees | true | 23 |
- World's largest issuer of cryptocurrency ETPs launches two index funds to track several of the largest cryptocurrencies based on market capitalization
- The private placements are available today to accredited U.S. investors, and are part of a larger focus on supporting investor appetite for crypto in the United States
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 21Shares US Advisers LLC, an affiliated entity of 21Shares AG ("21Shares"), the world's largest issuer of cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs), today marked its entrance into the U.S. market with the launch of two private funds, providing accredited investors with broad exposure to both large-cap and mid-cap crypto assets.
The two index funds launched today – 21Shares Crypto Basket 10 Index Fund and 21Shares Crypto Mid-Cap Index Fund – will seek to track the performance of the "Vinter 21Shares Crypto Basket 10 US Index'' and "Vinter 21Shares Crypto Mid-Cap US Index," respectively. Composed of several of the world's largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, both funds will be rebalanced and reconstituted quarterly to reflect the dynamic nature of the crypto space. As of today, accredited U.S. investors can invest in the funds.
"21Shares has built a globally-recognized portfolio of crypto products over the past four years. Today, we're proud to expand access to our reputable and proven brand with our launch into the U.S. market," said Hany Rashwan, CEO and co-founder, 21Shares. "Our mission globally is to build bridges into the crypto world and the two funds launched today are pivotal building blocks for U.S. investors eager to introduce crypto to their portfolio or are looking for ways to diversify their cryptocurrency holdings."
The 21Shares Crypto Basket 10 Index Fund tracks the prices of the top ten cryptocurrencies based on market capitalization available on US exchanges. Whereas the 21Shares Crypto Basket 10 Index Fund features a large allocation to the best-known and most established cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin and Ethereum - the 21Shares Mid-Cap Index Fund offers diversified exposure to the next tier of emerging cryptos, those ranked three through 10 in market capitalization.
"Historically, the cumulative return rate of the top dozen cryptocurrencies has vastly outperformed traditional indexes like the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, or Nasdaq Composite," said Arthur Krause, Director of Product at 21Shares. "Our two new index funds enable accredited investors to participate in cryptocurrencies without assuming the responsibility of managing custodial arrangements, tracking private keys and passwords, or being susceptible to hacking or security breaches."
The launch of these two products follows 21Shares' recent rollouts of the first Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in Australia and the world's first Bitcoin and Gold ETP on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
To learn more about the 21Shares Crypto Basket 10 Index Fund and 21Shares Crypto Mid-Cap Index Fund or 21Shares, please visit www.21shares.com/en-us.
Press Contact:
Arielle Sobel, Head of Global Communications
press@21shares.com
About 21Shares:
21Shares takes innovation to the next level with the largest suite of cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) in the world. In 2018 it pioneered the world's first cryptocurrency index listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange, and it continues powering its cryptocurrency franchise with cutting-edge research and groundbreaking approaches to product strategy. 21Shares aims to provide all investors with an easy, secure, and regulated way to buy, sell, and short cryptocurrency through existing bank and brokerage accounts. 21Shares is a Swiss company registered in Zug, Switzerland with offices in Zurich and New York City. For more information, please visit www.21shares.com.
The units of the Funds are not registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"), the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, or any state securities laws. The Funds' investment manager, 21Shares US Advisers LLC, is not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The units of the Funds are offered for private placement pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 506(c) under Regulation D of the Securities Act and are only available to accredited investors. As a result, the units of the Funds are restricted and subject to significant limitations on resales and transfers. The offer and sale of the units have not been registered with or approved or disapproved by the SEC or the securities commission or regulatory authority of any state or foreign jurisdiction, nor is such registration contemplated. Units of the Funds are not available to persons resident in any territory where the acquisition of such interest would be contrary to applicable law.
This information does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy units of a Fund. Any offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy units of a Fund will be made solely through a Fund's definitive offering documents, including the Fund's Confidential Private Placement Memorandum, Amended & Restated Limited Partnership Agreement and a Subscription Agreement (collectively, the "Offering Documents"). The Offering Documents describe the investment and other risks related to an investment in a Fund (including the risk of losing all or a portion of an investor's investment), as well as the conflicts of interest of 21Shares and other service providers related to the Funds, and all information set forth herein is qualified in its entirety by the Offering Documents. You should carefully consider the investment objectives, risk factors and charges and expenses of a Fund before investing.
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Are hiking boots or hiking sandals best?
There’s nothing worse than setting out on a hike only to find halfway that you’ve selected the wrong footwear. And if you’ve ever looked at a wall full of hiking boots or sandals, you’ve probably asked yourself which is best. The truth is, both have their merits, and there are some situations where you’d want one over the other.
Hiking boots
Hiking boots are a sturdy style of boot that protects the ankle and sole by having a raised ankle sleeve and a rugged sole. This structure means that they can be worn when carrying weight or hiking over rough terrain.
Hiking boots are typically waterproof or breathable, and which you choose depends on when and where you aim to use them.
- Waterproof boots, normally made of Gore-Tex, are great for wet, wild, cold or muddy terrain. This style of boot is almost always designed for durability and toughness. They keep your feet warm and dry, no matter what’s going on outside.
- Breathable boots are best for warmer trails that still require ankle protection or foot support.
Hiking boot pros
Hiking boots keep your feet warm and dry while protecting your ankles from uneven ground. What’s more, they are extremely durable and can withstand all the wear and tear hiking trails can throw at you. And they’re designed so you can easily remove mud that builds up on the boot and even snow and ice on colder trails.
Hiking boot cons
Hiking boots by nature aren’t that breathable, so they can cause blisters in warmer temperatures. They’re heavy, too, so they can be counterproductive for hikers traveling over shorter distances on even terrain. And there’s a lengthy break-in period for almost every pair of hiking boots, so they’re typically not a great option for your first hike.
Hiking boots are also more expensive than hiking sandals or hiking shoes. So if you’re planning casual and infrequent hill walks, you might want to consider other options.
Best hiking boots
Keen Men’s Targhee II Mid Waterproof Hiking Boot
These durable men’s hiking boots are perfect for experienced hikers who head out into rough terrain frequently and want something that will last. Sold by Amazon, Backcountry and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Merrell Women’s Moab 2 Vent Mid Hiking Boot
These lightweight women’s hiking boots combine comfort and toughness without an extensive breaking-in period. Sold by Amazon, Backcountry and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Columbia Men’s Redmond V2 Mid Waterproof Hiking Shoe
If you’re just getting into hiking and want a solid pair of beginner’s footwear, these men’s hiking boots from popular brand Columbia are affordable and suitable for all terrains. Sold by Amazon, Backcountry and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Hiking sandals
Hiking sandals are extremely comfortable, and great for more gentle terrain or warmer temperatures. However, some people are still skeptical about these innovative shoes. And of course, with all the risks that can come with hiking, it’s important that you don’t buy an unsafe shoe.
Hiking sandal pros
Hiking sandals are far lighter than hiking boots, and are often even lighter than trail runners, which are designed to be lightweight. Covering less of your foot than boots, hiking sandals are perfect for warm climates or less hilly trails and terrain.
Hiking sandals also hold far less water than boots, sneakers and other styles of shoe. So, not only are they popular with those who hike infrequently, they’re ideal for people who partake in water sports and want to avoid damp feet and blisters. If you enjoy river hiking, sandals are a great option.
Hiking sandal cons
Your toes and parts of your feet are typically exposed when wearing hiking sandals. This design makes them ideal for desert hikes and dry climates, but it can make you prone to sunburn or injury due to rough terrain or loose debris on the ground. Hiking sandals can also blister the feet on longer hikes due to their constant pressure on fixed parts of the foot.
Best hiking sandals
Keen Men’s Newport H2 Closed Toe Water Sandal
The rubber sole on these closed-toe men’s hiking sandals provide the grip you need for steep terrain while the contoured arch keeps you supported and comfortable. Sold by Amazon, Backcountry and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Teva Women’s Voya Casual Sport Sandal
These women’s sports sandals are quick-drying and machine-washable, which is ideal if your hikes include wet terrain or you want supportive shoes for water sports. Sold by Amazon
Merrell Women’s Sandspur Rose Leather Sandal
For hiking sandals that will last, the leather straps and microfiber lining are a comfortable and stylish fit while the midsole cushioning, made of ethylene-vinyl acetate, provides shock absorption. Sold by Amazon
Should you get hiking boots or hiking sandals?
The answer boils down to your outdoor environment and typical activity levels. More casual hikers, or those in warmer climates or around water, will appreciate the quick-drying benefits and versatility of a hiking sandal. Serious hikers, or those who often hike in colder climates and want added foot protection, should choose hiking boots.
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For turning the people’s electoral hopes and expectations into tangible realities with attendant remarkable socio-economic development of his state, the Board of Editors and Management of LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group has formally conferred on Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, the LEADERSHIP Governor of the Year 2021 award.
The Governor of the Year Award was bestowed on Governor Yahaya at a well attended and colourful ceremony on yesterday at the prestigious International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja.
He received the award alongside Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), also an award recipient, who led the galaxy of stars, including governors, the minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello; members of the National Assembly and host of other heads of agencies and captains of Industries.
Extolling the virtues of Governor Yahaya before handing over the award insignia to him, the organisers noted that the Gombe governor did not disappoint in bringing his vision, passion, humanity, dexterity and Midas Touch to resonate significantly on the socio-economic landscape of his state.
“The Governor has impacted on the Infrastructural development of Gombe in an even distribution manner, causing all the 11 Local Government Areas of the state to experience a new lease of developmental breath”, the management of LEADERSHIP noted, adding that Governor Inuwa is indeed, from people’s opinion, the right man for the job.
The media organisation stated that it was also honouring Governor Yahaya for repositioning Gombe State on the path of sustainable economic growth, rebuilding the decrepit infrastructure, developing agriculture and health sectors, as well as empowering the youths and women, and maintaining relative peace in the state.
Reacting, Governor Yahaya, though modest in mien, stated that he was happy with the honour bestowed on him, noting that it is an encouragement to do more for Gombe State.
Fielding questions from journalists after the ceremony, Governor Yahaya said the determination to place Gombe State among the best states in Nigeria and the passion to fulfill all his campaign promises to his beloved people are his driving force.
He said the encouragement and support given to him by his people have resulted in many firsts and many bests for Gombe State.
He recalled that Gombe has been adjudged the best State in the Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria as well as the safest and most peaceful and still aiming for higher attainments.
Promising not to rest on his oars, Governor Yahaya said the Award is an inspiring tonic to aspire for greater socio-economic heights for Gombe State.
One of them, an elated member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aishatu Jibir Dukku, spoke glowingly to the press about the governor’s well deserving award.
Dukku said, “I am not surprised at all by this award because I know what His Excellency, Governor Inuwa Yahaya, is doing in Gombe State.
He is a silent achiever. I didn’t know how the LEADERSHIP team fished him out, but I know a golden fish has no hiding place.
“The true testimony is that he is truly the Governor of the Year. In so many ways he has turned the fortunes of the State around even in face of the lean resources of the State”.
The federal lawmaker added that Governor Yahaya has also been able to do a lot of major and key infrastructures.
“His attention to education infrastructure is superb, the medical infrastructure too and then his human capital development programme are excellent.
” I am really very grateful to the Leadership Newspapers for identifying Governor Inuwa Yahaya .This is a very laudable achievement which can be verified and seen on your arrival to Gombe.
“The result of hardwork, I will say, is success. And In sha Allah, I know Governor Inuwa Yahaya is going to be our Governor come May 2023 because his achievements are clearly remarkable. In addition to that, there is relative peace for those who are in Gombe and those coming into Gombe as investors,” Aisha Dukku concluded.
Apart from Vice President Osinbajo, Governors of Bauchi, Sokoto and Ekiti States, Minister of FCT, National Assembly members, traditional rulers and heads of government agencies were in attendance.
Gombe recorded the largest crowd at the venue with retinue of political associates, friends and well-wishers of the governor whose presence was refreshingly overwhelmingly. | https://leadership.ng/showers-of-encomiums-as-inuwa-yahaya-receives-leadership-governor-of-the-year-award/ | 2022-05-18T12:26:51Z | https://leadership.ng/showers-of-encomiums-as-inuwa-yahaya-receives-leadership-governor-of-the-year-award/ | true | 1 |
Newcastle United's pre-season plans have been left in tatters after a fixture wrangle resulted in the Ohio Cup being scrapped this summer.
The Magpies were due to fly out to America in July for games in Cincinnati and Columbus but potential fixtures against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Valencia and Villareal have now been shelved. Having waited for over two months for confirmations, with visas and paperwork also a big factor, United are now looking into alternative arrangements.
Whether any plans to fly across the Atlantic can be rectified at such short notice remains to be seen but UK-based supporters are still being urged not to book any flight until the full schedule can be shared. Wolves are still due to fly to the States and are trying to set up friendly matches with MLS clubs.
READ MORE: Matt Targett's fresh take on whether he will make move to Newcastle United into permanent deal
But like Newcastle, they have already found the chances of finding gaps in the MLS fixture list to be difficult with the regular season in full flow. Chronicle Live understands Howe and his back-room team were positive about the trip but options across Europe are now being considered.
Other clubs such as Arsenal and Everton will also tour the States this summer but fixtures were confirmed some time ago. Setting up fixtures at short notice with MLS teams already in competitive action could prove difficult.
United struggled to find MLS opponents during their last trip to America in 2015 and ended up playing fixtures against Mexican side Atlas on a baseball pitch in Milwaukee, a clash against Sacramento Republic who were then lower league opposition and then a clash with Portland Timbers B team on the West Coast.
Howe is eager to fix up high quality opponents to test his side to their maximin levels. During his time with Bournemouth he arranged fixtures with top European sides like Lazio, Sevilla and Marseille to put his Cherries team through their paces. The Magpies will return for pre-season training on July 1. The club are set to confirm pre-season fixtures in due course. | https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-pre-season-eddie-23991622 | 2022-05-18T12:30:11Z | https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-pre-season-eddie-23991622 | true | 1 |
Business built on shared office space pivots with new model born from the pandemic
Social distancing is not a term any of us used two and a half years ago. You didn't blink an eye if you shared space with others. WeWork recently made an $8.8 million dollar expansion in Chicago. | https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/business-built-on-shared-office-space-pivots-with-new-model-born-from-the-pandemic/ | 2022-05-18T12:34:21Z | https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/business-built-on-shared-office-space-pivots-with-new-model-born-from-the-pandemic/ | true | null |
Boris dodges demands for windfall tax on energy giants to fund cost-of-living bailout after inflation soars to 40-YEAR high with 'apocalyptic' food costs and the economy grinding to a halt - vowing to 'look at' ways of easing the pain for families
- The headline CPI rate of inflation was 9 per cent in April with soaring utility bills causing most of the increase
- Inflation is now at the highest level since March 1982 when Margaret Thatcher was on verge of Falklands War
- Rishi Sunak is under massive pressure to bring forward new help for families struggling to make ends meet
Boris Johnson dodged on demands for a windfall tax on energy giants today as inflation soared to an eye-watering 40-year high with fears things are set to get even worse.
The headline CPI rate rose to 9 per cent in April - up from 7 per cent in March and the peak since 1982, when Margaret Thatcher was PM, the Falklands War was about to start, and unemployment was running at three million.
The Bank of England expects the annual rate will get even worse, peaking at 10.25 per cent during the final quarter of the year amid the biggest squeeze on incomes since records began in the 1950s. That would be more than five times its 2 per cent target.
At PMQs this afternoon, Mr Johnson blustered as he was grilled by Keir Starmer over whether he will bring in a levy on profits of oil and gas firms - amid signs of splits in the Cabinet on the idea.
Instead he blustered that 'this Government is not in principle in favour of higher taxation' and said the government would 'look at all the measures that we need to take to get people through to the other side'.
Mr Johnson highlighted the huge UK investments being made by such companies, and argued they were already highly taxed. But No10 effectively issued a threat by saying the government wanted them to pump more money into infrastructure.
Earlier, Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted that 'countries around the world are dealing with rising inflation', and he 'stands ready' to offer further support to Britons - while stressing that he cannot 'protect people completely' from pain.
Opposition parties are urging an emergency Budget to slash VAT and help struggling Britons who are 'on the brink'.
But there are mounting signs of splits in Cabinet over how to respond, with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss suggesting more tax cuts are needed and slating the idea of a windfall tax on energy firms - something Mr Sunak has said he is seriously considering.
Experts warned that 'this is what Stagflation looks like', as the UK economy stalls and teeters towards recession after the pandemic and Ukraine war caused chaos.
Analysts said another interest rate hike next month is now 'inevitable', potentially to 1.25 per cent, as the Bank of England scrambles to stop prices spiralling out of control. But the Pound still dipped further against the US dollar as investors priced in the increasingly grim situation.
Threadneedle Street governor Andrew Bailey infuriated ministers earlier this week when he delivered an extraordinary warning that 'apocalyptic' food price rises are in the pipeline.
He admitted that the Bank is largely 'helpless' to prevent the 'very real income shock' and unemployment will rise.
The unrelentingly miserable news continued with pump prices reaching new records, of 167.64p for petrol and 180.88p for diesel.
In a further headache for ministers, the RPI measure of inflation has rocketed even higher to 11.1 per cent in April - with unions threatening strikes unless that is used as the basis for pay rises in the public sector.
As Britons are buffeted by the fallout from Ukraine and the pandemic hangover:
- Unite chief Sharon Graham threatened strike action against employers who do not give pay rises in line with inflation, saying calls for wage restraint should be directed at FTSE 100 chief executives;
- The average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Tuesday was 167.6p, higher than the previous record of 167.3p set on March 22 - the day before Mr Sunak announced a 5p cut in fuel duty. Diesel prices have risen to 180.9p;
- Tories have warned the Bank of England not to overreact now by pushing up interest rates too quickly, dooming the country to recession;
- The average UK house price jumped by £24,000 in the year to March, according to official figures.
Newly-modelled figures from the ONS show that CPI would have last been above the April 2022 level of 9 per cent in March 1982 - when it was 9.1 per cent
Boris Johnson was flanked by Rishi Sunak at PMQs today as he clashed with political opponents over the cost-of-living crisis
Mr Johnson frantically dodged at PMQs this afternoon as he was grilled by Keir Starmer (pictured) over whether he will bring in a windfall tax on energy firms' profits - amid signs of splits in the Cabinet on the idea
Sharp increases in snergy and other household bills have been driving the recent spike in inflation
The Bank of England has predicted that inflation will keep rising and hit 10.25 per cent by the end of the year - before falling back again
Mr Sunak said in a statement after the figures this morning: 'Today's inflation numbers are driven by the energy price cap rise in April, which in turn is driven by higher global energy prices.
'We cannot protect people completely from these global challenges but are providing significant support where we can, and stand ready to take further action.
'We're saving the average worker £330 a year through reducing National Insurance Contributions, changing Universal Credit to save over a million families around £1,000 a year, and providing millions of families with £350 each this year to help with their energy bills.'
ONS Chief Economist Grant Fitzner said: 'Inflation rose steeply in April, driven by the sharp climb in electricity and gas prices as the higher price cap came into effect. Around three-quarters of the increase in the annual rate this month came from utility bills.
'We have also published new modelled historical estimates today which show that CPI annual inflation was last higher forty years ago.
'Steep annual rises in the cost of metals, chemicals and crude oil also continued, along with higher prices for goods leaving factory gates. This was driven by increases for food products, transport equipment and metals, machinery and equipment.'
However, Ms Truss suggested that the government had to do more to create a 'low tax economy', dodging whether she had backed the national insurance hike.
'I know he's looking at this very, very urgently,' Ms Truss said.
'He's already offered additional support
'The key response to the huge global inflation crisis we are facing is to make sure our economy grows.
'That is what is going to help people, it's going to help people in work… to do that we need to attract business investment.
'We have been successful at attracting business investment so far, we need to do more.
'What we know is that a low tax economy helps to deliver that business investment, helps to deliver those jobs.
'I know the Chancellor is looking at all of those things.'
She told ITV's Good Morning Britain: 'We've got the lowest unemployment since 1974. That's a positive thing. But now we need to get the economic growth up.
'We need to attract investment, and this is why having a low tax economy is so important. We're competing for investment with other countries.'
The British Chambers of Commerce said the 'unprecedented' impact of rising inflation meant a 'real chance' of a recession later this year.
BCC head of economics Suren Thiru called for Rishi Sunak to reverse the rise in National Insurance Contributions and cut VAT on business energy bills to 5 per cent.
He said: 'The jump in UK inflation in April is eye-watering and underscores the growing cost-of-living crisis facing households and the damaging squeeze on firms' ability to invest and operate at full capacity.
'The marked acceleration in the headline rate in April reflected the continued upward pressure on prices from surging energy and commodity costs, as well as the energy price cap rise and the reversal of the VAT reduction for hospitality in the month.
'The scale at which inflation is damaging key drivers of UK output, including consumer spending and business investment, is unprecedented and means there is a real chance the UK will be in recession by the third quarter of the year.'
Another interest rate rise in June was 'inevitable' but that would do little to address global factors driving inflation up, he said.
The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies economic think-tank suggested the inflation rate experienced by the poorest household could be closer to 11 per cent.
'As poorest households spend more of their total budget on gas and electricity, we now see inflation hitting the poorest households harder,'according to analysis by the think tank's Heidi Karjalainen and Peter Levell said.
'In April, the bottom 10 per cent of the population in terms of income faced a rate of inflation rate of 10.9 per cent, which was three percentage points higher than the inflation rate of the richest 10 per cent.
'Most of this difference comes from the fact that the poorest households spend 11 per cent of their total household budget on gas and electricity, compared to 4 per cent for the richest households.'
The Resolution Foundation (RF), which focuses on living standards, estimated that the poorest households faced a rate of 10.2 per cent.
The difference is largely due to soaring energy bills, with the price cap increasing by £693 for the typical family in April.
For the poorest households, energy costs make up a greater proportion of expenditure than for wealthier counterparts.
The IFS said the poorest households spend 11 per cent of their total household budget on gas and electricity, compared to 4 per for the richest households.
The rising cost of food is also a factor, with prices rising by 6.7 per cent, their highest rate since 2011.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said parents are skipping meals to ensure their children can eat and others are cutting back on showers to save water.
Rebecca McDonald, the foundation's senior economist, said: 'Inflation has hit a 40-year high. Yet last month, with prices already climbing, the Chancellor chose not to uprate benefits in line with inflation, leaving the basic rate of benefits at its lowest for 35 years.'
Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan warned there are likely to be a 'couple of bumps to get through' before inflation settles down.
Ms Trevelyan told an event at Bloomberg's headquarters in London: 'This is something we have to tackle across the board.
'And the worry we always have is that inflation tends to have two bumps to it.
'You have the initial one that is caused by this energy spike and immediate global rise but what can follow is the longer term impact and indeed through food production and particularly with disruption to Ukraine.
'So we know that we will probably have a couple of bumps to get through before we will see, we hope, stabilisation and a reduction as the energy crisis settles.'
Energy prices drove most of the record rises in inflation seen last month, but costs in supermarkets, restaurants and pubs also added to the pressure felt by households.
The Office for National Statistics said most of the rise was due to the 54 per cent hike in the energy price cap, but price on all but two of the more than 80 items that the ONS tracks have risen over the past year.
According to Retail Price Index figures - which are slightly different to the CPI - the price of unprocessed potatoes dropped 1.2 per cent in the year to April, while audio-visual equipment became 3 per cent less expensive.
For everything else prices went up. Overall food prices rose 6.8 per cent, the figures show, with meats, oils and some animal products especially hit.
The rise across meat categories was clear: lamb was the worst hit, up 14.2 per cent, followed by poultry (10.4 per cent) and beef (9.8 per cent) while pork got off with a lighter 4.9 per cent rise.
Butter prices rose 11.8 per cent and the price of oils and other fats soared 18.2 per cent over the last year after fears of a shortage sparked by the war in Ukraine.
The price of fresh milk also rose rapidly, up 13.2 per cent, while sugar and preserves rose 12.2 per cent.
Away from food, households were also hit by an 8.1 per cnt extra price on their restaurant bills, while the price of takeaways and snacks rose 6.5 per cent.
Drinking at a pub got more expensive too, with the cost of beer up 4.9 per cent and wine rising 6.2 per cent. Alcohol prices increased less rapidly in off licences and supermarkets.
Food and Drink Federation chief executive Karen Betts said that the figures are slightly worse than food manufacturers had feared.
'This is a very worrying time for many households, and food and drink businesses are continuing to do everything they can to contain food-price inflation,' she said.
'Ingredient price rises have been relentless for more than a year now, as a result of pressures in the global supply chain caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
'The war in Ukraine, with both Ukraine and Russia important suppliers of commodities like wheat and food oils, as well as energy and fertiliser, has made the situation worse.'
Energy prices are also feeding into the rising food costs - farmers and food factories need gas, petrol and electricity to run their businesses and have to pass these costs onto customers.
Fears are mounting of an inflation spiral after figures yesterday showed wages spiking and unemployment dropping to a five-decade low.
Pay including bonuses jumped 7 per cent and was up 9.9 per cent in March as firms ramped up rewards to keep staff amid a booming jobs market.
However, regular pay was only up by 4.2 per cent – meaning a 1.2 per cent fall when inflation was taken into account.
There is also a big divide in different sectors, with finance and business services workers seeing a 10.7 per cent increase in their packets and employees in retailing, hotels and restaurants 8.5 per cent.
In contrast public sector staff had a 1.6 per cent rise - although they did fare better than the private sector during the pandemic.
The pressure on the labour market was also laid bare with the UK's jobless rate tumbling to 3.7 per cent in the quarter to March – the lowest since 1974.
For the first time ever, there were fewer unemployed people than job vacancies.
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said: 'Today's inflation data will add to the worries families already face as prices soar and pay packets are crunched.
'It makes it even more unconscionable that – while they pile taxes on working people in the midst of this crisis – the Conservatives voted last night against a windfall tax on oil and gas producer profits to cut families' energy bills.
'Our country faces a cost of living crisis, and a growth crisis. Neither are inevitable but a consequence of government policies and Conservative choices.
'We need an Emergency Budget now from the government to tackle the cost of living crisis, and we need a real plan for growth so we have a fairer and more prosperous economy.'
The Bank of England's latest projections for GDP and inflation made miserable reading
Inflation and interest rates both spiked in the 1970s - but Professor David Blanchflower said the UK faced a different situation today
Rishi Sunak 'mulls bring 1p income tax cut forward to THIS this year' amid cost-of-living crisis
Rishi Sunak is considering bringing forward a 1p income tax cut and increasing the warm home discount by hundreds of pounds amid urgent calls for the Government to tackle the cost of living crisis.
Conservative MPs are urging the Chancellor to take action as quickly as possible to help households struggling with rising prices.
The Office for National statistics recorded inflation at 7% in March and on Wednesday it is expected to unveil a figure of 8% for April, while the Bank of England has said inflation is likely to peak at 10.25% during the final quarter of 2022.
Rishi Sunak and his Treasury ministers have suggested new measures to help ease cost-of-living pressures are being developed but will not be introduced imminently, i news reports.
The warm home discount will give three million of England and Wales' poorest homes £150 off their bills from October, but Treasury officials have also drawn up plans for a one-off increase of £300, £500 or possibly £600 to battle rising energy prices, The Times reports.
The extra measures could cost more than £1 billion and would be directly funded by the government, instead of being levied on energy bills as under the current system.
Sunak is reportedly drawn to this approach partly because there is a lower risk of it becoming permanent.
Also, the basic rate of income tax cut from 20p to 19p is set to take effect in April 2024, but Treasury sources said Mr Sunak is thinking about bringing it forward by one year, announcing it at the Budget in the autumn.
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Meghan Markle used one word to describe Prince William and Kate Middleton after she was first introduced to them by Prince Harry at the beginning of their relationship.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be celebrating their four year wedding anniversary on Thursday (19th May) and are still one of the most talked about couples in the world.
The ex-royal couple, who stood down as working royals in 2020, have been in a "tumultuous" relationship with their brother and sister-in-law since they relocated to California.
Many royal fans have brought up an old clip of Meghan and Harry which seems to show the "fab four" relationship in a better state than it is now.
During the couple’s 2017 engagement announcement interview with BBC’s Mishal Husain, Harry described how he had introduced Meghan to William and Kate.
"It was exciting I mean I’d been seeing her for a period of time when I literally didn’t tell anybody at all," said Harry.
"And then William was longing to meet her and so was Catherine, so you know, being our neighbours, we managed to get that in a couple of — well quite a few times now."
Going on to praise his sister-in-law, Harry continued: "Catherine has been absolutely..", to which Meghan interrupted: "wonderful".
Harry and Meghan Markle will lose their relevance and lose their top billing as they start drifting from their royal connections, a royal expert has claimed.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been accused of relying on their ties to the Royal Family to promote their brand and causes.
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Robert Hardman, journalist and royal expert, told Write Royalty: "I think their brand depends entirely on their royal status and their royal connections, and therefore that's what they are going to have to trade on, however much they say otherwise."
Details in Prince Harry's upcoming memoir is what people will "want to know about" over the "worthy charitable activity", according to the expert.
But Hardman believes this won't be enough to start a "slow process" of receding "from top billing on the news agenda".
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Target feels inflation’s sting in first quarter, shares slip
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Target’s first-quarter profit took a big hit from higher costs, despite strong sales growth. Target’s results Wednesday reflect the pressure on retailers’ profits coming from surging inflation and persistent clogs in the supply chain. Minneapolis-based Target reported that its net income fell 52% from a year ago to $1.01 billion, or $2.16 per share, in the quarter that ended April 30. That compares to $2.10 billion, or $4.17 per share, in the year-ago period. Its adjusted earnings per share were $2.19. That was well below the $3.07 a share expected by industry analysts polled by FactSet. | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/18/target-feels-inflations-sting-in-first-quarter-shares-slip/ | 2022-05-18T12:35:36Z | https://ktvz.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/18/target-feels-inflations-sting-in-first-quarter-shares-slip/ | false | null |
European Shares Rise On Hopes For China Demand Revival
(RTTNews) - European stocks advanced on Tuesday amid expectations of demand revival in top consumer China after Shanghai pledged to gradually ease its Covid lockdown and return life to normal in June.
Investors also cheered data showing that Britain's unemployment rate fell to its lowest since 1974 at 3.7 percent in the first three months of this year.
Separate data showed that the French unemployment rate fell to the lowest rate in 14 years in the first quarter, dropping to 7.3 percent.
Eurozone GDP grew 0.3 percent sequentially in the first three months of the year, up from a preliminary estimate of 0.2 percent and compared with a 0.3 percent rise in the previous quarter, Eurostat said.
The pan European Stoxx 600 jumped 1.6 percent to 440.53 after ending flat with a positive bias on Monday.
The German DAX and France's CAC 40 index both rose about 1.4 percent, while the U.K.'s FTSE 100 was up 0.7 percent.
Strong commodity prices helped lift energy stocks and miners, with BP Plc, Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore rising 1-2 percent.
Imperial Brands soared 7 percent as the tobacco giant reported a marginal increase in first-half sales after accounting for its exit from Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Contour Global jumped as much as 33 percent after U.S. private company KKR agreed to buy the power generation company for 1.75 billion pounds ($2.16 billion).
Industrial gases company Air Liquide Group advanced 1.6 percent. The company has reached an agreement with Toyota Motor Europe and Portuguese bus manufacturer CaetanoBus to develop integrated hydrogen solutions in Europe.
Power group ENGIE soared almost 6 percent after lifting guidance for the full year.
Daimler Truck Holding also jumped around 6 percent. The commercial vehicle manufacturer raised its full-year revenue guidance and backed its margin guidance for the year, despite rising raw materials prices and inflationary pressures.
Asian markets ended mostly higher and U.S. stock futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street later in the day as investors await earnings from retailers including Walmart and Home Depot.
Germany's 10-year government bond yield hit an almost one-week high above 1 percent after hawkish comments from ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau.
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See Gorgeous Photos of Bottle-Feeding Babies
A lot has been made of breastfeeding lately—and for good reason. But one side effect of the brelfies and the calls to #normalizebreastfeeding is that bottle-feeding has been all but overlooked. In fact, some moms who opt for formula say they feel judged or, worse, like a failure for not nursing their babies.
Nikke Whitman is not okay with this. After seeing a friend struggle with breastfeeding, the Puyallup, Washington–based birth photographer realized she could help shine a positive light on the alternative. Enter "Bottle Feeding Is Beautiful, Too," a stunning series of photos that capture the beauty of baby's meal time.
Taking them proved to be educational for the mom of three who, incidentally, bottle-fed her own babies after trying to nurse. "Recently, I met with women who have chosen to bottle feed on their own or because of circumstances out of their control," she wrote on her blog. "For some, the choice of feeding their babies rather than letting them starve is a very real scenario. I was surprised to find out some of the reasons women choose to bottle feed that I had never before considered. I thought my eyes were open but they had only caught a glimpse past my own personal struggles with breast feeding and bottle feeding."
With her intimate photos of infants cuddled up with moms, dads, and siblings, Whitman also hopes her photos dispel the notion that the only way you can bond with your baby is through breastfeeding. She wrote that "seeing a baby bond with its mommy, daddy, sibling, family, or friend is a blessing. So I retain my opinion that bottle feeding is beautiful, too." (Amen!)
Check out a few of our favorite images from her series below (and click here to see the full collection):
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Bonnie Gibbs Vengrow is a New York City-based writer and editor who traded in her Blackberry and Metro card for playdates and PB&J sandwiches—and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to watch her feisty, funny son grow up. Follow her on Twitter Pinterest, and Google+.
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Bullocks sold to a top price of £1,740 for a 714kg Sal at £2.44 per kg and to a top of £2.99 per kilo for a Lim 422kg at £1,260.
Heifers sold to a top price of £1,720 for a 712kg Sal at £2.42 per kg and to a top of £2.72 per kilo for a Char 346kg at £940.
Fat Cows were also an outstanding trade topping at £2.11 per kilo for a Lim 654kg at £1,380.
A lot more stock required to meet demand with a large number of buyers attending both at ringside and online.
Sample Prices
Bullocks: Kilrea producer; Sal,714kg at £1,740 = 2.44p; Sal,676kg at £1,630 = 2.41p; Sal,656kg at £1,560 = 2.38p; Sal,710kg, at £1,720 = £2.42p; Draperstown producer; Lim,422kg at £1,260 = 2.99p; Char,440kg at £1,190 = 2.70p; BB,476kg at £1,120 = 2.35p; Limavady producer; Lim,272kg at £740 = 2.72p; Lim,324kg at £720 = 2.22p; Kilrea producer; Lim,454kg at £980 = 2.16p; Lim,376kg at £780 = 2.07p; Swatragh producer; Char,296kg at £670 = 2.26p; Portglenone producer; Char,338kg at £790 = 2.34p; Char,280kg at £680 = 2.43p; Char,334kg at £700 = 2.10p; Char,352kg at £870 = 2.47p; Char,268kg at £650 = 2.43p; Dungiven producer; BB,380kg at £790 = 2.08p; BB,324kg at £760 = 2.35p; BB,334kg at £700 = 2.10p; AA,362kg at £760 = 2.10p; Maghera producer; Lim,428kg at £1,140 = 2.66p; Lim,426kg at £1,260 = 2.96p; Maghera producer; Char,372kg at £920 = 2.47p; AA,370kg at £690 = 1.86p; Char,376kg at £1,060 = 2.82p; Draperstown producer; BB,434kg at £980 = 2.26p; BB,482kg at £1,060 = 2.20p; BB,498kg at £1,080 = 2.17p; Lim,348kg at £1,040 = 2.99p; BB,472kg at £1,200 = 2.54p; Draperstown producer; Gal,604kg at £640 = 1.06p; Gal,598kg at £640 = 1.07p; Magherafelt producer; Lim,276kg at £760 = 2.75p; Lim,264kg at £690 = 2.61p; Limavady producer; Lim,408kg at £1,100 = 2.70p; Lim,398kg at £1,040 = 2.61p; Char,432kg at £1,070 = 2.48p; Lim,420kg at £1,120 = 2.67p; Carrickfergus producer; AA,606kg at £1,390 = 2.29p; AA,386kg at £790 = 2.05p; AA,616kg at £1,460 = 2.37p; AA,382kg at £800 = 2.09p; Magherafelt producer; Char,416kg at £830 = 2.00p; Garvagh producer; Char,384kg at £1,000 = 2.60p; Char,448kg at £990 = 2.21p; Char,442kg at £1,160 = 2.62p; Char,402kg at £900 = 2.24p; Char,392kg at £840 = 2.14p; Char,432kg at £1,150 = 2.66p; Maghera producer; Lim,456kg at £1,020 = 2.24p; Maghera producer; Lim,246kg at £590 = 2.40p; Char,320kg at £820 = 2.56p; Cookstown producer; Fr,460kg at £730 = 1.59p; Her,440kg at £890 = 2.02p; Fr,398kg at £550 = 1.38p; Maghera producer; Char,566kg at £1,270 = 2.24p.
Heifers: Kilrea producer; Sal,712kg at £1,720 = 2.42p; Sal,594kg at £1,390 = 2.34p; Maghera producer; Char,346kg at £940 = 2.72p; Char,364kg at £970 = 2.66p; Char,422kg at £1,000 = 2.37p; Lim,350kg at £930 = 2.66p; Maghera producer; Lim,382kg at £990 = 2.59p; Lim,368kg at £990 = 2.69p; Lim,372kg at £960 = 2.58p; Lim,374kg at £930 = 2.49p; Lim,372kg at £900 = 2.42p; Lim,378kg at £980 = 2.59p; Swatragh producer; Sim,464kg at £1,050 = 2.26p; Lim,366kg at £810 = 2.21p; Lim,160kg at £350 = 2.19p; Kilrea producer; Lim,228kg at £530 = 2.32p; Dungiven producer; Her,338kg at £540 = 1.60p; Char,376kg at £750 = 1.99p; Draperstown producer; Daq,452kg at £1,210 = 2.68p; Lim,480kg at £1,250 = 2.60p; Kilrea producer; Lim,330kg at £700 = 2.12p; Maghera producer; Lim,430kg at £1,000 = 2.33p; Char,394kg at £890 = 2.26p; Dungiven producer; Char,574kg at £1,390 = 2.42p; Lim,500kg at £1,180 = 2.36p; Limavady producer; Char,524kg at £1,280 = 2.44p; Char,430kg at £1,060 = 2.47p; Swatragh producer; AA,376kg at £720 = 1.91p; AA,564kg at £1,380 = 2.45p; AA,460kg at £1,030 = 2.24p; AA,406kg at £880 = 2.17p; AA,342kg at £720 = 2.11p; AA,464kg at £1,060 = 2.28p; AA,356kg at £770 = 2.16p; AA,404kg at £820 = 2.03p; Magherafelt producer Sim,280kg at £580 = 2.07p; Maghera producer; BB,408kg at £870 = 2.13p; Lim,436kg at £850 = 1.96p; BB,414kg at £780 = 1.88p; Lim,294kg at £600 = 2.04p; Strabane producer; AA,380kg at £690 = 1.82p; AA,364kg at £660 = 1.81p; Cookstown producer; Sim,552kg at £1,140 = 2.07p; Her,430kg at £880 = 2.05p; Sh,560kg at £1,080 = 1.93p; Maghera producer; Sim,508kg at £1,090 = 2.15p.
A strong seasonal show of 1,000 sheep were presented at Swatragh Livestock Mart on Saturday, 14th May. 427 cull ewes were offered for sale and were a solid trade topping at £224.00. 552 lambs were presented for sale, which was met with an improved trade. Lambs topped at £153.00 for heavy sorts. Spring Lambs topped at £147.50.
Sample Prices
Heavy-weight: Desertmartin producer; 28kg at £153.00 = 5.46p; Draperstown producer; 28kg at £151.00 = 5.39p; Tobermore producer; 32kg at £143.00 = 4.47p; Cookstown producer; 26kg at £142.00 = 5.46p; Tobermore producer; 24kg at £141.00 = 5.88p; Kilrea producer; 35kg at £140.00 = 4.00p; Draperstown producer; 28kg at £140.00 = 5.00p; Greysteel producer; 27kg at £139.50 = 5.17p; Magherafelt producer; 27kg at £139.00 = 5.15p; Maghera producer; 33.5kg at £138.50 = 4.13p; Coleraine producer; 24kg at £137.50 = 5.73p; Kilrea producer; 24.5kg at £137.50 = 5.61p; Swatragh producer; 32kg at £137.50 = 4.30p; Magherafelt producer; 34kg at £136.00 = 4.00p.
Spring Lambs: Draperstown producer; 21kg at £147.50 = 7.02p; Cookstown producer; 23.5kg at £139.50 = 5.94p; Dungiven producer; 23.7kg at £139.50 = 5.89p; Limavady producer; 22.5kg at £137.00 = 6.09p; Maghera producer; 23kg at £137.00 = 5.96p; Magherafelt producer; 22kg at £135.00 = 6.14p; Stewartstown producer; 23.6kg at £134.00 = 5.68p;Cookstown producer; 23.6kg at £134.00 = 5.68p; Maghera producer; 23kg at £133.00 = 5.78p; Kilrea producer; 22kg at £133.00 = 6.05p; Garvagh producer; 22.3kg at £133.00 = 5.96p; Castlerock producer; 21kg at £129.00 = 6.14p; Greysteel producer; 21kg at £128.50 = 6.12p; Moneymore producer; 21.4kg at £128.00 = 5.98p; Cookstown producer; 22.5kg at £128.00 = 5.69p; Maghera producer; 21kg at £127.50 = 6.07p.
Lightweight: Draperstown producer; 19.7kg at £120.00 = 6.09p; Bellaghy producer; 18.25kg at £94.50 = 5.18p; Randalstown producer; 17kg at £92.00 = 5.41p; Cookstown producer; 15kg at £86.00 = 5.73p; Draperstown producer; 16kg at £78.00 = 4.88p.
Fat Ewes: Coleraine producer; £224; Bellaghy producer; £195; Coleraine producer; £192.
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Traton SE on Wednesday set a new margin target for the group through 2024 as it expects higher volumes and efficiency gains. It also set targets for its subsidiaries Scania, MAN Truck & Bus and for its Latin American business, Volkswagen Caminhoes e Onibus.
The Volkswagen AG subsidiary set a 9% return-on-sales target for the whole group through 2024, saying that higher profitability should be supported by higher volumes, growth in its Vehicle Services business, and the completion of the realignment of MAN Truck & Bus.
"Unit sales of the group are expected to grow in the medium term, primarily driven by a highly competitive product and service offering, the company's recent entry into the North American market with Navistar, and the establishment of production in China," the company said.
Scania, Traton's Sweden-based, commercial-vehicle manufacturer, is aiming for a 12% strategic return on sales, while Man Truck & Bus is targeting 8%, it said.
Brazil-based subsidiary Volkswagen Caminhoes e Onibus, also known as Volkswagen Truck & Bus, is aiming for an 8% return on sales as a strategic target after delivering strong return on sales in 2021, Traton said.
Navistar, the recently-consolidated brand of the group, is targeting a 9% return on sales, with the ambition of further increasing profitability in the long term, Traton said.
Write to Cecilia Butini at cecilia.butini@wsj.com
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Frontera Achieved 98% Of Its 2021 ESG Goals
US$4.7 Million Invested Benefiting More Than 46,000 People in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
2022 Environmental, Social and Governance Targets Announced
Frontera To Invest In Its First Photovoltaic Plant At Its CPE-6 Block In Colombia To Reduce Energy Use, Costs and Carbon Emissions
CALGARY, AB, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) ("Frontera" or the "Company") today released its 2021 Sustainability Report (the "Sustainability Report"), announced its 2022 environmental, social and governance ("ESG") targets and reaffirmed its commitment to continue to develop and implement meaningful actions to strengthen its ESG performance across its business.
Orlando Cabrales, Chief Executive Officer, Frontera commented:
"I am pleased to report that Frontera achieved 98% of its 2021 ESG goals and I am excited by the challenge of delivering our 2022 ESG goals and objectives. Frontera's ESG strategy is guided by our values of integrity, respect, commitment, sustainability and culture. We are building a sustainable future through operational excellence and business integrity, caring for the health and safety of our people and the communities where we operate, being responsible with the ecosystems and the environment, and creating value for our social setting."
Frontera's 2021 Sustainability Report report details Frontera's sustainability challenges, the Company's performance against its 2021 ESG goals and publicly establishes its 2022 ESG objectives. The 2021 Sustainability Report covers the period from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 and has been prepared in accordance with the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Global Compact, the Voluntary Principles on Human Rights and Security, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Frontera has voluntarily published annual Sustainability Reports since 2016 as part of its continuous and transparent disclosure efforts to highlight its ESG achievements and challenges.
Frontera's 2021 Sustainability Report can be accessed on the Company's website at: https://www.fronteraenergy.ca/sustainability-reports/
Highlights of Frontera's 2021 ESG performance include:
Environment:
- Frontera neutralized 41% of its carbon emissions on average through carbon credits.
- The Company planted 764 hectares of biological corridors to preserve diversity and ecosystems.
Social:
- Frontera was awarded the Equipares Gold Seal from the Ministry of Labour of Colombia for the Company's commitment and efforts to close gender gaps in the workplace and in the communities where it operates. The Gold Seal is the highest recognition of the program and Frontera is the first oil and gas company to receive this recognition.
- Frontera was certified by Great Place to Work ("GPTW") as the only oil and gas company with an outstanding work environment.
- Frontera was also recognized as one of best places to work for women in Colombia among the 2021 GPTW ranking.
- The Company reduced its wage segregation index by 28% compared with 2020.
- Frontera maintained its total recordable incident rate in 1.7, and kept a safe and healthy work environment across its operations.
- Frontera invested USD $4.7 million in 164 projects that benefitted more than 46,000 people in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
- The Company purchased US $40 million in local services.
Governance:
- Due to its leadership and commitment in ethics and compliance, Frontera was first recognized by Ethisphere Institute in 2021 as one of the 2021 World's most ethical companies. Ethisphere is a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. Frontera was one of only three honorees in the Oil & Gas, and Renewables category and joined 134 global companies, from 22 countries and 47 industries recognized by Ethisphere in 2021.
Frontera's 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance Goals
As part of its 2021 Sustainability Report, Frontera published its ESG goals for 2022. Frontera will report its progress in achieving its 2022 goals in its 2022 Sustainability Report which it anticipates publishing in May 2023. A list of the Company's 2022 ESG goals are shown in the table below.
Frontera Energy Corporation is a Canadian public company involved in the exploration, development, production, transportation, storage and sale of oil and natural gas in South America, including related investments in both upstream and midstream facilities. The Company has a diversified portfolio of assets with interests in 34 exploration and production blocks in Colombia, Ecuador and Guyana, and pipeline and port facilities in Colombia. Frontera is committed to conducting business safely and in a socially, environmentally and ethically responsible manner.
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Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking information relates to activities, events or developments that Frontera believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future. Forward-looking information in this presentation includes, without limitation, Frontera's 2022 ESG goals and expectations regarding the Company's 2022 Sustainability Report.. All information other than historical fact is forward-looking information.
Forward-looking information reflects the current expectations, assumptions and beliefs of Frontera based on information currently available to it and considers the experience of Frontera and its perception of historical trends. Although Frontera believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking information are reasonable, forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be placed on such information. Forward-looking information is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, some that are similar to other oil and gas companies and some that are unique to Frontera. The actual results of Frontera may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking information, and even if such actual results are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, Frontera. The annual information form of Frontera for the year ended December 31, 2021, and Frontera's management's discussion and analysis for the year ended December 31, 2021, and quarter ended March 31, 2022, and other documents Frontera files from time to time with securities regulatory authorities describe the risks, uncertainties, material assumptions and other factors that could influence actual results and such factors are incorporated herein by reference. Copies of these documents are available without charge by referring to Frontera's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. All forward-looking information speaks only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, Frontera disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise.
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NEW DELHI: India's retail inflation is estimated to average at a nine-year of high of 6.9% in the current financial year ending March 2023, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said on Wednesday, signalling more pain for households in the coming months. The rating agency said it inflation based on consumer price index to continue rising till September.
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NEW DELHI: India's retail inflation is estimated to average at a nine-year of high of 6.9% in the current financial year ending March 2023, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said on Wednesday, signalling more pain for households in the coming months. The rating agency said it inflation based on consumer price index to continue rising till September.
A 6.9% inflation rate is well beyond the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) upper tolerance band of 6%.
A 6.9% inflation rate is well beyond the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) upper tolerance band of 6%.
Official data released last week showed that domestic retail inflation surged to 7.79% in April, the fastest pace in eight years, led by a jump in food and fuel prices. Retail inflation averaged at 4.1% between FY16 and FY19.
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“The RBI believes this conflict is a tectonic shift, the spillover of which has caused not only a sudden spike in inflationary pressures worldwide but also heightened uncertainty. All this means, the future inflation trajectory is going to be heavily contingent upon the evolving geopolitical situation which is in a flux," said Devendra Pant, chief economist, India Ratings.
After a 40 basis points off-cycle hike in policy rates announced earlier this month, the central bank is expected to increase policy rates by at least by 75bps in the rest of FY23, Ind-Ra said.
“The hike could also be 100-125bps, but this will depend on incoming data, policy actions by global central banks, global geopolitical situation and its spillover effect on the India economy," the agency said.
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International crude oil prices along with both food and non-food commodities are likely to remain high and volatile, and will pose considerable upside risks to retail inflation, Pant said.
It estimated that the first rate increase by RBI will be of 50bps in June, and another 25bps in the October policy. Cash reserve ratio could also be hiked by 50bps to 5% by end of FY23, the agency added.
RBI has said geopolitical tensions have been ratcheting up inflation over the last 3 to 4 decades in major economies while moderating external demand.
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“Inflation sensitive items relevant to India such as edible oils are facing shortages due to the conflict in Europe and export bans by key producers. The jump in fertiliser prices and other input costs has a direct impact on food prices in India," the central bank said.
Indicating more rate hikes going ahead, RBI has said that the normalisation of monetary policy in major advanced economies is now expected to gain pace significantly, both in terms of rate increases and unwinding of quantitative easing as well as rollout of quantitative tightening.
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Collection of articles from MIT Sloan's Ideas Made to Matter on the workforce of the future
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Executives and managers are adapting to new norms for remote and hybrid work and engaging with workforces seeking security in the face of digital transformation.
But that's today.
In the years ahead, leaders will need to adopt new styles of management, consider a new social contract that includes multiple stakeholders, and seek workers prepared to navigate ongoing ambiguity and change.
A collection of articles packaged and released today from MIT Sloan School of Management's Ideas Made to Matter website examines the skills and knowledge managers need now to guide organizations over the long term. From distributed leadership to the traits of the workforce of the future, MIT Sloan experts offer ideas about managing the future. Articles include:
Why distributed leadership is the future of management
Successfully leading a company into the future is no longer about 30-year strategic plans, or even 5- or 10-year roadmaps. It's about adopting a strategic mindset that focuses on small, short-term wins that allow companies to respond to evolving technology and external risks like geopolitical conflict, pandemics, and the climate crisis.
MIT Sloan experts:
- Deborah Ancona, professor of organization studies; founder, the MIT Leadership Center
- Kate Isaacs, lecturer, MIT Leadership Center
5 traits of the workforce of the future — and how to boost them now
Future-ready employees are empowered, data-literate, comfortable with AI and machine learning, and committed to social and climate concerns.
MIT Sloan experts:
- Daron Acemoglu, institute professor and economist
- Emilio Castilla, professor of work and organization studies; co-director, MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
- Jason Jay, senior lecturer; director, Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan
- Miro Kazakoff, senior lecturer
- Kate Kellogg, professor of work and organization studies
- Erin Kelly, professor of work and organization studies; co-director, MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
- Thomas Kochan, post-tenure professor; faculty member, MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
- Malia Lazu, lecturer; award winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion
- Fiona Murray, professor of entrepreneurship; associate dean for innovation and inclusion; co-director, the MIT Innovation Initiative; faculty director, Legatum Center at MIT
- Paul Osterman, professor of human resources and management
- Bethany Patten, lecturer; senior associate director, Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan
- Ray Reagans, professor of work and organization studies; associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion
- John Sterman, professor; director, MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative
- Zeynep Ton, professor of the practice; cofounder, Good Jobs Institute
- Barbara Wixom, principal research scientist, MIT Center for Information Systems Research
How to make 'work of the future' work for everyone
Guided by a new social contract, this article explains how companies can deliver for shareholders, employees, and global communities as they develop next-generation working models.
MIT Sloan experts:
- Thomas Kochan, post-tenure professor; faculty member, MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
- Sandy Pentland, professor; director, Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program
What 'Work of the Future' means to 5 business leaders
Data and AI, leading with empathy, and retaining workers are top of mind for executives from Google, Target, and Amgen.
Launched in 2018, MIT Sloan's Ideas Made to Matter brings the work, ideas, and insights of MIT Sloan experts to global business leaders. The platform's journalists report on topics at the intersection of management and technology, including novel and effective use of data and analytics within organizations; navigating the digital economy; and leading organizations in an era when technology is changing how we work.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russia said Wednesday that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops at a giant steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered, abandoning their dogged defense of a site that became a symbol of their country's resistance, as the battle in the strategic port city appeared all but over.
Ukraine ordered the fighters to save their lives - and said their mission to tie up Russian forces is now complete - but has not called the column of soldiers walking out of the plant a surrender. The fighters face an uncertain fate, with Ukraine saying they hope for a prisoner swap but Russia vowing to try at least some of them for war crimes.
It's not clear how many fighters remain inside the stronghold, Ukraine's last in a city now largely reduced to rubble. Both sides are trying to shape the narrative and extract propaganda victories from what has been one of the most important battles of the war.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Wednesday that 959 Ukrainian troops have now abandoned the Avozstal plant since they started coming out Monday. At one point, officials put the number of fighters holed up in the mill's sprawling network of tunnels and bunkers at 2,000.
The figures, if confirmed, suggest that Moscow might be within touching distance of being able to claim that all of Mariupol has fallen. That would be a boost for Russian President Vladimir Putin in a war where many of his plans have gone awry.
But already another setback loomed: Sweden and Finland both officially applied to join the NATO military alliance on Wednesday, a move driven by security concerns over the Russian invasion. Putin launched the invasion on Feb. 24 in what he said was an effort to check NATO's expansion but has seen that strategy backfire.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he welcomed the applications, which now have to be weighed by 30 member countries.
Beyond its symbolic value, gaining full control of Mariupol would also allow Russia to deploy forces elsewhere in the Donbas, the eastern industrial heartland that the Kremlin is now bent on capturing. It would also give Russia an unbroken land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, while depriving Ukraine of a vital port.
For months, the soldiers have they defended the plant against the odds, but on Tuesday Ukraine's defense minister said he had issued a new order to the fighters to “save their lives.”
“Ukraine needs them. This is the main thing,” Oleksiy Reznikov said.
What will now happen to the fighters isn't clear. At least some have been taken to a former penal colony in territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Ukraine says it hopes they can be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war and that negotiations are delicate and time-consuming.
But in Moscow, there are mounting calls for Ukrainian troops to be put on trial. Russia's main federal investigative body said it intends to interrogate the troops to “identify the nationalists” and determine whether they were involved in crimes against civilians. Also, Russia's top prosecutor asked the country's Supreme Court to designate Ukraine's Azov Regiment a terrorist organization. The regiment has roots in the far right.
The Russian parliament planned to take up a resolution Wednesday to prevent the exchange of Azov Regiment fighters, Russian news agencies said.
Ukraine's deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, said negotiations for the fighters' release were ongoing, as were plans to pull out others still inside the mill. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “the most influential international mediators are involved” in the evacuation.
Mariupol was targeted by Russia from the outset of the invasion. The city was largely flattened in steady bombardments, and Ukraine says over 20,000 civilians have been killed. But the fighters in the steel plant held out, as the rest of the city fell to Russian occupation.
Britain's Defense Ministry said in its daily intelligence report Wednesday that Ukraine's defense of Mariupol “inflicted costly personnel losses amongst Russian forces.”
More than 260 Ukrainian fighters - some of them seriously wounded and taken out on stretchers - left the ruins of the Azovstal plant on Monday and turned themselves over to troops on the Russian side who patted them down and took them away on buses.
Others were taken way on Tuesday. Seven buses carrying an unknown number of Ukrainian soldiers were seen arriving at a former penal colony in the town of Olenivka, about 88 kilometers (55 miles) north of Mariupol.
It was impossible to confirm the total number of fighters brought to Olenivka or their legal status. While both Mariupol and Olenivka are officially part of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, Olenivka has been controlled by Russia-backed separatists since 2014 and forms part of the unrecognized “Donetsk People's Republic.” Prior to the rebel takeover, penal colony No. 120 had been a high-security facility designed to hold prisoners sentenced for serious crimes.
Footage shot by The Associated Press showed that the convoy was escorted by military vehicles bearing the pro-Kremlin “Z” sign, as Soviet flags fluttered from poles along the road. About two dozen Ukrainian fighters were seen in one of the buses.
If its capture is completed, Mariupol would be the biggest city to be taken by Moscow's forces. During the siege, Russian forces launched lethal airstrikes on a maternity hospital and a theater where civilians had taken shelter. Close to 600 people may have been killed at the theater.
Ukraine's human rights ombudsman said the Russian military was also holding more than 3,000 civilians from Mariupol at another former penal colony near Olenivka. Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova said most civilians are held for a month, but those considered “particularly unreliable,” including former soldiers and police, are held for two months. The detainees include about 30 volunteers who delivered humanitarian supplies to Mariupol while it was under siege, she said.
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Target feels inflation's sting in Q1, shares plunge
Posted May 18, 2022 8:30 a.m. EDT
Updated May 18, 2022 8:31 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK — Target took a big hit from higher costs during the first quarter despite brisk sales and shares appeared headed for their most severe sell-off since the Black Monday market crash of 1987.
Profits for major retailers has come under pressure from both surging inflation and stubborn clogs in the global supply chain.
Target's net income fell roughly 52% from a year ago to $1.01 billion, or $2.16 per share, in the quarter that ended April 30. Per-share earnings adjusted for one time costs were $2.19, far from Wall Street projections of $3.07 a share expected by industry analysts polled by FactSet.
That is also below last year's first quarter profit of $2.09 billion.
“Throughout the quarter, we faced unexpectedly high costs, driven by a number of factors, resulting in profitability that came in well below our expectations, and well below where we expect to operate over time," CEO Brian Cornell said in a prepared statement.
Things have changed significantly from the environment the company was experiencing just 13 weeks ago, Cornell said, and the company did not project the significant cost increases in freight and transportation.
Those costs will be $1 billion higher this year than the company had anticipated, and Target does not expect those costs to ease this year.
Target's report follows quarterly results from Walmart Tuesday and there were many similarities between the two, including an early sell-off of stock. Shares of Target Corp. plunged 24% before the opening bell Wednesday.
The last time shares fell so hard was on Oct. 19, 1987, one of the worst days in history for U.S. markets, when the Dow fell more than 20%. However, Target shares then cost less than $4. On Tuesday, shares of Target tumbled $51.85, hitting $163.43 with about an hour before the markets open.
Revenue rose 4% to $24.83 billon in the quarter, a little better than expected.
Sales at Target stores open at least a year increased 3.4% during the latest quarter. It posted an 18% increase in the same quarter last year. Online sales increased 3.2%, following growth of 50.2%. Same-day services including picking up online orders curbside increased 8% this year. More than 95% of Target’s first quarter sales were fulfilled by its stores.
Sales growth was driven by items that shoppers frequently purchase like food and beverages, beauty and household essentials.
During a media call with reporters on Tuesday, executives with the Minneapolis company said that customers remain financially healthy and that the pattern of spending is returning to something more similar to before the pandemic.
Americans are buying fewer TVs, bicycles and kitchen appliances than they did during the two years of the pandemic. Those sales have shifted to luggage, for example as people begin traveling again. That unexpectedly rapid shift led to higher markdowns and an increase of bulky items that are not selling as quickly as Target had expected.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The US Soccer Federation has reached milestone agreements to pay its men’s and women’s teams equally.
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Albanese celebrates his heritage and the schoolchildren who had their names teased
Anthony Albanese says he knows what it’s like to be teased in the schoolyard for his funny name - and it’s still happening.
The Labor leader made his pitch to Italian-Australians at an event in the usually safe Labor seat of Fowler in Sydney’s west on Wednesday night.
He noted that if Labor won the election on Saturday, there would be “an Albanese as prime minister and a Wong as leader of the Labor Party in the Senate”.
Australia was a great multicultural nation where everyone had the opportunity to rise to the top, he said, but it still had a way to go.
“Those people of my age and older in this room will know that at school people made fun of your name,” he said.
“My opponents think it’s still OK to make fun of someone’s name in their advertising. And that is a matter for them to consider, perhaps, in the future – but I know that many in the Italian-Australian community have made their own judgments about what that says about them.”
The Liberals have been running ads and posting signs around the country for weeks saying: “It won’t be easy under Albanese”.
Albanese promised Labor would offer a better future to Australia and that included a celebration of its multiculturalism.
“I’m very proud to stand here as someone who is of mixed background in the great Australian story,” he said.
Businessman Paul Signorello told the crowd of 400 he was incredibly proud of Albanese’s heritage.
“We can’t wait to hopefully have an Italian-heritage prime minister of Australia,” he said, before Italian MP Nicholas Care shared similar sentiments in Italian.
Albanese also acknowledged the contribution Italian migrants have made to the arts, culture, food and multicultural society in Australia.
“One of the things about those people who’ve come to Australia … is that they’ve come to Australia to work hard and get ahead and to offer a better life for their children and grandchildren and there’s no community that’s done that more than the Italian community,” he said.
“When you work hard you should be able to get ahead … but at the moment it’s really hard to get ahead.”
He made a final pitch for votes based on Labor’s plans for more aged care funding and nurses, saying he knew the community had “an absolute foundation of intergenerational respect” for their elders.
Afterwards, he was mobbed by enthusiastic fans seeking selfies and to shake hands with the part-Italian would-be prime minister.
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SpaceX launches batch of 53 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX successfully launched another batch of 53 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Wednesday.
A Falcon 9 rocket carried the satellites into orbit at 6:59 a.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center. The goal of Starlink is to create a network that will help provide internet services to those who are not yet connected and to provide reliable and affordable internet across the globe.
Moments after liftoff, Falcon 9's first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship.
To date, SpaceX has launched more than 2,400 Starlink satellites.
Wednesday's launch is the first of two launches this week. On Thursday, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch an Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. This test flight is the last major step before the Atlas V and Boeing's Starliner capsule take American astronauts to the ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Launch time is at 6:54 p.m. ET.
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- Rookie fraudsters make approximately $20,000 a month, as 'Cyber Kingpin' wages reach more than $600,000 a month
- Number of active fraudsters has increased tenfold since 2019
- Nearly 33% of cybercrime losses come from online consumer account-based fraud attacks
- Fintech, gaming, technology, and ecommerce companies are hyper-targeted industries where fraudsters have the potential to earn the most money
- Top targeted companies can see up to 35% of traffic coming from human fraudsters
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkose Labs, the global leader in fraud deterrence and account security, today released new insights, shining a light into the corners of the expanding global fraud economy. Data in the Q2 2022 State of Fraud & Account Security report shows specific attack attempts skyrocketed, fraud "employment" increased tenfold, and fraud returns for the "Master Fraudster" can be 8X higher than salaries for CEOs leading legitimate companies. .
"The ROI for cyberattacks is greater than ever, so fraudsters are willing to invest more energy in the right mix of tools and resources to be successful and turn profits," said Kevin Gosschalk, founder and CEO of Arkose Labs. "Our intelligence shows that bot attacks are mimicking human behavior enough to evade security measures and leading to new monetization techniques. Evolving bot and human-led attacks increasingly target fintech, gaming, and technology companies. Simple automation is a thing of the past as attackers have proven to be quick learners and continue to find ways to sabotage businesses to increase their personal wealth."
New Arkose Labs intelligence reveals key findings about hot fraud attack trends, which increase the likelihood of growing profits for fraudsters:
- Profit-Driven Attacks Threaten Trust and Account Security: The high monetization potential of account compromises and fake accounts makes phishing and credential stuffing the attack patterns to watch. Automated account takeovers (ATOs) were 30% higher in Q1 compared to the two years prior. Insights from the Arkose Labs Global Network™ show that 1 in 4 accounts created in the first quarter of 2022 were fake, leading to promotion and free trial abuse.
- Bots are Intelligent & Efficient: The first quarter saw consistently higher bot-driven attacks than the average across all of 2021, driven by large-scale scraping and credential stuffing attempts. Scraping attacks increased by 60% in Q1, while 4% of all traffic was a credential stuffing attempt. Bot attacks have three times more complex attack signatures today than in years prior, creating greater detection complexity for businesses.
- Low-and-Slow Human-led Attacks Prevail: Many bot threats are being augmented with human-led efforts. These attacks are far more persistent and targeted, and go to greater lengths to attempt to stay under the radar.
- Industry-Specific Attacks on the Rise: While every industry saw massive attacks, each industry was targeted in different ways and by varying attack patterns.
- Fraud in the Metaverse: Attacks on metaverse companies increased 40% since Q4 2021. Unlike automated bot attacks, fraudsters put greater investment into metaverse attacks, requiring more human capital to execute phishing, spam, and scams effectively. Targeted human-led attacks, which require a higher level of sophistication, make up nearly all attacks against metaverse companies. Metaverse companies experience 68% more low-and-slow human-led attacks than non-metaverse companies.
- Fraudsters Based in Asia Dominate Cyberattacks: 40% of attacks worldwide came from Asia, compared to 1 in 3 attacks originating in Europe and 1 in 5 attacks originating in North America. Within Asia, attacks from China and India increased 70% compared to Q4 2021. The top 5 attacking countries - US, India, China, Great Britain, Vietnam - contributed to over 60% of all actions in Q1.
Nearly 33% of Cybercrime Losses Come from Online Consumer Account-Based Fraud
Cybercrime is big business. Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that the global cybercrime industry will reach more than $10 trillion by 2025. In the U.S. the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center calculated cybercrime losses equaled $6.9 billion in 2021, which represents the latest available data. Online consumer account-based fraud attacks contribute to that figure. In fact, consumer account-based fraud types reported to the FBI total more than $2 Billion, or 29% of the total cybercrime losses declared.1
Table 1:
Consumers' online accounts are a major theater of action in cyber warfare because they tend to be easy entry points for fraudsters due to legitimate credentials (usernames and passwords) being readily available for sale on Dark Web networks.
That's a field day for individual fraudsters. Arkose Labs Chief Criminal Officer, Brett Johnson, notes he has observed people who fall into the "Rookie Fraudster" category earning wages of $20,000 a month by conducting first-party refund fraud, while people who fall into the "Master Fraudster" category can earn up to $600,000 a month, or $7.2 million annually. According to Salary.com, the median CEO annual salary in the U.S. is a little more than $790,000. In comparison, Master Fraudster "wages" are 800% more than legitimate business leaders.
Fraud Employment Outpaces Cybersecurity Jobs
Cybersecurity may be the only industry that has had sustained zero unemployment for years. According to the (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2021, 4.19 million people are employed in the cybersecurity industry globally – impressive but not enough, as 2.72 million unfilled jobs exist. The labor shortage in cybersecurity continues to put companies at risk, especially because the number of people entering cybercrime as a career is growing faster than companies can hire and train cybersecurity employees.
Not only are fraudster "wages" increasing, as demonstrated in the above section, but job growth among fraudsters is rampant. According to Johnson, the number of career fraudsters has increased tenfold since 2019, more than outnumbering the 4.19 million cybersecurity workforce.
Table 2:
Arkose Labs has defined two primary categories of fraudsters, based on extensive observations of dark web communities and behavioral data from the Arkose Labs Global Network™.
Table 3:
"Rookie Fraudsters move into the Master Fraudster category due to the vast information sharing of attack techniques on the dark web," said Johnson. "Marketplace and messaging platforms have become popularized in the fraud community where cybercriminals can promote their own personal fraud business, recommend attack tools and techniques, and offer free step-by-step guides for the Rookie Fraudster. With this widespread information sharing, human fraudsters are capable of using bot tools to attack at scale and Rookie Fraudsters uplevel their attack skills much faster."
According to Johnson, the number of active fraudsters has increased 10x since 2019, due in large part because of the "easy money" that could be made from unemployment stimulus programs during the pandemic. "Many Rookie Fraudsters ramped up during the pandemic because of the ROI that could be made."
The platform of cybercrime itself is so sophisticated, that a Rookie Fraduster doesn't need to know anything to come in and be profitable. "They can buy a tutorial for $5 or $10, take a live instruction class that runs anywhere from $300 up to $3,500, which teaches the type of fraud they want to focus on; they can watch YouTube videos to perfect their approach, and they can simply ask questions of other fraudsters in dark-web chat channels," Johnson said.
The great equalizer between the estimated 15 million fraudsters and the 4.19 million cybersecurity workers is technology. For legitimate companies to protect their consumers' online accounts and prevent fraud, requires companies to invest in technology that works. Today, Arkose Labs provides support for some of the world's most recognized brands and platforms including PayPal, Zilch, Microsoft, Roblox, and Pitney Bowes. Arkose Labs protects industries like fintech, banking, gaming, ecommerce/retail, technology, travel, and social media.
About the Report
The 2022 Q2 State of Fraud & Account Security is based on actual user sessions and attack patterns analyzed by the Arkose Labs Fraud Deterrence Prevention Platform from January through March 2022. These sessions, spanning account registrations, logins, and payments from financial services, ecommerce, travel, social media, gaming, and entertainment, were analyzed in real-time to provide insights into the evolving fraud and risk landscape. The report focuses on attacks from fraud outlets that combine state-of-the-art technology with stolen identity credentials and human efforts. The report also is based on deep, bespoke investigations into dark web communities.
About Arkose Labs
Arkose Labs' mission is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from malicious activity. Recognized by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor in Fraud and Authentication," the company offers the world's first $1 million credential stuffing warranty. Its AI-powered platform combines powerful risk assessments with dynamic attack response that undermines the ROI behind attacks while improving good user throughput. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, Tokyo, Japan, San Jose, Costa Rica, and London, UK, the company debuted as the 83rd fastest-growing company in North America on the 2021 Deloitte Fast500 ranking.
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1 It should be noted that figure is likely higher because it is based on fraud crimes that have been reported to the FBI. Many fraud crimes go unreported to the FBI.
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Make a Back-to-School Organization Board
For a simple, inspiring homework center, pick up a pegboard (available at hardware stores), and, if needed, have it cut to fit on a door or above a desk (see below for hanging instructions and other how-tos). Stock the board with cool school and craft supplies, and your student will be set to ace everything from division to diorama building.
Tips:
1. A quick coat of spray paint gives the board, hooks, and containers a bold and unified look.
2. To hold tape rolls, cut a dowel and suspend it on hooks.
3. Perfect for paper clips and pushpins, these plastic jars -- and the scissors holder at left -- come as part of a kit of ready-to-hang pegboard accessories.
4. Frozen-juice cans make ideal homes for writing utensils and paintbrushes.
5. Just about any small container can be modified to hang on the board -- it takes just seconds with a drill and bit. This one is a desk organizer from Ikea.
Board Basics
1. Start with a 2- by 4-foot, 1?4- or 1/8-inch-thick pegboard (about $8 at home supply or hardware stores) or have a 4- by 8-foot sheet (about $18) cut as desired. Our finished board measures 2 by 3 feet. Choose white pegboard if you plan to paint it.
2. Gather the desired pegboard hooks and accessories (kits are available at home supply stores and online for about $12; look for the type with anchors to keep the hooks in place).
3. To add your own container, use a 3/16-inch bit to drill a hole in the back, 1?2 inch below the rim (always wear protective eye gear when drilling).
4. Hang the board using pegboard spacers (often included with the accessory kits) and appropriate hardware. Outfit the board with the hooks, containers, and supplies.
Spray Painting How-Tos
1. Lay a drop cloth outdoors on a sunny, windless day. Center the pegboard on top. Paint as directed on the label (we used Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch Ultra Cover 2X Gloss Apple Red).
Crafter's tip: Paint in rows, back and forth, until the board is evenly covered, starting each row just to the side of the board. Let it dry thoroughly, then apply a second coat.
2. Arrange the hooks and containers on cardboard lined with waxed paper, leaving plenty of space around each piece. Paint the pieces, turning as needed. When they're dry to the touch, move them to a clean sheet of waxed paper and let dry overnight. Add a second coat if needed.
Originally published in the September 2013 issue of FamilyFun.
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SMART bus system leader pledges new direction; millage renewal to be sought in November
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The general manager for the Detroit-area’s suburban bus system is offering a new vision for the organization he leads.
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Adobe Premiere Pro has the enviable status of being one of the most recognised, and one of the best non-linear video editing software packages out there.
Available for Windows and Mac, chances are, if you’re interested in assembling clips and making a movie, you’ve either heard of it, or you’re currently using it. It’s a powerful, popular video editor packed with industry-standard features and effects - and, of course, complete integration with Creative Cloud apps.
But this is a highly competitive and vibrant market. The best video editors are constantly evolving, updating, refining, and redefining what’s possible.
And Premiere Pro is definitely no exception. Since we last reviewed the editing software, Adobe has added a raft of updates that keep the tool top of the table.
New import focus
The latest version of Premiere Pro has a focus on your media. This is apparent from the very start, with a redesigned import window that showcases your clips above all else.
Locate them, select the ones you wish to work with, and click on Import. A new project will be created for you. Those clips will be added to your sequence. No need to fiddle with settings, or anything like that.
Of course, nothing stops you from altering your Sequence Settings after the fact, which is crucial if you need to create a project for a specific social media format.
But more often than not, just getting right down to working with your clips in their native format will be what people choose to do. This removal of potentially unnecessarily complex tweaking is most welcome.
Transcription tools
One stellar new feature is Speech to Text. The simple name belies a range of truly fantastic speech-to-text tools, including the useful automatic transcription. Premiere Pro currently supports 14 different languages.
How it works is so simple: go to the Captions and Graphics workspace, then click on ‘Transcribe Sequence’. You have a series of fine tuning options, such as selecting the language (an important one, that), or even giving Premiere Pro the ability to recognise different voices, marking that in the transcript itself.
Now, of course, it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty great. And it’s easy to make alterations and fixes to the transcript, even replacing all the errors at once, if it couldn’t quite get someone’s name right, for instance.
Coupled with that is a link to a spellcheck. So, if you made a typo, you’ll be informed of that with the usual little red squiggly line under the problem word.
But that’s not all. As you play your sequence, you’ll be able to track the progress on the transcript itself.
This means Premiere Pro knows where the spoken words are located on the sequence. Why is that important? Because there’s a handy search field at the top. Search for a word or a phrase, and you’ll be taken straight there in the recording.
From now on, if you remember that someone mentioned something in an interview, you’ll be able to find it in seconds, rather than desperately play sections until you hope you bump into the right bit, usually by accident.
But it gets even better, as with the click of a button, you can create automatic captions for your videos based on that transcript. Now, you can make movies that are even more accessible to audiences.
That’s a really important step up for creators, and we’re delighted at how well the feature actually works.
New titling options
Speaking of text, Premiere Pro also has interesting new styling tools. For instance, you’re now able to add multiple shadows to your text layers, creating more unique and distinctive styles.
The spell checker and replace options mentioned above are present anywhere text is used in your project. This applies to multiple languages, too. Prior to this current version, working in multiple languages was a serious pain, as you had to take a trip to the Settings each time you needed to switch languages.
In the latest version of Premiere Pro, just type in the other tongue, and the tool will understand and conform. Left to right or right to left settings are set straight from the Essential Graphics panel.
Even better, you’re able to apply different scripts within the same graphic elements. This is bound to be a boon for multi-linguist movie-makers.
Let Sensei do the work
Sensei is the name of Adobe’s AI system, which is present throughout its software catalog. Here, it’s used to help in some cool and interesting ways.
One of these is Remix. This is a tool designed to retime songs so your chosen tune fits the video perfectly. Usually this is a painstaking process, involving a lot of cuts, fades, and trial and error to make it work.
We tested this with an original song, to remove any possibility that the AI was basing its knowledge on some well known track, and we were mightily impressed.
The process took a few seconds to perform (this undoubtedly depends on your CPU’s prowess), but the end result was excellent. Kudos to Sensei.
Native Apple Silicon support
Great news for Mac creatives: Premiere Pro offers native support for Apple’s proprietary silicon chip. According to Adobe’s own internal tests, “thanks to new hardware acceleration, 4k, and 8K ProRes are now up to 5x faster on M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pros.”
This also includes impressive hardware acceleration when working with the hi-res HEVC file format. Adobe says exports in HEVC “are faster with macOS 12 on M1 Macs. Hardware encoding is now enabled for DCI 4K and 8K HEVC exports, resulting in significantly faster performance.”
It’s always good when the big players back a new silicon endeavor. It's one of the reasons why the Macbook tops our round-up of the best video editing laptops.
Final verdict
It’s not hard to see why Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the most popular editors on the market. It’s a stable video editing powerhouse with a huge list of features designed to help you intuitively build professional-grade projects.
There’s a natural learning curve to mastering the software. But the juice is worth the squeeze. Especially with some of the fantastic new tools - with transcription features a real stand-out among the pack.
If you’re serious about video editing, you should really take a long hard look at Adobe Premiere Pro 2022. | https://www.techradar.com/au/reviews/adobe-premiere-pro-2022 | 2022-05-18T12:55:45Z | https://www.techradar.com/au/reviews/adobe-premiere-pro-2022 | true | 6 |
For the 20-year-old to join from League Two champions Forest Green Rovers will be another coup for the Bantams on top of the signing of goalkeeper Harry Lewis from Southampton.
Guiseley and Sheffield United youth product Young made 22 league appearances last season, although only two were from the start, and scored three goals. He managed six the previous season.
Young, who can play in any attacking position, has another year on his contract but a deal is thought to be close to being announced.
The signings show the pulling power of manager Mark Hughes, not to mention Bradford themselves. City only signed Stephen Gent from Middlesbrough as head of recruitment at the start of the month but he has wasted no time in his new job.
The focus has not only been on new faces, with Bradford-born left-back Matty Foulds signing a new two-year contract with the option of a further year at the club he supported as a boy.
The 24-year-old, who came through Everton's youth system and played for Bury and Italian side Como before moving to Valley Parade, made 28 appearances last season, scoring both his goals under Hughes. | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/bradford-city-set-to-sign-huddersfield-born-jake-young-as-mark-hughes-recruitment-drive-continues-apace-3699245 | 2022-05-18T12:55:54Z | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/bradford-city-set-to-sign-huddersfield-born-jake-young-as-mark-hughes-recruitment-drive-continues-apace-3699245 | true | 1 |
When news of a Warner Brothers-based Smash Bros clone first hit the net, the idea sounded pretty awful. Many wondered how the diverse cast of characters, including Gandalf, Superman, and Bugs Bunny, to name a few, would coexist. However, it was impossible to ignore the strategic brilliance of the announcement on WB's end, considering that Smash Bros Ultimate was in the process of discontinuing support for the best-selling fighting game of all time. Even though it was obvious that fans of Smash Bros Ultimate would undoubtedly continue to play the game long after Nintendo withdrew support, it was still possible for other studios to step up and fill the power vacuum.
Whether Multiversus will achieve the same success as Smash Bros remains to be seen, but the game seems to be off to a great start judging by the first trailer. In the trailer featured above, Warner Brothers' Multiversus displays a portion of its impressive roster. | https://boingboing.net/2022/05/18/watch-the-first-trailer-for-warner-brothers-multiversus.html | 2022-05-18T12:56:04Z | https://boingboing.net/2022/05/18/watch-the-first-trailer-for-warner-brothers-multiversus.html | false | 1 |
ACJI To Hold Its First Implementation Leadership Alumni Summit At APPA Training Institute
Probation and Parole Professionals Are Invited to Attend at No Cost
CHICAGO, IL, USA, May 18, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Alliance for Community and Justice Innovation (ACJI) will host an Implementation Leadership Alumni Summit at the American Probation and Parole Association’s (APPA) 47th Annual Training Institute on Sunday, August 28th in Chicago. Summit attendees will learn what is new in Implementation Science and connect with like-minded leaders from across the US and around the globe.The ACJI Alumni Summit will take place at the Hilton Downtown Chicago from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm on the first day of the APPA Training Institute. ACJI Implementation Leadership Academy alumni are invited to attend for the full day whether they are registered for the APPA Training Institute or not. Registered APPA Training Institute attendees are invited to the afternoon session from 1:00 to 3:00 pm whether they are ACJI alumni or not. There is no cost to attend.
“Since 2018, ACJI has trained hundreds of justice professionals in Implementation Science through our online Academy, and we have long thought about how powerful it could be to get our alumni in the same room to share success stories and learn about new developments in implementation science,” says Dr. Alexandra Walker, ACJI’s Director of Community Relations & Strategy. “We are so grateful to the APPA for allowing us this opportunity to hold our first Summit in coordination with their annual Institute.”
ACJI Summit attendees will
●Receive new tools and strategies to deploy the 10 Essential Principles of Implementation Leadership.
●Gain insight about how to apply the 5 Dynamics of Effective Implementation to change initiatives.
●Reconnect with Implementation Leaders and Academy Alumni from around the world.
●Share their own real-world Implementation Leadership experiences and learn from others.
To learn more about the APPA training institute, visit https://www.appa-net.org/institutes/2022-Chicago/index.html. To RSVP for the free Implementation Leadership Alumni Summit on August 28th, visit https://acji.org/summit-registration/.
About The Alliance for Community and Justice Innovation (ACJI)
The Alliance for Community and Justice Innovation (ACJI) elevates community and justice change leaders by developing implementation strategies that drive meaningful results for people. ACJI’s approach is intentional, growth-minded, appreciative, and authentic. The ACJI staff provides supportive services to justice agencies and community reentry programs that help navigate the challenges of implementing new and transformational practices, so organizations see the results they are aiming for. Learn more about the Denver-based organization at https://acji.org/.
About The American Probation and Parole Association (APPA)
The American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) serves as the voice of the community corrections industry. APPA’s work is supported by thousands of members throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as other countries actively involved in strengthening community corrections work. APPA has members at all levels of government and the private sector, including community corrections professionals, service providers, libraries and educators, research students, volunteers, concerned citizens, corporations, public policy advocates, and others with an interest in criminal and juvenile justice. Learn more at https://www.appa-net.org/eweb/.
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Huawei Releases Flagship Foldable HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 and other products, elevating its synergy between software and hardware
The folding phone's superior hardware offers enhanced features from the Huawei Mobile Services Ecosystem
MILAN, Italy, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HUAWEI has launched the HUAWEI Mate Xs 2, HUAWEI's flagship foldable smartphone, offering an elevated All-Scenario Seamless AI Life Experience on HMS apps. The HUAWEI Watch GT 3 Pro has also been launched, bridging the gap between smart and fitness watches. users.
HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 & Petal Maps– making navigation seamless
Optimised for the foldable screen, Petal Maps' leading user experience design and colour reproduction with professional colour gamut management offer a true-to-life, easy-to-use experience with HUAWEI Mate Xs 2.
The latest version of Petal Maps includes a lighting effect in dark mode, which shows road lights and building lights while driving at night or in dark mode.
Personalised skins for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter have been launched, with temperature and precipitation layers added.
With Lane-level guidance, lane-specific information, and arrow, Petal Maps offers users a better view of their surroundings on the foldable screen.
HUAWEI Browser, HUAWEI Books, HUAWEI Video, and Petal Search – Optimised for the wider screen with Smart Multi-Window
HUAWEI Mobile Cloud on the HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 makes data management easier. Features like automatic backups, cross-device syncing of data, and Find Device, mean that precious memories are always at hand.
Additionally, Huawei's AI web layout optimisation feature optimises the web page content on the foldable.
Harnessing the folding capabilities of the HUAWEI Mate Xs, HUAWEI Books incorporates its "double page turning" interface, which reproduces the look and feel of traditional books.
On the HUAWEI Mate Xs 2, news, applications, and more in Petal Search can be displayed smoothly in a dual-window layout with Smart Multi-Window.
GameCenter on the HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 provides more room for enhanced gameplay
With its vast game library and exclusive benefits, GameCenter on HUAWEI Mate Xs 2's big screen lets users enjoy games such as State of Survival and Mobile Legends: BangBang.
AppGallery on the HUAWEI Mate Xs 2 Brings You Big-Screen Apps
AppGallery has launched a comprehensive developmental framework and design specifications specifically for foldable phones and supports the App Multiplier feature, which allows two pages within the same app to be displayed on each of the phone's screens.
HUAWEI Watch GT 3 Pro
The fashionable and refined HUAWEI Watch GT 3 Pro will be available in Ceramic and Titanium. Huawei has also launched a new "Sense" Series of watch faces which incorporate the fine-grained details of traditional timepieces.
For more information on the products launched, please visit: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/
About HUAWEI Mobile Services (HMS)
HUAWEI Mobile Services is part of Huawei Consumer Business Group which aims to provide a complete mobile experience to users globally. As of 31stMarch 2022, HUAWEI Mobile Services covers 730 million users in over 170 countries, enabling smart living for every Huawei device user.
For more information please visit: https://consumer.huawei.com/uk/mobileservices/
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NEW YORK & OSLO, Norway & LUXEMBOURG & VAASA, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FREYR Battery (NYSE: FREY) (“FREYR”), a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has signed an agreement with the City of Vaasa, Finland, for the temporary lease of 130 hectares (1,300,000 m²) of land in the GigaVaasa area. This plot is the future site of FREYR’s planned battery cell production plant and part of the company’s strategic collaboration with the City of Vaasa to develop industrial scale battery technology and production in the country.
In 2021, FREYR signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MoU”) with the City of Vaasa, providing FREYR with an exclusive right to a site for a potential battery cell plant with the aim to explore opportunities for joint site-development to accelerate supply of clean batteries in Finland. The temporary land lease agreement of the Vaasa plot is 40 hectares larger than the area FREYR reserved in the initial MoU, to increase the company’s efforts to accelerate supply to meet the expected increasing demand for localized and decarbonized battery solutions.
The agreement now enables FREYR to begin soil investigation and preparatory work as a prelude to potential construction. The lease is valid from May 1, 2022, until December 31, 2023, with the option for a one-year extension.
“This lease grants us use of 1.3 million square meters of space in Vaasa, an area that we have previously identified as ideal for our future planned Gigafactory in Finland. There is an ample supply of affordable, renewable energy in this region and convenient proximity to raw materials. That, combined with the country’s highly competent workforce, makes this land lease an important step on the path to potential development,” said Axel Thorsdal, Senior Vice President, Project Development at FREYR.
Mayor of Vaasa, Tomas Häyry, shared his perspectives on the contract and the ongoing planning efforts. “We are developing the GigaVaasa area and the battery value chain in stages, and naturally, the progress of the cell plant project is particularly significant. At the same time, road and rail line connections are being developed in the area.”
Prior to this land lease, FREYR commenced an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for its Vaasa project. The EIA is an essential step towards understanding the impact that the proposed factory may have on the local environment. The target is to conclude the assessment procedure before the end of 2022 with a subsequent potential investment decision in Finland’s first Gigawatt hour scale battery cell facility.
“With this agreement, we can now begin the work to clear routes for our ground investigations, which include assessing the soil and the local environment, prior to any potential construction. This is a critical step in our battery development strategy in Finland,” Thorsdal adds.
About FREYR Battery
FREYR Battery aims to provide industrial scale clean battery solutions to reduce global emissions. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, FREYR’s mission is to produce green battery cells to accelerate the decarbonization of energy and transportation systems globally. FREYR has commenced building the first of its planned factories in Mo i Rana, Norway and announced potential development of industrial scale battery cell production in Vaasa, Finland and the United States. FREYR intends to deliver up to 43 GWh of battery cell capacity by 2025 and up to 83 GWh annual capacity by 2028. To learn more about FREYR, please visit www.freyrbattery.com.
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Most of these factors are outside FREYR’s control and difficult to predict. Information about factors that could materially affect FREYR is set forth under the “Risk Factors” section in (i) FREYR’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on August 9, 2021, as amended, (ii) FREYR’s annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 9, 2022 and (iii) in other SEC filings available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. | https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220518005701/en/FREYR-Battery-Begins-Preparatory-Work-in-Vaasa-Finland/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-d0q77hRjGWvCunvqSsMC5PkKuEqWGdtYcKRejd3o8qMqnKfqP6Z7nZVMLG-WqUNUuIFBOuQU34x9_qUrqnb9IFt3G9xeKEyIFKgj2nxZILuWb2_mZzaa2HVGkrPJ34F1Q== | 2022-05-18T13:01:47Z | https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220518005701/en/FREYR-Battery-Begins-Preparatory-Work-in-Vaasa-Finland/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-d0q77hRjGWvCunvqSsMC5PkKuEqWGdtYcKRejd3o8qMqnKfqP6Z7nZVMLG-WqUNUuIFBOuQU34x9_qUrqnb9IFt3G9xeKEyIFKgj2nxZILuWb2_mZzaa2HVGkrPJ34F1Q== | true | 2 |
The Kerala Transport Department has decided to re-modify old low-floor buses into classrooms for children who will return to school in June after the summer vacations. The state transport minister Antony Raju said that the buses would be upcycled on an experimental base, which is being done because the students would need more classrooms when they return. Moreover, a unique classroom is likely to spike their interest in returning to school. K Sivankutty, the education minister for the state, term the move a 'novel initiative'.
One Low-Floor Bus Can Make Two Classrooms
While speaking about the initiative of re-modifying old buses, Raju said, "We are doing it on an experimental basis. Two buses will be given to an upper primary school in Thiruvananthapuram. Malappuram district has also sought two buses. It will be a new experience for children", Hindustan Times reported.
The education minister then added that the transport department would ensure a proper seating arrangement. Moreover, he also added that at least two classrooms could be easily adjusted on a low-floor bus.
KSRTC Incurred Losses In The Past
Almost 400 state transport buses have been lying idle at different depots. Recently, some of those buses were re-modified into resting rooms for bus drivers and crew, while some have been given on rent for cafes in Kudumbhashree, a successful women-led self-help group. The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) had been suffering losses for a few years, and the state had to pump in money to maintain the ailing buses.
KSRTC employees have been getting their salaries in a staggered manner for the last few months, and they had also organized a strike for the same a few weeks ago. Among 58 loss-making PSUs in the state, KSRTC tops the list. In 2021, its accumulated loss was ₹510 crore.
Also Read: Supreme Court 'Frees' Perarivalan After 31 Years In Rajiv Gandhi's Assassination Case | https://thelogicalindian.com/good-governance/ksrtc-old-school-buses-35608 | 2022-05-18T13:07:55Z | https://thelogicalindian.com/good-governance/ksrtc-old-school-buses-35608 | false | 1 |
Denise Van Outen looks stylish in plunging black top and matching trousers as she watches James Argent perform with his band
Denise Van Outen appeared in good spirits as she watched James Argent to watch him perform with his group The Arg Band in Sheesh Restaurant in Essex on Tuesday.
The TV presenter, 47, attended the gig alongside former TOWIE star Lydia Bright and her sisters Ramona and Georgia.
Denise cut a stylish figure for the event as she donned a black sleeveless top with a plunging neckline.
Pals: Denise Van Outen appeared in good spirits as she watched James Argent to watch him perform with his group The Arg Band in Sheesh Restaurant in Essex on Tuesday
The media personality also sported a matching pair of trousers and added height to her frame with leopard print heels.
Wearing her blonde locks in a poker straight style, Denise added to her outfit with a silver necklace.
Denise completed her outfit with a black handbag and accentuated her beauty with a light touch of makeup.
James has had his Arg Band for several years and most recently performed at Angel Trust Ladies Day in Sedgefield, County Durham earlier this month.
Style: Denise cut a stylish figure for the event as she donned a black sleeveless top with a plunging neckline
Looking good: The media personality also sported a matching pair of trousers
The outing comes following her split from Eddie Boxshall, earlier this year, after a seven year relationship.
Denise caught Eddie flirting sexually with three women and described his behaviour as 'disrespectful and devastatingly hurtful'.
She claimed that she found pictures and Instagram messages on Eddie's iPad, detailing the ordeal in her new autobiography, A Bit Of Me: From Basildon To Broadway And Back.
The TV star recently opened up about the gut-wrenching moment she told her daughter Betsy about the split.
Night out: The TV presenter attended the gig alongside former TOWIE star Lydia Bright and her sisters Ramona and Georgia
Radiant: Denise added to her outfit with a silver necklace
In a new interview, Denise said sharing the news with her daughter Betsy was the 'worst part' about the break-up.
'It tore me apart watching her cry while I tried to make her understand,' Denise recalled to OK! magazine.
Taking Eddie back was not an option for the TOWIE narrator, as she went on to explain.
Ensemble: Denise completed her outfit with a black handbag and accentuated her beauty with a light touch of makeup
'I've got too much self respect and I just can't live that that. I felt like, in a few selfish moments, he'd ruined it. I couldn't imagine it ever feeling the same,' she admitted.
The Essex native believes she is better equipped to deal with heartbreak now, and admitted reflecting on the past has made her appreciate her career more.
A specific moment she detailed, was performing in Chicago on Broadway shortly after her split from Jamiroquai star Jay Kay.
'My memories of that are that I was still really heartbroken. When you're in the middle of a heartbreak you don't see anything but that. But now, when I look back, I go, "Wow that was an incredible thing to do",' she explained.
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Wow! Giant leatherback turtle found on beach in Trafalgar, KwaZulu-Natal Photo: Mpenjati Conservancy
Mpenjati Conservancy said a giant dead leatherback turtle washed ashore n Trafalgar Marine Reserve beach on Tuesday.
Wow! Giant leatherback turtle found on beach in Trafalgar, KwaZulu-Natal Photo: Mpenjati Conservancy
Oooh wow! A giant dead leatherback turtle washed ashore on the South Coast on Tuesday.
According to the Mpenjati Conservancy, this female leatherback sea turtle was found washed up on Trafalgar Marine Reserve beach.
ALSO READ: WATCH: Red tide causes an estimated 500 tons of lobster walkout on West Coast
“They are not usually found this far south as they are more common in tropical Moçambique and further north.
“It is presumed that her body was probably brought up onto the beach during Monday night’s high tide.”
It furthermore said the turtle’s cause of death is unknown, but as she was tagged, it won’t be long until they have a better idea of her age and journey.
Dr. Yvette Ehlers Smith, District Ecologist for Ezemvelo, KZN Wildlife, and her husband David, a research fellow at UKZN were on the scene to take her measurements (1,660 x 1,230mm) and samples for testing.
“Once this was finalised, the task at hand was to bury her. Digging a hole of that size is no easy task, but it becomes a lot easier when you have many people to assist.”
Members of the Joubert family, Belinda, and Dion, with sons Gridion and Etienne jumped in and helped with the digging, and three Mpenjati Reserve staff members, the Officer In Charge Njabulo Mavundla, Dr. Yvette and Anna Jordan from Mpenjati Conservation.
ALSO READ: Warning: Do NOT eat any fish or shellfish washed ashore in the Red Tide
“Men, women, and children all got stuck in to complete the job. Then she was gently rolled into her resting place and covered over.”
According to the Mpenjati Conservancy, this turtle was buried on sight by Ezemvelo under the protocols of a marine protected area (MPA).
Did you know that a Leatherback turtle gets its name from its unique shell, which is composed of a layer of thin, tough, rubbery skin, strengthened by thousands of tiny bone plates that make it look “leathery?”
Leatherback sea turtles are the biggest turtles on Earth. An adult leatherback sea turtle is generally longer than an average-size man who is tall.
Leatherbacks are one of the more endangered creatures on Earth. They are often caught by accident in fishing nets. Stuck underwater, they drown. Sea turtle nesting habitats are also being destroyed, and the eggs they do lay are illegally collected by people for food.
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THE East-West Center is inviting applications for participation in its International Media Conference themed “Connecting in a Zero-Trust World”.
The programme is slated for June 27, 2022, to June 30, 2022.
The four-day conference will look at how media can rebuild trust, reconnect societies, and lead us back to a more fact-based world.
Journalists and other media professionals can attend an in-person and virtual conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.
It will also feature international speakers discussing how societies can collaborate to better meet global challenges such as climate change, and how diplomacy and international relations are impacted in a zero-trust world.
Virtual registration is US$75. Single-day registration for the in-person conference is US$150. Student in-person registration is US$45.
The organiser says that as social trust in media, government, business, science, and NGOs and even in the concept of society itself has plummeted, societies seem headed toward a zero-trust world.
The growing presence of alternative realities makes verifying the truth and restoring facts to the center of public discourse challenging, if not almost impossible.
Registration is ongoing and interested applicants can apply here. | https://www.icirnigeria.org/east-west-center-hosts-international-media-conference/ | 2022-05-18T13:17:50Z | https://www.icirnigeria.org/east-west-center-hosts-international-media-conference/ | false | 1 |
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David Mendez, University of Michigan Medical School and Rafael Meza, University of Michigan School of Public Health
(THE CONVERSATION) The FDA has opened the public comment period for the agency’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. Epidemiology and global health professor Rafael Meza studies data modeling in disease prevention and cancer risk. David Mendez, who studies smoking cessation and tobacco control policies, is an associate professor of health management and policy. These University of Michigan researchers found that, in a 38-year period, African Americans suffered most of the harmful effects of menthol cigarettes. Now the researchers have developed a model to simulate the possible benefits of the menthol ban, based on studies of population trends in tobacco use. As experts on the behavioral and public health aspects of smoking, they explain the role of menthol in smoking-related illness and death.
What are menthol cigarettes?
Menthol is a chemical compound, obtained naturally from peppermint oil or produced synthetically using thymol, a compound in the herb thyme. When added to tobacco cigarettes, menthol produces a cooling sensation in the mouth and throat. Menthol cigarettes have enough of the compound added to give them that characteristic sensation and minty flavor. Instead of tasting like burning tobacco, menthol cigarettes might bring to mind cough drops or strong breath mints.
Why are menthol cigarettes particularly harmful?
Menthol reduces the harshness of cigarette smoking, making it more palatable for those new to smoking. Most of the experimenters are teens and young adults, who are vulnerable to long-term effects of nicotine on still-developing brains. Among youths who are smokers, about 60% smoke menthols, with even higher rates among Black adolescents. Every year, menthol cigarettes increase the number of individuals who become regular smokers. Those who start with menthols often continue with them.
Our research shows that the harm of tobacco use continues as well. In addition to providing youths a more palatable introduction to smoking, the menthol flavor appears to keep them smoking. People who smoke menthol cigarettes smoke longer over their lifetimes and are less likely to quit. That translates into hundreds of thousands of additional premature deaths from lung cancer, emphysema and diseases made worse by smoking, like heart disease. In our study, we estimated that menthol cigarettes were responsible for 377,000 premature deaths among the U.S. population during the past 40 years.
Why has there been a backlash to the FDA’s proposed ban?
Some critics have raised concerns about potential unintended consequences of the proposed ban, particularly for African American menthol smokers. One worry is that banning menthol cigarettes could make Black people subject to arrest for buying or smoking them. Another concern is that a ban might create an illicit market for the cigarettes, particularly in African American neighborhoods.
But the FDA ban is on distributing the cigarettes, not buying, possessing or smoking them. The agency has been clear that it cannot and will not enforce the ban on individual consumers of menthol cigarettes or flavored cigars. And Canada’s experience with a similar ban suggests that it is unlikely an illegal market would emerge.
Most importantly, any negative consequences would be outweighed by considerable health gains.
How would a menthol cigarette ban help?
Cigarette smoking prevalence has decreased drastically since the 1960s, thanks to tobacco control interventions like cigarette taxes, smoke-free air laws, marketing restrictions and education campaigns. The prevalence of menthol cigarette smoking, however, has remained relatively constant since 2000, which highlights the need for interventions specifically targeting menthol cigarettes.
We recently estimated that banning menthol cigarettes in the U.S. would translate into a 15% reduction in menthol smoking prevalance and prevent 650,000 premature deaths by 2060. The gains among the Black population would be particularly considerable, with an estimated 255,000 premature deaths averted.
Under a menthol cigarette ban, it’s important that menthol cigarette smokers have help to quit smoking, and not just switch to nonmenthol cigarettes.
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Ronald Suny, University of Michigan
After decades of neutrality, the two Scandinavian states that have to date remained out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by declaring an intention to join the American-led alliance. But there is a major obstacle in their way: Turkey.
The increasingly autocratic and anti-democratic president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said he will not agree to the entry of these two countries. And as a member of NATO, Turkey’s approval is needed for Finland and Sweden to join.
Erdogan is alone among NATO leaders in publicly stating that he is against the two Scandinavian countries’ joining the alliance.
Harboring terrorists or grudges?
The Turkish president’s opposition is based on his view that Finland and Sweden support “terrorists.” What Erdogan means is that both countries have given protection and residence to members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK – the major armed group mounting resistance to Turkey’s harsh treatment of its millions of Kurdish citizens. The plight of the country’s Kurds, part of a large but stateless ethnic group in the region, has long been a bone of contention between Turkey and parts of the international community.
Despite the PKK’s being listed by the U.S. and EU as a terrorist group, Finland and Sweden have been reluctant to extradite members of the group to Turkey over human rights concerns. Erdogan has responded by calling Sweden a “hatchery” for terrorism and claiming neither country has “a clear, open attitude” toward terrorist organizations, adding: “How can we trust them?”
Erdo?an’s ire with Finland and Sweden has also been exacerbated by the country hosting followers of Turkish scholar and cleric Fethullah Gulen. These followers are part of an educational and political movement with which Erdogan had been allied, but with which he broke as it grew more powerful. The Turkish president accuses the Gulenists of staging a failed coup against his government in 2016.
All international politics is local
As if that were not enough, the neutral Scandinavians condemned Turkey’s 2019 incursion into Syria. In that operation, the Turks targeted Rojava – a socialist, feminist autonomous Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border. Complicating the matter, the Syrians of Rojava were – despite their links to the PKK – allies of the American forces. The Kurds of Rojava played a crucial role beating back the Islamic State group in Syria but were later abandoned by the Trump administration, which pulled U.S. troops back from the Turkish border, allowing its NATO ally to launch a military operation against the Kurds.
Foreign policy is almost always intimately tied to domestic concerns. In the case of Turkey’s government, a major fear is the threat to its grip on power posed by the Kurds – and international pressure over Turkey’s record of repressing the group.
Turkey’s Kurdish populations are not allowed free elections in the eastern Anatolian region, where they are the majority. Meanwhile, education and cultural institutions in the Kurdish language face a de facto ban.
The path ahead for NATO
Finland and Sweden are neutral countries not beholden to the strategic compromises that the United States and NATO are forced to make to hold the alliance together. Both Scandinavian countries have to date been free to take a moral position on Turkey’s position on Kurdish rights and have officially protested the repressions of dissidents, academics, journalists and minority groups.
Meanwhile, NATO countries have equivocated before their fellow member, agreeing to label the PKK a terrorist organization.
So where does this all leave Finland and Sweden’s application for NATO membership?
The rules for entry into the strategic alliance require unanimity of the current NATO members.
As such, Turkey can effectively veto the entry of Finland and Sweden.
The standoff highlights an underlying problem the alliance is facing. NATO is supposed to be an alliance of democratic countries. Yet several of its members – notably Turkey and Hungary – have moved steadily away from liberal democracy toward ethnonational populist authoritarianism.
Finland and Sweden, on the other hand, fulfill the parameters of NATO membership more clearly than several of the alliance’s current members. As the United States proclaims that the war in Ukraine is a struggle between democracy and autocracy, Turkey’s opposition to the Scandinavians who have protested its drift to illiberalism are testing the unity and the ideological coherence of NATO.
Ronald Suny, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Despite all the production issues surrounding the new Fast and Furious movie recently, it seems that the star of the action movie franchise, Vin Diesel, is still having lots of fun on set. In a new Instagram post, the actor and his new co-star, Jason Momoa, shared a video from the set of the pair of them showing off one of the muscle cars used for the upcoming Fast 10.
The movie may have lost its director, with Justin Lin exiting the project just one week into filming, in rather tumultuous circumstances, but that hasn’t deterred Vin Diesel. The MCU actor has been relentless on social media lately to promote the new Fast and Furious movie, sharing videos with his fellow Fast and Furious characters.
While most of Diesel’s videos are super awkward and many people say it looks like he’s holding his cast and crew hostage, Jason Momoa, who is joining the Fast and Furious franchise as the villain of the next movie, appears to be his usual laid-back self. In fact, Momoa actually looks to be loving life, and most definitely has Vin Diesel matched when it comes to enthusiasm.
Diesel asks his co-star what he’s doing and how he’s feeling, but Momoa is more interested in rolling around on the hood of his new muscle car and making jokes. “I’m trying to do the new Whitesnake video,” Momoa replies.
“I feel amazing. It’s day one. Me and you together, buddy. Look at my car! Look at this, it looks good,” Momoa continues, before nudging Diesel out of the way to show off his purple muscle car.
🎬 It's gonna be a great one. @VinDiesel and #JasonMomoa on set. #F10 #FAST10 pic.twitter.com/2u1B5AnXl9
— #FastFamily (@FastFamily) May 17, 2022
“Fast did you right! This is gonna be a good one,” Diesel says, but Momoa has to have the last word. “It’s gonna be a great one!” he adds. It sure does look like Momoa is going to be a fascinating addition to the Fast and Furious cast.
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Shares of Made.com Group Plc (LON:MADE – Get Rating) hit a new 52-week low during trading on Monday . The company traded as low as GBX 49.55 ($0.61) and last traded at GBX 54.20 ($0.67), with a volume of 2947469 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 63.60 ($0.78).
A number of equities analysts have commented on MADE shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their target price on Made.com Group from GBX 194 ($2.39) to GBX 79 ($0.97) and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday. Berenberg Bank decreased their target price on Made.com Group from GBX 165 ($2.03) to GBX 90 ($1.11) and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, March 15th.
The stock has a market capitalization of £194.97 million and a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 27.50, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 0.87.
Made.com Group Plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the online retail of furnishings and homeware. The company provides sofas, chairs, tables, and beds; wardrobes, cabinets, bookcases, shelves, TV stands, storage benches, and other storage and utility products; and lighting products, such as floor lamps, table lamps, bedside lamps, lamp shades, wall lights, ceiling lighting, and chandeliers.
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(The Hill) — Streaming service platform Netflix has laid off up to 150 employees as it continues to see a downturn in revenue and subscriber growth.
A Netflix spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday about the latest string of departures, saying that the layoffs are a part of new changes focused more on a business approach rather than individual performance.
“As we explained on earnings, our slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a company. So, sadly, we are letting around 150 employees go today, mostly US-based,” Netflix spokesperson said in its statement.
“These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance, which makes them especially tough as none of us want to say goodbye to such great colleagues. We’re working hard to support them through this very difficult transition.”
The company recently reported its first subscriber loss since October 2011, seeing a drop of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, which led to its stock dropping by 23 percent.
Due to the recent loss of revenue, Netflix canceled numerous planned shows, including Meghan the Duchess of Sussex’s upcoming animated series, “Pearl,” centered around the adventures of a 12-year-girl who interacts with historical female figures.
The layoffs come shortly after Netflix sent out a culture memo last week, telling employees to focus more on spending members’ “money wisely,” adding that its company might not be the right fit for employees who have strong religious beliefs and disagree with their content as well.
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Asia stocks mixed after Wall St gain, Powell warns on rates
BEIJING -- Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday after Wall Street rose and the Federal Reserve chairman said it will raise interest rates further if needed to cool inflation.
Shanghai and Hong Kong declined. Tokyo and Seoul advanced. Oil prices rose to stay above $110 per barrel.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 index rose by an unusually wide daily margin of 2% after positive U.S. retail sales data helped to offset concern about inflation.
The Fed will 'have to consider moving more aggressively' if inflation that is running at a four-decade high fails to ease after earlier rate hikes, chair Jerome Powell said at a Wall Street Journal conference.
Expectations of rate hikes 'ticked higher' due to Powell's comments, but 'markets are shrugging it off and are in need of a breather' after a sell-off, Yeap Jun Rong of IG said in a report.
The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.4% to 3,082.12 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong sank 0.6% to 20,471.54.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo gained 0.6% to 26,824.46 after the government reported economic output shrank 0.2% in the first three months of 2022. That was stronger than expectations.
The Kospi in Seoul gained 0.2% to 2,624.64 and Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 advanced 0.9% to 7,187.10.
India's Sensex opened up 0.5% at 54,590.12. Bangkok declined while New Zealand and other Southeast Asian markets rose.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 advanced to 4,088.85. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.3% to 32,654.59. The Nasdaq gained 2.8% to 11,984.52.
Big tech stocks led the rally. Apple and Microsoft were among the biggest winners.
Small-company stocks rose more than the rest of the market, a signal that investors are feeling bullish about the economy. Treasury yields rose.
Investors welcomed a Commerce Department report that showed retail sales rose 0.9% in April.
Consumers are providing critical support to the economy despite higher costs for gas, food and rent. The economy contracted in the first three months of the year, but consumer and business spending still increased at a healthy pace.
The Fed and other central banks are raising interest rates that have been near zero during the coronavirus pandemic or say they plan to in order to cool inflation. Supply chain problems have prompted businesses to raise prices on everything from food to clothing as demand rebounds after the pandemic.
Oil and gas prices have been pushed up by Russia's war on Ukraine, which fueled fears Russian supplies might be disrupted.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude rose 66 cents to $113.05 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.80 on Tuesday to $112.40. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, added 17 cents to $112.10 per barrel in London. It lost $2.31 the previous session to $111.93.
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Everything New on HBO Max in May
May marks the return of the award-winning series Hacks on HBO Max, with Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder continuing their respective roles as a legendary standup comic and her young and conflicted protege. The show returns on May 12.
In addition there’s a new documentary on George Carlin from director Judd Apatow, a fictional series of The Staircase, based on the same true story that inspired the popular documentary series, and a new show based on The Time Traveler’s Wife. There’s also the premiere of the film of Dear Evan Hansen, and the return of the underrated The Matrix Resurrections.
Here’s the full list of everything coming to HBO Max in May:
Exact Dates To Be Announced:
George Carlin’s American Dream, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
PAUSE with Sam Jay, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
May 1:
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood, 2019
47 Ronin, 2013
Assassins, 2020 (HBO)
At Close Range, 1986 (HBO)
An Autumn Afternoon, 1962
The Big Sleep, 1946
Back To School, 1986
Bottle Rocket, 1996
Calladita, 2020 (HBO)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968 (HBO)
Child 44, 2015 (HBO)
Chungking Express, 1994
The Color Purple, 1985
Conan The Barbarian, 2011 (HBO)
Devil in A Blue Dress, 1995
Dodes 'Ka-Den, 1970
Domino, 2019 (HBO)
Downhill, 1927
Dragnet Girl, 1933
Early Spring, 1956
Early Summer, 1951
The End of Summer, 1961
Equinox Flower, 1958
Eraser, 1996
Fallen Angels, 1995
Floating Weeds, 1959
FRIDA, 2002 (HBO)
The Fugitive, 1993
Furry Vengeance, 2010 (HBO)
Gang Related, 1997 (HBO)
Good Morning, 1959
Hard Rain, 1998 (HBO)
Hart’s War, 2002 (HBO)
High and Low, 1963
Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius, 2001 (HBO)
Julie, 1956
Killers, 2010 (HBO)
Language Lessons, 2021
Love and Baseball, 2021
The Machine That Kills Bad People, 1952
Masters Of The Universe, 1987 (HBO)
The Missing, 2003 (HBO)
The New Guy, 2002 (HBO)
North Dallas Forty, 1979 (HBO)
Not Easily Broken, 2009
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012
Poseidon, 2006
Red Beard, 1965
Ringo and His Golden Pistol, 1966
Rugrats Go Wild, 2003 (HBO)
Rugrats In Paris: The Movie, 2000 (HBO)
The Rugrats Movie, 1998 (HBO)
The Sapphires, 2012 (HBO)
Sense and Sensibility, 1995
Sliding Doors, 1998
St. Elmo's Fire, 1985
The Stepford Wives, 2004 (HBO)
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, 2009 (Extended Version)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
Tokyo Twilight, 1957
Top Secret!, 1984 (HBO)
Transporter 3, 2008 (HBO)
Unbroken, 2014
Underworld, 2003
Underworld: Awakening, 2012
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, 2009
Welcome to the Dollhouse, 1995
W.E., 2011 (HBO)
What To Expect When You're Expecting, 2012 (HBO)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie, 2002 (HBO)
You, Me and Dupree, 2006
Young Adult, 2011 (HBO)
Zathura: A Space Adventure, 2005
May 3:
Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Know, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
May 5:
Las Bravas F.C., Max Original Season 1 Premiere
Queen Stars Brazil, Max Original Season 1 Premiere
The Staircase, Max Original Limited Series Premiere
May 6:
Dear Evan Hansen, 2021 (HBO)
Entre Nos: Carmen and Alfred (HBO)
La Afinadora De Árboles, 2019 (HBO)
May 7:
We Baby Bears, Season 1 Part C
May 9:
Get Hard, 2015
May 10:
Catwoman: Hunted, 2022
The Matrix: Resurrections, 2021 (HBO)
Sesame Street Mecha Builders Season 1 Part A
Robot Chicken Season 11 Part B
May 12:
Hacks, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Who’s By Your Side, Max Original Season 1 Premiere
May 13:
Hank Zipzer, 2014
Old, 2021 (HBO)
Smalls, Season 4
May 15:
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Drama Series Premiere (HBO)
May 17:
Sesame Street Mecha Builders, Season 1 Part B
The Mule, 2018 (HBO)
May 20:
Identidad Tomada, 2020 (HBO)
May 22:
Fast Foodies, Season 2
May 23:
Teen Titans Go! Season 7 Part B
May 26:
Navalny
That Damn Michael Che, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Tig n’ Seek, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
May 27:
Blippi Special
Blippi Visits
Blippi Wonders
Blippi: Learn With Blippi
Ghost, Season 1
Ghost, Season 2
Stath Lets Flats
May 29:
The Misery Index Season 3 Part B, 2021
May 31:
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ConvaTec Group (OTCMKTS:CNVVY – Get Rating) was upgraded by stock analysts at Royal Bank of Canada from an “underperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating in a report issued on Wednesday, The Fly reports.
A number of other research analysts have also commented on the stock. Credit Suisse Group reduced their price target on shares of ConvaTec Group from GBX 210 ($2.59) to GBX 195 ($2.40) in a research report on Friday, March 11th. Barclays lifted their price objective on shares of ConvaTec Group from GBX 290 ($3.57) to GBX 295 ($3.64) in a report on Tuesday, March 1st. Berenberg Bank began coverage on shares of ConvaTec Group in a research note on Thursday, March 17th. They issued a “buy” rating for the company. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price target on shares of ConvaTec Group from GBX 278 ($3.43) to GBX 256 ($3.16) and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, January 21st. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $248.67.
OTCMKTS:CNVVY opened at $10.80 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $10.84 and its 200 day moving average is $10.46. ConvaTec Group has a 12 month low of $9.06 and a 12 month high of $14.71.
ConvaTec Group Plc develops, manufactures, and markets medical products and technologies worldwide. It offers advanced wound dressings and skin care products for the management of acute and chronic wounds resulting from various conditions, such as diabetes, immobility, and venous disease, as well as from traumatic injury, burns, invasive surgery, and other causes.
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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — With less than a week before Title 42 is to expire, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and his top leaders spent Tuesday touring the South Texas border planning, learning and preparing for what could be a surge of migrants crossing from Mexico.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, who used to head forces in the Rio Grande Valley Sector and now leads the agency’s nearly 20,000 agents nationwide, called it a “robust day” in which he and Mayorkas doubled down on various scenarios in case of an influx from across the Rio Grande once Title 42 ends.
“Secretary Mayorkas and I had an opportunity to meet with our frontline officers, agents and our workforce to ensure that we’re prepared for May 23rd and beyond,” Ortiz said.
Title 42 is the public health order that was put in place in March 2020 by the Trump administration forbidding asylum-seekers from entering the U.S. from Mexico or Canada in order to deter the spread of coronavirus. It was implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and allows DHS to immediately expel migrants — often in under two hours from arrest — from U.S. borders.
The Biden administration wants to lift Title 42 on Monday and continue with other enforcement mechanisms for migrants who do not legally qualify to stay in the United States, such as expedited removals under Title 8. However, there have been several court challenges, including a lawsuit by 24 states, which want Title 42 to remain in effect, and a pending ruling by a federal Louisiana court could decide whether Title 42 stays or goes next week.
Mayorkas’ Tuesday was full of messaging and communicating to the American public that the Department of Homeland Security, combined with regional and local partners, is prepared for whatever might occur on the border. And he said that expulsions will continue, although it might take a bit longer and require more workers.
“The border, the laws of the border will be enforced. If one does not qualify for relief, one will be removed.” Mayorkas told reporters during an afternoon news conference Tuesday at an airport hangar in McAllen.
The day began with the media being given rare access to a pre-dawn expulsion flight in which 132 migrants were sent back to Guatemala under Title 42.
“This is what we are doing to address the challenge of the Southwest border. We’re bringing all our resources, talent and extraordinary commitment of the personnel of the Department of Homeland Security to bear,” Mayorkas said.
On Tuesday, DHS released the number of migrants encountered on the southern border in April. This included 71% of all migrants stopped on the Southwest land border were single adults — a total of 166,814, with a majority, or 58%, expelled under Title 42.
In the Rio Grande Valley Sector, the demographic of migrants encountered in April was about 50% single adults, 30% families and 20% unaccompanied minors, officials said Tuesday.
“We are addressing a level of migration that is historic and they are doing an extraordinary job in managing the current flow,” Mayorkas said.
The Tactical Operations Center at the McAllen Border Patrol Station is equipped with dozens of monitors that help to alert Border Patrol agents and National Guard troops of migrants crossing into illegal territory, according to a media pool report.
And law enforcement is beefing up forces in areas like La Joya and Hidalgo, Texas, where large groups of migrants typically cross and where even larger groups could try to come across the Rio Grande if Title 42 ends.
On Tuesday, in response to a question from Border Report, Mayorkas explained that if Title 42 is lifted, those who try to cross into the United States and do not meet certain standards for asylum will be turned back under Title 8.
Title 8 is the long-standing immigration law that lays out the parameters that migrants must meet — such as showing a credible fear of returning to their home country — in order to make a case for staying in the United States.
One of the biggest differences between Title 42 and Title 8 is that under Title 42, DHS has the authority to immediately expel migrants. Under Title 8, migrants are fully processed — allowing them to make their claims for asylum, or to be processed for removal if they don’t qualify — and all of that takes longer.
Migrants sent back under Title 42 “do not have an immigration enforcement removal on their record and they are rarely processed and turned around and repatriated to their country of origin,” Mayorkas said. Under Title 8, however, those sent back will have an enforcement record on the books and if they try to return before a certain period of time they will be sent away.
In order to more quickly process migrants, a new tent processing facility appears to have been built by the Anzalduas International Bridge in Mission, Texas, according to a media pool that toured with Mayorkas on Tuesday.
And eight or nine “one-stop” migrant processing centers are being built along the Southwest border, including in Laredo and Eagle Pass, Texas, where several federal agencies will be on hand to quickly process and evaluate migrant claims. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, vice chairman of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Committee said $200 million has been set aside for these soft-sided processing facilities to expedite paperwork on migrants.
And starting in June, some asylum officers will be allowed to decide whether the migrants can stay in the country or not — a decision that had previously only been made by U.S. immigration judges. Mayorkas said Tuesday, reiterating a plan he first announced in late April for handling an influx.
The plan also includes:
- Surging law enforcement resources to the border.
- Consequences for unlawful entry into the United States.
- Targeting transnational criminal organizations and human trafficking operations at the border.
- Deterring irregular migration throughout the Western hemisphere by working with other countries on root causes for asylum seekers leaving their homelands.
- Bolstering NGOs that help asylum seekers.
In McAllen, ICE officials say they are prepared to release up to 600 migrants per day to NGOs, such as Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. Currently, they are releasing 250 to 350 per day, and most with alternative-to-detention devices, such as ankle monitoring bracelets, or special cellphones that track their whereabouts.
Mayorkas message to migrants thinking of heading North is to not come.
“As the temperature rises seasonally we see the tragedy more of individuals placing their lives in the hands of smugglers who only seek to exploit them for profit,” Mayorkas said. “Do not place your lives in the hands of individuals who only seek to exploit your lives for the sake of profit.”
“We are building a safe, orderly and humane pathways to access the benefits that the law provides, that Congress has passed, but traveling from one country to another in the hands of smugglers only to be met by enforcement authorities in the United States government is not the way to achieve relief,” he said. | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/border-report/homeland-secretary-readies-forces-for-end-of-title-42-at-south-texas-border/ | 2022-05-18T13:29:08Z | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/border-report/homeland-secretary-readies-forces-for-end-of-title-42-at-south-texas-border/ | false | 16 |
As California makes progress toward meeting its ambitious climate goals, one concern has gone unanswered: How can it stop burning fossil fuels while ensuring the power grid remains reliable?
That question is at the center of a debate over the state’s use of nuclear power.
Nuclear power does not rely on fossil fuels, so it doesn’t produce large volumes of planet-warming pollutants as other energy sources do. While it’s seen as a climate-friendly alternative, opponents cite safety threats and problems storing radioactive waste.
Now, nearly six years after the decision to close California’s last nuclear power plant — the 2,240-megawatt Diablo Canyon facility — Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is considering applying for federal funding that would keep it open past its scheduled 2025 closure. It’s a move, he said, that could avoid rolling blackouts and power shortages as the state transitions to renewables and braces for more extreme heat, wildfires, drought and floods.
Newsom has until May 19 to apply for the funding and would need the facility’s owner, Pacific Gas and Electric, to get on board, too. Some experts say if Diablo Canyon is shut down, there’s a good chance state officials will be scrambling to replace the lost megawatts.
So what should Californians know about the state’s reliance on nuclear power? Here are five key takeaways:
Diablo Canyon supplies enough power for 3 million people
Perched on California’s gusty Central Coast, Diablo Canyon has been supplying power to the state’s electric grid since 1985. But the plant near San Luis Obispo has been battered by controversy the entire time.
Just a few years into construction, PG&E found the site was near several seismic fault lines. That spurred lawsuits and massive, statewide protests, culminating in the largest arrest in the history of the country’s anti-nuclear movement. Despite the opposition, the plant was completed.
Today, the facility employs about 1,500 workers. Its 2,240 megawatts of electricity generation is roughly enough to support the needs of more than 3 million people, according to PG&E.
Nuclear power accounted for 9.3% of California’s electricity in 2020; natural gas was by far the primary source at about 37%, according to the California Energy Commission.
California gets nuclear power from out of state, too
Most of California’s nuclear energy is generated by Diablo Canyon, but it also imports nuclear-powered electricity from Arizona and Washington state, according to the California Energy Commission.
Twenty-eight states have at least one commercial nuclear reactor. But some also are facing possible closure in the decades to come.
Arizona’s Palo Verde Generating Station is the country’s largest power plant, with three nuclear reactors built in the late 1980s. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2011 granted the plant a license to continue operating until 2047.
Twelve commercial reactors have closed in the past decade, including in New York, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Iowa. Yet Oregon-based NuScale Power recently gained approval to build test reactors in Idaho in 2029 and 2030.
California imports more electricity than any other state — about 30% of its supply in 2020, including some from coal-fired plants that are large sources of greenhouse gases, according to the California Energy Commission.
Hurdles remain to keeping the plant open
In 2016 PG&E announced plans to permanently shutter Diablo Canyon, noting that the transition to renewable energy would make continued operations too costly. The California Public Utilities Commission approved the closure in 2018, after the utility reached a settlement agreement with advocacy groups and environmentalists. One reactor is slated to close in 2024, followed by the second in 2025.
Faced with a potential power crunch as climate change ravages the state, Newsom said PG&E should consider applying for $6 billion in federal funds that the Biden administration set aside to rescue nuclear plants from closing.
But the prospect of keeping it open could face numerous technical, financial and logistical hurdles.
PG&E and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which issues the licenses to keep the plant operating, would have to expedite the renewal process in time for the quickly-approaching shutdown.
PG&E did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In a statement to CalMatters, the CPUC said “all options are on the table.”
“Electricity reliability for California is a main priority,” spokesperson Terrie Prosper said. “Extending the operation of Diablo Canyon will require examination by the CPUC.”
PG&E also would have to address aging infrastructure problems and make investments to comply with the state’s water-cooling regulations, according to Matthew Freedman, a staff attorney with The Utility Reform Network, a consumer advocacy organization.
Delaying the closure could potentially be more expensive for ratepayers. A better alternative would be to improve the state’s energy storage capacity for renewable energy, he said.
“Since the continued operation of Diablo Canyon could prove to be very expensive, any proposal to keep the plant alive must be accompanied by binding cost containment and protections for ratepayers,” Freedman said. “PG&E’s rates have already been skyrocketing and we want to do everything we can to bring it down. So we’re definitely against any proposal that would give PG&E a blank check.”
Nuclear power comes at an environmental cost
Nuclear energy is generated from splitting uranium atoms in a reactor. This process, called fission, produces steam that is then used by turbines to create electricity. The result is a reliable, 24/7 energy supply. But operating the plant still has consequences for communities and the environment.
Nuclear plants require water as a cooling mechanism to prevent them from overheating. That water is often released back into the ocean at a much higher temperature that could damage marine habitats.
And while power plants don’t produce greenhouse gases, they do produce a toxic byproduct: spent nuclear fuel, which must be disposed of safely.
Opponents of nuclear energy argue that people of color, including Black, Latino and Native American communities, are especially vulnerable to harm from mining uranium as well as the disposal and storage of radioactive waste. Companies that operate these plants have long used ancestral native lands and other areas near disadvantaged communities to source materials and store spent fuel, Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist with Greenpeace, said.
Critics of Diablo Canyon also say the facility’s infrastructure is outdated and flawed. Burnie said the threat of earthquakes is a top concern. The 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima was caused by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Instead, he said the state should abandon the idea of keeping the plant open, focusing solely on renewable energy projects and decentralizing the power grid.
“It’s a complete distraction, it’s infuriating,” Burnie said. “This is about saving an embattled nuclear industry — it’s not about saving the climate.”
Still, the state’s plan to reduce its reliance on nuclear energy has not been an easy transition. Renewable energy projects have faced delays due to the pandemic and worsening drought could drive declines in hydropower energy production. Heat waves have triggered rolling blackouts and brownouts as demand for electricity soars.
“Our view is that zero-carbon resources are the replacement for Diablo Canyon and we don’t think more fossil fuel generation is needed,” Freedman said. “That being said, we understand that there are challenges with reliability that policymakers are trying to address.”
Proponents laud nuclear power as zero-carbon, lower-cost
Diablo Canyon has played a crucial role in providing carbon-free energy and maintaining the reliability of California’s power grid, said Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor at MIT’s department of nuclear science and engineering. Without it, Buongiorno said, it will be difficult to meet demand as intensifying weather patterns increasingly strain the grid. He said the state needs to rely on all kinds of renewable and carbon-free sources, including nuclear energy, to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2045.
“Given the magnitude of the challenge that we’re facing in terms of decarbonizing and mitigating climate change, I would argue that we should use more nuclear energy, we should use more solar and more wind,” he said. “Everything that does not emit carbon dioxide should be on the table.”
Buongiorno acknowledged safety and nuclear waste concerns, but described the risks as minimal compared to the detrimental effects that fossil fuel emissions have on the environment and heavily-polluted communities. He said the storage of nuclear fuel is also highly regulated and handled in a “safe, effective manner” with the use of dry cask storage.
If Diablo Canyon were to close, maintaining a carbon-neutral grid by 2045 would require more energy storage — at least 18 gigawatts of solar power, according to a joint 2021 Stanford and MIT study co-led by Buongiorno. To build those solar facilities, the state would need about 90,000 acres of land compared to the 900-acre Diablo Canyon site. Finding that available space could be a challenge due to an executive order requiring the state to preserve 30% of its natural and coastal lands by 2030.
The study found that keeping Diablo Canyon open could save an estimated $2.6 billion in power system costs from 2025 to 2035. The price of natural gas has risen recently, so existing nuclear power plants tend to be more competitive, Buongiorno said.
The cost of electricity from solar and battery storage is higher than the cost of Diablo Canyon alone, “so there are savings simply from operating a cheaper asset,” he said.
Excluding the price of nuclear fuel, PG&E spent $1.2 billion in 2021 to operate Diablo Canyon.
Steven Chu, a Stanford University physics professor and the energy secretary during the Obama administration, said the state should be making every effort to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. Closing Diablo Canyon would only slow that transition, he said.
“Nuclear power may be certainly the lesser of two evils compared to keeping oil and natural gas plants,” he said. “You can’t wave a magic wand and say we go 100% wind and solar because they are intermittent. It’s easy to go from zero to 50%. It’s much harder to go from 50% to 75% and nearly impossible to get to 100%.” | https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/state/5-things-to-know-about-nuclear-power-in-california/article_bbd09db4-d661-11ec-932b-4f9a893050b2.html | 2022-05-18T13:31:14Z | https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/state/5-things-to-know-about-nuclear-power-in-california/article_bbd09db4-d661-11ec-932b-4f9a893050b2.html | false | 9 |
Adam Eaton confirmed Tuesday what became evident when the 2022 Major League Baseball season started without him on a big-league roster for the first time in almost a decade. His playing career is over after 3,910 plate appearances, 950 hits, 914 games, 567 runs scored, 319 RBIs, 167 doubles, 66 home runs, stops with four teams in 10 seasons — and perhaps most importantly one World Series championship.
Eaton, a Springfield native and 2007 Kenton Ridge graduate, who played three seasons with the Miami RedHawks, never made an official announcement about retirement. He had not talked publicly about the decision until Tuesday. He preferred to “sail off into the sunset and not to be heard from again,” he said. He made up his mind after an injury-plagued 2021 season.
“I wish I could play,” Eaton said. “My body’s just not what it needs to be. That knee injury I had in 2017 kind of derailed me a little bit. I just couldn’t stay healthy last year and the year before that. And COVID, right when it hit, didn’t help me either. I wasn’t able to get in the weight room. It was a few things here and there.”
Eaton had several offers to play in the offseason but was honest with the interested teams, telling them he didn’t think he could stay healthy. He didn’t think it would be fair to take their money and take up space on a big-league roster while he tried to piece his career back together.
“It’s very selfish,” Eaton said. “I didn’t believe in that.”
Eaton battled a hamstring injury during his stint with the White Sox last season.
“My brain and my heart want to do it, but my body is not going allow to stay healthy for a full year,” he said. “When you have the type of leg injury like I did, everything else starts to be affected. I had my hamstring drained multiple times last year on my right side because it was trying to compensate for my left. I’ve got back issues on my right side now. It’s a lot because of how I played. I played hard as all get out. It catches up to you. I wouldn’t change anything for the world. I worked my rear end off to get to where I was. I had a lot of really good coaches, a lot of luck. I played nine years more than I ever thought I would — even more than that, 12 years professionally. I’m pretty ecstatic with how it ended up. I couldn’t thank enough people from Springfield. I’d be here all day.”
Eaton, a 19th-round pick in the 2010 draft, made his big-league debut at the age of 23 on Sept. 12, 2012, with the Arizona Diamondbacks in San Francisco. His career also ended in California. He was 32 on Aug. 14, 2021, when he played his final game with the Los Angeles Angels against the Houston Astros.
The Angels designated Eaton for assignment after he hit .200 in 25 games. Eaton started the season with the White Sox and hit .200 in 58 games before being released July 13. The previous season, in the 60-game, pandemic-shortened 2020 season, he hit .226 in 41 games in his final season with the Nationals. Prior to that season, he had hit between .279 and .301 in six straight seasons.
Despite his final two seasons, Eaton hit .276 in his career. He twice hit .300 or better, hitting that number exactly in 2014, his first full season in the big leagues, with the Chicago White Sox and hitting .301 in 2018 with the Washington Nationals.
All in all, Eaton can’t complain about a baseball journey that started when he and his brother Zack founded the Backyard Baseball League behind their home on the north side of Springfield and climaxed when he hit .320 with two home runs and six RBIs to help lead the Washington Nationals to the world championship in 2019. His two-run, bases-loaded single in the ninth inning helped clinch Washington’s Game 7 victory against the Astros. HIs parents, Glenn and Robin Eaton, of Springfield, were there for that game as they were for so many games throughout his career.
Along the way, Eaton overcame a torn ACL that cut short his 2017 season in Washington after 23 games.
“Having a couple of really good years in Chicago and then having that injury and coming back when a lot of doctors were surprised I even made it back is fulfilling,” Eaton said. “Then I won a World Series with an unbelievable group of guys. I have no regrets whatsoever. I enjoyed every second of it. I won’t miss the baseball much, I don’t think, but just the guys and hanging out and the stories that continue to kind of come in my mind. Daily, I’ll think of another great story. All my experiences, I can’t trade those for the world.”
Eaton may return to the game as a coach at some point. He has had a couple of offers from big-league teams. He wasn’t ready to make that time commitment. For now, he’s home in Brighton, Mich., with his wife Katie, a former Miami softball player who’s from Plymouth, Mich. They have two sons: Brayden, 6, and Maverick, 4.
“I’m busier now than ever,” Eaton said. “When you’re living at a home for seven years and you only spend about a month a year in that house, you can imagine what type of work I need to get done around the house. Weed-whacking and you name it, I’ve got to get it done. I haven’t had a summer off since I’ve been about 12 years old. I’m pretty excited to actually enjoy my house for a summer with my family. Maverick’s about to ride his bike for the first time. I missed Brayden with that. So a lot of firsts. Just being a dad. Enjoying it. That’s important to me. At the end of the day, you’re not a baseball player a lot longer than you are one. The people that matter most when you’re 60 years old are your family. I’m looking at it that way and trying to enjoy them as much as I can.”
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Woman brings home baby fox, mistaking it for kitten
ROCKLIN, Calif. (CNN) - A woman in California recently took in a baby fox that she thought was a needy kitten.
Police say they got a call from a concerned family member. Animal control responded to the call and confirmed it was a baby fox, also known as a kit.
They took it to Gold Country Wildlife Rescue where it can be properly cared for.
Rocklin police posted a photo of the kit on their Facebook page and gave instructions on what to do if you come across orphaned or injured wildlife.
They said to check for wildlife rehabilitation resources on your local humane society’s website. You should also keep the animal in a dark, quiet, mildly warm place away from other animals and children before getting it to a rehab center.
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Why these unsettling ’90s Ukrainian passport photos are more relevant than ever
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
In a photograph taken in newly independent Ukraine during the mid-1990s, an elderly woman casts her eyes away from the camera, her mouth pursed with tension. Another woman, gray hair braided across her head, holds the subject’s face firmly, one hand cupping her jaw, the other behind her neck. A white backdrop is up by someone just out of frame. A sense of unease and strangeness fills the composition.
From 1994 to 1995, only a few years after Ukraine’s population voted for independence in a referendum, photographer Alexander Chekmenev took many photos like these, of people in their homes, in the eastern city of Luhansk. He had been given a peculiar and difficult task: to go door-to-door and take passport photos of the city’s most vulnerable residents.
The assignment was part of the former Soviet state’s rushed goal of issuing new passports to all residents within a year — though, in reality, it took many years, according to Chekmenev. Social services in different cities employed photographers to help speed up the process.
With little pay, Chekmenev found himself in the homes of Luhansk’s neglected elderly and infirm residents, taking portraits of each person against a portable white backdrop held up by family members or social workers. The cropped passport images belied the full, uneasy scenes: lonely seniors, often living in poor conditions, propped up or posing for the camera. Many did not have basic necessities, like running water or gas, in their homes.
Those residents had lived through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, and were left forgotten in its collapse, according to the photographer.
“The limited frame of a passport photo is like a TV box in Soviet times: propaganda of a happy lifestyle within the allowed limits,” Chekmenev said from Kyiv, where he is based, in an email interview translated from Russian. “Behind the corners of the passport and behind the square of a white background, the true reality, without retouching and censorship, was hidden.”
Many of the residents were unwilling to have their images taken, and some were near death. “There were people who cried and asked not to torture them with photography and not to interfere with their peaceful death,” Chekmenev said. “That was the hardest thing for me, psychologically.”
Chekmenev recalled that one man had a coffin in his home, awaiting his own death. Every time he finished a bottle of vodka, he would place it in the coffin, lining them up until it was full. Upon filling the coffin, he would then decide it was not yet his time to die and would began anew, he told the photographer. The social workers did not permit Chekmenev to photograph his subject in that room.
Altogether, Chekmenev took several hundred passport photos, as well as 36 color behind-the-scenes images for posterity. In 2017, he published them as a book, titled “Passport,” with Dewi Lewis Publishing in London.
Today, while Russian forces continue to attack Ukraine, forcing millions to flee their homes during Europe’s biggest land war since 1945, the body of work is a grim reminder of the frailty of statehood, symbolized by a 2-inch by 2-inch photo.
Chekmenev, who is now 52 years old, had his own passport photo taken by his family in 1996 as part of the program. “Mom and dad held the background, and my sister took pictures of me,” he recalled. Today, in Kyiv, he added, “my passport is still with me.”
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Green Impact Partners Inc. (CVE:GIP – Get Rating) – Analysts at Cormark boosted their FY2024 earnings per share estimates for shares of Green Impact Partners in a research note issued on Tuesday, May 17th. Cormark analyst N. Boychuk now anticipates that the company will post earnings of $0.73 per share for the year, up from their prior estimate of $0.63.
Separately, Royal Bank of Canada upgraded Green Impact Partners from a “sector perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and boosted their price target for the stock from C$10.00 to C$14.00 in a research note on Tuesday, March 1st.
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World’s largest aircraft owner lost 113 planes to Russia due to sanctions
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business
AerCap Holdings, the aircraft leasing giant that is the world’s largest owner of jets, lost 113 planes when Russia seized them in response to sanctions triggered by the war in Ukraine.
The seizures of the planes and 11 jet engines by Russian authorities caused AerCap to take a $2.7 billion pre-tax charge during the quarter, causing the company to report a net loss of $2 billion rather than the $500 million profit it would have made without the hit. But company executives said the quarter was actually a good one and they see better times ahead as global demand for flying continues to recover from the Covid pandemic.
“But for the impact of Russia, this is a strong underlying quarter for the company,” said CEO Aengus Kelly in comments to analysts. “Across all our business lines … we are seeing improving demand, increased utilization of our assets and the improving financial health of our customers.”
Investors agreed and shares of Dublin-based AerCap gained 6% in afternoon trading following the report.
The company was able to recover 22 jets and 3 engines before they were seized by Russian authorities. It has filed insurance claims to seek to recover the lost aircraft, although some of those claims are with Russian insurance companies. Those policies are backed by Western re-insurance companies, but AerCap stated that “the timing and amount of any recoveries under these policies are uncertain.”
The company owns a total of 1,624 aircraft, far more than owned or operated any single airline. The jets lost to Russia represented less than 5% of the net value of Aercap’s fleet, which grew larger during the pandemic by purchasing rival leasing firm GECAS from General Electric.
Aercap should easily ride out the financial loss of the jets, said Richard Aboulafia, managing director with AeroDynamic Advisory. Even if the war were to end and the sanctions were to be lifted, the planes have lost their operating certificates in the eyes of Western aviation regulators.
“Once the documentation goes, there’s very little point in even trying to get them back,” he said.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Russia’s air carriers were operating 861 commercial planes, according to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. Just over half of those planes, with an estimated market value of $9.2 billion, were owned by non-Russian leasing companies.
Sanctions by multiple countries required international aircraft leasing companies that owned the jets to repossess them by the end of March. An estimated 79 jets were repossessed, but Russia announced it was nationalizing hundreds more.
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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) received confirmation last week that three wild red fox kits tested positive for a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) that is currently affecting domestic and wild bird populations in North America.
These cases represent the first detections of HPAI in wild Wisconsin mammals. Similar cases have been confirmed in foxes from Minnesota, Michigan, Ontario, Canada and Europe.
“We don’t have any evidence that foxes are a significant source of transmission for the virus,” said Lindsey Long, DNR Wildlife Health Veterinarian. “The three foxes in these cases most likely contracted the H5N1 strain of HPAI after eating infected wild birds.”
The three fox kits were from three different counties and showed advanced neurological symptoms after being brought to Dane County Humane Society’s (DCHS) Wildlife Center. Testing by the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory confirmed that HPAI was present in all three animals.
People should avoid approaching any wild mammal that appears sick or injured. Do not approach a wild mammal that is behaving abnormally, the DNR urges. Examples may include neurological symptoms such as pacing or walking in circles, unbalanced posture or displaying head and body tremors.
Neurologic symptoms in mammals can signify many different conditions, including exposure to environmental contaminants, parasitic infections and diseases such as canine distemper and rabies.
No cases of the H5N1 avian influenza strain have been identified in domestic dogs or cats. If you or a domestic animal has contact with a mammal showing neurological symptoms, consult your local health department or health care provider (or your veterinarian for your pet).
“We know that certain species of wild birds, such as waterfowl and some of our raptor species are most likely to be affected by this HPAI virus,” Long said. “We ask the public to consult the DNR’s wildlife diseases page and follow guidelines for sharing reports of possible HPAI cases.”
Avian influenza is caused by a virus that is common in wild birds, especially waterfowl and shorebirds. There are many different strains of avian influenza, and waterfowl often carry avian influenza viruses naturally without causing disease.
There have been rare strains, including the current H5N1 strain, that can cause disease in some wild birds and other animals. Whether a strain is classified as low or highly pathogenic depends on how lethal it is to domestic poultry.
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