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Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi is "Like a Movie"
Star Wars and Lucasfilm are still young in their live-action portfolio, having only The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett released on Disney+ to date. Soon, Obi-Wan Kenobi will bring Ewan McGregor and a number of actors from the Star Wars prequel trilogy back into iconic roles for more live-action adventures on the streaming platform. While The Mandalorian offered up episodic adventures which helped progress the larger native, it seems Obi-Wan Kenobi will be more focused on the larger narrative with a singular story being broken into stopping points.
During a press conference in promotion of the Obi-Wan series, McGregor opened up about how the Obi-Wan series compares to the Star Wars films he starred in at the top of the century. "I mean, the technology is so different from when we made the original movies, that it felt like a different experience anyway," McGregor explained. In fact, the technology has advanced so much that McGregor and company did not have to re-record every line of dialogue this time around as they did on Episode II.
"I think because it was a TV show, the beauty of it, because it's a series is that we've got longer to tell the story," McGregor said. "But because [director Deborah Chow] directed them all and it's her singular vision throughout, it did feel like we were just making one movie. And the episodic nature of our series, it falls really cleverly in the storyline, but it is one driving narrative. I think The Mandalorian feels more episodic if you like, because it suits that storytelling. And it of course has a driving storyline through each season, but ours is like a movie that just happens to be split up into these episodes. That's how I feel about it."
Obi-Wan Kenobi is going to offer six episodes to fans, starting with its premiere on May 27. The run time for each episode has not yet been revealed. With each episode likely running close to an hour if The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett are any indication, Obi-Wan will offer a saga which runs for around 5 or 6 hours in total.
Are you excited for Obi-Wan Kenobi? Share your thoughts in the comment section! | https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-long-movie-episodes/ | 2022-05-20T16:44:56Z | https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-long-movie-episodes/ | true | 1 |
20-year-old father charged in death of 2-month-old baby, police say
VINTON, Va. (Gray News) – A man in Virginia is facing charges in the death of his 2-month-old child, police said.
The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook that Jordan Cody Scheffler, 20, is charged with second-degree murder and felony child neglect.
On Tuesday, officers were called to a residence in reference to an infant that was not breathing. Deputies arrived on the scene and tried to resuscitate the child, but the baby was pronounced dead.
Upon investigation, deputies arrested Scheffler, the father of the baby. He was taken to the Blue Ridge Regional Amherst Jail and is being held without bond.
Police did not provide further details on the investigation but said it is ongoing.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man who was reported missing after his family received text messages saying that he died has been located.
Charles Bailey, 43, was found on Tuesday afternoon at Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights, according to Cleveland police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia.
Bailey was reported missing Sunday morning after he was last seen around 8:30 a.m. near Clark Avenue and Fulton Road in the city's Jefferson neighborhood.
Bailey's brother and sister spoke with police after they received text messages from Bailey's phone number that said Bailey was dead, a Cleveland police report says.
Officers asked the public for help in locating Bailey on Tuesday morning.
Police did not say what prompted Bailey's trip to the hospital.
To comment on this story, please visit cleveland.com's crime and courts comment section. | https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/07/missing_cleveland_man_found_at.html | 2022-05-20T16:53:54Z | https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/07/missing_cleveland_man_found_at.html | true | null |
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man high on PCP crashed his van at high speeds and indiscriminately fired a gun at passing cars, police said.
Anthony Knight, 38, is charged with felonious assault. He is being held in the Cleveland City Jail on $100,000 bond after his first court appearance on Monday.
The incident happened about 11:30 a.m. Saturday on East 55th Street and Bragg Avenue.
Knight drove about 80 mph and lost control of the van when it hit a pothole. The van crashed through two utility poles and a fence before it slammed into the side of a brick building, police said. The impact totaled the van.
Knight crawled out of the back passenger door and lay on the ground. A 69-year-old construction worker working nearby went to see if Knight was hurt, police reports say.
The construction worker told police that he was about two feet away from Knight when Knight pulled out a gun and fired three shots at him while saying: "You're the son-of-a-b**** who did this to me and caused this," police reports say.
None of the bullets hit the construction worker, who turned and ran back to the construction site. The worker said he turned back to see if Knight was chasing him and saw Knight fire gunshots at cars driving down the road, police reports say.
Several drivers also reported to police that a man was firing shots at cars on East 55th Street.
An off-duty Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputy and Cleveland police officers arrived and saw Knight standing near the crashed van. They followed him as he walked to the entrance to Interstate 490. The deputy sheriff tackled Knight and arrested him, police reports say.
Knight admitted to police officers that he smoked a PCP-laced cigarette and was driving about 80 miles per hour, according to police reports.
A loaded .40-caliber handgun was found at the scene. Knight was taken to MetroHealth to be checked as a precaution, according to police reports.
To comment on this story, please visit our crime and courts comments section. | https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/08/man_high_on_pcp_crashes_van_sh.html | 2022-05-20T16:56:25Z | https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/08/man_high_on_pcp_crashes_van_sh.html | false | 1 |
COVID cases rising in Ohio: Here's what health officials want you to know
COLUMBUS, Ohio — For the first time in nearly two months, the Ohio Department of Health is giving a statewide COVID update right now during a press conference Wednesday morning as cases have increased during the last few weeks. "It’s true that COVID-19 cases have increased nationally and...
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This article is part of our FanDuel NBA series.
The Mavericks and Warriors get together for Game 2 on Friday night after Golden State wiped the floor with what had been a red-hot Dallas team in Game 1. The 112-87 lopsided victory for the Dubs is likely going to prove a series-opening outlier, but the complete performance on the part of the hosts was reminiscent of their playoff performances of years past and led to several fruitful DFS performances.
With just one game on the ledger, we're dealing with FanDuel's single-game contest rosters, which are comprised as follows:
· MVP- (Garners points at 2x the normal rate)
· STAR- (Garners points at 1.5x the normal rate)
· PRO- (Garners points at 1.2x the normal rate)
· Two Utility spots- (Garner points at normal rate)
With the pricing also being different than in conventional FanDuel contests on multi-game slates and top players inevitably headed for heavy rostering, there are definitely strategic elements particular to single-game lineups. Finding key value plays for the two utility spots is undoubtedly key, as it enables you to fill out the multiplier spots with some of the top projected producers.
Slate Overview
Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors (-6) (Projected total: 214.0 points)
It would be difficult for the Mavericks to not be more competitive than they were Wednesday night, and Dallas notably came back from a couple of similar beatdowns against the Suns to not only put up a fight in the next game, but actually win outright. However, oddsmakers clearly expect the Warriors to still take a 2-0 lead back to American Airlines Center and do so fairly comfortably. Meanwhile, the modest projected point total hints at the Mavs offering somewhat muted DFS value overall, but again, it bears noting Dallas responded well in these scenarios twice in the last round.
Positional Breakdown
FanDuel single-game rosters don't have traditional positions that match those on a starting five, so we'll instead break down some candidates for the top three multiplier positions instead:
MVP (2x): Luka Doncic ($16,500) and Stephen Curry ($15,500) would have to labeled as the top two candidates for this multiplier spot based on their undeniable upside, even with one of them having an underwhelming Game 1.
Doncic scored a modest-by-his standards 30.4 FD points in 35 minutes while shooting just 6-for-18, including 3-for-10 from behind the arc. The star point guard's fantasy-point tally was his lowest of the postseason. He averaged 31.5 points, 9.0 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.5 steals across four games versus Golden State during the regular season.
Curry recorded 44.4 FD points in just 31 minutes in Game 1, but he notably scuffled with his shot in similar fashion to how he did when facing Dallas in the regular season. Curry went 7-for-16 from the field, including 3-for-9 from distance, after shooting just 38.8 percent and averaging only 20.0 points across 35.8 minutes in his four regular-season outings against the Mavs.
STAR (1.5x): Whichever of the two mega-stars mentioned above doesn't make your MVP spot is naturally the prime candidate here, but a case could also reasonably be made for Klay Thompson ($12,500), Jalen Brunson ($12,000) or Andrew Wiggins ($11,500).
Thompson enters Game 2 with a hot hand, as he's shot 53.2 percent, including 50.0 percent from three-point range, over the last three games. He's also averaging 34 FD points this postseason and can certainly rack up production in a hurry in a multiplier spot due to his long-range marksmanship.
Brunson has the upside to bust out for a strong game on any given night, and he'll enter Game 2 having cleared 30 FD points in 10 postseason games overall, with half of those coming after Luka Doncic made his playoff debut in Game 3 of the quarterfinal-round series. Three of those instances have also come in the last four games, and he's shooting a solid 46.1 percent overall in the playoffs.
Wiggins has 41.2 and 33.5 FD points in his last two postseason games, and he'd also scored over 30 in three straight prior to a Game 5 clunker against the Grizzlies over 19 minutes. The talented wing has shot 49.0 percent, including 39.6 percent from three-point range, since the start of the postseason, even contributing a pair of double-doubles along the way.
PRO (1.2x): Whichever of the trio mentioned for the STAR position is certainly a consideration for this spot, as are Draymond Green ($13,000) and Jordan Poole ($11,000).
Green was offering underwhelming returns throughout the series against the Grizzlies until Game 6, when he produced 43 FD points. He followed it up with a solid 33.3 FD points in 29 minutes in Game 1, and he's shooting 53.5 percent overall in the postseason.
Poole's production has been a bit up and down in the playoffs with the Warriors backcourt healthy, making him more of a fit for this spot despite his undeniably impressive fantasy ceiling. The third-year guard did generate an impressive 27.9 FD points in 26 minutes in Game 1 while shooting a blistering 8-for-12, and despite three sub-20-FD-point tallies, he's still averaging 31.2 FD points across 12 postseason games.
Injury Situations to Monitor
NOTE: Injury reporting is especially fluid in the NBA, where the status of multiple players can change during the course of a day. Therefore, although the following serves as a foundation for the latest injury report as of the time the article is written (usually late morning Eastern time), check back throughout the course of the day with RotoWire for the latest news regarding the status of all players on that night's slate.
Andre Iguodala, GSW (neck) Status: QUESTIONABLE
If Iguodala continues to sit out, Otto Porter should be a beneficiary off the bench.
Other notable injuries:
Gary Payton, GSW (elbow)/ Status: OUT
Tim Hardaway, DAL (foot): OUT
Elite Players
The two highest-salaried players on the slate are Luka Doncic ($16,500) and Stephen Curry ($15,500). As already detailed in Positional Breakdown section, each player is capable of elite production and each should see very heavy usage Friday.
Expected Chalk
With only one game on the ledger, the likes of Draymond Green ($13,000), Klay Thompson ($12,500) Jalen Brunson ($12,000), Andrew Wiggins ($11,500) and Jordan Poole ($11,000) should also be very popular.
Key Values
Note: On a multi-game slate, I typically try to highlight players that would be considered under-the-radar plays in this section. Naturally, with such a limited player pool, there will be very few low-rostered players that are likely to also be viable from a DFS perspective, so I'll instead focus on two of the best candidates to provide a strong return relative to salary for the two Utility spots in single-game lineups:
Spencer Dinwiddie, DAL ($10,500)
Dinwiddie's production has had its fluctuations this postseason, but he's produced over 20 FD points in five of the last six games, a stretch during which he's shooting 49.1 percent, including 51.7 percent from three-point range. He's averaging 21.5 minutes per outing during that stretch, and he also offered glimpses of his upside earlier in the playoffs with three tallies of over 30 FD points. Dinwiddie also averaged 20.5 points on 64.0 percent shooting in two games against Golden State during the regular season, furthering his case.
Kevon Looney, GSW ($9,500)
Looney has seen his production spike over the last couple of games, as he posted 38.9 FD points in Game 6 against the Grizzlies and added 27 in Game 1 versus the Mavs across 28 minutes. The big man brought in a career-high 7.3 rebounds and tied his career best with 2.0 assists per game in the regular season, and he pulled down 8.5 boards per game in four regular-season meetings with Dallas. Looney could be a force again down low Friday, especially if Golden State forces Dallas, which sports an NBA-low 45.8 percent rebounding percentage this postseason into a similar level of inefficiency as Game 1.
Other value plays to consider: Dorian Finney-Smith, DAL ($9,000) | https://www.rotowire.com/basketball/article.php?id=63771 | 2022-05-20T16:57:27Z | https://www.rotowire.com/basketball/article.php?id=63771 | true | 1 |
HANOI: Malaysia’s young shuttlers failed to defend both the men’s and women’s singles titles in the SEA Games here, after their campaign ended in the quarter-finals at the Bac Giang Gymnasium.
In the men’s singles, world number 276 Lee Shun Yang was no match for world number 18 Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand, losing 11-21, 11-21 in 39 minutes.
The same script happened in the women’s singles, as Siti Nurshuhaini Azman, ranked 237, lost 17-21, 8-21 to world number 10 Pornpawee Chochuwong of Thailand. The latter will be playing against Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia next.
However, hopes are high in the mixed doubles as Malaysia’s representatives cruised into the last four.
Second seeds Hoo Pang Ron-Cheah Yee See eliminated Chaloempon Charoenkitamorn-Laksika Kanlaha of Thailand 21-8, 21-16, to set up a clash with third seeds Adnan Maulana- Mychelle Crhystine of Indonesia.
Fourth seeds Chen Tang Jie-Peck Yen Wei also booked their berth by defeating Singaporeans Hee Yong Kai-Tan Wei Han 21-19, 21-19.
They will be facing favourites Rinov Rivaldy-Pitha Haningtyas Mentari tomorrow.
Malaysia are also in the running for honours in the women’s doubles, as Cheah Yee See-Cheng Su Hui defeated Airah Albo-Thea Pomar of the Philippines 21-13, 21-11. Waiting for them in the semis are the second seeds from Thailand, Benyapa Aimsaard-Nuntakarn Aimsaard.
At the 2019 Philippines SEA Games, Malaysia won three gold medals through Lee Zii Jia in the men’s singles, S. Kisona (women’s singles) and Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik (men’s doubles), besides two silver and five bronze medals.
All of them are not here to defend their titles as the Badminton Association of Malaysia decided to field a young squad for the Games, while the senior shuttlers were sent to Thomas and Uber Cup tournaments in Bangkok, Thailand.-Bernama | https://www.thesundaily.my/home/m-sia-lose-both-men-s-women-s-singles-titles-HB9223988 | 2022-05-20T16:58:34Z | https://www.thesundaily.my/home/m-sia-lose-both-men-s-women-s-singles-titles-HB9223988 | true | 1 |
Leeds and Burnley 'threaten legal action against the Premier League and Everton over "serious financial rule breaches"', with the Toffees having lost £371.8m in three years... before scraping clear of their rivals in the relegation dog-fight
- Everton maintained their Premier League status by beating Crystal Palace
- Now, Burnley and Leeds are battling it out to remain in England's top tier
- But both clubs are said to believe Everton have breached financial rules
Leeds United and Burnley are reportedly threatening legal action against the Premier League and Everton because they believe the Toffees have seriously breached financial rules.
According to The Times, they both wrote to the Premier League last week asking what action, if any, is being taken with Everton recording losses totalling £371.8m over three years.
Sportsmail first reported in April that clubs could launch legal action against Everton.
Leeds United and Burnley are reportedly threatening legal action against Everton over perceived breaches of financial rules
Everton are said to be sure that they have been compliant with the Premier League rules
Leeds and Burnley are battling to retain their place in the Premier League, while Everton secured their top-flight place with Thursday's dramatic 3-2 fightback against Crystal Palace at Goodison Park.
Premier League rules state clubs can post a maximum loss of £105m over three years and could have a points sanction if they breach that figure,
Clubs can write off losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic but according to The Times, they have expressed concerns that Everton's losses are over three-times that of a club that is a similar size.
In March, Everton said in a statement that £170m of their losses 'are attributed to the impact on the club of the Covid-19 pandemic.'
The Times quoted an Everton spokesperson as saying: 'We have worked so closely with the Premier League to make sure we are compliant we are comfortable we have complied with the rules.
Burnley need to get a result against Newcastle on Sunday to stay in the Premier League
Leeds, meanwhile, are away to Brentford in their battle to avoid Premier League relegation
'External auditors have told us what we can and cannot claim against the pandemic. If they want to take legal action then they can do so by all means.'
Leeds are 18th in the standings going into the final round of this week's fixtures on 35 points, the same as Burnley but the Clarets have a less inferior goal difference.
Leeds are away to Brentford on Sunday, while Burnley host Newcastle. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10837943/Leeds-Burnley-threaten-legal-action-against-Premier-League-Everton.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-05-20T16:58:46Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10837943/Leeds-Burnley-threaten-legal-action-against-Premier-League-Everton.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 2 |
Choice Market may be a small chain, with three locations in Denver and three set to open in Colorado, but that hasn’t stopped it from letting technology guide its path since it was founded in 2017.
CStore Decisions is recognizing Denver-based Choice Market for its dedication to convenience through frictionless modernization and its omnichannel approach to convenience retailing.
Omnichannel Approach
Choice Market began from the idea of creating an omnichannel experience in a convenience store environment.
“But with one store obviously, we had to really start small and work with existing platforms through our point-of-sale, for instance, for things like self-checkout and online ordering,” said Mike Fogarty, founder and CEO of Choice Market.
Around 18 months ago, Choice invested in its custom omnichannel experience with a platform built solely for the business, which includes a new mobile app, web application, in-store kiosk and frictionless checkout platform. The new platform launched new procedures and training both for staff and customers.
“So all of these items, all these changes, were carefully designed with our customer in mind, in terms of providing them the most convenient experience possible,” he said.
Frictionless for the Future
Implemented in Choice’s latest location at 939 Bannock St., in Denver’s Golden Triangle neighborhood, the frictionless platform — Choice: NOW — includes a check-in kiosk at each entrance and exit where customers can scan QR codes.
The 5,000-square-foot space holds about 3,000 SKUs, and once customers grab their items, they are free to walk out of the store. A notification is then sent confirming that a receipt will be delivered, which usually then arrives within five minutes.
Additionally, the technology allows customers to order prepared food from the store’s full kitchen ahead of time through the mobile app or through one of the kiosks or traditional point-of-sale methods.
“So it’s a really cool and unique combination of both the online ordering and the personless checkout. I think we’re one of the few in the world that have actually combined those two,” Fogarty elaborated.
Choice is looking to apply this platform to all stores after testing it in its initial location.
Choice’s app allows for order-ahead and delivery via electric vehicles of anything in the store. Its loyalty program lets customers earn points for purchases with the reward of free items and future discounts. Customers can also filter their shopping by recipes, some of which have been created by influencers and local chefs.
“We just feel that frictionless checkout is the future and it’s convenient and fits this channel extremely well,” Fogarty said.
Growth Across Applications
Choice Market plans to implement Mini-Mart, a small-format, fully autonomous market, in a number of applications, including hospitals, airports, universities and lower-income neighborhoods.
“So Choice isn’t just one thing; it really will evolve with the neighborhoods it serves. In this case, there’s a lot of communities that don’t have access to fresh food,” said Fogarty. “… So we see this as, if we can keep our overhead down and have these autonomous markets close to the point of consumption, we feel that the potentially good use case can provide these communities with much needed fruit, vegetables, perishable items, etc.”
Choice Mini-Marts will be around 200-400 square feet with 400-600 SKUs and include both refrigerated and dry products. Customers can authorize both app and traditional payment methods before entering the door. They then will shop, leave and be charged for their purchases.
Upcoming Projects
In addition to Choice’s current technological projects, the chain is looking into personalized AI product recommendation. Robot delivery and vending is also on its radar, such as at football games and tailgates.
Choice is in the early stages of implementing robotic kitchens and determining opportunities for 24/7 operating hours with prepared and customizable meals available even without kitchen staff.
Choice’s priorities in determining whether or not to pursue a new project lie in improving the customer experience, increasing the efficiency of the business and reducing the chain’s carbon footprint.
“If we can make the experience in-store very efficient and convenient and high-quality and within close proximity to where (customers) live, work or play, — that’s our strategy,” said Fogarty. | https://cstoredecisions.com/2022/05/20/choice-market-takes-on-tech/ | 2022-05-20T16:58:56Z | https://cstoredecisions.com/2022/05/20/choice-market-takes-on-tech/ | false | 1 |
West Burton Energy donated two defibrillators to East Markham Primary after hearing the school’s plans to fundraise for the life-saving devices.
As part of a health and safety programme, the power station, in West Burton, had recently installed the same type of defibrillators on their own site, which resulted in two units becoming available at just the right time.
The new defibrillators will be installed in the staff room located centrally in the school meaning that they will be accessible within minutes should they ever be needed.
Defibrillators are life saving devices that restore a normal heartbeat by sending an electric pulse or shock to the heart. If used within the first minute, the survival rate can be as high as 90 per cent.
Suzanne Johnstone, deputy head teacher at East Markham Primary School, said: “We are delighted with the kind donation from West Burton Energy.
"It is important to us to have these vital pieces of equipment available at our school, allowing us to continue keeping the safety and wellbeing of our pupils a top priority.”
Chris Elder, chief executive at West Burton Energy, said: “It’s important to us to contribute to our community, when we heard that East Markham Primary School were planning to fundraise for two defibrillators, we were very happy to help.
“Hopefully the defibrillator will never be needed but we do hope it gives peace of mind to the school.” | https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/education/power-station-donates-life-saving-defibrillators-to-bassetlaw-school-3703406 | 2022-05-20T16:59:27Z | https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/education/power-station-donates-life-saving-defibrillators-to-bassetlaw-school-3703406 | false | 1 |
Sharekhan's research report on NOCIL
Q4FY22 PAT of Rs. 69 crore, up 85% y-o-y was sharply above our/street estimated led by beat in EBITDA margin, better-than-expected volumes partially offset by higher depreciation cost and tax rate. Strong margin performance with 120% q-o-q increase in EBITDA/kg to Rs. 81/kg primarily led by price hike, better product mix (given high share of high value products) and benefit of operating leverage (utilisation rate of 75%). The management has maintained its guidance to reach optimum utilisation on expanded capacity by September 2023 and hinted for further capacity expansion through bottlenecking.
Outlook
Recent sharp correction in NOCIL’s stock price provides an investment opportunity as valuation of 16x FY24E EPS makes risk-reward favourable as market share gain would help PAT rise 1.5x over FY22-24E. Hence, we maintain a Buy on NOCIL with an unchanged PT of Rs. 348.
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The Gold cast: Who stars in BBC crime drama?
THE BBC has announced an all-star cast for new gripping true-crime series The Gold.
Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville leads the A-List line-up in this BBC One drama.
Who stars in BBC One's The Gold?
Hugh Bonneville
Actor Hugh is one of Britain's leading TV stars, thanks to his role as Lord Grantham on Downton Abbey.
His early life saw him study theology at Cambridge University, but he began his acting career when he joined the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company.
As well as TV, Hugh has appeared in a number of films including Notting Hill, Tomorrow Never Dies and Paddington.
In 1998 he married Lulu Evans and the pair have a son together.
Jack Lowden
Scottish actor Jack has seen his star soar thanks to roles in hit TV shows Small Axe, and Slow Horses.
He also starred in World War One drama The Passing Bells, and featured in the BBC's adaptation of classic novel, War & Peace.
On the big screen Jack played the role of Collins, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk movie.
Dominic Cooper
Dominic caught film fans' attention in The History Boys and Mamma Mia back in the early 00s.
After this the movie roles poured in, and he has played Howard Stark in Captain America: The First Avenger and Agent Carter, as well as Milton Greene in My Week With Marilyn.
On TV, the actor is also known for fronting gritty action-packed series Preacher.
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Charlotte Spencer
Charlotte got the acting bug at a young age when she attended the famous Sylvia Young Theatre School.
She made her acting debut in the West End aged 12 playing Jane Banks in the 2004 production of the musical Mary Poppins.
Since then she has continued to act, and is known for Cinderella, and also The Duke.
Tom Cullen
Hugh's fellow Downton star Tom joins him in The Gold.
The actor got his first movie role in 2002 thriller Daddy's Girl while still studying for his degree at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
But his big break came with 2011 indie movie Weekend, directed by Andrew Haigh and also starring Chris New, about a casual relationship between two men.
Since then he has starred in Becoming Elizabeth, and also Black Mirror.
Other stars include:
- Emun Elliott - known for Guilt, and Old.
- Sean Harris - known for Southcliffe, and Mission: Impossible.
- Ellora Torchia - known for Ali & Ava, Midsommar and Grantchester
- Stefanie Martini - known for Prime Suspect 1973, and The Last Kingdom.
When is The Gold on TV?
Filming only started for The Gold in May 2022, so viewers still have quite a wait.
The series is likely to air either in winter 2022, or in early 2023.
The Gold is written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt, Eric, Ernie & Me) and directed by Oscar-winning Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye) along with Lawrence Gough (The Last Bus, Snatch, Misfits).
The drama tells the story of how on November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tv/8893363/the-gold-cast-bbc-crime-drama/ | 2022-05-20T17:03:56Z | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tv/8893363/the-gold-cast-bbc-crime-drama/ | true | 3 |
Did You Know You Can Take a Romantic Gondola Ride In Downtown Indianapolis?
Typically when you think of gondolas you probably picture Venice, Italy with waterways, and light music playing. Well did you know you can get a similar experience in Indiana?
Indianapolis Gondola Rides
Old World Gondoliers in Indianapolis host gondola rides every summer. They host the gondola rides in the canal in downtown Indianapolis. They are officially back for their 2022 season too, so if you're planning a trip to Indianapolis soon, they'll make a great stop! Maybe you're thinking of proposing? Or maybe you just want to make a little romantic gesture for that special someone!
The gondola rides don't charge per person, they charge per ride, so it is a tad pricey to just take a special someone on a gondola ride (but hey, how impressive are you trying to be?). According to the Old World Gondoliers website:
(2-8 passengers) May 7-Sept. 21, 2022 by reservation. All Gondoliers have great voices!
30 minute $189/for up to 8 people.
60 minute $378/for up to 8 people.
(A Private Gondola is a per boat charge, not a per person charge.) Tuesday- Sunday 12pm-9pm!
Closed on Mondays except Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day.
Did you read that first part? The Gondoliers have great voices! That means they'll be serenading you and your party as you make your way down the canal. If you want to book a gondola ride, you can do so, here.
How did you not know about Indianapolis having gondola rides?
Well according to an interview Old World Gondoliers did with WTHR, they are somewhat of a hidden gem. They claim to be Indianapolis' best-kept secret! To be honest, I think they're right! I have friends and family up in Indianapolis, and I visit often, but I had no idea that Indy had gondola rides! I'm definitely checking this out the next time I visit! | https://newstalk1280.com/did-you-know-you-can-take-a-romantic-gondola-ride-in-downtown-indianapolis/ | 2022-05-20T17:05:09Z | https://newstalk1280.com/did-you-know-you-can-take-a-romantic-gondola-ride-in-downtown-indianapolis/ | true | 1 |
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Triumph Group (NYSE:TGI – Get Rating) had its price objective dropped by analysts at The Goldman Sachs Group from $20.00 to $18.00 in a research note issued to investors on Friday, Stock Target Advisor reports. The firm currently has a “neutral” rating on the aerospace company’s stock. The Goldman Sachs Group’s price objective indicates a potential upside of 27.39% from the company’s previous close.
Other equities analysts have also issued research reports about the company. Truist Financial decreased their target price on Triumph Group to $24.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. StockNews.com started coverage on Triumph Group in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “hold” rating on the stock. UBS Group decreased their target price on Triumph Group to $24.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. Jefferies Financial Group raised Triumph Group from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $20.00 to $26.00 in a research note on Monday, February 14th. Finally, Robert W. Baird decreased their target price on Triumph Group from $36.00 to $26.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $21.22.
NYSE:TGI traded down $0.12 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $14.13. The company had a trading volume of 17,099 shares, compared to its average volume of 680,765. The company has a 50-day moving average of $23.83 and a 200 day moving average of $21.55. The company has a market cap of $912.94 million, a P/E ratio of -21.52, a P/E/G ratio of 6.26 and a beta of 2.73. Triumph Group has a 1 year low of $14.09 and a 1 year high of $27.85.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Virtu Financial LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Triumph Group in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $404,000. Penn Capital Management Company LLC acquired a new position in Triumph Group during the first quarter worth $12,086,000. Royal Bank of Canada raised its holdings in Triumph Group by 415.5% during the first quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 16,826 shares of the aerospace company’s stock worth $425,000 after purchasing an additional 13,562 shares during the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its holdings in Triumph Group by 27.3% during the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 923,120 shares of the aerospace company’s stock worth $23,336,000 after purchasing an additional 198,126 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Captrust Financial Advisors raised its holdings in Triumph Group by 141.0% during the first quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 2,902 shares of the aerospace company’s stock worth $73,000 after purchasing an additional 1,698 shares during the last quarter. 95.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
About Triumph Group (Get Rating)
Triumph Group, Inc designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, overhauls, and distributes aerostructures, aircraft components, accessories, subassemblies, and systems worldwide. It operates in two segments, Triumph Systems & Support, and Triumph Aerospace Structures. The company offers aircraft and engine-mounted accessory drives, thermal control systems and components, cargo hooks, high lift actuations, cockpit control levers, hydraulic systems and components, control system valve bodies, landing gear actuation systems, electronic engine controls, landing gear components and assemblies, exhaust nozzles and ducting, main engine gearbox assemblies, geared transmissions and drive train components, main fuel pumps, fuel-metering units, primary and secondary flight control systems, and vibration absorbers.
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Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice will screen the film "All of Us" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 26, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 175 Wendell Ave. Admission is free.
The international debut of this film in 413 locations in 52 countries began on May 16, designated as International Day of Living Together in Peace by the United Nations.
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LabCorp (LH) Introduces Latest Assay for Skin Cancer Patients
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings LH or LabCorp announced the launch of a test that assesses Lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3) expression levels by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in tumor tissue, thereby expanding treatment options for skin cancer. The test is available for use in both clinical trials, as well as the care and treatment of patients.
Notably, the LAG-3 IHC assay is claimed to have shown a demonstrable clinical advantage in patients suffering from melanoma.
The recent development is likely to fortify LabCorp’s Oncology business.
More on LAG-3 IHC Assay
The assay was developed by LabCorp Drug Development for use in a clinical trial that is studying dual checkpoint inhibitors, including LAG-3 immunotherapy. Per the Journal of Clinical Pathology, the evaluation of LAG-3 status in tumors, and the correlation between expression level and response to LAG-3 immunotherapy can be provided by the assay.
The LAG-3 IHC assay is being used in other ongoing clinical studies, analyzing the clinical response to LAG-3 targeted cancer treatments.
Significance of the LAG-3 IHC Assay
Per management, LabCorp aims to offer diagnostic solutions that can help steer the clinical application of new cancer treatments, thereby improving the lives of cancer patients. The LAG-3 IHC assay offers physicians actionable information to assess the best treatment options for their patients, which includes newly approved treatments and clinical trials.
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The development of the LAG-3 IHC assay, along with its availability for clinical purposes, highlights LabCorp’s unique leading capabilities in diagnostic testing and wide-ranging drug development services. By providing targeted biomarker solutions to make better decisions by clinicians, LabCorp is helping boost patient outcomes.
Industry Prospects
Per a report by Research and Markets, the global skin cancer diagnostics & therapeutics market size was $6.84 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach $1.18 billion by 2027, witnessing a CAGR of 10.28%. The rising prevalence and incidences of skin cancer, supported by the growing awareness among people and increased product launches, are driving the market.
Given the market opportunities, LabCorp’s recent launch for the treatment of skin cancer is well-timed.
Recent Developments
In May 2022, LabCorp launched an at-home collection kit for diabetes screening, which measures hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) from a small blood sample. With the introduction of the kit, consumers can access the diabetes risk test kit, and other health and wellness tests through “Labcorp OnDemand.”
In April 2022, LabCorp introduced “Getlabs for Labcorp” — an advanced health care service that combines LabCorp’s diagnostic tests with Getlabs phlebotomy service to conveniently test consumers in the comfort of their own homes. With the service, individuals can now book a home blood draw or specimen collection as and when required.
Price Performance
Shares of the company have lost 8.4% in a year compared with the industry's fall of 7.6%.
Zacks Rank and Key Picks
LabCorp currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
A few better-ranked stocks in the broader medical space are UnitedHealth Group Incorporated UNH, Medpace Holdings, Inc. MEDP and Alkermes plc ALKS.
UnitedHealth, with a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reported first-quarter 2022 earnings per share (EPS) of $5.49, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.7%. Revenues of $80.1 billion outpaced the consensus mark by 14.2%.
You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
UnitedHealth has an estimated long-term growth rate of 14.8%. UNH’s earnings surpassed estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 3.7%.
Medpace reported first-quarter 2022 adjusted EPS of $1.69, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 34.1%. Revenues of $330.9 million outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.1%. It currently has a Zacks Rank #2.
Medpace has a historical growth rate of 27.3%. MEDP’s earnings surpassed estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 17.1%.
Alkermes reported first-quarter 2022 adjusted EPS of 12 cents, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a penny. Revenues of $278.6 million outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 6.2%. It currently sports a Zacks Rank #1.
Alkermes has an estimated long-term growth rate of 25.1%. ALKS’ earnings surpassed estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 350.5%.
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WILMINGTON — The former drive-in theater may be rezoned into a new residential single-family homes development.
Clayton Sears, Land Acquisition Manager at DDC Management, spoke to Wilmington City Council at Thursday’s meeting about rezoning the property. Sears indicated they are looking at a future subdivision at the 1057 N. Lincoln St. location, bordering North South Street and Kentucky Avenue.
The 28.6 acres would go from being zoned as a suburban neighborhood to a traditional neighborhood.
According to the city, a suburban neighborhood “is to provide for appropriate areas … for primarily single-family residential dwelling units in a suburban neighborhood setting. Some public/institutional uses are allowed on a conditional basis, such as schools, churches/places of worship, parks, and other similar uses.”
A traditional neighborhood is “primarily for single-family residential uses, though some two-family residential uses, small-scale commercial office/retail uses, and public/institutional uses (such as schools, churches/places of worship, parks, and other similar uses) may also be allowed on a conditional basis,” according to the city ordinance. “District is to provide for appropriate areas within the City of Wilmington for primarily single-family residential dwelling units in a suburban neighborhood setting. Some public/institutional uses are allowed on a conditional basis, such as schools, churches/places of worship, parks, and other similar uses.”
Sears said, “We have about 92 lots currently … we have about a 30 percent open side on this site. We have a planned active trail going through the community for future use.”
Sears advised there is not yet a builder for the project.
The drive-in last operated in 2015. The property is still owned by Chakeres Theatres, according to the Clinton County Auditor’s website, and is listed as “sale pending” on the Bennett Realty website.
Also at the meeting, a resident who lives next to the property at the meeting expressed concerns; he said “it floods there constantly” whenever it rains. He and a neighbor were curious as to what the developers would do with the stormwater and sanitation.
“I can assure you it’ll be better once we’re done than it is today,” said Sears. “Anything on our site, all water drainage, will be directed into the storm sewer which will be directed to our water quality ponds and then released from there. So, any water that used to be coming towards you will be coming towards our pond.”
No further action was taken in regards to the development.
Also during council:
• Safety/Service Director Brian Shidaker mentioned to council that reverse-angle parking would be constructed around the Clinton County Courthouse. Shidaker said he was advised this would improve driver visibility, it would be easier for loading/unloading a vehicle, it will help with accessibility to parking/curb ramps, and it will help narrow the streets thus making it calmer.
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) states that this is a type of angled parking safer than pulling forward into a space with the nose of a vehicle nearest the sidewalk or parking block/bumper. Instead of pulling forward into the parking spot, cars back into their spots, allowing them to make eye contact with oncoming traffic when exiting the parking space later.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
5-2-8-6
(five, two, eight, six)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
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Globant (NYSE:GLOB – Get Rating) issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.94- for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.96. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.77B-, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.77 billion.Globant also updated its FY22 guidance to $4.94 EPS.
NYSE:GLOB traded down $14.35 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $170.87. 4,893 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 400,463. The company has a fifty day moving average of $230.79 and a 200 day moving average of $258.06. Globant has a twelve month low of $159.56 and a twelve month high of $354.62. The company has a market capitalization of $7.16 billion, a P/E ratio of 73.93 and a beta of 1.51.
Globant (NYSE:GLOB – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 19th. The information technology services provider reported $1.19 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.16 by $0.03. The business had revenue of $401.38 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $397.41 million. Globant had a return on equity of 10.79% and a net margin of 7.41%. The company’s revenue was up 48.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.66 earnings per share. Analysts expect that Globant will post 3.98 earnings per share for the current year.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in GLOB. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in Globant in the fourth quarter valued at $79,000. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. boosted its holdings in Globant by 28.6% in the fourth quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 16,477 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $5,176,000 after purchasing an additional 3,666 shares during the period. Stifel Financial Corp boosted its holdings in Globant by 2.8% in the fourth quarter. Stifel Financial Corp now owns 43,690 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $13,722,000 after purchasing an additional 1,199 shares during the period. Penserra Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in Globant in the fourth quarter valued at $2,334,000. Finally, Glenmede Trust Co. NA boosted its holdings in Globant by 8.0% in the fourth quarter. Glenmede Trust Co. NA now owns 6,715 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $2,108,000 after purchasing an additional 498 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 88.21% of the company’s stock.
About Globant (Get Rating)
Globant SA operates as a technology services company worldwide. It offers e-commerce, new distribution capabilities, augmented revenue management, hyper connected operation, and conversational user experience services through reinvention studios; digital lending, commercial effectiveness, finance, sustainability, regulation analytic, transformation and post-merger integration, and payment and open banking services; and game and graphic engineering, UI and UX design, game as a service, DevOps, and online services, as well as high tech tools.
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Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD – Get Rating) issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.92-$1.96 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.80. The company issued revenue guidance of -.
NYSE:NOMD traded up $0.15 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $20.34. 22,893 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,321,479. The company’s 50 day moving average is $20.59 and its two-hundred day moving average is $23.50. Nomad Foods has a twelve month low of $17.30 and a twelve month high of $31.85. The company has a quick ratio of 0.57, a current ratio of 1.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.94. The company has a market capitalization of $3.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.41 and a beta of 0.73.
Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 11th. The company reported $0.43 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.42 by $0.01. Nomad Foods had a net margin of 7.16% and a return on equity of 11.55%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.56 earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts expect that Nomad Foods will post 1.82 EPS for the current year.
A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of NOMD. Wellington Management Group LLP lifted its position in Nomad Foods by 10.7% during the first quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 15,574,393 shares of the company’s stock worth $351,670,000 after acquiring an additional 1,501,225 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp lifted its position in Nomad Foods by 595.3% during the first quarter. State Street Corp now owns 876,307 shares of the company’s stock worth $19,787,000 after acquiring an additional 750,281 shares during the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Nomad Foods by 80.5% during the fourth quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 1,613,977 shares of the company’s stock worth $40,978,000 after purchasing an additional 719,904 shares during the period. Ancora Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of Nomad Foods by 8,497.4% during the first quarter. Ancora Advisors LLC now owns 203,759 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,595,000 after purchasing an additional 201,389 shares during the period. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Nomad Foods by 28.0% during the first quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 308,311 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,962,000 after purchasing an additional 67,350 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 78.08% of the company’s stock.
About Nomad Foods (Get Rating)
Nomad Foods Limited manufactures, markets, and distributes frozen food products in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Austria, Norway, Spain, and rest of Europe. The company offers fish products, including fish fingers, coated fish, and natural fish; vegetables, such as peas and spinach; and poultry and meat products comprising nuggets, grills, and burgers.
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For much of human history, people got their drugs from nature. Marijuana comes from the cannabis plant, cocaine from coca leaves, heroin from poppies and magic mushrooms really do come from mushrooms. Even legal drugs, like alcohol, tobacco and coffee, come from plants. Their highs were often discovered by chance, when someone consumed them in just the right way.
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Last year, fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — caused more overdose deaths than any other drug has in a single year. The second-deadliest drug was meth, which is also produced in labs (the kind you might have seen in “Breaking Bad”).
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Renaissance Technologies LLC lessened its position in National Grid plc (NYSE:NGG – Get Rating) by 4.6% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 4,925,268 shares of the utilities provider’s stock after selling 240,009 shares during the quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC owned approximately 0.68% of National Grid worth $356,195,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NGG. Ahrens Investment Partners LLC purchased a new position in National Grid during the fourth quarter valued at $27,000. Ellevest Inc. purchased a new position in National Grid during the fourth quarter valued at $30,000. Newbridge Financial Services Group Inc. raised its stake in National Grid by 120.8% during the fourth quarter. Newbridge Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 457 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $33,000 after buying an additional 250 shares during the last quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in National Grid during the fourth quarter valued at $36,000. Finally, Dixon Hughes Goodman Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in National Grid during the fourth quarter valued at $38,000. Institutional investors own 3.49% of the company’s stock.
NYSE:NGG opened at $75.74 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $75.74 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $72.54. National Grid plc has a 52-week low of $59.53 and a 52-week high of $80.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.61, a current ratio of 0.69 and a quick ratio of 0.67.
National Grid Company Profile (Get Rating)
National Grid plc transmits and distributes electricity and natural gas. It operates through UK Electricity Transmission, UK Gas Transmission, US Regulated, and National Grid Ventures (NGV) and Other segments. The UK Electricity Transmission segment owns and operates electricity transmission networks, which comprise approximately 7,236 kilometers of overhead lines.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has continued to speak with Olympic officials since the Beijing Winter Games and wants to visit Europe soon, IOC president Thomas Bach said on Friday.
The fallout from Peng's allegations last November of being sexually assaulted by a Chinese Communist Party official was a serious distraction for Olympic organizers, and her interview with a French journalist in Beijing to retract her own claims, and later visits to watch medal events including with Bach, did not erase all doubts about her personal safety.
A social media hashtag "Where Is Peng Shuai?" has continued to circulate since February.
Asked about Peng's wellbeing in an online news conference, Bach said a phone call Peng had with IOC athletes commission members this month was a “second or third” contact with her since the Olympics.
“She is looking forward to be able to come to Europe and to visit Lausanne, apparently in particular the Olympic Museum," the IOC leader said. “Then also maybe to watch one or the other tennis tournament.”
Bach noted the strict public health and quarantine policies in China during the COVID-19 pandemic could complicate Peng's travel plans.
“We have to see how this develops. The contact as we always said is ongoing,” he said.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has unveiled new satellite - 'Urm Sat', built by scientists in Iran's Urmia Province, Trend reports citing Fars News Agency.
The high-resolution satellite can operate on orbit and costs $600,000, which is relatively cheaper than similar foreign models.
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Jon Gosselin is making music. The former “Jon & Kate Plus 8” star released his song, “Voicemail”, on Friday.
In a teaser post on Wednesday, Jon announced that this wouldn’t be the only track he plans drop with his musical partner, DJ Casper. “I’m excited the new song “Voicemail” with my partner @djcasperdjc comes out this Friday!!” he wrote. “We have so much music that we’re working on.”
Casper shared his excitement, commenting, “Let’s get it bro! It’s go time!”
Jon wasted no time on Friday, dropping the hip-hop/rap song first thing in the morning. “Please share, download and repost my new single ‘Voicemail’,” he wrote alongside a clip of the tune.
Jon spoke to Dr. Oz in November 2021 and revealed he planned to release a full hip-hop album in the near future, confirming it would be a way to tell his life story.
“We’ve been working on this for about five years,” the father of eight said at the time. “Everybody wanted me to write a book, so I was like, ‘OK, I’ll write a book.’ But I’m not like a ‘book person.’ But what if I did- I’ve been deejaying for so long- what if I lyricized the book?”
As for Jon’s story, he’s got a lot to talk about, including his tumultuous relationship with ex-wife, Kate Gosselin, with whom he shares sextuplets Hannah, Collin, Leah, Joel, Alexis and Aaden, and twins Cara and Madelyn. The couple’s life and eventual divorce played out on five seasons of “Jon and Kate Plus 8”, which aired from 2007 to 2009.
ET’s Kevin Frazier recently sat down with Jon and his daughter, Hannah, who spoke about her decision to leave her mom’s house and move in with her dad.
“I chose to live with my dad, I feel like I just made the choice for myself. I have always been closer with my dad and we’ve always had a strong good relationship,” Hannah explained. “It’s a lot, growing up in a very busy household with lots of kids. And there’s not really a one-on-one relationship, for attention, that you have with your parent. I felt like my dad gave me that attention and a feeling like I had a good, solid relationship with a parent.”
“It was a difficult decision leaving my siblings. I did not want to be separated from them or even, like, live in a different household than them,” Hannah added, noting she still talks to her mom. “But I just feel like there was unfair treatment in my mom’s house and I just wanted to live with my dad.”
Hannah and Collin currently live with Jon, while the other four sextuplets live with Kate. The older two are away at college.
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With good weather in the forecast and no pandemic measures in place, May long weekend is expected to bring long lineups for B.C. travellers.
As of Friday morning, ferry sailings from Metro Vancouver’s main terminals — Tsawassen and Horseshoe Bay — were operating with at least one sailing wait. Wait times are expected to grow throughout the day. Historically, Friday afternoon and Saturday morning are the busiest travel days from the Mainland to Vancouver Island.
Reservations are all booked up.
B.C. Ferries added 110 additional sailings and bolstered their staffing levels with 500 news employees to meet increased travel demand heading into the busy summer season. B.C. Ferries expects over 300,000 passengers and 100,000 vehicles will be transported from Thursday through Monday.
READ MORE: BC Ferries pads long weekend with 110 extra sailings as reservations sell out
The Vancouver Airport tried to get a jump on advising travellers of what to expect as many are returning to air travel for the first time in two years. They warned travellers that Friday is expected to be the busiest day at YVR since the pandemic began.
“From Friday, May 20 through Monday, May 23, YVR will welcome upwards of 50,000 passengers daily,” the airport said in a news release. “Similar to other large airports in Canada, at various points in the day passengers at YVR could experience long lines for security screening at the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) checkpoints.”
Air travellers are advised to arrive early, have a parking plan and be prepared for passenger screening. Masks are still federally mandated on all flights within Canada.
Wait times at B.C.’s border crossings into the United States remained fairly minimal Friday morning, but those wait times are anticipated to increase dramatically through the afternoon and into the weekend.
“This summer, travellers are returning to a border that is managed differently, with evolving COVID-19 requirements, which can mean delays during peak periods,” the Canada Border Service Agency said in a news release. “The CBSA is working to mitigate long border wait times, but there are also things that travellers can do to make the process easier for themselves and other travellers.”
The agency recommends travellers cross during non-peak hours like the early morning. They warn that long weekend Mondays are historically the busiest days for crossings.
To ease wait times, they recommend return travellers complete their mandatory ArriveCan submission 72 hours before returning to Canada. Before you go, ensure you have the proper documentation and know the contents of your vehicle and know your exemption limits.
READ MORE: Expect a busy summer at border crossings says Canada Border Services Agency
Drivers reminded to slow down and take their time
ICBC warned weekend drivers to slow down when travelling over the long weekend.
In a news release, the insurance company said that on average, 480 people are injured and three people are killed in 1,800 crashes throughout the province over Victoria Day long weekend.
Police will be conducting a province-wide speed enforcement blitz to crack down on excessive speeding.
ICBC recommends travellers be realistic about their travel times, plan their routes in advance and adjust their speed to road conditions.
Drivers can check DriveBC.ca for up-to-date road conditions before they travel.
READ MORE: Closer travel spots gain appeal as average gas price tops $2 a litre for first time
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The Business Plan which was published on 18th May responds to the estimated demand for an additional 50,000 workers every year and is primarily focused on securing construction’s talent pipeline.
CITB will run and support several initiatives to inspire people outside of the industry to choose construction as their career and to upskill and retain existing talent.
Skills Demands
The plan details how CITB will invest in supporting apprenticeships and building bridges between further education and work to get more learners into construction.
It intends to create more accessible routes into construction, focusing on apprenticeships, alongside on-site experiences, and future rollout of occupational traineeships. A total of £60.3m in direct grants will be made available to employers who take on apprentices, supporting the industry to address its current and future need for a skilled workforce.
Capacity and Capability of Construction Training Provision
£25.9m will be invested in direct training delivery to enable the continuation of core skills training and training provision in niche and at-risk skills through CITB’s National Construction Colleges.
The plan will support over 300,000 Health Safety & Environment tests over the coming year, ensuring there is good availability of tests in as many locations as possible, bringing assurance to employers that their workforce can keep themselves and those around them safe.
Future Skills Needs
The plan describes how CITB will help to address longer-term challenges such as net zero, digitisation and modern methods of construction.
£2.1m will be invested into research to better understand construction’s changing environment to help focus CITB’s work on interventions that will have the greatest impact and shape new training and standards development.
In a statement, Tim Balcon, CITB Chief Executive, said; “While progress has been made, the construction industry has faced significant challenges in recent years, including inflation, rising fuel prices, the pandemic and Brexit, to name a few. In many ways the industry is still experiencing and feeling the impact of these events, which we know has shifted priorities greatly and pushed the demand for skills to the forefront. It’s essential now more than ever that efforts are focused on helping to alleviate those pressures and address the key needs of industry.”
Robert Candy, Scaffolding Association Chief Executive, said; “It is welcome news that CITB are investing levy payers’ money into the areas that need it most. Skills shortages and training provision that is fit for purpose and accessible are shared priorities of the Scaffolding Association. Tim is speaking at our conference in September and we look forward to working with him and his team in addressing the skills shortage”.
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Naden defends Barrett's Dogs' reign
New Wests Tigers recruit Brent Naden says it isn't in Trent Barrett's nature to quit, and hinted that his former Canterbury coach was hard done by.
Barrett's Bulldogs tenure was brought to an end on Monday after presiding over a 2-8 start to the 2022 NRL season.
Naden, who was recruited by Barrett from Penrith, then completed a rapid switch from Belmore to take up an 18-month contract at the Tigers on Tuesday.
The centre set up a try in his Tigers debut on Friday, which coincidentally came in a 36-22 win over Canterbury, and said he couldn't help but feel sorry for Barrett.
"Baz had a lot of time for me and I have a lot of time for him," Naden said.
"It's hard, it's round 10. There's a lot of football ahead of those boys.
"If you think about all the games they've played they've only lost by a couple so the Dogs aren't far off. Once they click they are going to click and they'll take off."
Naden was surprised by Barrett's decision to step down and revealed the pair had exchanged texts in the aftermath of their respective departures.
While publicly at least the Bulldogs have said that Barrett walked away from the club, there is an underlying feeling that the former Manly mentor was pushed out of the door.
Naden said: "I don't think it's in him to quit".
He added: "He (Barrett) would have felt a lot of pressure from football and he's been in the game a long time as a player and as a coach."
Naden wasn't expecting to play against the Bulldogs but with injuries keeping first-choice centres James Roberts and Oliver Gildart out of the side he was immediately thrust into action at Leichhardt Oval.
The 26-year-old said he was excited to begin the next chapter of his career and explained his relief that the home crowd would now be cheering for him, rather than against him.
"It is a great place to play, I used to hate playing here and being on the opposition team," he added.
"Now it's one of those I'll circle on the calendar from now on, especially on a Sunday afternoon."
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NEW YORK — Investors on Wall Street need a place to hide.
The stock market's skid this year has pulled the S&P 500 within the grasp of what's known as a bear market. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China's economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices they're willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to traditional automakers.
The last bear market happened just two years ago, but this would still be a first for those investors that got their start trading on their phones during the pandemic. For years, thanks in large part to extraordinary actions by the Federal Reserve, stocks often seemed to go in only one direction: up. Now, the familiar rallying cry to "buy the dip" after every market wobble is giving way to fear that the dip is turning into a crater.
Here are some common questions asked about bear markets:
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WHY IS IT CALLED A BEAR MARKET?
A bear market is a term used by Wall Street when an index like the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or even an individual stock, has fallen 20% or more from a recent high for a sustained period of time.
Why use a bear to represent a market slump? Bears hibernate, so bears represent a market that's retreating, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. In contrast, Wall Street's nickname for a surging stock market is a bull market, because bulls charge, Stovall said.
The S&P 500 index was down 1.9% in Friday afternoon trading, putting it 20.3% below its high set on Jan. 3. For many investors, the bear market would become official if the S&P 500, Wall Street's main barometer of health, finishes the day at least 20% down from its peak.
The Nasdaq is already in a bear market, down 31% from its peak of 16,057.44 on Nov. 19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is more than 16% below its most recent peak.
The most recent bear market for the S&P 500 ran from February 19, 2020 through March 23, 2020. The index fell 34% in that one-month period. It's the shortest bear market ever.
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WHAT'S BOTHERING INVESTORS?
Market enemy No. 1 is interest rates, which are rising quickly as a result of the high inflation battering the economy. Low rates act like steroids for stocks and other investments, and Wall Street is now going through withdrawal.
The Federal Reserve has made an aggressive pivot away from propping up financial markets and the economy with record-low rates and is focused on fighting inflation. The central bank has already raised its key short-term interest rate from its record low near zero, which had encouraged investors to move their money into riskier assets like stocks or cryptocurrencies to get better returns.
Earlier this month, the Fed signaled additional rate increases of double the usual amount are likely in upcoming months. Consumer prices are at the highest level in four decades, and rose 8.3% in April compared with a year ago.
The moves by design will slow the economy by making it more expensive to borrow. The risk is the Fed could cause a recession if it raises rates too high or too quickly.
Russia's war in Ukraine has also put upward pressure on inflation by pushing up commodities prices. And worries about China's economy, the world's second largest, have added to the gloom.
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SO, WE JUST NEED TO AVOID A RECESSION?
Even if the Fed can pull off the delicate task of tamping down inflation without triggering a downturn, higher interest rates still put downward pressure on stocks.
If customers are paying more to borrow money, they can't buy as much stuff, so less revenue flows to a company's bottom line. Stocks tend to track profits over time. Higher rates also make investors less willing to pay elevated prices for stocks, which are riskier than bonds, when bonds are suddenly paying more in interest thanks to the Fed.
Critics said the overall stock market came into the year looking pricey versus history. Big technology stocks and other winners of the pandemic were seen as the most expensive, and those stocks have been the most punished as rates have risen. But the pain is spreading widely, with shares of Target and other retailers slumping hard this week after reporting weaker-than-expected profits.
Stocks have declined almost 35% on average when a bear market coincides with a recession, compared with a nearly 24% drop when the economy avoids a recession, according to Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at LPL Financial.
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SO I SHOULD SELL EVERYTHING NOW, RIGHT?
If you need the money now or want to lock in the losses, yes. Otherwise, many advisers suggest riding through the ups and downs while remembering the swings are the price of admission for the stronger returns that stocks have provided over the long term.
While dumping stocks would stop the bleeding, it would also prevent any potential gains. Many of the best days for Wall Street have occurred either during a bear market or just after the end of one. That includes two separate days in the middle of the 2007-2009 bear market where the S&P 500 surged roughly 11%, as well as leaps of better than 9% during and shortly after the roughly monthlong 2020 bear market.
Advisers suggest putting money into stocks only if it won't be needed for several years. The S&P 500 has come back from every one of its prior bear markets to eventually rise to another all-time high.
The down decade for the stock market following the 2000 bursting of the dot-com bubble was a notoriously brutal stretch, but stocks have often been able to regain their highs within a few years.
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HOW LONG DO BEAR MARKETS LAST AND HOW DEEP DO THEY GO?
On average, bear markets have taken 13 months to go from peak to trough and 27 months to get back to breakeven since World War II. The S&P 500 index has fallen an average of 33% during bear markets in that time. The biggest decline since 1945 occurred in the 2007-2009 bear market when the S&P 500 fell 57%.
History shows that the faster an index enters into a bear market, the shallower they tend to be. Historically, stocks have taken 251 days (8.3 months) to fall into a bear market. When the S&P 500 has fallen 20% at a faster clip, the index has averaged a loss of 28%.
The longest bear market lasted 61 months and ended in March 1942 and cut the index by 60%.
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HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN A BEAR MARKET HAS ENDED?
Generally, investors look for a 20% gain from a low point as well as sustained gains over at least a six-month period. It took less than three weeks for stocks to rise 20% from their low in March 2020.
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An elderly couple have vowed never to fly again after claiming they were 'abandoned' on a plane for nearly three hours upon landing at Manchester Airport. Bill and Shirley George, from Bury, say they found themselves stuck on the empty jet after it arrived from Malaga shortly after midnight on Thursday (May 19).
The married couple, who are both in their late 80s and require the use of wheelchairs, said they remained in their seats after cabin crew promised someone would come to help them get off the plane. After all the other passengers had left, Bill and Shirley say they were left in their seats as the cabin crew and pilot disembarked.
When no one turned up for another 45 minutes, Bill, who suffers from mobility problems, says he was forced to leave the plane in search of assistance. "It was horrendous," he said.
"They just left us on the plane and we were stranded. There was us and another four passengers, but nobody came to help."
Airline TUI has blamed 'limited ground handlers' because of a delay to the flight.
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Bill, 87, and Shirley, 88, were returning to the UK following a two-week holiday on the Costa del Sol. They say their journey home had already got off to a bad start when, upon arriving at Malaga Airport, they discovered their flight had been delayed.
The TUI flight eventually left for Manchester at 10pm - 11 hours behind schedule. After the plane landed, Bill and Shirley say they stayed seated while the cabin crew and pilot left the plane.
After becoming fed up of waiting, Bill said he decided to take matters into his own hands and got off the plane to go and look for a wheelchair. "The airport was in darkness," he said.
"Nobody was there so I went back to see if my wife was alright and the door was locked. I must have walked about two miles trying to find someone. I'm waiting for a knee operation at the moment."
After about an hour, Bill said he came a man wearing a 'TUI vest'. He said he explained the situation and the worker found a wheelchair and helped him back to the plane. Bill says he was then forced to push his wife through the terminal, before they eventually left the airport at about 3am - three hours after having landed.
"It's diabolical," he said. "I'm not angry, I'm livid. My wife is knackered. She has a leaking heart valve. There's no way she could have walked all that way."
The couple's son, Ian, said he was 'absolutely appalled'. "My mother was in tears when I spoke to her," he said. The first thing she said to me was 'I will never travel again'. They were both very distressed.
"They landed 11 hours late then they were abandoned for three hours. It was a horrendous experience for them. It's put them off travelling again. To go through that in your 80s is ridiculous. I don't understand how a cabin crew can leave a plane with people still on it."
According to the UK Civil Aviation Authority, passengers with a disability or reduced mobility are legally entitled to support, commonly known as 'Special Assistance', when travelling by air.
"This means airports and airlines must provide help and assistance, which is free of charge, and helps ensure you have a less stressful journey," the organisation says.
Ensuring passengers with restricted movement safely disembark an aircraft is the responsibility of the airline. Manchester Airport staff, the M.E.N. understands, were not involved in the process in this case directly at any point.
A spokesperson for Manchester Airport said: "We are sorry to hear of these passengers' experience and are working with the airline and other third parties involved to understand the circumstances that led to the delay in disembarking them from the aircraft."
A TUI spokesperson added: "We're very sorry to hear of Mr and Mrs George's experience. Unfortunately, due to the delayed flight there were limited ground handlers available when it landed which resulted in a delay assisting passengers off the aircraft. We can confirm that our crew waited for all passengers to depart the aircraft and no customers were left onboard at any time." | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/elderly-couple-abandoned-on-plane-24009362 | 2022-05-20T17:43:12Z | https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/elderly-couple-abandoned-on-plane-24009362 | false | 1 |
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2700 University Ave, West Des Moines
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128 5th St, West Des Moines
Avg 4.6
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2 Eggs, Cheddar Cheese, and your choice of Bacon, Ham or Sausage Patty. Served with Hash Browns.
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With summer just around the corner Barnet will be starting the season with a range of Jubilee activities taking place around the Borough.
Most events include free entry and family friendly, so why not bring the neighbours, invite your friends, and enjoy range of local activities, there’s something for everyone!
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Spain’s former king mulls 2nd visit amid swirling debate
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s former king, Juan Carlos I, is planning to visit Spain again in June, the mayor of the northwestern town hosting the former monarch said Friday, signaling that the vigorous debate sparked by the former monarch’s return is unlikely to fade soon.
Juan Carlos returned to the country on Thursday for his first visit since his abrupt departure nearly two years ago amid mounting financial scandals. Dozens of cheering supporters greeted the 84-year-old as he made his first public appearance on Friday in the town of Sanxenxo, where his yacht is taking part in a three-day regatta.
The royal household said the former monarch would travel to Madrid on Monday to meet with his son, King Felipe VI, his wife Sofia and other members of his family, before returning to his “permanent and stable residence” in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.
On Friday, Sanxenxo Mayor Telmo Martín said Juan Carlos was already planning a second visit to to the town next month. “He confirmed to me that he is going to attend the Sailing World Championship, which starts June 10th and runs to the 18th,” he told reporters.
The former monarch’s return to Spanish soil this week – which came after Spanish and Swiss prosecutors shelved investigations involving Juan Carlos’ finances – sparked days of debate across Spain.
Members of the country’s Socialist-led government called on Juan Carlos to address the allegations of financial wrongdoing that have long dogged him.
“The public would like to receive explanations for everything that has happened,” said Justice Minister Pilar Llop.
Spanish prosecutors didn’t find evidence to take the former monarch to court because much of the alleged misbehavior, involving millions of euros (dollars) in undeclared accounts, happened when Juan Carlos had legal immunity as Spain’s king. Other acts of potential fraud fell outside the statute of limitations.
Others hailed the former monarch, who helped steer Spain back to democracy following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in 1975.
The mayor of Madrid, a member of the conservative opposition Popular Party, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, described the work carried out by Juan Carlos for Spain as “extraordinary.”
He added: “I have no problem acknowledging that work, saluting King Juan Carlos and welcoming his return.”
Juan Carlos was once one of Spain’s most respected public figures. But scandals involving Spain’s royal family began to mount in the later years of his reign, leading Juan Carlos to abdicate in 2014, ending a 39-year-long term as monarch.
By ASHIFA KASSAM
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US official: Biden mulls Cuba invitation for Americas summit
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is considering inviting a Cuban representative to the Summit of the Americas, a U.S. official said Friday, as his administration tries to salvage an event that risks collapsing over disagreements about the guest list.
It’s unclear if Cuba would accept the invitation, the U.S. official said, which would be extended to someone in the foreign ministry to join as an observer — but not the foreign minister himself, and not as a full participant.
The U.S. official declined to be identified while speaking about sensitive deliberations. A spokesperson for the National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment about whether Cuba would be invited.
The Summit of the Americas involves countries across the Americas, stretching from Canada to Chile. It is scheduled to begin in a little more than two weeks in Los Angeles, in the United States for the first time since the inaugural event in Miami in 1994.
But the planning has been marred by confusion, with key leaders like Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador threatening to skip because Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua weren’t expected to be invited.
Chris Dodd, a former U.S. senator from Connecticut chosen by Biden as a special adviser for the summit, spent two hours on Zoom with López Obrador this week.
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday the administration is having “candid and constructive conversations,” but declined to say more.
López Obrador said Friday that the summit was still being analyzed and that “we want everyone to be invited.”
“We have a very good relationship with President Biden,” he said, adding that “we have been in talks.”
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Associated Press writer María Verza contributed from Mexico City.
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Lo van Pham’s journey to the NFL began when he fell in love with sports upon arriving in Texas after living in refugee camps with his family.
More than 40 years later, van Pham is set to become the first Asian American to officiate in the NFL.
“I never dreamed about being the first of anything,” van Pham said on the AP Pro Football Podcast. “It’s just a great honor. People reaching out to me, reminding me of how special this is, and I just want to do the right thing and carry whatever message I need to carry to represent not only our Asian culture and Asian friends, but also really to represent all minorities, whether Middle Eastern, just different backgrounds, different people that are out there. I want to communicate to convey the fact that if you work hard, prepare yourself, commit and do the things that you can control, your desires and your passion will carry you to the next level in whatever endeavor you choose.”
Before he was introduced to football in America, van Pham and his parents and two brothers survived traveling the jungles of South Vietnam and bounced around refugee camps in Laos, Thailand and the Philippines for about three years. He was too young to remember much of that experience, but his parents filled him in as he got older.
“They were telling me how, obviously, filthy it was, how dirty it was,” van Pham said. “But other than that, I remember my first night here in America we stayed in a kind of a makeshift hospital where they boarded us for the first few weeks until we got our feet on the ground.”
Van Pham, 49, grew up surrounded by Dallas Cowboys fans in Amarillo, Texas. He started playing football as a kid and continued through high school. He turned to officiating to stay connected to the sport while pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Colorado.
“When I signed up for it, it was kind of out of boredom and out of love for the game,” he said. “I remember telling my friends what I was doing, their first comment: ‘Are you nuts? Are you crazy? You got better things to do on a Saturday and Sunday.’
“I actually love this. This is what I grew up playing, and I just absolutely love the game. And from there, it just made me want to get better.”
Van Pham attended officiating clinics and camps after moving back to Texas from Colorado. He trained with a high school association and developed his skills as an official.
Van Pham joins the NFL from the Big 12 Conference. He’ll work as a side judge while maintaining his day job because officials aren’t full-time employees. Van Pham’s background is civil structure engineering.
“Since being in Power Five football, most of my friends seem to think that football is really my full-time job, and my real job is my part-time job,” he said.
The NFL has 121 on-field game officials, 49 of them are women or minorities.
Being a dad is van Pham’s favorite job; he and his wife, Kelly, have two sons ages 7 and 2.
“They keep me humble,” he said. “They remind me of what my job is that’s No. 1, be a father. That’s the most important thing to be a father and to be a great husband.”
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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Naturi Naughton, 38; Matt Czuchry, 45; Tony Stewart, 51; Cher, 76.
Happy Birthday: Take pride in what you do and how you handle situations. A friendly nudge or gesture will prompt others to do their fair share. Keep an open mind, and encourage others to help bring about positive change. Try to get in tiptop shape and set standards that help maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle. Listen to your heart, but use common sense. Your numbers are 4, 19, 26, 30, 32, 37, 46.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Activate your resources, and connect with people you know you can rely on to get things done. Enrich the process by learning on the go and implementing innovative methods to reach your destination. Refuse to let emotions come between you and doing what’s right. 2 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s up to you to make things happen. Don’t sit around waiting for someone to step in and take over. Consider what makes you happy, and implement a schedule that offers peace of mind. Follow your heart, and doors will open. 5 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Speak up, promote your intentions and concerns, and do your best to make a difference. Look for a unique way to use your skills, intelligence and connections to help you gather the information to help you achieve your goal. Self-improvement is favored. 3 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Pay attention, pitch in and help, expand your circle and learn through observation. Consider how different relationships transform and recognize when a situation is beneficial and when it’s no longer working for you. Take the path that makes you happy. 3 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Speak from the heart. Show how passionate you feel about your pursuits. Don’t offer false hope. Honesty will keep you out of trouble and protect you from making unrealistic promises. Don’t take risks with your health, reputation or position. 3 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Discuss possibilities with experts, and gain insight into what you can do on your budget. Reach out to someone you trust to keep your secrets and share your plans. Take responsibility and do the work necessary to reach your goal. 3 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Look at the bright side, be positive and use your charm and diplomacy to win favors. Shoot for the stars, and put in the energy required to meet your expectations. A personal change will turn out better than anticipated. Romance is encouraged. 5 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t play with fire. Leave well enough alone when dealing with a friend, relative or lover. Bide your time, and work on personal growth and creative endeavors. Steer clear of trouble and people who are negative or judgmental. Do your own thing. 2 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll gain insight into what’s happening if you trust your instincts and rely on experience. Speak up and make your feelings and intentions clear. Open a dialogue that will expose everyone’s true feelings. Do something to lift your spirits. 4 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll regret a change or decision made under duress. Keep anyone who is pushy at arm’s length. Don’t take a risk that can lead to poor health or injury. Stick close to home and implement projects that make you happy. 3 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take on a challenge that stimulates your mind, body and soul. Explore possibilities and work quietly toward a goal that will make your life better and allow you to raise your earning potential by doing something you enjoy. Romance is featured. 3 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pitch in and do your part, and you’ll make new connections. Knowledge is power, and the information you gather now will help you make better decisions. Aim for more stability and emotional well-being, and make your health a priority. 4 stars
Birthday Baby: You are persistent, competitive and dynamic. You are intelligent and unpredictable.
1 star: Avoid conflicts; work behind the scenes. 2 stars: You can accomplish, but don’t rely on others. 3 stars: Focus and you’ll reach your goals. 4 stars: Aim high; start new projects. 5 stars: Nothing can stop you; go for gold.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s the latest sign ESG investing is now mainstream after starting as a niche corner of Wall Street: It’s become the target of Republican politicians and billionaire Elon Musk amid the nation’s cultural schism.
To use an ESG approach is to consider a company’s performance on environmental and other measures before deciding whether to invest in it. The ESG industry says it helps highlight companies that may be riskier than traditional investing guidelines alone would suggest. It could also help investors find better opportunities.
ESG has become popular across a wide range of investors, from smaller-pocketed regular people to pension funds responsible for the retirements of millions of workers. ESG investments overall have amassed enough monetary might to buy all of the stock of the most valuable U.S. company, Apple, seven times over.
To critics, meanwhile, ESG is just the latest example of the world trying to get “woke.”
Here’s a look at what ESG is and how big it’s become:
WHAT IS ESG?
It’s an acronym, with each of the letters describing an additional lens that some investors use to decide whether a particular stock or bond looks like a good buy.
Before risking their money, both traditional and ESG investors look at how much revenue a company is bringing in, how much profit it’s making and what the prospects are for the future.
ESG investors then layer on a few more specific considerations.
WHAT IS E?
Environment. It can pay to avoid companies with poor records on the environment, the thinking goes, because they may be at greater risk of big fines from regulators. Or their businesses could be at particular risk of getting upended by future government attempts to protect the environment.
Such risks may not be exposed by traditional investment analysis, which could lead to too-high stock prices, ESG advocates say.
On the flip side, measuring a company’s environmental awareness could also unearth companies that could be better positioned for the future. Companies that care about climate change may be better prepared for its repercussions, whether that means potential flooding damage at factory sites or the risks of increased wildfires.
WHAT IS S?
Social. This is a wide-ranging category that focuses on a company’s relationships with people, both within it and outside.
Investors measuring a company’s social impact often look at whether pay is fair and working conditions are good through the rank and file, for example, because that can lead to better retention of employees, lower turnover costs and ultimately better profits.
Others consider a company’s record on data protection and privacy, where lax protocols could lead to leaks that drive customers away.
Increasingly, companies are also getting called upon to take positions on big social issues, such as abortion or the Black Lives Matter movement. Some ESG investors encourage this, saying companies’ employees and customers want to hear it.
Not every ESG investor considers all these factors, but they all get lumped in together under the “S” umbrella.
WHAT IS G?
Governance, which essentially means the company is running itself well.
That includes tying executives’ pay to the company’s performance, whether that’s defined by the stock price, profits or something else, and having strong, independent directors on the board to act as a powerful check on CEOs.
Some ESG investors are also pushing companies for more diversity on their boards and in their executive suites. That’s to help them look more like their employees and their customers, which can lead to better decision-making and a better understanding of stakeholders.
HOW BIG A DEAL IS ESG?
Investors using ESG criteria in their analysis controlled $16.6 trillion in U.S.-domiciled assets at the start of 2020, according to the most recent count by US SIF, a trade group representing the sustainable and responsible investing industry. That means ESG accounted for nearly $1 of every $3 in all U.S. assets under professional management.
It was also up 43% over just two years, from $11.6 trillion in 2018.
With stock and bond markets tumbling so far this year, the flow of dollars into ESG funds has slowed. U.S. sustainable funds attracted a net $10.6 billion in the first three months of 2022, down 26% from the prior quarter, according to Morningstar. But that still outperformed the overall U.S. fund industry, which saw flows slump by 65%.
IS IT JUST MILLENNIALS DOING IT?
No, the vast majority of money in ESG investments comes from huge investors like endowments at universities and foundations, pension funds and other big institutional investors. They accounted for 72% of all ESG investments, according to US SIF.
WHAT IMPACT IS IT HAVING?
ESG investors are pushing for more engagement with companies, discussing their concerns about the environment, social issues and governance. They’re also casting their votes at annual shareholder meetings with ESG issues more in mind.
Last year a relatively small fund known as Engine No. 1 shocked corporate America after it convinced some of Wall Street’s biggest investment firms to approve its proposal to replace three directors on Exxon Mobil’s board, citing a decarbonizing world. Investors have also pushed Royal Caribbean Cruises to document how much food waste it produces and Starbucks to no longer pay long-term performance awards in cash rather than stock.
It’s all an evolution from the industry’s early days, when “socially responsible” investing was quite simplistic. Early funds would just promise not to own stocks of tobacco companies, gun makers, or other companies seen as distasteful.
AND THE BACKLASH?
Some politicians have denounced ESG as a politicization of investing.
Some in the business world also have been particularly critical of rating agencies that try to boil complex issues down to simple ESG scores.
“ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted earlier this week.
That tweet, along with a meme equating ESG scores to “how compliant your business is with the leftist agenda,” came a couple of weeks after Tesla got kicked out of the S&P 500 ESG index. The index tries to hold only companies with better ESG scores within each industry, while holding similar amounts of energy stocks, tech stocks and other sectors as the broader S&P 500 index.
So, Exxon Mobil could remain in the S&P 500 ESG index, even if it’s pulling fossil fuels from the ground to burn, because it rates better than peer energy companies. Tesla, meanwhile, got the boot partly because of ESG issues unrelated to the environment. S&P Dow Jones Indices cited Tesla’s potential for controversial incidents, highlighting past claims of racial discrimination at the company and its handling of the investigation into deaths linked to its vehicles equipped with its autopilot autonomous driving system.
ARE THOSE THE ONLY CONTROVERSIES?
No. Any boom brings in opportunists, and regulators have warned of some potentially misleading statements.
That could include firms claiming to be ESG-driven but owning shares in companies with low ESG scores. It’s reminiscent of how products along supermarket aisles get accused of “greenwashing,” or pitching their wares as “green” even if they’re not.
Part of that could be how big the ESG industry has become, with some players taking a lighter touch.
Some funds pledge not to own stocks of any companies seen as dangerous, for example. Others will try to own only companies that get the highest ratings from scorekeepers on ESG issues. Still others try to buy only companies that score the best within their specific industry, even if the score is very low overall.
Such nuance can make for confusion among investors trying to find the right ESG fund for them.
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Minister Vandal creates buzz with federal support for jobs and growth in Manitoba
Federal funding of $2.2 million through PrairiesCan will support value-added agriculture and create jobs with the Manitoba Cooperative Honey Producers Limited.
WINNIPEG, MB, May 20, 2022 /CNW/ - Today, in celebration of World Bee Day, the Honourable Daniel Vandal, Member of Parliament for Saint Boniface – Saint Vital, Minister for PrairiesCan, announced an investment of $2,240,000 to expand and modernize operations at the Manitoba Cooperative Honey Producers Limited to support beekeepers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
With this repayable investment, the Manitoba Cooperative Honey Producers will procure new honey processing and packaging equipment, as well as undertake market development activities to increase sales in Canada, the United States and Asia, creating new jobs in the all-important agriculture and agri-food sectors in the Prairies.
This is another example of the Government of Canada's commitment to supporting regional job creation in the agriculture sector that positions local economies for long-term growth.
"Our government is working to help the agri-food sector and value-added agriculture thrive, and be competitive in the global marketplace. This investment in the Manitoba Cooperative Honey Producers Limited will create jobs in the Prairies, provide member beekeepers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan with a more stable income, and increase market output here in Canada and abroad."
- The Honourable Daniel Vandal, Minister for PrairiesCan
"Honey packed here at our processing facility can be found across the globe. As Canada's largest honey packer, our growth will benefit beekeepers, not only in Manitoba, but across the Prairies. We would like to thank the Government of Canada for their support which will help us increase production, create jobs and continue sharing just how sweet Canadian honey is."
- Guy Chartier, CEO, Manitoba Cooperative Honey Producers Limited
- The Jobs and Growth Fund is a three year, $700-million federal program that provides funding to businesses and organizations to help create jobs and position local economies for long-term growth. The fund is delivered on the Prairies by PrairiesCan.
- Projects supported through the Fund are focused on helping job creators and the organizations that support them future-proof their businesses, build resiliency and prepare for growth by transitioning to a green economy, fostering an inclusive recovery, enhancing competitiveness and creating jobs in every corner of the province.
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Waterton and Almanac Realty Investors Announce Strategic Minority Investment
Transaction marks the second minority investment position held by Almanac and will support Waterton's continued growth
CHICAGO, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterton, a national real estate investor and operator, and Almanac Realty Investors ("Almanac"), the private real estate investment arm of Neuberger Berman, today announced an agreement with a fund managed by Almanac to acquire a passive, minority ownership stake in Waterton. The strategic investment will provide additional resources to Waterton while having no impact on the day-to-day management, operations or business decision-making process.
Waterton will leverage the capital partnership for continued investment in new business initiatives and the growth of its multifamily, single family rental, seniors housing and hospitality strategies, as well as a focus on attracting, retaining and growing the firm's talent.
"The transaction is an exciting development for our organization and we believe that Almanac will be a great strategic partner for Waterton," said David Schwartz, chief executive officer and chairman at Waterton. "Almanac's permanent capital, deep real estate experience and access to a range of global resources through Neuberger Berman, including its private wealth channel, will support the continued growth of Waterton and enhance the business platform over the long–term."
"Waterton has built a reputation, over the firm's long history, as a best-in-class real estate investment manager, with particular expertise and operating capability in the multifamily sector," said Andrew Silberstein, Managing Director and Head of Private Markets at Almanac. "We are proud to be partnering with this impressive team on this next phase of their growth."
Berkshire Global Advisors advised Waterton on the transaction. Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Waterton. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP served as legal counsel to Almanac.
About Waterton:
Waterton is a real estate investment and property management company with a focus on U.S. multifamily, senior living and hospitality properties. Founded in 1995, Waterton executes value add strategies and manages a national portfolio of properties on behalf of institutional investors, family offices and financial institutions. Waterton is privately held and is headquartered in Chicago with regional teams throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2021, Waterton's portfolio includes approximately $9.1 billion in real estate assets. Visit Waterton's website: www.waterton.com.
About Almanac Realty Investors:
Almanac Realty Investors, a business unit of Neuberger Berman, is a leading provider of growth capital to public and private real estate companies. Originally founded in 1981 under the name Rothschild Realty, Almanac Realty Investors partners with established owner-operators in all sectors of the real estate market to accelerate company growth and has committed more than $6.9 billion in capital to 50 real estate companies, both public and private, throughout North America. Almanac's current portfolio companies control approximately $36.5 billion of real estate assets in aggregate. For more information, visit www.almanacrealty.com.
About Neuberger Berman:
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $447 billion in client assets as of March 31, 2022. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
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Down power line shuts down U.S. 84 at Eddins Road, in Houston County
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) -
Update:
Two-vehicles were stopped on the roadway because of downed power line that was struck by roadside construction equipment.
No crash, however, roadway is still closed at this time, Alabama Power is on scene repairing the downed power line.
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A two-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 11:16 a.m. Friday, May 20, has caused a road closure. All lanes of U.S. 84 at Eddins Road, in Houston County are currently shutdown. Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division are on scene investigating. ALEA Troopers will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates accordingly.
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You can get unlimited summer travel for $9.50 in this European country
Julia Buckley, CNN
A whole month of unlimited transport for just $9.50 — that’s a great deal at any time, but in a time of fuel price hikes, rocketing car rental rates and a worldwide cost of living crisis, it becomes unbeatable.
So pack your bags, because the most affordable travel destination this summer, if we’re going by transport, appears to be Germany.
The German government has today approved the creation of a €9 ($9.50) monthly public transport ticket. It will be launched in June — just in time for a summer trip.
The card can be used across the entire country, on local and regional transport — trains, buses and trams, according to local media.
However, local means local — so it can’t be used for long-distance bus or train services. In other words, the popular IC, EC and ICE trains are exempt — although you can combine a long-distance trip with regional transport covered by the pass. Trains marked RE are regional, and therefore part of the package.
The deal will run for the months of June, July and August, as part of a government energy relief package by incentivizing people to use public transport to get around this summer. €2.5 billion ($2.6 billion) has been pumped into the project by the government. Each pass will be valid per calendar month — so if you buy yours on the 14th, you’ll still only be able to use it on the end of the month.
But though it’s been designed for locals, tourists can buy the pass too.
Germany’s national railway, Deutsche Bahn, has already added the passes to its website. They will go on sale on May 23.
The only catch? You can’t make a seat reservation with this pass. But at this price, you’d probably happily ride on the roof.
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Billionaire Elon Musk arrived in Brazil today, announcing a project to bring internet access to schools in the Amazon and improve satellite monitoring of the rainforest.
The world's richest man touched down in a private jet at an airfield outside Sao Paolo, according to the G1 news portal.
Musk was set to meet Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro at a luxury hotel in Porto Feliz, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) outside Sao Paulo, according to the O Globo newspaper.
"Super excited to be in Brazil for launch of Starlink for 19,000 unconnected schools in rural areas & environmental monitoring of Amazon!" tweeted Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla.
Communications Minister Fabio Faria, who met Musk in Texas last November, tweeted the businessman was visiting "to discuss Connectivity and Protection of the Amazon with the Brazilian government."
He added: "Since we are going to connect the Amazon, we brought one of the largest entrepreneurs in the world to help us in this mission."
A large security detail kept journalists at a distance from the hotel where the meeting was to take place. An AFP reporter saw two helicopters land nearby.
'A Very Important Person'
On Thursday, Bolsonaro announced he would have a meeting "with a very important person who is recognized throughout the world."
"He is coming to offer his help for our Amazon," the president said in his weekly social media broadcast, without naming Musk.
The Amazon is a hot topic in Brazil, with deforestation rising sharply under the government of Bolsonaro -- which is accused of promoting impunity for gold miners, farmers and timber traffickers who illegally clear the rainforest.
The Brazilian government said in November it was negotiating with SpaceX to secure satellite internet in the Amazon rainforest and boost detection of illegal deforestation.
In a bid to provide high-speed internet around the world, especially to areas underserved by fixed and mobile networks, Musk's SpaceX company has placed thousands of Starlink satellites into orbit, with many more launches planned.
The service has more than 100,000 subscribers worldwide.
Musk attracted renewed worldwide attention when he announced last month that he planned to buy Twitter in a deal worth $44 billion dollars.
His comments on loosening restrictions in the name of free expression were welcomed by many supporters of Bolsonaro, who is accused of using fake news as a political weapon and has had several social media posts deleted.
O Globo said Faria and Defense Minister Paulo Sergio Nogueira would attend the Musk-Bolsonaro meeting, along with 13 business leaders including bosses of the country's main telecommunications companies.
The meeting comes hours after Musk rejected allegations on Twitter that he groped and exposed himself to a flight attendant six years ago.
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HOUSTON (AP) _ PrimeEnergy Corp. (PNRG) on Friday reported net income of $11.1 million in its first quarter.
The Houston-based company said it had profit of $4.07 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 3 cents per share.
The investor in the oil and gas industry posted revenue of $26.2 million in the period.
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's attorney general said Friday a Sioux Falls officer was justified in the fatal shooting of a man police say threatened them with a knife.
Cody Wade Kelly, 41, was killed after police conducted a welfare check at his apartment on March 31 because he had threatened to harm himself.
When officers arrived Kelly told them he had tampered with the gas lines, so police evacuated the apartment building's tenants.
Police found Kelly in a bathroom at his apartment armed with a knife and with bleeding wounds to his arms. An officer shot Kelly with a nonlethal bullet when Kelly ignored commands to drop the knife. It had no effect as he continued to hold the knife to his own neck. At this point Kelly told officers to shoot him.
Another officer then used a stun gun which caused Kelly to drop the knife.
As officers struggled to subdue him, Kelly was able to grab a knife again and began swinging at officers, stabbing one in the leg and threatening others, according to the Division of Criminal Investigation's report.
An officer drew his gun and shot Kelly multiple times. He remained conscious but was no longer physically resisting.
Officers gave Kelly medical aid and called for an ambulance. Kelly later died at the hospital. | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Atty-general-Sioux-Falls-officer-cleared-in-17187324.php | 2022-05-20T18:32:20Z | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Atty-general-Sioux-Falls-officer-cleared-in-17187324.php | true | 12 |
NEW YORK, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: LILM) (NASDAQ: LILMW) (NASDAQ: QELL) (NASDAQ: QELLU) (NASDAQ: QELLW) between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important June 17, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Lilium securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Lilium class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4894 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 17, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Lilium materially overstates the Lilium Jet's design and capabilities; (2) Lilium materially overstates the likelihood for the Lilium Jet's timely certification; (3) Lilium misrepresents its ability to obtain or create the necessary batteries for the Lilium Jet; (4) the SPAC-merger would not and did not generate enough cash to commercially launch the Lilium Jet; (5) Qell Acquisition Corp. did not engage in proper due diligence regarding the Merger; and (6) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Lilium class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4894 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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(WJBF) — Austin St. John, the original Red Power Ranger, is among 18 people in Texas facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The indictment was handed down by a grand jury on May 12.
St. John is known through the entertainment industry as Jason Lee Scott, the original red Power Ranger, in the television show “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.”
St. John and the other individuals in the indictment are each accused of taking part in a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.
As part of the CARES Act, enacted during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the PPP provided small businesses and other organizations loans to cover expenses such as payroll, interest on mortgages, rent and utilities.
The indictment states that the individuals were led by Michael Hill and Andrew Moran in a plan to use existing businesses or create businesses to obtain PPP funding. Moran is accused of then assisting them in fabricating documentation and applications, misrepresenting information such as the nature of the business, the amount needed for payroll or the number of employees.
Investigators said the defendants did not use the money provided as intended and instead paid Hill and Moran, transferring funds to their own personal accounts and making various personal purchases.
The indictment states that some defendants sent money to Jonathon Spencer to invest in foreign exchange markets.
Altogether, the total amount of fraudulently obtained funds through at least 16 loans amounted to at least $3.5 million.
The defendants, listed below, each face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
- Michael Lewayne Hill, aka Tank, 47, of Mineral Wells, Texas
- Andrew Charles Moran, 43, of Lewisville, Texas
- Peter Keovongphet, aka Lil’ Pete, 34, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
- Ty Alan Burkhart, 34, of Frisco, Texas
- Jason Lawrence Geiger, aka Austin St. John aka the Red Power Ranger, 47, of McKinney, Texas
- Eric Reed Marascio, aka Phoenix Marcon, 50, of Allen, Texas
- Christopher Lee McElfresh, 43, of Frisco, Texas
- Cord Dean Newman, 44, of Homosassa, Florida
- Elmer Omar Ayala, 45, of Midlothian, Texas
- Gregory Fitzgerald Hatley, Jr., 38, of Allen, Texas
- Alexander Eric Cortesano, 52, of Dallas, Texas
- Arthur Atik Pongtaratik, 33, of Carrollton, Texas
- Miles Justin Urias, 34, of Richardson, Texas
- Fabian C. Hernandez, 44, of Lake Alfred, Florida
- Daniel Lee Warren, 33, address unknown
- Rajaa Bensellam, 49, of Allen, Texas
- Hadi Mohammed Taffal, 50, of Allen, Texas
- Jonathon James Spencer, aka Spence, 33, of Rowlett, Texas
This case is currently being investigated by the FBI and the IRS.
St. John played the role of Jason from 1993 to 1994, making sporadic returns throughout the 90s and most recently in 2020. | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/red-power-ranger-among-18-charged-with-fraud/ | 2022-05-20T18:34:44Z | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/red-power-ranger-among-18-charged-with-fraud/ | true | 14 |
NEW YORK, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds investors of PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc. f/k/a Acies Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: MYPS, MYPSW, ACAC) who: (1) purchased, or otherwise acquired the securities of PLAYSTUDIOS between June 22, 2021 and March 1, 2022, both dates inclusive, including, but not limited to, those who purchased or acquired PLAYSTUDIOS securities pursuant to the PIPE offering; (2) held common stock of Acies as of May 25, 2021, and were eligible to vote at Acies' June 16, 2021 special meeting; and/or (3) purchased or otherwise acquired PLAYSTUDIOS common stock pursuant to or traceable to the Acies' Registration Statement and Proxy Statement issued in connection with the June 2021 Merger (the "Class Period"), of the important June 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased PLAYSTUDIOS securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the PLAYSTUDIOS class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5097 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) PLAYSTUDIOS was having significant problems with its flagship game, Kingdom Boss; (2) PLAYSTUDIOS would not be releasing Kingdom Boss as expected; (3) PLAYSTUDIOS had not revised its financial projections to account for the problems it had encountered with Kingdom Boss; and (4) as a result, defendants' statements about PLAYSTUDIOS' business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the PLAYSTUDIOS class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5097 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home.
De Blasio, whose second mayoral term ended last year, announced on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the 10th Congressional District, which will include part of Manhattan and a swath of western Brooklyn.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler represents New York’s 10th District now but will no longer live in the district under maps that have been redrawn under the supervision of a New York judge. Nadler has said he believed the new maps are unconstitutional — but if the proposed districts do become final on Friday, he intends to run in the 12th District, currently represented by Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
The primary has been pushed back from June to August 23.
De Blasio, 61, toyed with running for governor this year but decided not to challenge incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul. He also had a short-lived run for president in 2019. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-de-blasio-former-nyc-mayor-to-run-for-house-seat-in-redrawn-district-01653058045 | 2022-05-20T18:35:24Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-de-blasio-former-nyc-mayor-to-run-for-house-seat-in-redrawn-district-01653058045 | false | 32 |
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Next weekend we will all pay tribute to the men and woman who lost their lives in the armed forces. And while Memorial Day is an important federal holiday, the folks at Rivers Casino say they try to honor our vets all year long. Here is Senior Vice President and General Manager Corey Wise.
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The lists, compiled by INvolve and supported by Yahoo Finance UK, celebrate 100 Executives, 100 Future Leaders and 50 Advocate Role Models from across all business sectors for their work in championing inclusion and driving strategic change within their organisations.
Ten senior WPP leaders were included in the 100 Executives List:
- Kirk McDonald, North America CEO, GroupM
- Dionne Aiken, chief marketing officer, Kantar
- Debbie Ellison, global chief digital officer, VMLY&R Commerce
- Traci Dinkins, president – Head of Media, North America, Essence
- Demet Ikiler, EMEA CEO, GroupM and country manager for Turkey, WPP;
- Akama Davies, global practice lead, Digital OOH, Xaxis
- Shelina Janmohamed, vice president – Islamic Marketing, Ogilvy
- Dorothy Burwell, partner, Finsbury Glover Hering
- Sabrina Natasha Browne, vice president – Corporate Affairs, BCW
- Apoorva Bapna, chief culture officer – India, WPP
VMLY&R’s group director: client engagement Nikeisha Beckford and senior talent development manager Francis Carrero-Green both feature on the Future Leaders list.
WPP CEO Mark Read tops the Advocates list, which identifies leaders who are creating diverse and inclusive business environments, with Jessica Walsh, MD: Health at H+K Strategies and Jennifer Remling, WPP’s chief people officer, also recognised.
Mark Read, CEO of WPP, said: “For WPP, a diverse and inclusive culture is a business opportunity as well as an imperative. Building teams from different backgrounds and experiences helps us to understand our audiences better, deliver innovation and produce the best work for our clients. Ultimately, our success is driven by our people and I’m proud of what we’re doing together across WPP to create a culture where people feel they belong and want to be a part of.”
Suki Sandhu OBE, founder and CEO of INvolve, added: “I’m so thrilled to be celebrating this global group of trailblazing executives, future leaders and advocates for people of colour in business. All the individuals within these lists are championing inclusion and, most importantly, leveraging their expertise and knowledge to drive inclusion initiatives and strategic change within their organisations. It’s vital that people of colour within our global businesses can succeed and achieve authentically, and these Role Models are essentials drivers of change and are smashing barriers to progress to create organisations where people of colour can thrive.”
Initiatives in place
In 2020, WPP announced a set of commitments to combat racial injustice and support Black and minority ethnic talent, investing $30m over three years to support anti-racism charities and inclusion programmes. This includes our Racial Equity Programme which funds projects that help bring about change, and expanding WPP’s Elevate sponsorship programme designed to support Black women in their career growth.
WPP has also introduced diverse candidate slate policies in the UK, US and APAC, has roles specifically marketed and accessible to candidates from under-represented groups, and is nurturing early talent to build a diverse pipeline. Our NextGen Leaders learning series welcomed 1,500 people from 60 countries in its 2021 cohort – with half of the participants identifying as Black, Asian or Latinx, while WPP’s partnership with Colorintech, The Update, is an initiative aimed at Black tech professionals looking to accelerate their careers within the creative industry.
To ensure progress is driven by accountability, WPP established a global Inclusion Council in 2020 which gives a voice to underrepresented groups and advises on goals, identifies barriers and recommends new systems, and in 2021, introduced DE&I metrics linked to leaders’ compensation and quarterly reviews. | https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/11/228041.html | 2022-05-20T18:36:35Z | https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/11/228041.html | false | 1 |
A macho action movie that left audiences in floods of tears rockets up the streaming charts
Testosterone-fueled action blockbusters aren’t typically designed to elicit an intense emotional response from audiences around the world, but Furious 7 was hardly a run-of-the-mill actioner. The tragic death of star Paul Walker saw Justin Lin pull out all of the stops to give the franchise stalwart a fitting sendoff, but even then, we weren’t ready for that final scene.
Throughout the running time, there was an underlying sense of sadness knowing that the actor was no longer with us, but the final goodbye between Walker’s Brian O’Conner and Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto was a punch right to the gut. Up until that point, the seventh installment in The Fast Saga was a spectacular slice of vehicular mayhem, only for Lin to turn the tables and leave millions of fans weeping in the aisles as the credits came up.
Seven years on, and Furious 7 is proving to be as popular as ever, especially among Prime Video subscribers. As per FlixPatrol, the emotionally-charged epic has rocketed up the platform’s global most-watched chart by over 30 places since yesterday, and you can guarantee that there’s going to be even more tears shed at home.
It also ranks as the 10th highest-grossing film in the history of cinema, not to mention the best-reviewed Fast & Furious outing to date, so there was clearly a lot more going on under the hood before Lin, the cast, and crew were forced to alter the production, editing, and visual effects in order to bring it over the finish line without one of is most important components. | https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/a-macho-action-movie-that-left-audiences-in-floods-of-tears-rockets-up-the-streaming-charts/ | 2022-05-20T18:38:08Z | https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/a-macho-action-movie-that-left-audiences-in-floods-of-tears-rockets-up-the-streaming-charts/ | false | 1 |
European Stocks Close Higher On China Stimulus, UK Retail Sales Data
(RTTNews) - European stocks closed higher on Friday, rebounding from recent losses, due largely to traders indulging in some bargain hunting at several top counters despite persisting worries about inflation, slowing growth and looming interest rate hikes.
Encouraging data on UK retail sales for the month of April, and the People's Bank of China's decision to cut its key lending rates by a record quantum to spur growth helped lift sentiment to some extent.
Investors shrugged off separate data showing that confidence among British consumers fell in May to its lowest level in at least five decades.
The pan European Stoxx 600 climbed 0.73%. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 gained 1.19%, Germany's DAX surged up 0.72% and France's CAC 40 advanced 0.2%, while Switzerland's SMI ended flat.
Among other markets in Europe, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Spain closed higher.
Russia and Turkey ended weak, while Czech Republic and Sweden settled flat.
In the UK market, Royal Mail rallied more than 5%. St. James Place, 3I Group, ABRDN, Flutter Entertainment, Halma, Entain and ITV gained 3 to 4%.
Prudential, RS Group, Croda International, ICP, Schrodders, RightMove and BT Group surged up 2.5 to 3%.
Shares of British online retail group THG soared nearly 25% after rejecting a £2.07bn bid from two investment companies.
M&C Saatchi shares zoomed 30.3% after the advertising group agreed a takeover by consultancy Next Fifteen Communications.
Scottish Mortgage drifted down 3%. Sainsbury (J), Imperial Brands and B&M European Value Retail ended lower by 1.5 to 1.8%.
In Paris, Atos climbed more than 6%. Unibail Rodamco, Valeo, Veolia, Sanofi, Faurecia, Vivendi, Danone and Teleperformance gained 1 to 3.2%.
Air France-KLM shares moved up sharply after the Franco-Dutch airline said it has entered into exclusive discussions with Apollo for a 500-million euros capital injection into an affiliate owning spare engine.
LVMH ended more than 2% down. Hermes International, STMicroElectronics and Carrefour lost about 1.7%.
In the German market, Zalando gained about 3%. Merck, Porsche Automobil, Siemens, HelloFresh, Brenntag, Deutsche Boerse, Sartorius, SAP, Fresenius and Covestro gained 1.5 to 2.5%.
Deutsche Bank ended nearly 2% down. Munich RE shed about 1.1%, while Infineon Technologies, BMW, Deutsche Wohnen and and Deutsch Post ended modestly lower.
Swiss stock Richemont plunged nearly 13% the company said discussions about its "Luxury New Retail" partnership are "taking time".
In economic releases, preliminary figures from the statistical office Destatis showed earlier in the day that Germany's producer price inflation accelerated further in April to set a fresh record high.
The producer price index climbed 33.5% year-on-year following a 30.9% increase in March as energy prices continued to soar amid the war in Ukraine. Economists had forecast a 31.5% rise.
Elsewhere, data showed U.K. retail sales expanded 1.4% monthly in April, reversing a revised 1.2% decline in March. Sales were forecast to drop 0.2% in April.
Switzerland's industrial production rose in the first quarter of 2022, while construction output declined, the Federal Statistical Office reported on Friday. Industrial production grew 7.9% year-on-year in the first quarter, the report said.
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Which Mizuno iron set is best?
Mizuno may not be the best-known name among today’s golf equipment brands, but it deserves to be among them. This brand’s specialty is irons. The best Mizuno irons give golfers a great feel for shot-making, something average golfers often struggle with.
The Mizuno JPX 921 Hot Metal Custom Irons are the best option for most golfers, especially those who have a higher-than-average handicap.
What to know before you buy a Mizuno iron
How the golf iron numbering system works
Mizuno follows the traditional numbering system for golf irons. A 3-iron or 4-iron has a reduced face angle, giving players less loft on the ball but more distance. An 8-iron or 9-iron has a sharper face angle, giving players a greater loft on the ball and a shorter distance.
However, a 4-iron across golf club manufacturers, and even across various brands from within Mizuno, does not have the exact same club face angle (or loft angle). Within the various Mizuno iron model families, for example, a 4-iron could have a loft angle between 19 and 24 degrees. A 9-iron’s loft angle can range from 38 to 42 degrees. This can significantly affect the distance you receive, so pay attention to the loft angle before buying.
How golf iron length works
Irons from Mizuno adhere to the traditional length for these clubs. A 4-iron from Mizuno is nearly always 38.5 inches long. A 9-iron is nearly always 36 inches. You may be able to get custom-fit irons from Mizuno that are longer or shorter than average, however.
Clubs included in a set of irons
Golf club manufacturers, including Mizuno, may include anywhere from six to 10 irons in a set of irons. There is no specific number of irons required to call it a set of irons.
What to look for in a quality Mizuno iron set
Iron head responsiveness
Mizuno’s designs often emphasize feel at the point of impact more than competitors’ irons, so players can easily feel when they make solid contact. Having this type of feedback is important for learning how to repeat a quality swing.
Iron head size
Many Mizuno irons have a slightly smaller club head size than other irons. This gives skilled players more ability to shape their shots and to place certain spins on the ball.
However, the smaller head size is less forgiving when less-skilled, less-experienced players have a mishit. (The JPX 921 Hot Metal irons are an exception to that rule among Mizuno irons, as they have a slightly larger head that works especially well for high-handicap players.)
Chromoly face
Some Mizuno irons use a face made of a stainless steel alloy that includes chromium and molybdenum, a metal known as chromoly. This alloy — also used in aircraft fuselages, high-end bike frames and racing-car chassis — allows for an extremely thin contact point that remains durable, but that increases the feel golfers have when they make contact.
Chromoly also generates a high level of energy, meaning players do not have to sacrifice distance to achieve the feel that they want at impact.
How much you can expect to spend on Mizuno irons
Individual irons from Mizuno cost $125-$250 apiece. If you purchase a set, expect to spend $800-$2,000 for six to 10 irons.
Mizuno irons FAQ
Why does my set of Mizuno irons not have a 2-iron?
A. Some manufacturers, including Mizuno, do not include a 2-iron or even a 3-iron with their sets, because some golfers struggle to hit these clubs. Some golfers prefer hybrid clubs to a 2-iron or 3-iron, because hybrids are easier to hit.
Should I buy a set or individual Mizuno irons?
A. Having a set of irons that consist of the same brand and model is preferable. It’s easier to successfully repeat your swing when the models of irons are consistent. However, if you just need one or two Mizuno irons to supplement your set, it’s fine to buy an individual iron.
What are the best Mizuno irons to buy?
Top Mizuno irons
Mizuno JPX 921 Hot Metal Custom Irons
What you need to know: Average players and high-handicap players will appreciate the great feel and look of the heads on these irons.
What you’ll love: The flex of the irons’ chromoly faces delivers outstanding ball speed. Mizuno added extra weight at the perimeter of the clubhead to help with accuracy. The anti-glare heads look great at the address of the ball.
What you should consider: If you’re a low-handicap player, these irons probably won’t significantly help your game.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods and Amazon
Top Mizuno irons for the money
What you need to know: This set has a slightly older design, so you can save some money while still receiving great clubs.
What you’ll love: By using a slightly smaller clubhead than competitors, these give the player a precise feel at the point of contact. This club uses a copper underlay to further improve the feel.
What you should consider: The smaller clubheads are less forgiving than larger designs, so this model is not the best choice for high-handicap players.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods and Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: These use more traditional loft angles, making it easier to dial in the distance as you always have.
What you’ll love: This set includes a 2-iron and a 3-iron, rare in modern iron sets. Mid-handicap players will be able to easily feel when they make solid contact with the ball, thanks to the design.
What you should consider: The clubheads are smaller than those on most irons from competitors, which bothers some players.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods and Amazon
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CANNES, France (AP) — A woman who stripped off her clothes to reveal a message against rape written on her body crashed the Cannes Film Festival red carpet premiere of George Miller's “Three Thousand Years of Longing” on Friday.
The unidentified woman tore off her clothes during the film's red carpet procession to reveal the message “Stop raping us” written across her torso next to the blue and yellow colors of the Ukraine flag. Red was also painted on her legs and groin.
While she yelled “Don't rape us!” security quickly encircled her and took her off the red carpet.
Representatives for the festival didn't immediately comment.
Russia's war in Ukraine has often been in the spotlight at this year's Cannes festival, which is screening several films from Ukrainian filmmakers. The festival barred Russians with ties to the Kremlin from attending. Ukrainian President Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a surprise address Tuesday to open the festival. | https://www.manisteenews.com/entertainment/article/Protester-crashes-Cannes-carpet-at-George-Miller-17187271.php | 2022-05-20T18:49:13Z | https://www.manisteenews.com/entertainment/article/Protester-crashes-Cannes-carpet-at-George-Miller-17187271.php | true | 14 |
(M.f.h.) ZZ Top have released a music video for their new single, "Tube Snake Boogie". The track comes from their forthcoming "Raw" album, which will be released on July 22nd. We were sent the following details:
Like the other 11 selections on RAW, it was recorded at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, TX. The classic honky-tonk setting, dating back to 1878, was chosen for an unfettered, roots-oriented recording session that is chronicled in the Grammy-nominated documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas. Directed by Sam Dunn and released by Banger Films, the feature offers insight into the history of the band's classic line-up: Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill.
"Tube Snake Boogie" debuted in 1981 as part of ZZ Top's El Loco album and is one of their most enduring in-concert favorites, typically provoking frenzied audience participation. Upon its release as a single, "Tube Snake Boogie" entered the Top 5 of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart and became a mainstay of the format. The late Dusty Hill had characterized it as the ultimate "party song" while Billy Gibbons credits drummer Frank Beard for getting it up and running. He noted, "It really revolves around Frank's opening which is kind of surf-meets-jungle." For his part, Beard credits his drum intro as having been inspired by Sandy Nelson's classic percussion-driven instrumental "Teen Beat." While "Tube Snake Boogie," written by Gibbons, Hill and Beard, has been one of ZZ Top's signature songs for more than four decades, others have attempted to cover it, most notably Serbian rock band Cactus Jack, as well as Canadian blues artist Bill Durst.
The new album's liner notes by Gibbons and Beard note of the RAW sessions, "..it was, in a very real way, a return to our roots. Just us and the music, no audience of thousands, no concession stands, no parking lot social hour, no phalanx of tour busses. Just us and the music. We knew right then it was a very special circumstance, all of us in the same place at the same time and what a time it most certainly was!"
The RAW tracks, including this new version of "Tube Snake Boogie" were recorded over the course of one day with an eye to keeping the whole process as simple and straightforward as possible, a nod to the band's early days. Billy F Gibbons served as producer, with engineering by Jake Mann and G.L. G-Mane Moon; RAW was mixed by Ryan Hewitt. It will be available on 180-gram vinyl, CD and through digital platforms, and will be released "In righteous memory of Dusty Hill."
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PHOENIX, Ariz. (KNXV) — A missing hiker in Arizona was found dead with his faithful dog by his side.
Donald Hayes, 74, was hiking the Mingus Mountain's Woodchute trailhead, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office.
He called for help last Friday after becoming lost. Forest Patrol responded and told Hayes to stay at his location, but he continued on against their advice, the sheriff's office said.
Search-and-rescue volunteers from Coconino, Maricopa, and Gila counties helped with the search.
His body was located Wednesday afternoon in a rugged, hard-to-reach area.
Ranger, his dog, did not leave his owner's side.
Authorities said the Labrador was treated at the scene by a volunteer who is a veterinarian. The dog was then taken to an animal hospital to be further checked out.
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West Ottawa Schools selling surplus property in Park Township
HOLLAND TWP. — Several years after an initial attempt to do so, West Ottawa Public Schools is selling a piece of property in Park Township.
The district’s board of education approved the sale of property near the intersection of James Street and 160th Avenue during a meeting Monday, May 16. Baumann Building Inc. offered to purchase the property for $600,000.
West Ottawa purchased the land in 2000 and previously looked for a buyer several years ago.
“You may recall that the board went out and did an informal (request for proposals) process back in 2018,” Associate Superintendent of Business Services Jeff Malloch told the board. “The top offer there was $435,000. The property was purchased in 2000 for $480,000.”
Board members requested site development plans from the company prior to agreeing to the sale to ensure any project “appropriate for the neighborhood.”
Board member Randy Schipper noted the district purchased the property as a potential site for a future elementary school, but opted for other locations.
Excavating bid approved
The board also approved initial bids for excavation at the site of Riley Farms Elementary school. Dan Hoe Excavation was awarded the work with a bid of $2,255,000. Malloch said the budget for the category was $2.3 million.
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He said there will be “a lot of earth moving this summer and early fall” as work begins on the site. The district will seek bids for the rest of the project this fall. Riley Farms Elementary is expected to open for the 2024-25 school year.
The new elementary building is a component of the 2019 bond campaign. West Ottawa is continuing to examine how Riley Farms will fit into, and potentially alter, the district’s current alignment and boundaries.
New classroom furniture approved
Classrooms at West Ottawa High School South Campus will have new furniture at the start of next school year.
The building ran a pilot of five classrooms with different furniture — including teacher and student desks and chairs — layouts this year. Following the pilot, each teacher in the building was able to select from a handful of options for their classroom.
Associate Superintendent for Instructional Services 6-12 Todd Tulgestke said options were limited in some areas due to global supply chain issues, but the district was still able to offer some choice to teachers.
A purchase was approved for an amount not to exceed $1.25 million, which averages out to $25,000 per classroom.
Superintendent Tim Bearden said the furniture will provide flexibility for teachers in designing and managing their classrooms.
“No matter who teaches in that classroom, they’ll have great, flexible space,” he said.
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The Great Replacement is not a new idea and for many years it mainly traveled around fringe white nationalist circles. However, as America becomes more diverse, many white Americans increasingly feel uneasy with these shifting demographics. White supremacist media personalities and organizers stoke fear that this trend will result in white people being treated as second class citizens in the same way we have historically treated racial minorities. As the Republican Party turns away minority voters by stoking racial fear and resentment against them, it has doubled down on efforts to disenfranchise Black voters and prevent immigration in order to maintain power. In short, conservatives have rejected multi-racial democracy and will do anything they can to stop it, even if it provokes extrajudicial violence, as we saw on January 6, 2020. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2607244532080/from-polk-to-trump-18-presidents-who-have-visited-maine-while-in-office | 2022-05-20T18:54:59Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2607244532080/from-polk-to-trump-18-presidents-who-have-visited-maine-while-in-office | false | 8 |
Must-watch videos of the week
By Colby Hentges, CNN
Adam Schiff sees UFOs, a Lyft driver tells racists to take a hike, and championship paper airplanes take flight. These are the must-watch videos of the week.
The truth is out there
Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shows declassified video of an unidentified object during a House subcommittee hearing on “unidentified aerial phenomena,” popularly known as UFOs.
Lyft driver won’t stand for racism
Dashcam video shows a Lyft driver refusing to drive passengers who used racist rhetoric while getting in the car.
See you on the dark side of the moon
Lunar eclipses might seem commonplace, but there are different versions that offer varied perspectives. Here’s what you need to know next time you catch the moon in shadow.
‘Kai, this is everybody. Everybody, this is Kai.’
An 18-year-old named Kai Neukermans performed on drums with Pearl Jam after the band’s drummer Matt Cameron tested positive for Covid-19.
Red Bull gives you (paper) wings
On May 14, the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final took off from Hangar-7 at the Salzburg Airport in Austria. The event is the official paper airplane world championship and first took place in 2006. This year’s edition saw 61,000 hopefuls take part in over 500 “Qualiflyers” around the world.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
01-03-18-30-31
(one, three, eighteen, thirty, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $950,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
01-03-18-30-31
(one, three, eighteen, thirty, thirty-one)
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Colourful paintings explore beauty of black
I cannot recall the last time I saw a figurative exhibition of paintings like Lynette Yiadom-Boayke’s Fly in League with The Night in a modern gallery setting.
The Mudam exhibition is the largest to date of the British artist and spans two decades of her works.
On the face of it, a British black woman’s solo exhibition of paintings depicting solely black people in a modern art gallery shouldn’t feel so groundbreaking for the 21st century, yet, observing the characters and their unfamiliar faces without the crutch of interpretative texts feels - dare I say - radical.
As I entered the exhibition, what struck me was Yiadom-Boayke’s use of colour - predominantly the colour black. It’s a colour most artists avoid, unless demonstrating their mastery of techniques, like chiaroscuro (portraying light and shade), or suggesting sinister undertones within a work.
Yiadom-Boakye reclaims the colour and she explores the beauty of black to the full. It is soft, envelopes viewers with a warm humour, a dark decadence and deferential power. She exposes each subtle shade and variation within the colour.
It’s not that other colours do not exist in Yiadom-Boayke’s paintings, they do. Yet, when they appear they invariably take on a supporting role. Bright, gaudy colours spring from the canvas at regular intervals, as seen in the parrot on Accompanied to the Kindness or the yellow budgie perched on the hand of a man in All Manner of Comforts.
Yiadom-Boayke plays fast and loose with the idea of the portrait and portraiture, upending the traditional role of a portrait painter by making her figurative paintings purely fictional.
Once the privilege of the bourgeois, the famous or fame hungry, portraits were commissioned to portray power, wealth, virtue, beauty or learning. Yiadom-Boakye rewrites this narrative by taking the absence of black people in traditional Western portraiture and making it the focus of her work.
The exhibition is laid out over two spaces in Mudam, which creates a disjoint and I almost missed viewing some of the paintings because of it. The museum missed an important layer of this exhibition by not including the sounds of the artist’s playlist. When an artist creates a playlist on Spotify to accompany paintings - you better listen. I would have much preferred her soundtrack as accompaniment than the eerie instrumental music from the exhibition next door.
Playfully poetic titles frame Yiadom-Boayke’s work, such as the romantically named Amaranthine and The Stygian Silk. Her works pay homage to earlier portrait artists, drawing upon Rodin’s The Thinker, in her painting The Counter and evoking Degas with her dancers.
It’s an exhibition of empowerment. Each portrait is defiant, indifferent or self-contained. They encourage viewers to fly in league with them; reclaim their space, identity and power.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has overturned a decision to grant parole to man who killed three tavern workers during a robbery in 1980.
Timothy Pauley was 21 when he and associate Steven Smith robbed the Barn Door Tavern in King County, tying up three women and two men, forcing the men into a walk-in cooler and executing them with a revolver. One of the women was strangled by a cord used to tie her to a post.
Despite opposition from the victims' families, the state's Indeterminate Sentence Review Board last month unanimously found Pauley rehabilitated and eligible for parole, following a hearing at which he noted he had completed years of counseling for drug and alcohol abuse and for post-traumatic stress disorder for a workplace injury he suffered before the killings.
Pauley told the board he panicked during the killings; didn't know why he shot the men, Loren Dowell and Robert Pierre; and that he wanted to be known for something more than his horrible crime.
But in an order released by the governor's office on Friday, Inslee said he did not believe Pauley had shown appropriate remorse. Pauley did not apologize to the victims' family members, who attended the online parole hearing in March, nor refer to the victims by name, Inslee noted.
“For Mr. Pauley's rehabilitation to be complete, he must engage in serious introspection to ultimately achieve and affirmatively demonstrate both a full acceptance of his responsibility and remorse,” Inslee wrote.
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Anterix's (ATEX) CEO Rob Schwartz on Q4 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Anterix Inc. (NASDAQ:ATEX) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 20, 2022 8:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Natasha Vecchiarelli – Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Rob Schwartz – President and Chief Executive Officer
Tim Gray – Chief Financial Officer
Ryan Gerbrandt – Chief Operating Officer
Chris Guttman-McCabe – Chief Regulatory and Communications Officer
Conference Call Participants
Walter Piecyk – LightShed
Phil Cusick – JPMorgan
Simon Flannery – Morgan Stanley
Mike Crawford – B. Riley
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Anterix Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year-End Conference Call. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode. We will open up the floor for your questions and comments after the presentation.
It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Natasha Vecchiarelli. Ma’am, the floor is yours.
Natasha Vecchiarelli
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Anterix fourth quarter fiscal year 2022 investor call. I’m Natasha Vecchiarelli, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Anterix. Joining me on today’s call are Rob Schwartz, our President and CEO; Ryan Gerbrandt, our COO; Tim Gray, our CFO; and Chris Guttman-McCabe, our Chief Regulatory and Communications Officer.
Before we begin, please note that during today’s presentation, we may make forward-looking statements either in our prepared remarks or any associated question-and-answer session. These statements are based on current expectations or beliefs and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Risk factors that may impact our performance are identified in our most recent SEC filings. Following our prepared remarks, we will have an operator-led question-and-answer session.
In addition, at the conclusion of today’s call, a replay and transcript of our discussion will be posted to our Investor Relations website.
With that, I’ll turn the call over to Anterix’s President and CEO, Rob Schwartz.
Rob Schwartz
Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining the call, and Natasha, welcome back from your maternity leave. This morning, I’ll give you an update on our industry progress and customer pipeline, and Tim is going to take you through our year-end financials, and then we’ll open up for questions.
Let me first spend a moment discussing the customer and industry progress Ryan and I are driving with our team. As we pursue our goal of being the de facto private broadband solution for the utility sector, I know at times how difficult it is to measure Anterix’s progress beyond the closing of lease contracts. The evolution will take time, but the progress to date has been significant, and the support we are receiving from the industry has never been stronger.
To start with, I’m happy to share that we have three signed letters of intent with utilities in our pipeline, one of which was signed in the past two weeks. Combined, these three represent approximately $450 million in potential contracted proceeds. While these are non-binding LOIs, we are working with each of these utilities towards binding definitive agreements. We also have made significant headway with a number of additional utilities who would fall in the larger contract category of our pipeline with spectrum valuations greater than the deals we have closed to date.
We have a significant concentration of value in a relatively small population of customers. Our team remains as focused on closing the next deal as they are on our fiscal year 2024 target of having approximately $1.8 billion in contracted proceeds. As these larger deals are strategically important to our plan, it’s helpful to highlight that some of these very large deals involve expanded processes with utility, adding an increased complexity to help them bring them to completion.
In some instances, we are being asked to provide expertise and services that we initially would not have anticipated, but this flexibility is a strength of our team and has become a differentiator of our offering. Overall, we’ve also seen a positive seasoning of our pipeline. Notably, we have enough potential customer contract proceeds in Phase 2 and 3 to achieve our 2024 goal. We are using every tool in our toolbox to continue our progress, which now includes our new platform that I’ll describe shortly.
In addition to the movement within our pipeline and the LOIs we have secured, the launch of a platform yesterday is another indication of growing market support for offering. This is an important time of the year for industry as well as commercially for Anterix. Two of the utility industry’s largest trade shows are taking place this week and next, the Utility Technology Council Convention and DistribuTECH. This is our first opportunity to meet with utilities and vendors in these forums for over two years since COVID. With thousands of attendees, these events provide a great opportunity for us to announce and market our offering.
Our team on the ground has shared that the initial response we are getting to this news is exceptional, and while this is no substitute for a signed contract, from an industry perspective, it can’t be overstated how this is further significant endorsement of our goal to drive nationwide utility adoption of 900 megahertz. Built on the foundation of our Anterix Active Ecosystem Program, six initial C-level executives have committed to oversight of this industry cooperation and collaboration to drive 900 megahertz solutions.
And while we’ve talked about the significance of our Anterix Active Ecosystem Program, it bears repeating that it’s a great illustration of the support we’re receiving for our offering. The ecosystem now has 80 technology and service leaders, including companies like Cisco, Ericsson, GE, Mandiant, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm and many more. These ecosystem members have a vested interest in seeing our 900 megahertz spectrum be deployed by our customers for private broadband networks and are a key part of our channel strategy.
Let me now elaborate on the details of our platform announcement made yesterday and why it matters to investors. This platform is designed to meet the needs and requests of our customers, and we expect the platform to further differentiate our offering in the marketplace, expand our competitive advantage and continue to drive the leasing of our valuable spectrum asset. We are not simply leasing spectrum, we are now driving solutions, and we believe this will make customer adoption easier.
For our customers, the platform will provide Anterix with the ability to identify utility needs and match those needs with the Anterix Active Ecosystem community we have gathered, harnessing the power and scale of that combination. Among other benefits, it also establishes the capability to connect individual utility networks, capturing the value of that integration.
Let’s walk through the individual pieces of the Anterix Active Ecosystem platform and see how they can help us accomplish the customer and investor focused objectives I just described. At the center of the platform is a newly formed Utility Strategic Advisory Board comprised of C-suite utility executives from six organizations at launch. Amarin, Dominion, Evergy, Exelon, Southern Company and the Utility Broadband Alliance, which represents numerous additional utilities and technology developers.
The Advisory Board will serve as the industry touchstone for Anterix and for members of the Active Ecosystem program. Focusing Anterix and those innovators on real-life industry needs and the development of solutions that will drive economies of scale, lower risk and complexity and accelerate the availability of products. As part of the launch of the platform, five targeted initiatives have been identified, including a 4G, 5G cloud core hosted by AWS, an enhanced multiband communications module and integrated cybersecurity offering, a connected lab environment and a public network roaming management solution.
And while the focus of our business remains on monetizing our spectrum asset, the platform will enhance and simply the solutions set for utilities and as a result, drive adoption. We’re joining forces with our ecosystem members in a program to continuously develop and offer needed products and services on 900 megahertz networks nationwide. What we are learning through this process is that we need to engage significantly with our prospective customers during both the journey toward adoption of private LTE and the deployment after they’ve contracted with Anterix.
This is the value we believe we are uniquely positioned to provide. From total cost of ownership studies to spectrum valuation, development of business models, rate case strategy, use case development, applying for infrastructure funds and more, the adoption of private broadband has become a strategic decision for these utilities, not simply a replacement of a communications capability.
We are responding to these needs. The development of the platform and the utility solutions that will flow from it are exactly what our customers are asking for. This is how we continue to build our defensible position and provide value. Yes, it takes time, but the outcome of this partnership effort supports not just our near-term customers, but also the entire base of our pipeline, and the resulting multi-decade relationships.
And with that, I’ll turn it over to Tim.
Tim Gray
Thanks, Rob. I’m pleased to announce that for our fiscal year 2022, for the first time on an annual basis, we yielded positive cash flow before share repurchases. This accomplishment was driven by the receipt of the full $30 million of contracted proceeds from Evergy and approximately $23 million in payments from Amarin. Further, we expect receipt of an additional $55 million of contracted proceeds from the SDG&E and Amarin contracts through mid-2026, which will continue to strengthen our balance sheet.
Turning to cash spend. As we previously guided, we expect to spend roughly $70 million per year through fiscal year 2024, including approximately $40 million of OpEx and $30 million in spectrum clearing costs. We do not expect our new ecosystem platform to have a material impact on our OpEx guidance or our projected GAAP revenue for this fiscal year.
For fiscal year 2022, we spent approximately $35 million in OpEx and $25 million in spectrum clearing costs, which includes returning costs, spectrum acquisitions and anti-windfall payments. Current fiscal year-to-date, we have an additional $10 million in committed funds for contracts not yet closed to clear spectrum.
Our overall clearing cost estimates remain consistent with the projections we’ve previously provided. I’d like to note that in the two years since the Report and Order was issued, our spectrum clearing efforts have increased the number of counties where Anterix fully meets the FCC’s broadband licensing requirements to over 2,000 counties throughout the United States. This is a significant accomplishment over this period of time.
As a reminder, there was only one eligible applicant in each county as designed by the FCC rules and getting a broadband license triggers the mandatory retuning provision. Our clearing efforts have put Anterix in a strong position to continue to bring broadband to the marketplace. Our business plan continues to be fully funded with approximately $106 million in cash on our balance sheet as of March 31, 2022, and no outstanding debt, providing ample capital and balance sheet flexibility to continue to support our business initiatives.
During the quarter, we continued to return capital to our shareholders through our share repurchase program. During our fourth quarter, we repurchased roughly 50,000 shares at a cost of $3 million. Total activity during our fiscal year 2022 included approximately 215,000 shares repurchased at a cost of $15 million. Our active repurchasing effort further underscores our ongoing confidence in our pipeline and the ability to generate positive cash flow.
I’ll conclude by saying that as our spectrum asset continues to increase in value as we converted it to broadband, combined with the overall strength of our pipeline and balance sheet, I am pleased with the foundation we have heading into our fiscal 2023.
Now I will turn it over to the operator for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, the floor is now open for questions. [Operator Instructions] Your first question for today is coming from Walter Piecyk with LightShed. Walter your line is live.
Walter Piecyk
Thanks. Rob, can you talk about the letters of intent? When do you expect them to revert timing-wise and design contract? And what does this mean? Can you just refresh my memory in terms of – I know you had like things at different phases, like what does that mean in terms of the rest of the pipeline?
Rob Schwartz
Sure. Thanks, Walt. Good morning. Why don’t I start there and then maybe pass it over to Ryan. Look, the letters of intent are just another indication of progress from our standpoint. As we’ve talked about in the past, there’s all kinds of points of entry that utilities have shown, those who have transacted with us and those who are on the process of doing so. And it’s just another way for us to get the framing of the potential for a transaction with these counterparties.
I think it’s also worth looking at all of the names of folks – when you saw the press release about the platform, the C-suite C-level folks that are showing the level of support they are for the collective action of the industry is really another indication of how these utilities are stepping forward. As far as the point of timing, I’m going to pass to Ryan in a second, but we’ve said in the past, predicting the precision of timing we know is something that is virtually impossible with the kind of counterparties that we’re working with.
These are very large, sophisticated, complicated organizations and the process that they go through takes time. And so we continue to drive them forward. To me, the macro indications of what’s happening in the marketplace just continues to give us confidence about the scale of the opportunity and the demand that’s developing for 900 megahertz. And the specific timing, I think it’s still a jump all for us to be able to say how fast those specific LOIs will convert into contracts, but we have confidence if they will. Ryan, anything you want to add?
Walter Piecyk
So what makes it – what gets a utility to the point of – I mean when you say LOI, presumably, someone is literally e-signing at least or signing a piece of paper. Like what’s on that paper, that person is willing to sign, as opposed to just saying like, "Hey, we’re going to continue to work this out and then sign an ultimate contract. Like why bother in this process, at least signing anything until you’re at final contract from their standpoint?
Rob Schwartz
Let me start, and Ryan, you can finish on that. Look, again, I know you’ve been through this yourself. There are a lot of ways you can approach getting to a consummation of a deal. In some instances, it’s valuable to frame up a transaction and start with a letter of intent. So we – the parties can agree what the intention is, of the scale of the opportunity and a path forward. So that’s usually how that’s used as an indication of interest.
But again, we’ve done deals, we’ve gone straight to contract and haven’t done letters of intent from them as well. And so it really depends. Each of these processes is very different. The institutions are different. The state regulatory environments are different. The way in which they’re set up with their sophisticated procurement departments is different. And so it’s really specific to each of the approaches. So letters of intent is sometimes helpful for just that for the parties to state their intentions so we know we’re on the same page of the process and how we move forward.
Ryan Gerbrandt
Yes. I want to just reinforce one point, Rob. I mean there’ll be multiple ways since we talked about, I don’t see this as the exclusive way that we’re going to see this process progresses, but these are complex processes. As we’ve said before, these are sophisticated procurement teams that we’re working through a lot of the details of these pending transactions. And these types of vehicles can be nice way, be able to begin the process as we’re starting to flesh out kind of key aspects of the delivery, the spectrum transaction, and ultimately work our way incrementally towards the larger deal.
Walter Piecyk
And just one follow-up on the announcement from yesterday. I mean what it looks like to me is like, hey, I’m a utility, I’m going through this lengthy process of evaluating it. I want to make sure there’s an ecosystem there. So now we got a bunch of the majors in the room effectively even prior to them signing contracts, or LOIs. Maybe some of them are LOIs on that list, I don’t know, but I guess they’re basically – if you bring them together in this manner, it reduces their risk that they commit to something that ultimately an ecosystem doesn’t broaden out in terms of the utilities. Is that effectively the right way to look at it?
Rob Schwartz
I think that’s maybe the first step, Walt, right? So clearly, our 900 megahertz spectrum is part of the 3GPP standard, and there is an ecosystem that exists and companies like Amarin, STG and Evergy are deploying it. This is about being evergreen, right? This is about how do we create a process for continuous innovation on this 3GPP standard of 900, and how do we create an ecosystem around not just the infrastructure and the devices, but going up the vertical stack of applications, the cybersecurity offering is called out there as an example.
That’s a vital application that’s necessary, and as you know, is continuously changing, right? The threat landscape keeps growing and utilities want to know that they have an active capability with a significant group of parties, right? Mandiant is one of those groups is a leader in the response to some of the current threats. And so for us, it’s not about getting customers to contract with this, although it’s clearly going to be a catalyst for that, it’s about how do we create an environment that creates a continuously valuable solution over the multi-decades that we’re signing these agreements.
Ryan Gerbrandt
And Rob…
Walter Piecyk
If these people are in some type of forum where they’re having these discussions, shouldn’t that make it easier for you to try and get a services business off the ground or maybe you create some type of cloud based core, [indiscernible] Web DISH is doing and enable that to be shared across multiple utilities. I mean shouldn’t this kind of new announcement yesterday and make that easier?
Rob Schwartz
Absolutely. If you noticed the five initiatives that we’re putting forward, the first is a 4G, 5G cloud core, and we’ve talked about that we’re doing it in conjunction with AWS. That is the trend of the carrier industry is going there, as you know well, and report on. And for us to be the connective tissue between these utilities to bring that scale capability. And it’s not just about having a cloud core for an individual utility, it’s about what that does collectively.
So when – and I mentioned cybersecurity, if you’re coming in at a collective effort to be able to connect to these utilities, being able to detect the threat landscape across utilities and be able to use that broader information to be able to react to those kind of issues across the board is so much more valuable. Getting into the creation of really recognizing patterns and using that for proactive value, we think, is really at the top of the pyramid of the value chain of the opportunities as we do so, right? The cloud core is just a functional technology capability. It’s what you do with that where it really creates the value. Chris, did you want to add to that?
Chris Guttman-McCabe
Yes. Thanks, Rob, and Walt, great question. I mean scale is an overused word, and yet when you think of this new platform and you think of apply the word scale to both sides of the equation, on the utility side, we’ve got a half dozen executives. One of them represents another 15 to 30 companies in the ecosystem. So on the side where the entities are identifying the concerns, that collaboration brings scale to thinking through what is needed. And then obviously, on the other side, you’ve got the 80 companies poised to deliver on those needs. And so it’s – and in between, you have five products right now with what we expect to be dozens and dozens more going forward.
So it is – we are providing solutions. It does make things easier for the utilities, Walt, as you had said. And it really drives – again, overused word, but it really drives scale to all sides of the decision-making, both before utility contracts and then after the contract.
Walter Piecyk
Great. Thank you.
Operator
Your next question for today is coming from Phil Cusick with JPMorgan. Phil, your line is live.
Phil Cusick
Hi, guys. Thanks. A couple, if I can. So to follow up first on Walt. The letter of intent with Amarin, I think, took a year before a contract was signed. Can you – and you had guided early in the year of deals to be done by March and then they’re going to be done now. And it seems like things are just taking longer. So is this a question of the process is becoming more complex with the services and things like sort of value-add opportunities? Or are there issues inside these companies that have cropped up about doing these deals at all? Can you give us an idea? Thanks.
Rob Schwartz
Sure, thanks. Good morning, Phile. A couple of thoughts there. First of all, in specific regards, Amarin was first, right? We can’t forget that, and Amarin started their efforts in advance of us having an FCC ruling. So clearly, that was a lengthier process as they were the pioneer in moving forward. We do think there’s absolutely – as pioneers break the ice here, there’s going to be – it makes it easier for others to move forward. But you are correct that the complexity of these transactions is, I would say, more significant now that we’re getting into it because of the strategic rationale. We started these conversations with, I would say, down in the bowels of utilities with the telecom engineers that were looking to replace existing systems and that was the first premise.
Now as you can see by the names of the folks who are involved in this platform announcement like the C-suite, there are major strategic initiatives that are being solved by these platforms. And while that heightens the value of the concept, it also heightens the level of work and diligence and planning, and it has be done by utilities to get these kind of things approved. Across the organization, these are large complicated organizations with multiple operating companies and multiple strategic leaders that have to really sign off on us.
So – but what’s happening really is the increasing tailwinds, right? You guys know and report about the broader macro interest in the demand of private networks, which is an important part of it. But specifically within the utility sector, I touched on cybersecurity and needless, you don’t have to open a paper to understand that every day, there’s increasing threats from what’s going on in the global landscape that utilities are one of the primary focuses. And what’s been shown is through our platform and otherwise is that a modern communication system is an important part of being able to monitor these assets to be able to detect these threats.
The increasing weather events that are happening, wildfires are no longer a West Coast situation. It is now a nationwide risk issue, and we’ve demonstrated and San Diego Gas & Electric has publicly talked about and work with Schweitzer about the value of being able to use these to prevent wildfires. That gets you into a whole another sector of utility. It’s not a telecom question, it’s a strategic decision about how they use these to be able to mitigate wildfires.
And now with the decarbonization objectives of all utilities and our global commitments, the need to be able to have two-way communications out to all these distributed energy sources is also happening, but that’s a very complicated problem utility to trying to solve. And so we’re now integrating to solving these top strategic issues for utilities, and those take time from a planning standpoint, of which we’re a component of it, but we’re not driving solely.
And so it’s not just about purchasing spectrum or leasing spectrum or building an LTE network, it’s about solving these macro problems and that does increase the complexity and timing, but these are issues that must be solved by utilities. So that’s why when we say, it’s not if but when. We’re certain that the communications systems for providing are going to help solve these, but the complexity of the decision-making absolutely is elongated because of the strategic nature.
Phil Cusick
Okay. Okay. In the past, you’ve said that the final stage of the pipeline, there was about $400 million in there. Is that these three LOIs? Or is there someone else in there that didn’t quite make it to the LOI stage?
Rob Schwartz
Ryan, maybe you want to respond to that one.
Ryan Gerbrandt
Yes, happy to. Yes, mostly, that is correct. Obviously, we’ve got some activity as Rob hit on in the prepared remarks, too, in terms of the developing through both Phase 2 and Phase 3. But we’ve got all of those covered in there and positively have been seeing momentum across the whole phase set of the pipeline as we continue to drive maturation of all those deals and that’s very important. As we said, obviously, we’re focused – laser-focused on the next deal, but the ability to move the volumes through is really where the critical mass comes from as we’re also keeping our eye on the fiscal year 2024 goal and how we continue to progress those through.
Phil Cusick
Okay. And then one more for me. Any preference among the three in the LOI stage of whether they’re in a prepayment or a pay overtime sort of situation?
Rob Schwartz
I think, Phil, we’re still seeing a preference for prepayment for most of our utilities. So I think, generally, we’ll continue to see that trend.
Phil Cusick
Okay. Thanks, guys.
Rob Schwartz
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question for today is coming from Simon Flannery with Morgan Stanley. Simon, your line is live.
Simon Flannery
Great. Thank you very much. Good morning. So I think you reiterated the goal of $1.8 billion for fiscal 2024 in contracted proceeds. That’s less than two years away. You obviously didn’t hit the $200 million for the past year. You obviously have these LOIs, which is going to be helpful, but can you just give us – what gives you confidence in reiterating that guide given the sort of slower process we saw over the last year or so that actually getting these contracts over the line? And are you still targeting that $300 million to $500 million of cash proceeds by fiscal 2024.
Rob Schwartz
Sure. So thanks, Simon. Good morning. The answer simply is, yes. Still affirming our objective and our target of $1.8 billion by fiscal 2024. We are, as I mentioned in my comments and some of the responses earlier, still see lots of signs of why this growing demand, while the processes individually take a lot of time, everything is moving forward in a really strong and powerful way. And I think this platform announcement and support is just another sign of that, and as we see this collective solution coming together, we think it makes it even easier for utilities to understand and transact.
There’s a number of signs of where our confidence comes from this experimental licenses that you’ve seen. Letters of intent we’re talking about didn’t really touch on it yet, but the federal funding, we see as a coming stimulus as well. And we’ve been having conversations with utilities about that and seeing some good interest that we think for those who are outliers that can help push them forward on a timely basis as well.
And so overall, we see the seasoning of the market continue to happen. The speed of each individual transaction absolutely frustrating that it doesn’t go as fast as we’d like, but we haven’t seen anything indicating that there isn’t forward movement across the board. Anything, Ryan, you want to add to that?
Ryan Gerbrandt
Yes, I’d like to add one thing. I want to come back to – we talked a little bit about kind of the evolving strategic imperative as it relates to the complexity in terms of how we’re engaging the deals, but there’s a flip side to that, that I think is very positive to your question, Simon. That strategic imperative and the fact that we are seeing this elevate into a C-suite issue and private LTE and broadband being directly relatable to the solution set that utilities are exploring for reliability, for clean energy goals, for providing cyber protections, only further reinforces the logical outcome and the critical importance that private LTE is playing, both in their near-term tactical plans and in the broader strategic plans.
So those indicators are critical as we’re seeing the general trajectory – time aside for a minute, but in terms of the big picture of how we see adoption ultimately play out. And all those indicators only further reinforce what we’ve been hearing from the market for a while in terms of the logical trajectory that they’re on with private broadband.
Rob Schwartz
Go ahead, Simon.
Simon Flannery
Yes. I just had a clarification for Tim, the $55 million in contracted proceeds through mid-2026. How much of that are you expecting to receive this coming year?
Tim Gray
Yes. Simon, thanks for the question. Our expectation is that we will get about $25 million to $26 million of that this fiscal year.
Simon Flannery
Great. Any color on quarters?
Tim Gray
No, that’s a little bit of a moving target as we deliver spectrum, but based on the parameters of the contracts this fiscal year, we should receive those dollars.
Simon Flannery
Great. And then I was interested in the ecosystem announcement on the reference to a multiband communications module. I know a lot of utilities are looking at CBRS along with the 900, but any clarification or color around that would be great for how that fits in.
Rob Schwartz
Yes. So the module that we referenced in our release, the multiband communications module. As you know, we’re working with numerous utilities that either have CBRS licenses or using unlicensed CBRS. And we see the integration of that, as we’ve talked about for a while as being a really strong complement having a communications module, and this is – for those who don’t know this, it’s the card that gets slotted into most communication devices, especially those that are used for fixed wireless like a Cisco or GE device that puts it with – on a cellular network.
Those – the commonality of those cards to have multiple bands, CBRS and 900 plus other bands of carriers, so we have the ability to deploy it immediately, start on carrier network and evolve onto your private network as it gets built out. So we see that as being a highly functional product, and it’s a great example of kind of the crowd sourcing that we did across the ecosystem of the vendors that all needed this, utilities that we’re asking for it, but there was no one at a central point that was going to take the collective action to help develop it and create the economic benefit for the industry and for us and our shareholders.
Simon Flannery
Right. Thank you.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Your next question for today is coming from Mike Crawford with B. Riley. Mike, your line is live.
Mike Crawford
Thank you, gentlemen. The letters of intent include proposed megahertz ranges?
Rob Schwartz
I’m sorry, Mike, can you repeat that question, please?
Mike Crawford
Do the LOIs include proposed pricing ranges in terms of megahertz pop of areas served by the entities that have entered LOI with you?
Rob Schwartz
Yes. So to the LOI’s range and what in them, contained in them, and they’re all under NDA. So I can’t really reveal the specifics, and – but in general, there are indications of directional interest in getting the contract and contract specifics, including pricing as well. So – and so for us, it’s just, again, another indication directionally of the volume of utilities. It’s a path forward. Not the only path forward, Mike, and we see it as just a good indication from those three utilities about their commitment to move forward.
Mike Crawford
And those indications with that consistent with the 600 megahertz and AWS-3 auction guidepost that you’ve been using to guide discussions previously?
Rob Schwartz
Yes, we’re still confident, Mike, about fair market value being in that range for sure. And so all of our conversations end up in that zone. From our experience to date, as you know, it’s a wide range, but it is what defines fair market value for us and that includes the conversations with the parties that are in those non-binding LOIs.
Mike Crawford
And I think Dominion serves 7 million customers in 20 states. Do you know what the average guideposts were in those territories in terms of average clearing price in those auctions?
Rob Schwartz
We can follow up with that. I don’t have it offhand, Mike, but happy to share that with you from the information we have. There’s service territories, as you know, is public information. And so it’s just the math of looking at those prior auctions. We’re happy to follow up with that.
Mike Crawford
Okay. Thank you.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, that is all the time we have for questions today. I would like to turn the floor over to Rob for any closing remarks.
Rob Schwartz
Thank you, operator, and thank you, everybody, for the good questions. Look, we appreciate the patience. This is an effort for us to drive a de facto position within a very valuable marketplace and provide a very important service for our nation’s electric grid. From our standpoint, we see that we have a very valuable asset on our balance sheet that we continue to perfect through all of our retuning. And it’s really a question of timing of how we convert that to cash flow, but the asset remains on our balance sheet. And every day that goes by as we see more and more interest in private networks, we see that, that – the value of that asset continues to increase from our perspective. So again, thanks, everybody. We look forward to talking to you soon.
Operator
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This does conclude today’s conference call. You may disconnect your phone lines at this time, and have a wonderful day. Thank you for your participation. | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4513470-anterixs-atex-ceo-rob-schwartz-on-q4-2022-results-earnings-call-transcript | 2022-05-20T19:02:04Z | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4513470-anterixs-atex-ceo-rob-schwartz-on-q4-2022-results-earnings-call-transcript | false | 1 |
AUSTIN, Texas — The weekend is here and, as always, there are a ton of things going on in the Austin area! From a Texas-sized graduation celebration to an air guitar championship, there's no shortage of fun activities happening over the next few days.
Here’s a breakdown of just some of the events you can attend this weekend:
Lakefest is a three-day drag boat racing event at Lakeside Park and Johnson Park in Marble Falls. On Friday, boating fans can kick off race weekend by heading to Johnson Park for "Show & Shine" to meet the drivers and check out their rigs.
The first race begins at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Races continue through 5 p.m. and start again at 8 a.m. on Sunday. Learn more.
When: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Where: Lakeside Park (305 Buena Vista Drive) and Johnson Park (230 Avenue J) in Marble Falls
It's almost time for the latest batch of Longhorns to become Texas Exes. The University of Texas at Austin will hold its campus-wide commencement ceremony this Saturday, May 21, from 7:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.
Emmanuel Acho will be the commencement speaker. Check out our guide for everything you need to know about commencement.
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, 2139 San Jacinto Blvd.
Looking for something weird to do this weekend? Say it with us: air guitar championships. On Saturday night, all levels of air guitarists will compete in two rounds consisting of 60-second performances, where they will be judged on "technical merit, stage presence and 'airness,'" all in an attempt to be crowned a champion for Austin.
It's $5 to enter the competition. First place gets $300 and an entry to the U.S. finals to compete on ESPN for the U.S. title. Second and third places will win swag from Alamo Drafthouse and other local companies.
When: preshow at 7 p.m. Saturday, competition begins at 8 p.m.
Where: The Highball Austin, 1120 S. Lamar Blvd.
Other events going on:
- Round Rock Express vs. El Paso Chihuahuas – Friday through Sunday at Dell Diamond. Fireworks on Friday, postgame concert by The Spazmatics on Saturday.
- Eagles – Friday at Moody Center
- Butler Trail 50th Birthday Party – Saturday at Vic Mathias Shores
- Hannah Gadsby – Saturday at the Paramount (Friday show is sold out)
- Y'all Out Boy - Austin's Pop Punk & Emo Cover Band – Saturday at Empire Control Room & Garage
- City-Wide Vintage Sale – Saturday and Sunday at Palmer Events Center
- Austin FC vs. Orlando City – Sunday at Q2 Stadium
- Bleachers with Allison Ponthier – Sunday at Stubb's (Saturday show is sold out)
- Daryl Hall and the Daryl’s House Band – Sunday at ACL Live
Britny Eubank on social media: Twitter
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE (KABC) -- For many teens, it is the biggest night of the year and for home schoolers it is no different. That includes Kennedy Garcia, who lives with Down syndrome and she is not letting it stop the celebration.
"We wrapped it into graduation, 18th birthday, prom for her friends. And it turned into this," said Kennedy's mother, Renee Garcia.
Kennedy is a social media influencer and she wanted to make this more than just a personal celebration. The event also raised money for Hearts of Joy International, an organization that provides lifesaving surgeries for Down syndrome infants overseas.
"Hearts of Joy comes in and provides the surgery and allows the healing to begin so these children can live long productive lives," said Cara Armstrong.
Many of the guests are active on social media, so the word is spreading fast.
"To know all these friends are showing up, for a bigger cause than just a party it's beautiful," said Kennedy's father, Frank Garcia.
Kennedy has a lot to celebrate and it is a message she wants to share.
"People with Down syndrome have such value and in developing countries Down syndrome is often seen as a curse. Down syndrome is not a curse it's beautiful thing. People live full lives and do important and amazing things," said Armstrong.
A teenager living with Down Syndrome is breaking barriers, and using her platform to help others
By John Gregory
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) – Due to a lack of space, and an organization known as the Best Friends Animal Society stepping in to help, some animals might get their furever homes over the next few days.
It Takes a Village (ITV) is hosting an event on May 20 and 21 for free adoptions. These adoptions are restricted to only animals who are currently living in the organization’s rescues. ITV will be open on…
- May 20
- 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. – 1417 N. Stockwell Road in Evansville, Vanderburgh County
- 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. – 824 E County Road 800 North in Chrisney, Spencer County
- May 21
- 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. – 1417 N. Stockwell Road in Evansville, Vanderburgh County
- 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. – 824 E County Road 800 North in Chrisney, Spencer County
ITV tells Eyewitness News that people can come and adopt any animal living in the rescue, which would include cats, dogs, and kittens. Those interested in this event still must go through the application process. | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/local-news/local-animal-shelter-offering-free-adoptions/ | 2022-05-20T19:09:41Z | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/local-news/local-animal-shelter-offering-free-adoptions/ | false | 1 |
Yoga is back outdoors on the Landing
Staff reports
PENN YAN — As both a benefit and a way to enjoy the Keuka Outlet Trail, Jan Corning and Catherine Graves are recommencing yoga classes at the landing on Water Street.
Beginning on June 2, classes will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and 8 a.m. on Thursdays.
The classes are open to all, and taught from beginner to intermediate with modifications to accommodate all who attend.
Class fees are donation-based. Thus far, the attendance has raised over $1,000 to benefit the Friends of the Keuka Outlet Trail and over $500 for the Humane Society of Yates County. | https://www.chronicle-express.com/story/news/2022/05/20/yoga-back-outdoors-landing-water-street/9813780002/ | 2022-05-20T19:10:43Z | https://www.chronicle-express.com/story/news/2022/05/20/yoga-back-outdoors-landing-water-street/9813780002/ | false | null |
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Syria remains one of the World Food Programme’s biggest emergencies, and the numbers are staggering. A quarter of all refugees in the world are Syrian and they have sought safety in 130 countries. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has made a political solution in Syria even more unlikely. Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation is deteriorating dramatically.
ISTANBUL, May 20 2022 (IPS) Moscow’s decision to intervene militarily in Syria in 2015 effectively preserved the Assad regime in Damascus. Russian air power and intelligence support, along with Iranian-backed militias on the ground, allowed the regime to beat the opposition and brutally reassert its control over much of Syria.
Since March 2020, the conflict seems to be entering a new period of stalemate with the delineation of three distinctive territories with static frontlines.
Yet this latest de-escalation phase is inherently volatile and has persisted chiefly thanks to the Russian-Turkish fragile entente in north-western Syria and the US interim but still ongoing presence in north-eastern Syria.
Ultimately, Assad’s endgame is to regain control of all the Syrian territory, and he has shown no signs of commitment toward negotiating a peaceful epilogue to the conflict.
Assad believes he has time on his side. In the West and in the region, there is lagging support for regime change in Damascus and adopting an alternative framework for a gradual transition towards ‘peace’.
Even Assad’s opponents seem to have pragmatically abandoned their initial objective of toppling the regime and are primarily seeking to preserve a form of autonomy instead. Nevertheless, without an agreement with Damascus all forms of autonomous governance in Syria are vulnerable and dependent on temporary arrangements among the foreign backers of the different ‘authorities’ on the ground.
Assad’s backers
Assad’s capacity to reclaim undivided authority over Syria depends on the continuous support of his allies, but so does his survival. The precarious state of Syria’s economy, US and EU sanctions, and severely damaged infrastructure constantly threaten the state’s integrity and capacity to maintain its institutions. To prevent a structural collapse of the Syrian state, both Russia and Iran are playing pivotal roles.
Iran provides oil, gas, and funds, while Russia provides security and diplomacy to accelerate Assad’s regional and international rehabilitation, which is synonymous with investments and financial aid. Thus, it is safe to assume that Syria is particularly exposed to the Ukraine war’s fallout as Russia is expected to divert its attention and resources away from the region.
A distracted Russia in Ukraine has several implications on Syria’s current state of affairs – but to varying degrees. Militarily and security-wise, even though Turkey or the US could exploit Russian weaknesses in Syria to challenge the status quo, it is highly doubtful as it would demand further commitment to Syria, and currently there does not seem to be an appetite to engage more.
Geopolitically, the Ukrainian conflict may lead to structural changes in neighbouring security complexes and further strengthen Turkey and Iran as regional powers. Still, the extent of its impact on Syria is also limited. Instead, it is primarily worsening economic and humanitarian conditions from which Syrians are likely to suffer.
Syria’s rising food insecurity
Although Moscow does not back Damascus financially, and Russian exports represent only 3.7 per cent of Syrian imports, the latter depends on critical Russian produces such as wheat and fodder.
Wheat is essential for food security, given the centrality of bread in Syrians’ diets. Syria’s annual need is estimated at around 4.3 million tonnes; in 2021, Syria imported 1.2 million tons and produced only 1.05 million tons resulting in long-hours lines for bread In regime-held areas, and unprecedented hikes in prices.
The deterioration of Syrian food security is not a product of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Still, it is expected to worsen as access to Russian food products is currently interrupted.
Moreover, alternative food supplies are not easy to find as imports from most countries are compromised by sanctions and the lack of Syrian foreign currency reserves to finance such transactions.
For the time being, Damascus seems to rely on India to compensate for the loss of Russian wheat and fodder. Still, in the long run, the sustainability of such a route is questionable, especially given the increasing costs of supply chains and the growing global inflation rates.
The economic effects of the war in Ukraine have already been felt across Syria. Various products related to wheat and flour production have already seen rapid surges in market prices. The impact is not only felt in regime-held territories but also in north-western and north-eastern Syria, which previously did not suffer from a lack of access to international markets.
The prices of basic imported commodities have also risen. Access to adjacent markets also became more difficult as several countries, including Turkey, started imposing bans on exporting grains, cooking oil, and other agricultural commodities to Syria.
The availability problem
The rise in prices has also impacted humanitarian aid. In March, the national average cost of the World Food Programme’s standard food basket increased by 24 per cent over one month. Similarly, the health sector has been affected. Medical facilities in opposition-held areas rely entirely on international funding to provide essential services and medication.
In addition to the disruption in supply chains and increased costs, allocated funds for the sector dropped by more than 40 per cent in the last ten months, resulting in the closure of hospitals and vital services.
Finally, the Russian-Western diplomatic confrontation and the lack of a political venue for de-escalation would potentially threaten the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Syria. The UNSC’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2585 in June 2021 to renew cross-border aid delivery for another 12 months was the result of a US-Russian dialogue that seems improbable as the Ukraine conflict rages on.
The interruption of cross-border aid delivery would demand a quick and effective response to bring relief to the two million civilians and IDPs in need in Idlib and northern Aleppo.
Fundamentally, the Ukrainian conflict will not trigger a paradigm shift in the Syrian conflict. It will instead entrench the status quo, further complicate negotiations over a political transition, and worsen the humanitarian conditions in the country.
The international community believes that food security in Syria is an affordability issue, which justifies the maintenance of sanctions as a lever against Assad. Nevertheless, the most recent dynamics show an increasing availability problem.
To prevent a looming food security catastrophe, humanitarian and donor countries should ensure the continuous flow of humanitarian assistance to Syria, as they should maintain their efforts to compartmentalise aid delivery from political and securities issues.
The Assad regime has shown no signs of relinquishing any of its ‘sovereign rights’ in delivering aid in Syria. However, similar to 2014, desperate times call for desperate measures, and Damascus could be coarse into accepting a new model. But more than ever, Syria needs a different approach to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid.
Sinan Hatahet is a Senior Associate Fellow at Al Sharq Forum and advises a number of think tanks on Syria. Previously, he headed the media office of the Syrian National Coalition. | https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/what-russian-invasion-means-syria | 2022-05-20T19:17:10Z | https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/what-russian-invasion-means-syria | true | 3 |
The Rose Bowl? Estadio Azteca? FIFA will announce 2026 World Cup host sites across North America on June 16 as US cities compete with Canadian and Mexican venues to host 48-team tournament
- FIFA intends to announce the 2026 World Cup sites during a news conference in New York on June 16
- Seventeen US stadiums in 16 areas remain in the bidding for the first 48-team World Cup, with the LA area submitting both SoFi Stadium in Inglewood and the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, site of the 1994 World Cup final
- The 2026 World Cup will be the first with three co-hosts. FIFA selected the bid as joint host in June 2018
- Sixty games are in the US, including all from the quarters on. Canada and Mexico are to host 10 games each
FIFA intends to announce the 2026 World Cup sites during a news conference in New York on June 16.
Seventeen US stadiums in 16 areas remain in the bidding for the first 48-team World Cup, with the Los Angeles area submitting both SoFi Stadium in Inglewood and the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, site of the 1994 World Cup final. Three stadiums each in Canada and Mexico are expected to be used.
The bid plan envisioned 16 total sites for the tournament. FIFA targeted mid-May for announcing site selections, and then pushed that back a month.
The 2026 World Cup will be the first with three co-hosts. FIFA selected the bid as joint host in June 2018.
Sixty games are to be played in the US, including all from the quarterfinals on. Canada and Mexico are to host 10 games each.
Chicago, Minneapolis and Arizona dropped out in March 2018 because of what city officials said were burdensome financial demands by FIFA. At the time, Charlotte, North Carolina; Las Vegas; Salt Lake City; and Tampa, Florida, were cut.
FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, withdrew in April.
Montreal dropped out last August after the Quebec provincial government withdrew its support. It was replaced in April by Vancouver, British Columbia, which made an initial bid in 2017, then said in March 2018 it had been rejected because it refused to comply with FIFA's requirements that include tax waivers and putting agreements under Swiss law.
The remaining areas and stadiums:
UNITED STATES
Arlington, Texas, AT&T Stadium; Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium; Baltimore, M&T Bank Stadium; Cincinnati, Paul Brown Stadium; Denver, Empower Field at Mile High; East Rutherford, New Jersey, MetLife Stadium; Foxborough, Massachusetts, Gillette Stadium; Houston, NRG Stadium; Inglewood, California, SoFi Stadium; Kansas City, Missouri, Arrowhead Stadium; Miami Gardens, Florida, Hard Rock Stadium; Nashville, Tennessee, Nissan Stadium; Orlando, Florida, Camping World Stadium; Pasadena, California, Rose Bowl; Philadelphia, Lincoln Financial Field; Santa Clara, California, Levi's Stadium; Seattle, Lumen Field.
CANADA
Edmonton, Alberta, Commonwealth Stadium; Toronto, BMO Field; Vancouver, British Columbia, B.C. Place.
MEXICO
Guadalajara, Estadio Akron; Mexico City, Estadio Azteca; Monterrey, Estadio BBVA.
The US, Mexico and Canada are all offering venues that have previously hosted World Cup Finals.
It was in Pasadena where Italy's Roberto Baggio famously sailed a penalty kick over the crossbar against Brazil to lose the 1994 cup.
But the 94,000-seat home to UCLA's football team also played host to one of Team USA's most celebrated victories earlier in that tournament.
Facing favorited Colombia in group play, the US jumped out to a 1-0 first-half lead over Carlos Valderrama & Co. on an own goal from defender Andrés Escobar, who was trying to break up a centering pass to American midfielder John Harkes. Team USA's Earnie Stewart would add a goal in the second half for a thrilling 2-1 upset, but the victory was overshadowed two weeks later when Escobar was shot to death outside a nightclub in Colombia in retaliation for his mistake.
As expected, Mexico City's Estadio Azteca is in the running to host World Cup matches for the first time since 1986, when Argentinian sensation Diego Maradona scored in a 3-2 victory over the West Germans.
Of course, English fans will remember that tournament for Maradona's quarterfinal performance that included arguably his two most recognized moments: the 'Hand of God' goal and the final goal, which gave Argentina a 2-1 win.
Azteca is actually the only venue to host two World Cup Finals, having also been the site of Brazil's 4-1 win over rival Italy in 1970.
Vancouver, British Columbia's BC Place has also hosted a World Cup Final. The US women beat Japan, 5-2, in 2015 in front of 53,000 fans. America's Carli Lloyd sealed the victory with a hat trick to earn the Golden Ball and the 'Goal of the Tournament.'
There are also newer venues, such as SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, that could sway FIFA in their direction. SoFi recently hosted the NFL's Super Bowl in February and has the advantage of being near an airport in major media hub.
MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey and Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California are both massive, modern homes to NFL franchises. However, both sit outside of the nearest major media markets, New York and San Francisco, and could present traffic problems for attendees who would prefer to stay in major cosmopolitan cities. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10838187/FIFA-plans-announce-2026-World-Cup-sites-June-16.html | 2022-05-20T19:17:18Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10838187/FIFA-plans-announce-2026-World-Cup-sites-June-16.html | true | 1 |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas woman is facing DUI and other charges after telling a police officer she took sleeping pills before a crash that resulted in a man being pinned between two vehicles, according to the arrest report.
Serena Mueller was arrested following the crash on Tropicana Avenue near Maryland Parkway on Tuesday, May 17, around 11:36 p.m.
Police said Mueller crashed into Ford F-150 and Toyota Corolla which had already been involved in a minor crash. The driver of the Corolla, a 55-year-old man, was examining the damage and standing between the truck and his Toyota when Mueller’s car entered the scene.
According to the report, Mueller, “failed to decrease speed and use due care and crashed into the rear of the Ford.” The force of the impact caused the truck to lurch forward pinning the man between the truck and his vehicle.
A Sunrise Hospital trauma doctor told police the victim suffered extensive life-threatening injuries and might need both legs amputated. He also had a fractured pelvis, lacerated liver, blood in his lungs, and injuries to his arms.
During an interview with police, Mueller said “she takes all kinds of medication and told him to mind his own business,” the report said. The officer said Mueller showed signs of impairment. While receiving medical treatment at UMC, two court-ordered blood samples were taken for evidence.
Police said a nationwide DMV check showed Mueller was driving on a suspended license and expired registration out of Nebraska.
Mueller is facing charges of DUI resulting in substantial bodily injury, failure to decrease speed and use due care, driving with a non-valid driver’s license, and failure to change address on registration within 30 days, and having a non-Nevada license while being a resident.
Mueller is due to appear in court on May 23 at 8 a.m. | https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/woman-told-police-she-took-sleeping-pills-prior-to-crash-that-severely-injured-man-report-says/ | 2022-05-20T19:18:20Z | https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/woman-told-police-she-took-sleeping-pills-prior-to-crash-that-severely-injured-man-report-says/ | false | 1 |
DC's next premier neighborhood-defining project officially kicks off landmark development
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akridge and National Real Estate Development (National Development) celebrate breaking ground on Phase One of development at The Stacks. Jointly owned by Akridge, Bridge Investment Group (Bridge), Blue Coast Capital (BCC), and institutional funds managed by National Real Estate Advisors (National), the project is located in the Capitol Riverfront's Buzzard Point neighborhood. Phase One, funded by construction lender Bank OZK, is slated to deliver in 2025, and will include three rental residential mixed-use towers totaling more than 1,100 rental apartment units, approximately 35,000 square feet of retail, with more than 10 percent dedicated to affordable housing. Clark Construction Group, LLC has been retained as the general contractor for the project.
"When we broke ground on Audi Field in 2017, we knew it was the start of something special at Buzzard Point," said Mayor Bowser. "Now, we have 1,100 new opportunities for people to live in a fantastic neighborhood – right along the Anacostia River, near the beautiful new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, and between The Yards and The Wharf. In addition to housing, The Stacks will bring more jobs, more amenities, and more opportunity for DC residents."
"Clark is grateful for the opportunity to deepen our history of partnership with Akridge and National Real Estate Development to bring this world-class multi-use development to life," said Molly Raglani, Vice President, Clark. "As a Washington, DC builder for the past 117 years, we're excited to help our partners continue the transformation of Buzzard Point into a destination for the community to enjoy."
"We are thrilled to be contributing to the development of the Buzzard Point neighborhood with this incredible project which has an unmatched design and authentic sense of place. The Stacks is a prime example of the new standard construction and the strength of the opportunity zone program which enables transformative developments such as this one." said David Coelho, Chief Investment Officer of Bridge Opportunity Zone strategy.
The Stacks design was inspired by historic Washington, DC neighborhoods and walkable communities and cities across the world. For Phase One, the development team engaged Gensler, Morris Adjmi Architects, Handel Architects, Eric Colbert & Associates, West 8, and Lee and Associates. They collaborated with the project team and additional architects including DXA, HOK, and Hickok Cole to create The Stacks' foundational design guidelines. These design standards will act as the consistent guide to establish a distinctive look and feel throughout the community spanning the architectural features, proportion, detail, and materiality.
"The Capitol Riverfront is an international model of mixed-use, waterfront development, and Buzzard Point is one of the final sections to be developed on this side of the Anacostia River," noted Matt Klein, President of Akridge. "We purposefully selected different architects to provide unique perspectives for each element and they have carefully designed the buildings to feel like a neighborhood built over time. The project has a unique design that focuses on bringing residents and visitors together in public spaces and it will be an outstanding place for gathering, living, working, and playing."
A key part of the development will be a pedestrian-only road running through the heart of the project that will guide people from the stadium to the waterfront. Dubbed 'The Corso,' the path will curve gently through the length of The Stacks. Running north to south, it will connect retail, public plazas, community and residential spaces. The project will also feature a sizable park and open, outdoor community spaces designed to encourage residents and visitors to gather. The building facades will incorporate architectural features that add welcoming, visual richness that embodies a neighborhood meant to delight and inspire visitors and residents of the project.
"We are excited to break ground on phase one of The Stacks; it's the first of many exciting milestones for this community," noted Daniel Killinger, President, National Real Estate Development. "Having worked on similar projects in various markets, we have seen firsthand the vibrancy that neighborhoods of this caliber can produce and we look forward to embracing sustainability, connectivity, and community here in Buzzard Point."
The Stacks' commitment to sustainability and green design begins below grade in the parking garage and extends through the buildings to the rooftops. Using an underground loading dock and parking garage, the project maximizes on-grade stormwater retention and greenspace, allowing for the reclamation of more than 14,000 CF of stormwater on site. Designed to a LEED Gold standard, the project's facades, units, and amenity spaces are planned with rigorous energy efficiency and performance standards. The southernmost building will have solar panels on the roof to take advantage of direct southerly sun exposure, capping off the development's sustainable design. The Stacks is one of the largest ground-up DC developments to put sustainability and efficiency at the forefront of development planning.
To keep up to date with the latest progress at The Stacks, please visit thestacks.com and follow @TheStacksDC on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About Akridge
Akridge is a comprehensive real estate services company and a prominent investor and developer in the Washington metropolitan region and North Carolina. It provides acquisitions, design and construction management, development, finance and asset management, leasing, and property management services. For over 45 years, the company has acquired, developed, or entitled more than 29 million square feet of office, industrial flex, multifamily, retail, and entertainment space. Akridge has another 7.6 million square feet in its active pipeline, currently manages approximately 4.0 million square feet, and has a portfolio with an estimated value of over $2.8 billion. Notable projects include the 1-million-square-foot Gallery Place, the internationally recognized Homer Building, the 240,000-square-foot 555 Mangum Street, and the 3-million-square-foot Burnham Place air rights development project at Union Station. For more information please visit www.akridge.com.
National Real Estate Development, LLC
National Real Estate Development, LLC (National Development), is a real estate development firm focused on developing complex, urban mixed-use projects throughout the country. Since 2013, the team has developed over four million square feet in major markets such as Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. National Development bases its rigorous development processes on the principles of integrity, community, collaboration, and sustainability, and aims to transform the neighborhoods which it develops. Regardless of location, National Development strives to consistently create value through complex project structures, delivering tailored projects that are specifically designed to meet the needs of a given market. In particular, National Development focuses on setting new standards for live-work-play environments developed in urban communities. Notable projects include East Market in Philadelphia, The BLOC in Los Angeles, and 100 Van Ness in San Francisco. National Development is the wholly owned, full-service development subsidiary of National Real Estate Advisors, LLC. To learn more, visit www.natrealestatedevelopment.com.
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Blue Coast Capital, headquartered in London, England with offices in Europe and the United States, owns, operates, and manages a diverse portfolio of real estate, private equity, hotels & leisure, and consumer-driven businesses. Working directly and with partners, it maintains a diverse spread of assets that allow it to balance opportunities and exposures in geography, property type and risk across two separate portfolios - income and opportunistic. With a track-record spanning 50 years, including 35 years in the United States, the company remains a privately owned business with the financial strength to make decisions based on unique opportunities as well as long term trends. For more information, please visit www.bccapusa.com and www.bccap.com.
About Bridge
Bridge is a leading, vertically integrated real estate investment manager, diversified across specialized asset classes, with approximately $38.8 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2021. Bridge combines its nationwide operating platform with dedicated teams of investment professionals focused on select U.S. real estate verticals: residential rental, office, development, logistics properties, net lease and real estate-backed credit.
About National Real Estate Advisors
National Real Estate Advisors, LLC is an investment manager specializing in build-to-core, developing and managing large-scale, urban commercial and multifamily projects for its institutional client accounts. National constructs investment portfolios of modern property assets—apartment, office, mixed-use, industrial, data center and hotel—with design features, technological enhancements, and amenities that drive high tenant demand and can create value for investors. National is an independently operated subsidiary of the National Electrical Benefit Fund, a substantial pension trust with a significant amount of assets that are managed by National on a discretionary basis. For more information, please visit www.natadvisors.com.
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For more than a century, Clark Construction Group has been transforming the ideas and visions of its clients into world-class projects that make the United States a stronger, safer place. As one of the nation's largest asset creators, Clark has offices strategically located across the country to serve the needs of its clients. For more information, visit www.clarkconstruction.com.
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If you go down to the woods today, you're sure for a big surprise! Darlington mayor's teddy bear sparks gender row after the cuddly toy announces it is non-binary and 'neither a boy bear, nor a girl bear'
- A teddy bear sparked a gender row after the cuddly toy came out as non-binary
- Mayor-Bear stayed in office after former Mayor of Darlington Cyndi Hughes left
- The soft toy that said it is 'neither a boy bear, nor a girl bear' was called 'creepy'
A teddy bear has sparked a gender row after the cuddly toy came out as non-binary.
The soft toy known as Mayor-Bear remained in office after the departure of former Mayor of Darlington Cyndi Hughes earlier this month.
The teddy had a note attached explaining how it is non-binary and looks forward to welcoming children and attending teddy bears' picnics.
But after an image was shared on social media, some slammed the bear describing it as 'creepy'.
This is the cuddly toy bear that has sparked controversy after it came out as non-binary, creating a gender row online
Mayor-Bear's message read: 'Hi, my name is Mayor-Bear. I am a non-binary bear. Do you know what non-binary means? Some bears are boys and some bears are girls. I am non-binary, this means that I am neither a boy bear, nor a girl bear. I am just a bear'
Actor and political activist Laurence Fox, said: 'This need to stop. We should be protecting and guiding our children, not confusing and grooming them.
'There are two sexes. Male and female. Don't let your kids go to a picnic with this creepy mayor bear.'
Twitter user Marianne said it was 'sick' while another social media user, Jebb, added: 'Do children of a young age have to be confronted with such oddities?'
Mayor-Bear's message read: 'Hi, my name is Mayor-Bear. I am a non-binary bear. Do you know what non-binary means?
Actor and political activist Laurence Fox, said: 'This need to stop. We should be protecting and guiding our children, not confusing and grooming them. 'There are two sexes. Male and female. Don't let your kids go to a picnic with this creepy mayor bear'
'Some bears are boys and some bears are girls. I am non-binary, this means that I am neither a boy bear, nor a girl bear. I am just a bear.
'I love my new home in the Mayor's Parlour. I look forward to welcoming children and attending Teddy Bears' Picnics for years to come. With love, Mayor-Bear xx.'
However, other Twitter users didn't find the post as controversial as Laurence.
TravellingMags, said: 'Do you realise that this is about a toy bear? Or is it that you want toy bears to have genitals?'
The controversial cuddly toy remained in office after the departure of former Mayor of Darlington Cyndi Hughes earlier this month
Twitter user Russell said: 'If a bear is given to a child, it's sex is fluid up to the point where the child names it. It then becomes a male bear or a female bear. The child decides.
Meanwhile, another supporter of the non-binary bear said: 'I spent a lot of time with children and young people and teddy bears' picnics and I thought it would be a nice thing for each Mayor to have.
'Mayor-Bear is made from all-recycled materials and it's heralding the Platinum Jubilee so I thought it would be a reminder of my year.
'I want Mayor-Bear to be able to get out there and enjoy the community, like I did.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10838227/Darlington-mayors-teddy-bear-sparks-gender-row-cuddly-toy-announces-non-binary.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-05-20T19:19:47Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10838227/Darlington-mayors-teddy-bear-sparks-gender-row-cuddly-toy-announces-non-binary.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 3 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Another drop for stocks on Friday has pushed the S&P 500 index 20% below its peak set early this year.
The benchmark index was down 2% for the day in early afternoon trading and on pace for its seventh straight losing week.
Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine, and a slowdown in China's economy are all punishing stocks and raising fears about a possible U.S. recession.
If the S&P 500 finishes the day 20% or more below its record, it would enter what Wall Street calls a "bear market." The last one was in early 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, an unusually brief downturn that sliced 34% off the S&P 500.
The stock market remains stuck in a slump amid worries about how inflation is squeezing businesses and consumers. Investors are also concerned about the Federal Reserve’s plan to aggressively raise interest rates and whether that will help temper inflation’s impact or potentially knock the economy into a downturn.
“Certainly the market volatility has all been driven by investor concerns that Fed will tighten policy too much and put the us into a recession,” said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors.
The S&P 500 fell 2.1% as of 1:39 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 569 points, or 1.8%, to 30,683 and the Nasdaq fell 2.9%. All three are headed for drops of 4% or more for the week.
Bond yields fell as investors shifted money into lower-risk investments. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, fell to 2.78% from 2.85% late Thursday.
Concerns about inflation have been growing heavier with Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushing energy and some key food commodity prices higher. China, the world's second-largest economy, took a renewed hit from lockdowns in key cities because of COVID-19 cases, but a surprise interest rate cut from the Chinese government has at least temporarily eased some anxiety.
Wall Street has been digesting earnings from retailers this week. The sector is a key focus as investors try to measure how much damage inflation is inflicting on company operations and whether higher prices on everything from food to clothing is prompting consumers to tighten their spending.
Retail giants Target and Walmart both had warnings this week about inflation cutting into finances. Discount retailer Ross Stores plunged 24% on Friday after cutting its profit forecast and citing rising inflation as a factor.
“The latest earnings from retail companyies finally signaled that U.S. consumers and businesses are being negatively impacted by inflation,” Arone said.
Investors continue watching the Fed for hints of more interest rate hikes to cool inflation that is running at a four-decade high. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said this week the U.S. central bank might take more aggressive action if price pressures fail to ease.
Technology stocks fell broadly and weighed down the market. Applied Materials, which produces chipmaking equipment, fell 7.7%. The tech sector has been particularly choppy and prompted many of the big swings in the market throughout the week. | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/wall-street-nears-bear-market-at-the-end-of-a-bruising-week/4XDYUPVGL5DK7H2X225LGJVSV4/ | 2022-05-20T19:21:49Z | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/wall-street-nears-bear-market-at-the-end-of-a-bruising-week/4XDYUPVGL5DK7H2X225LGJVSV4/ | true | 21 |
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Win over white-collar women in the cities, win the election
Get ready for an identity shock. The Australian political system is about to break into three unpredictable parts, between Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, and none of the above.
It is the only thing the major parties privately agree on at the end of a petulant campaign. Whoever forms the next federal government, whether in their own right or with the support of an enlarged crossbench, is expected to take office with a historically low primary vote. This will mean power without broad appeal for the winning side, while the loser faces an existential crisis, even if they fall only a few seats short of victory themselves.
The fear for both Labor and the Coalition is that their respective primary votes will remain stuck in the low to mid-30s, as the opinion polls have been warning since Scott Morrison called the election six weeks ago for May 21.
If this is indeed the case, it would also mean that the third-party vote – already at a postwar high of 24.7 per cent in 2019 – crosses 30 per cent for the first time. You have to go back to the earliest years of federation, when the Australian Labor Party was in its infancy and the right was split between the Protectionists and Free Traders, for an equivalent period of churn in our democracy.
A fractured electorate will confirm politically what we have known as citizens for some years, and have felt even more keenly since COVID-19 disrupted our lives. Australia is divided by gender, class and place – between women and men, young and old, the cities and the regions, and, within the capitals themselves, between the leafy inner suburbs and the urban fringes.
The fault lines first opened during the recession of the early 1990s, when unemployment undermined Labor’s blue-collar base in the cities while the Coalition’s conservative flank splintered in the regions. Those cracks have widened substantially over the past decade – even as our economy returns to full employment – because the traditional notions of who we are as a country have been challenged by workplaces and communities that no longer resemble the men who seek to govern us.
The single largest occupation group are female professionals. They overtook male technical and trade workers in 2015. The fastest-growing area of the labour market is the caring sector. Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese are none of the above.
Every election acts as a check on our tribal prejudices. But this one, uniquely, offers so many competing versions of Australia that it can only be understood through the multiple ironies of the contest.
Leafy no-go zones
The first irony can be seen in the wealthiest and best-educated electorates in our two largest cities. The government faces a perfect cosmopolitan storm that begins in Melbourne’s golden mile along Brighton Beach in Goldstein, runs through the mansion belt of Toorak in Higgins and into Robert Menzies’ old middle-class heartland of Balwyn and Kew in Kooyong.
A parallel front extends from east to north across Sydney, from its wealthiest harbourside suburb of Vaucluse in Wentworth, through North Sydney and into John Howard’s old seat of Bennelong. “Teal” independents threaten the Liberals in Goldstein, Kooyong, North Sydney and Wentworth, while Labor has its eyes on Higgins and Bennelong.
The defining feature of all these electorates, as well as Perth’s wealthiest seat of Curtin and two Liberal seats in Adelaide - Boothby and Sturt - is not just their places on the income and education ladders, but their gender. All have above-average shares of female voters, with Kooyong ranked highest of the group at 52.6 per cent - more than a percentage point above the national total of 51.2 per cent.
By his own admission, the prime minister wasn’t welcome here and would hurt his government’s chances if he embarked on a street walk with his Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in Kooyong.
The theory Morrison offered to Leigh Sales on the ABC’s 7.30 program this week was that these lifetime Liberal voters had moved beyond material concerns. “Many of these places, I suppose, are less vulnerable to the impacts of the economy than, say, many of the places I’ve been in this campaign,” he said.
It was a revealing comment because his 2019 pitch to “these places” was built around material concerns. The government scare campaign against Labor’s tax-and-spend agenda was designed to shore up the old class loyalty of voters who own property and shares. The bargain Morrison struck with them was to forgive the Coalition’s stalling on climate change because he would save their franking credits.
Intriguingly, one of the subplots in the 2022 campaign has been the appearance of past prime ministers John Howard and Kevin Rudd in the electorates that Morrison dare not set foot in. Perhaps the parties are trying to recreate the vibe of our last normal election, in 2007, when the contest was between leaders with high approval ratings and the main parties each had primary votes safely above 40 per cent.
The Liberals have followed up Howard’s campaign stops with a personalised letter which mentions the elephant in the mansion.
“Of course Scott Morrison has his critics and that’s part of the job,” the former prime minister wrote in his missive to voters in Higgins. “However, in these uncertain times, he and his Liberal team are the best choice to ensure a strong future for our wonderful country.”
Howard would recall that in 2007 the then member for Higgins, his treasurer Peter Costello, had removed any reference to the PM from his election material.
Divided by place
The second irony follows from the first, and it is in the majority that Anthony Albanese is chasing for Labor. Party polling has identified more than twice as many winnable seats in the capitals (14) as in the regions (six). When you consider the starting point for the campaign was 46 Labor seats in the capitals and just 23 in the regions, the opposition is relying on an electoral map that reinforces the fault line of place.
The Coalition holds 30 seats in the capitals, and 46 in the regions. The crossbench has the remaining six seats, three in each zone. Morrison has made it clear his goal is to offset any losses in the capitals to Labor or the teals with gains from Labor on the urban fringes and in the regions.
How does a country divided along these lines actually function?
There is an unfortunate reflex in our politics – from those who practice it to those who analyse it for a living – to seek American or British analogies for our polarisation. But the better framework has always been to view Australia through the oldest lens of settlement, our colonial-era rivalries.
Australia’s decades of complacent prosperity in the 1950s and ’60s, and our reform decade of the 1980s, were exceptions to the rule of division between states.
Federal governments were anchored with majorities across Victoria, NSW and Queensland. In the 17 elections held between 1949 and 1987, the party that formed government won a majority of seats on 15 occasions in Victoria, 14 in NSW and 13 in Queensland. Elections were decided, in effect, in the middle-class suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney.
The early ’90s recession broke that run. In the 11 elections held since 1990, Queensland has sided with the winner on 10 occasions, NSW eight and Victoria just three times. The simple explanation is that Victoria turned leftward, while power shifted to the north.
But the story is more complex. Melbourne and Sydney had, in fact, been moving even closer politically - but apart from the rest of the nation.
An early indication of the new cosmopolitan bond was the 1999 republic referendum, where Victoria and NSW recorded above-average Yes votes, while Queensland returned the largest No vote.
Howard never won a majority of seats in Melbourne during his four election triumphs between 1996 and 2004, and always performed relatively worse in his hometown than he did in the rest of NSW and across Queensland.
That pattern has repeated over the course of the past three Coalition governments. Tony Abbott reclaimed office in 2013 without needing a majority in Victoria, while Malcolm Turnbull lost both Victoria and NSW in 2016, as did Morrison in his 2019 “miracle” win.
The key across all three terms that allowed the Coalition to retain power over a polarised country was their super-majorities in Queensland and Western Australia. The country was run by prime ministers from Sydney, but on behalf of the frontier states.
Turnbull and Morrison were each in their way hostage to the rifts within the Coalition party room. The Queenslanders always threatened to cross the floor against Turnbull, and ultimately led the rebellion which saw Morrison emerge as the compromise candidate over Turnbull’s challenger Peter Dutton.
Yet Morrison has been no more effective than Turnbull in managing the tensions between moderates and conservatives within the government. Part of this is due to the reform fight he chose to pick on religious discrimination. He simply never had the numbers.
Recall the five moderates who crossed the floor to defeat that legislation in February – Katie Allen, Bridget Archer, Fiona Martin, Dave Sharma and Trent Zimmerman. Allen is the member for Higgins, Sharma represents Wentworth and Zimmerman North Sydney – three of the inner-city seats at risk from teal independents or Labor. Martin is the member for Reid in Sydney’s inner west, while Archer represents Bass, the ultra-marginal seat based around Launceston in Tasmania. Both are also on Labor’s target list.
To his credit, Morrison did secure Coalition agreement for a net zero emissions policy by 2050. But his effort to end climate change wars within the government has been undermined by the same conservative voices from Queensland that vetoed Turnbull on this issue.
Here’s the final irony, and it is in Morrison’s own persona as the curry-cooking, rugby league-following man of faith from the suburbs.
Splitting the difference
Nothing Morrison has done in politics has been subtle. He has the campaign director’s habit of letting the public know how he views the electoral map. The insight he had in 2019, when all the polls suggested he would lose, was that the Coalition could protect its majority by picking up seats from Labor in the regions when the tide was already going out on the Liberals in the capitals.
He drew that conclusion, in part, from the result of the Marriage Equality postal survey in 2017, which found Queensland and NSW to be slightly less progressive than the nation at large. Only 17 of the nation’s 151 electorates voted “no”.
Morrison took most notice of the 12 that rejected same-sex marriage in NSW. Among them were Bennelong, Parramatta and Gough Whitlam’s old seat of Werriwa, in Sydney’s outer south-west, where Morrison made an unexpected appearance on Thursday.
With Perth and even Brisbane threatening to swing to the left, thus joining the other capitals in the Labor column, the only realistic hope for the government’s re-election is a realignment that brings migrants and blue-collar workers from the urban fringes of Sydney into the Coalition’s waiting arms.
The problem with this pitch is that it seeks to make a virtue out of what may be the defining issue of the campaign: Morrison’s character. You may not like me, he seems to be saying, but I am more real than the other guy.
He makes no effort to bridge any of the divides in the electorate; on the contrary, he has revelled in them. Morrison presents himself as the everyman standing against cosmopolitan Australia.
The question is can a Liberal run against his own base in the city and survive, when the majority in those seats represents the biggest wave in Australian politics today: working women.
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Masuleh holds workshop on handmade dolls
TEHRAN - On Thursday, the touristic village of Masuleh in northern Iran held a day-long workshop on indigenous dolls in a bid to commemorate International Museum Day.
The workshop was aimed to empower breadwinner women who are engaged in weaving traditional dolls and puppets, CHTN quoted a local official as saying on Thursday.
Handmade dolls have long been famed as one of the souvenirs of Masouleh estimated to date for a millennium. Experts believe that the existence of numerous graveyards inner and outside of the village proves its old age.
With 14 entries, Iran ranks first globally for the number of cities and villages registered by the World Crafts Council, as China with seven entries, Chile with four, and India with three ones come next.
Last month, a selection of 46 Iranian puppets was added to the national heritage list. Being kept at the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), National Museum of Children’s Art and Literature in Tehran, the puppets date back to the late Qajar (1789-1925) and early Pahlavi (1925-1979) eras.
Home to stunning landscapes, Masouleh is one of the many stepped villages that are quite common to find around the country, especially in Iranian Kurdistan and around Mashhad.
Masuleh is famed for its Lego-shaped earthen houses built on another’s rooftop. He added the discovery of archaeological remains at such high altitudes would help archaeologists to shed new light on the human adaptation to the high Alborz mountains from prehistoric times up to recent centuries.
AFM | https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/472786/Masuleh-holds-workshop-on-handmade-dolls | 2022-05-20T19:23:48Z | https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/472786/Masuleh-holds-workshop-on-handmade-dolls | true | 1 |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-3-0-6
(three, three, zero, six)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-3-0-6
(three, three, zero, six) | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17187513.php | 2022-05-20T19:24:14Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17187513.php | true | null |
Home Internazionali Agenparl English LCM May/June: By The People InternazionaliAgenparl EnglishArte, cultura, intrattenimentoComunicati StampaEducazioneSocial NetworkStorie e Curiosità LCM May/June: By The People By Redazione - 20 Maggio 2022 0 1 Share FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppLinkedinPrintTelegram (AGENPARL) – ven 20 maggio 2022 You are subscribed to Library of Congress Magazine from the Library of Congress. [null] 🔊 Listen to this RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR U.S. Delegation on Atrocity Prevention and Response to Travel to The Hague Ambassador Hussain’s Trip to Saudi Arabia Nota assessore Cappa LEAVE A REPLY Cancel reply Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here You have entered an incorrect email address! Please enter your email address here Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ - Advertisement - | https://agenparl.eu/lcm-may-june-by-the-people/ | 2022-05-20T19:25:30Z | https://agenparl.eu/lcm-may-june-by-the-people/ | false | null |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Federal authorities have accused a North Carolina man of operating a $7 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 75 investors and used the money he gained to make mortgage payments and pay for private schools for his children.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a news release that it filed an emergency action Thursday in U.S. District Court. The complaint charges Wynn Charlebois of Charlotte and his company, WC Private, with violating antifraud provisions.
According to the SEC’s complaint, Charlebois defrauded the investors since 2019 using multiple bogus investment opportunities. Most of the victims live in the Charlotte area, the news release said.
Most recently, through his company, Charlebois offered investors opportunities to share in the profits earned by participating in the exercise of fake options contracts, the SEC said.
From May 2019 until last month, Charlebois directed nearly $122,000 in investor funds to a private university where one of his children attends school, the SEC said. He paid more than $65,000 to a private high school where another one of his children attends school and nearly $3,000 to a local social club. He also made more than $8,600 in personal mortgage payments since Dec. 31, according to the SEC.
Charlebois declined comment to The Associated Press on Friday. | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/SEC-accuses-North-Carolina-man-of-operating-Ponzi-17187331.php | 2022-05-20T19:26:53Z | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/SEC-accuses-North-Carolina-man-of-operating-Ponzi-17187331.php | false | 11 |
WOODLAND PARK, N.J., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anterix (NASDAQ: ATEX) today announced that members of the Anterix management team will be participating in the following upcoming Investor conferences.
Anterix CFO Tim Gray will participate in a fireside chat during J.P. Morgan's 50th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference taking place in Boston, MA on Tuesday, May 24 at 4:10 PM ET. Concurrently, Tim Gray and VP of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Natasha Vecchiarelli, will participate in 1:1 conversations with interested investors.
Anterix CFO Tim Gray will participate in a fireside chat during B. Riley Securities 22nd Annual Institutional Investor Conference taking place in Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday, May 25 at 10:30 AM ET. Concurrently, Tim Gray will participate in 1:1 conversations with interested investors.
Anterix CFO Tim Gray and VP of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Natasha Vecchiarelli, will conduct 1:1 meetings at Craig-Hallum's 19th Annual Institutional Investor Conference taking place virtually on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.
Investors that would like to schedule a meeting with Anterix should contact their event representative. A live webcast and replay of management's presentations, where possible, will be made available on the Anterix Investor Relations event website at https://investors.anterix.com/events/default.aspx.
At Anterix, we are focused on delivering transformative private broadband that enables the modernization of critical infrastructure for the energy, transportation, logistics and other sectors of our economy. As the largest holder of licensed spectrum in the 900 MHz band (896-901/935-940 MHz) throughout the contiguous United States, plus Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, we are uniquely positioned to enable the private LTE solutions that support secure, sustainable, resilient and customer-controlled operations. www.anterix.com
Investor Contact
Natasha Vecchiarelli
Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Anterix
973-531-4397
nvecchiarelli@anterix.com
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AEW gets “left behind” at Warner Bros. Discovery Upfronts in New York
There was a bit of a disappointment for AEW at the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront this past Wednesday as the company had virtually zero presence.
Initially it was reported that AEW would have a “huge” presence at the important event but everything fizzled out and apart from one banner and a very short clip in a video highlighting the shows on the network, there was no other mention of AEW.
Warner Bros. Discovery also did not mention AEW at all in the press releases sent afterward.
AEW did not send anyone to the event either and the only wrestling personality in attendance was John Cena, who was there as part of the Peacemaker series on HBO. The banner displayed for AEW Dynamite featured Red Velvet and no one else.
David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, is on a mission to slash costs by $3 billion and AEW will start negotiating a new deal with the network next year, with their current deal set to expire in 2024.
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Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimee escapes fatal Hollywood studio fire
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimee and her producer escaped a Hollywood recording studio fire that killed another person, her mother said.
The fire erupted late Thursday afternoon in a two-story commercial building, and it took 78 firefighters more than 50 minutes to extinguish the flames, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said in a statement.
Two people reported respiratory symptoms related to smoke exposure and were evaluated at the scene, but both declined to be taken to a hospital, Scott said.
“Sadly, one person was found dead inside, as firefighters searched the structure,” Scott said, adding that no firefighters were injured and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
One of the two survivors was the elder daughter of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne said in an Instagram post.
Aimee Osbourne, 38, and a producer she was working with were “the lucky two that made it out alive,” Sharon Osbourne said, without identifying the producer.
“It is utterly heartbreaking that someone lost their life today in this fire & we are sending our prayers to this person & their family,” Osbourne said, adding “our prayers go out to the family and friends of the person that lost their life to this senseless fire.”
Aimee Osbourne is a singer who releases music under the name ARO, her initials. She did not take part in the Osbourne family’s reality show.
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How representative are Australian politicians and candidates?
The disparity between the careers of elected politicians and the jobs of most Australians is widening due to a “feedback loop” between the professional and political classes, experts have warned.
Lawyers, business executives and political advisers dominate the political landscape, overshadowing healthcare workers, young people and others who are not proportionally represented.
New analysis of candidates in the upcoming election and the incumbents has revealed the rise of political consultants and advisers, up from 2 per cent of MPs in 1988 to 11.3 per cent in 2019. Business executives and managers have risen from 17 per cent in 1988 to 23.8 per cent in 2019.
Over the past 50 years, the major parties have shifted away from mass membership bases to “electoral professional parties” meaning they rely more on people in the party system, such as campaigners and advisers to be candidates, rather than the broader public, senior lecturer in politics at Sydney University Dr Peter Chen said.
“The most glaring example of the parliament not reflecting the people is gender representation,” he said.
But Chen said there was a difference between substantive representation (standing up for the beliefs and values of your voters) and descriptive representation (where you look like the voters).
“Descriptive representation is rubbish in a way because we have electorates and one member can’t look like everyone in the seat,” he said.
ANU Research Fellow Dr Patrick Leslie said it was difficult for the major parties to recruit candidates from outside their institutions.
“If the people who are next in line, who’ve gotten around the factional landscape, been involved since they were young and are a viable candidate, it’s hard to say to them ‘we should be picking someone else’.”
Leslie said the most under-represented industries were ‘blue-collar’ workers from manufacturing, construction and transport. Parliament also has a shortage of retail and hospitality workers.
Healthcare workers are also “seriously under-represented” per head of population in parliament despite the billions spent in the sector, he said.
“Research on the abundance of lawyers in the US House of Representatives suggests that it is not facilitating skills, but networks that ensure election success,” Leslie said.
Before his unsuccessful tilts as a Liberal candidate for Sydney seats in the 2019 state and federal elections, Riley Munro worked for two MPs, which he says helped him “jump into public life”.
“(There is) a bit of a feedback loop where you have professionals that work in an industry that sees them rubbing shoulders with the seat of power, and it shows them how they can get involved, and it shows them what is involved,” Munro said.
“People that have the jobs we need insights from (such as nurses) are more consumed by their roles (because they are so busy) and not able to step into politics as easily as people who simply consult.”
Professor Lucas Walsh, director of the Monash Centre for youth policy said young people are under-represented and as a result are moving away from established parties and unions.
“They’ve moved towards more issue-based politics such as the school strikes for climate and various GetUp campaigns that ran at the last election,” Walsh said. “They’re much more interested in key issues and the data suggests for this election it’s housing affordability and climate change.”
There are 1,645,091 young people (aged 18 to 24) enrolled to vote and looking for “authentic representation”, which also drove the school climate strikes where they pleaded for their voices to be heard here and around the world, Walsh said.
“We’ve seen temporary groundswell movements in previous years like GetUp which were good at mobilising young people but not necessarily seeing that converted (into electoral results),” Walsh said.
The Labor and Liberal parties were contacted for comment but did not respond.
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An enraged woman from Leeds has gone viral after she was filmed launching her “cheating boyfriend’s” clothes into their hotel swimming pool.
Grace Mclean claims a mystery party girl contacted her saying she slept with Matt, whose name has been changed, while he was away on an Ibiza lads' holiday last month. But he thought he was single during the trip - even changing his Facebook relationship status.
This was just days after Grace from Roundhay believed they had become an official pair.
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Enraged, the "scorned" 22-year-old threw his clothes, shoes and Apple Airpods into the pool when she found out the following week as they were in Hurghada, Egypt.
However, Matt says they had split up when he went to Ibiza as he had only changed his Facebook status to 'in a relationship' for 'one day' before switching it back to 'single' after an argument.
The shocking viral footage from May 10 shows her drag Matt's luggage from the suitcase and launch items into the water.
Swimming instructor Grace says she's proud she stuck up for herself and made it through the 'worst week of her life' so she could return home and never see him again.
"I was so fuming,” she said. “I just wanted him to be annoyed and I knew that if I threw all his clothes in the pool it would annoy him.
"I was so determined to do it. After I'd spoken to that girl, the conversation kept going through my head.
"I stormed up to his room, packed all his stuff into a suitcase. I shoved his AirPods in, his charger, all his toiletries and shoes. I thought 'he's not going to make a fool of me and get away with it'.
"I got the hotel reception to take me on a golf buggy to the pool, then I walked to the other side of the pool to where Matt was sunbathing and then chucked everything in.
"I didn't throw the whole suitcase in because I thought it might not float and then his clothes would have been dry, so I pulled everything out and threw it in bit by bit.
"I made sure I did a good job of it. He was laughing about it. He thought it was really funny and was calling me all sorts of names. I was scared he was going to run around the pool and launch me in.
"I wasn't bothered about the consequences. I was happy to move to a hotel anyway because I just wanted to get away from him.
"When I was throwing all the stuff in, I was telling him 'this is what you get for sleeping with people in Ibiza and then lying about it'.
"I'm proud that I did it. I have no regrets because he deserved it."
Grace and Matt's met at a holiday camp in February. His advances and multiple dates earned her trust.
She also claims he was constantly texting her through the beginning of his lads' holiday but an argument over her going out in Leeds meant they'd fallen out for half of it.
He had booked the Egypt holiday for the pair to go on when he returned but wasn't planning to go because of the tiff until he changed his mind hours before the flight on May 7.
Grace enjoyed the first days of the holiday until his friend’s partner told her she had heard Matt had cheated in Ibiza.
She claims she didn't have proof but the next day she was called by a girl who claims to have slept with Matt on his lads' holiday.
She erupted and threw his belongings in the pool less than 20 minutes later as their stunned pals filmed and watched on.
Grace said: "I was a bit scared to commit and I didn't really want a relationship beforehand but he'd built up my trust.
"I didn't believe it all at first. I didn't think he'd have done that. I didn't have evidence, so I didn't kick off at first.
"I avoided him all day, and then a friend messaged me on Facebook and told me she'd been messaged by a girl about Matt, then the girl called me.
"On the first day [of his lads' holiday] he was constantly on the phone telling me he cared about me, so at what point was he sly enough to sleep with another girl? I was so annoyed.
"The rest of the holiday was really awkward. He kept denying it and apologising, but I said as soon as we get back we're never speaking again.
"We agreed to be civil but we weren't very civil really. Usually you can get away from someone, but I was stuck with him. It was the worst week of my life.
"I had to pretend everything was okay on my holiday but it wasn't. I felt really lonely and it ruined my holiday. I need another one after this.
"When I came home I felt so rubbish. I don't feel like I deserved that because I didn't do anything wrong.
"He's [not a young lad], so you'd think he'd grown up a bit. He's been so immature."
Clips of the pool incident have been seen more than half a million times and despite the 22-year-old claiming she's now 'the laughing stock of Leeds', one user said: "Laughing stock? More like a legend, queen!!!"
Another said: "You did nothing wrong!! Hold them accountable for their actions!!! A true girl boss."
A third added: "No girl, the joke was on him. Straighten your crown."
Matt did not comment on whether he slept with anyone in Ibiza but claims he was single while he was there.
Matt said: "The day I got to Ibiza there was no relationship and I was single. I didn’t even want to go to Egypt but she said come as friends.
"It was on Facebook one day [the relationship status] then off when I was in Ibiza.
What do you make of this story? Leave a comment below.
"We went into a relationship on Facebook and it was only on for one day, as we had an argument about something, then I took it off Facebook, and it was over and done with.
"I didn't really speak to her when I was in Ibiza, then I came [home and] I told her I wasn't going to Egypt anymore, then the morning we were going she said 'let's just go as friends'. so that's what we did.
"Then she got a message off someone saying whatever it did, then that's when she emptied my suitcase into the swimming pool."
Grace says the remainder of the holiday was 'awkward' and she slept in her pal's room until they flew back on Saturday (May 14) when she cut all contact with her now-ex.
Grace says Matt left half his clothes in her suitcase and that she'll burn them this weekend as she's having a barbeque.
The experience has put her off a relationship for a while and she's looking forward to being single and spending time with her friends.
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The B.C. government’s strategy to get medical care to people without a family doctor has focused on urgent and primary care centres that have reached more than one million patient visits, but staffing them has been an uphill battle, ministry documents show.
Health Minister Adrian Dix and B.C. Liberal health critic Shirley Bond have sparred over the shortage of doctors, nurse practitioners and other health staff, as family doctors gathered on the legislature lawn this week to call for a better deal for those running an independent medical practice.
“The Minister of Health recently confirmed to us in a letter that urgent and primary care centres have attached less than two per cent of the people who don’t have a doctor in this province,” Bond said in question period May 19.
Dix said in addition to the primary care centres, the ministry has established primary care networks with 965 full-time equivalent positions added to the teams. The effort has been made more difficult with the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the ministry authorized fees for doctor visits over the phone.
“We have 59 primary care networks that have attached 142,000 people,” Dix said. “That is the fact, and that’s the work of family practice doctors and the community. We’ve increased the family practice residency program to make it the biggest in Canada.”
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The ministry provided a breakdown of staffing levels at primary care centres (UPCC) and networks, which connect general practice doctors, nurse practitioners and specialists for mental health, addiction and other conditions. It shows that while Kelowna has a fully staffed UPCC with 25 positions, others have not yet reached their approved staff levels.
Examples of full-time equivalent (FTE) positions staffed as of March 2022 include:
• Nanaimo UPCC, 16.83 FTE funded, 5.73 staffed
• Downtown Victoria UPCC, 45.66 FTE funded, 21.61 staffed
• Quesnel UPCC, 7.02 FTE funded, 5.51 staffed
• Castlegar UPCC, 8.48 FTE funded, 5.15 staffed
• West Kelowna UPCC, 20.06 FTE funded, 12.18 staffed
• Penticton UPCC, 10.94 FTE funded, 7.54 staffed
• Ridge Meadows UPCC, 32.17 FTE funded, 26.41 staffed
• Abbotsford UPCC, 19.49 FTE funded, 10.34 staffed
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“Right now, the problem of inflation cannot easily be solved by tightening the interest rates. It can be tightened in some cases, the government is trying to do it in the case of wheat by putting an export ban,” says Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor, ET Now.
How real is the fear of the rising rates and the slowing growth which is making the markets of the world very nervous?
We are at the highest rate of inflation – some people will say for five years, for ten years, for fifteen years. The wholesale price index for April had just come in at 15:05%. The consumer price index 7.8%. These are extraordinarily high rates and there is nothing special about India.
In America, where the target inflation is 2%, their latest inflation rate came down a little to 8.3%. So there is global inflation. Prices of commodities of all kinds, prices of services, manufacturing and everything has been going through the roof in the last 12 months. The inflation had begun even in 2021 and then after the Ukraine war started in February, it accelerated even more.
So the world is caught in a huge inflationary trap right now with the physical shortage of a large number of commodities which was building up over time and over and above those physical shortages, there has been the shock of the war and the sanctions imposed on Russia which is an important supplier of a number of items.
The Black Sea which is one of the greatest supply routes out of Russia and Ukraine that has been blocked by the war. On top of everything else, China has committed a kind of hara-kiri by having a complete lockdown in an attempt to stamp out Covid and so on its own, there is a separate supply shock because there is no production going on in China.
So these different strands have all come together for a gigantic shock. Two things are happening at the same time; on the one hand, demand is going down because there is a lack of production. There is a lack of production as the prices have gone up and China has got into a self-made recession; it’s a hara-kiri recession of its own. Meanwhile, with the prices going up, all the central banks are having to raise their rates.
We are in a tough position right now as the inflation is rising fast because inflation is rising everywhere else in the world and because of that we cannot escape it alone and the recessionary trend is also coming the world over and we cannot escape that. We are perhaps better positioned to withstand the problem that some other countries can’t. We will not collapse like Sri Lanka or Pakistan but we are certainly in trouble.
Do you think the situation is in control of the central banks and can they control inflation by just raising the rates?
Raising interest rates is not going to solve the supply problem. If there is an overheated economy with too much demand, then one can slow down that demand by raising interest rates and making it difficult for people to buy. But that is not the case today. It is not like we have an overheated economy and there is too much demand. In fact, there is not enough demand. Take a look at the corporate sector. The results that are coming in show the auto sector is not in good shape, demand is not there therefore the production is coming down.
There is a shortage in some areas like metals and so on but even there, the prices have come down very sharply. So right now, the problem of inflation cannot easily be solved by tightening the interest rates. It can be tightened in some cases, the government is trying to do it in the case of wheat by putting an export ban. The international price of wheat is something like Rs 40 a kilo and if we freely allow the export of wheat from all our surplus buffer stocks, we can have a huge export boom but then if the Indian price equates with the world price at Rs 40 a kilo, there will be mayhem and riots on the streets.
SO the government has tried to do supply management by saying we will stop all exports of wheat. This I think was a bad move. It should have been more gradual and they should be allowing some exports but right now that is one thing that they can do. They have put a ban to improve the supply of wheat and this can help to reduce inflation on that front. Beyond that, we will have to live with the global trends and cannot wish away the global trends.
The government up to a point can reduce import duties or excise duties on edible oil. It can do that in the case of crude oil, petrol, diesel. But all this would be a limited amount of relief. It is not that prices will come down but one can limit the extent to which the prices rise.
Beyond that, we will have to wait for this war to play out and for this business cycle to play out, those are items beyond your control.
How real is the fear of the rising rates and the slowing growth which is making the markets of the world very nervous?
We are at the highest rate of inflation – some people will say for five years, for ten years, for fifteen years. The wholesale price index for April had just come in at 15:05%. The consumer price index 7.8%. These are extraordinarily high rates and there is nothing special about India.
In America, where the target inflation is 2%, their latest inflation rate came down a little to 8.3%. So there is global inflation. Prices of commodities of all kinds, prices of services, manufacturing and everything has been going through the roof in the last 12 months. The inflation had begun even in 2021 and then after the Ukraine war started in February, it accelerated even more.
So the world is caught in a huge inflationary trap right now with the physical shortage of a large number of commodities which was building up over time and over and above those physical shortages, there has been the shock of the war and the sanctions imposed on Russia which is an important supplier of a number of items.
The Black Sea which is one of the greatest supply routes out of Russia and Ukraine that has been blocked by the war. On top of everything else, China has committed a kind of hara-kiri by having a complete lockdown in an attempt to stamp out Covid and so on its own, there is a separate supply shock because there is no production going on in China.
So these different strands have all come together for a gigantic shock. Two things are happening at the same time; on the one hand, demand is going down because there is a lack of production. There is a lack of production as the prices have gone up and China has got into a self-made recession; it’s a hara-kiri recession of its own. Meanwhile, with the prices going up, all the central banks are having to raise their rates.
So we are in a situation where on the one hand there is a recessionary trend, recession is coming because demand is falling. At the same time, prices are going up. Some people call this stagflation. In the case of India, we are hit both ways. We were hoping that it would be a very good year for growth, the IMF was saying India will be the fastest growing major country and perhaps that will still be the case, but earlier they were hoping for 9% growth and now people say maybe 7%, 7.5%, or maybe 6%.
We are in a tough position right now as the inflation is rising fast because inflation is rising everywhere else in the world and because of that we cannot escape it alone and the recessionary trend is also coming the world over and we cannot escape that. We are perhaps better positioned to withstand the problem that some other countries can’t. We will not collapse like Sri Lanka or Pakistan but we are certainly in trouble.
Do you think the situation is in control of the central banks and can they control inflation by just raising the rates?
Raising interest rates is not going to solve the supply problem. If there is an overheated economy with too much demand, then one can slow down that demand by raising interest rates and making it difficult for people to buy. But that is not the case today. It is not like we have an overheated economy and there is too much demand. In fact, there is not enough demand. Take a look at the corporate sector. The results that are coming in show the auto sector is not in good shape, demand is not there therefore the production is coming down.
There is a shortage in some areas like metals and so on but even there, the prices have come down very sharply. So right now, the problem of inflation cannot easily be solved by tightening the interest rates. It can be tightened in some cases, the government is trying to do it in the case of wheat by putting an export ban. The international price of wheat is something like Rs 40 a kilo and if we freely allow the export of wheat from all our surplus buffer stocks, we can have a huge export boom but then if the Indian price equates with the world price at Rs 40 a kilo, there will be mayhem and riots on the streets.
SO the government has tried to do supply management by saying we will stop all exports of wheat. This I think was a bad move. It should have been more gradual and they should be allowing some exports but right now that is one thing that they can do. They have put a ban to improve the supply of wheat and this can help to reduce inflation on that front. Beyond that, we will have to live with the global trends and cannot wish away the global trends.
The government up to a point can reduce import duties or excise duties on edible oil. It can do that in the case of crude oil, petrol, diesel. But all this would be a limited amount of relief. It is not that prices will come down but one can limit the extent to which the prices rise.
Beyond that, we will have to wait for this war to play out and for this business cycle to play out, those are items beyond your control.
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UN rights chief to make landmark trip to China’s Xinjiang region
Michelle Bachelet’s visit marks the first trip to China by a UN human rights commissioner since 2005.
The UN human rights chief will travel to China’s Xinjiang region next week for a visit that will receive intense international scrutiny amid demands for her to call out Beijing’s abuses against the Uighur minority.
After years of requesting “meaningful and unfettered” access to China’s far-western Xinjiang region, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will stage a six-day mission to China starting Monday, her office said on Friday.
The visit, which is at the invitation of Beijing, has been widely anticipated and marks the first trip to China by a UN human rights chief since Louise Arbour travelled there in 2005.
“During her visit, the High Commissioner is due to meet with a number of high-level officials at the national and local levels,” Bachelet’s office said in a statement, adding that she would “also meet with civil society organisations, business representatives, academics, and deliver a lecture to students at Guangzhou University”.
Bachelet, who has been demanding access to all regions of China since she took office in 2018, has repeatedly voiced concern about allegations of widespread abuses in Xinjiang. But she has also received criticism for not taking a strong enough stance with China.
Rights groups said the terms of the UN commissioner’s visit have not been disclosed, and they have voiced concern that Chinese authorities, who have always insisted they were only interested in a “friendly visit”, could manipulate the trip.
The US said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” about Bachelet’s visit based on an understanding of restrictions the UN chief will be subjected to in China.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price also called on Bachelet to release a report by the UN on conditions in Xinjiang, where the US says China’s government is committing genocide against Uighur Muslims.
Rights groups, diplomats and others have made no secret that they expect the UN chief to take a strong stand.
“It defies credibility that the Chinese government will allow the high commissioner to see anything they don’t want her to see, or allow human rights defenders, victims and their families to speak to her safely, unsupervised and without fear of reprisal,” Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch’s China director said in a statement.
‘Re-education camps’
The UN human rights chief’s visit comes as groups apply pressure on her office to release a long-postponed report on the situation in Xinjiang.
Beijing has waged a years-long crackdown in region in the name of stamping out so-called terrorism and developing what is one of the country’s poorest regions.
Human rights campaigners accuse China’s ruling Communist Party of widespread abuses in Xinjiang in the name of security, saying at least one million mostly Muslim Uighur minority members have been imprisoned in “re-education camps”.
China’s treatment of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang has been “genocide” by legislators in the US and in a number of other Western countries.
Beijing has vociferously denied the allegations, calling them the “lie of the century” and arguing that its policies have countered extremism and improved livelihoods.
An advance UN team was sent to China several weeks ago to prepare for Bachelet’s visit, and has completed a lengthy quarantine in the country, currently in the grip of fresh COVID outbreaks, according to the UN.
Bachelet, who will not need to quarantine, is not travelling to Beijing due to COVID restrictions but will go to Kashgar and Urumqi in Xinjiang. | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/20/un-rights-chief-to-make-landmark-trip-to-chinas-xinjiang-region | 2022-05-20T19:36:17Z | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/20/un-rights-chief-to-make-landmark-trip-to-chinas-xinjiang-region | true | 2 |
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