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Guess who’s back in the house! No, really, Drag Race fans were left to ponder that very question after a sneak peek suggested that a mysterious ninth queen would be joining the first winners-only edition of All Stars.
So, who pulled off this Alexis Carrington-inspired werkroom entrance? As many an eagle-eyed tweeter predicted, the queen under that enormous hat was none other than Raven, the runner-up of both Drag Race Season 2 and All Stars Season 1. “I identify as a winner,” Raven explained while the eight pre-announced queens looked on with understandable confusion.
But let’s not drag out a joke any longer than we must; Raven’s arrival was merely a set-up for a scripted confrontation with Mama Ru. (“What part of All Stars all winners do you not understand?!”)
The gags, or rather the “gagoonery,” continued with the reveal that there will be no eliminations this season. Instead, the top two queens of the week will each receive a Legendary Legend Star. In addition to a cash tip, the winner of the lip sync then gets to block one of their fellow queens from receiving a star the next week. (Am I crazy, or is that kind of cutthroat? These queens may be getting along at the moment, but once they start blocking each other, it’s going to get ugly.) It all leads up to the finale, where the queens with the most stars will compete in a lip sync LaLaPaRUza for $200,000 and the title of “Queen of Queens.” In other words, Mario Party rules are in effect.
MINI CHALLENGE | In a move that wouldn’t sit well with Vanessa Williams, no sir, All Stars went with the best first, kicking off the season with a reading challenge. And because these queens operate at a winner’s reading level, we were treated to quite the show. Shea Coulee called out The Vivienne as this season’s “diversity hire,” Yvie Oddly went straight for Raja’s age, Monét X Change hailed Jaida Essence Hall as the “Zoom winner,” and Raja had just one thing to say to everyone: “B-O-O-G-E-R-S. Boogers!” But it was Jinkx Monsoon who most successfully lampooned her sisters with a series of smart, savage reads, earning a well-deserved win.
MAXI CHALLENGE | For their first maxi challenge, the queens had to write and perform verses to Ru’s new song “Legends.” And if it hadn’t already occurred to you, one thing became abundantly clear when these girls hit the stage: there isn’t a filler queen in the bunch. They all have Big Drag Energy, they’re all at the top of their game, and any one of them has a shot at winning. So the performance was great. Hell, the whole episode was great.
And you know what else? It’s refreshing to watch a season where the queens seem to genuinely respect each other’s work and take every opportunity to lift one another up. Maybe it’s because they all have crowns, but you don’t get the sense that anyone came with something to prove. And even when Jaida admitted to feeling unworthy, the queens rallied around her with words of encouragement. Kindness, what a concept!
RUNWAY | The queens continued to shine on the runway, showing off various regal looks in the “I’m Crowning!” category. Raja set the bar high in a white Baroque-style gown; Jinkx apparently mashed up Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Mary and Angelina Jolie…’s leg; Monet drew inspiration from ’90s fashion, topping off the look with a crown in her hair; The Vivienne went for a “queen of earth” vibe; Yvie proved that melted crayons can be sexy, not that I had any doubt; the judges were buzzing about Jaida’s beehive of dreadlocks; and Shea channeled Queen Nefertiti in a stunning African ensemble.
LIP SYNC | Shea and Monét were named the top two queens of the premiere, earning them each their first star. Then came a lip sync battle to — I kid you not — Ella Fitzgerald’s “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” It was wacky, it was hilarious, it was… tailor-made for Jinkx, frankly. That said, both Shea and Monét took full advantage of the song’s absurdity to flex their comedic muscles.
Ru announced Shea as the season’s first lip sync winner, giving her the power to block one queen from nabbing a star next week. And that queen was… Trinity!
OK, that was a busy premiere. And I didn’t even get to talk about Naomi Campbell judging the queens in a surprise walk-off. Or RuPaul’s performance of “Give ’em What They Want.” Or the mere presence of angel-on-earth Cameron Diaz! A lot can happen in 90 minutes.
Your thoughts on the All Stars 7 premiere? Grade it below, then drop a comment with your take on the season’s new rules. | https://tvline.com/2022/05/20/drag-race-all-stars-rules-explained-raven-returns-premiere-recap/ | 2022-05-20T22:50:01Z | https://tvline.com/2022/05/20/drag-race-all-stars-rules-explained-raven-returns-premiere-recap/ | true | 1 |
Court verdict: Mayor Ketron loses over $2M in age discrimination case filed by EMS head
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Three longtime former Emergency Medical Service leaders won a $2.1 million jury verdict in an age discrimination lawsuit against Rutherford County government.
Mike Nunley, the 45-year founding director of EMS, and his deputy directors, James R. "Randy" White and Joe Haffner are the plaintiffs. White had been a 37-year EMS employee, and Haffner worked for the service for 35 years.
Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron removed them from their jobs in April 2019. The plaintiffs filed their lawsuit three months later.
A jury spent five days hearing trial evidence before reaching a verdict May 13, said plaintiffs' attorney Terry Fann of Murfreesboro.
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"The jury found that the county had violated the Tennessee Human Rights Act and discriminated against each of these employees based upon their age," Fann said.
The violation was in multiple areas, according to chancery court documents. Circuit Court Judge James G. Martin III of Franklin presided over the jury trial at the Judicial Center in downtown Murfreesboro because local Rutherford County judges recused themselves.
Nunley was 71 when he lost his job and is now 74. White and Haffner were each 58 and are now 61. The jury awarded them over $1 million in back pay, including 413,521 for Nunley. The plaintiffs also received a total of $950,000 for humiliation and embarrassment damages with Nunley getting $350,000, and White and Haffner each receiving $300,000.
Nunley, for example, had ceremonial praise from Ketron and the Rutherford County Commission after being forced out of job, but the founding EMS director chose not to attend the meeting.
"Based upon the circumstances of his forced exit from his employment with the Defendant, Plaintiff Nunley was too embarrassed and humiliated to appear at the County Commission meeting to accept the County's Resolution of Appreciation," the lawsuit said.
Prior to the ceremonial recognition, Ketron "told Mr. Nunley it was time for him to retire," Fann said.
"That has age discrimination written all over it," Fann said.
Fann filed a motion to collect attorney fees and front pay for the three plaintiffs for a reasonable number of years they would have continued to work. Nunley's front pay request will be smaller because he was planning to retire this year. The front pay for White and Haffner will be anticipated to be four years.
The total for the front pay could be in the same range as the back pay, Fann said.
Although the jury trial was in Murfreesboro, other case hearings have been in Franklin with Judge Martin.
The jury heard the three plaintiffs give testimony. Other witnesses included Ketron, Steve Sandlin, who serves as deputy to the county mayor, and Sonya Stephenson, the county's human resources director.
The county had legal representation from Randall Mantooth, a Murfreesboro lawyer, who works in same firm with Rutherford County Attorney Nick Christiansen.
The county's case suggested Ketron's decision to fire the three plaintiffs was about their unwillingness to cooperate with the Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department through dispatching services. Those arguments failed to sway the jury, said Fann, who tried the case with his son, Chase Fann.
Murfreesboro and Rutherford County have been unable to reach an agreement on a city proposal for emergency dispatchers to work as a team.
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Ketron said he cannot comment on the case.
"Appeal consideration is before us at this time," Ketron said.
The county commission could consider appealing the jury verdict.
Ketron, a former 16-year state senator from Murfreesboro, won his county mayor seat in 2018. His term will end by Aug. 31 after he placed third in the recent Republican primary to winner Joe Carr, a former state representative from the rural Lascassas community northeast of Murfreesboro. Rhonda Allen, a Smyrna resident and 12-year member of the Rutherford County Commission, was runner-up in the GOP primary.
Note: This developing story will be updated with more details.
Reach reporter Scott Broden with news tips or questions by emailing sbroden@dnj.com. Follow him on Twitter @ScottBroden.
Jury verdict awards
A jury awarded $2.1 million to three former Rutherford County Emergency Management officials in an age discrimination lawsuit after they were removed from their jobs by Mayor Bill Ketron.:
Mike Nunley, the 45-year founding director of county's EMS: $413,521 in back pay and $350,000 for embarrassment and humiliation damages
James White, a deputy director off EMS: $339,903 in back pay and $300,000 for embarrassment and humiliation damages
Joe Haffner a deputy director off EMS: $326,405 in back pay and $300,000 for embarrassment and humiliation damages
Source: Order from Circuit Court Judge James G. Martin III of Franklin
This article originally appeared on Murfreesboro Daily News Journal: Jury awards $2.1M age discrimination verdict against Mayor Bill Ketron | https://news.yahoo.com/court-verdict-mayor-ketron-could-174541730.html | 2022-05-20T22:51:48Z | https://news.yahoo.com/court-verdict-mayor-ketron-could-174541730.html | true | 2 |
By CBS3 Staff
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Police are investigating a series of gunpoint robberies in Center City and West Philadelphia.
Investigators believe the same group of men is responsible for at least three incidents.
Surveillance cameras captured a robbery on May 12 on the 100 block of South 30th Street.
Police say three days later, the group robbed two other pedestrians. | https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/05/20/police-investigating-series-of-gunpoint-robberies-in-center-city-west-philadelphia/ | 2022-05-20T22:51:54Z | https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/05/20/police-investigating-series-of-gunpoint-robberies-in-center-city-west-philadelphia/ | true | null |
Australia election 2022: Cost of living worries voters
Voters will head to the polls on Saturday in Australia with rising prices on their minds. The cost of living in Australia is at a 21 year high and the inflation rate in Australia is at 5.1%. The wage growth is at just 2.3%, meaning the inflation is leaving less money in people’s pockets each month.
People are worried about the rising cost of rent, food, fuel and essentials. People are calling for a government that will address these inflation concerns, however there are differing opinions over how much the next government could actually accomplish. Rising global prices and energy shortages are having an impact on economies around the world. Australia’s Reserve Bank raised interest rates by .25% to .35% for the first time in over 11 years. Rate increases are expected to continue in the months ahead.
Read more: Australia election 2022: Cost of living worries voters | https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2022/05/20/australia-election-2022-cost-of-living-worries-voters/ | 2022-05-20T22:59:30Z | https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2022/05/20/australia-election-2022-cost-of-living-worries-voters/ | false | null |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
602 PM EDT Fri May 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Suffolk and
eastern Nassau Counties through 645 PM EDT...
At 602 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Levittown, moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Islip, Brentwood, Levittown, Commack, Huntington Station, Centereach,
Shirley, Deer Park, Lindenhurst, Plainview, Medford, Massapequa,
Hauppauge, Ronkonkoma and Syosset.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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4092 7322 4093 7317 4098 7317 4099 7312
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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“A Clinton Campaign Hoax”: Musk Says 2016 Hillary Tweet ‘Absolutely’ Disinformation, Asks Parag To Weigh In
May 20, 2022 | Tags: ZEROHEDGE
"A Clinton Campaign Hoax": Musk Says 2016 Hillary Tweet 'Absolutely' Disinformation, Asks Parag To Weigh InUpdate (1645ET): Elon Musk has waded into the Sussmann trial - tweeting on Friday that it's "absolutely correct" that a 2016 tweet from Hillary Clinton was "misleading disinformation."
A week before the 2016 election, Clinton notably tweeted "Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank," to which user @veespike asked Musk: "@elonmusk I have reported this tweet as misleading disinformation to the powers that be at @twitter. I would be interested to know if, when you receive control over the company, anything was done with this at any level. Pls advise soonest."
"You are absolutely correct," Musk replied, adding "That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial."
Musk then asked Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and top Twitter attorney Vijaya Gadde to weigh in.
@elonmusk I have reported this tweet as misleading disinformation to the powers that be at @twitter . I would be interested to know if, when you receive control over the company, anything was done with this at any level. Pls advise soonest.
— VeeSPIKE (@veespike) May 20, 2022
.@paraga and @vijaya, what say you?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
Musk then got into an argument with a pro-Hillary account, "Tesla Facts" (@truth_tesla), which suggested Elon was lying.
??
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
Sussmann himself admitted billing Clinton Campaign to pay for him to present Russia hoax to FBI! This is not even questioned by the defense.
Btw, I donated to & voted for Hillary, so am doubly pissed off about those funds being used for lying.https://t.co/PtFgYzpXQN
The richest man in the world replied to several other people in the thread. He's gone all-in folks.
I only heard about it last month and was blown away
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
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Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook dropped a bombshell in court on Friday - testifying that Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of allegations that then-candidate Donald Trump had a covert communications channel with a Russian bank, despite campaign officials not being "totally confident" in the rumor, according to Fox News.
Mook, who was called to the stand by the defense team for former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann, was asked under cross-examination about the campaign's understanding of the allegations against Trump, and whether the campaign planned to release it to the media.
He told prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis that he was first briefed by campaign general counsel Marc Elias, who was a partner with Perkins Coie at the time, adding that he was told the data had come from "people that had expertise in this sort of matter."
Mook said the campaign was not totally confident in the legitimacy of the data, but had hoped to give the information to a reporter who could further "run it down" to determine if it was "accurate" or "substantive."
He also said he discussed whether to give the information to a reporter with senior campaign officials, including campaign chairman John Podesta, senior policy advisor, now White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri. -Fox News
"I discussed it with Hillary as well," said Mook, who added "I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter."
When asked how Clinton responded, Mook said: "She agreed to that."
"A reporter could vet the information and then decide to print it," he added.
And then of course, Hillary did this:
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
Of note, after previously denying the prosecutions request to include the tweet into evidence, he approved it on Friday.
Sussman has been charged with lying to the FBI when he told General Counsel James Baker in September 2016 - less than two months before the US election - that he wasn't doing work "for any client" when he presented the Alfa Bank "purported data and ‘white papers’ that allegedly demonstrated a covert communicates channel" between the Trump organization and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank.
Special Counsel John Durham alleges that Sussman was in fact working for the Clinton Campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe. He has pleaded not guilty. | https://freedombunker.com/2022/05/20/a-clinton-campaign-hoax-musk-says-2016-hillary-tweet-absolutely-disinformation-asks-parag-to-weigh-in/ | 2022-05-20T23:03:42Z | https://freedombunker.com/2022/05/20/a-clinton-campaign-hoax-musk-says-2016-hillary-tweet-absolutely-disinformation-asks-parag-to-weigh-in/ | false | 1 |
For Games of Saturday, May 21
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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announces an increased reward for fugitive Hardy Carroll Lloyd, who is wanted for making terroristic threats. Texas Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to Lloyd’s arrest. All tips are guaranteed to be anonymous.
Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 44, is wanted by authorities after posting a series of threatening comments online where he promises to carry a firearm onto the Texas State Capitol grounds this weekend and challenge any law enforcement officer who tries to take enforcement actions against him. Lloyd is a convicted felon and cannot legally carry a firearm.
Lloyd, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is five feet, 11 inches tall and weighs about 250 pounds. He is a known white supremacist.
Texas Crime Stoppers, which is funded by the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division, offers cash rewards to any person who provides information that leads to the arrest of a suspect responsible for a particular crime.
To be eligible for cash rewards, tipsters must provide information to authorities using one of two methods:
- Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).
- Submit a tip online.
All tips are anonymous, regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name.
Do not attempt to apprehend these fugitives; they are considered armed and dangerous. | https://bluebonnetnews.com/2022/05/20/reward-offered-for-man-allegedly-promising-armed-confrontation-with-capitol-police/ | 2022-05-20T23:05:29Z | https://bluebonnetnews.com/2022/05/20/reward-offered-for-man-allegedly-promising-armed-confrontation-with-capitol-police/ | true | 2 |
For the drive home in Wytheville: Mainly clear early, then a few clouds later on. Low near 60F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. The forecast is showing a hot day in Wytheville Saturday. It looks to reach a balmy 84 degrees. 60 degrees is tomorrow's low. Tomorrow's forecast brings 52% chance of rain, so you may want to bring an umbrella. The sunshine will be intense Saturday; high UV indexes are forecasted. Be careful outside, especially during late morning through mid-afternoon. If your shadow is shorter than you, seek shade and wear protective clothing and generously apply sunscreen on exposed skin. The area will see gentle winds tomorrow, with forecast models showing only 7 mph wind conditions coming up from southwest. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. For more daily forecast information, visit swvatoday.com.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Josh Rojas launched his first three longballs of the season and the Arizona Diamondbacks powered past the Chicago Cubs 10-6 Friday in a game of home run derby at Wrigley Field.
With a strong wind blowing out on a warm day, the teams combined to clear the walls 11 times — the Diamondbacks connected seven times.
David Peralta went deep twice and Alek Thomas and Christian Walker added solo shots as the Diamondbacks won their second straight after a six-game slide.
Rojas posted his first three-homer game and third career multi-homer effort. After a flyout in the first inning, he hit a solo homer in the third, a two-run drive in the fifth and another solo home run in the seventh.
Rojas led off the ninth with a chance to tie the big league record of four home runs in a game, but struck out looking. There have been 18 four-homer games performances in the majors, the last by J.D. Martinez for the Diamondbacks in 2017.
The versatile Rojas, who started at third base, entered batting .250 with three RBIs in 13 games after being reinstated from the injured list on May 6. The 27-year-old had been out with a strained right oblique.
On a day when the Cubs honored Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, they lost their third in a row. Jenkins, in fact, led the National League in home runs allowed during five of his 10 seasons with Chicago.
Jonathan Villar homered and doubled for the Cubs in his 1,000th big league game. Patrick Wisdom hit his seventh homer to end an 0-for-10 slump
Cubs rookie Christopher Morel and Ildemaro Vargas also homered.
Humberto Castellanos (3-1) allowed three runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings for the win.
Rojas and Peralta tagged Kyle Hendricks (2-4) with Arizona’s first four homers as the Cubs ace righty yielded a season-high seven runs and eight hits in five innings. Hendricks entered having allowed just one run in his previous 14 1/3 innings.
Rojas and Peralta hit solo drives off Hendricks in the third to put Arizona ahead 4-2. The pair went deep again, one out apart in the fifth, to make it 7-3. Peralta recorded his fourth multi-homer game.
Morel and Vargas hit back-to-back homers in the seventh off Caleb Smith to pull Chicago within 9-5.
After Rojas struck out in the ninth, Walker followed with his team-leading 10th homer.
HR DERBY
Rojas became the 11th Diamondbacks hitter to hit three homers in a game. It was the 13th time an Arizona batter hit three homers in a game.
“FERGIE” STATUE UNVEILED
The Cubs unveiled a statue of right-hander “Fergie” Jenkins outside Wrigley Field before the game. The metal sculpture of Jenkins delivering a pitch joins a row that includes ones of Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Ron Santo.
Jenkins, who spent 10 of 19 seasons with the Cubs, spoke from the dais in a plaza on the west side of the ballpark. The native of Chatham, Ontario, was 167-132 with a 3.20 ERA for Chicago in 401 games -- completing 154 of them -- and was a three-time All-Star and the 1971 NL Cy Young Award winner while with the Cubs.
The 79-year-old Jenkins took note of the gusty wind during the ceremony. “I pitched many days, turning on to Addison (Street) and said, ‘Oh, the wind is blowing out.'"
DBACKS ROSTER MOVE
Arizona recalled OF Jake McCarthy from its taxi squad and optioned RHP Jacob Webb to Triple-A Reno, but he remained on the taxi squad. McCarthy had two hits and two RBIs.
UP NEXT
Arizona LHP Madison Bumgarner (2-2, 2.29) faces Chicago LHP Justin Steele (1-4, 4.50) on Saturday afternoon.
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Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAH – Get Rating) insider Tony Strange acquired 36,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 19th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $2.90 per share, for a total transaction of $104,400.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the insider now directly owns 1,680,134 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,872,388.60. The acquisition was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link.
Shares of NASDAQ AVAH traded down $0.05 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $2.88. 509,296 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 539,943. Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. has a 12 month low of $2.09 and a 12 month high of $13.00. The company has a current ratio of 0.78, a quick ratio of 0.78 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.84. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $3.64 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $5.41.
Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ:AVAH – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, March 28th. The company reported $0.10 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.11 by ($0.01). Aveanna Healthcare had a positive return on equity of 8.90% and a negative net margin of 5.70%. The business had revenue of $414.07 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $420.19 million. Equities research analysts predict that Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. will post 0.36 EPS for the current year.
Several brokerages have recently commented on AVAH. Bank of America downgraded Aveanna Healthcare from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and reduced their target price for the stock from $10.00 to $5.50 in a report on Tuesday, March 29th. Truist Financial reduced their price target on shares of Aveanna Healthcare from $10.00 to $5.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, March 30th. Credit Suisse Group decreased their price target on shares of Aveanna Healthcare from $12.00 to $9.50 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, March 30th. Barclays dropped their price objective on shares of Aveanna Healthcare from $16.00 to $7.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 30th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded Aveanna Healthcare from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 19th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eight have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Aveanna Healthcare has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $8.90.
Aveanna Healthcare Company Profile (Get Rating)
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc, a diversified home care platform company, provides private duty nursing (PDN), adult home health and hospice, home-based pediatric therapy, and enteral nutrition services in the United States. Its patient- centered care delivery platform allows patients to remain in their homes and minimizes the overutilization of high-cost care settings, such as hospitals.
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As Colorado's weather starts to warm and paddle sport enthusiasts come out of hibernation, Colorado Parks and Wildlife would like to remind them to be careful of the windy and cold water conditions.
The best safety precaution one can take is to wear a life jacket at all times while out on the water.
"We see a large increase in requests for help from kayakers and stand-up paddleboarders during windy conditions," said Kris Wahlers, Park Manager at Chatfield State Park. "It's not unusual for paddlers to plan to stay close to shore, but get blown across the lake or into spots difficult to get out of when wind comes up."
Getting blown off course can happen very quickly and is difficult to return from because of a headwind and waves. People use a lot of energy paddling and maintaining balance making it harder to paddle in those conditions.
What's worse, it is easy to lose your balance and get separated from your paddleboard or kayak in windy conditions. It's best to avoid being in those conditions from the get-go, and that plays into the responsibility of the user to know before you go.
Check the weather report before you come to the lake and watch the conditions while you are there.
“Wind typically moves in from the west in the early afternoon, pay close attention to that direction and time to avoid being caught unaware,” Wahlers added. “If you do get caught, it's best to wait for conditions to improve or to walk along the shoreline if possible. Anytime you're paddling, the easiest way to stay safe is to wear your life jacket.”
Power boaters need to be aware as well.
"It's generally easier for power boats in windy conditions while everything is in good working order,” Wahlers said. “If they lose power, that can change very quickly."
Boaters are asked to make sure their boat is in good working order, bring plenty of fuel, an anchor if they need to keep from moving during a power loss and a paddle if they need to move. A good rule of thumb for anchoring is to have three times more rope than the water is deep, so 150 feet of rope in 50 feet of water. Not having enough rope doesn't allow the anchor to set well and it could work itself out.
Take precautions to protect yourself from the heightened dangers of sudden, unexpected cold water immersion while on early and late season boating outings, especially on small boats.
"Anglers, swimmers, paddlers and all boaters must be aware of the risks of cold water,” Wahlers said. “Paddlers and any boater on the water can take precautions and prevent being suddenly thrown overboard, swamped or stranded in cold water."
Sudden immersion in cold water can cause gasping and inhalation of water and hypothermia, resulting in unconsciousness or swimming failure as muscles become numb. Wearing a life jacket will keep your head above water and support your body should your swimming ability fail or you become unconscious.
CPW officers have noticed a lot of people overestimate their ability to ‘swim out of a problem.’ Because of this, CPW recommends anyone out on the water wear a life jacket. | https://www.highcountryshopper.com/community/delta/cpw-reminds-boaters-paddlers-to-be-cautious-in-windy-conditions-and-to-know-the-dangers/article_39441826-d5f8-11ec-91f7-7bd199d86168.html | 2022-05-20T23:22:32Z | https://www.highcountryshopper.com/community/delta/cpw-reminds-boaters-paddlers-to-be-cautious-in-windy-conditions-and-to-know-the-dangers/article_39441826-d5f8-11ec-91f7-7bd199d86168.html | false | 5 |
‘How dare you!’: Grief, anger from Buffalo victims’ kin
UPDATED: Thu., May 19, 2022
RETRANMISSION TO CORRECT NAME TO JAQUES “JAKE” PATTERSON - Tirzah Patterson, former wife of Buffalo shooting victim Heyward Patterson, speaks as her son, Jaques "Jake" Patterson, 12, covers his face during a press conference outside the Antioch Baptist Church on Thursday, May 19, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (Joshua Bessex)
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Relatives of the 10 Black people massacred in a Buffalo supermarket pleaded with the nation Thursday to confront and stop racist violence, their agony pouring out in the tears of a 12-year-old child, hours after the white man accused in the killings silently faced a murder indictment in court.
Jaques “Jake” Patterson, who lost his father, covered his face with his hands as his mother spoke at a news conference. Once she finished, Jake collapsed into the arms of Rev. Al Sharpton, the veteran civil rights activist, and cried silently, using his T-shirt to wipe his tears.
“His heart is broken,” said his mother, Tirzah Patterson, adding that her son was having trouble sleeping and eating.
“As a mother, what am I supposed to do to help him get through this?” she said.
Her ex-husband, Heyward Patterson, a 67-year-old church deacon, was gunned down Saturday at Tops Friendly Market. So was Robin Harris’s 86-year-old mother and best friend, Ruth Whitfield, on a day when they were supposed to go see the touring Broadway show “Ain’t Too Proud.”
“That racist young man took my mother away,” Harris said, trembling and stomping her feet as she spoke.
“How dare you!” Harris shouted viscerally.
“I need this violence to stop,” she added. “We need to fix this, and we need to fix it now.”
Earlier in the day in another part of town, accused gunman Payton Gendron, 18, appeared briefly in court to hear that he was indicted in the killings.
“Payton, you’re a coward!” someone shouted the courtroom gallery as he was led away.
Gendron, whose lawyer entered a not guilty plea for him at an earlier court appearance, didn’t speak. His attorneys later declined to comment. He is being held without bail and is due back in court June 9.
Authorities are investigating the possibility of hate crime and terrorism charges against Gendron, who apparently detailed his plans for the assault and his racist motivation in hundreds of pages of writings he posted online shortly before the shooting. It was livestreamed from a helmet-mounted camera.
“We need to hold all that have aided and abetted the hate in this country accountable,” Sharpton said at the news conference outside Buffalo’s Antioch Baptist Church. The civil rights activist’s group, the National Action Network, plans to cover funeral expenses for those killed.
The carnage at the Tops supermarket was unsettling even in a nation that has become almost numb to mass shootings. Thirteen people were shot in total, all but two of them Black. Gendron’s online writings said he planned the assault after becoming infatuated with white supremacist ideology he encountered online.
“I constantly think about what could have been done,” Mark Talley said at the families’ news conference, holding a photo of his slain mother, Geraldine Talley, 62. Her fiancé, who survived the shooting, saw her get shot to death, her son said.
Inaction on the threat of white supremacist violence, Talley said, led to last weekend’s bloodshed.
“It’s like Groundhog’s Day. We’ve seen this over and over again,” he said.
Stephen Belongia, the FBI’s lead agent in Buffalo, said at a news briefing that agents were still working to piece together Gendron’s motives and how he came to his extremist views. Investigators have been examining the online documents, which included a private diary on the chat platform Discord.
The diary said Gendron planned his attack in secret, with no outside help. A half-hour before opening fire, he invited a small group of people to see his writings, Discord said.
Fifteen Discord users accepted, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak about it publicly.
It wasn’t clear how quickly those people saw what he’d written or whether any tried to alert law enforcement.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has authorized the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate whether social media companies that Gendron used were liable for “providing a platform to plan and promote violence.”
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Thursday that social media users can also play a role by speaking up when they see people posting violent or threatening content.
“You need to out these people,” he said at a briefing. “Expose those that are putting out those types of extreme views, and let us root them out.”
At the families’ news conference, Tirzah Patterson had another request.
“I need the village to help me raise and be here for my son,” she said, asking people to pray “that God gives us strength to go through this.”
“We are the village,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump chanted, encouraging the other victims’ family members to join in.
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A former Tidewater Virginia sheriff was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for bribery and money laundering.
Former Norfolk Sheriff Bob McCabe apologized to the court before the sentence was issued, news outlets reported. McCabe was ordered into custody in August after he was convicted of 11 counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering.
McCabe served as Norfolk’s sheriff from 1994 to 2017. He was already under federal investigation when he abruptly resigned in 2017 and was indicted two years later.
McCabe was accused of using his position to solicit bribes and campaign donations from people linked to two companies that had large Norfolk City Jail contracts. While McCabe admitted violating campaign finance laws and getting loans and gifts from businessmen, he denied taking bribes. He testified that he consistently waited until the last minute to file campaign finance reports and probably failed to report some contributions and expenditures, but claimed it was never intentional.
U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen disputed McCabe’s claims that he’d simply made mistakes, calling his bribery scheme “sophisticated and very intricate.”
“In the court’s opinion, you were guilty beyond all doubt,” Allen said. “It’s not a mistake, it’s a crime — a 22-year crime.” | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Former-sheriff-gets-12-years-for-bribery-money-17188017.php | 2022-05-20T23:24:28Z | https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Former-sheriff-gets-12-years-for-bribery-money-17188017.php | false | 14 |
SEOUL – The $40 billion U.S. package of assistance for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia's aggression is hitching a ride on a commercial flight to South Korea so it can be signed by President Joe Biden.
The Senate voted Thursday to finalize the new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine as Biden was making his way to the South Korean capital, Seoul. Biden is in Asia for meetings with the leaders of South Korea, Japan and members of the Indo-Pacific group known as the Quad.
A White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly, said the bill was being flown to South Korea by a U.S. government official who was already planning to travel to the region on a commercial flight as part of the individual's official duties. It was not clear when the bill would arrive, but the president was expected to sign it before he heads to Tokyo on Sunday.
For decades, bills that needed an urgent signature were routinely flown by White House aides to the president if he was abroad.
In 2005, President George W. Bush flew back to Washington from his Texas ranch to sign legislation requiring doctors to continue feeding a comatose Florida woman, Terri Schiavo, whose husband wanted to let her die.
An autopen was used for the first time for a bill signing in 2011, when President Barack Obama signed an extension of the Patriot Act into law while he was traveling in Europe.
He used the machine –- which was widely used at the time for mundane commercial and government purposes — because Congress took unexpectedly long to approve the renewal of that law. Its anti-terrorism powers were minutes from expiring at midnight East Coast time when Obama, in France, was awakened to sign the measure.
The Ukraine bill includes $20 billion in military aid that is expected to finance the transfer of advanced weapons systems, $8 billion in general economic support for Ukraine, nearly $5 billion in global food aid to address potential food shortages sparked by the collapse of the Ukrainian agricultural economy, and more than $1 billion in combined support for refugees.
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Stocks end punishing week near bear market territory
STORY: After suffering massive losses for weeks, the S&P 500 on Friday briefly dipped into bear market territory for the first time in 2 years in a neck-breaking whipsaw session before stocks bounced back to close near breakeven.
Worries over surging inflation and fears the Federal Reserve - in an effort to contain it - could tip the U.S. economy into a recession have pummeled stocks this year, with disappointing outlooks this week from the country's biggest retailers Walmart and Target adding to concerns about the long-term health of the U.S. consumer.
The Dow and S&P ended about flat but in the green, while the Nasdaq finished down just three tenths of a percent.
Still, the Dow saw its eighth-straight week of declines, its longest losing streak since The Great Depression.
The S&P 500 finished about 18% lower from its Jan. 3 record high. But, during the session, it briefly passed the 20% threshold thought to signal a bear market.
Michael Jones, chairman & CEO of Caravel Concepts says despite Friday’s rebound, he sees more pain ahead.
I suspect that we will see the bottom in the stock market probably, you know, in the in the traditional summer months, particularly maybe August. [FLASH] Because, remember, part of this pullback is not just that we're going to have a recession and the Fed is raising interest rates, but also that the market was pretty pricey. It was pretty overvalued as we moved into 2022. So we see a lot of the overvaluation and a lot of the technical support coming in as the market drops a total of maybe 30, 35%. So that would suggest we're about two thirds of the way through this bear market. But there's still a bit more suffering to come."
While not all bear markets have coincided with recessions, data from CFRA Research shows that every recession since 1968 has prompted a bear market.
Jones believes a recession is inevitable.
"We think we will probably be entering the recession sometime by late summer or early fall. [FLASH] The Fed has to raise interest rates until demand comes down enough that pricing pressures are relieved with that without a whole lot of help from the supply side. That means you've got to have a recession. But the recession doesn't have to be very long."
Entering a bear market would mark the end of a rally that sent stocks to record levels during the global health crisis on the back of unprecedented stimulus from a Federal Reserve which is now reversing its policy and unlikely to come to the market’s rescue. | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/video/stocks-end-punishing-week-near-230347367.html?src=rss | 2022-05-20T23:31:35Z | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/video/stocks-end-punishing-week-near-230347367.html?src=rss | true | 2 |
BALTIMORE, Md. (KSWB) — There’s nothing worse than being seconds from enjoying a full burrito or wrap only to have the ingredients fall out, deflating the entire experience. Can it ever be stopped?
Well, thanks to science, the answer is yes.
A group of students at Johns Hopkins University recently developed “Tastee Tape,” a product that aims to keep your food from creating a mess.
A group of chemical and biomolecular engineering seniors — Tyler Guarino, Marie Eric, Rachel Nie, and Eric Walsh — created an edible tape that uses an organic adhesive and a fibrous scaffold that is safe to cook with and consume, according to the university’s website.
“First, we learned about the science around tape and different adhesives, and then we worked to find edible counterparts,” said Guarino.
The students tested a “multitude” of ingredients in order to get the right combination for the perfect product that they say can “hold together a fat burrito.”
As for how they made it, that will remain a secret for now. The students have applied for a patent and are waiting to hear back.
“What I can say is that all its ingredients are safe to consume, are food grade, and are common food and dietary additives,” Guarino said.
The strips are clear in color but were dyed in the prototype photos to show the rectangular shape and size.
Strips of Tastee Tape come attached to wax paper. To use one, you simply remove it from the paper and wet it to activate the adhesive ingredients.
Guarino added: “Tastee Tape allows you to put full faith in your tortilla, and enjoy your meal, mess-free.” | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/burrito-tape-students-invent-edible-adhesive-to-seal-tortilla/ | 2022-05-20T23:36:41Z | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/burrito-tape-students-invent-edible-adhesive-to-seal-tortilla/ | true | 19 |
BALTIMORE, Md. (KSWB) — There’s nothing worse than being seconds from enjoying a full burrito or wrap only to have the ingredients fall out, deflating the entire experience. Can it ever be stopped? Well, thanks to science, the answer is yes.
A group of students at Johns Hopkins University recently developed “Tastee Tape,” a product that aims to keep your food from creating a mess. A group of chemical and biomolecular engineering seniors — Tyler Guarino, Marie Eric, Rachel Nie, and Eric Walsh — created an edible tape that uses an organic adhesive and a fibrous scaffold that is safe to cook with and consume, according to the university’s website.
“First, we learned about the science around tape and different adhesives, and then we worked to find edible counterparts,” said Guarino. The students tested a “multitude” of ingredients in order to get the right combination for the perfect product that they say can “hold together a fat burrito.”
As for how they made it, that will remain a secret for now. The students have applied for a patent and are waiting to hear back. “What I can say is that all its ingredients are safe to consume, are food grade, and are common food and dietary additives,” Guarino said. The strips are clear in color but were dyed in the prototype photos to show the rectangular shape and size.
Strips of Tastee Tape come attached to wax paper. To use one, you simply remove it from the paper and wet it to activate the adhesive ingredients. Guarino added: “Tastee Tape allows you to put full faith in your tortilla, and enjoy your meal, mess-free.” | https://www.klfy.com/national/burrito-tape-students-invent-edible-adhesive-to-seal-tortilla/ | 2022-05-20T23:47:49Z | https://www.klfy.com/national/burrito-tape-students-invent-edible-adhesive-to-seal-tortilla/ | true | 19 |
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Several adult children among the 13 siblings freed in 2018 from virtual imprisonment in their abusive parents’ Southern California home found themselves a year later feeling pressured by the county’s guardian to move to an apartment in disrepair in a crime-ridden area, court documents showed.
Court documents are slowly being released in Riverside County that were previously sealed in the disturbing case that attracted international attention when details emerged showing the parents shackled and starved their children for years.
In a 2019 court filing, an attorney for the adult children of David and Louise Turpin wrote that three of the siblings were taken to see the apartment by an employee for the Riverside County Public Guardian's office and were “fearful to object so they indicated that the apartment was okay with the expectation that other apartments would be viewed."
When they raised concern about the safety of the neighborhood, the agency said the lease was already signed and the only alternative would be to split up the siblings and place them in a board and care facility, according to the filing by attorney Jack Osborn, who represented the seven adult children after they were freed from their parents' home.
The Turpins were arrested more than four years ago after one of their children escaped from their their Perris, California, home and reported they had been shackled to beds, starved and held largely in isolation from the world. All but the 2-year-old were severely underweight and hadn’t bathed for months. Investigators concluded the youngest child was the only one not abused by the couple, who pleaded guilty to torture and abuse in 2019 and have been sentenced to life in prison.
The document release comes after ABC reported that Riverside County’s social service system failed in various instances to help the seven adult and six minor children transition to new lives. The county has hired a private law firm to look into the allegations.
Messages seeking comment were left for Osborn and the office of the Public Guardian, which is the county agency tasked with assisting adults unable to properly care for themselves or manage their finances. Brooke Federico, a spokeswoman for Riverside County, declined to discuss details of the case said the release of the court documents will assist with the law firm's review.
Not all court documents in the case have been unsealed. It was not immediately known whether the five adult children moved to the apartment described as “in a state of significant disrepair” in Osborn's filing, and if so, how long they stayed. In his filing, Osborn wrote that the Public Guardian's office said the apartment was going to be fixed.
But the account is similar to comments aired by two of the Turpin children in an interview last year with ABC and by Melissa Donaldson, Riverside County’s director of victim services, who said at times the children did not have a safe place to stay or enough food.
The comments were especially surprising because in the days after their release, the adult and minor children were taken to hospitals for treatment and donations and support poured in from around the world.
In a separate filing this year, Osborn raised questions about $1.2 million reportedly collected in donations to assist the siblings in the days and weeks after their release and how the one of the siblings who remains under a conservatorship with the Public Guardian can access these charities.
That sibling, in 2019, objected to being sent to a board and care facility rather than remaining with her family as they moved to the apartment, Osborn wrote at that time.
Her siblings contended that “immediate separation from her brothers and sisters will continue the trauma that she has suffered,” Osborn wrote, particularly since she never complained about the abuse and followed the house rules, which they believe “has resulted in some significant developmental issues.”
A few weeks later, the siblings dropped the objection so long as she had frequent contact with them, court papers showed. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Freed-California-siblings-feared-opposing-rundown-17188261.php | 2022-05-20T23:51:49Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Freed-California-siblings-feared-opposing-rundown-17188261.php | false | 23 |
By Cara Waters
Melbourne is in the midst of a hotel-building boom with a swag of new hotels opening up across the city, even though the city’s existing hotels are only half full.
More than 2100 hotel rooms will open this year in newly built hotels, including the Selina, Holiday Inn Express, Courtyard by Marriott, Voco, AC Hotel by Marriott, 388 William, Veriu Queen Victoria Market, Meriton Suites, the Ritz-Carlton and Le Meridien.
Celeste Clarke is the hotel operations manager at the 252-room Voco hotel, which opened last month next to Melbourne Central.
She said there was already strong demand from Melbourne guests taking a ‘staycation’, and she was confident corporate, interstate and international travellers would return.
“There’s obviously a lot of hotels opening up this year and next year as well,” she said. “Are they going to be full every day of the week? Possibly not, but it provides this incredible opportunity for people to come in and just enjoy different things while they’re here in Melbourne.”
The biggest challenge for Clarke has been staff shortages, but she said guests were understanding and happy to be able to stay at hotels again.
“We’re adapting to what we need to do,” she said. “We’ve got our human resources manager stripping beds, we’ve got our financial controller parking cars; they’re just coming out of the offices and giving us a hand in the operations.”
The hotels opening this year are on top of a number of hotels that opened in the city during the pandemic, including the W Hotel, Lancemore Crossley St, Movenpick, Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street and Next Hotel, while existing hotels upped the ante, such as the Sofitel which had a $15 million refurbishment.
Next Hotel manager David Ness said while it was not ideal to open between lockdowns, doing so enabled the boutique hotel to steadily build a client base.
He said the hotel had seen strong demand from local leisure travellers, but corporate clients were making a slower return.
“The consumer has shrunk and the offers have grown substantially, so there is a bit of an oversupply problem at the moment,” he said. “During COVID there were five or six new hotels that opened. But fortunately for us, we were the only ones at the ‘Paris’ end of Collins Street. At the Southern Cross end and the Docklands it is quite flooded.”
Girish Talreja, general manager at Marriott Docklands, which opened in November, said the $250 million hotel’s guests were mainly leisure travellers, but he hoped corporate and group travel would return.
“Especially after COVID, people are going to look at new builds,” Talreja said. “I think the way forward is the new hotels, and I am really lucky to have one.”
The growing numbers of hotels are fighting for a share of a depleted market, with the latest figures from Tourism Research Australia showing domestic overnight trips in Victoria were down 47 per cent from March 2020 to February 2022.
Melbourne Airport’s passenger numbers have slowly increased, from 1.2 million in January and 1.1 million in February to 1.7 million in March.
However, hotel rooms are yet to book out, with data from hospitality analytics company STR recording hotel occupancy in Melbourne for the year to April 2022 at 51.5 per cent. Before the pandemic in April 2019 it was at 77 per cent.
Adam Schwab, founder of travel company Luxury Escapes, said strong occupancy rates and good returns for investors had fuelled Melbourne’s hotel building spree.
“The reason why so many hotels were being built was because returns were really good for hotels for 15 years. From GFC [Global Financial Crisis] to pre-COVID, hotel returns were incredible,” he said.
Schwab said increasing RevPAR (revenue per available room) and rising occupancy had led to a “perfect storm”, which increased hotel value and attracted more investors.
“Both Melbourne and Sydney were quite under-served for hotels, especially luxury hotels. There had barely been a luxury hotel built in either city for quite some time, for probably a decade,” he said.
Schwab is confident the travel sector will bounce back and the new hotels across Melbourne will steadily fill up.
“I think supply, to an extent, creates demand,” he said. “Once you build the Ritz-Carlton, or a Four Seasons is coming in a few years time, that itself brings in customers.”
James Wilkinson, founder of hotel trade publications Wayfarer and Hotel Management, said until demand increases, the oversupply of hotels in Melbourne would mean good deals for locals.
“Outside major events, there will be some amazing deals for both business and leisure travellers in the short- and medium-term,” he said. “The oversupply was expected pre-pandemic, and it’s been great to see the confidence of so many owners to not delay openings and open hotels.”
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Five 'High School Musical' Series Stars, Including Olivia Rodrigo, Are No Longer Main Cast Members for Season 3
Disney+ has confirmed that High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is coming back this summer for season three AND the show has been renewed for a fourth season.
The announcement of the third season included a plot synopsis, as well as details on the cast. The streamer has confirmed that five main cast members from previous seasons will only be “guest stars” in the upcoming third season, including Olivia Rodrigo.
The third season is set at Camp Shallow Lake, a sleepaway camp in California, as the Wildcats and their fellow campers are primed for an unforgettable summer ripe with romance, curfew-less nights and a taste of the great outdoors. With a high-stakes production of Frozen on the horizon AND a drama-filled “docu-series” of the production in the works, the Wildcats will attempt to show who is “best in snow” without leaving anyone out in the cold.
The eight-episode third season will premiere on July 27 with each of the episodes debuting weekly on Wednesdays. Watch the trailer on
Click through the slideshow for details on the cast for season three… | https://www.justjared.com/2022/05/20/five-high-school-musical-series-stars-including-olivia-rodrigo-are-no-longer-main-cast-members-for-season-3/ | 2022-05-20T23:52:11Z | https://www.justjared.com/2022/05/20/five-high-school-musical-series-stars-including-olivia-rodrigo-are-no-longer-main-cast-members-for-season-3/ | true | 1 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A street inside New York City's sole army base now bears the name of a Black Congressional Medal of Honor recipient rather than a Confederate general.
Fort Hamilton changed the road's name to John Warren Avenue on Friday morning, following a years-old push by local officials to remove Confederate symbols nationwide. The base had previously called the street General Lee Avenue, after Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Lt. John Warren, of Brooklyn, was killed at the age of 22 in 1969 in the Vietnam War when he fell in the direction of a grenade and shielded at least three men from the blast.
His Congressional Medal of Honor citation says Williams' “ultimate action of sacrifice to save the lives of his men was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit on him, his unit, and the U.S. Army.”
Warren is buried in Long Island National Cemetery, and his Congressional Medal of Honor was posthumously presented to him in 1970.
The base will also rename its Stonewall Jackson Drive, which is named after another Confederate general. | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/NYC-army-base-renames-Robert-E-Lee-street-for-17188143.php | 2022-05-20T23:52:20Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/NYC-army-base-renames-Robert-E-Lee-street-for-17188143.php | true | 12 |
Small Alberta political parties see opening after Kenney's decision to stay on as UCP leader
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The leaders of some of Alberta’s small political parties say Premier Jason Kenney’s decision to stay on as leader of the UCP until the party can hold a leadership race will make it easier to attract disgruntled voters who are becoming more interested in what alternative parties have to offer.
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Both Paul Hinman, leader of the Wildrose Independence Party, and Barry Morishita, leader of the Alberta Party, are hoping to find space on Alberta’s political landscape in the next election and say the ongoing fracas of the UCP will help them find voters.
Hinman said that if Kenney had apologized after receiving only 51.4 per cent support in his Wednesday leadership review and immediately stepped aside, disaffected conservative voters may have given the UCP a second look. Instead, it was announced by caucus Thursday that Kenney would stay on as leader until a new leadership race is complete.
“That benefits us, (with) disgruntled people realizing, ‘You know what? These people can’t be trusted. These people aren’t thinking of Alberta and what’s good for Alberta,'” Hinman said Friday.
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“That’s a benefit, I want to say, to the province as a whole because we’re seeing the integrity of these MLAs that want to keep on this captain (who) needs to go.”
Before a Friday morning cabinet meeting, Kenney said that him staying on for the time being would allow for stability and a focus on health care and the economy.
“This is a critical time in Alberta’s history. We are determined to keep our eye on the ball,” Kenney said.
Morishita said Friday that his party has seen a significant uptick in interest in memberships, particularly in the last 48 hours, and recently held a virtual town hall with nearly 200 people.
He said people were hoping that Kenney’s leadership review would lead to a fresh start for the UCP and instead they are getting uncertainty and “more of the same.”
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“I think it’s unhealthy for Alberta, which is the sad part, because I think governance goes out the window for another six months or however long it takes (for the leadership race to happen),” he said.
“But that for us, from a political perspective, I think a lot of the uncertainty allows more people to take a look at us.”
In a statement to Postmedia Friday, Buffalo Party of Alberta president Raman Bains touted the party’s grassroots base and said Albertans have been deeply divided by a UCP that was supposed to unite them.
“Albertans are looking for a party to vote for. A party that is closely aligned with their principles and have the best interests of all Albertans at heart, not a party that just wants to remain in power at all costs,“ she said.
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Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt said small political parties, particularly right-leaning ones like the Wildrose Independence party or the Buffalo Party of Alberta, could be a problem for the UCP in the next election by either winning a few rural seats or splitting the vote.
“The NDP did win a handful of rural seats back in 2015 … so that’s a possibility,” he said.
Lori Williams, fellow Mount Royal University political scientist, said the situation with the UCP could lead to an opening for other parties but there are a lot of questions still waiting to be answered.
“They’re clearly setting a foundation for an exit for folks that aren’t ultimately satisfied with what happens but my guess is a lot of people are just going to hold off until they see who the next leader is,” she said.
Hinman’s name has been floated as a possible UCP leadership candidate but at the moment he’s not interested.
“At this point, I have no desire to enter into that pigpen,” he said. | https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/kenney-on-cpac-more-leadership-follow-up | 2022-05-20T23:58:14Z | https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/kenney-on-cpac-more-leadership-follow-up | true | 1 |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina advocacy groups and voters who this year persuaded state courts to overturn the legislature's congressional redistricting plan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to avoid hearing arguments on whether such courts must be curtailed in reviewing U.S. House maps.
Attorneys representing the state also joined with outside lawyers to file four legal briefs with the justices urging them to reject a petition from Republican legislative leaders to take up the issue.
Through their own private lawyers, the GOP lawmakers already asked the court to formally rule on whether a provision in the U.S. Constitution delegating to state legislatures the manner of holding U.S. House elections means that state judges can't void congressional district lines created by the General Assembly.
The authors of Friday's filings say the Supreme Court already has ruled before that some decision-making on congressional redistricting can be delegated by a state's citizens. The same holds true when the North Carolina legislature passed laws two decades ago setting in place the authority of courts to review redistricting plans that they approved, the lawyers wrote.
State legislative leaders petitioned the justices in March, a week after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to prevent a congressional map adopted by a panel of three trial judges and upheld by the state Supreme Court from being used in this year's elections.
But four of the U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they were open to revisiting the scope of state courts’ ability to alter congressional maps in the future. It's unclear when the court will decide whether to take up the case and hold oral arguments. A decision could have broad effects on elections and redistricting nationwide. Primary races were held this week based on the court-imposed maps for the 14 districts.
The map, which will be used for this year only, came about after the state Supreme Court in February struck down congressional boundaries approved by the GOP-controlled legislature. In a 4-3 decision, the court's Democratic justices declared the lines were partisan gerrymanders that violated the state constitution. The legislature tried its hand at a replacement plan, but the trial judges said it wasn't good enough and made adjustments.
The original map approved by the legislature in November most likely would have resulted in 10 seats for Republicans and four for Democrats. The court-ordered plan gives Democrats a good chance to win at least six seats this fall.
Attorneys for the legislative leaders wrote that the U.S. Constitution makes clear that congressional redistricting rests solely with state legislative bodies. A 1916 U.S. Supreme Court decision found that the Elections Clause does not repeal restrictions imposed by the people in state constitutions "to which state legislatures owe their existence,” reads the brief from the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters. The group was among those who challenged the General Assembly's original map in the fall.
“The U.S. Constitution does not grant impunity to a state legislature for violations of its state constitution simply because the legislation relates to congressional elections,” wrote lawyers representing Common Cause, another litigant. Lawyers representing the state come from a department led by Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein. | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/NC-groups-voters-urge-justices-to-avoid-17188193.php | 2022-05-20T23:59:14Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/NC-groups-voters-urge-justices-to-avoid-17188193.php | false | 11 |
6 surprising things about bees on World Bee Day
There is a lot to love about bees.
They are crucial to growing many of our favorite and healthiest foods as they move pollen from plant to plant, pollinating more than a hundred fruits and vegetables including strawberries, potatoes and apples.
Video above: How You Can Help Save Declining Bee Populations
Unfortunately, many bee species are under threat as a result of changes in land use, pesticides, intensive agriculture and climate change — but there are steps you can take to help them thrive.
In honor of World Bee Day on May 20, here are six surprising things you might not know about nature's hardest-working pollinators.
1. Bees like to 'waggle dance'
Bees can communicate and make decisions by dancing.
When a honeybee scouts out and inspects a new nest it uses a waggle dance to advertise and debate its merits. The better the site, the longer and harder the bee dances. If another bee bumps into a dancing bee, she will go off to inspect the site and if she likes it, she, too, will waggle.
Eventually, the dynamics of the waggle dancing causes about 20 to 30 bees to agree on the best nest site, and they communicate their decision to the rest of the swarm by making high-pitched sounds and by buzzing their wings among the other bees.
2. Bees can use tools
Honeybees in Vietnam and other parts of Asia are threatened by predatory species of giant hornet that attack bee colonies, killing the adults defending the nest and preying on the young bees. In particular, the voracious hornet species Vespa soror is capable of obliterating the hive within hours.
To ward off such attacks, the bees have been observed collecting fresh animal feces and smearing it around the entrance to their hive. The researchers, who published their findings last year, call it "fecal spotting." The study team believe the poop repels the predatory hornets (which are similar to murder hornets) from the nest by reducing time hornets spend attempting to breach the nest.
"Fecal spotting stands out as extraordinary for several reasons. It marks the first report of honey bees of any species foraging for materials that are not derived from plants or water-based fluids. It is also the first clear-cut example of honey bees using a tool in nature," the study said.
Honeybees also signal an imminent attack by making a chilling warning noise.
3. Bee poop nearly caused a Cold War confrontation
In the 1980s, "yellow rain" — tiny splotches of yellow found on jungle foliage in Laos and Cambodia — were thought to be the residue of chemical weapons. Refugees said that the yellow rain caused illness and death. The allegations prompted the United States to accuse what was then the Soviet Union and its allies of chemical warfare.
Bee experts later found that the yellow dots were excretions by massive swarms of wild honeybees.
4. Bumblebees get hangry
Plants produce dazzling flowers laden with nectar to attract pollinators but what's an impatient, hungry bumblebee to do when those flowers haven't yet bloomed?
When pollen is scarce, bumblebees damaged tomato and mustard plant leaves in a unique way that resulted in the plant flowering up to 30 days earlier than unnibbled plants, scientists in Switzerland and France found.
For bees, the pollen is a protein source they need to raise their young.
However, warmer temperatures as a result of the climate crisis means that bees are waking up earlier after hibernating for the winter to find the flowers they need for food haven't yet bloomed. Flowering time, which relies on exposure to light, is less affected by climate change. This creates a mismatch that can leaves bees short of food early in spring.
5. Humans have been exploiting honeybees for thousands of years
A cave painting in Spain thought to be 8,000 years old depicts a human gathering honey from a ladder. Traces of beeswax on pottery also suggest that early farmers kept bees 9,000 years ago. Honey has also been found in ancient Egyptian tombs.
Honey was likely a rare treat in a prehistoric diet that had few sweet foods, and it could have had medicinal uses. Beeswax could have been used to make pots waterproof or as a glue.
Today, honey may offer fresh hope in the fight against antibiotic resistance. It contains natural antibiotics to help the body battle infection. Scientists are working on ways to make the sticky substance easier to apply on wounds, and it could be used in surgery, war zones and our own homes.
6. Some bees eat meat
The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but some species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses for flower meadows.
Vulture bees in Costa Rica have guts rich in acid-loving bacteria similar to those found in hyenas and other animals that feed on carrion, scientists at the University of California-Riverside, Columbia University and Cornell University discovered last year.
Their research involved setting up 16 traps baited with 1.8 ounces of raw chicken dangling from branches about 4.9 feet above the ground. Though vulture bees feed on flesh, their honey is still sweet and edible, the researchers said. | https://www.kcra.com/article/6-surprising-things-about-bees-on-world-bee-day/40057287 | 2022-05-21T00:00:11Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/6-surprising-things-about-bees-on-world-bee-day/40057287 | true | 21 |
Traveling? Kansas is the cheapest for gallon of gas
Summer travel is already starting, and gas prices continue to surge. The national average for a gallon of regular fuel was $4.48 on Monday morning.
California is the most expensive state for gas, with a gallon of regular fuel priced at $5.98. The least expensive state for gas was Kansas, with a gallon of regular fuel priced at $3.98.
There are only three states with gas under $4.00 per gallon on average: Kansas, Georgia and Oklahoma.
Here are the 10 cheapest states for a regular gallon of gas, according to AAA :
- Kansas : $3.98
- Georgia : $3.99
- Oklahoma : $3.99
- Missouri : $4.05
- Arkansas : $4.05
- Mississippi : $4.07
- Nebraska : $4.09
- Minnesota : $4.10
- North Dakota : $4.11
- Colorado : $4.11
Here are the 10 most expensive states for a regular gallon of gas, according to AAA :
- California : $5.98
- Hawaii: $5.31
- Nevada : $5.17
- Washington : $5.03
- Oregon : $4.99
- Alaska : $4.88
- District of Columbia : $4.83
- Illinois : $4.82
- New York : $4.75
- Arizona : $4.75
The national average for a gallon of regular fuel on this day last year was $3.04, which is $1.44 less than today’s average of $4.48 per gallon.
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By Barbara Kessler, TJJD Communications
TJJD is relaunching its canine program, with a new name, BARK, for Building Attachment & Resilience K9 Program.
BARK kicked off at the Ron Jackson campus with a series of trainings over the weekend.
TJJD’s Lisa Broussard, the director of Texas Model Leadership Development, is overseeing the roll out and brought in a holistic dog trainer, Roman Gottfried, to discuss how to work with dogs in a kind, more trauma-informed way.
Gottfried’s work mirrors the approach that BARK will take, focusing on building healing attachments that help dogs and their owners or foster “parents.”
He demonstrated several techniques for coaches and administrators at Ron Jackson in classes held this past week. The dog trainer, who has worked extensively with foster dogs, explained that his trauma-informed training is more effective for dogs, as opposed to using punishments, and will be better for the TJJD youth paired with them.
“When we put the child who had trauma, and behaves a certain way, together with a dog who had trauma and behaved a certain way, when we put them together, we can see there’s this magic intervention happening,” Gottfried said.
When he started dog training, Gottfried said he used punishments, as many trainers do. But he came to see that he was falling into a learned pattern, recycling ineffective and violent interventions from the past.
“I recognized this was just a re-creation of my personal trauma and it helped me shift to a better place, to stop punishing for bad behavior and creating a situation where I could reward good behavior,” he said.
He began teaching more compassionate methods. He told his clients, dog owners and dog foster parents, to take time to consider why their canine was misbehaving and to redirect that behavior so that dog and owner could find a successful, no-harm path forward, without boxing the animal into a corner and forcing a bad reaction.
He offered this same message to staff at Ron Jackson, telling them that taking the extra step of understanding the ‘why’ of the dog’s behavior will pay off. To just demand compliance, he said, may change that single interaction but it won’t bring lasting change.
“I hope that recognizing from a dog’s perspective what a safe space looks like (to the dog), what secure attachment looks like, what trauma looks like, what a behavior looks like – how all these things come together in this perfect gearbox -- then we can make that connection and I can apply that to the child too,” he said.
Broussard also noted how Gottfried’s trauma-informed approach tracks with TJJD programming.
“When you’re talking about not going to forced compliance with dog training, it’s exactly the same thing we’re trying to get away from with our kids. And the neat thing is, when you’re working with this program, you’re going to start seeing the connections,” said Broussard, who has previous experience with a dog program that served at-risk kids.
Gottfried demonstrated several specific techniques for the Ron Jackson Youth Development Coaches, mental health and other staff who attended his classes. In one, he and a staffer pulled on a leash, to show how to find a neutral posture.
“We are not always aware of our emotions. So one thing I did with the leash, was to feel how it feels to be in a neutral space. Because we usually pull or push. But we have to find this middle way, where we grow...and I can push it a little bit,” he said.
The exercise also illustrated “how much power not pulling has, and how much power not pushing has, by giving the other one the choice and (then) act accordingly”.
BARK will replace the PAWS program at Ron Jackson, but will continue to pair the youth with shelter dogs, as PAWS has done since its inception in 2010. PAWS (Pairing Achievement with Service) placed rescue dogs with youth, who trained them with a goal of receiving a Canine Good Citizen certification.
BARK also will strive to help rescue dogs become better behaved and adoptable, but the means is also the goal: Building strong, loving attachments with their attentive youthful caretakers.
Dogs for BARK will be provided by the Austin Pets Alive rescue program, Broussard said.
You can watch a video of Gottfried’s training at TJJD at the agency’s YouTube: https://youtu.be/xb4VJRl8ocs | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/573336330/bark-alert-ron-jackson-s-canine-program-gets-a-refresh-with-focus-on-building-attachments | 2022-05-21T00:05:39Z | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/573336330/bark-alert-ron-jackson-s-canine-program-gets-a-refresh-with-focus-on-building-attachments | false | 2 |
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Victim of 'random attack' on CTrain recovering in hospital
A 25-year-old Calgary man is facing several charges in connection with a random stabbing that took place on a CTrain on Wednesday.
Calgary police say they were called to respond to an incident that occurred on the CTrain at approximately 6:15 a.m. on May 18.
Officials say a 65-year-old visually-impaired man was riding the train northeast bound from City Hall station when he was approached by an unknown suspect.
"He was slashed in the neck and then further assaulted in what is believed to be an unprovoked, random attack," police said in a release.
"The victim made his way to the front of the train and notified the driver, who stopped the train in the area of Riverfront Avenue to call for help. While the train was stopped on the tracks, the suspect forced the train doors open and fled on foot."
The driver then took the train to Bridgeland station, where emergency crews got on to help the victim.
He was taken to hospital in serious, but stable, condition.
When police arrived, officials say three people were initially arrested, but were later released without charge.
As the officers searched the train, an additional canine unit was deployed to track down the suspect.
The 25-year-old man was found a short distance away and arrested without further incident.
He faces charges of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public.
OTHER INCIDENTS WITH SUSPECT
Calgary police say they are withholding the name of the suspect because of the circumstances that likely led to the offences.
"Mental health, addictions and homelessness are believed to be factors in relation to the accused’s ongoing, repetitive violent behaviour targeting innocent bystanders."
While under arrest for the stabbing, police say the suspect "expressed pain" about an injury and was taken to hospital for treatment.
During the visit, officials say he attacked the doctor.
Officials say the 25-year-old man was also arrested six days earlier in connection with an incident at the Somerset/Bridlewood LRT station.
Following a physical and mental health assessment, he was released into hospital care on the condition that he not return to that particular LRT station.
Acting Supt. Scott Todd of the Calgary Police Service says their thoughts are with the victim and his family and all residents of Calgary have the right to feel safe while using public transit.
"Random attacks by their very nature are impossible to predict and difficult to prevent, however, we will find those responsible and hold them accountable to the best of our ability," he said in a release.
Todd says the CPS continues to work with the City of Calgary when it comes to safety concerns on the CTrain and other forms of public transit.
"This is not a problem that is unique to Calgary, and we are working with our policing partners in other jurisdictions on solutions that balance public safety with supporting vulnerable members of our communities." | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/victim-of-random-attack-on-ctrain-recovering-in-hospital-1.17815631 | 2022-05-21T00:13:40Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/victim-of-random-attack-on-ctrain-recovering-in-hospital-1.17815631 | true | 1 |
2016 Clinton Campaign Manager Points Finger at Hillary in Court: 'She Agreed'
Former Clinton 2016 campaign manager Robby Mook testified Friday that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved of a plan to disseminate to the media the unsubstantiated claim that the Trump Organization had covert ties to a Russian bank.
The purpose apparently was to create an “October surprise” that Republican nominee Donald Trump had inappropriate connections with Russia and therefore could not be trusted as president.
Mook was called to testify in the case of former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann, who is accused of failing to reveal to the FBI that he was working for the Clinton campaign when he passed on information supposedly tying the Trump Organization to the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank, Fox News reported.
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker testified Thursday that the bureau investigated the data Sussmann provided and found that “there was nothing there,” according to the news outlet.
Mook said Friday in court that the Clinton campaign was not totally confident in the data, but wanted to give it to a reporter who the campaign hoped would be able to “run it down” and determine if the information was accurate.
He said he discussed the matter with campaign chairman John Podesta; senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan, who is now President Joe Biden’s national security advisor; and communications director Jennifer Palmieri before handing the information off.
“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook said.
“I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter,” he added.
A prosecutor then asked if Clinton approved of the plan, and Mook responded that “she agreed.”
Mook later said he couldn’t “recall the exact sequence of events” regarding whether he shared the idea with her before or after the decision was made to pass on the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations to the media, according to Fox News.
“All I remember is that she agreed with the decision,” he testified.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Former Clinton campaign manager testifies that Hillary Clinton personally approved providing one of the Trump-Russia stories (Alfa Bank) to the press. pic.twitter.com/xZCoBw69PF
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) May 20, 2022
Last fall, Sussmann was indicted as part of special counsel John Durham’s investigation for allegedly making false statements to the FBI in September 2016, two months before the presidential election.
The attorney said he was not doing work “for any client” when he asked for a meeting with the bureau regarding the Alfa Bank allegations.
Durham’s team alleges Sussmann was working for the Clinton campaign at the time and in fact billed her campaign for the work.
Sussmann was a partner at Perkins Coie during the 2016 presidential race but resigned in September 2021 after the Department of Justice’s indictment.
Clinton herself promoted the idea that the Trump Organization had illicit ties to Russia in an Oct. 31, 2016, tweet, just days before the election.
“Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,” she wrote.
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
The tweet also included a statement from Sullivan.
“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow. Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,” he said.
“This secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump’s ties to Russia,” Sullivan continued. “It certainly seems the Trump Organization felt it had something to hide, given that it apparently took steps to conceal the link when it was discovered by journalists.”
The then-campaign adviser concluded, “We can only assume federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and Russia as part of their existing probe into Russia’s meddling in our elections.”
Baker testified Thursday that the FBI did launch an investigation into the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations, which lasted “several weeks, maybe a month, maybe a month and a half.”
#Durham “[Sussmann] said, ‘I’m not here on behalf of any particular client,” Baker recalled, in testifying about Sussmann’s statement to him at that 2016 meeting at FBI headquarters. “I’m 100% confident that he said that in the meeting.” Via @RobLegare https://t.co/ZXkxwLZSsT
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) May 20, 2022
“We concluded there was no substance,” he said. “We couldn’t confirm it. We could not confirm there was a surreptitious communications channel.”
Baker added: “There was nothing there.”
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team would also later determine the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
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MIAMI – Ali Abdelaziz thinks either Islam Makhachev or Beneil Dariush should fight Charles Oliveira for the title, because they won’t fight each other next.
Makhachev (22-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) was slated to face Dariush (21-4-1 MMA, 15-4-1 UFC) in the UFC Fight Night 202 headliner in February, but wound up facing Bobby Green next when Dariush withdrew due to an ankle injury. Makhachev ran through Green in Round 1.
On the other side of the bracket, ex-champ Oliveira was forced to vacate his 155-pound title after missing weight against Justin Gaethje at UFC 274. With Oliveira submitting Gaethje, the division no longer has a champion.
Oliveira against Makhachev or Dariush next seems logical. Abdelaziz, who managed both fighters, would like to see one of his clients get the next shot rather than rebooking the original matchup.
“One of these guys need to fight for the title,” Abdelaziz told MMA Junkie. “When the UFC booked them to fight for the title, I was all for it. No. 1 contender match, they come back in July, Beneil was not ready. Now they have to make a decision. Of course I’m gonna make a case for every one of them because I’m not gonna favor anybody.”
He continued, “UFC doesn’t even have a champion. There’s no division. How you’re gonna have a No. 1 contender and Charles Oliveira is the No. 1 contender?”
Whoever ends up getting the fight, Abdelaziz is confident that Makhachev or Dariush would stop Oliveira (33-8 MMA, 21-8 UFC), who has won his past 11 fights with 10 stoppages.
“I believe both will finish him,” Abdelaziz said. “I think Islam gonna submit him. I think Beneil can submit him too. Beneil can knock him out and submit him. I think Islam definitely can submit him and dominate him. Islam can make him look like an amateur, one hundred percent. Beneil is a little bit crazy, he likes to fight. He’s more gonna get maybe wild with him, catch him, put him to sleep.”
He continued, “When you see the odds come out Islam is -450. Beneil would be favorite too, I think he should be favorite. At the end of the day, I love both guys, Beneil and Islam. If the UFC make a decision, they can’t make wrong. If they go with Beneil, I’m OK with it. If they go with Islam, I’m good with it.” | https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2022/05/ufc-news-ali-abdelaziz-islam-makhachev-and-beneil-dariush-would-finish-charles-oliveira | 2022-05-21T00:16:53Z | https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2022/05/ufc-news-ali-abdelaziz-islam-makhachev-and-beneil-dariush-would-finish-charles-oliveira | true | 1 |
‘He just got domed’: Aussie star hits rival on the head with wayward shot
Australian golf star Cameron Smith will want to have his tee shot on the 2nd hole back after he accidentally hit fellow pro Aaron Wise on the head during the second round at the PGA Championship.
Smith sliced his shot to the right of the fairway as his ball headed for the 7th hole instead of the 2nd.
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The Aussie and his group loudly yelled “Fore” to alert the crowd and other players, but unfortunately for Wise, he did not hear the warning in time as Smith’s ball hit him on the head without bouncing before it ricocheted for another 40 yards.
Smith didn’t even know what had happened until he was informed by the commentary team.
Wise was pictured rubbing his head with a cool water bottle and thankfully managed to play his final three holes and complete the round.
Joel Dahmen, who was playing in Wise’s group at the tournament, recounted the moment that Smith’s ball smacked Wise on the head.
“I think he (Wise) bent down to look at my ball and then the ball hit him in the head,” Dahmen told Golf.com.
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“Where the hell did that come from?
“You could hear it. All the spectators heard it. It was loud.
“We were in that right rough area and he just got domed.”
Such was the impact of Smith’s shot on Wise’s head that a red Sharpie mark on Smith’s ball had made a mark on Wise’s hat.
Dahmen also revealed that despite Smith and his group yelling “Fore”, the blustery conditions meant that anyone would have struggled to have heard it.
“It’s so far away, there are so many people and the wind’s blowing, you’re not going to hear it if anyone says fore,” Dahmen said.
“I don’t fault Cam for that at all. A hundred people could have yelled fore and you wouldn’t hear it.”
Wise ultimately finished with a two-over 72 to conclude his second round in Tulsa, leaving him at one over par at the PGA Championship. | https://www.foxsports.com.au/golf/pga-championship/he-just-got-domed-aussie-star-hits-rival-on-the-head-with-wayward-shot/news-story/e9d546fe8c7609f4156d11c094d02885 | 2022-05-21T00:18:32Z | https://www.foxsports.com.au/golf/pga-championship/he-just-got-domed-aussie-star-hits-rival-on-the-head-with-wayward-shot/news-story/e9d546fe8c7609f4156d11c094d02885 | true | 1 |
Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne Seen Days Before Daughter Aimée Escaped Deadly Fire
May. 20 2022, Published 6:18 p.m. ET
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were spotted out and about together on the very week their daughter Aimée narrowly escaped a deadly fire.
The Black Sabbath rocker, 73, donned his signature gothic eyeliner, all-black ensemble, matching nails and long hair while leaving a Los Angeles recording studio with a walking stick in hand on Tuesday, photos obtained by Daily Mail showed.
Sharon, his longtime spouse of nearly 40 years, joined Ozzy for the rare outing and was clad in a leather jacket, white blouse and boyfriend-fit jeans with platform sneakers.
Ozzy's public outing in L.A. came as a surprise considering he's been dealing with a number of health issues including a recent COVID diagnosis and Parkinson's disease. Sharon, 69, who had rushed home to care for her ailing husband amid his positive test, also caught the virus herself this month. Fortunately, both have since been on the mend.
The Osbourne family was sadly faced with another scare this week as Aimée, 38, barely avoided a fire in a Hollywood studio Thursday night that killed one person and left two injured.
Sharon, who also shares kids Jack and Kelly with the famed "Prince of Darkness," detailed the terror that unfolded while sharing a Los Angeles Times article reporting on the deadly blaze.
"Today my daughter @aro_officialmusic was working in a recording studio at this building with her producer. They are the lucky two that made it out alive," she wrote. "It is utterly heartbreaking that someone lost their life today in this fire & we are sending our prayers to this person & their family. What happened today was beyond horrific. I really hope moving forward that buildings like this are better regulated for fire safety."
Sharon noted that some producers, musicians, mixers and artists also lost all of their equipment in the blaze before personally thanking an individual who helped.
"[Aimée] asked my husband to catch her so she can jump out of the second floor after he was yelling letting everyone in the building know. Glad she didn't have to and she was OK. I'm still here right now, hoping I can salvage our studio equipment," one social media user commented under Sharon's post, to which the talk show host replied, "Thank you @pretty.face.rayray your husband alerting her literally saved her life." | https://radaronline.com/p/ozzy-sharon-osbourne-seen-before-daughter-aimee-escaped-deadly-fire/ | 2022-05-21T00:18:41Z | https://radaronline.com/p/ozzy-sharon-osbourne-seen-before-daughter-aimee-escaped-deadly-fire/ | false | 1 |
Ecolab's (ECL) CEO Christophe Beck on Q1 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Ecolab, Inc. (NYSE:ECL) Q1 2021 Earnings Conference Call April 27, 2021 1:00 PM ET
Company Participants
Mike Monahan – Senior Vice President-External Relations
Christophe Beck – Chief Executive Officer
Dan Schmechel – Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Tim Mulrooney – William Blair
Manav Patnaik – Barclays
David Begleiter – Deutsche Bank
Rosemarie Morbelli – G. Research
Gary Bisbee – Bank of America
John McNulty – BMO Capital Markets
John Roberts – UBS
Vincent Andrews – Morgan Stanley
Scott Schneeberger – Oppenheimer
Laurence Alexander – Jefferies
Andrew Wittmann – Robert W. Baird
Shlomo Rosenbaum – Stifel
Jeff Zekauskas – JPMorgan
Mike Harris – Goldman Sachs
Eric Petrie – Citi
Operator
Greetings, and welcome to Ecolab’s First Quarter 2021 Earnings Release Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
It’s now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mike Monahan, Senior Vice President, External Relations. Thank you, Mr. Monahan, you may now begin.
Mike Monahan
Thank you. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ecolab’s first quarter conference call. With me today are Christophe Beck, Ecolab’s CEO; and Dan Schmechel, our CFO. A discussion of our results, along with our earnings release and the slides referencing the quarter’s results are available on Ecolab’s website at ecolab.com/investor. Please take a moment to read the cautionary statements in these materials, which state that this teleconference and the associated supplemental materials include estimates of future performance. These are forward-looking statements, and actual results could differ materially from those projected. Factors that could cause actual results to differ are described under the Risk Factors section in our most recent Form 10-K and in our posted materials. We also refer you to the supplemental diluted earnings per share information in the release.
Starting with a brief overview, the first quarter showed continued sequential business improvement that was offset by the Texas freeze. Adjusted EPS were $0.81. That EPS included the impact of short-term supply chain and customer disruption from the freeze that were estimated to be $0.10 per share. Healthcare and Life Sciences segment showed further strong sales growth. The Industrial segment experienced a modest sales decline as its growth was offset by the freeze impact. The Other segment significantly narrowed its sales declined from the fourth quarter and the Institutional and Specialty segments sales declined narrowed slightly from the fourth quarter as sales trends within our U.S. institutional business improved through the end of the first quarter.
Our markets are broadly improving and increasing rate of vaccination along with the easing of social restrictions provides further support for the global economic recovery. We expect that broad improvement leveraged by our investments and the work we have done to further our critical innovation, service and digital business drivers, as well as our cost efficiency measures will help drive strong comparison against 2020 results over the balance of the year and results in 2021 adjusted earnings per share that exceed 2019 adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations, excluding the estimated $0.15 per share impact from the Texas freeze.
Over the past year, we’ve seen the value of Ecolab’s premium product and service expertise, once again, underscored through continued strong new business growth, as well as our strengthened customer relationships, despite the difficult market conditions. Our position as leader in food safety, clean water and healthy environments has become even more important. We believe this position along with our strong long-term growth opportunities remain robust driven by our huge remaining market opportunity, our leading global market positions, our focus on providing our strong customer base with improved results, while lowering their water, energy and other operating costs and through that, our ability to help them meet their growing ESG ambition. We believe these sustainable long-term business drivers will continue to yield superior long-term performance for Ecolab and our investors.
Now here’s Christophe Beck with his comment.
Christophe Beck
Thank you so much, Mike, and good afternoon, everyone. I’m very pleased with our first quarter, which was right in line with our expectations. Excluding the Texas freeze, which we discussed earlier our business continued to show solid fundamental improvement that gives us confidence in our full year outlook. Our underlying business momentum, as well as margin development gets improving across the board leading to strong results in the first quarter. Excluding the short-term impact of the Texas freeze our Q1 adjusted EPS showed a significantly narrowing decline versus the prior year continuing our improving quarterly trends.
It’s also ahead of what we delivered in Q1 2019, which is a good indication for our expected full year delivery. We did all this, while continuing to invest in our major growth initiatives and in our global team capabilities to leverage our position as the markets reopen. Excluding the freeze, all segments stayed strong or showed continued sequential improvement. Our fundamental business strength get gaining momentum, especially in our Institutional division, which saw definitive pick up as we exited March. Our Industrial segment, which was most impacted by Texas freeze delivered improved underlying growth trends versus the fourth quarter of 2020, and continued to further strengthen its margin.
Healthcare and life sciences maintained their strong double digit growth and solid margin improvement. This good start strengthens our confidence for the full year and beyond. Our general market outlook remains largely unchanged versus what we said in previous calls. North America and China moving ahead of our previous expectations, while Europe and several emerging markets remained behind as they recover from extended lockdowns and are still impacted by a rather slow pace of vaccination.
So the exact timing of the global reopenings might shift a few months, which might also shift some of the recovery into Q3. We expect strong growth in the second quarter, driven by improving end markets and accelerated underlying growth momentum. We expect these trends to continue in the second half of the year. Our objective has been to start the year in a position of strength and Q1 shows, we clearly achieved this. Our net new business pipeline increased to record highs and our global market shares are strengthening. Our differentiated innovations are continuing to help our customers protect their consumers and our world-class programs help them preserve vital natural resources, while generating very attractive financial returns. And with our new Ecolab Science Certified Assurance program, we have become the brand that reaches customers and consumers in time they needed their most. All this underscores our confidence that we are on a path to deliver full year 2021 adjusted EPS ahead of 2019 EPS, excluding the estimated $0.15 impact of that Texas freeze.
Looking beyond the pandemic, our long-term position is better than ever in a world where hygiene standards are rising, where food safety and infection risk awareness has reached new levels, where the expected gap between water supply and water demand is what it had never. Our differentiated value proposition as a global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention services, and technologies positions us uniquely to capture these accelerating growth trends. The combination of this unmatched value proposition and the breadth of our comprehensive offering makes us the obvious partner for global companies to help them deliver on their most ambitious sustainability commitments.
Our ability to serve customers at 3 million locations in 132 countries with 25,000 dedicated underground experts in 40 industries allows us to deliver the same standards of quality and performance anywhere around the world. And our new business pipeline, breakthrough innovation, unmatched digital footprint, world-class scientific expertise and passion for exceptional execution, we continue to lead to sustain growth momentum and continued double digit earnings growth for the years to come.
I look forward to your question. So Mike, back to you.
Mike Monahan
Thank you. That concludes our formal remarks. As a final note, before we begin Q&A, we plan to hold our 2021 Investor Day on Thursday, September 16 at St. Paul. Operator, would you please begin the question-and-answer period?
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Thank you. Our first question will be coming from the line of Tim Mulrooney with William Blair. Please proceed with your questions.
Tim Mulrooney
Good afternoon.
Christophe Beck
Good afternoon, Tim.
Tim Mulrooney
Hi, Christophe. I know everyone’s expecting a strong recovery in the Institutional segment in the second quarter, particularly given the easy comparison that you have with last year. But I’m curious if you could maybe talk about how the recovery in that segment is unfolding on a global basis. How is U.S. institutional performing recently relative to some of your other major global markets? And how do you see that playing out through the second quarter?
Christophe Beck
Thank you, Tim. So on institutional, net-net it’s happening as expected. We had the U.S. and China ahead of our expectations as we can read as well in the news. And on the other hand, so we have Europe and a few emerging markets that are behind as we can see with restrictions, with lockdowns, with the slow pace of vaccinations, especially in Europe as well. So that’s the balance that we are trying to manage. When I think about how institutional did during the first quarter. We saw a nice pickup in March, it’s being confirmed in April right now in the second quarter. So net-net Q2 should be more or less as expected if there is one caveat might be so the timing of reopening in Europe and some of the emerging markets that might shift some of that growth in Q3. But for the full year, I confirm the outlook the way we described it in the previous call.
Tim Mulrooney
Okay. That’s great. Thanks. And as my follow-up, can you just talk about within the Institutional segment how your customers, that are open, how they’re spending? I know this has been a common theme that folks have asked on a conference call but curious on your updated thoughts. Are customers spending more than they were relative to pre-COVID levels on things like hard and soft surface cleaners, where I know that there’s maybe some elevated demand. And do you think eventually that demand returns to pre-COVID levels? Or do you think that it settled somewhere above pre-COVID levels given the emphasis on virus protection and the like. Thank you.
Christophe Beck
Good question, Tim. So our focus as you know is on our corporate accounts, so those are chain customers. Regional or global customers those are the ones who have weathered the pandemic better than others as well. Most of them are investing in new units or in the refreshing of current units as well, which bodes very well for our business for today and for tomorrow. To your question on the hygiene products, basically the way we think about it is that it’s going to be a bit less than during the pandemic where the measures obviously are going to be a little bit less strong than what we’d experienced over the past 15 months. But it’s going to be higher than what we’d experienced to pre-pandemic as well. So net-net, we think that our position in institutional has strengthened and the customers that we serve are going to be in a better position as well.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Manav Patnaik with Barclays. Please proceed with your question.
Manav Patnaik
Yes. Thank you. Good afternoon. I just wanted to attach on your comments around Europe, if you could just elaborate a bit more in terms of – I know pre-pandemic, it was structurally I guess, just a little growth area and there was some competitive dynamics. So I was just curious if you see any of that changing, once we do get this inbound or reopening.
Christophe Beck
Hi, Manav. So to your on Europe, so Europe had a good year last year. So in 2020 we had flat sales overall. We had our profit margins that went up as well. So overall I was very pleased with the business development that we saw in that critical region for us. And if I look at 2021, it’s kind of an on/off approach that they are having. So first I’d like to put on the side to the UK, which was partly reopen, as we know, so way ahead in terms of vaccinations versus continental Europe. So UK, we saw a good development over there, continental Europe, so most of the countries are in complete lockdown, so most of the large countries have curfews even as well as that’s true for Germany and for France for instance as well.
So most, if not all of the restaurants and hotels are for the most part closed, which is something that’s going to change hopefully before the summer. They’re all talking about reopening in order to protect the summer season. I hope that that’s going to be true. It’s going to be a bit later than what I had expected ultimately here, but then it’s going to drive a rebound which is going to be positive in Q3. So, as I mentioned before, we might have some of the growth we were expecting in Q2 shifting to Q3. But all in all, so for the full year, it’s going to be similar than what we had thought.
Manav Patnaik
Okay, got it. And then the other question I just had Christophe was on water. I know it was 3% growth backing out the Texas freeze. But just given just the water scarcity issues out there, I was just curious, can water grow just like life sciences and healthcare is growing just given the need out there? Or are there any limitations to get to that kind of growth rate?
Christophe Beck
Yes. For water, so you mentioned it was 3% ex the Texas freeze, it’s important as well to keep in mind that within water you have light industries, heavy industries both are growing ex-Texas in mid-single plus which is very good in Q1 and you have mining, which is still in the negative territory since we exited some of our coal business. But even mining is going to come back in a nice way, I think in the next few quarters and years for sure. And to your point on water scarcity, we see always more customers are coming to us and asking us how to help them reach their net zero objective that they have for 2030 or for 2050, which is right in line with our ESG promise as the company and offering our customers. And that’s going to feed as well. I think the momentum, so for water in the years to come.
Manav Patnaik
All right. Thank you very much.
Christophe Beck
Thank you, Manav.
Operator
The next question is from the line of David Begleiter with Deutsche Bank. Please proceed with your questions.
David Begleiter
Thank you. Christophe, can you discuss the pressure from raws you are seeing and the pricing you need right now to offset that and when that might equalize prices versus raws?
Christophe Beck
Yes. Hi, David. On the raws it was pretty benign in Q1, as we’ve shared, but if we look at the full year, if we look at the indices that you read to it’s obviously much more than what we had expected initially. But when I step back and look at the overall picture, it’s roughly kind of mid-single gross in terms of cost for our overall raws spend, which is more than what we had expected, but something that we had experienced in the past as well. We know and we have the capability to price for that in a good way. That we price to over customers based on value that we create as well.
So for them, which means that we do that as well over time, it’s not a rapid shift over a month, take it some time. And just as a reminder, we tried to get the dollar value, so within 12 months back and the margin percent, so in 24 months, so the second year or so. The way we look at it today for 2021 might be a slight net negative. But I’m not even sure about that, our teams are good in doing it, and what we’re seeing right now is nothing exceptional versus what we’ve experienced in the past.
David Begleiter
No, very good. And can you just discuss the competitive intensity in the marketplace. You have – one of your competitors is now public. Talk about your share gains you saw in Q1 and what you expect as you go through the year versus perhaps to do a more public profile to competitor.
Christophe Beck
So I’m really happy with the share gains that we have in most, if not all businesses actually where we tracking the number of units that we are serving, the number of solutions that we serve in to existing, you need as well. And we’ve talked about that over the past few quarters that was an objective for the whole team during the pandemic to gain share that when it reopens, we can leverage obviously that pick up and that’s happening as we expected, which is really good.
And you’re right, so one of our competitors has become public over the past few weeks. We’re very familiar with them. We’ve been competing with them for many, many years. We respect them a lot as well. And I would say they make us better because we need to be better than them. And when you think about it we overlap in a - less than a third of our end markets. We’re 5x larger, we invest 10x times more in R&D and digital than they do as well. So I feel really good about what we can do for our customers and how are we gaining shares versus them on the marketplace.
David Begleiter
Thank you very much.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Rosemarie Morbelli with G. Research. Please proceed with your question.
Rosemarie Morbelli
Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone.
Christophe Beck
Good afternoon, Rosemarie.
Rosemarie Morbelli
So Christophe, what would be the likelihood that you could be close to the 2019 level of [indiscernible] including the hit from the freeze and outside of Europe recovering? Or do you need Europe to open its doors to all Americans vaccinated and we are all going there in order to help you guys? What do you need in order to do better than what you are looking at currently?
Christophe Beck
So right now, I feel very good about delivering these 2019 adjusted EPS, excluding the Texas freeze as you mentioned. The Q1 delivery saw – has increased our confidence to deliver that. As mentioned before, there might be some shift between Q2 and Q3 because of the timing of reopening in Europe, as you mentioned. But overall with everything I know right now, I think that the delivery as we described it is the right target. If things improve in Europe better than the old thing, well, we will definitely try to gain more momentum. But for now I think that the 2019 EPS deliveries would be a good target excluding Texas.
Rosemarie Morbelli
Okay. Thanks. And then looking at SMB, could you talk a little bit a more details of the different segments or areas in that particular segment?
Christophe Beck
The SMB had a good year. Last year, it’s one of our best businesses as you know, so good growth, good margin, good margin improvement. The all industrial and segment obviously did as well. SMB had a strong start in 2020 when the pantry loading, so was happening in the first quarter and a little bit beyond as well. So we have some compare reasons challenges right now, but underlying, I feel good about where SMB is going. It’s a little bit different by end market. So we had the milk products that were impacted for a while because of schools being closed. That’s improving progressively, so which is good. We see beverage and brews beers improving in some places, especially in the U.S. but very strong in Latin America where everything is closed.
So that’s going to be good for the future. That’s a little bit less good right now. And in the food segment that’s where we have strong comparisons versus the previous year where pressures a little bit for the year-on-year comparison. But net-net, the Q1 fees a bit softer because of the comparison, but underlying, and especially when I look at the new business being generated in SMB, the next few quarters are going to show some good delivery as it used to be as well in the past.
Rosemarie Morbelli
All right. Thank you.
Christophe Beck
Thank you, Rosemarie.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Gary Bisbee with Bank of America. Please proceed with your question.
Gary Bisbee
Hey guys. Good afternoon. I guess the first question, can you just give us an update on where we are with the cost savings programs? Sort of what have you achieved to date? What’s likely to be achieved in 2021? And then how much savings are left from those big programs for beyond 2021? Thank you.
Christophe Beck
Thank you, Gary. I’ll pass it to Dan, who has the details. But generally, the progress that we’ve made in our cost savings program, which are all meant to strengthen our performance, post-pandemic as well. So if anything, things have progressed better than we had expected. But with that, Dan, maybe some more detail.
Dan Schmechel
Sure. Gary, thank you. Just for common reference, maybe it’s probably helpful again, to build up the pieces of our cost savings program, which you’ll recall was originally announced back in 2018 has accelerated 2020. This was the initiative to capture new investments in our digital offering with a $200 million cost savings target. We expanded it at the time we announced the ChampionX then covered things like spend, cost and anticipated costs related to ChampionX. We expanded it again to cover some aspects of high chain industrial business, and most recently to cover some restructuring, really some reshaping maybe of our institutional business to improve principally field delivery.
So you add all that up and we have a targeted cost savings of about $365 million. Some of that is in gross margin. The big bulk of it is in SG&A. Year-on-year the incremental piece that we expect to capture in 2021 is in the neighborhood if you look just at the SG&A piece $120 million, so that’s a big help in 2021. I’d remind you there’s a lot of – $91 million, I’m sorry. There’s a big piece that is after – the net of it is that we think that this entire program will essentially be delivered by the end of 2021 and there’ll be pieces of the institutional program that’s built to 2022, but the bulk of it will be fully accrued and fully delivered by the end of 2021.
Gary Bisbee
Okay, great. Thanks. And then the follow-up question, just, how are you thinking about multi-year growth beyond 2021 as we get more normal performance for the business post-pandemic. Historically you’d laid out a number of long-term aspirational targets. Should we think back to those as appropriate? Or just can you give us a sense how you’re thinking about the multi-year?
Christophe Beck
Gary, just to make sure I understand your question. So you mean in terms of sales growth and earnings growth, right?
Gary Bisbee
That’s right. Yes. So I know this year’s got easy comps and there’s a lot of moving parts, but over the next two, three, four years, are those normal targets still reasonable? Thank you.
Christophe Beck
Yes. Our ambition, Gary has not changed, so the 6% to 8% organic, the 13% to 15% EPS that has been true for many, many years, and it’s not going to change in the future. If anything, our position has strengthened out there, when you think about the rise of hygiene standards did the search for most companies to improve their profile in terms of ESG delivery, net zero in water consumption. So being one of them the need for digital solutions as well. So those are all things that are improving, our position so going forward, so no change in terms of growth expectations for the future. If anything, our position has as improved.
Gary Bisbee
Great. Thank you.
Christophe Beck
Thank you, Gary.
Operator
The next question is coming from the line of John McNulty with BMO Capital Markets. Please proceed with your questions.
John McNulty
Yes. Thanks for taking my question. In the Institutional business specifically, can you speak to the number of accounts that you serve this quarter versus the prior quarter? And how that may have changed? And then I guess to that are starting to see any early signs of new account or I guess, potential customer launches at this point? Or is it a little bit early given where we are in the pandemic kind of stages at this point?
Christophe Beck
Good question, John. We don’t share the exact number of accounts or solutions per accounts that we’re tracking on a monthly basis for a long time, actually feel competitive reasons for the most part. But what I can say is that the number of accounts are keep going up which is good month after month, which is giving us confidence obviously for the growth of our business going forward because we talked to grow without having more customers buying by programs from us.
So more accounts, buying more solutions, and one thing I’d like to add as well is the Ecolab Science Certified program that we’ve launched a year plus ago in institutional requires customers to buy most of our solutions in order to qualify for this certification. And this is driving as well, penetration of solutions in a good way, and it’s helping as well with the retention as well going forward. So not only are we gaining number of accounts and solutions, but we are keeping them as well longer because customers are interested in keeping the certification at the same time.
John McNulty
Got it. And is there a way to think about on the Ecolab Science Certified program, the difference in total value that you’re getting from a specific customer verse one that’s not tied into the program if there’s – looking at like a like-for-like customer, obviously.
Christophe Beck
So it depends obviously where they’re starting from, if they just bought one solution the gap is way bigger and the opportunity is much bigger. In some cases with some of our long-term customers, while they’re buying everything from us everywhere around the world in that case, the opportunity is much smaller. But when I think about it, Ecolab Science Certified was a program, we did not plan to launch pre-pandemic that came as an outcome of the pandemic where we really recognized that our customers needed some help in order to make sure they could protect their guests. And at the same time guests coming into a hotel or in a restaurant, all looking for more reassurance and that’s going to be trouble for the quarters to come.
So we’re measuring as well. So the number of locations that are certified by Ecolab Science Certified, it’s pretty large. Actually we’re not disclosing that number, but it’s by far the number one program in the U.S. Right now it’s generating incremental sales, which is pretty significant as well as at the same time and as you know we’re supporting that as well as a brand in the media, which gets always more recognized by consumers or guests as we call them in that industry. So all in all, this is really good to grow our market share in institutional.
John McNulty
Got it. Thanks very much for the color.
Christophe Beck
Thank you, John.
Operator
The next question comes from the line of John Roberts with UBS. Please proceed with your question.
John Roberts
Thank you. Does it matter that COVID, isn’t significantly transmitted on surfaces or it doesn’t matter because cleaning theater is more important.
Christophe Beck
Infections can be transmitted journey in so many different ways. As we know, it can be the air. It can be what you eat. It can be what you touch. It can be what you drink, the hands that you shaking, obviously, so it’s true that COVID is mostly transferred through the air. But many other illnesses are transmitted so through surfaces or human contact as such. And when I think about infection prevention, well, short-term, we all think COVID-19, but mid to longer-term, we think about any infection that could happen out there and surfaces like human contact are a big vector, as we know. One example is that, in hospitals, the number one vector of infection is through hands as well, not for COVID, but for many other infections as well. So overall, making sure that you reduce the number of infection in a public setting done, well, you need to have surfaces of infected as you can.
John Roberts
Okay. Good answer. And healthcare was 5% excluding one-time sales and 12% including, could you talk about that difference?
Christophe Beck
The main difference – first of all, I’d like to say, so Healthcare used to have underlying sales of 3%, 4% before pre-pandemic getting towards these underlying so 5% plus is a good step up and you’ve seen the margins went up as well in a good way, which is all very encouraging for this business. Now, the difference between the 5% and the 12% is solely driven by significant in deals that we’ve made with some governments around the world during the pandemic to address, obviously, the infection risks in the UK, in Germany, in Australia, in New Zealand, in many countries around the world. This is COVID-19 related. So it’s stapling-off right now. So you start the compares as well against very high growth last year. And that business is going to be reduced. We knew that. And then we get back to the underlying growth of these 5%, as you think.
John Roberts
Right. Thank you.
Christophe Beck
Thank you, John.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Vincent Andrews with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed with your question.
Vincent Andrews
Thank you. Dan, can I just ask you about the working capital and how you’re thinking about free cash flow this year? Just noticing inventory was up about $100 million, $120 million in the quarter versus last year, even though sales were down, I think you mentioned in the prepared remarks that you’re building inventory ahead of the recovery, but just how should we expect working capital to trend overall? And then ultimately what that’s going to translate into free cash?
Christophe Beck
Thank you, Vincent. I’ll pass it to Dan to just in a second. You’ve mentioned it right. So on one hand, we’re very happy with the cash flow delivery in the first quarter. And on the working capital piece, it’s really, so for us, we want to make sure that we can produce enough product for the reopening. That’s happening in the various states and markets around the world. And that has an impact of busy on working capital. But with that, Dan, can you add some comments on that.
Dan Schmechel
Thank you, Christophe. And that might be the answer to the core of your question. And so inventory, look, internally, we’ve been very clear that the mistake that we are not going to make is not going to have product – the right product in the right place to serve our customers as their path to reopening accelerates. Okay, so you’re right. We built significant inventory versus the same time last year also versus year end 2020. And my guess is that we will continue to, because we’ll have the right stuff where we end our customers both need it. If you think about the recovery of the business, generally, rebuilding the balance sheet means that there will be some pull on inventory, accounts receivable too, which are in very good shape from a payment perspective, but as people buy more stuff, we’ll have more on the balance sheet in accounts receivable.
We’ll continue to manage our vendors and what we purchased with the appropriate discipline. But there’ll be an investment in working capital as the business rebuilds, which is the expected and completely appropriate. The net though of our cash flow delivery for the full year, even including the higher level of CapEx that we will continue to invest in the business in 2021, our cash flow will continue to be bigger. And also it will be, if you think about the metric that matters most to me in terms of conversion, it will continue to be in the mid-90% range, which I think is a very good number for the company and for the model. Okay.
Vincent Andrews
Okay. Thank you. And maybe Christophe, any comments on where you are with sort of the bolt-on M&A pipeline.
Christophe Beck
With the M&A pipeline, that’s always a difficult question. Obviously, we have a very rich pipeline. We’ve been working quite a bit during COVID. We’ve done less transaction for the obvious reasons. But we’ve done a lot of strategic work. We’ve built a lot of relationships. So with targets we have out there. So I feel good about the pipeline we have. I want to absolutely invest in places that are driving higher growth and higher margins and making sure that we can do that that valuation that are good for us and for shareholders. So I feel good it’s about to come.
Vincent Andrews
Thanks very much.
Operator
The next question is from the line of Scott Schneeberger with Oppenheimer. Please proceed with your questions.
Scott Schneeberger
Thanks very much. Good afternoon. And this with regard to the Texas freeze, it looks like that lost revenue came in a high decremental margin, if my numbers are correct. Could you please elaborate on just how that impacted? And now that we’re near the end of April, have you seen the full $0.15 impact? Or is this going to drag on through the fall on, through the second quarter, possibly third, just curious what type of lag there is occurring? Thanks.
Christophe Beck
Yes, Scott. So the Texas freeze, we expected this $0.15, which seems to be the right number as we speak, $0.10 have impacted Q1, as we communicated and we expect the remaining $0.05 to impact Q2. We see things really moving behind us, it’s not the perfect science, as you can imagine. So what froze, what was closed, when it reopened? This is something that we can’t control as such, but what I like is that things already saw backing up operations. That’s true for our customers. It’s true for us and our suppliers as well. The only issue we had was backing mostly March and April, which was obviously across two quarters. But $0.15 is the total number, $0.10 in Q1, $0.05 in Q2. It’s happening as expected.
Scott Schneeberger
Thanks, Christophe. And then peers of yours in the industrial segment, where if I backed that out the weather impact, very elevated margins. And just curious, what incremental upside do you see in the segment going forward? It looks very strong since the onset of the pandemic and shrinking? Thanks.
Christophe Beck
You’re right that the knowledge in working industrials has been remarkable. Over the both few years, it was over 300 basis points in 2020, while it stays were slightly declining. As you know, so in Q1, Ex-Texas, that was also a double-digit operating increase, which was good as well. And going forward, I believe that’s a winning business. There will be times with raw materials and pricing where quarter-over-quarter things so might lag a little bit. But generally margins will continue to improve in industrial, especially, because the value that we provide to our customers is unmatched. As mentioned before most of the customers are coming to us, especially, so in our water business is to help them reach the ESG commitments that they’ve made for 2030 or 2050. Well, there’s no one else that can truly help them as we can. This is something that is driving growth and each driving margins as well for us, because they need better technology which is where we invest most in research as well. That’s where we had the highest margin. So it’s good growth driven by good natural feedback, which is driving as well, our margin. So the short answer to your question margins in industrial are going to keep improving.
Scott Schneeberger
Right. Thanks very much.
Operator
Our next question is coming from the line of Laurence Alexander with Jefferies. Please proceed with your questions.
Laurence Alexander
Good afternoon. Just following up on the margin discussion and the price versus loss, as you look at 2022, 2023, should margin speak for the entire firm, be hitting a new high.
Christophe Beck
It’s a great question. So it’s hard for us to know exactly how it’s going to be in 2021. So knowing 2022 and 2023, so we’ll be even hotter. The way we drive pricing is really so driven by the value that we create for like estimates. In other words, how much savings we have them deliver on a year. They invest 10% in our services and they get all 20% or plus back as a return. This is the way we price. It’s basically – so sharing how much value we create so far like estimates. Obviously, when there are raw material increases like – we’ll be experiencing the next quarters and probably years to come. Well, we add that to the equation. We’ve been quite successful over the past few years in doing that. That’s been one of the reasons why margins have improved so well over the past few years, and especially as well last year. So I don’t know how roles are going to be in 2022 and 2023 that I know that our pricing is going to keep being into 1% to 2% plus range, depending on how the raw materials are market, but it’s never going to go down. So all-all it’s going to be up in price and it’s going to be driving margins up as well over the long-term.
Laurence Alexander
And then are there any end markets where you have been surprised at the elasticity of demand and where you’re seeing a clear trade-off between pricing and organic growth?
Christophe Beck
You mean in a negative manner?
Laurence Alexander
Just – I mean, has anything changed in your framework over the course of the COVID related disruptions. Have you learned anything new about kind of the end market behavior where you’re like, okay, that was not expected?
Christophe Beck
No, if anything, it’s more interest on one hand, it’s all driven by this increased trends of ESG have sustainability commitment. So what we do for customers becomes even more critical and customers are ready to invest more in order to get more return from a financial perspective, but also from a image perspective, because they’ve made commitments as well out there. But on the other hand, it’s also in times where performance – cost performance becomes more important. Think about some of the end markets are economically challenged, right now. Well, our solutions as you or handy for those customers because it has some improved the cost competiveness which is you can do the same work, the same outcome, a better outcome was much labor or creating less ways. So using that natural resources as well, so it’s a good sign that should sell. On both sides for customers in most segments, well, they need more of what we do in order to reduce the impact on the environment and why they do so they reduce that cost as well, which is even more important than difficult economic time. So in terms of the specific end markets in both cases. This is a good story for us.
Laurence Alexander
Thank you.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Andrew Wittmann from Robert W. Baird. Please proceed with your questions.
Andrew Wittmann
Great. Thanks for taking my questions. You’ve had a couple of questions on margins. I wanted to do another one. You had the one on the industrial segment. You had the consolidated margin question. But I had a, kind of a two-part question here on the healthcare segment, to start out with, obviously, here, you talked about some of the large governmental orders and other things that probably helped your fixed costs leverage in that segment over the past 12 months, I was just wondering as those comparisons are now stiffer and the business starts to normalize above historical levels, but it starts to normalize last year, at least if you think that some of the fixed cost leverage goes away, if that’s the appropriate way of thinking about that segment margins in the 12 months ahead.
And then secondarily just maybe a little bit more detail on the institutional segment margins obviously the volume declines or significance, I don’t make sense what’s happened to the margin so far but on the way back up with the cost reductions programs that you’ve put in place, do you think that when the revenue level back – gets back to 2019 levels, is there any reason to think that the margins would be any different in that business than they were pre-COVID? Just recognizing that the customer base is probably going to be somewhat changed, maybe not your so much to the national accounts, but a lot of changes to hospitality and food service stuff, I want to get your thoughts on that. Sorry for the long question.
Christophe Beck
No, that’s good. Thank you, Andy. Maybe starting with healthcare, very different dynamic of business, I mean, in institutional, so in healthcare, first of all, very pleased with the underlying growth performance. So moving towards these 5%, which was an objective for a long time, it’s taken us so many years to get there and COVID has helped because the infection prevention awareness of customers and patients in that days has gone up very clearly during COVID-19 which is good. So underlying growth solid in healthcare and that’s here to state. Second on margins, very good improvement last year, in some cases had partly with the one-off those government deeds that we talked about earlier, but I feel really good that margin is going to keep improving in 2021 and in the future as well.
So this is here to stay. So good story in healthcare and for me, that’s not the end of the story. It’s really up to us to improve it further, that’s on healthcare. Institutional saw very different story, especially, so coming out of 2020, which is the business that’s being impacted the most in our company, the 90% plus of the COVID impact at Ecolab was on institutional division, as we all know, which is 20% of our overall company as such. So when I think about the margins, I would say two things, Andy, the first one is every quarter, it’s going to improve and we’re going to get a lot back from what we lost in 2020. And we’ll get close to where we were in 2019 pre-pandemic. So probably not that the end of this year, but early in 2022.
And the second part of your question, so post pandemic, if I can call it that way, well, we’ve invested in our organizational development/restructure. We’ve invested as well in field technology, that’s going to help as well, the performance. So if anything, the margins of institutional over the mid-term that should improve versus what we have seen pre-pandemic.
Andrew Wittmann
Thank you very much. Have a good day.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is coming from the line of Shlomo Rosenbaum with Stifel. Please proceed with your questions. Mr. Rosenbaum, your line is live. Please shoot your question.
Shlomo Rosenbaum
Sorry. Christophe, maybe you could talk a little bit about the discussion used to be before the pandemic, a lot more about the investments that were being made in digital solutions. I know the company didn’t want to pull back on investments through the pandemic. Can you about what has happened over the last year, where there have been areas of adoption that have been accelerated because of the pandemic and where there might be areas of lag?
Christophe Beck
Great question. Thank you. Shlomo. Digital has been an important party for us for many, many years. It started 30 years ago. Actually, what’s called differently, obviously, back then that was true when we did – so we moved monitoring of pool on falling institutional, and that was especially true. So we have 3D trays for industrial water business as well. And if I fast forward, ultimately, so for 2020 things that accelerated, because in many instances we could not go to estimate locations for obvious reasons, so related to COVID, so customers and our teams have embraced digital solutions even more than before. Keep in mind as well, that we invested over the past, high figures, over a $150 million a year in digital. So we were ready for that moment during the pandemic, that was more luck than genius, obviously as such, but it became very handy as well as such. So when I think about the three main drivers for us in digital, I think the first one is to drive customer value. So it’s subscriptions, it’s a regional prevention programs, for instance, as well. They all driven by digital technology. We said that technology, this is growing very nicely.
The second one is our field solutions in order to improve the productivity and the value created by our 25,000 people around the world. Institutional, as rolled out everywhere around the world, then you platform during COVID and that’s going to help us as well. So if a post pandemic, that’s what I just answered as well before, which is one of the reasons why our performance in institution will improve. And the last pillar is the customer experienced e-commerce for instance, that has gaining – that has gained traction in 2020 also because of the remote nature of the customer relationship that we had in during the pandemic. So on all three fronts good progress in 2020. And when I looked at the progress we making in digital in 2021, our digital enabled say adopt roughly $1.5 billion and growing double digit as we speak. So a very good story, all in all.
Shlomo Rosenbaum
Okay, great. If I could follow-up, is there any progress to note in when the new verticals was going to be kind of the data center area? Is there anything to a report on that over the last year or quarters?
Christophe Beck
Well, it’s been a great story. Because we’ve all ended up working remotely on whatever is your system of preference, Webex, Teams, Zoom and so on, remote monitoring of applications as well or plans, it’s an industry that has been booming. As you can see, as well as, so from the numbers from the tech industry that we serve, really last year which was also pre-pandemic, we created global data centers as a dedicated business which came luckily enough. So very, Andy, so for the pandemic and since then, this business has been growing strong double digit operating income improvement, very strong as well. And interesting enough, so the customers that we serve, which all the tech companies the ones that are owning those data centers operations. At the same time, it have made big commitments in terms of water and carbon savings. Well, this is the work we do for them because that’s ultimately where they use the water or emit CO2 because of the energy that they need to use for the computers as such, which has brought them back to us, you’ve heard from Microsoft as well. They’ve shared it openly, publicly. So it’s not a secret that they’ve committed for the net zero water by 2030. And that’s the plan that we’ve developed with them. That’s all driving the growth in that new vertical, which is very promising.
Shlomo Rosenbaum
Thank you so much.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Jeff Zekauskas with JPMorgan. Please proceed you’re your question.
Jeff Zekauskas
Thanks very much. When you think about the restaurant and hotel business going forward, is the restaurant has future going to be different than the restaurant in the past and the hotel of the future, that is, there may be distancing rules. There may be other factors. Does the Ecolab institutional business go back to where it was in 2019 in a normal environment? Or does it go to a different place? Is it better? Is it worse?
Christophe Beck
It’s a great question and a fundamental question. And it’s not going to go back to where it was in 2019. I think it’s going to be better. If I think about our end markets, it’s not going to be true for every one for the independence. It’s going to be – it’s been difficult obviously, if I can give it to restaurants during the pandemic financially, so to survive, those ones had more hardship than the chain customers, which is the vast majority of our business. So corporate accounts customers, as we call them more of change, other who have well survived, the ones with invested in the operations and the one who are expanding as well in terms of units. This is all we serve first and foremost. So that’s a good situation to be in for us. Then to do question on the restaurant or the hotel of the future, to exactly know how it’s going to be either hard to tell, but if few things we know. On the one hand, so the hygiene standards expected by the guests will be up versus 2019. It’s going to be a little bit lower than during the pandemic. Thank God. But it’s going to be a higher than 2019. That’s a pretty sure, and we all asking guests or consumers all the time in order to understand. So what’s happening in their mind and they clearly telling us that they expecting higher hygiene standard, more clean. They want to see clean inaction in order to feel safe, which is good.
The second the labor shortage is going to become a bigger issue. It was an issue pre-pandemic. It’s going to be even more so going forward, as we read in the newspaper. Well, our solutions are helping them deliver more with less labor which is good as well as that. And the last thing, which is harder to grasp completely is how much the takeout, the delivery is going to grow. It’s going to keep growing for sure. And those on new opportunities for us, because those on your businesses as well, we haven’t figured it out completely, but I see that as upside. So net-net for our customers, the chain customers, it’s going to be different than 2019, but it’s going to be better for us as a the pandemic going forward.
Jeff Zekauskas
Okay. Thank you for that. And what percentage of cost of goods sold are raw materials for you?
Christophe Beck
It’s roughly 45%, but obviously, depends a lot by business, pest elimination is much lower as you can imagine. And in some industrial businesses, it might be higher, but in average, it’s 45% for the company.
Jeff Zekauskas
Thank you so much.
Operator
Our next question is coming from the line of Mike Harris with Goldman Sachs. Please proceed with your question.
Mike Harris
Good afternoon, and thanks for taking my question. Just a quick follow-up for Christophe, earlier you mentioned that the first quarter results gave you confidence that you took the path, the 2019 earnings level. I was just curious, I mean, what happened in the quarter that was I guess a positive surprise to your internal expectations that kind of boosted your confidence?
Christophe Beck
Well, thank you, Mike. The bigger question so far us for Q1 was to know when especially in the U.S., the states would reopen. And as you remember, so in Q4, the looked down, so when backwards in Q4 versus Q3, well, that was not exactly a great news. And still, we improved our performance in Q4 versus Q3. So the question was, how is it going to continue in Q1 and that we didn’t know. Obviously, so as we started our year 2021, so we were hoping that things would be improving and ultimately, they did. But they did not in January of February. They did in March. So we were thinking, so Q1 would be a difficult quarter as compared versus Q4. So modest improvement, ultimately, Ex-Texas, it was better done what we felt in Q1.
So if I look at that, the reopening in the U.S. states is good news. Obviously, so for us going forward, China has been good since the beginning of the years. So those two markets are really on the positive side of the ledger. On the other hand, so you have a year up in some emerging markets like Brazil or India that are in a more difficult situation. So net-net, it’s basically as expected. And the last thing that I would say is, that because of the timing, if they’re reopening, so in Europe, that’s going to happen. So towards the end of Q2, some of the growth that we had expected in Q2 might shift in Q3, but all in all, so I feel that net-net, the trends are as expected. Our cost structure is as expected. The timing might be a little bit different than what we had in mind initially, but at the end of the year, so it ends up certainly full year delivery, that’s ahead of the EPS 2019 excluding this Texas impact.
Mike Harris
Okay, thanks for that color.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Eric Petrie with Citi. Please proceed with your question.
Eric Petrie
Good morning, Christophe. How much of your overall sales are to infection prevention and if you could to give a breakdown between institutional and healthcare?
Christophe Beck
So it’s roughly 10% for the company with the goal sanitizing products, as such it had very good growth. Last year that was especially true in healthcare, which has the highest percentage as you would expect obviously, these infections is a bigger part of what we do in hospitals than what we do in hotels or restaurants as you can imagine. But in both end segments even grew doubledigit and we expect the growth that we delivered in 2021 overall to maintain the overall number that we got in 2021, which is a combination of more customers buying more of the sanitation products. But at the same time, it was a little bit lower consumption, so much higher than what we had pre-pandemic, close to what we had in 2020 and close to the 10% for the overall segments .
Eric Petrie
Helpful. And then as a follow-on how much of your infection prevention chemistries or sanitizing products are based on chlorine, alcohol or peroxide. And have you seen any attrition to accelerated hydrogen peroxide?
Christophe Beck
Yes. It’s one of the applications that we have. So we don’t disclose too much of usually the formula that we are using as such, if you think about the 15 seconds of COVID kill that belongs on the market as well. Last year, this is an absolute so you need differentiated obligation. No one kills COVID-19 in 15 seconds or less, that done by us. So that’s been very unique and pretended obviously, on the market, but what you mentioned. So with the accelerated hydrogen peroxide, that’s one of the solutions. We like it as well. We use it as well. But for us, we’re going beyond that as well.
Eric Petrie
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. At this time, we’ve reached the end of our question-and-answer session. Now hand the floor back to management for further remarks.
Christophe Beck
Okay. Thank you. That wraps up our first quarter conference call. This conference call the associated discussion slides will be available for replay on our website. Thank you for your time and participation and best wishes for the rest of the day.
Operator
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Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns, 47, targeted by man who threatened to blow her up at café event she had publicised on Twitter
- Conservative MP was targeted by a man who threatened to blow her up at a café
- Andrea Jenkyns, 47, was 'shaken' after the threat to her life on Friday morning
- The MP for Morley and Outwood, Yorkshire had tweeted about an event that day
- The death threat came less than a year after the murder of MP Sir David Amess
A Conservative MP was targeted by a man who threatened to blow her up at a café event yesterday that she had publicised on Twitter.
Andrea Jenkyns, 47, was left 'shaken' after the threat to her life. The MP for Morley and Outwood in Yorkshire had publicised a 'friendship café' that day at the town hall.
The death threat came less than a year after Conservative MP Sir David Amess was assassinated while at his surgery in Southend in October 2021.
Married mother-of-one Jenkyns was getting her hair cut when an alarmed staffer phoned at around 9.20am to say a man was threatening to blow up the MP.
Andrea Jenkyns, 47, was left 'shaken' after the threat to her life yesterday when a man threatened to blow her up
The MP for Morley and Outwood in Yorkshire had publicised a 'friendship café' that day at the town hall
'I only missed him by a matter of minutes,' she told The Sun. 'Today did shake me up.
'They said there is a guy at the town hall and security says he wants to blow you up.
'I was like - God, do I leave the hairdresser?'
Police came to the hairdresser and took her to safety, while the would-be attacker was held on suspicion of a public order offence.
Jenkyns added: 'Is it worthwhile?
'Especially when you have children. I was quite emotional today.'
The married mother-of-one MP had invited people to the 'friendship café' for 'cakes, a cuppa and a chat'
Sir David Amess (pictured) was murdered while at his surgery in Southend, Essex, in October last year
It is the sixth time in seven years that Jenkyns has received death threats after being elected to Parliament in 2015.
During the time she has sat as an MP, two MPs - Jo Cox and Sir David Amess - have been murdered.
After her scare yesterday, Jenkyns asked Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to discuss giving MPs more protection while in their constituencies.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: 'Officers are continuing to liaise with Jenkyns and her team to provide safeguarding and reassurance for them.
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Resolute Announces Ratification of Collective Agreement at Seven Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills
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MONTREAL, May 20, 2022 /CNW Telbec/ - Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) today announced ratification of a four-year collective agreement by Unifor union members at seven of the company's pulp and paper mills in Canada, following an agreement-in-principle reached on May 15, 2022.
"We are pleased with the result of the vote, which is a testament to the hard work and collaborative efforts of both the company and the union in recent years to address the challenges we are facing and to ensure the competitiveness of the business," said Remi G. Lalonde, president and chief executive officer. "Thanks to the support of our employees, we continue to pursue our vision to operate a model manufacturing company, built with the strongest business values, the highest respect for sustainability and the calling to serve our people and communities."
The collective agreements cover approximately 700 hourly employees represented by Unifor at Resolute's Dolbeau; Gatineau; Kénogami; Saint-Félicien and currently indefinitely idled Amos and Baie-Comeau pulp and paper facilities in Quebec; and the Thunder Bay operation in Ontario. The seven mills account for about 50% of the company's total pulp and paper production capacity.
About Resolute Forest Products
Resolute Forest Products is a global leader in the forest products industry with a diverse range of products, including market pulp, tissue, wood products and papers, which are marketed in over 60 countries. The company owns or operates some 40 facilities, as well as power generation assets, in the United States and Canada. Resolute has third-party certified 100% of its managed woodlands to internationally recognized sustainable forest management standards. The shares of Resolute Forest Products trade under the stock symbol RFP on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Resolute has received regional, North American and global recognition for its leadership in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, as well as for its business practices. Visit www.resolutefp.com for more information.
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Valley bookstore hosts award-winning author
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - The Book Dragon in Staunton hosted a conversation with award-winning author Alma Katsu.
Katsu’s latest book, The Fervor, just earned a glowing New York Times review, and it’s story is focused around Japanese Internment Camps. Katsu drew from her loved ones’ experiences during World War II to inform her writing.
Even though the book is historical, Katsu said the story is still relevant today.
“What I find as I write these books is, a lot of times, the things that were issues then are still issues today,” Katsu said.
May is Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time to recognize the contribution and influence of AAPI people in the U.S.
“That old addage, ‘if you don’t learn from history you’re doomed to repeat it.’ That’s so true with the internment story. It’s really about the history of racism against Asians in this country. The things you saw back then are still happening today,” Katsu said.
Katsu spoke about the COVID-19 pandemic and how it drove anti-Asian racism and how it ties into the story of The Fervor.
If you’d like to learn more about her book or purchase it, click here. For more information on the Book Dragon, click here.
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Was the murderously twisted mind of the Buffalo mass shooter warped solely by contact with the heinous, un-American conspiracy theory known as “the great replacement”?
No. But to a depressed, impressionable adolescent running loose in the darkest corners of the web, the contact certainly didn’t help.
And that contact was extensive, leading to his posting online a 180-page “manifesto” that specifically cited the theory as the reason he sought out a supermarket in Buffalo patronized by Black Americans in its neighborhood, killing 10 people and wounding three others.
The great replacement, either in its full-blown form (that “the elites” are deliberately seeking to replace White Americans with non-Whites devoted to the Democratic Party and the uprooting of American culture) or in other variants (that immigration and other forms of diversification necessarily entail threats to American society) is fundamentally xenophobic, racist nonsense that should be confronted as such by all who care about our nation’s future.
It’s dangerous, fringe thinking, promoted not so much by people who actually believe it, but by those who are so upset by the reality of a pluralistic America that they apparently think resistance to change must come by any means necessary, including ginning up folks who might take ideas to extremes.
Which is why one of the saddest aspects of its promulgation is seeing the great replacement theory embraced by nominally patriotic, established organizations.
As reporting by The New York Times published before the shooting shows, Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in more than 400 episodes of his television show has supported the notion that American “elites” want to substitute White voters with immigrants or people from the “Third World.”
And, after claiming to distance itself from any racially hateful aspects of the prevarication that is GRT, the conservative Claremont Institute here in Southern California editorialized in February: “And so when powerful corporate media outlets unite to forbid discussion on a matter of concern to the American people, and to tar anyone who broaches such discussion by association with racists and anti-Semites, it is our duty to defy the fearmongering.”
A “matter of concern to the American people” such as … how supposedly terrible immigration is, for instance? When anyone with any sense knows that immigration over the centuries is one of the fundamental building blocks of our nation’s greatness?
The apologia for embracing this radical theory in the editorial in the institute’s The American Mind publication then goes all-in: “That is because the Great Replacement isn’t fundamentally about race: it’s about overturning American equality and meritocracy in favor of a radically new set of values.”
So, the Claremont Institute backs the conspiracy theory that was also cited by a mass shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand, who killed 51 people; the Buffalo shooter searched out the screed published online by that murderer and quoted directly from it, cutting and pasting parts of it that refer to “white genocide” and show a concern about White birthrates in the West. And there was the El Paso, Texas shooter who, inspired by the Christchurch shooter, murdered Hispanics out of anger over the “invasion” of America.
Of course Carlson and other far-right backers of the theory say that they do not condone any violence wrought by crazies with a gun. Of course there is a danger to dwelling on acts and words of nuts future copycat killers might cite as reasons for their own future mayhem. But there is no ignoring the news of what has been done in the name of a viciously misguided way of looking at the world and the grand American experiment.
All people of goodwill must take stock of this present crisis and acknowledge the critical danger of promulgating a dangerous and a false theory that clearly can lead the psychically vulnerable into the depths of unspeakable evil, truly replacing the fundamental freedoms upon which our country was founded and, at our best, has spread throughout the world. | https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2022/05/20/the-great-replacement-is-a-fundamentally-destructive-concept/ | 2022-05-21T00:25:58Z | https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2022/05/20/the-great-replacement-is-a-fundamentally-destructive-concept/ | true | 10 |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
02-04-06-07-09-10-12-14-15-19-22-24
(two, four, six, seven, nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-four) | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-17188255.php | 2022-05-21T00:29:57Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Evening-17188255.php | true | null |
Pakistan on Friday vowed to eliminate the terrorism threat and bring complete peace in the country, according to a statement issued by the Foreign Office (FO). Addressing a media briefing here, FO spokesperson Asif Iftikhar said that terrorism was a common threat for the entire region.
"I can state that our resolve to fight terrorism remains unwavering. We shall pursue all avenues for defeating the scourge of terrorism and ensuring the attainment of peace and stability in the region and in our country," he said.
The spokesperson also said that Pakistan's foreign policy was consistent to have relations with all major powers.
"We want balanced, objective and broad-based relations based on mutual interest, mutual benefit and mutual respect with all major powers including the US, China, Russia and others," he said.
To a question about the visit of Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to the US, he said it was clear that there is a mutual desire from both sides to take the relationship forward in the best interest of the two countries, to deepen the engagement and to strengthen the relations in diverse fields.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pakistan-says-will-eliminate-terrorism-threat-bring-peace-in-country-2995649 | 2022-05-21T00:30:02Z | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pakistan-says-will-eliminate-terrorism-threat-bring-peace-in-country-2995649 | false | 4 |
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ACCOMARCA, Peru (AP) — Scene of one of the worst massacres of Peru's internal conflict in the final decades of the 20th century, the town of Accomarca is closing a chapter that's been open for more than 35 years.
On Friday, families of some of those killed buried the remains of their loved ones, including some of the 69 people killed by soldiers in 1985 in this mountainous town in Peru's south.
Peru's internal conflict from 1980 to 2000 saw the army fight the Shining Path rebel group. In total, almost 70,000 people died. Some who survived remember what people went through.
Justa Chuchón, 48, still has fresh memories of what she saw and recalls surviving four incidents in which she could have been killed.
“Finally, our friends and neighbors will find rest,” said Chuchón, who was 10 years-old the first time she thought she was going to be killed. In 1983, soldiers stormed her house in Accomarca and one of them pushed his rifle against her chest. She said the soldier kicked her and her brothers and ordered them to pick up and bury the bodies of 11 people. The soldiers accused them of being Shining Path rebels.
A total of 80 caskets, including those of people killed as late as 2000, were being buried in a graveyard on what used to be a military base where soldiers tortured locals they thought were Shining Path rebels, according to subsequent investigations.
Of the caskets, only 37 will contain remains, the rest will have clothing that was recovered and identified by families as belonging to their loved ones.
The Shining Path established clandestine bases in rural towns like Accomarca, where the group killed the local authorities and forced farmers to feed its members. In response, the army accused the farmers of having become "terrorists" and killed some of them..
Chuchón said that in July 1985, a group of soldiers stormed into the town's fair and some of them raped her and her cousin. “I didn't know if I should scream or cry,” she said. “I asked him not to kill me.”
The worst for Accomarca came on Aug. 14, 1985, when soldiers started shooting at its houses. They gathered 69 people, including elders, women and children. The soldiers raped the women, then placed those gathered into three houses. They shot up and dynamited the houses, and set them on fire, as people watched in terror, including Chuchón.
That day Chuchón escaped death because she was with her grandmother. Her parents had gone to another town to play in a rural fair, because her father was a harpist.
A week after the massacre, once her parents came back, the family fled Accomarca for Lima.
In Peru's capital, family members of the victims denounced the massacre before Congress and for years sought justice.
A legislative committee investigated the case and in 1985 it interrogated army second lieutenant Telmo Hurtado, who pleaded guilty in connection to the massacre.
“One cannot trust a woman, an elder or a boy," he said before the committee. He was dubbed “the butcher of the Andes” by the media, but he wasn't initially convicted for the massacre. He was sentenced to four years in prison for not having reported the killings to his superiors. He remained in active duty in the army.
After Hurtado retired in 1999, he went to live in Miami, but the families of the victims kept asking for justice, and he was finally arrested and extradited in 2011 to face charges for the massacre in Peru. He changed his testimony and said he was following orders. He accused the army of committing extrajudicial killings.
Finally, a Peruvian tribunal found Hurtado and nine other army officers guilty of the massacre. They were sentenced to 23 to 25 years in prison. But five of them remain fugitives, including retired general Wilfredo Mori, who gave the verbal order to kill the 69 people in Accomarca.
“What's the point of convicting them if they're still free?” Chuchón asked..
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Briceño reported from Lima, Peru. | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Peruvian-town-finally-buries-the-victims-of-17188285.php | 2022-05-21T00:32:01Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Peruvian-town-finally-buries-the-victims-of-17188285.php | true | 12 |
Westbound I-70 closed at Vail Pass
Winter Weather Advisory underway
I-70 at Vail Pass is closed in the westbound direction as snow blasts the Western Slope.
The mountains of the Vail area saw half a foot of snow during the day on Friday with more on the way headed into the evening hours.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Vail area lasting until Saturday morning.
—This story will be updated | https://www.vaildaily.com/news/westbound-i-70-closed-at-vail-pass/ | 2022-05-21T00:34:16Z | https://www.vaildaily.com/news/westbound-i-70-closed-at-vail-pass/ | true | null |
Good evening, these are the top coronavirus headlines tonight:
Top headlines:
- North Korea is experiencing a significant outbreak of COVID-19, reporting that 10 per cent of its population has symptoms.
- As a “no restriction” summer nears, opinion writer Kieran Delamont asks about those struggling with health and financial concerns.
- Canadian health experts are saying the newest variant of Omicron that’s been found is not one that has had a significant impact, but that they continue to watch for new variants of concern.
In the past seven days, there were 384 deaths from COVID-19 nationally, down 21 per cent over the same period. At least 4,896 people are being treated in hospitals and 349 are in the ICU.
Canada’s inoculation rate is 15th among countries with a population of one million or more people.
Sources: Canada data is compiled from government websites, Johns Hopkins and COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group; international data is from Johns Hopkins University.
Coronavirus explainers: Coronavirus in maps and charts • Tracking vaccine doses
COVID-19 updates from Canada and the world
- In Manitoba, Indigenous people aged 30 and up, and others aged 50 and up, can now get a second booster four months after the first one.
- P.E.I. will be lifting its masking mandate for schools and daycares as of next week.
- North Korea said Friday that nearly 10 per cent of its 26 million people have fallen ill and 65 people have died amid its first COVID-19 outbreak, while some observers believe authorities are under-reporting mortalities to try to show that its pandemic response is effective.
Pandemic recovery
- The WHO called an emergency meeting about the monkeypox outbreak in Europe. While not a recovery story per se, the organization hopes to use learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic in its responses to new outbreaks.
- China has surrendered hosting rights for next year’s Asian Cup, a little more than a week after it postponed the multi-sport Asian Games to 2023. It’s a trend that will likely continue for the country as it sticks to its “zero-COVID” policy while much of the rest of the world resumes normal life.
Globe opinion
Kieran Delamont: Our restrictions-free COVID-19 summer is here – but we’re leaving out people who can’t afford it
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While nearly 1,000 cases of a new sublineage of the Omicron variant – BA.2.20 – have been discovered in Ontario, experts across the country say it doesn’t warrant significant concern. Instead, they’re focusing on keeping an eye out for any new variants that could cause a substantial increase in transmission.
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Marriage licenses
Caleb Ashton Mabry, 26, and Destani Ray Wilburn, 26, both of Muskogee.
Donald Gene McDaniel, 84, of Vian, and Eliene Belle Graves, 73, of Statesville, North Carolina.
Billy Leon Davison, 69, and Catherine May Davison, 66, both of Muskogee.
Brian David Hardesty, 29, and Veronica Renee Olguin, 27, both of Muskogee.
Patrick David McPherson, 56, of Muskogee, and April Ann Coates, 37, of Tulsa.
Protective orders
Michael D. Graham vs. Nerxhivane Graham, June 2.
Patricia Ann House vs.:
• Tina M. Ward, June 15.
• Joel Don Brillhart, June 15.
Small claims
3 Forks Properties, LLC vs. John Shipp, et al., $550, June 3.
Total Management, LLC vs. Desmond Jackson, $1,200, June 3.
Sentencing
BROWN, Jr., Darrick Wayne aka BROWN, Derick Wayne. Child endangerment by driving under the influence; possession of controlled dangerous substance; unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia (two counts); driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and drugs; driving with licensed canceled/suspended/revoked; unlawful possession of controlled drug with intent to distribute; domestic assault and battery by strangulation; malicious injury to property. Sentenced May 19. Two five-year, one four-year, two two-year and two one-year concurrent sentences in prison; and one one-year consecutive sentence in prison. Fined $3,200.
Dismissal
DRISKELL, Wayland Lee aka DRISKELL, Waylon "Cuff." First-degree rape (victim intoxicated by narcotic or anesthetic); unlawful possession of controlled drug with intent to distribute. Best interest of justice.
DUI arrests
McBRIDE, Christopher Allen. Drive under the influence of alcohol. Muskogee police arrest. | https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/muskogee-county-district-court-05-20-22/article_891edd5c-d889-11ec-8801-67cf59f1e178.html | 2022-05-21T00:37:53Z | https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/muskogee-county-district-court-05-20-22/article_891edd5c-d889-11ec-8801-67cf59f1e178.html | false | 1 |
YAKIMA, Wash. -
UPDATE: 4:45 p.m.
Flights will continue at the Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field sometime this evening. The air traffic control tower will stay closed due to the damage.
The crash damaged structural support beams, making the tower unsafe for occupants, according to FAA inspectors.
"Even though the tower cannot be accessed, flights are able to resume at the airport," said Randy Beehler, Communications and Public Affairs Director for the City of Yakima. "Pilots can announce their locations to each other via radio. They are trained to utilize an airport even without the assistance of air traffic controllers."
Power was restored to airport facilities around 2 p.m.
UPDATE 2:38 p.m. - The Yakima Police Department says in a Facebook post the driver from this morning's crash is dead.
UPDATE 11:00 a.m. -
Yakima Police Officers say the crash happened at 3:05 a.m. on Friday.
YPD investigations have helped them determine the car was speeding on Washington Ave. when it crashed into two power boxes then the control tower.
The crash caused the airport to lose all power and cancel all flights for the day. Flights are cancelled because the airport can't process anyone through security, check boarding passes or update flight schedules.
Private flights can still operate normally.
YPD says there were two people in the car, a 19-year-old driver and a 23-year-old passenger.
The 19-year-old is in Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with life threatening injuries and the 23-year-old passenger is in a local hospital with serious injuries.
Police have determined speed to be the cause, but are waiting for the toxicology report to determine if the driver was under the influence.
The original story is below.
Yakima Police Officers say the Yakima Air Terminal is closed after a serious crash into power boxes and the control tower.
YPD says there will be no flights for right now while they investigate and clean up the serious crash.
Officers believe the car hit the power boxes at a high rate of speed and launched into the control tower.
YPD believes the driver may have been under the influence and is currently facing life threatening injuries.
YPD did not say when the airport would reopen.
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HELENA — A first-of-its-kind residency program at Cohesion Dance Project has culminated in a debut show, "BEYOND WORDS, the body as narrator," this weekend.
This three-month residency program welcomed in Minnesota choreographer, Jennifer Glaws. Glaws’ choreography has been commissioned and presented in NYC, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Michigan. For this residency, she worked alongside professional and community dancers in order to create a series of new works that feature myths, stories, family traditions, and urban legends in movement and voice.
“I'm excited for our guests to see honesty and a group of really unique individuals exploring themes that came out of us dancing in the space together. This show was created out of conversations that we had the first week of performance,” says resident artist Glaws.
The fresh outsider perspective has paved a way for new forms of expression according to performer, Gina Lytle.
“...incorporate words with movement and sharing pieces of our own personal life to interweave with the dance,” says Lytle.
As well as influencing the dancers, Glaws says that her immersion in Helena as a resident artist has lent her a new point of view.
“It’s eye-opening. It's been, it's changed me. It's changed my artistry with the people that I've been able to connect with,” says Glaws.
Cohesion Dance Project proudly works alongside dancers of all ages and mobility. Lytle says that she feels lucky to be part of such a group.
“Anybody can do it. That's what I like, is that people sit in the audience and they're like, ‘Oh, I could never do that,’ And I thought, well, that's what I thought. And it's just such a warm environment that you feel safe and free to explore,” says Lytle.
You can find all the showtimes for this weekend here:
Friday, May 20 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 21 @ 4:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 22 @ 2:00 PM
Or by visiting cohesiondance.org | https://www.ktvh.com/news/cohesion-dance-project-to-present-resident-artists-creation | 2022-05-21T00:44:49Z | https://www.ktvh.com/news/cohesion-dance-project-to-present-resident-artists-creation | false | 2 |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – New data released Friday by the Arkansas Department of Health shows that the number of active COVID-19 cases in Arkansas has now topped 3,000 for the first time since March 22.
The ADH data showed 3,016 active cases of the virus Friday, an increase of 102 from the previous day. There were 305 new cases of the virus, raising the total number of cases in the state to 840,151 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Friday’s figures also showed an increase of five hospitalizations in the last 24 hours, moving that count to 63. The number of patients on ventilators remained at seven, while 19 patients are in ICU due to COVID-19, up four from the previous day.
Health officials reported six additional deaths attributed to the virus, increasing the number of people who died in Arkansas from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic to 11,432.
In the last 24 hours, 1,812 new COVID-19 vaccine doses were given out in Arkansas. The number of Arkansans who are fully immunized rose to 1,593,734, with another 376,080 being partially immunized. | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/covid-19-in-arkansas-active-cases-push-past-3000-for-first-time-since-march/ | 2022-05-21T00:55:00Z | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/covid-19-in-arkansas-active-cases-push-past-3000-for-first-time-since-march/ | true | 3 |
ARS Investment Partners LLC cut its stake in shares of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HMTV – Get Rating) by 25.9% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The firm owned 30,000 shares of the company’s stock after selling 10,500 shares during the period. ARS Investment Partners LLC owned about 0.07% of Hemisphere Media Group worth $218,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Royal Bank of Canada raised its position in shares of Hemisphere Media Group by 81.8% in the third quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 1,982 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after buying an additional 892 shares during the last quarter. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA raised its position in shares of Hemisphere Media Group by 80.8% in the third quarter. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA now owns 4,664 shares of the company’s stock valued at $57,000 after buying an additional 2,084 shares during the last quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Hemisphere Media Group in the fourth quarter valued at about $51,000. Citigroup Inc. raised its position in shares of Hemisphere Media Group by 65.8% in the fourth quarter. Citigroup Inc. now owns 9,447 shares of the company’s stock valued at $68,000 after buying an additional 3,750 shares during the last quarter. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Hemisphere Media Group in the third quarter valued at about $138,000. Institutional investors own 76.13% of the company’s stock.
Shares of HMTV traded down $0.08 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $6.63. The stock had a trading volume of 173,193 shares, compared to its average volume of 143,050. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.04, a current ratio of 1.58 and a quick ratio of 1.58. Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. has a 52-week low of $3.58 and a 52-week high of $14.04. The business’s fifty day moving average is $4.93 and its 200 day moving average is $6.56. The firm has a market cap of $267.00 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -7.54 and a beta of 1.17.
In related news, major shareholder Fine Capital Partners, L.P. bought 15,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, May 6th. The stock was bought at an average price of $3.72 per share, with a total value of $55,800.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the insider now directly owns 3,415,930 shares in the company, valued at approximately $12,707,259.60. The acquisition was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, major shareholder Edenbrook Capital, Llc bought 10,620 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 31st. The shares were bought at an average cost of $4.59 per share, with a total value of $48,745.80. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders have acquired 770,299 shares of company stock valued at $3,302,777. 53.50% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
A number of brokerages have recently commented on HMTV. Wells Fargo & Company reduced their target price on shares of Hemisphere Media Group from $15.00 to $13.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 9th. TheStreet lowered shares of Hemisphere Media Group from a “c-” rating to a “d” rating in a report on Wednesday. StockNews.com lowered shares of Hemisphere Media Group from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Thursday, May 12th. Finally, Guggenheim lowered shares of Hemisphere Media Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 11th.
About Hemisphere Media Group (Get Rating)
Hemisphere Media Group, Inc operates as the Spanish-language media company. The company operates Pantaya, a subscription streaming service of Spanish-language media with approximately million subscribers; Cinelatino, a cable movie network with approximately 17.1 million subscribers in the United States, Latin America, and Canada; WAPA, a broadcast television network and television content producer; WAPA.TV, a news and entertainment website, as well as mobile apps, featuring content produced by WAPA; and WAPA Deportes, a sports television network in Puerto Rico.
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click to enlarge There was an attempted break in at Mayor Tishaura Jones home on Thursday.
At 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning, an individual attempted to break a window at Mayor Tishaura Jones' residence. The person was able to break the screen. Mayor Jones notified public safety officials and North Patrol District responded to the call.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police District discovered that the individual made a similar attempt at another house in the neighborhood, and according to a statement, the Mayor's office does not believe that the break-in was targeted.
We will update this story as more information becomes available. | https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/attempted-break-in-at-st-louis-mayors-home-thursday-37751748 | 2022-05-21T00:56:54Z | https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/attempted-break-in-at-st-louis-mayors-home-thursday-37751748 | true | null |
The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum To Host Town Hall Tea Time On 'Fashions Of The 1970s' in June
The event is on Wednesday, June 1 at 2 pm.
The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum (SBRHM) is celebrating its first half-century with a new temporary exhibition and another Town Hall Tea Time in in its newly remodeled space in historic Town Hall at 71 N. Federal Highway (33432). For more information, please call 561.395.6766 or visit www.BocaHistory.org.
Town Hall Tea Time
Wednesday, June 1 at 2 pm
Where Were You in '72?
Fashions of the 1970s
From hippie wear to disco, this program will feature a fashion show and designs by the students from THOS Fashion School in Boca Raton. This is the perfect opportunity to look back at the way we were-50 years ago!-while supporting talented designers of the future, who will share their new creations inspired by fashion trends of the 70s. Presented by Letty Sanchez, THOS Fashion School students, and Olivia Hollaus, Founder and Creative Director of Protect My Shoes, a brand focused on creating stylish, sustainable, and effective shoe care products, and former Style Contributor to Boca Magazine.
The cost to attend is FREE for members of the Boca Raton Historical Society, and $10 for nonmembers. To RSVP, please email office@bocahistory.org or call 561.395.6766, ext. 100.
History-minded and fashion-savvy attendees can also visit the Museum's new temporary exhibition:
Fifty Years of Collecting
Running through December 2022
Featuring artifacts and memorabilia that represent the wide range of items that make up the ever-growing historical collections of The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum, the new temporary exhibition includes everything from Floy Mitchell's flapper dress to a circa 2000 Votomatic voting machine. These items show the breadth of the Boca Raton Historical Society's collections acquired over the past half-century and tell a story about how Boca Raton has grown and changed since its establishment as a farming village in the 1890s.
About THOS Fashion School of Design:
Based in Boca Raton, THOS Fashion School of Design is South Florida's independent fashion design school specializing in the study of fashion design and branding, By offering effective hands-on training experience in an apprenticeship type environment, THOS is revolutionizing the traditional college fashion design curriculum and creating independent fashion entrepreneurs. For more information, visit www.THOSFashionSchoolofDesign.com.
About The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum:
The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum is the home of the Boca Raton Historical Society, whose mission is to collect, preserve, and present information and artifacts relevant to the past and evolving history of Boca Raton and to maintain a visible role in the education and the advocacy of historic preservation in the community. Now open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm, the
museum is located in historic Town Hall at 71 N. Federal Highway (33432). For more information, please call 561.395.6766 or visit www.BocaHistory.org. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/ft-myers-naples/article/The-Schmidt-Boca-Raton-History-Museum-To-Host-Town-Hall-Tea-Time-On-Fashions-Of-The-1970s-in-June-20220519 | 2022-05-21T01:01:55Z | https://www.broadwayworld.com/ft-myers-naples/article/The-Schmidt-Boca-Raton-History-Museum-To-Host-Town-Hall-Tea-Time-On-Fashions-Of-The-1970s-in-June-20220519 | false | 2 |
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It was another big week of politics in Michigan this week, and as always the Capital Rundown has you covered.
Michigan Republicans are pushing a huge tax cut, but is Governor Gretchen Whitmer okay with it?
Plus, are we headed into another wave of COVID-19?
Capital Correspondent Tim Skubick breaks it all down for us.
In addition, United States Representative Tim Walberg is running to keep his seat, but in a new district, the 5th District. He talks about the top priorities he sees for his next term in this week’s show.
We continue our look at the race for Michigan’s newly drawn 5th Congressional District by catching up with Democrat Bart Goldberg, who is running against Walberg.
And following years of mass shootings, including the one last week in Buffalo, New York, many lawmakers believe there’s a need for an active shooter alert system nation-wide.
Our Washington correspondent Basil John reports on how this amber alert like system could help communities and people stay safe.
And lastly, Title 42 is set to expire on Monday, setting up the potential of an influx of migrants at our country’s southern border.
The Biden administration has spent the past month preparing for the moment the pandemic-era public health policy would lift.
But as our Washington correspondent Anna Wiernicki explains, Republicans fear the president’s plan won’t be enough.
You can watch all that and more on the Capital Rundown at the top of the page. | https://www.wlns.com/capital-rundown/capital-rundown-tax-cuts-covid-19-latest/ | 2022-05-21T01:04:42Z | https://www.wlns.com/capital-rundown/capital-rundown-tax-cuts-covid-19-latest/ | true | 1 |
Trump pays $110,000 fine for blocking New York state tax probe
Former US President Donald Trump at a rally in Delaware, Ohio, April 23, 2022
Former US President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 fine for obstructing a major tax evasion investigation led since 2019 by New York state authorities, a spokesperson announced Friday.
Trump was ordered April 25 by New York state's Supreme Court to pay $10,000 a day for as long as he refused to provide accounting and tax documents as part of a civil investigation by the Attorney General of the state, Letitia James, against the Trump Organization family business.
"On May 19, Donald Trump paid the attorney general's office $110,000," a spokesperson for James's office said.
James and the Republican billionaire have been engaged in a fierce procedural battle for months.
On February 17, James was able to get a New York judge to order Trump and his children Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to testify under oath in the context of this investigation, in which she suspects fraudulent tax practices.
The Trumps -- who accuse James of a "political witch hunt" -- have appealed the ruling.
But New York state had also demanded accounting and tax documents from the Trump Organization before March 31.
Faced with Donald Trump's refusal, James demanded obtained a ruling on April 25 that he be charged with obstruction.
On May 6, however, the New York judge suspended the counting of days for which he should be fined and decided that Donald Trump would have until Friday May 20 to pay for the period from April 25 to May 6, or 110,000 for 11 days -- which is what he did on Thursday.
According to James' spokesperson, the Trump camp also had until Friday to submit sworn statements relating to the Trump Organization's request for accounting and tax records.
These documents were indeed collected and produced by a third-party firm on Thursday, according to the same source.
The judge must now decide whether the Trump camp have met all the demands.
James suspects the Trump Organization fraudulently overstated the value of real estate properties when applying for bank loans, while understating them with the tax authorities in order to pay less in taxes.
Donald Trump is also facing a criminal investigation by the Manhattan prosecutor: the Trump Organization and its financial director Allen Weisselberg have been charged with tax evasion.
They have pleaded not guilty and the trial is due to begin this year. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10839181/Trump-pays-110-000-fine-blocking-New-York-state-tax-probe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-05-21T01:05:51Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10839181/Trump-pays-110-000-fine-blocking-New-York-state-tax-probe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false | 11 |
The planned $2.5 million renovation of the ferry plaza in Sausalito is facing pushback from merchants who say it will exacerbate parking scarcity.
The Sausalito Chamber of Commerce held a meeting with city officials and more than 25 community members to present the project, aimed at rehabilitating the site to make it more amenable to pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers. Sausalito will provide $100,000 toward the effort, with the remaining cost covered by a Federal Transit Administration grant.
The expansion will likely encroach on a nearby parking lot. The goal of merchants is to lose little, if any, parking, said Juli Vieira, president and chief executive officer of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce.
“Once we see the final presentation, then the chamber will take a stance,” Vieira said. “The business community can’t afford to lose any more parking.”
Parking spaces had already been lost to the city’s popular parklet program, Vieira noted. During the busy summer, businesses rely on tourists who pour in and regularly pack the city’s lots.
“Parking is a problem in Sausalito,” she said. “Where are we going to put these people? Where are we going to put these cars?”
Public Works Director Kevin McGowan said the planned expansion of the plaza would eliminate parking in a lot along the Sausalito shoreline. The plan, which remains under development, would attempt to replace lost parking on nearby Tracy Way.
McGowan said there are 582 spaces in the lot. He said he could not give a number of spots that could be lost because the design plan for the plaza remains under development.
“We’re not at the point where we want to build this right now,” he said. “But the general concept is there.”
The city has also remained mum so far on whether the project will trigger a vote for public approval because of the parking encroachment. A city ordinance adopted in 1997 requires voter approval prior to increasing or reducing public land area available for parking by more than 5%.
Though some attendees appeared intransigent in their opposition –– at least two walked out before the May 12 meeting ended –– some tried to offer suggestions.
Yoshi Tome, owner of the Sushi Ran restaurant, suggested restriping the lot for more compact-space parking.
“We could find more parking spaces with the existing space,” he said.
The project involves enlarging and enhancing the plaza and the adjoining paths. The grant provided by the Federal Transportation Authority prescribes certain requirements for the city, including an enhanced shoreline ferry plaza promenade; enhanced pedestrian and bicycle access routes to downtown business and parks; new delineations for vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists; increased areas available to stage and process ferry passengers and bicycles; and relocated and new ticket vending machines. The proposed plaza will be expand significantly, with added benches, trees and other enhancements.
The plan calls for closing Tracy Way to vehicles, but allowing parking there to make up for spots removed by the plaza expansion. The city also plans to have two ticket kiosks on opposite sides of the plaza.
The plaza area is about 15,000 square feet, with 5,100 square feet of circulation routes. The updated site would be 24,500 square feet with 9,000 square feet of circulation routes.
In March, the council voted unanimously to direct staff and a consultant, DeKamp Engineers, to develop construction plans and potential cost estimates. The plans will be reviewed by the Planning Commission, the Historic Preservation Commission and the City Council before construction moves forward.
City Manager Chris Zapata noted at the meeting that the council voted unanimously to study the concept, not rubber-stamp the design plan.
“There is no way we would make a decision like this without an extensive process,” said Vice Mayor Melissa Blaustein.
Another phase of the project, a dock replacement, is being directed by the Golden Gate Bridge district and will not be put out to bid until the fall. A staff report said the bridge district procured grants to reconstruct the dock and the $2.4 million provided to Sausalito was a portion of it.
City officials have sought to move the project forward recently in order to protect the city’s claim to the grant. The city has received two letters from the FTA regarding an inactive grant because the grant was more than eight years old. | https://www.marinij.com/2022/05/20/sausalito-merchants-seek-to-protect-parking-from-ferry-plaza-project/ | 2022-05-21T01:05:55Z | https://www.marinij.com/2022/05/20/sausalito-merchants-seek-to-protect-parking-from-ferry-plaza-project/ | true | 1 |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
648 PM CDT Fri May 20 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Maverick and western Dimmit Counties through 730 PM CDT...
At 647 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13
miles southeast of El Indio, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Carrizo Springs, Asherton and Carrizo Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2832 10020 2848 10021 2858 9977 2829 9976
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 260DEG 26KT 2840 10012
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN SHACKELFORD AND SOUTHEASTERN THROCKMORTON
COUNTIES...
At 650 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Fort Griffin,
moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
This severe storm will be near...
Fort Griffin around 705 PM CDT.
Woodson around 800 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Lusk,
The Intersection Of Us-183 And Us-283 and The Intersection Of Us-
283 And Ranch Road 209.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced the expiration and results of its previously announced offer to purchase for cash any and all of the company's outstanding notes listed in the table below (collectively, the "Notes"). Each reference to an "Offer" herein refers to the applicable offer to purchase for cash the 2.200% Senior Notes due September 2022 (the "2022 Notes") or the 1.350% Senior Notes due June 2023 (the "2023 Notes"), as applicable.
The Offer was made upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offer to purchase, dated May 16, 2022 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Offer to Purchase"), and its accompanying notice of guaranteed delivery (the "Notice of Guaranteed Delivery" and, together with the Offer to Purchase, the "Tender Offer Documents"). Capitalized terms used but not defined in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the Offer to Purchase.
The Offer expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 20, 2022 (the "Expiration Time"). The Settlement Date is expected to be May 23, 2022, which is the first business day after the Expiration Time. The Guaranteed Delivery Time is expected to be 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 24, 2022, which is the second business day after the Expiration Time.
According to information provided by D.F. King, the information agent and tender agent (the "Information Agent and Tender Agent") in connection with the Offer, $1,126,761,000 combined aggregate principal amount of the Notes were validly tendered at or prior to the Expiration Date and not validly withdrawn. In addition, $4,409,000 were tendered pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedures and remain subject to the Holders' performance of the delivery requirements under such procedures. The table below provides the aggregate principal amount of each of the 2022 Notes and 2023 Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the Expiration Date.
Details of the Offer
We expect to accept, on the applicable Settlement Date or Guaranteed Delivery Time (as applicable), all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Expiration Date, including Notes delivered in accordance with the guaranteed delivery procedures. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Tender Offer Documents, Holders who (i) validly tendered Notes at or prior to the Expiration Time (as defined below) (and did not validly withdraw such Notes at or prior to the Withdrawal Time (as defined below)) or (ii) delivered a properly completed and duly executed Notice of Guaranteed Delivery (or complied with ATOP procedures applicable to guaranteed delivery) and all other required documents at or prior to the Expiration Time and validly tendered their Notes at or prior to the Guaranteed Delivery Time pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedures, and, in each case, whose Notes are accepted for purchase by us, will receive the applicable Tender Offer Consideration specified above for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which will be payable in cash.
In addition to the applicable Tender Offer Consideration, Holders whose Notes are accepted for purchase by us will be paid applicable accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes from the last interest payment date of the Notes to, but not including, the Settlement Date ("Accrued Interest"). Interest on the Notes will cease to accrue on the Settlement Date for all Notes accepted in the Offer, including those tendered through the guaranteed delivery procedures.
The Offer is subject to certain conditions, including, among other things, the Financing Condition (as defined in the Offer to Purchase), and certain customary conditions. Subject to applicable law and limitations described in the Offer to Purchase, we may waive any of the conditions in our sole discretion.
We intend to issue a redemption notice for any remaining outstanding 2022 Notes that have not been validly tendered and accepted for payment in the Offer at the "make-whole" redemption price set forth in the terms and conditions of the 2022 Notes. In the case of the 2023 Notes, we do not presently intend, but reserve the right, to acquire any 2023 Notes that are not purchased pursuant to the Offer through the optional redemption provisions of the 2023 Notes or otherwise. This press release does not constitute a notice of redemption or an obligation to issue a notice of redemption for any Notes.
We retained Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC ("Morgan Stanley") to act as the Dealer Manager in connection with the Offer (the "Dealer Manager"). Questions regarding terms and conditions of the Offer should be directed to Morgan Stanley at 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Liability Management Group or at (212) 761-1057 (collect) or (800) 624-1808 (toll free).
D.F. King was appointed as Information Agent and Tender Agent in connection with the Offer. Questions or requests for assistance in connection with the Offer, or for additional copies of the Tender Offer Documents, may be directed to the Information Agent and Tender Agent at (212) 269-5550 for banks and brokers or (866) 207-3648 for holders (toll free), or via e-mail at PayPal@dfking.com. You may also contact your broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee for assistance concerning the Offer. All documentation relating to the Offer to Purchase, together with any updates, are available via the Offer Website: www.dfking.com/PayPal.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, not to extend, re-open, withdraw or terminate the Offer and to amend or waive any of the terms and conditions of the Offer in any manner, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Holders are advised to read carefully the Offer to Purchase for full details of and information on the procedures for participating in the Offer.
All documentation relating to the Offer, including the Offer to Purchase, together with any updates, are available from the Information Agent and Tender Agent, the contact details for whom are set out below. Holders are urged to contact the Information Agent and Tender Agent for the relevant announcements relating to the Offer.
General
This announcement is for informational purposes only. This announcement is not an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any Notes or any other securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries. The Offer was made solely pursuant to the Offer to Purchase. The Offer was not made to Holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the securities laws or blue sky laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offer will be deemed to have been made on behalf of the Company by the Dealer Manager or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
No action has been or will be taken in any jurisdiction that would permit the possession, circulation or distribution of either this announcement, the Offer to Purchase or any material relating to us or the Notes in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Accordingly, neither this announcement, the Offer to Purchase nor any other offering material or advertisements in connection with the Offer may be distributed or published, in or from any such country or jurisdiction, except in compliance with any applicable rules or regulations of any such country or jurisdiction.
The distribution of this announcement and the Offer to Purchase in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement or the Offer to Purchase comes are required by us, the Dealer Manager, the Information Agent and Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.
Neither this announcement nor the Offer to Purchase, or the electronic transmission thereof, as applicable, constitutes a solicitation for acceptance of the Offer or a notice of redemption under the Indenture governing the Notes. The distribution of this announcement in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. We are not aware of any jurisdiction where the making of the Offer was not in compliance with applicable law. If we become aware of any such jurisdiction, we will make a good faith effort to comply with applicable law or seek to have such law declared inapplicable to the Offer. If, after such good faith effort, we cannot comply with any such law, the Offer will not be made to (nor will tenders be accepted from or on behalf of) Holders residing in such jurisdiction. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and the Dealer Manager or any of their respective affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, the Offer shall be deemed to be made by the Dealer Manager or such affiliate (as the case may be) on behalf of the Company in such jurisdiction.
Each of the Company, the Dealer Manager, the Information Agent and Tender Agent reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to investigate, in relation to any tender of Notes pursuant to the Offer, whether any such representation given by a Holder is correct and, if such investigation is undertaken and as a result the Company determines (for any reason) that such representation is not correct, such tender shall not be accepted.
About PayPal
PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering 429 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements related to the anticipated terms of the offering, the anticipated closing of the offering, the expected use of proceeds of the notes and other statements that are not historical fact. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "may," "will," "would," "should," "could," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "project," "forecast" and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based upon various estimates and assumptions, as well as information known to PayPal as of the date of this press release, and are inherently subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied by forward-looking statements. For the reasons discussed above, you should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements in this press release. PayPal assumes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
Investor Relations Contacts
Gabrielle Rabinovitch
grabinovitch@paypal.com
Ryan Wallace
ryanwallace@paypal.com
Media Relations Contacts
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jcriscoe@paypal.com
Taylor Watson
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Energy secretary: We must find a solution for nuclear waste
WATERFORD, Conn. | It is critical to find a solution for storing the nation's spent nuclear fuel, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Friday during a visit to a nuclear power plant in Connecticut.
Granholm was invited to tour Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford by Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, the local congressional member. They are both working to change how spent nuclear fuel is stored nationwide to solve a decadeslong stalemate.
Spent fuel that was meant to be stored temporarily at current and former nuclear plant sites nationwide is piling up. Some of it dates to the 1980s.
There's renewed momentum to figure out a storage site, or sites, to free up the land where the waste is currently being stored and move it away from population centers, fault lines and flood plains. The Biden administration and many state officials view nuclear energy as essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and staving off the worst effects of a warming planet.
Hyundai announces $5.5B electric vehicle plant in Georgia
ELLABELL, Ga. | Hyundai Motor Group confirmed Friday the company will spend $5.5 billion on a huge electric vehicle plant near Savannah that will employ thousands — a deal Georgia's governor called the largest economic development project in the state's history.
Hyundai Motor Group CEO Jaehoon Chang made the announcement with Gov. Brian Kemp at the site of the future factory in Bryan County, where state and local officials purchased a flat, sprawling tract for $61 million last year in hopes of luring a major manufacturer.
"Hard-working Georgians are going to have the opportunity to have a really high-paying, advanced manufacturing job with a great company," Kemp said in an interview.
Hyundai said it will employ at least 8,100 workers at the plant near the unincorporated town of Ellabell. It will be Hyundai's first U.S. plant dedicated to assembling electric vehicles and will also produce vehicle batteries.
Hyundai Motors said it plans to start construction early next year and in 2025 begin producing up to 300,000 vehicles per year.
Japan welcomes new U.S. Indo-Pacific economic initiative
TOKYO | Japan welcomes a new U.S. economic initiative for the Indo-Pacific that President Joe Biden is expected to roll out during a visit to Tokyo next week because it demonstrates American commitment to a regional economic order that is not just about market access, an official said Friday.
Biden is proposing the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, or IPEF, as an alternative to the Trans-Pacific Partnership which the United States dropped out of in 2017 under former President Donald Trump. Japan played a key role in bringing together the other 11 members of that pact, now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
While details of the new initiative are still to be discussed in Tokyo, Japan has already expressed its support and says it is considering joining.
Noriyuki Shikata, Cabinet secretary for public affairs, said the IPEF is expected to focus more on supply chains and economic security than on issues in traditional trade agreements such as market access and tariffs.
The U.S. government has been trying to engage more with countries in the region. The framework, which was only announced Tuesday, is still in its early stages and further details are unclear. | https://www.newspressnow.com/business-briefs/article_9da95e0a-d893-11ec-8e1e-f3a082e1d092.html | 2022-05-21T01:13:58Z | https://www.newspressnow.com/business-briefs/article_9da95e0a-d893-11ec-8e1e-f3a082e1d092.html | true | 1 |
KINGSPORT — Hundreds of children filled the Kingsport Farmers Market on Friday to climb into and atop trucks and participate in games.
The city of Kingsport held its Public Works Day at the site, concluding Public Works Week.
“The thing we like most is the kids who come out,” said Ryan McReynolds, deputy city manager. “They get to see the big trucks, they get to play in the sandbox, they can see them up close and personal.”
About 50 pieces of equipment were on hand, including automated garbage collection trucks, a trash grabber truck, mini street sweeper, leaf collection equipment, sewer camera vans, a directional drill machine, mowers, a backhoe and mini paver.
The most impressive thing, though, was the kids having a blast, just a day after some local schools had closed for the summer.
Some children enjoyed the view after being lifted into the air via a bucket truck, while others rode around the market on four-wheelers.
Others focused on painting, and there was food on hand for everyone.
The event took off for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re real happy to get back up and running,” McReynolds said.
All divisions within the Public Works Department were represented, and employees were on hand to demonstrate the equipment and answer questions. Several presentations explained the department's essential daily operations.
Activity stations allowed children to paint replicas of manhole covers, look through microscopes to see bacteria, and see how cameras go through sewer pipes. A large sandbox allowed attendees to view a replica of the city’s sewer and water lines.
McReynolds said it’s important for the community to get to know the Public Works Department.
“They can see, as a city, we are their neighbors,” McReynolds said. “And we’re just just providing a service to let them live their life better.” | https://www.timesnews.net/news/kids-fill-farmers-market-for-public-works-day/article_f7ade5a0-d876-11ec-a792-df91df747057.html | 2022-05-21T01:15:41Z | https://www.timesnews.net/news/kids-fill-farmers-market-for-public-works-day/article_f7ade5a0-d876-11ec-a792-df91df747057.html | true | 1 |
Thomas’ second straight 67 lifts him to top of PGA Championship leaderboard
Posted/updated on: May 20, 2022 at 6:07 pmBy ESPN.com
Justin Thomas shot a second consecutive 67 at the PGA Championship, relying on superlative iron play to handle windy Southern Hills and move ahead of first-round leader Rory McIlroy at 6 under for the tournament.
Thomas made birdie Friday at the par-4 10th, his first hole of the day, and was still 1 under for the round when he reached the par-5 fifth. He made birdie there, then three straight pars before another birdie at the difficult par-4 ninth.
That left him a shot ahead of McIlroy, who began his second round with Jordan Spieth and Tiger Woods an hour later.
McIlroy was the first-round leader after shooting 65 during the morning wave Thursday. Spieth began the day 2 over while Woods was at 4 over, leaving him hovering around the cut line.
Woods acknowledged after opening with a 74 on Thursday that the right leg he severely injured in a car crash 15 months ago caused him problems. His limp was evident as he walked down the fairway after his first tee shot Friday.
Two-time champion Brooks Koepka also shot 67 during the early wave Friday, bouncing back from a disappointing 75 in the opening round to get within the projected cut line. Cameron Tringale shot 68 and was 2 under for the championship.
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Protestors in a truck and cars have been escorted across the Auckland Harbour Bridge today by half a dozen police cars.
The operation has caused significant traffic delays.
The escort occurred around 12:30pm today after a large police presence congregated at the northern entrance of the Auckland Harbour Bridge in anticipation of "planned protest activity".
NZ Transport Agency confirmed shortly after midday the two southbound lanes remain closed on Auckland Harbour Bridge and to expect delays.
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Advertise with NZME.There was evidence of a smashed-up police van and a "wailing" woman taken into custody at Onewa Domain near the entrance to State Highway 1 on Auckland's North Shore around 11am.
Surrounding the white truck with the words "Mana News Live" printed in large orange letters on the side were numerous other cars with flags out their windows.
The procession of cars shortly after midday was travelling very slowly and constant honking could be heard on the harbour bridge as they crossed.
The Mana News company describes itself as an alternate news source concerned with disinformation. The group has aligned themselves with the Parliamentary anti-mandate protests in Wellington.
Both police and NZ Transport Agency have confirmed they were aware of a planned protest, with the intention of pedestrians crossing Auckland Harbour Bridge on foot.
Witnesses at Onewa Domain on Auckland's North Shore on the entrance to the harbour bridge have described around 50 police officers and over a dozen police cars parked near the on-ramp entrance.
Images from the scene at 11am today only show two protestors - one man flying a United Tribes Flag, and a woman who was arrested by officers while "wailing".
It is unclear at this stage what is the cause of the protest.
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Advertise with NZME.NZTA announced around this morning online they were aware of the protest and precautions were in place.
"Waka Kotahi is aware of potential protest activity in the vicinity of Auckland Harbour Bridge. Waka Kotahi has not and will not approve access for pedestrian access on any part of Auckland Motorways including the Harbour Bridge," the transport agency posted on their Auckland Facebook page.
"NZ Police have engaged with protest organisers and are managing the response."
Police also confirmed they are attending in anticipation of the protest.
"Police are aware of planned protest activity in the Central Auckland area and are monitoring the situation. Police will respond if issues arise."
There are also around eight parked police cars on the Onewa Rd on-ramp to State Highway 1 leading onto the bridge at Northcote Point.
It is understood both the Onewa on ramp and off ramp have now been closed by police.
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Economic Summit offers insight, updates, chance for business leaders to gather
More than 100 business leaders from Northwest Colorado gathered inside the Albright Auditorium on the Steamboat Springs Colorado Mountain College campus and listened as experts fueled a conversation about the economic landscape.
“It was really interesting just to hear from the local leaders and from the economics professor on overall trends — not only in Routt County, but also in the Western Slope and Colorado,” said Chris Mihnovets, co-founder of C4 Crypto Advisers. “It was also great to hear from local agriculture producers, and what they’re seeing in the economy.”
Friday’s session began with coffee and networking at 8 a.m. in the auditorium. Nathan Perry, an associate professor of economics at Colorado Mesa University, took the floor, providing insight and numbers explaining what many Western Slope business owners have seen the past few years.
He explained how the pandemic and worker shortages have impacted businesses. He also took time to address how new issues like higher gas prices and increased costs from inflation may affect tourism-based economies moving forward.
The day moved on as Jessie Ollier, founder and CEO of Wellutations, gave a case study in employee retention and Michael Santo, co-founder and partner of Bechtel & Santo, offered update for what’s happening in the Colorado legislature.
The morning session ended with an agricultural panel discussion moderated by Hayden Town Manager Mathew Mendisco that included Colby Townsend, owner of Hayden Fresh Farm; Sydney Ellbogen, owner of Mountain Bluebird Farm; and Chef Hannah Hopkins of Besame, Mambo and Yampa Valley Kitchen.
The afternoon session started with Charles Barr, the founder and president of Spring Born, and ended with a presentation from Joelle Martinez, president and CEO of the Latino Leadership Institute, who spoke about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Barr’s experience getting Spring Born — a 3.5-acre indoor hydroponic farm in Silt in Garfield County — stood out in Routt County’s agriculture-based community.
“We’ve all heard the story about the agricultural land that when somebody dies, or when there’s a transfer or when somebody retires, the whole thing gets split up,” Barr said. “Putting the greenhouse on that land and showing that there is a way to grow food and maintain agriculture, I think, has a lot of benefits to the community, and it’s something that motivates me.”
Barr, a San Francisco-based businessman, admits that when he bought the 254-acre parcel in October 2019 for $1.5 million, he was not a farmer.
“We’ve all read the economic textbooks on how you build something, how you create a new business, how you get things going,” Barr told the audience at the Economic Summit. “But having said that, most new businesses fail.”
While this may be his first agricultural venture, Barr came into the enterprise with plenty of business experience.
He said there are five things to focus on to make economic growth viable: people, economic conditions, the right resources, motivation and the ability to turn problems into opportunity.
“I was not a farmer. I have no agricultural experience in my past business dealings,” Barr said. “I am a person who enjoys creating new businesses, who enjoys working with people, who enjoys starting new things and enjoys problem solving.”
It was that spirit that inspired him to enter the world of agriculture hoping to create a space that emphasizes sustainable practices and state-of-the-art technology to bring year-round growing operations to Silt.
Spring Born’s process uses 90% less land, 95% less water than a traditional farm and is now offering its products on the Front Range.
Barr told a story about how his idea almost came to an end before it got off the ground, and he was told that he could not get a necessary permit. However his drive and the support of the bank that offered him the loan are what brought Spring Born to Garfield County.
“I wanted better food, healthier food, and I wanted to grow it closer to people that were eating it and at an inexpensive price,” Barr said. “Originally, I took this idea to another county and tried to get a permit. I did all the design, I did all the permit work, I signed all contracts, I got all the buildings manufactured, and I lined up all the financing.”
But the county he was working with said, “No.”
“You have to approach the development like it’s going to be good for the community. If the development is not good for the community, there’s no sense in doing it,” Barr said. “If you’re just going to develop something for money, you’re going to fail. It has to be about the people.”
To reach John F. Russell, call 970-871-4209, email jrussell@SteamboatPilot.com or follow him on Twitter @Framp1966.
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More than 100 business leaders from Northwest Colorado gathered inside the Albright Auditorium on the Steamboat Springs Colorado Mountain College campus and listened as experts fueled a conversation about the economic landscape. | https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/economic-summit-offers-insight-updates-chance-for-business-leaders-to-gather/ | 2022-05-21T01:26:54Z | https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/economic-summit-offers-insight-updates-chance-for-business-leaders-to-gather/ | true | 1 |
Indraprastha Gas (IGL) has hiked CNG (compressed natural gas) prices in the Delhi to Rs 75.61 per kg. For Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad, CNG price has been hiked to Rs 78.17 per kg, while in Gurugram, it will cost Rs 83.94 per kg.
The firm sees rates staying elevated in the near future due to high international prices of natural gas and the management was looking at cutting operational costs to soften the blow for consumers.
Limited availability of government-controlled gas has forced IGL to use more LNG to meet double-digit growth in CNG and PNG (piped natural gas) demand. This has raised input cost, which is expected to go up as demand rises further.
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CNG price increased by Rs 2 per kg in Delhi, nearby areas
- Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) has hiked the price of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in Delhi by Rs 2 per kg to Rs 75.61 per Kg.
- For Noida, Greater Noida & Ghaziabad, the CNG price has been hiked to Rs 78.17 per Kg, while in Gurugram, it will cost Rs 83.94 per Kg.
Chinese bridges on Pangong Lake illegal: India
India has asserted that Chinese bridges on Pangong Lake are illegal and asserted that it has neither accepted illegal occupation on its territory nor such construction activities on its territory by China.
PMLA case: ED attaches assets
- ED provisionally attached immovable assets in the form of land ad-measuring 3.39 lakh sq m worth approx Rs 185 crores & movable assets worth Rs 7.51cr in form of bank balances, belonging to DDPL Global Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, Unicorn Infraprojects and Estates Pvt Ltd: ED
- The assets also belonged to Brightview Projects and Estates Pvt Ltd, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, in the case of PACL India Ltd & others. Probe underway: ED
Assam Floods
As per the reports of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, nearly 7.12 lakh people in 29 districts of the state are reeling under the fury of floods. Over 3.36 lakh people affected in Nagaon, 1.66 lakh in Cachar, 1.11 lakh in Hojai, & 52,709 in Darrang.
Raman Singh calls Rahul Gandhi 'non-playing' captain
Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and BJP vice President Dr Raman Singh has taken a dig at recently-concluded Congress 'Chintan Shivir' and targeted Rahul Gandhi by calling him a 'non-playing' captain. He said Rahul Gandhi neither wants to become a captain nor wants to enter the field.
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Trump pays $110,000 fine for blocking New York state tax probe
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Bigger Jonathan Ibekwe is a gospel musician with albums and singles to his credit. Although, a graduate of Theatre Art; International Relations and Politics; and Journalism as well as Foreign Languages, he believes strongly in the power of music and music industry. He with TONY OKUYEME on his career, challenges of gospel music, importance of reading and other issues
Why the choice of gospel music genre?
I am into gospel because of my commitment. I am committed to spreading the good story of Jesus Christ. That is my greatest happiness, the greatest venture, telling people about Jesus Christ. Of any other thing I do, the commitment I have for Christ goes beyond other things. That’s why I want to use gospel music to talk to people about Christ.
You are a graduate of Theatre Arts…
Yes,
So, what happened?
The issue is like when we were in school, at the University of Benin, we were told that Theatre Arts will not provide you a job.
They told you that?
Yes. The film industry, Nollywood, had not started then. So you were told clearly to cut out what you want to do for yourself and by yourself. So because of that, we all began to look at and think of what we were going to do. I was looking at myself then and felt that I would go into writing, because I write. But as God would have it, I found myself in Asia, in Taiwan to be precise.
When was this?
This was in April 1993, after my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). So what I then did was, I said okay, since I am here, and coming from the arts, let me go study Chinese language and culture. So I went to the university – Fujian Catholic University in Taipei, where I studied Chinese Culture and Languages. While I was doing that I was doing Southeast Asian languages as well. I studied Tagalog, the language spoken in the Philippines.
So, you speak all these three languages, Chinese, Japanese and Tagalog, fluently?
Yes, I do. And along the line, I decided to do some studies on International Relations and Politics.
So, eventually you found your feet in music?
Yes, and investment promotion as well.
What really inspired your debut album Rapture?
Rapture was a clarion call to people that Christ is coming, there must be rapture. All the promises He made will come to pass. And the strange thing about rapture is that it will be so spontaneous. We’ll be talking somebody will come, one person will fly, and the other person will remain. So, I was actually warning the world and reminding them about the immediacy and the urgency of rapture.
Can we then talk about With Jesus, Adim Ok?
It means, with Jesus, I am alright. You see the political situation and the economic challenges in the country today, it was actually what Isaiah was crying about. If you go to Isaiah chapter 65, where he was crying that the land is desolate, the place is just like what is happening today. So where do we get comfort from? I get my comfort from Jesus. Depending on God, I will be ok; we will be ok . It is a song of hope… Yes, telling them that it is not over yet until it is over, especially in this period. There must be hope. We must try to encourage people. God is still there. The beautiful thing about gospel music is when you take time to listen to gospel music, it energises your spirit. It calms you; the blood pressure reduces. There is much to be derived from listening to music. When you listen to it and you understand it, it does some work inside of us. So that’s what we’re trying to recreate. People should pay more attention to Christian music that has messages. When you take time to review, examine the contents, you will see some curative powers in music.
So I don’t play music for playing sake. I play music because they’re given to me by God. I play music to really cause healings in the mind of people.
How about your most recent single titled, Umuaka, in which you celebrated children?
Recently, they were talking about the position of Nigeria in the world classes of universities and we were placed 124. So bad! And what is the challenge? We are destroying our future by destroying the future of our children. The future of every society resides with the children. So what prompted me to do the song, Umuaka is because I have this understanding that if you want to create a great future for any society, you must appreciate the children of the society, bring them up, and encourage them. Give them the best. Because no matter what you do, if you don’t get the foundation right, you are missing it. So this work, Umuaka is spiritually inspired for me to really let people appreciate children and cause improvement in how we treat our children.
When will Umuaka be officially released?
It will be released on May 27, which is Children’s Day. It is the most appropriate to bring it out on that day. It is going to be entirely a celebration of children.
What is your opinion about gospel music generally?
Gospel music is facing a lot of challenges. Those who are doing secular music comes out easily because the society is so destroyed that what they want to hear is about the size of a woman’s body, about how to commit one evil or the other. But when you try to preach righteousness to society it becomes difficult. But for some of us who are into gospel works, if we were to be into secular works, by now we will be talking about Grammys and other stuffs. But it is not going stop us from doing gospel music. | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/people-should-pay-more-attention-to-gospel-music-ibekwe/ | 2022-05-21T01:33:43Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/people-should-pay-more-attention-to-gospel-music-ibekwe/ | true | 1 |
The call for the actualization of a Nigerian president of South East extraction has been on for some time but in recent times, the call has reached a deafening dimension. One of the champions of this advocacy is Senator Victor Umeh. In This interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO, he asserts that the advocacy is for the enthronement of fairness and equity in the country, saying the country has a lot to gain from the emergence of an Igbo president. Excerpts…
Looking at the build up to the 2023 general elections, what would be your general assessment?
Preparations towards 2023 general elections are ongoing but like you asked me whether I am impressed about the preparations or not, I will say that I am not because I had expected that the 2023 general election will be a historic moment for Nigeria to fashion out a new order of promoting national unity and progress. It is very obvious that gladiators in the polity have dug in again along selfish lines and interests that are not in tandem with national interest. Why do I say this, we currently have a president in President Muhammadu Buhari who is serving out his tenure in 2023. He is from the Northern part of the country.
All those who are clamouring to run for that presidency from the North are actually sabotaging the rotational arrangement that we have for the presidency in Nigeria. There is an arrangement that the office of the presidency should rotate between the North and the South and across the geo-political zones. We are experiencing an influx of presidential aspirants from the North and that is an affront to the fragile unity that we have in Nigeria. When Buhari serves out his term of office in 2023, power should return to Southern Nigeria in keeping with the accord that power should rotate between the North and South. They are running across Southern Nigeria pretending that such agreements never existed. Foundation for credible election in 2023 is being eroded by Northern aspirants jostling for presidency.
Is there anything stopping a Southerner from emerging as the next president?
If you look at what is happening in the political scene, you will see a lot of aspirants from the North campaigning as if there was no understanding in the past. For me, I believe that the ambition to have a successful election in 2023 is being eroded. If somebody from the North is not working very hard to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in the midst of the deep mistrust and all the challenges facing the country today. I do not think that all is proceeding well. I had expected that people would have known that the presidency in 2023 will come to the South.
Your group is known to be moving around selling the ‘South East for President’ agenda, how has the response been?
We have taken our case to all parts of Nigeria. We recently held a Greater Nigeria Conference in Abuja. We were very careful in choosing a name for the conference because we want a country that is greater than what it is now. We got very big support for our cause at that conference from those that attended. Pa Edwin Clark was very unequivocal in his support for the quest. Pa Ayo Adebanjo who came from Afenifere was almost weeping in calling for support that the President must come from the South East. He (Adebanjo) did it very emphatically. The guest speaker at the conference, Dr. Idris Pogu who is the President of Middle- belt Forum went into history to affirm that the South East should be supported to produce the President in 2023. This awareness has become so popular. It is taking a new life of its own because people are now seeing the point we are making. The only thing that would make the country greater than what it is now is by ensuring that we heal the wounds of the past. We must remove our prejudices and embrace quality leadership, which the South East can offer Nigeria. We are making efforts to see that all Nigerians share in this agitation. We are everywhere in Nigeria for this advocacy. Our message is now being well received and many people are now beginning to see that the president we want might not necessarily be from our tribe or region.
How bad has the denial of the South East presidency cost the country?
If we had been fair in the manner we had managed the affairs of the country in the last 60 years, maybe we would have outgrown this clamour by people who want to know where the president of the country would come from. We have not been able to do that; rather, we have only been able to promote consciousness and awareness that some citizens of this country are more equal than the others. Citizens’ rights have not been available to all and sundry. People who have been in leadership positions in Nigeria have handled it in a way that the winner takes it all. The Federal Character principle has been abused by those in power. As I speak to you, there are some agencies of government that are reserved for the people from the North, that people from other areas are never made to aspire to their headship. There is no way that we can sustain Nigeria with this kind of aberration. We need to make it possible for all parts of Nigeria to aspire to leadership. If a president comes from the South East in 2023, there is the tendency for the person that emerges to want to be a Nigerian president as much as possible.
Why did you say that the aspiration of Northern aspirants for the presidency is eroding credible elections?
Like I said, people from the North are campaigning as if all is well, that there is no understanding for rotational presidency. I am saying that the office should be zoned to the South and further micro-zoned to the South East considering the fact that (President Olusegun) Obasanjo was from the South West, it went back to the North where late (President Umaru) Yar’adua ruled for two years upon his death and was succeeded by (President Goodluck) Jonathan from the South South. So, naturally, the office should be micro-zoned to the South East. We can now see that there are about 12 to 15 aspirants from the South West. There are over seven presidential aspirants from the South South.
You seem upbeat about this advocacy but do you think the South East has a pool of personnel that can occupy the office and deliver the goods considering the numerous problems plaguing the country?
People (Nigerians) are confident that we have an array of competent aspirants from the South East who have the requisite knowledge of the economy, people who have the knowledge of principles of leadership, who are exposed globally, who are detribalised because of the level of education and exposure they have garnered over the years who can help Nigeria come out of the woods.
A member of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, had alluded to the fears of the North that a president of South East extraction might cause a breakup of the country?
That position is grossly unfounded because he is still living in the age of the Civil War. Nigeria came out of the war 52 years ago. Regrettably, what the nation has failed to do is failure to make use of opportunities offered Nigeria by that war, which would have been national healing and togetherness. They haven’t done that because they are still fighting the war. Indigenes of the South East are living in all parts of the country including the village of Baba-Ahmed. This thing they project to deny the people of the South East the presidency is clearly unacceptable and it is very uncivilized. If he doesn’t trust a South Easterner to be president, we too don’t trust the North. People like my friend should abandon this line of argument because it doesn’t comply with the trend in the 21st century. There is nobody that has been assigned the job of a headmaster to dictate terms to other people. There is the need to promote inclusiveness in our efforts at nation building. We have identified that 2023 will be a golden opportunity to re-integrate the South East of Nigeria after the Civil War. We are not making any pretences about it that the South East region has been discriminated against over the years in national affairs because of that unfortunate incidence of the Civil War. Those who are playing ostrich to what we are saying are those who don’t want Nigeria to survive because injustice to one is injustice to all. This is not the language that Nigeria needs at this time, it is very unfortunate that some people will seek to hold on to power because they have the numbers and boast that they will rule the country in perpetuity.
Don’t you think that the separatist agitation of groups like IPOB is not helping your advocacy?
There is nothing like that. The agitation of IPOB essentially is to promote equity in the country and they are protesting against the high-handed manner that the country is being run. They have been crying out against the marginalisation of the South East people. After waiting for many years, they can’t find jobs in Nigeria and because of the fact that they are discriminated against, opted to protest. The agitation is a protest against misrule and it doesn’t stand in the way of anyone trying to become president from the South East. Indeed, if the whole country in pursuit of fairness and equity agrees to zone the presidency to the South East that agitation will disappear because that is the major crux of their protest. In the South West, the clamour for restructuring has been on and it became popular and then, Sunday Igboho began his movement and he was hounded out of the country just like Nnamdi Kanu. You cannot keep Nigeria together by force, you can only do that by equity and trust. | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/presidency-north-still-fighting-civil-war-against-south-east-victor-umeh/ | 2022-05-21T01:33:49Z | https://www.newtelegraphng.com/presidency-north-still-fighting-civil-war-against-south-east-victor-umeh/ | false | 1 |
Parkway West High School senior described as definition of student-athlete
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) – A Parkway West High School student thrives on the sports scene.
Tre Bell started playing football when he was a sophomore but quickly broke his collarbone.
“It was kind of a reality check for me,” he recalled. “I went into football thinking it would be little league, and I thought I would be the best player, it humbled me. Made me realize if I’m going to do this, have to be focused, and work hard at this.”
He worked hard enough to become captain his senior year. He also started on the basketball team and ran track. Head football coach Jeff Duncan described Bell as the definition of a student-athlete.
Assistant Principal Dr. Kate Piffel said Bell is the one she’ll ask to come back as a role model for future students.
Bell has committed to playing both football and basketball at Lindenwood University. He plans to study sports management.
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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (WV News) — Bridgeport is ready to defend its seven straight state championships in baseball after a second tune-up game win over Fairmont Senior 9-2 Friday night at Bridgeport Athletic Complex.
The Indians (32-5) begin defense of the title on Monday in a best-of-three Class AAA regional play on the road against Morgantown with game time set for 5:30 p.m.
"I believe we are ready and we have to do more than just post 0's on the scoreboard (pitching)," Bridgeport coach Robert Shields said. "We have to hit, score runs and do the little things like we have before. We hit the ball really well today and more of the line drive type that I like to see."
Bridgeport had 11-hits in the game against the Polar Bears with Anthony Dixon leading the way going 3-for-3 with a double and three RBIs. Cam Cole also had a multi-hit game going 2-for-2 with a double.
"Anthony Dixon got back to doing what he has all season long in the batters box," Shields said. "We just need to take that plate approach next week with every at-bat."
Things started very well for the Polar Bears (19-9) as leadoff hitter Gunner Riley led off the game with a solo home run over the left field fence against Bridgeport starter Austin Mann for a 1-0 lead.
They scored an unearned run later in the first inning as Gavin Blair walked, advanced to third base on an errant pick off attempt and scored on a Sammy Viani RBI fielder's choice.
However, Fairmont Senior would muster only one more hit the rest of the game against three Indians pitchers.
Bridgeport responded in the bottom of the first inning with three runs on two hits and also took advantage of a Fairmont Senior error for a 3-2 lead.
Leadoff hitter Aidan Paulsen reached base on an error to start the rally. Cole sacrifice bunted Paulsen to second. Ben McDougal walked and both runners moved up a base on a double steal.
Dixon followed with a two-run double to right center tying the game. One out later, Zach Rohrig drove in Dixon with a RBI double to right center.
The Indians increased the lead to 5-2 with two runs on four hits in the second inning. It all came after two were out as four consecutive batters with Paulsen doubling, Cole singled, McDougal had an RBI single to center scoring Paulsen and Cole scored the second run on a Dixon RBI single to left.
Bridgeport added to its lead with four runs on four hits in the fourth inning for a 9-2 advantage.
Cole led off with a double, Gabe Ross singled and Dixon followed with a RBI double. Phil Reed drove in Dixon with a RBI single to left and Ryan Hall drove in the final run with a sacrifice fly in short right field.
Mann started and went two innings to get the win for Bridgeport, while Hayden Jones started and suffered the loss for Fairmont Senior, which travels to Keyser for Game 1 of its Region II series on Monday at 5 p.m. | https://www.wvnews.com/indians-ready-to-defend-state-title-after-win-over-fairmont-senior/article_4bba8016-d89c-11ec-82ec-8f4b2de6c32b.html | 2022-05-21T01:42:46Z | https://www.wvnews.com/indians-ready-to-defend-state-title-after-win-over-fairmont-senior/article_4bba8016-d89c-11ec-82ec-8f4b2de6c32b.html | false | 1 |
Iran win CAFA U16 Championship
May 21, 2022 - 1:32
TEHRAN – Iran claimed the title of the 2022 CAFA U16 Championship on Friday.
The five-nation competition was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in an eight-day round-robin tournament.
The competition also served as crucial preparation for October’s AFC U17 Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers.
Iran and Uzbekistan earned 10 points from four matches but Hossein Abdi’s boys won the title thanks to a superior goal difference.
Iran and Uzbekistan shared a spoil in a 2-2 draw in the opening match.
Iran earned three successive win over Afghanistan (1-0), Kyrgyzstan (2-0) and Tajikistan (7-0) and won the title.
Iran’s Reza Ghandipour was also named the campaign’s MVP. | https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/472806/Iran-win-CAFA-U16-Championship | 2022-05-21T01:45:09Z | https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/472806/Iran-win-CAFA-U16-Championship | true | null |
BATON ROUGE, La. – Emmaline Walters earned her Master’s degree in Liberal Studies.
Walters powered through her Master’s program after graduating with her Bachelor’s degree from LSU in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2021 summa cum laude.
The California native is a two-time SEC Honor Roll recipient and a 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District selection. Walters lettered at LSU from 2019-2021.
For the latest news and information on Tiger volleyball, visit www.lsusports.net/volleyball. Fans can also follow the team on its social media outlets at www.facebook.com/lsuvolleyball and @lsuvolleyball on Instagram and Twitter. | https://lsusports.net/news/2022/05/20/walters-receives-masters-degree/ | 2022-05-21T01:51:10Z | https://lsusports.net/news/2022/05/20/walters-receives-masters-degree/ | true | null |
Our solar system is in constant motion. The planets orbit the sun. The sun orbits the center of our galaxy. Celestial bodies twirl and tilt, creating a grand cosmic ballet. When we look up at the sky, the view is always changing. This is what makes stargazing so fascinating.
Since we understand how celestial bodies move, we can predict not only what you can see, but where you will be able to see it and when. For instance, four planets — Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn — aligned last month. This month, you can see several other pairings in the night sky.
What is a conjunction?
In astronomy, a conjunction is a type of optical illusion. It occurs when you look up in the sky and see two (or more) objects that appear close together. This event is only an illusion because the two objects are not really close together. In fact, they are many, many millions of miles apart from each other. However, because of the viewer’s perspective, these two celestial objects look like they are next to each other. In some instances, they might even appear to be touching. When this happens, however, it is called an occultation, not a conjunction.
Alignment vs. conjunction
While there are precise astronomical definitions that involve terms like right ascension or ecliptic longitude, you can get the gist of the essential difference between alignment and conjunction by using your imagination.
Alignment
If you were standing on the sidewalk as a parade marched by, from your perspective, that would be an alignment: The individual planets are roughly all lined across a section of the sky.
Conjunction
If you were standing in the street and a parade was marching toward you (in a single file), as long as you could fully see each member in the parade, that would be a conjunction. If the front member obscured or blocked your view of one of the members who was standing further back, that would be an occultation.
The last half of May 2022 has several conjunctions
While planetary conjunction is rare, the moon moves much faster, so it offers far greater chances to witness a conjunction. Beginning on May 22, there are five events you may be able to see throughout the week. The times are in Eastern Daylight Time, and they are approximate, as they will vary slightly depending on your exact location within a time zone. You will be able to view these conjunctions with the naked eye or through binoculars. Some may be better viewed with a telescope.
May 22: Moon-Saturn conjunction
The moon and Saturn will be in proximity for nearly four hours, rising in the southeast at 1:36 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:18 a.m. (EDT).
May 24: Moon-Mars conjunction
The moon and Mars will be in proximity for a little over two hours, rising in the southeast at 2:56 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:16 a.m. (EDT).
May 24: Moon-Jupiter conjunction
The moon and Jupiter will be in proximity for a little over two hours, rising in the southeast at 2:59 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:16 a.m. (EDT).
May 27: Moon-Venus conjunction
The moon and Venus will be in proximity for a little over one hour, rising in the east at 3:57 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:15 a.m. (EDT). The best way to view this conjunction is with a telescope.
May 28: Mars-Jupiter conjunction
Mars and Jupiter will be in proximity for roughly 2 1/2 hours, rising in the southeast at 2:45 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:14 a.m. (EDT).
What you need to see the upcoming conjunctions
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This telescope will offer too tight of a view for most of this month’s conjunctions. However, you can still focus on one celestial object at a time when using this popular model. Additionally, purchase includes a smartphone adapter and a wireless camera remote to facilitate taking pictures. It features an adjustable tripod and has a coated lens to enhance the images.
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As wildfires burn from California to New Mexico to Texas, a young wildfire season is already aggressive. And for the ones charged with dousing the flames, it's exhausting.
"Arguably, empathy and compassion are two of the greatest strengths that we bring to the job. But those are pathways for injury," Responder Strong Founder Rhonda Kelly said.
In California, lawmakers are considering measures to dramatically increase staffing for the state's firefighting agency, desperate to relieve the strain.
"We're going to hire extra firefighters to make sure that we're getting onto these fires sooner, safer, and more efficiently," State Sen. Brian Jones said. "This is a main responsibility of government to keep us safe."
Jones is one of the authors of the bill, which just passed a Senate committee on Thursday.
If it gets the governor's signature, it would add more than 1,000 firefighters to the state's roster.
"Those firefighters are fighting fires for 24, 48, 72 hours with no relief," Cal Fire Firefighters Local #2881 Vice President Patrick Walker said. "Bringing in fresh firefighters allows them to rest, start back over and continue that aggressive assault."
It would also make it a constitutional requirement to give the agency more robust funding.
This kind of strain is no stranger for firefighters in wildfire-prone states.
In Boulder, Colorado, Lt. Tyler Capron leads a support group for firefighters to make sure they get help when they need it.
"Early on, it was not as easy to talk about calls that affected me," he said. "It's one thing to say that, 'I'm here for you.' It's another to feel that support. It's okay not to be okay. It isn't okay not to reach out, though."
As climate change lengthens and intensifies fire season, first responders coast to coast will need the support to keep going.
"It's a year-round fire season, that's what we say now," Walker said. "We need that year-round staffing."
Newsy is the nation’s only free 24/7 national news network. You can find Newsy using your TV’s digital antenna or stream for free. See all the ways you can watch Newsy here. | https://www.kztv10.com/news/national/california-lawmakers-push-for-bill-to-offer-better-firefighter-support | 2022-05-21T01:56:57Z | https://www.kztv10.com/news/national/california-lawmakers-push-for-bill-to-offer-better-firefighter-support | false | 10 |
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A High Court in Amasaman in Accra was compelled to adjourn the case involving 299 employees of Asanko Gold who were sacked without proper compensation.
This was after Counsel for the Respondents (Asanko Gold) indicated to the court that it was yet to be served with any affidavits in opposition to their motion from the plaintiffs, Ghana Mine Workers Union(GMWU).
The court consequently adjourned the case to June 1, to enable them opportunity to be served.
The aggrieved workers have dragged Asanko Gold to court claiming unfair dismissal.
“The plaintiff avers that in accordance with section 65 of the Labour Act 2003 (Act 651) and the provisions of the two Collective Agreements, the parties in addition to the provision of the Collective Agreement on redundancy, negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding dated 10th February 2022, to finalize the payment of redundancy compensation of the workers who are affected by the redundancy exercise”, the statement of claim read in part.
The workers further accused Asanko Gold of “seeking to unilaterally vary the agreements by sending the workers home without paying the full redundancy emolument of the workers or at all”, as they pray the High Court to declare that the conduct of their employer is “a gross breach, violation and contravention of the provisions of the Collective Agreements and memorandum of understanding and unlawful”. | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Asanko-Gold-vs-GMWU-Court-adjourns-wrongful-dismissal-case-to-June-1-1543151 | 2022-05-21T02:02:25Z | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Asanko-Gold-vs-GMWU-Court-adjourns-wrongful-dismissal-case-to-June-1-1543151 | false | 2 |
Roger Angell, whose vivid essays about baseball in The New Yorker saw him enshrined in a special writers wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., has died. He was 101 and died of heart failure, according to New Yorker editor David Remnick.
“No one lives forever, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that Roger had a good shot at it,” Remnick wrote Friday. “Like the rest of us, he suffered pain and loss and doubt, but he usually kept the blues at bay, always looking forward; he kept writing, reading, memorizing new poems, forming new relationships.”
Angell was the son of founding New Yorker fiction editor Katharine White and stepson of longtime staff writer E.B. White. He was first published in the magazine in his 20s, during World War II, and was still contributing in his 90s.
His career was celebrated by the BBWAA Career Excellence Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing, the first writer so honored who was not a member of the organization that votes for itthe Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Angell’s New Yorker writings were compiled in several baseball books. He also edited Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker”and for years wrote an annual Christmas poem for the magazine.
At age 93, he completed one of his most highly praised essays, This Old Man, winner of a National Magazine Award.
“I’ve endured a few knocks but missed worse,” he wrote. “The pains and insults are bearable. My conversation may be full of holes and pauses, but I’ve learned to dispatch a private Apache scout ahead into the next sentence, the one coming up, to see if there are any vacant names or verbs in the landscape up there. If he sends back a warning, I’ll pause meaningfully, duh, until something else comes to mind.”
Angell was married three times, most recently to Margaret Moorman. He had three children. | https://deadline.com/2022/05/roger-angell-dead-urbane-baseball-writer-author-was-101-obituary-1235029468/ | 2022-05-21T02:05:33Z | https://deadline.com/2022/05/roger-angell-dead-urbane-baseball-writer-author-was-101-obituary-1235029468/ | true | 1 |
Do you love being energetic? Does the adrenaline rush excite you?
A dynamic sport like tennis can surely be the right fit for you! Tennis is for everyone, kids or elders. People can get tennis lessons at any age. So, you can very well adopt this amazing sport as your hobby. If you do so, it is decided to bring excitement to your life. You can learn tennis very easily; it doesn’t require too much expensive equipment. Also, you can get access to tennis courts in different public parks.
If you want to improve your fitness without paying hugely for gym memberships, tennis is your thing! More than 87 million people play tennis worldwide. Tennis is a highly professional game. So, if you have not tried your hands on this game yet, it’s high time! You can start taking TennisProNow lessons to learn this sport efficiently.
Is Tennis the Right Sport for You?
Tennis has always proven to be one of the best social sports. It was previously played only at social gatherings, and people had an idea that anyone could play it. This is still a true statement. It is an ideal sport for people of all age groups. You need to know the basic rules to play tennis and have the right equipment, and you are done!
Want to get started?
Grab a friend who loves tennis and find a vacant tennis court in one of your nearby parks. To start with, you don’t have to know all the details. As you go on, you can learn every bit of the game and refer back to your guide when you need to. One smart idea to learn tennis perfectly is to begin playing the game with a pro player who can give you his valuable tips.
So, are you ready to choose tennis as your hobby?
This article will discuss different reasons why you need to do that.
Read on
1. Boost Your Heart Health
Playing tennis continuously can improve your cardiovascular health remarkably. Whether your age is 20 or 65, it is important to ensure that your heart and lungs are in good condition.
Take up tennis as your hobby and play it regularly. You can develop the fitness of your heart without facing the boredom of running on a treadmill for hours or facing serious associated injuries from other sports.
If you play this fast and exciting game of tennis at least two or three times a week, it will act as a great workout for your heart and lungs, which will improve your overall well being.
2. Take Your Confidence Level to the Next Level
A few workout regimens can boost your confidence, and a potential one among them is tennis. If you choose tennis as your hobby, it will allow you to increase your skill level as you continue to play the game with your friends. Moreover, playing tennis can help you build social bonds with people. Your social connections will become better, increasing your confidence level. Finally, you will fall in love with tennis, and it will stay with you for many years to come.
3. Learn the Real Art of Sportsmanship
Most sports consider dominating your opponent party in the game as the top priority. But when it comes to tennis, this sport is unique. So, if you practice tennis frequently as your hobby, it will help you understand how you can be a good sport and how it is possible for you to develop a discipline driven character. Hence, this makes tennis a great hobby for you and your children to build a good personality. Thus, playing tennis will not only be beneficial for the moment, it will be a lifetime achievement as you can take your overall character to the next level with this amazing game.
4. Work Out Both Physically and Psychologically
One of the most significant things about playing tennis is that this sport engages both your mind and body. So, if you choose tennis as your hobby, it will keep you mentally and bodily refreshed. Tennis is a great exercise. If you prefer other forms of typical gym exercise rather than tennis to keep up with your wellness, you might feel bored after some days. As workouts at the gym don’t involve much thinking to practice, it becomes monotonous soon.
However, when it comes to tennis, it activates your mental abilities, allowing you to focus on the sport as you move around the court. Choosing tennis as your hobby keeps up your excitement level, and in turn, you feel energetic throughout the day.
5. Tennis is Going to Go a Long Way
If you choose tennis as your hobby, you will have several limitations in playing the game. You can only last in the game for that period until the time you hang. But tennis is not like that. It is a game that you can continue to play irrespective of what you are, making it a perfect sport for people of all age groups.
6. Reduce Your Stress
Tennis is a great stress buster. If you play tennis regularly as your hobby, it will help you get rid of the extra stress in your life. As you enjoy, communicate, and happily sweat out during the tennis sessions with your friend, family, or anyone you like, it will keep you motivated and forget all your worries. It is a proven fact that tennis improves people’s capacity to deal with stress efficiently, including psychological, physical, emotional, and social challenges.
Tennis – Your Best Hobby
So, you have now got a clear idea that tennis has several reasons to become your favorite hobby. Tennis is amazing, it has massive benefits. So, what are you waiting for? Get out in the courts and have fun!
Tennis will keep you healthy and mentally refreshed, but it will also transform your life! Also, don’t forget to have a track on different tips to stay healthy and fresh. | https://tennisgrandstand.com/2022/05/20/why-should-you-choose-tennis-as-a-hobby/ | 2022-05-21T02:10:34Z | https://tennisgrandstand.com/2022/05/20/why-should-you-choose-tennis-as-a-hobby/ | false | 2 |
The federal government will spend "in excess" of $38 million to fix up the Merriwa to Willow Tree road - again.
But they're not trusting the local council to complete the second upgrade in just three years, alone.
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After a botched $12.2 million upgrade by local councils, the road, which connects the Golden Highway and New England Highway, has been impassable since 2021.
Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce told media on Saturday that the $48 million total budget for the project was a big price-tag for a mulligan. This time, state government engineers will oversee the repair, he said.
"I was very disappointed that it didn't happen right the first time," he said. "I don't like spending the taxpayers' money twice on the same project. Now we're going to make sure we've dealt with that."
Mr Joyce said the road was important enough to warrant two attempts.
Road 358 is an alternative route to the New England Highway to cross the Great Dividing Range and also removes the need for traffic to travel via Scone.
It's also an important road for agriculture, allowing landholders in the Liverpool Plains to shift cattle in a more efficient way. "This is vitally important," he said.
The state government will spend $9 million on the upgrade, which is expected to take about two years to complete. The project was funded in the budget, so the upgrade will happen whoever forms government.
Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Sam Farraway said the link was not only crucial for the freight industry, but also will serve as a safer and more efficient connection for the local community.
"It means trucks will once again come through their towns, stopping in at local cafes and bringing back economic certainty to Merriwa and Willow Tree," he said.
State Member for Upper Hunter Dave Layzell said the long wait for a fix to the road had put strain on members of the community.
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Johnny Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez, takes starring role
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had top billing in their blockbuster $50 million defamation case, while the supporting cast of witnesses has included Elon Musk and the actors Paul Bettany, James Franco and Ellen Barkin.
However, as the trial in Virginia enters the final stretch a new star has emerged in the form of Camille Vasquez, Depp’s glamorous, no-nonsense lawyer whose brutal cross-examination of Heard was shared by millions of people on social media. One expert compared the confrontation to a Rocky film, with Vazquez, 37, landing the knockout blow.
She has developed a close bond with Depp and throughout the trial they have shared smiles, knowing looks and hugs, all gleefully lapped up by fans online. Their relationship has appeared so cosey that rumours | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/johnny-depps-lawyer-camille-vasquez-takes-starring-role-mkn6fkwhv | 2022-05-21T02:32:37Z | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/johnny-depps-lawyer-camille-vasquez-takes-starring-role-mkn6fkwhv | false | null |
M&C Saatchi board backs £310m takeover offer
Next Fifteen Communications has gatecrashed the takeover battle for M&C Saatchi, announcing a higher and recommended £310 million offer for its marketing rival.
This week M&C Saatchi rejected a £253.6 million approach from AdvancedAdvT, the bid vehicle of Vin Murria, Saatchi’s deputy chairwoman, arguing that the approach was “derisory” and risked damaging the core business because the company’s 18 most senior executives were all opposed to the takeover and could leave.
Next Fifteen’s 247.2p-a-share offer represents a 49.8 per cent premium to the company’s closing share price yesterday and is 19.1 per cent higher than AdvancedAdvT’s 207p-a-share offer. Shareholders would receive 40p in cash and 0.1637 of shares in the enlarged group for each M&C Saatchi share they own. After completion, M&C Saatchi | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m-amp-c-saatchi-board-backs-310m-takeover-offer-99hcbmq9c | 2022-05-21T02:33:39Z | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m-amp-c-saatchi-board-backs-310m-takeover-offer-99hcbmq9c | false | null |
Shares of Canopy Growth Corp.
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slipped 5.59% to C$7.09 Friday, in what proved to be an otherwise all-around favorable trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index
GSPTSE,
+0.08%
rising 0.08% to 20,197.61. Canopy Growth Corp. closed C$25.51 below its 52-week high (C$32.60), which the company reached on June 3rd. Trading volume of 2.3 M shares remained below its 50-day average volume of 2.7 M.
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BODY & SOUL
The secret of youth — it’s in your gut
Research suggests that changing your gut bacteria could keep you healthy through midlife and beyond. By John Naish
The Times
The long-sought fount of youthful longevity may finally have been discovered. It’s there right inside us — amid the trillions of microbes that live in our stomachs. New studies show that if we have “young” gut bugs, our bodies and brains can stay healthy through midlife and onwards, as though the ageing clock has stopped or even turned back.
The problem is that when we reach midlife, our gut bugs most often start to age as well. These old microbes, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi, can turn toxic and accelerate our ageing by wearing down vital bodily processes. Mercifully, scientists are now beginning to discover how we can help to ensure that our inner world of microbes — called the microbiome — has a | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-secret-of-youth-its-in-your-gut-xck7xwd68 | 2022-05-21T02:39:58Z | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-secret-of-youth-its-in-your-gut-xck7xwd68 | false | 1 |
In 1985 the Mondial 3.2 Cabriolet was equipped with the new 3.2-litre engine. This increase in power made it an even more exclusive car than before: no rival four-seater cabriolet of similar engine size could offer comparable performance. As with the 328 GTB and GTS, Pininfarina improved the styling and aerodynamics of this car, redesigning several bodywork details. | https://www.ferrari.com/en-TZ/auto/3.2-mondial-cabriolet | 2022-05-21T02:48:03Z | https://www.ferrari.com/en-TZ/auto/3.2-mondial-cabriolet | true | null |
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Seth takes a closer look at Republicans coming up with increasingly insane arguments against Biden’s vaccine requirements before speaking with Amy Adams and Lee Daniels and welcoming musical guest girl in red. | https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/amy-adams-lee-daniels-girl-in-red/9000188407 | 2022-05-21T02:48:56Z | https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/amy-adams-lee-daniels-girl-in-red/9000188407 | true | null |
MORGANTOWN, W.Va – Round three is on the horizon in a North-Central West Virginia baseball rivalry as Morgantown and Bridgeport are set to do battle with a state tournament berth on the line. The Mohigans and Indians split their first two meetings but for Morgantown, they’re focused on what is coming up in front of them. Senior left-hander Reed Bailey says it all starts with the first contest of next week’s three game series.
“We’re really just thinking of attacking game one,” he said, “We’re thinking one game at a time. We’re going to give it everything we got in game one and we’re guaranteed a game two but we’re not thinking about that one yet. We’ve got to get ahead and stay ahead.”
The Mohigans are looking to avenge a loss at this same point of the season a year ago as Bridgeport knocked off Morgantown en route to its seventh straight state title. Junior catcher Ty Galusky says that the adjustments they’ve needed to make have been made every day on the practice field and that they’re ready to take their seat at the table.
“In practice, you know, we work hard on everything we do,” he said, “We bring energy every day to the ballpark and if there’s anything we do wrong in the game or there’s anything we need to really focus on, we make sure we take the time to do that in practice.”
Morgantown will host game one of the Class AAA Region 1 championship series on Monday at Dale Miller Field. First pitch is set for 5:30. | https://www.wboy.com/sports/mohigans-staying-the-course-ahead-of-regional-series/ | 2022-05-21T02:51:04Z | https://www.wboy.com/sports/mohigans-staying-the-course-ahead-of-regional-series/ | true | 1 |
Lakers update: Three coaching candidates to interview again
The Lakers are continuing interviews with three coach candidates from their original pool, one step closer to finding a replacement for Frank Vogel.
Milwaukee assistant Darvin Ham, former Brooklyn coach and current Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson, and former Portland coach Terry Stotts advanced to the next stage of interviews, people with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Times. Ham, Atkinson and Stotts are all considered candidates for Charlotte’s vacancy as well.
All three coaches have different resumes and perceived strengths as the Lakers look for a new leader after a disastrous 2021-22 season.
Ham, a former role player, has never led a team from the big seat on the bench, but he’s built a reputation as one of the top assistants. He’s known for his ability to relate with players and hold them accountable after time with Milwaukee, Atlanta and, for two seasons, the Lakers.
Atkinson is regarded as one of the top developmental coaches, a reputation boosted by a stint with the Nets when the team was seen as an overachiever. He also worked under Mike Budenholzer in Atlanta with Ham. Atkinson spent last season with the Clippers before joining coach Steve Kerr with the Warriors.
Jeanie Buss says she will do whatever it takes to restore the Lakers’ luster. And Phil Jackson and Magic Johnson are again part of the plan.
Stotts had a successful stint with the Trail Blazers, making the Western Conference finals once and the playoffs in eight straight seasons. They did, however, lose in the first round five times. Stotts, though, is considered to be a strong offensive tactician with more than a 1,000 games of coaching experience.
At his season-ending news conference following Vogel’s dismissal, general manager Rob Pelinka said the Lakers ideally would have a coach by the NBA draft, which is June 23.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 20, 2022
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Joseph Davis raised five children in the two-story row home he and his wife bought in the mid-1960s in North Philadelphia, near the automotive parts factory where he worked.
Now, Davis struggles to keep up the house on a fixed income. Plaster peels away from the walls on the second floor. Investors call and offer to buy it, but Davis, who is now widowed, plans to stay as long as he can.
"They want me to move out, [but] I feel good in my home," he says. Then he adds with a chuckle, "I'm 89 years old. I'll probably die here."
When he received a letter in the mail last year promoting a federally funded energy-efficiency program, his daughter, Veronica Stovall, filled out the application with him.
A key piece of the Biden administration's climate policy
That program, called weatherization assistance, received a $3.5 billion boost in last year's infrastructure law, with a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions while lowering energy costs for 700,000 low-income U.S. households over the next five years. That's in addition to the $334 million Congress appropriated for the Department of Energy's weatherization program in 2022. But due to federal regulations, whether that assistance will reach people like Davis is uncertain.
Weatherization is part of the Biden administration's climate strategy, which aims to hit net zero emissions by 2050. "We will be able to help households in disadvantaged communities, reduce carbon emissions, and generate good-paying local jobs in every corner of America," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm.
Weatherization assistance can cover anything from energy efficient lights to new windows to improved insulation. To be eligible, households must live at or below 200% of the poverty line, which for one person living alone is $27,180, and $55,500 for a family of four. The program gives preference to seniors, people with disabilities, and those with children. Every home that's retrofitted keeps 2.65 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted each year, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
But under federal regulations, homes may be deferred because inspectors find that work would be ineffective because of significant repair needs, health or safety concerns, or exceedingly high repair costs. In theory, that means residents can reapply once they deal with the underlying issues. In reality, many can't afford to.
"It's almost looked at as a flaw or a void in this program"
In Davis' house, the weatherization assessment found substantial repair needs, including a leaky roof. His application was among those deferred. A subsequent estimate put the total cost at around $30,000, with the roofing bill alone over $13,000. Stovall has hired a local contractor to make some repairs, but the total cost is more than the family can afford.
Around half of all weatherization assistance applications in Philadelphia result in a deferral, according to the Energy Coordinating Agency, which carries out the program in Philadelphia.
"It's almost looked at as a flaw or a void in this program," says ECA executive director Steve Luxton. Philadelphia has a high rate of poverty, and Luxton says that means repair needs tend to pile up. His organization refers deferred homes to a subsidized repair program, however that program is often overloaded, according to Luxton. ECA has not been tracking how many are eventually able to fix their issues and come back.
By not doing more at the local level, he says, "We're turning our back on them really is the way I look at it."
Many needy homes across various states are rejected for assistance
This is not just a Philadelphia problem. Neither the U.S. Department of Energy nor the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which each fund weatherization assistance, tracks how many homes are deferred nationally. Federal surveys of the states and local agencies that carry out the work show that those who do track it report a wide range of deferral rates, from under 5% to more than 20%. A 2017 survey in Pennsylvania found about 36% of homes in the state are rejected. At one point, an agency in western Wisconsin found it was deferring nearly 60% of homes. (In each of these last two cases, that number spurred efforts at the local or state level to try to address it).
"It's not simply rural, or tribal, or located in various sections of the country... Every state, we're dealing with this problem," said David Bradley, CEO of the National Community Action Foundation, which lobbies on behalf of the groups that do weatherization.
The most common reasons for deferrals are structural issues, moisture or water, and mold, according to a survey of community organizations by the National Association for State Community Services Programs.
A large increase in funding can actually make the deferral rate higher. A review of weatherization's results, commissioned by the federal government, found that many agencies reported deferring more applicants when the program received a large infusion of cash during the Great Recession. Causes included stricter health and safety regulations, and the pressure to rapidly weatherize more homes, which "may have limited time previously spent on attempting to bundle resources necessary to address housing rehabilitation needs."
That same survey found that groups the program explicitly prioritized — households that contained elderly persons, children, and persons with disabilities — were deferred at higher rates during the period evaluated than single parent households.
Officials are working on fixes to lower deferrals
Deferrals are getting more attention from agencies and lawmakers. The Department of Energy will begin tracking them and their reasons starting in spring 2023. DOE is also in the early stages of rule changes that would allow for more flexibility in how the program is implemented, according to an agency spokesperson.
The Biden Administration has also taken steps to address deferrals. The President's 2022 budget proposed funding pre-weatherization repairs, and Congress set aside $15 million to do just that, though this money cannot be used for homes that will be weatherized with funds from the infrastructure law.
This year, a bipartisan group of senators also introduced the "Weatherization Assistance Program Improvements Act," a bill that would establish a repair fund just for these homes, funded at $65 million for five years. In addition, the bill would also raise the federal cap on the average weatherization cost per home.
Those changes are important, says Meg Power, senior policy advisor at the National Community Action Foundation, because the current system can incentivize fixing up the easiest houses first.
"Millions of homes were weatherized... So we're down to houses that are in real trouble, physically, structurally," she said. "The worst houses have been left behind."
If the repair fund bill passes, it would be a gamechanger, says Bradley.
Without such a holistic solution, "You're not really addressing the environmental injustice, the disparity on the lowest of the low-income," he says. However, Bradley estimates the actual repair needs nationwide are likely several times higher than the amount in the bill. The legislation has yet to advance out of committee, and the independent legislative tracker GovTrack gives it a slim chance of passing. In addition to unaddressed deferrals, Bradley says difficulties hiring enough staff in the current labor market could make it harder to hit the Biden Administration's weatherization goal.
Some local agencies have tried tackling the deferral issue by braiding together different funding
The deferral issue is so well known that some states and local agencies have tried tackling it on their own. By bundling together different funding sources, such as the repair funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, they can keep more homes in the program and undertake bigger projects. This approach is piecemeal, and requires siloed government agencies and nonprofits, often with slightly different aims, to work closely together, according to Power. But such local efforts give a sense of how a holistic home repair program would work.
Rezephyr Young, who goes by Cookie, is a 76-year-old retired hotel housekeeper. She recently got new windows, thanks to one such initiative in Philadelphia called Built to Last. It combines expertise and funding from more than a dozen different organizations, including utility companies, government agencies and nonprofits, with the goal of comprehensively repairing 80 to 100 high-need homes.
In Young's case, before she could qualify for weatherization assistance, which paid for the windows, she needed a new roof, and to have structural issues in her kitchen fixed.
Of the price tag for the repairs, she says, "I'm not even going to think, I just thank God I'm getting it done."
After NPR asked questions about Davis' housing repair needs, coordinators said they would look into including him in the Built to Last pilot. But that's not a solution for the thousands of homes in similar straits across the country.
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DENVER (AP)Between the new line combinations and wrinkles – using five forwards on a power play – there was one big-time constant for St. Louis: Jordan Binnington.
Stellar in goal yet again.
David Perron scored twice as St. Louis juggled its offensive pairings, Binnington made 30 saves and the Blues beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-1 on Thursday night to tie their second-round series at a game apiece.
Jordan Kyrou added a goal and Brandon Saad sealed it with an empty-netter for the Blues, who rode another superb performance from Binnington. The Blues goaltender stopped 51 shots during a 3-2 overtime loss in Game 1.
Binnington’s flashing his 2019 form, when as a rookie he led the Blues to a Stanley Cup title with a 16-10 mark and a 2.46 goals-against average.
It was also his 20th career playoff win. There are only two other goaltenders who have as many postseason wins as him since 2019 – Andrei Vasilevskiy (40-21) and Tuukka Rask (22-16), according to NHL Stats.
”We played a connected hockey game,” Binnington said. ”We talked about just controlling the puck and tracking back hard and trying to outnumber them all over the ice. We did a great job.”
Gabriel Landeskog scored on a power play early in the third for Colorado to make it 2-1. But Perron answered right back with his seventh goal of these playoffs.
Darcy Kuemper stopped 28 shots. Two of the goals he allowed were redirected off the stick of a defenseman.
The difference in the game was this: Nathan MacKinnon and the Avalanche found open ice a scarce commodity against a physical, hard-checking and more determined Blues squad.
”We didn’t have our jump tonight,” MacKinnon said. ”Our execution was off. Yeah, just weren’t feeling it, just fighting it out there. It’s unfortunate, but it’s 1-1.”
Game 3 is Saturday in St. Louis.
Among the line changes by the Blues was pairing Pavel Buchnevich with Ryan O’Reilly and Perron. Buchnevich finished with two assists.
”We made some good plays,” Perron said. ”We also think we can be even better, which is a good sign.”
The Blues had a 5-on-3 advantage late in the second period when Devon Toews was called for tripping and Valeri Nichushkin for goaltender interference after slamming into Binnington, whose stick went flying. The Blues went with five forwards on the play.
Perron made them pay when his liner deflected off the stick of Josh Manson – who scored the OT winner in Game 1 – and past Kuemper.
Earlier in the second, Kyrou’s shot deflected off the stick of defenseman Samuel Girard and over the shoulder of Kuemper.
”That’s the playoffs right there for you – big roller-coaster,” Perron said. ”Obviously we didn’t feel good about ourselves that last game. We probably had two or three players that had good games. That was it. And tonight we had a lot more guys and it was important to find a way to win one here on the road.”
Colorado defenseman Cale Makar was shaken up late in the first period when he fell to the ice and hit his leg on the post, knocking the goal off its moorings. He gingerly skated to the bench, but was back on the ice after intermission.
This remains a cloud hanging over the Avalanche: They’ve been ousted from the playoffs the last three seasons in the second round.
”It’s one game,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. ”We knew this was going to be a long, hard series. They answered back … Now, the onus is on us.”
FIVE CLUB
With his second goal of the series, Kyrou joins the list of Blues players who now have five or more goals in this postseason. He joins O’Reilly (six), Perron and Vladimir Tarasenko (five), giving the team the most scorers with five or more in the playoffs.
O’Reilly’s run of a goal in five straight games was halted.
TOP LINE
MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen had an assist on Landeskog’s goal. It’s the 13the time the three of them have all factored in on the same playoff goal. That’s the second-most by three teammates in franchise history, trailing only 14 from Peter Forsberg, Valeri Kamensky and Claude Lemieux.
MIC’D UP MANSON
Manson was wearing a microphone in Game 1 when he scored his overtime goal. It captured all the screams as he and his teammates celebrated. One of the first to greet him was Girard.
”I actually didn’t know,” Girard said of the Manson’s microphone.
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Magpie causes power cut to around 7000 Wairarapa homes
Transpower says a magpie was the cause of a major power cut to around 7000 Wairarapa homes this morning.
Technicians were working to restore power and was expected to back on around 10.40am, said Transpower spokesperson Laura Ackland.
She said magpies nesting on power pylons often created problems with power networks, but not usually in autumn.
Around 7000 Wairarapa homes had their power cut when a magpie flew into a transformer.
Power was cut about 8.45am on Saturday and both transformers in Greytown tripped off for safety reasons.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Some of the world’s biggest mining companies have withdrawn requests to research and extract minerals on Indigenous land in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and have repudiated Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to legalize mining activity in the areas.
The Brazilian Mining Association (Ibram), which represents around 130 companies, conducted an internal survey of its members earlier this year, according to Raul Jungmann, its president. For the first time in decades, none of the companies have current research or mining applications for gold, tin, nickel, iron and other ores in Indigenous areas, he said. Neither the survey nor its results have been reported previously.
Members of the association, which accounts for 85% of Brazil’s legally produced ore, include mining giants Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Vale. The AP contacted all three companies. Rio Tinto confirmed it retracted its applications for research concessions in 2019. Anglo American did the same in March 2021. Vale withdrew its requests for research and mining concessions over the last year.
“Ibram’s position is that it is not possible to request mining and research authorizations on Indigenous lands unless you have constitutional regulation,” Jungmann said by phone.
Around two thirds of the applications were filed with the federal mining agency before the government officially demarcated them as Indigenous territory, according to a study conducted by geologist Tadeu Veiga, a consultant who also teaches at the National University of Brasilia.
The collective retreat comes as Bolsonaro insists Indigenous territories contain mineral resources vital to bringing prosperity to both the nation and native peoples. Brazil’s Constitution states that mining can only take place on Indigenous lands after getting informed consent and under laws that regulate the activity. More than three decades later, such legislation still hasn’t been approved.
Bolsonaro was pushing to change that even before he became president, as a fringe lawmaker. During his 2018 presidential campaign, he said deposits of the metallic element niobium, found under Indigenous lands, could transform Brazil into a mining powerhouse, but the proposal fell by the wayside after he took office.
Available resources of niobium, used as an alloy for steel, are more than sufficient to supply the world’s projected needs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey
On Friday, Bolsonaro met with SpaceX and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk in Brazil and suggested producing batteries with niobium, but said afterward Musk showed no interest. “At the moment, this is not on their radar. They think they have to wait a little longer to invest in this area,” he said.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly said the nearly 14% of Brazil that is within Indigenous territories is excessive, and that foreign governments are championing Indigenous rights and environmental preservation as a gambit to eventually tap the mineral wealth themselves.
“Interest in the Amazon isn’t about the Indian or the damn tree. It’s the ore,” he told a crowd of prospectors in capital Brasilia in 2019.
More recently, in March, he pressured Congress for an emergency vote on the bill drafted and presented in 2020 by his mining and justice ministries to finally regulate the mining of Indigenous lands. He said the emergency vote was necessary because of the war in Ukraine, which threatened crucial supplies of the fertilizer potash from Russia to Brazil’s vast farmlands.
With the law in place, “in two or three years, we will no longer be dependent on imports of potash for our agribusiness,” Bolsonaro said. “Agribusiness is the locomotive of our economy.”
Experts were quick to note, however, that most potash deposits in Brazil’s Amazon are not located in Indigenous territory, according to a study from Minas Gerais Federal University based on official data.
Critics have argued the bill’s primary purpose is providing legal cover for thousands of prospectors. The activity mushroomed in recent years amid repeated promises for regulation from Bolsonaro’s government, members of which held several meetings with representatives of prospectors.
The prospectors’ sites often grow over time, creating vast damage, destroying riverbanks, contaminating waterways with mercury and disrupting Indigenous peoples’ traditional ways of life. By contrast, industrial-scale mining in the Amazon produces deep scars in the forest, but mostly limited to the area of the deposit, as is the case with Carajas, the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world, operated by Vale.
In March, while Bolsonaro’s parliamentary base tried to speed up the bill’s progress, thousands of Indigenous people and their allies protested in front of Congress, led by Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso. They soon found an unlikely ally: Ibram, the mining association, which in the past had kept a low profile.
Bolsonaro’s bill “is not appropriate for its intended purpose,” Ibram said in a statement issued days later, adding that regulation of mining in Indigenous territories “needs to be widely debated by the Brazilian society, especially by the Indigenous peoples, respecting their constitutional rights, and by the Brazilian Congress.”
Jungmann said his association issued the unusual statement, first, because it has decided to become more open and transparent following two mining accidents in Minas Gerais state in 2015 and 2019 that killed hundreds of people and contaminated waterways.
The appointment of Jungmann, a high-profile politician who has been a minister in two center-right governments, also reflects this shift.
Another reason, Jungmann said, is mounting pressure at home and abroad to adopt friendlier socio-environmental practices.
“We are not against mining on Indigenous lands,” he said. “However, we think the bill is inadequate, because it does not comply with the International Labor Organization’s Resolution 169, which demands free, prior and informed consent. Secondly, it doesn’t close the loopholes for illegal mining. Third, we want a project that preserves the environment, particularly the rainforest.”
“Prospecting, which kills and destroys communities, is a case for police, not an economic issue,” he added.
Bolsonaro’s proposal suffered another, international rejection Thursday when ecologist Philip Fearnside and five other scientists published a letter in the journal Science warning that the war in Ukraine was serving as “an excuse for the destruction of the Amazon.”
Indigenous lands are essential for maintaining the ecological benefits provided by the Brazilian Amazon Forest, they wrote. “These lands protect more of the forest than federal protected areas.” The letter calls on mineral importers to ”follow through with possible boycotts to make it clear that Brazil’s irresponsible actions have consequences,” if the law goes through.
To Bolsonaro’s chagrin, lawmakers have thus far declined to put the proposed mining law to a vote. Jungmann said he has met with the presidents of both houses of Congress to explain industry opposition, as well as with the president’s Chief of Staff Ciro Nogueira.
In a speech to farmers on April 25, Bolsonaro rejected criticism from the Ibram and the Indigenous movement, alleging that mineral exploration on Indigenous lands would only occur with the approval of the affected tribe.
In an email, the Ministry of Mining called the mining regulation for Indigenous areas long overdue. The lack of regulation brings disorder and environmental damage, it said.
Ibram-affiliated companies pulling out of Indigenous territories doesn’t mean they or others will cease to mine the Amazon, or that conflicts with Indigenous people are a thing of the past.
Canada-based Belo Sun Mining Corp is trying the develop what would be the largest open-pit gold mine in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Nearby Indigenous communities claim they haven’t been consulted. Another Canadian company, Brazil Potash Corp, is fighting in court to implement a $2.2 billion project close to the territory of the Mura people, who fear the operation will affect their lands.
Neither company is affiliated with Ibram, which declined to comment about the cases.
The database of the federal mining regulator, known as ANM, still reflects active applications by many large mining companies in Indigenous territories. Indigenous groups say this means the big mining companies are still interested in their land.
In an emailed response, the regulator said that a withdrawal request goes through a clearing process before an application is officially inactive. Sometimes that can take years. ANM declined to provide details on specific applications. Ibram’s Jungmann says the agency needs to overcome its technical problems.
“Mining companies have shown growing attention to social and environmental governance principles. Shareholders and society demand it,” said Veiga, who has extensive experience consulting for such companies in the Amazon, as well as for non-profits. “And they (mining companies) never felt they were taken into consideration with Bolsonaro’s bill, which was interpreted as an attempt to legalize illegal mining.”
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Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial: A look at what happened in court this week
Johnny Depp’s $50 million libel trial against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, entered its fifth week, with Heard being cross-examined about the couple’s fights, her sister and friend backing her assault claims, and former close contacts of Depp charting the actor’s rise and fall.
Depp is suing Heard in Virginia for libel over an op-ed she wrote in December 2018 in The Washington Post, headlined: "I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change." Heard never mentioned Depp, but she refers to herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse."
And while Depp wasn’t named, his lawyers say the article defames him nevertheless because it’s a clear reference to the highly publicized allegations Heard made when she filed for divorce in 2016 and obtained a temporary restraining order against him.
Depp said he never physically abused Heard, while Heard said she was assaulted on more than a dozen occasions.
Here’s a look at what happened in the trial this week:
Monday, May 16: Jurors see pics of Amber Heard's swollen face after fight with Depp
FILE - U.S. actors Amber Heard (L) and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leaves the courtroom at the end of the day at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022. (STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Heard was back on the witness stand Monday to continue her testimony in the trial following a week-long recess. She concluded her direct testimony that was centered on the final months of her marriage to Depp, and his lawyers began their cross-examination later in the afternoon.
Jurors saw new photos of Heard with red marks and swelling on her face after their final fight before their divorce. Heard said the marks came when Depp threw a phone at her face.
The confrontation in May 2016 prompted Heard to file for divorce two days later. A few days after that, she obtained a temporary restraining order after a courthouse hearing and was widely photographed leaving the courthouse with a clear red mark on her right cheek.
Depp says he never struck Heard and that she’s concocting claims she was abused. Earlier in the trial, jurors heard from police officers who responded to emergency calls during that final fight who said Heard’s face looked red from crying but that they saw no visible bruises.
Heard, in her testimony Monday, said she didn’t cooperate with officers who responded to the couple’s penthouse and said her face-to-face interactions with officers were very limited.
She also discussed her makeup routine, using a color correction wheel that she called her "bruise kit" to cover up marks on her face. She said she learned over the years to use green shades in the first day of a bruise to cover up redness, and switch more to orange shades as the bruise turned blue and purple.
"I’m not going to walk around L.A. with bruises on my face," she said.
On cross-examination, Depp lawyer Camille Vasquez questioned Heard about multiple photos of her that appeared not to show bruises even though they were taken within days of alleged abuse incidents. Heard said she used makeup to cover bruises and ice to reduce swelling.
Vasquez also questioned Heard about her $7 million divorce settlement from Depp. Heard pledged to donate the full amount to charity but has so far only donated a portion of it. She testified she’s been unable to fulfill her pledge yet because Depp sued her for $50 million. But on cross-examination, she acknowledged that she had received the full $7 million from Depp months before he filed the lawsuit.
During the testimony, Heard also strongly denied an accusation from Depp that she left human fecal matter in the couple’s bed after a fight. Heard said it was the couple’s teacup Yorkshire terrier that messed the bed and that it had a history of bowel problems ever since it had accidentally ingested Depp’s marijuana.
"Absolutely not," she said about the alleged poop prank. "I don’t think that’s funny. I don’t know what a grown woman does. I was not in a pranking mood."
The poop allegation is one of several that Depp’s online fans have particularly latched onto in their social media critiques of Heard.
Tuesday, May 17: Amber Heard cross-examined about fights with Johnny Depp
Heard was cross-examined for most of the day on Tuesday, and Depp’s lawyers particularly questioned the truthfulness of her accusation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.
The accusation stems from a March 2015 fight the couple had in Australia, shortly after they were married, while Depp was shooting the fifth film in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
It was during that fight that Heard said she was sexually assaulted. Depp, on the other hand, said he was the victim, and that he lost the tip of his middle finger when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.
Vasquez questioned why Heard never sought medical attention, even though she said her feet were cut by broken glass and she was bleeding after the attack.
"You're the one who assaulted someone with a bottle in Australia, isn't that right, Ms. Heard?" Vasquez asked.
"I didn't assault Johnny in Australia. I didn't assault Johnny ever," Heard responded.
Vasquez then questioned why Heard wrote a series of love notes to Depp in the months after she said she was assaulted.
Heard has said she believed Depp had hit rock bottom after the Australia fight and was committed to sobriety. She has said most of the assaults occurred while Depp was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The jury also saw a recording of a deposition Heard gave in 2016 in connection with her divorce in which she appeared to inadvertently admit that she had tipped off the celebrity news outlet TMZ to aspects of her initial divorce proceedings.
After Heard's testimony concluded, jurors heard recorded testimony from a mutual friend of the couple, iO Tillett Wright, who said Depp confided to him that he hated sobriety.
"He wanted to get sober for Amber," Tillett Wright said. "He didn't enjoy being sober. It wasn't fun, and that it was distressing and exhausting and very hard to do. He really, really resented having to be sober."
Wright said Depp's personality turned mean and paranoid when he was using alcohol or drugs.
iO Tillet Wright, friend of U.S. actress Amber Heard, testifies via videoconference in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 17, 2022. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
There was testimony about Heard's $100 million counterclaim against Depp. She said she was defamed by Depp's lawyer, Adam Waldman, when he called Heard's accusations a hoax.
Heard has said the accusations hurt her career, but Vasquez pointed to a series of negative articles about Heard that preceded Waldman's comments.
The jury also heard an audio recording of a verbal fight between the two in which each belittled the other's acting career. Heard laughed mockingly at Depp's career-making role in the '80s television show "21 Jump Street."
"Hey, at least I didn't do, like, a teeny show where I'm a heartthrob. God that would be, like, embarrassing," Heard said.
Depp responded with dismissive commentary about Heard's biggest film role to date, shouting "Aquaman!" in a mocking way to denigrate the superhero film.
And Heard took offense when Vasquez suggested that Heard only got the role in "Aquaman" with Depp's help.
"Excuse me?" Heard said. "No, Ms. Vasquez, I got myself that role by auditioning."
Wednesday, May 18: Amber Heard's sister, friend back her assault claims
Heard’s sister testified on Wednesday that she found herself in the middle of fights — literally and figuratively — between her sister and Depp during their troubled relationship.
Whitney Heard Henriquez was the first witness to testify at the five-week civil trial to say she personally witnessed Depp hitting Heard. Depp has testified he never struck Heard.
Henriquez testified the fight occurred in March 2015 — a month after Depp and Heard's wedding — when Heard found evidence that Depp had already had an extramarital affair. Henriquez recounted that an inebriated Depp blamed Heard for forcing him into the extramarital encounter.
At one point, she said, she was caught between Depp and Heard as he charged up a staircase to confront Heard. Henriquez said she was struck in the back, and Heard became enraged and "landed one" on Depp, with Henriquez stuck between the two.
One of Depp's bodyguards intervened and broke up the fight but "by that time Johnny had already grabbed Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her repeatedly in the face with the other," Henriquez said.
It was the only time, Henriquez said, that she personally witnessed a physical assault. But she said she saw the aftermath of other fights, including bruises on Heard.
But she acknowledged on cross-examination that she sided with Depp at times in their disputes, and said she worked to keep the couple together even after she watched her sister be physically assaulted.
"If my sister said that she still wanted to be with Johnny and if I could help with that in any way I was going to support her. I was going to be there for her," she said.
Also on Wednesday, a friend of Heard testified she saw the bruises and cuts left in the aftermath of multiple incidents of abuse inflicted by Depp.
FILE - Whitney Henriquez, sister of actor Amber Heard, testifies on the stand during Johnny Depp's defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, on May 18, 2022 (KEVIN LAMARQUE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
In a recorded deposition played for jurors, Raquel Pennington said she never personally witnessed Depp strike Heard. But she said she saw the injuries, and she took photos of Heard's face in December 2015 after a fight in which Heard said Depp head-butted her and perhaps broke her nose.
The photo shows a swollen nose, a cut lip, and two moderately black eyes on Heard's face.
She also took a photo of strands of hair that she said were ripped from Heard's scalp.
Heard "often had to cover bruises and injuries on her face" with makeup, said Pennington, one of many witnesses whose testimony was previously recorded.
Pennington said she doesn't really consider herself a current friend of Heard, and that the two grew apart in the last year.
RELATED: Some spend $30K to get a front-row seat of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial
Thursday, May 19: Former close contacts chart Johnny Depp’s rise and fall
FILE - U.S. actor Johnny Depp arrives at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 19, 2022. (SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
On Thursday, three people who were once close to Depp charted the actor’s rise and fall from "the biggest movie star in the world" to a man who struggled with drugs, money, and the ability to show up at movie sets on time.
Tracey Jacobs, who served as the actor’s agent for about 30 years, said Depp was "showing up late to set consistently on virtually every movie" during their final years working together.
"I was very honest with him and said, ‘You’ve got to stop doing this – this is hurting you,’" Jacobs said during a previously recorded deposition that was played in court Thursday. "And it did."
The testimony served to push back against Depp’s libel lawsuit against Heard. Depp claims that a 2018 op-ed piece Heard wrote in The Washington Post unfairly portrayed him as a domestic abuser and cost him a lucrative Hollywood career that included the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie franchise. Heard’s attorneys argue that Depp’s professional undoing was the result of his own bad behavior.
Joel Mandel, Depp’s former business manager, testified in a previously recorded deposition that the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films had "catapulted him into an entirely different level of success."
"It meant more employees," Mandel said. "It meant buying additional property. … It meant a bigger life and a more expensive one."
Things began to change around 2010, and it "became clear over time that there were issues with alcohol and drugs," Mandel said. "And that translated into more erratic behavior, more stressful behavior, more times when it was difficult to engage in the kinds of conversations I needed to do my job."
At one point, Depp was spending around $100,000 a month for a doctor and staff to help him get sober, Mandel said. At another, he was spending $300,000 a month on full-time staff, he said. And he said there also were times when Depp spent thousands of dollars a month on prescription drugs.
"The spending levels had grown very, very, very large and required that level of incredibly high income to be maintained," Mandel said. "And when it dropped off, the disconnect became untenable."
Mandel said he became extremely worried about Depp’s finances in 2015, but that Depp met those concerns with anger. He said the actor fired him in 2016.
Bruce Witkin, a musician who was friends with Depp for nearly 40 years, testified in a previously recorded deposition that Depp could become jealous in his romantic relationships.
That jealousy was demonstrated with Heard when she would be off filming a movie "or doing something that he couldn't be around to see what was going in," Witkin said. "I think he would work himself up."
Witkin said he once saw bruises on Heard's arm when he and Depp were working on a documentary about Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. And he saw Depp with a "fat lip" one time. But Witkin said he never saw Depp or Heard physically abuse each other.
Witkin said he tried to help Depp with his substance abuse and had set him up with a therapist.
"He'd say, ‘I’ll be all right. I'll be all right,'" Witkin said, recalling a conversation. "Well, you're not all right.
The trial is set to resume on Monday, May 23.
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ATLANTA — A new federal law aimed at protecting young children bans the sale of a crib product once commonly used by new parents.
The Safe Cribs Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden, makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, or distribute padded bumpers that line the inside of a crib. In the coming days, the Consumer Product Safety Commission will designate crib bumpers as hazardous products.
At Georgia Baby Furniture in Buford, cribs are designed to protect an active infant. Owner Mary Ash remembers when crib bumpers were considered protective. Two decades ago, bumpers came with the crib she bought for her first child.
“I just had a sense that the bumpers were not safe,” said Ash. “So, I never used the bumpers. They’re still in a box."
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were 113 fatal incidents associated with crib bumpers between 1990 and 2019.
“A lot of them have a shape where the child can get up against the material and the carbon dioxide pools around their face and they just unfortunately suffocate,” explained Rob Carter of Prepare First.
Carter’s organization inspects homes for issues that might harm a child. He says too often, he finds risks.
“I think parents are aware of there being an issue with buffers, but I don't think that it's well understood what all of the issues are,” Carter added. “It's the same issue with toys that people put in cribs or blankets. Once a child gets mobile, if they can get their face up against that, they're not going to recognize that they're creating a problem.”
The new law also bans sleepers with an incline steep enough to pose a risk.
“A lot of mothers can relate to this,” said Ash. “You just worry.”
Meanwhile, Ash is happy to know that federal law now reflects the concern she had about crib bumpers so many years ago. | https://www.wltx.com/article/life/federal-law-bans-crib-bumpers/85-3ad43162-5202-49c7-8f35-0f4efeed2e41 | 2022-05-21T03:18:25Z | https://www.wltx.com/article/life/federal-law-bans-crib-bumpers/85-3ad43162-5202-49c7-8f35-0f4efeed2e41 | false | 7 |
In unusual step, US military aircraft will transport first pallets of baby formula to US
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN
The first flights of the Biden administration’s latest effort to expedite baby formula delivery to the US amid a nationwide shortage will include US military aircraft, a White House official says.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the first flights supporting the newly created Operation Fly Formula program, and they will “depart Ramstein Air Base in Germany over the course of this weekend,” the White House official said.
“Due to the urgency of the situation, these flights will comprise U.S. military aircraft,” the official said.
Using military aircraft for this endeavor is unusual and underscores the urgent nature of the situation.
The administration’s plan going forward is to use commercially contracted aircraft, but none were available this weekend, according to an official. The official promised further updates on the remaining 114 pallets of Gerber Good Start Extensive HA, “which are expected to arrive in the coming days.”
The first flights over the weekend will transport 132 pallets of Nestlé Health Science formula — including Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior — to Indianapolis.
The White House has said these specific formulas have been prioritized because they serve a critical medical purpose and are in short supply in the United States because of the Abbott Nutrition plant closure in Michigan.
CNN reported Friday that the West Wing has been thrown into crisis mode over the nationwide shortage of baby formula.
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Shares of WEC Energy Group Inc.
WEC,
+0.66%
inched 0.66% higher to $103.55 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.01%
rising 0.01% to 3,901.36 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.03%
rising 0.03% to 31,261.90. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. WEC Energy Group Inc. closed $3.27 short of its 52-week high ($106.82), which the company achieved on April 21st.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Duke Energy Corp.
DUK,
+0.81%
rose 0.81% to $109.83, Xcel Energy Inc.
XEL,
-1.05%
fell 1.05% to $74.22, and DTE Energy Co.
DTE,
-0.08%
fell 0.08% to $128.72. Trading volume (1.8 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.5 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use. | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wec-energy-group-inc-stock-outperforms-market-on-strong-trading-day-01653082089-a6c06f376f51 | 2022-05-21T03:23:05Z | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wec-energy-group-inc-stock-outperforms-market-on-strong-trading-day-01653082089-a6c06f376f51 | false | 3658 |
Jail Log
These people were booked into the Madison County Jail on Monday. Charges are recommended by arresting officers but are not final until the Madison County prosecutor reviews the case and files official charges.
• Justin Dewayne Jones, 45, 600 block of West Main Street, Chesterfield. Booked 7:07 a.m. Monday, failure to appear and criminal trespass.
• Robert Edgar Leary, 61, 400 block of East North Street, Markleville. Booked 10:03 a.m. Monday, operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
• Brandon Aiken, 30, 1400 block of Main Street, Lapel. Booked 10:39 a.m. Monday, domestic battery by an adult in the knowing presence of a child 16 or younger, possession of cocaine or narcotic drug and possession of paraphernalia.
• Ernest Lamont Turner, 43, 1700 block of Fletcher Street, Anderson. Booked 11:15 a.m. Monday, failure to register as a sex offender.
• Maurice Lamount Nunn Jr., 33, 1600 block of West Eighth Street, Anderson. Booked 1 p.m. Monday, strangulation with no/minor injury, domestic battery, domestic battery with a prior unrelated conviction, two counts invasion of privacy, burglary, violation of probation and resisting law enforcement.
• Jamie Jo Tomlinson, 36, 800 block of East Main Street, Muncie. Booked 1:03 p.m. Monday, failure to appear.
• Jerry Lynn Scott, 35, homeless, Anderson. Booked 2:14 p.m. Monday, violation of probation, possession of methamphetamine, possession of paraphernalia, theft/larceny with a value up to $750 and two counts failure to appear.
• Shaun Leonard Brooks, 52, 2300 block of Halford Street, Anderson. Booked 3:04 p.m. Monday, failure to appear.
• Justin Allen Morefield, 33, 17900 block of Pennington Road, Noblesville. Booked 3:31 p.m. Monday, failure to appear.
• Connor Gabriel Rivas, 28, 200 block of Minsi Drive, Pendleton. Booked 4:25 p.m. Monday, invasion of privacy.
• Grant William Siler, 57, 1800 block of Sheridan Street, Anderson. Booked 4:26 p.m. Monday, criminal trespass.
• Andy Jay King, 48, 1500 block of West Third Street, Anderson. Booked 5:31 p.m. Monday, auto theft.
• Justin Paul Griffin, 31, 100 block of Bennett Drive, Markleville. Booked 7:21 p.m. Monday, violation of probation. | https://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/local_news/briefs/jail-log-may-19/article_ccf2ca4e-d6c6-11ec-9dd8-ef752f39187c.html | 2022-05-21T03:27:05Z | https://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/local_news/briefs/jail-log-may-19/article_ccf2ca4e-d6c6-11ec-9dd8-ef752f39187c.html | false | 2 |
‘I have cancer’: Customers help raise thousands of dollars for Waffle House employee
ATLANTA (WGCL/Gray News) - Waffle House customers in Georgia are raising money for a beloved employee who is battling cancer.
WGCL reports Cynthia Morrison has called the restaurant home for 37 years, and not only will she ask for your breakfast order, but she’ll get your life story, too.
“Most of the time, I know their order, drink, and name,” Morrison said. “If you know their name, it makes them feel special.”
Morrison’s genuine interest in every customer who walks in is part of the reason one regular noticed her absence one morning.
Joey Godfrey and his family have dined with Morrison hundreds of times over the last five or six years.
“She’s always there every Saturday,” Godfrey said. “She’s always smiling, always asking how I’m doing, how are my kids doing - it’s never about her.”
When their paths crossed days later, Godfrey asked Morrison where she had been. He was shocked to learn why she called out.
“She leaned in and said, ‘I have cancer; bone cancer,’” Godfrey said.
Morrison said she was diagnosed with stage 1 multiple myeloma in March. She had just started chemotherapy pills at home and suffered a poor reaction but never planned to share her diagnosis with customers.
“I didn’t mean for it to just come out,” she said.
Morrison’s health scare comes months after she lost her brother to cancer and her mother to COVID-19.
Godfrey said Morrison’s health news hit him hard. Last year, he lost his stepdad to cancer and has a close friend currently fighting the disease.
He left a $120 tip for Morrison that day, but his generosity didn’t stop there. In less than a week, he set up a GoFundMe for Morrison, and the account had more than $5,000 in a matter of days.
Morrison said she faces eight more rounds of chemotherapy, procedures, and weeks she won’t be able to work. She said she appreciates the money, but nothing beats the kindness coming her way.
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LOCKINGTON-BAMAWM United is bracing for another stern test in Saturday's Heathcote District league match of the round.
After overcoming a tough challenge from Mount Pleasant last week to win by 31 points, the undefeated Cats (5-0) host fourth-placed North Bendigo (4-2).
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"It's another great challenge backing up after a tough game last week," LBU coach Brodie Collins said on Friday.
"We've trained well this week and we'll trust the process that we've implemented that has got us into this position.
"We'll continue to focus on what we do well and if it's good enough, it's good enough, but if not we'll address what we need to.
"We know North Bendigo is playing some good footy and we'll have to make sure we're switched on from the start of the game."
The powerful Cats have kicked at least 118 points in four of their five wins so far and have won 18 of their 20 quarters as they have continued on from where they left off last season when they were the undefeated "minor premiers".
North Bendigo - the last visiting team to win at Lockington in round seven of 2019 - makes the trip north off the back of comfortable wins over Huntly (87 points) and Leitchville-Gunbower (79) the previous fortnight.
SATURDAY'S TEAMS:
LEITCHVILLE-GUNBOWER v ELMORE
2.15pm Saturday at Leitchville.
LEITCHVILLE-GUNBOWER
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ELMORE
From: Nicholas Kellow, Tannar Cerrone, Dylan Gordon, Che Taranto, Samuel Lees, Sam McHale, Matthew Nettlefold, Sebastian De Napoli, Mitchell Carson, Bailey Sawyer, Darcy Laffy, Kyle Armstrong, Dylan Oaff, Regan Williams, Matt Gilmour, Luke Price, Zachary Laffy, Zack Holmberg, Jack Trewick, Liam Gundry, Lachlan Giffin
HEATHCOTE v WHITE HILLS
2.15pm Saturday at Heathcote.
HEATHCOTE
B: J. Langford, R. Bailey, B. Price
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HB: B. Klemke, W. Direen, C. Price
C: R. Bolton, C. Hamilton, B. Padmore
HF: J. Jones, B. Jane, J. Cavallaro
F: J. Brooks, L. Birch, K. Cavallaro
R: J. Marcroft, J. Conforti, M. McLean
Int: H. McCarthy, N. Bake, W. Long, A. Mcivor
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WHITE HILLS
B: B. Bacon, K. Skelton, R. Irwin
HB: M. Walsh, J. Fallon, J. Davies
C: D. Nihill, H. Richards, P. Eefting
HF: C. Kekich, M. Dole, B. Fallon
F: L. Bartels, D. Wright, B. Childs
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R: E. Pearce, R. Porter, R. Walker
Int: N. Moffat, G. Bowles, B. Nalder, J. Dickens
HUNTLY v COLBINABBIN
2.15pm Saturday at Huntly.
HUNTLY
B: J. Cowling, J. McDonald, F. Campbell
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HB: T. Mercadante, S. Fiske, M. Jeffries
C: K. Forster, M. Billings, N. Grace
HF: O. Downing, J. Cordy, M. Christensen
F: J. Price, T. Ferguson, L. Gray
R: H. Campbell, M. Rule, B. Chalmers
Int: B. Dimech, B. Jones, J. Moon, S. Keneally
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COLBINABBIN
B: D. Price, T. Hill, H. Barlow
HB: J. Sacco, B. Barton, M. Riordan
C: A. Van Ruiswyk, L. Fitzgerald, T. Clarke
HF: S. Tuohey, T. Holobowski, L. Moore
F: C. Shields, J. Brain, J. Brain
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R: S. Bromley, H. Sirett, W. Lowe
Int: D. Brown, J. McMurtrie, J. Bull, L. Ezard
LBU v NORTH BENDIGO
2.15pm Saturday at Lockington.
LOCKINGTON-BAMAWM UNITED
B: C. Hinks, L. Collins, F. Monahan
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HB: J. Mundie, J. Howlett, J. Wolfe
C: R. McIvor, T. Leech, N. Bacon
HF: M. Angove, R. Woodland, B. Fulford
F: J. Gardiner, A. McMahon, L. Atherton
R: T. Phillips, J. Collins, B. Collins
Int: C. Cox, M. Laursen, S. Brentnall, H. Cobb
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NORTH BENDIGO
B: R. Alford, S. Demeo, M. Rogers
HB: D. Reid, L. Ford, A. Craig
C: L. Tardrew, B. Cross, N. Waterson
HF: D. Klemm, J. Francis, S. Moyle
F: S. Harris, J. Ford, S. Giri
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R: J. Lambden, M. Thalasinos, N. Newlan
Int: Z. Richards, M. Gray, R. Gow, Z. Barilari
SATURDAY'S LODDON VALLEY LEAGUE TEAMS:
NEWBRIDGE v BRIDGEWATER
2.15pm Saturday at Newbridge.
NEWBRIDGE
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From: Christopher Dixon, Jordan Anderson, Mitch Hocking, Tyler McLeod, Matthew Morgan, Ryan Burt, Thomas Wilson, Jack Clark, Dylan Lloyd, Harry Whittle, Cameron Grant, Ashley Mayo, Thomas Hobson, Brad Wilson, Jack Murray, Ben Burns, Marcus Pitto, Patrick Andrews, Brandon Etherington, Logan Dixon, Austin Fithall, Jirah Dawkins
BRIDGEWATER
From: Callum Prest, Lachlan Allison, Zane Hoiles, Andrew Collins, Emile Pavlich, Michael Brooks, Harry Donegan, Harry Symons, Tynan Hywood, Lloyd Needs, Joshua Martyn, Harry McKinley, Tyler Estrada, Luke Harrison, Jake Rusbridge, Jacob Ellings, Jack Symons, Jack Ozanne, Nicholas Naughton, James Naughton, Brayden Stepien, Alexander Pollock, Sam Dewar
MARONG v BL-SERPENTINE
2.15pm Saturday at Marong.
MARONG
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B: W. Gadsden, N. Walsh, M. Willox
HB: C. Fleming, A. Ward, D. Johnstone
C: C. Thiesz, P. Gretgrix, K. Manley
HF: L. Frankel, J. McCaig, A. Pappin
F: C. Jacobs, N. Devanny, B. Grenfell
R: J. Hynes, C. Gregg, J. Gadsden
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Int: T. Thach, B. Gregg, B. Hartland, R. Taylor
BEARS LAGOON-SERPENTINE
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PYRAMID HILL v CALIVIL UNITED
2.15pm Saturday at Pyramid Hill.
PYRAMID HILL
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From: Ed Caburnay, Scott Mann, Jack Timmins, Bradley Driscoll, Zac Dingwall, Sebastian Relouw, Ben Dalton, Adrian Holland, Mitchell Cheesman, Bailey George, Billy Micevski, Braidy Dickens, Ryley Dickens, Jack Woodward, Bryden Morison, Jake Willcocks, Steven Gunther, Will Perryman, Jack Hickmott, Gavin James, Dylan Morison, Nathan Catherwood, Brad Ladson
CALIVIL UNITED
From: Blake Pickles, Patrick Hansford, Cody Anderson, Jake Lawry, Lachlan Brook, Phil Ryan, Mitchell Deering, Blayne Ryan-Storey, Jack Sinclair, Brock Rogers, Evan Ritchie, Ben Daley, Corey Pearse, Jordan Lea, Mitch Avard, Alex Daniels, Michael Maxey, Ben Baker, Nick McPherson, Lachlan McAllister, Jacob Greenwood, Blair Richards
MAIDEN GULLY YCW v MITIAMO
2.15pm Saturday at Maiden Gully.
MAIDEN GULLY YCW
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B: J. Magnusson, S. Turner, J. Carroll
HB: R. Strauch, H. McCartney, H. McDonald
C: L. Sobina, C. Hale, N. Murley
HF: C. Angove, M. Dean, C. Walsh
F: J. Worsley, J. Gallaher, G. Brown
R: J. Dwyer, C. Howgate, J. Lampi
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Int: K. Schepers, J. Burns, W. Anderson
MITIAMO
B: H. McCormick, D. Mowat, W. Draper
HB: J. Wiegard, L. Twigg, J. Vinnicombe
C: R. Turner, T. Rogers, M. Grant
HF: B. Baines, J. Carracher, R. Wellington
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F: C. Nicholson, J. Falls, B. Perry
R: N. Twigg, D. Thomas, L. Dale
Int: M. Hocking, S. Hanrahan, Z. Gray, E. Hocking, Z. Tuohey
SATURDAY'S NORTH CENTRAL TEAMS
BIRCHIP-WATCHEM v WYCHEPROOF-NARRAPORT
2.30pm Saturday at Birchip.
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BIRCHIP-WATCHEM
B: J. Lindeback, S. Hogan, J. Booth
HB: D. Hinkley, L. Ryan, J. Reid
C: K. Stevens, S. Simmons, R. Hogan
HF: E. Jaeschke, D. Adkins, C. Hinkley
F: J. Christie, D. Ratcliffe, W. Sheahan
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R: L. Sirett, S. Pye, M. Rippon
Int: P. Hogan, B. Hogan, L. Foott
WYCHEPROOF-NARRAPORT
B: S. Allan, J. McHutchison, J. Kenny
HB: D. McLennan, B. Bish, D. Horbury
C: J. Turner, M. Beckmans, C. Burge
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HF: T. Rumbold, L. Longmire, D. Allen
F: J. Coatsworth, S. Faure, C. Green
R: G. Hommelhoff, J. Bateson, L. Van Schaik
Int: R. Duncan, A. Hogan
CHARLTON v ST ARNAUD
2.30pm Saturday at Charlton.
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CHARLTON
B: J. Thompson, P. Soulsby, P. Sait
HB: T. Hill, J. Zagame, D. Thiesz
C: A. Walklate, R. Thompson, T. Finlay
HF: B. Roberts, A. Judd, R. Welch
F: M. Heenan, K. Clifford, S. O'Connor
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R: D. McCallum, K. Blow, C. Fitzpatrick
Int: N. Thompson, F. Bourke, B. Dixon
ST ARNAUD
B: T. Bertalli, B. Durward, H. Durward
HB: M. Goode, D. Gifford, T. Petrie
C: K. Torney, M. Egan, J. Tillig
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HF: J. Kell, J. Male, W. Jackson
F: H. McNally, T. Douglas, J. Hicks
R: B. Batters, W. Bertalli, M. Birthisel
Int: J. Pickthall, J. Wandel, L. Ezard
DONALD v WEDDERBURN
2.30pm Saturday at Donald.
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DONALD
B: S. Wood, D. Pearce, J. Bates-gilby
HB: D. Harrison, D. Bell-Warren, R. Barrack
C: R. Young, C. Brooks, R. McGough
HF: J. Wall, J. Potter, S. Griffiths
F: S. Young, B. Grant, R. Hards
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R: D. Venditti, B. Haddow, B. Walker
Int: J. Bath, E. Landwehr, W. Burke
WEDDERBURN
B: S. Lockhart, D. Jackson, T. Webster
HB: H. Winter-Irving, T. Leahy, M. Smith
C: J. Guan, J. Rosengren, J. Jones
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HF: L. Holt, M. Mcewen, T. Campbell
F: M. Lockhart, J. Douglas, I. Holt
R: A. Postle, C. Lowry, J. McKay
Inter: not supplied
BOORT v SEA LAKE NANDALY
2.30pm Saturday at Boort.
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BOORT
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SEA LAKE NANDALY
From: Will Simpson, Brodie Adcock, Ryan O'Sullivan, Austin Mertz, Wade Donnan, Tyson Mckenzie, Brody Weir, Trent Donnan, Charlie Cox, John Summerhayes, Luke Martin, Kane Donnan, Billy Mcinnes, Bryce Delmenico, Callan Noonan, Matt Elliott, Flynn McGarry, Jai Wright, Jack Poulton, Cooper Roberts, Zachary Wemyss.
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NEW ORLEANS , May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors with losses in excess of $100,000 that they have until July 5, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. (NasdaqCM: ARQQ, ARQQW, CENH, CENHU, CENHW), if they purchased the Company's securities between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") and/or held Centricus securities as of August 31, 2021 and were eligible to vote at the special meeting on the merger between Arqit and Centricus. This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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About the Lawsuit
Arqit and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period and/or in the Proxy Statement issued in connection to the Merger, violating federal securities laws.
The alleged false and misleading statements and omissions include, but are not limited to, that: (i) the Company's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications (ii) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of the Company's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (iii) the British government was not a customer of the Company but, rather, provided grants to it; (iv) the Company had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (v) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's statements about its business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
The case is Glick v. Arqit Quantum Inc., et al., 22-cv-2604.
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