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(AP) – Colin Kaepernick is getting his first chance to work out for an NFL team since last playing in the league in 2016 when he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality.
Two people familiar with the situation said Kaepernick will work out for the Las Vegas Raiders on Wednesday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hadn’t announced the workout plans. ESPN first reported that the Raiders were bringing in Kaepernick.
Kaepernick hasn’t played since the end of the 2016 season when he was cut by San Francisco when the new regime led by coach Kyle Shanahan wanted to go a different direction at quarterback.
Kaepernick never got another opportunity even to work out for NFL teams as he alleged he had been blackballed over his protests during the anthem the previous season. He met with Seattle and had informal talks with Baltimore but never got a closer look.
He filed a grievance with the NFL in 2017 over his lack of opportunity and settled it in 2019 — but still never got another look.
The Raiders have been at the forefront on diversity over their history, hiring Tom Flores as the second coach of Hispanic descent, Art Shell as the first Black coach in modern history, and Amy Trask as the first female CEO.
Owner Mark Davis has publicly said he would back his coaches if they wanted to take a look at Kaepernick, and first-year coach Josh McDaniels is doing just that.
The Raiders don’t have a glaring need at quarterback after signing starter Derek Carr to an extension last month. Las Vegas also signed Nick Mullens as a backup this offseason, traded for Jarrett Stidham and signed Chase Garbers as an undrafted free agent.
But none of those backups has the pedigree of Kaepernick, who emerged as one of the league’s young stars when he took over as starter in San Francisco in 2012, and helped the Niners reach the Super Bowl that season.
Kaepernick’s play started to regress in 2014 and he got hurt halfway through the next season and lost his starting job. Things changed the next preseason when Kaepernick began protesting during the national anthem, drawing the ire of critics that included then presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Kaepernick regained his starting job in 2016 and threw 16 TD passes and four interceptions in 12 games, while posting a 90.7 passer rating. | https://www.ktsm.com/news/national-news/colin-kaepernick-to-work-out-for-nfl-team-first-time-since-2016-ap-sources/ | 2022-05-26T00:27:36Z | https://www.ktsm.com/news/national-news/colin-kaepernick-to-work-out-for-nfl-team-first-time-since-2016-ap-sources/ | false | 25 |
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Construction crews will be closing an intersection in a Champaign residential neighborhood this week in order to replace a water main and reconstruct the pavement.
A and R Services will be closing the intersection of Princeton Drive and Western Avenue at 7 a.m. on Thursday, weather permitting. Work will continue until 5 p.m. on Friday, at which point the intersection will reopen.
Drivers in the area are advised to pay close attention to construction signs, traffic control devices and marked detours. They are also asked not to park on the street near the intersection or in areas that are marked “No Parking.” | https://www.wcia.com/news/traffic/champaign-intersection-closing-for-water-main-replacement/ | 2022-05-26T00:29:25Z | https://www.wcia.com/news/traffic/champaign-intersection-closing-for-water-main-replacement/ | false | null |
Gold Coast have been given a massive boost ahead of Friday's NRL derby against Brisbane with David Fifita set to return from a knee injury.
The wrecking-ball forward trained well on Wednesday and Titans coach Justin Holbrook is confident Fifita will make his return on the interchange bench against his former club at Suncorp Stadium.
Fifita hasn't featured for the Titans since limping off in the 18-4 loss to Penrith on April 29 and Friday's game will be a chance for the 22-year-old to impress Queensland coach Billy Slater before the Maroons team for State of Origin I is named on Monday.
"Dave got through training really well yesterday," Holbrook said.
"As long as he gets through today, he'll play tomorrow night."
Friday's game is one the Titans simply cannot afford to lose and Holbrook is hopeful a fired-up Fifita will be at his damaging best against the in-form Broncos.
"I expect a big impact from him, that's for sure," Holbrook said.
"He's a great player, an important member of our team and we've missed not having him play the last few weeks.
"It'll be great to have him back in our side."
The Titans are set to be without Origin representative Moeaki Fotuaika, who has succumbed to an ankle injury suffered in last Sunday's loss to Cronulla.
While Fotuaika is almost certain to miss Friday's game, Holbrook expects the front-rower to be available for selection for the Maroons if required.
Sam Lisone is expected to replace Fotuaika in the Titans team for Friday's game. | https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/rugby-league/titan-fifita-set-for-nrl-return-at-broncos-c-6940449 | 2022-05-26T00:33:23Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/rugby-league/titan-fifita-set-for-nrl-return-at-broncos-c-6940449 | false | 4 |
Lasertec Co. (OTCMKTS:LSRCY – Get Rating) saw a significant growth in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 76,000 shares, a growth of 489.1% from the April 30th total of 12,900 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 321,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.2 days.
Shares of LSRCY stock traded up $0.74 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $27.24. 109,436 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 88,522. The business has a 50 day moving average of $29.59 and a two-hundred day moving average of $41.09. Lasertec has a 52 week low of $25.43 and a 52 week high of $62.98.
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Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR – Get Rating) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 25th, RTT News reports. Investors of record on Friday, July 1st will be given a dividend of 0.45 per share by the real estate investment trust on Thursday, July 14th. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.13%.
Ventas has decreased its dividend by an average of 17.1% per year over the last three years. Ventas has a dividend payout ratio of 473.7% indicating that the company cannot currently cover its dividend with earnings alone and is relying on its balance sheet to cover its dividend payments. Equities research analysts expect Ventas to earn $3.32 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $1.80 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 54.2%.
Shares of Ventas stock traded up $1.27 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $57.48. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,473,621 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,379,970. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $58.88 and a 200-day moving average price of $54.39. Ventas has a one year low of $45.44 and a one year high of $64.02. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.15, a current ratio of 0.62 and a quick ratio of 0.62. The stock has a market cap of $22.97 billion, a P/E ratio of 147.39, a P/E/G ratio of 3.20 and a beta of 1.16.
In other Ventas news, CEO Debra A. Cafaro sold 17,400 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $62.49, for a total value of $1,087,326.00. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Debra A. Cafaro sold 69,602 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $63.40, for a total value of $4,412,766.80. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 121,802 shares of company stock valued at $7,447,849. Corporate insiders own 1.30% of the company’s stock.
A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of VTR. Baird Financial Group Inc. grew its position in Ventas by 1.7% during the 1st quarter. Baird Financial Group Inc. now owns 13,395 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $827,000 after acquiring an additional 222 shares during the last quarter. Equitable Holdings Inc. raised its stake in shares of Ventas by 6.0% in the first quarter. Equitable Holdings Inc. now owns 4,387 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $271,000 after purchasing an additional 249 shares during the last quarter. NEXT Financial Group Inc raised its stake in shares of Ventas by 21.9% in the fourth quarter. NEXT Financial Group Inc now owns 2,467 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $127,000 after purchasing an additional 444 shares during the last quarter. Blair William & Co. IL raised its stake in shares of Ventas by 5.0% in the first quarter. Blair William & Co. IL now owns 11,342 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $700,000 after purchasing an additional 538 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Lazard Asset Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of Ventas by 41.9% in the first quarter. Lazard Asset Management LLC now owns 2,223 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $137,000 after acquiring an additional 656 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 94.02% of the company’s stock.
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Ventas, an S&P 500 company, operates at the intersection of two powerful and dynamic industries – healthcare and real estate. As one of the world's foremost Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), we use the power of capital to unlock the value of real estate, partnering with leading care providers, developers, research and medical institutions, innovators and healthcare organizations whose success is buoyed by the demographic tailwind of an aging population.
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Education
VC Tasks Students On Proper Time Management
Vice-Chancellor, Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, Prof Nlerum Okogbule has charged students to practice proper time management, especially within their first year in the university, noting that this was the secret to academic excellence as well as success recorded in the university in time past.
He maintained that the university has a way of rewarding academic excellence through her policy of declaring as university scholars those who attain a cummula Grade Point Assessment (CGPA) of 5.00 at the end of every academic session.
“The expo that I will give you in this regard is that it is easier to make the 5.00 CGPA on the 100 level of any programme, so the best time to strive to achieve this feat is now.
“You should endeavour to practice proper time management which is a major factor for academic success. Desist from indecent dressing and acquaint yourself with the code of conduct of this university as properly spelt out in the students’ handbook’’, the VCsaid.
He encouraged them to read the student’s handbook, adding that it will guide their activities in the university as well assist them to complete their programme.
He noted that the university has zero tolerance for all forms of anti social activities such as secret cult, examination malpractices and other forms of criminal activities in the campus, adding that any one found culpable will be rusticated from the university.
“Do not allow yourself to be intimidated or harassed by any person, body or group of persons under any guise whatsoever, report any untoward activities or conduct in this regard to the appropriate authorities of the university and be rest assured that necessary actions will be taken timeously on such complaints.”
He stressed that the key to success in an institution such as Rivers State University is hard work and unwavering focus on academic assignments, noting that the school has over time made tremendous achievements in academic excellence and infrastructural development which has made reading and learning more easier for the students. He charge the students to take their studies seriously, imbibe the habit of attending lectures, always make use of the Departmental and Faculty library.
Some students expressed delight with the management of the university and promised to adhere to the rules and regulations of the university.
By: Susan Serekara-Nwikhana
Education
CSO To Support Implementation Of $700m W/Bank Water Project In Nigeria
Society for Water and Sanitation (NEWSAN) has pledged to support the World Bank in the implementation of the Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (SURWASH) programme in Nigeria.
NEWSAN National Coordinator, Mr Benson Attah, made the pledge when he led his members on a courtesy visit to the SURWASH Programme Implementation Office in Abuja.
Tide source reports that the 700 million U.S. dollars programme is being implemented in seven states of Delta, Ekiti, Gombe, Imo, Kaduna, Katsina and Plateau.
SURWASH will provide six million people with basic drinking water services and 1.4 million people access to improved sanitation services and improve WASH services to 2,000 schools and health care facilities.
Attah noted that NEWSAN works to support the Federal Government in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target of scaling up access to potable water and sanitation.
He commended FG’s efforts in meeting the SDGs, saying such was reflected in its various intervention programmes.
“We are optimistic that this new project which rests on the theme of programme for results will be different from other projects, as we have seen its objective to include effective monitoring and evaluation.
“NEWSAN has a huge role to play in achieving stated objectives of the SURWASH project, and our partnership would go a long way in advocacy and encourage community partnership for sustainability,” he said.
SURWASH National Programme Coordinator, Mr Abdulhamid Gwaram, said CSOs play a critical role in project implementation and could serve as watchdogs.
According to him, the civil societies will serve as a medium for passing the right information towards reducing misinformation and disinformation.
Gwaram added that SURWASH programme was part of interventions to support the implementation of the National WASH action plan.
The national coordinator said that the role of continuous orientation of all partners towards ensuring community ownership and sustainability was paramount.
He, however, said that the six-year programme had made huge impact within its first year, saying this was made possible through the support and commitment of the Federal ministry of Water Resources.
Education
Use Art and Craft To Curb Plastic Pollution …Experts Tell Government
Some experts in the art and craft sector are calling on the government to use the sector to check plastic pollution in the country.
They said this at the launching of the book , Drift wood And plastic: A medium for Experimental Expressions”written by Dr Benjamin Ejiohuo and and Art exhibition in port Harcourt.
Some of the respondents including Prof. Pamela Egware of the university of port Harcourt and Woko Aguru President Rivers indigenous Visual Artists said since Artists now rely on plastic and wood for their work, encouraging the sector will reduce plastic pollution and create employment opportunities.
On her part pamela who is the Head of Department of Fine Art University of Port Harcourt said Artiste should be involved in waste recycling to create wealth.
She said a policy on waste recycling is urgently needed in the country.
“We need a policy on waste recycling. By so doing jobs will be created and restiveness will be checked”
She also decried the non regard for Artists by some states in the south south.
According to her “it is only Akwa Ibom state that is engaging Artists to beautify their cities.
She said Dr.Ejiohuo is teaching the society to explore and to expand their horizon.
“He is teaching us that wood is not only meant for tables and chairs.His work is to help reduce trash in the environment,” she said.
Pamela said ,using plastic and wood to create fine works of art , the Artist is simply transforming waste to wealth.
Also speaking woko Aguru of the Rives indigenous Visual Artist said the situation has shown that Artists can turn waste to wealth
He described Nigeria as a country that is too wasteful.
“The country is so wasteful that plastic waste is littering everywhere.
“If we look at this angle,you discover that plastic waste is a huge resource that can be transform into wealth.
“If people are employed to exchange the plastic waste,the economy will grow”he said.
Chairman of the occasion Kingsley Eguma said society should appreciate what the Artists are doing for it.
He also advised Artists to be consistent with their work despite the neglect by the society.
Dr Ejiohuo told journalists that the book is about the use of plastic and driftwood to produce Art work.
“I draw,I paint and use drift wood and plastic to express myself”
Ejiohuo also called on his fellow Artists to use resources within their envelope for their work.
“The message is that use what you have in your environment to do what you want to do”.
By: John Bibor
Education
NCF Wants Reduction Of Light Pollution To Conserve Migratory Birds
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) and some conservationists have called for the eradication of light pollution to conserve migratory birds.
This is contained in a statement issued by the NCF on Wednesday at the end of an event hosted to mark the World Migratory Bird Day in Lagos.
The Tide source reports that the statement was signed by the NCF Head of Communications, Mr Oladapo Soneye.
The World Migratory Bird Day is an annual event used to raise awareness on bird migration and the importance of protecting the flyways and habitats utilised by birds during this seasonal experience.
Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds. Many species of bird migrate.
Light pollution is a significant and growing threat to wildlife including many species of migratory birds.
Every year, light pollution contributes to the death of millions of birds. It alters the natural patterns of light and dark in ecosystems. It can change birds migration patterns, foraging behaviours, and vocal communication.
The statement quoted the Director-General of NCF, Dr Muhtari Aminu-Kano, as saying that Nigerians should participate jointly in bird conservation by eradicating light pollution.
Aminu-Kano expressed concern on the challenges the birds were facing, especially migratory birds challenges, such as, but not limited to loss of habitat, persecution, famine and pollution.
He said that this year’s theme: “Light Pollution: Dim the light for birds at night,” was a clarion call to action for all to jointly participate in bird conservation.
According to him, research shows that birds do have accident flying at night because of illumination from cities.
“When we switch off light bulbs that are not so useful, we help to reduce the chances of the birds having head-on-collision with buildings, trees, and other infrastructures,” Aminu-Kano said.
Dr Soladoye Iwajomo, Senior Lecturer, Department of Zoology, University of Lagos, defined light pollution as the introduction of artificial light, either directly or indirectly, into the natural environment.
Iwajomo said that light pollution results in the alteration of the natural pattern of light and dark in ecosystems.
According to him, light pollution is often caused by the way the light is emitted from lighting equipment.
He said that choosing proper equipment and carefully mounting and aiming would make a significant difference.
Also speaking, Mr Abdulmalik Ogizi, who represented the Federal Ministry of Environment, said that migratory birds fly hundreds of thousand kilometres to find the best ecological conditions and habitats for feeding, breeding, and raising their young ones.
“When conditions at breeding sites become unfavourable, it is time to fly to regions where conditions are better.
“The phenomenon is accompanied by several anthropogenic, political, and environmental challenges on the migratory bird’s survival and conservation,” Ogizi said.
He said that the 2022 campaign highlights the impacts of the increasing but underestimated threat of light pollution on migratory birds.
Ogizi noted that artificial light was increasing globally by at least two per cent per year with adverse effect on bird species.
He said that light pollution was a significant threat to migratory birds, causing disorientation when they fly at night, leading to collisions with buildings, increasing their vulnerability as prey to other animals perturbing their internal clocks, or interfering with their ability to undertake long distance migrations.
The NCF’s Species Programme Lead, Dr Stella Egbe, said that, the world comes together to celebrate and raise awareness on the beauty and threats of migratory birds twice every year.
Egbe described migration as the seasonal movements of birds between their breeding and wintering sites.
She said that the seasonal activity is an important event that ensures the survival of lots of bird species.
“Every year, ornithologists, and conservation biologists study birds in all types of environments globally, monitoring their numbers and diversity.
“In recent years, it has been observed that species are declining rapidly, driving species to the brink of extinction.
“From habitat loss, indiscriminate killing and trade in birds, plastic pollution, birds are increasingly exposed to factors within the environment that they have not adapted to.
“It has been discovered that some adult birds are being harvested, which will prevent reproduction.
This will cause general decline in the population of birds,” Egbe said.
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HBK Investments L P purchased a new position in shares of Games & Esports Experience Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:GEEXU – Get Rating) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm purchased 300,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,042,000.
Other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Robinson Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Games & Esports Experience Acquisition in the fourth quarter worth $121,000. Wolverine Asset Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Games & Esports Experience Acquisition in the fourth quarter worth $1,981,000. Context Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Games & Esports Experience Acquisition in the fourth quarter worth $1,014,000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. purchased a new position in shares of Games & Esports Experience Acquisition in the fourth quarter worth $359,000. Finally, Citigroup Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Games & Esports Experience Acquisition in the fourth quarter worth $1,521,000.
Shares of NASDAQ GEEXU remained flat at $$10.05 during mid-day trading on Wednesday. Games & Esports Experience Acquisition Corp. has a 1-year low of $9.95 and a 1-year high of $10.23. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $10.12.
Games & Esports Experience Acquisition Corp. focuses on effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. It intends to pursue business combination with interactive media companies.
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Quantitative Investment Management LLC bought a new position in shares of HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA – Get Rating) during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund bought 31,707 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,146,000. HCA Healthcare accounts for about 1.1% of Quantitative Investment Management LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 23rd largest holding.
Other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Equitec Proprietary Markets LLC purchased a new position in HCA Healthcare during the fourth quarter worth about $26,000. Amplius Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of HCA Healthcare during the fourth quarter valued at about $27,000. PYA Waltman Capital LLC acquired a new position in shares of HCA Healthcare in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Ellevest Inc. grew its holdings in shares of HCA Healthcare by 1,172.7% in the fourth quarter. Ellevest Inc. now owns 140 shares of the company’s stock valued at $36,000 after purchasing an additional 129 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Gradient Investments LLC grew its holdings in shares of HCA Healthcare by 65.3% in the fourth quarter. Gradient Investments LLC now owns 157 shares of the company’s stock valued at $40,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares in the last quarter. 67.87% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
In other news, SVP Michael R. Mcalevey purchased 1,110 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, April 29th. The shares were acquired at an average price of $218.56 per share, with a total value of $242,601.60. Following the completion of the purchase, the senior vice president now directly owns 1,110 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $242,601.60. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director Andrea B. Smith purchased 1,160 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 28th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $213.63 per share, for a total transaction of $247,810.80. Following the purchase, the director now directly owns 2,239 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $478,317.57. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders acquired 91,370 shares of company stock worth $19,373,375 and sold 14,380 shares worth $3,723,203. Corporate insiders own 1.50% of the company’s stock.
HCA Healthcare (NYSE:HCA – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April 22nd. The company reported $4.12 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.27 by ($0.15). HCA Healthcare had a return on equity of 405.72% and a net margin of 11.40%. The business had revenue of $14.95 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $14.72 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $4.14 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 6.9% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that HCA Healthcare, Inc. will post 17.15 EPS for the current year.
HCA Healthcare declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, January 27th that permits the company to buyback $8.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 10.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually a sign that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 16th will be given a $0.56 dividend. This represents a $2.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.09%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, June 15th. HCA Healthcare’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 10.54%.
HCA has been the subject of a number of research reports. Cowen dropped their price objective on shares of HCA Healthcare from $265.00 to $241.00 in a report on Monday, April 25th. BMO Capital Markets lowered their target price on HCA Healthcare from $275.00 to $240.00 in a report on Tuesday, April 26th. SVB Leerink lowered their target price on HCA Healthcare from $304.00 to $273.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, April 25th. Raymond James dropped their price target on HCA Healthcare from $275.00 to $245.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, April 26th. Finally, UBS Group dropped their price target on HCA Healthcare from $289.00 to $241.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, April 26th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seventeen have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $261.38.
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HCA Healthcare, Inc, through its subsidiaries, provides health care services company in the United States. The company operates general and acute care hospitals that offers medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic, and emergency services; and outpatient services, such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, and physical therapy.
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Quantitative Investment Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of The Middleby Co. (NASDAQ:MIDD – Get Rating) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund purchased 8,868 shares of the industrial products company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,744,000.
Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Massmutual Trust Co. FSB ADV grew its holdings in shares of Middleby by 410.3% during the third quarter. Massmutual Trust Co. FSB ADV now owns 148 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $25,000 after purchasing an additional 119 shares during the last quarter. Freedman Financial Associates Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Middleby during the fourth quarter worth about $35,000. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC grew its holdings in shares of Middleby by 39.4% during the fourth quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC now owns 191 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $38,000 after purchasing an additional 54 shares during the last quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of Middleby by 170.0% during the third quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC now owns 243 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $41,000 after purchasing an additional 153 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC bought a new stake in shares of Middleby during the fourth quarter worth about $73,000. Institutional investors own 99.88% of the company’s stock.
MIDD has been the topic of several research reports. Robert W. Baird reduced their price target on Middleby from $211.00 to $201.00 in a report on Wednesday, May 11th. KeyCorp reduced their target price on Middleby from $200.00 to $182.00 in a report on Wednesday, May 11th. Citigroup reduced their target price on Middleby to $180.00 and set a “na” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, May 16th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced their target price on Middleby from $198.00 to $195.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, March 28th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research cut Middleby from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $180.00 target price on the stock. in a report on Friday, February 25th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Middleby currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $193.57.
Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May 10th. The industrial products company reported $2.13 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.12 by $0.01. Middleby had a return on equity of 19.53% and a net margin of 13.91%. The company had revenue of $994.68 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $934.97 million. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.79 earnings per share. Middleby’s revenue for the quarter was up 31.2% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts forecast that The Middleby Co. will post 9.57 EPS for the current year.
In other Middleby news, Director Robert A. Nerbonne acquired 600 shares of Middleby stock in a transaction on Monday, March 14th. The stock was purchased at an average price of $168.84 per share, for a total transaction of $101,304.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CEO Timothy John Fitzgerald purchased 7,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 12th. The shares were purchased at an average price of $132.29 per share, with a total value of $992,175.00. Following the purchase, the chief executive officer now directly owns 20,000 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,645,800. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. Insiders purchased a total of 9,550 shares of company stock valued at $1,295,856 over the last three months. 1.24% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
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The Middleby Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services a range of foodservice, food processing, and residential kitchen equipment in the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Its Commercial Foodservice Equipment Group segment offers conveyor, combi, convection, baking, proofing, deck, speed cooking, and hydrovection ovens; ranges, fryers, rethermalizers; steam cooking, food warming, catering, induction cooking, and countertop cooking equipment; heated cabinets, charbroilers, ventless cooking systems, kitchen ventilation, toasters, griddles, charcoal grills, professional mixers, stainless steel fabrication, custom millwork, professional refrigerators, blast chillers, cold rooms, ice machines, and freezers; and soft serve ice cream, coffee and beverage dispensing, home and professional craft brewing equipment, fry dispensers, bottle filling and canning equipment, and IoT solutions.
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Appen confirms takeover talks after $1.2b offer
By Colin Kruger
Former tech darling Appen has confirmed that it is in play. The AI services provider’s board has engaged with Telus International after the Canadian tech group approached it with a $1.2 billion indicative offer. The company also released an update stating that revenue for the year-to-date is below last year and earnings will take a hit.
Appen said it has received an unsolicited, conditional and non-binding indicative proposal from Telus to acquire all of the shares in Appen via a scheme of arrangement, at a price of $9.50 a share. It represents a 48 per cent premium to Appen’s last share price, but the stock was trading above $10 in February this year and above $40 in August 2020.
Appen’s board indicated that it has engaged with Telus to solicit a higher offer.
“The Board is in discussions with Telus to seek an improvement in the terms of the Indicative Proposal.
“To facilitate this, the Board has offered to provide, on a non-exclusive basis, limited business and
financial information, subject to Telus agreeing to enter into a mutually acceptable confidentiality and standstill agreement, which it has yet to execute,” Appen said.
“Appen shareholders do not need to take any action in response to the Indicative Proposal. There is no certainty that discussions with Telus will result in a transaction.”
The bid is expected to dominate the company’s AGM tomorrow, which is being held in Sydney.
Appen makes most of its money from crowdsourcing a global workforce of a million people that do the low-level grunt work for tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Amazon. The workers teach computers to recognise basic images and speech, laying the groundwork for the development of artificial intelligence solutions.
Its share price crashed in 2020 after a series of downgrades raised questions about whether its five major customers which account for 80 cent of its revenue are growing less dependent on its services.
More recently, Appen has been caught in the tech downdraft which has shredded the valuations of US and Australian tech stocks which have traded on much higher valuations than traditional stocks.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
State lawmakers approved the ban enforced by civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution, similar to a Texas law that was passed last year. The law takes effect immediately upon Stitt's signature and prohibits all abortions with few exceptions. Abortion providers have said they will stop performing the procedure as soon as the bill is signed.
“I promised Oklahomans that as governor I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across my desk and I am proud to keep that promise today," the first-term Republican said in a statement. “From the moment life begins at conception is when we have a responsibility as human beings to do everything we can to protect that baby’s life and the life of the mother. That is what I believe and that is what the majority of Oklahomans believe."
Abortion providers across the country have been bracing for the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court’s new conservative majority might further restrict the practice, and that has especially been the case in Oklahoma and Texas.
The bills are part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states to scale back abortion rights. It comes on the heels of a leaked draft opinion from the nation’s high court that suggests justices are considering weakening or overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nearly 50 years ago.
The only exceptions in the Oklahoma law are to save the life of a pregnant woman or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.
The bill specifically authorizes doctors to remove a “dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion,” or miscarriage, or to remove an ectopic pregnancy, a potentially life-threatening emergency that occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube and early in pregnancy.
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The law also does not apply to the use of morning-after pills such as Plan B or any type of contraception.
Two of Oklahoma’s four abortion clinics already stopped providing abortions after the governor signed a six-week ban earlier this month.
With the state’s two remaining abortion clinics expected to stop offering services, it is unclear what will happen to women who qualify under one of the exceptions. The law's author, State Rep. Wendi Stearman, says doctors will be empowered to decide which women qualify and that those abortions will be performed in hospitals. But providers and abortion-rights activists warn that trying to prove qualification could prove difficult and even dangerous in some circumstances.
In addition to the Texas-style bill already signed into law, the measure is one of at least three anti-abortion bills sent this year to Stitt.
Oklahoma's law is styled after a first-of-its-kind Texas law that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in place that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion. Other Republican-led states sought to copy Texas’ ban. Idaho’s governor signed the first copycat measure in March, although it has been temporarily blocked by the state’s Supreme Court
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Fourteen students and a teacher were shot dead in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott has announced.
A lone gunman is believed to have opened fire shortly before midday at Robb Elementary School and the school was immediately placed into lockdown.
Mr Abbott confirmed the shooter, who is believed to be an 18-year-old from Uvalde, had been killed.
Uvalde Memorial Hospital said in a statement just before 4pm that a total of 13 students had been transported to its emergency room in ambulances and buses. Two were pronounced dead on arrival.
At least one adult was also taken to hospital after the shooting. Two of the injured were transported to a nearby trauma centre for treatment.
There is an active shooter at Robb Elementary. Law enforcement is on site. Your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. As soon as more information is gathered it will be shared.
The rest of the district is under a Secure Status.
— Uvalde CISD (@Uvalde_CISD) May 24, 2022
What we know so far
Robb Elementary alerted parents to the presence of an active shooter at the school at 11.43am on Tuesday.
“Please know at this time Robb Elementary is under a Lockdown Status due to gunshots in the area,” school official Anne Marie Espinoza said in a post to the school’s Facebook page.
“The students and staff are safe in the building. The building is secure in a Lockdown Status. Your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus.”
Law enforcement quickly descended on the area, including local, state and federal agencies. Residents were urged to stay away from the area.
The Uvalde Police Department announced in a Facebook post just after 1pm that the “shooter is in police custody.” No other details about the shooter were immediately released.
Ms Espinoza provided an update at around 1.15pm to say the school was still in lockdown due to “gunshots in the area”.
Students were later taken to the Willie DeLeon Civic Center to be reunited with their parents once they had been accounted for.
“You will be notified to pick up students once all are accounted for,” the district told parents.
Where is Uvalde?
Uvalde is town of around 16,000 residents situated 130kms (80 miles) west of San Antonion.
Google Maps posted an “active shooter alert” soon after the shooting began.
The school district’s final day of the year is on Thursday.
School shootings on the rise
Statistics released by the FBI on Monday showed school shootings skyrocketed in 2021 compared to the previous year.
There were 61 active shooter incidents in the last calendar year, up by more than 50 per cent from 2020, the FBI said in a new report.
Tributes pour in for the victims
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A man whose hands were left unusable by scleroderma has been given a new lease of life after what is believed to be the world’s first double hand transplant for the condition. Steven Gallagher, 48, was diagnosed with scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that causes scarring of the skin and internal organs, after he developed an unusual rash on his cheeks and nose about 13 years ago, and pains in his right arm.
Doctors initially said it could be lupus, then thought it was carpal tunnel syndrome and he underwent an operation, but when the pain returned in both arms he was referred to a specialist who confirmed he had scleroderma. The condition affected areas including his nose, mouth and hands and, about seven years ago, his fingers started curling in until they were in a fist position and he was suffering “horrendous” pain.
When experts suggested the idea of a double hand transplant the father-of-three initially dismissed the idea but then decided to go ahead despite the risks. He said: “My hands were unusable, I couldn’t do a thing apart from lift things with two hands.
“When Professor Hart in Glasgow mentioned to me about a double hand transplant, at the time I laughed but, after thinking about it for a wee while, I spoke more to Professor Hart, and I went down to Leeds and spoke to Professor Kay. They were really understanding and were really open about what might happen, that I could lose my hands altogether, they said it was unlikely but it was a risk.
“My wife and I spoke about it and came to the agreement to go for it. I could end up losing my hands anyway, so it was just a case of letting them know I was going to go with it.”
Mr Gallagher, from Dreghorn in North Ayrshire, had to undergo psychological evaluation to ensure he was prepared for the prospect of a transplant. He then underwent the 12-hour operation in mid-December 2021 after a suitable donor was found.
The hand transplant team at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, which carried out the surgery, said it is the first time anywhere in the world that hand transplantation has been used to replace hands terminally affected by scleroderma. Mr Gallagher said: “After the operation I woke up and it was quite surreal because before it I had my hands and then when I woke up from the operation I still had hands so in my head I never really lost any hands."
Mr Gallagher, who has three daughters aged 12, 24 and 27, spent about four weeks in Leeds General Infirmary following the operation and has regular visits to hospitals in Glasgow for physiotherapy and monitoring. More than five months on from the operation, his condition is improving and he can do things like stroke his dog, turn on the tap and fill a glass of water.
Professor Simon Kay, of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “This operation has been a huge team effort. We and our expert clinical psychologists assess and prepare patients, in order to be sure that they will be able to cope psychologically with the permanent reminder of their transplant."
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Russia presses Donbas offensive as Polish leader visits Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine — (AP) — Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland's president traveled to Kyiv to support the country's European Union aspirations, becoming the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of the war.
Lawmakers gave a standing ovation to President Andrzej Duda, who thanked them for the honor of speaking where “the heart of a free, independent and democratic Ukraine beats." Duda received more applause when he said that to end the conflict, Ukraine did not need to submit to conditions given by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Unfortunately, in Europe there have also been disturbing voices in recent times demanding that Ukraine yield to Putin’s demands,” he said. "I want to say clearly: Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future. Only Ukraine has the right to decide for itself.”
Duda's visit, his second to Kyiv since April, came as Russian and Ukrainian forces battled along a 551-kilometer (342-mile) wedge of the country's eastern industrial heartland.
After declaring full control of a sprawling seaside steel plant that was the last defensive holdout in the port city of Mariupol, Russia launched artillery and missile attacks in the region, known as the Donbas, seeking to expand the territory that Moscow-backed separatists have held since 2014.
To bolster its defenses, Ukraine’s parliament voted Sunday to extend martial law and the mobilization of armed forces for a third time, until Aug. 23.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that the 27-member EU should expedite his country’s request to join the bloc as soon as possible due to the invasion. Ukraine’s potential candidacy is set to be discussed at a Brussels summit in late June.
France’s European Affairs minister Clement Beaune on Sunday told Radio J it would be a “long time” before Ukraine gains EU membership, estimating it could take up to two decades.
“We have to be honest,” he said. “If you say Ukraine is going to join the EU in six months, or a year or two, you’re lying.”
But Poland is ramping up efforts to win over other EU members who are more hesitant about accepting the war-ravaged country into the bloc. Zelenskyy said Duda’s visit represented a “historic union” between Ukraine, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and Poland, which ended communist rule two years earlier.
“This is really a historic opportunity not to lose such strong relations, built through blood, through Russian aggression,” Zelenskyy said. “All this not to lose our state, not to lose our people.”
Poland has welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees and become a gateway for Western humanitarian aid and weapons going into Ukraine. It is also a transit point into Ukraine for some foreign fighters, including from Belarus, who have volunteered to fight the Russian forces.
“Despite the great destruction, despite the terrible crime and great suffering that the Ukrainian people suffered every day, the Russian invaders did not break you. They failed at it. And I believe deeply that they will never succeed,” Duda told the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislature.
Duda also credited the U.S. and President Joe Biden for unifying the West in supporting Ukraine and imposing sanctions against Moscow.
“Kyiv is the place from which one clearly sees that we need more America in Europe, both in the military and in this economic dimension," said Duda, a right-wing populist leader who clearly preferred former President Donald Trump over Biden during the 2020 election.
On the battlefield, Russia appeared to have made slow grinding moves forward in the Donbas in recent days. It intensified efforts to capture Sievierodonetsk, the main city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, which together with Donetsk province makes up the Donbas. The Ukrainian military said Sunday that Russian forces had mounted an unsuccessful attack on Oleksandrivka, a village outside of Sievierodonetsk.
Sievierodonetsk came under heavy shelling, and Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai said the Russians were “simply intentionally trying to destroy the city... engaging in a scorched-earth approach.”
Haidai said Moscow was concentrating forces and weaponry there to try to win control of Luhansk, bringing in forces from Kharkiv to the northwest, Mariupol to the south, and from inside Russia.
The sole working hospital in the city has only three doctors and enough supplies for 10 days, he said.
In a general staff morning report, Russia also said it was preparing to resume its offensive toward Slovyansk, a city in Donetsk province that is critical to Russia’s objective of capturing all of eastern Ukraine and saw fierce fighting last month after Moscow’s troops backed away from Kyiv.
In Enerhodar, a Russian-held city 281 kilometers (174 miles) northwest of Mariupol, an explosion Sunday injured the Moscow-appointed mayor at his residence, Ukrainian and Russian news agencies reported. Ukraine’s Unian news agency said a bomb planted by “local partisans” wounded 48-year-old Andrei Shevchuk, whose home is near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is Europe's largest and employs many Enerhodar residents.
With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate and the future facing the remaining residents of the city, now in ruins with more than 20,000 feared dead.
Relatives of the fighters have pleaded for them to be given rights as prisoners of war and eventually returned to Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Saturday that Ukraine “will fight for the return" of every one of them.
The complete seizure of the Azovstal steel plant, a symbol of Ukrainian tenacity. gave Putin a badly wanted victory in the war he began nearly three months ago, on Feb. 24.
Denis Pushilin, the pro-Kremlin head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, vowed that the Ukrainian fighters from the plant would face tribunals. He said foreign nationals were among them, although he didn't provide details.
Ukraine's government has not commented on Russia's claim of capturing Azovstal. Ukraine's military had told the fighters their mission was complete and they could come out. It described their extraction as an evacuation, not a mass surrender.
Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko warned that the city faced a health and sanitation “catastrophe” from mass burials in shallow pits as well as the breakdown of sewage systems. An estimated 100,000 of the 450,000 people who lived in Mariupol before the war remain.
With Russia controlling the city, Ukrainian authorities will likely face delays in documenting any alleged Russian atrocities there, including the bombings of a maternity hospital and a theater where hundreds of civilians had taken cover.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian court was expected to reach a verdict Monday for a Russian soldier who was the first to go on trial for an alleged war crime. The 21-year-old sergeant, who has admitted to shooting a Ukrainian man in the head in a village in the northeastern Sumy region Feb. 28, could get life in prison if convicted.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova has said her office was prosecuting war crimes cases against 41 Russian soldiers for offenses that included bombing civilian infrastructure, killing civilians, rape and looting. Her office has said it was looking into more than 10,700 potential war crimes involving over 600 suspects, including Russian soldiers and government officials.
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Becatoros reported from Donetsk. Associated Press journalists Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv and other AP staffers around the world contributed.
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Summit Global Investments raised its position in shares of Qorvo, Inc. (NASDAQ:QRVO – Get Rating) by 0.6% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 66,336 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 398 shares during the period. Summit Global Investments owned approximately 0.06% of Qorvo worth $10,374,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Carroll Financial Associates Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Qorvo by 12.2% in the fourth quarter. Carroll Financial Associates Inc. now owns 580 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $90,000 after buying an additional 63 shares during the period. Aurora Investment Counsel increased its holdings in shares of Qorvo by 1.0% in the fourth quarter. Aurora Investment Counsel now owns 7,593 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,187,000 after buying an additional 78 shares during the period. Empirical Finance LLC increased its holdings in shares of Qorvo by 5.9% in the third quarter. Empirical Finance LLC now owns 1,461 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $244,000 after buying an additional 81 shares during the period. Strategic Investment Advisors MI increased its holdings in shares of Qorvo by 1.7% in the fourth quarter. Strategic Investment Advisors MI now owns 5,359 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $838,000 after buying an additional 89 shares during the period. Finally, Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. increased its holdings in shares of Qorvo by 7.6% in the third quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. now owns 1,356 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $227,000 after buying an additional 96 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.87% of the company’s stock.
Several research firms have recently commented on QRVO. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Qorvo from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $135.00 price objective on the stock. in a report on Friday, February 4th. Piper Sandler reduced their price target on Qorvo from $190.00 to $135.00 in a report on Thursday, May 5th. Cowen reduced their price target on Qorvo from $230.00 to $195.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, February 3rd. Susquehanna Bancshares reduced their price target on Qorvo from $150.00 to $120.00 in a report on Thursday, May 5th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities reduced their price target on Qorvo from $190.00 to $170.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, February 3rd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have assigned a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $162.09.
Qorvo (NASDAQ:QRVO – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 4th. The semiconductor company reported $3.12 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.71 by $0.41. Qorvo had a return on equity of 28.07% and a net margin of 22.24%. The firm had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.15 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $2.59 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 8.7% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts forecast that Qorvo, Inc. will post 9.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
In related news, Director Roderick Nelson sold 4,761 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $104.45, for a total value of $497,286.45. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 5,595 shares in the company, valued at approximately $584,397.75. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, VP Paul J. Fego sold 1,145 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $104.45, for a total transaction of $119,595.25. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now owns 37,190 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,884,495.50. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders own 0.52% of the company’s stock.
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St. Albans softball coach Christian Watts sat on the bench behind the dugout on Wednesday night replaying much of the day’s action in his head.
It wasn’t necessarily a movie he wanted to recreate.
St. Albans saw its promising season come to an end on Wednesday following a pair of extra-inning losses in the Class AAA state tournament at Little Creek Park.
The final of those came in a 5-4 heartbreaker loss to John Marshall in eight innings in which the Red Dragons could not overcome a sluggish start or their own miscues.
Earlier Wednesday, St. Albans lost to Lincoln County 4-3, also in eight innings.
“It’s a tough one to swallow today,” Watts said. “You come out and get yourself in such a big hole. I’m super-proud of them for battling back and obviously forcing extras, but it was the same thing -- we hurt ourselves with little things.”
The loss to John Marshall was a game in which both teams had plenty of miscues, combining for 12 errors -- eight by the Monarchs.
Still, John Marshall (22-9) never trailed in the contest, despite squandering a 4-0 lead. The Monarchs used a one-out RBI double by Ryleigh Morgan in the eighth that scored Megan Doughery with the game-winner.
St. Albans did not go away, executing a two-out rally to get a pair of runners on for leading hitter Punkie Harper, but John Marshall’s Kadence Pettit got Harper to pop out to third base to end the game and the Red Dragons' season with a 24-7 record.
Despite the loss and several miscues on the day, Watts was pleased with the grit of his young team as it battled back to tie the game in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings.
With the Red Dragons trailing 4-2, Tayven Stephenson delivered a two-run single with one out in the bottom of the seventh to knot it up, helping St. Albans overcome a four-run deficit that the team faced from the onset.
Just one hour after dropping a difficult loss to Lincoln County, St. Albans returned to the field and the shell shock of the loss was visible as John Marshall used four hits and a pair of errors by the Red Dragons to take a 4-0 lead after the first at-bat.
Doughery had the big blast for John Marshall, hitting a three-run home run after a pair of singles started the Monarchs’ early rally.
LINCOLN COUNTY 4, ST. ALBANS 3: The day started much more promising for St. Albans, which jumped out to a 3-0 lead on Lincoln County in the opening game and appeared to be cruising behind Stephenson in the circle.
However, baserunning blunders hindered the Red Dragons on several instances as the Panthers rallied.
A Lincoln County error would’ve given St. Albans runners at first and third with two outs and a 3-1 lead in the fifth, but Panthers catcher Josie Bird caught a runner too far off third on the turn and fired down for an out that gave Lincoln County momentum.
St. Albans then continued its own demise as an error put a Lincoln County baserunner on before Bird sent a Stephenson pitch over the left-center field wall to tie the game.
“Softball is like any other sport -- it’s a game of momentum,” Watts said. “They made a couple outs at third, hit a home run and it really started swinging their way.”
Lincoln County took a one-run lead in the eighth when St. Albans elected to intentionally walk Bird following a Haleigh Adkins double, but Ryleigh Shull sent a shot up the middle to score Adkins.
The Red Dragons had a prime opportunity to tie the game after Boom Coffman doubled to lead off the frame and moved to third on a wild pitch, but Coffman wasn’t able to get back and tag up for the tying run on a deep flyout to center in the ensuing at-bat.
That loomed large as a sharp grounder to Adkins led to her throwing to Bird at home to get Coffman, which cut down the potential tying run. Lincoln County’s Meghan Stump then got a strikeout to send the Panthers on to Wednesday's late winners bracket game against Jefferson, which defeated John Marshall 6-2 in the tournament's first game.
While the day did not end as planned, Watts said the experience at the state level in tight games is something from which his young team can learn.
“Losing two games doesn’t seem like good experience, but those young girls coming back, they know what to expect,” Watts said. “Today just wasn’t our day.”
JEFFERSON 6, JOHN MARSHALL 2 (11 innings): Jefferson used four hits and four John Marshall errors in a three-play stretch to plate five runs in the top of the 11th.
John Marshall led 1-0 and had the Cougars down to their final out, but Jefferson’s Lacie Lewis lined a single up the middle to score pinch-runner Kendall Guy to send the game to extra innings.
The score stayed there with the Monarchs making several key defensive plays to get out of frames in extras, but the Cougars finally broke through in the 11th, putting the ball in play and forcing miscues.
John Marshall’s advantage came early in the game as Sophia Adkins homered to center field in the first inning.
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Two senior White House advisors on Tuesday met in secret with senior Saudi officials to discuss a deal to increase oil production, three current and former U.S. officials told Axios.
The meeting, which was not made public, comes prior to another possible meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, that could take place at the end of June.
Other items that were discussed were a possible arrangement between Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia and the United States’ relationship, which has soured since President Biden took office as he sought to distance himself from Saudi Arabia, citing human rights concerns, especially after the death of Jamal Khashoggi.
The two senior officials, White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk and State Department energy envoy Amos Hochstein, were said to have arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, although the White House and the Saudi embassy have so far declined to comment. The State Department told Axios that it had “no official travel to announce at this time.”
The United States has been asking Saudi Arabia for additional oil production for months now to alleviate high retail gasoline prices at home. So far, Saudi Arabia and the remaining OPEC+ members have stuck to their agreements, unwilling or unable to produce more.
The average cost for a gallon of regular grade gasoline in the United States was $4.599 on Wednesday--a record. A Rasmussen Reports poll from earlier in May showed that 82% of Americans worry about gas prices and rising energy costs—more than they are about climate change, with 60% favoring a law that would dramatically increase oil and gas drilling in the U.S.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
State lawmakers approved the ban enforced by civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution, similar to a Texas law that was passed last year. The law takes effect immediately upon Stitt's signature and prohibits all abortions with few exceptions. Abortion providers have said they will stop performing the procedure as soon as the bill is signed.
“I promised Oklahomans that as governor I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across my desk and I am proud to keep that promise today," the first-term Republican said in a statement. “From the moment life begins at conception is when we have a responsibility as human beings to do everything we can to protect that baby’s life and the life of the mother. That is what I believe and that is what the majority of Oklahomans believe."
Abortion providers across the country have been bracing for the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court’s new conservative majority might further restrict the practice, and that has especially been the case in Oklahoma and Texas.
“The impact will be disastrous for Oklahomans," said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the abortion-rights supporting Guttmacher Institute. “It will also have severe ripple effects, especially for Texas patients who had been traveling to Oklahoma in large numbers after the Texas six-week abortion ban went into effect in September."
The bills are part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states to scale back abortion rights. It comes on the heels of a leaked draft opinion from the nation’s high court that suggests justices are considering weakening or overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nearly 50 years ago.
The only exceptions in the Oklahoma law are to save the life of a pregnant woman or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.
The bill specifically authorizes doctors to remove a “dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion,” or miscarriage, or to remove an ectopic pregnancy, a potentially life-threatening emergency that occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube and early in pregnancy.
The law also does not apply to the use of morning-after pills such as Plan B or any type of contraception.
Two of Oklahoma’s four abortion clinics already stopped providing abortions after the governor signed a six-week ban earlier this month.
With the state’s two remaining abortion clinics expected to stop offering services, it is unclear what will happen to women who qualify under one of the exceptions. The law's author, State Rep. Wendi Stearman, says doctors will be empowered to decide which women qualify and that those abortions will be performed in hospitals. But providers and abortion-rights activists warn that trying to prove qualification could prove difficult and even dangerous in some circumstances.
In addition to the Texas-style bill already signed into law, the measure is one of at least three anti-abortion bills sent this year to Stitt.
Oklahoma's law is styled after a first-of-its-kind Texas law that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in place that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion. Other Republican-led states sought to copy Texas’ ban. Idaho’s governor signed the first copycat measure in March, although it has been temporarily blocked by the state’s Supreme Court
The third Oklahoma bill is to take effect this summer and would make it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. That bill contains no exceptions for rape or incest. | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Oklahoma-governor-signs-the-nation-s-strictest-17199333.php | 2022-05-26T01:06:24Z | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Oklahoma-governor-signs-the-nation-s-strictest-17199333.php | true | 62 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mort Janklow, a colorful former corporate attorney who raised high the power of the literary agent as he brokered big advances for publishing, political and entertainment leaders, from Ronald Reagan and Al Gore to David McCullough and Barbara Walters, has died.
Janklow died Wednesday of heart failure at his home in Water Mill, New York, just days before his 92nd birthday. His death was announced by publicist Paul Bogaards, speaking on behalf of Janklow's family and his literary agency, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
“Mort was a beacon of positivity and hope in an uncertain world,” his business partner Lynn Nesbit said in a statement. “He radiated optimism and his clients, family, and friends were always leaning on and learning from him as a result. He was a bright light in the publishing world, devoted to his writers and passionate about our business. We will all miss him.”
Janklow was among the first of the so-called “superagents,” and became one by accident, stepping in to help with a book by a legal client and old friend, the speechwriter and columnist William Safire, and quickly mastering his new profession. Janklow was credited, and faulted, for the proliferation of blockbuster books and million-dollar deals in the 1970s and beyond, for jolting a gentleman’s trade with a lawyerly savvy about marketing, subsidiary rights and the fine print of a publishing contract.
“Mort brought publishing people into the space age,” Simon & Schuster executive Joni Evans told New York magazine in 1987.
He was a great character — so energetic he would dictate dozens of letters a day; a fighter on the tennis court and in the boardroom, a schmoozer with large-framed glasses and monogrammed white shirts, a whirlwind with a mental directory of one-liners, anecdotes and superlatives. Never afraid to cite his own accomplishments, Janklow liked to recall that some of the contracts he negotiated were worth more than the $25 million the Hearst Corporation needed to purchase the publisher William Morrow.
“One of the reasons to drive for big advances is not to make authors and agents rich,” Janklow told The New York Times in 1989. “It’s to make the publisher aware of what he’s bought. You’ve got to get them pregnant. They get up before their sales force and say, ‘We paid millions for this book. This is the biggest book we’ve got. Drive it into the stores.’”
He was at ease with liberals (Gore, Michael Moore) and conservatives (Reagan), with brand name fiction writers such as Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steel, and with the journalists Ted Koppel and Daniel Schorr. His clout and credentials would multiply late in 1988 when he and fellow agent Lynn Nesbit announced the founding of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, with Nesbit bringing along such award-winning authors as Tom Wolfe and Robert Caro.
Not all his clients were superstars, at least at the beginning. He took on McCullough well before the historian’s million-selling “Truman.” He handled disgraced Nixon aide John Erhlichman, poet Diane Ackerman and the first novel by Jill Eisenstadt. In recent years, Janklow & Nesbit authors included prize winners Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, along with the more checkered James Frey, undone (under a different agency) as a memoirist, but reborn as a novelist. Janklow’s son, Luke, negotiated deals for Anderson Cooper and Simon Cowell. Mort Janklow also had a daughter, Angela, a former editor for Vanity Fair.
Janklow served on numerous advisory boards, among them he Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations for over four decades.
Born in New York City in 1930, Janklow was a lawyer’s son raised in a tough Queens neighborhood, a brilliant, assured child who skipped enough grades to graduate from high school at age 16. He attended Syracuse University as an undergraduate, and Columbia Law School as a graduate student. He married young, divorced young, then met and married Linda LeRoy, daughter of Hollywood director Mervin LeRoy, sister of restaurateur Warner LeRoy and his longtime partner in high society.
Janklow joined the law firm of Spear and Hill in 1960, and seven years later formed his own Janklow & Traum. Among his clients was Safire, himself a former Syracuse student, who in the early 1970s was leaving his job as a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and wanted Janklow to represent him for a memoir.
Janklow not only worked out a $250,000 deal with publisher William Morrow, but helped break publishing precedent by recovering around one-third of his advance when the publisher attempted to drop the book, claiming that the Watergate scandal made Safire’s story obsolete. (Authors usually had to return all the money.) Safire had left his job before Watergate emerged and his memoir, published by Doubleday, would be called “Before the Fall.”
“Bill ran around Washington telling all of his friends and colleagues about his friend who was his agent,” Janklow wrote for The Daily Beast in 2009, shortly after Safire’s death.
“His opinion carried such weight even then that the telephone in my office began to ring ... and within two years I abandoned a successful law practice and became an agent full time, a decision I’ve never regretted.”
In 1977, Janklow enriched Safire again when he negotiated a $1 million contract with Ballantine Books for Safire’s “Full Disclosure,” regarded at the time as the highest advance ever for a first novel. He would later negotiate seven-figure deals for “Silence of the Lambs” novelist Thomas Harris, and for memoirs by Reagan and Pope John Paul II, Ted Turner and Barbara Walters.
Summing up his clout, Janklow posed a riddle to New York magazine in 1987: “Where does a 500-pound gorilla sit?”
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Dollar General faced protests by store employees from across the South Wednesday morning at its annual shareholder meeting at Goodlettsville City Hall. Workers spoke out against what they describe as low wages, unsafe working conditions, poorly maintained stores and unreasonable, shifting worker expectations.
The corporation refused to seat three legal proxies, including minister and civil rights leader William Barber II. Barber, along with labor organizer Gabriel Boldenshaw and Dollar General employee Kenya Slaughter, were denied entrance to the meeting despite being legally designated to serve as shareholder proxies. When Barber, Boldenshaw and Slaughter entered the building, Dollar General representatives packed up check-in materials and kept the meeting room's doors locked, explaining that the three individuals had shown up four minutes late. The corporation has not given official comment.
New Orleans-based economic justice center Step Up Louisiana organized the demonstration. Speakers included Mary Gundel, a former manager who was fired by the corporation after she began documenting her experience working at Dollar General. Labor activists, clergy and other Dollar General employees from Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee joined the protest.
“We’re here for respect, dignity and better pay,” one attendee told the Scene. He asked to be referred to by only his first name, David, and works at a Dollar General in Louisiana. “We’re sick and tired of the bullshit in these stores. We get paid little to nothing, and this is where we need to make our statement. Those executives get top dollar.” In two years of work at the store, David says he has moved from a starting hourly wage of $8 per hour to his current hourly wage of $9.25.
The disparity between executive pay and employee wages was cited frequently by speakers. Employees chose Nashville because of Dollar General’s Goodlettsville corporate headquarters, drawing a sharp contrast between the company’s hierarchy of workers. In addition to compensation differences, sharp racial differences exist between management and employees: Protesting employees were largely Black, while the company’s management team is entirely white.
The company gave CEO Todd Vasos a compensation package in 2020 worth more than $16 million and reported $3.2 billion in profit on $34.2 billion in revenue in 2021. Dollar General operates more than 18,000 stores across the country, and their stores are often among few options for groceries and other essentials in rural areas.
As with companies like Amazon and Starbucks, labor concerns and organizing attempts at Dollar General stores across the country have made headlines recently. Employees have struggled to organize with a formally recognized union. Shirley Carroll, a former manager at a Dollar General in Maryville, Tenn., told the Scene that the company makes active efforts to suppress organizing.
“We want to educate our customers — every bad thing you hear, every story, it’s all true,” said Carroll. “The entire system is broken.”
After hearing from several speakers, including brief remarks of support from Congressional candidate Odessa Kelly (TN-7), the group marched from Peay Park to City Hall. A brass band accompanied the crowd.
“We come wanting fairness and justice,” said Barber. Based in North Carolina, the faith leader has organized for decades for health care rights, economic justice, climate justice and voting access. “We come here with the strength of nonviolence, simply to make a day’s living for a day’s work. We are tired of being offered up on the altar of greed.” Barber led the group in prayer, emphasizing the way economic justice, voting rights and health care intersect.
Soon after the 9 a.m. meeting began, Barber, Slaughter and Boldenshaw walked up the steps of the building and entered the lobby. After being denied entry despite providing legal documentation that they had been designated as shareholder proxies, the three waited outside the closed doors of the shareholder meeting and addressed press and followers.
“We have a right to be in there and be heard,” Barber told the room. After waiting outside the meeting for 20 minutes, the group headed back outside to address the crowd, which dispersed amid chants and music. | https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/dollar-general-denies-entry-to-legal-proxies-at-annual-shareholder-meeting/article_5f28659a-dc53-11ec-952c-3f742cab26c4.html | 2022-05-26T01:13:49Z | https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/dollar-general-denies-entry-to-legal-proxies-at-annual-shareholder-meeting/article_5f28659a-dc53-11ec-952c-3f742cab26c4.html | false | 1 |
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate's ethics committee voted Wednesday to formally investigate a Republican lawmaker's online comments that appeared to blame the federal government for the recent massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
The panel was directed by the full Senate last week to look into an online post Sen. Wendy Rogers made the night a young white man went into the market in a predominately Black neighborhood and fatally shot 10 people. Authorities say the gunman had posted a racist screed before the May 14 attack.
Rogers, who is in her first term, has built a national profile among the far right with inflammatory rhetoric and vociferous support for former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Democrats wanted to expel Rogers, who was just censured by the Senate on March 1. That action came after she spoke at a white nationalist gathering and said that her political opponents should face a “newly built set of gallows.”
As news of the mass shooting in Buffalo was just becoming known, Rogers tweeted: “Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo.”
Many in both parties took that tweet to mean that Rogers was blaming the attack on the federal government, especially in light of Rogers’ history of embracing conspiracy theories.
Rogers did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday. She did not comment when the Senate debated the ethics referral while she sat at her Senate floor desk last week.
The ethics panel ordered its attorneys to review the online posts and their context. Rogers, who represents Flagstaff and a wide swath of northern Arizona, will also be interviewed. She will have a week after the report is complete to provide a response.
The panel did not set a deadline for the investigation's completion, but Senate lawyer Chris Kleminich told reporters that he expects the process to take “weeks, not months.” He said he expected Rogers to cooperate with his review.
The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, could decide on discipline ranging from a formal censure to expulsion once the report is complete. It could also drop the matter with no action.
The Ethics Committee also acted on two other matters at Wednesday's brief meeting.
It ordered Kleminich to suggest possible changes to state laws on when a public office should be declared vacant. The panel was acting on a request from Republican Sen. T.J. Shope, who complained that Democratic Sen. Juan Mendez has been absent for nearly the entirety of this year's session.
Mendez's wife, Democratic Rep. Athena Salman, gave birth to the couple's first child in January. The couple have not attended floor debates or votes this year to avoid being exposed to the coronavirus and infecting their infant daughter. Both asked to be able to participate and vote remotely, as members were allowed to do last year, but were denied.
They could vote from their Capitol offices but have done so rarely.
The Senate also dismissed an ethics complaint that accused Democratic Sen. Lisa Otondo of helping Democratic Rep. Robert Meza cover up an alleged fraud and public corruption scheme.
The House Ethics Committee voted May 5 not to act on the complaint against Meza filed by Scottsdale resident Phillip Potter.
Potter was involved in a bitter divorce with his wife and filed what courts called frivolous lawsuits against her parents, business associates and companies her firm had done business with. Meza was named in one lawsuit, and his lawyer said the ethics complaint also was intended to lash out at her associates.
A Phoenix judge last week refused Potter's request to reconsider his ruling throwing out one lawsuit. The judge also ordered Potter to pay nearly $70,000 in legal fees for attorneys who represented the people and businesses Potter sued.
“The Court agrees that Plaintiff’s inexplicable expansion of a family court dispute has caused the dismissed parties to incur significant attorney’s fees and costs to defend an entirely frivolous action,” Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jay Ryan Adelman wrote.
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This story has been updated to correct the date of Buffalo supermarket shooting to May 14. | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Probe-OK-d-of-Arizona-senator-s-comments-on-17199364.php | 2022-05-26T01:15:48Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Probe-OK-d-of-Arizona-senator-s-comments-on-17199364.php | true | 12 |
Iowa State Patrol concerned about driver safety this Memorial Day Weekend
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - High traffic during the holiday weekend is causing some concern with the Iowa State Patrol.
As of May 25, the Iowa death toll for driving is currently 11% above average.
The ISP is concerned holiday traffic will lead to even more accidents. So, they have teamed up with local agencies throughout the state to cover this weekend. Their goal is to work with the community to keep accidents to a minimum.
“So with the holiday weekend, uh, the state patrol is going to be partnered up with local agencies throughout the state. We are trying to reduce uh you know the speed and want to uh you know not be impaired while they’re driving. Uh, distractive driving, making sure that we are putting our phones down while we are driving.”
The current toll for driving deaths in Iowa in 2022 is 110. ISP hopes to keep the total number of deaths for the year under 300.
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WASHINGTON, May 26 — The day after his 18th birthday, Salvador Ramos, a troubled teenager from small-town Texas, bought his first assault rifle. A week later, he walked into a local elementary school, where he shot and killed 19 young children and two of their teachers.
Authorities were still trying to piece together what drove Ramos to commit America’s worst school massacre in a decade, but here is what is known so far about the shooting:
How the shooter attacked
Described as a long-bullied youth with a history of self-harm, Ramos turned 18 on May 16 and bought an assault rifle the very next day.
He purchased 375 rounds of ammunition on May 18, and then a second rifle two days after that.
Ramos — a dropout with no criminal history — messaged on Facebook Tuesday morning that he planned to attack his grandmother, whom he lived with, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said.
Ramos shot his 66-year-old relative in the face, but she was able to call the police and was airlifted in critical condition to a hospital in nearby San Antonio.
The shooter then messaged again on social media to say he had followed through on his plan to attack his grandmother, and that an elementary school was his next target.
He drove a little over two miles (3.2 kilometers), crashing his car near Robb Elementary School.
He took an assault rifle with him and headed for the school, where more than 500 students in grades two to four — aged around seven to 10 years old — had just three days of class left before summer vacation.
Ramos, clad in black and wearing a tactical vest, was confronted by a school resource officer, but was able to enter the school through a back door.
He then made his way to two adjoining classrooms.
“That’s where the carnage began,” said Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The identities of the victims have been gradually revealed as shattered families share their pain online: Xavier Lopez, a 10-year-old boy who loved to dance; Ellie Garcia, “the happiest ever” in her father’s words and Amerie Jo Garza, a girl with a brilliant smile who had just celebrated her 10th birthday.
How he was stopped
As a crowd grew nearby, police arrived on the scene in response to a report of a crashed vehicle.
Hearing shots coming from the school, they ran inside and themselves came under gunfire.
Some police started to break windows and evacuate children and teachers from the premises.
Law enforcement on site helped pin the shooter in place until a tactical team that included US Border Patrol agents was assembled.
“Upon entering the building, agents and other law enforcement officers faced gunfire from the subject, who was barricaded inside,” said Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Marsha Espinosa.
Law enforcement officers “put themselves between the shooter and children on the scene to draw the shooter’s attention away from potential victims,” said Espinosa.
It was more than 30 minutes after Ramos entered the school that he was finally shot and killed by one of the Border Patrol agents.
Who was the shooter?
Ramos had been living with his grandmother for two months, McCraw said. According to Governor Abbott, no psychological problems were known to local health departments.
A cousin, Mia, told The Washington Post Ramos “wasn’t very much of a social person” after being bullied for a stutter. He loved playing video games, according to another friend.
In social media messages to a young German girl he had recently met online, Ramos explained that he had just shot his grandmother and was continuing onward to “shoot up” the school.
The 15-year-old girl, who lives in Frankfurt, said he was angry with his grandmother that morning because she was “on the phone with AT&T,” a US telecommunications provider, on a call concerning his phone.
According to the girl, Ramos spent a lot of time alone at home and “he never had plans with his friends.” — AFP | https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2022/05/26/morning-of-horror-the-texas-shooters-path/8857 | 2022-05-26T01:19:35Z | https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2022/05/26/morning-of-horror-the-texas-shooters-path/8857 | false | 5 |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JH-3C-10C-4H-8H
(JH, 3C, 10C, 4H, 8H)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
JH-3C-10C-4H-8H
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Enzyme electrodes are used in numerous applications, such as electrochemical devices and biosensing systems, and biofuel cells (BFCs) are potential candidates for powering a range of bioelectronic devices by transforming biochemical energy into electricity under mild biological conditions.
Regardless of their characteristics, the majority of current biofuel cells offer short-term operational stability and low power output as a result of their poor electron transfer between enzymes and electrodes and also between neighboring enzymes.
Such problems of electron transfer are directly linked to the performance of nearly all electrochemical sensors, such as BFCs and other bioelectronics.
In the journal Applied Physics Reviews, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Korea and the United States fulfill these shortcomings through an amphiphilic assembly that has been developed to make high-performance biofuel cells.
The method, which has the potential to induce favorable interfacial interactions between electrocatalysts and considerably enhance the electron transfer kinetics of electrodes, produced hybrid biofuel cells with good operational stability and high-power output.
Our novel electrode design using an amphiphilic assembly, which breaks with the common perspective of enzyme immobilization, can maximize the electron transfer at the enzyme/enzyme and enzyme/electrode interfaces as well as realize high operational stability, inducing the formation of a perfect and nanoblended enzyme layer.
Cheong Hoon Kwon, Study Author, Korea University
The technique induced favorable interfacial interactions between electrocatalysts and enhanced electron transfer kinetics of electrodes. It obtained unparalleled mass loading of hydrophilic enzyme and hydrophobic or conductive metal nanoparticles and significantly increased current density and electron transfer efficiency.
Amphiphilic assembled multilayers made of glucose oxidases in aqueous media and hydrophobic or conductive nanoparticles in nonpolar media. These particles were deposited onto cotton fiber or textile to form the anode, which has remarkably increased immobilization stability and electron transfer efficiency.
The cathode was developed by sputtering platinum onto the gold nanoparticle-coated cotton fibrils to enhance the efficiency of the oxygen reduction reaction.
The scientists believe the assembly technique might offer a basis for preparing a range of high-performance electrochemical devices, such as biofuel cells.
Our results could be of significant interest to various researchers and engineers working in the areas of self-assembly, energy conversion, and electrochemical sensors, in addition to BFCs.
Jinhan Cho, Study Co-Author, Korea University
The study has been co-authored by the authors Cheong Hoon Kwon, Minchul Kang, Minseong Kwon, Donghyeon Nam, Yongkwon Song, Euiju Yong, Min-Kyu Oh, Yongju Kim, Bongjun Yeom, Jun Hyuk Moon, Seung Woo Lee, and Jinhan Cho.
Journal Reference:
Kwon, C. H., et al. (2022) High-performance hybrid biofuel cells using amphiphilic assembly based enzyme electrodes. Applied Physics Reviews. doi.org/10.1063/5.0084917.
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Mitchell has been a stalwart at the back for the Eagles this season, with only Marc Guéhi having made more than his 38 appearances. It has proved a remarkable first full season in the first-team after sharing left-back responsibilities with Patrick van Aanholt in the previous campaign.
Gallagher and Mitchell nominated for PL Young Player of the Season
Crystal Palace’s faith in young players has been rewarded with two nominations for Premier League Young Player of the Season, with Tyrick Mitchell and Conor Gallagher both up for the award.
The nomination follows recognition at the club’s End of Season Awards, where he was named Young Player of the Season.
Gallagher has capped a sensational season at Selhurst Park after arriving on loan from Chelsea, netting twice away at West Ham United to help the Patrick Vieira era get underway and going on to score eight times throughout the season – including memorable goals against Everton and Brighton & Hove Albion that were nominated for the club’s Goal of the Season.
The Premier League nomination is the latest in a series of accolades for Gallagher, after being voted by the fans as Crystal Palace’s Player of the Season.
Both players were rewarded for their fine form with international call-ups, with Gallagher making his England debut in a 10-0 win over San Marino and Mitchell featuring at Wembley against Switzerland.
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TIRUCHY: The supercomputer facility will enhance the exponential increase in research output and the involvement in societal projects focusing on health, agriculture, weather, financial services, social media as well as the in-house projects by all 17 departments of the NIT, Tiruchy (NIT-T), said director of NIT-T G Aghila on Wednesday.
It is the only NIT to be part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) amongst all other IITs and NABI with an objective to empower technology institutions with high-performance computing capabilities that can be used for solving computationally intensive problems.
The institution has been sanctioned a supercomputer worth Rs 19 crore by the MeITY and the DST.
“This facility will be a milestone for the Institute,” said Bhaskar Bhat, chairman, Board of Governors, NIT-T.
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For the first time in the Eastern Conference finals, the Boston Celtics will have all the players in their regular rotation available to play.
About two hours prior to tip off of Game 5 against the Miami Heat on Wednesday, the Celtics announced Marcus Smart and Robert Williams, who were both questionable coming into the contest due to injuries, will suit up to play in the pivotal matchup.
Smart sprained his right ankle during Game 3, and returned to that contest, but ended up sitting out Game 4. He arrived to the arena prior to Game 5 with a wrap on his right leg and somewhat of a limp, but will try to push through to give the Celtics a lift.
Celtics coach Ime Udoka said Williams, who has dealt with lingering left knee soreness throughout the playoffs, will not play under a minute restriction, but the Celtics will continue to be cautious with him. Even with a careful approach, Williams should continue to give the Celtics a boost.
“It’s his consistency on both ends,” Udoka said. “He gives us a vertical threat at the rim. Five offensive rebounds last game, so those extra possessions that we lack without him there. And defensively, a deterrent. Guys are constantly are looking for him. … He brings a different dimension to us defensively, and I think that’s impacted Miami to some extent.”
The Heat ruled out Tyler Herro (groin) for the game as the guard will miss his second straight contest.
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Kemp Wins 2022 Georgia GOP Primary Elections — Will He Beat Abrams Again?
May 25 2022, Published 2:17 p.m. ET
The 2022 Georgia primary election results are in and it appears Governor Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams will face off once again for the title of Georgia’s next governor come November. The two went head to head in 2018, both with strong political agendas, but Kemp took the lead with a mere 54,723 votes.
Seeing that Abrams was on Kemp’s heels in the last election and has been spending most of her time campaigning for the 2022 election, many wonder whether Kemp has enough support to win again. Here’s a look at the 2022 primary poll results and what each candidate is claiming they will do if elected.
Governor Brian Kemp “stole” the GOP primary election, with more than triple the votes of his opponent, David Perdue.
While many believed David Perdue to be a strong contender in the GOP primaries, the election results revealed he wasn’t the candidate Georgians were looking for. After Perdue jumped into the race, he was endorsed by President Donald Trump, both of who claim the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen.”
While Trump assumed Perdue would gain the support of fellow Republicans given that he was backing the politician, it wasn’t enough to sway the citizens’ voting behavior. Primary election results revealed that Kemp took the winning spot by a longshot. Among those who voted in the 2022 Georgia GOP primary election, 881,446 people chose Kemp.
Perdue was behind Kemp with 260,811 votes. As for Abrams, she was automatically selected as the 2022 Georgia Democratic primary candidate since she ran unopposed.
After Kemp’s victory was recorded and made public, he attended the College Football Hall of Fame to deliver his victory speech.
The GOP primary winner stated, “I want to be crystal clear with all of you here tonight. Our battle is far from over. Tonight the fight for the soul of our state begins, to make sure Stacey Abrams is not going to be our governor or the next president."
Stacey Abrams is “preparing for battle” as she and Brian Kemp will now compete for the title of Georgia's governor.
After the primary election results were made public on the evening of May 24, Abrams was actively campaigning on Twitter the following day (May 25). In a video shared by the Democratic candidate, she stated, “I’m going to work hard to earn every person’s vote because this election isn’t about me. It’s about the single parent in commerce. It’s about the teacher in Albany.”
The Democratic candidate added, “It’s about making sure that together, we are creating a state where everyone can thrive.” While Abrams acknowledged that from now until November there will be “so many twists and turns,” she will “remain constant in [her] commitment to [the residents of the state].”
What is each candidate proposing to do for Georgia?
While serving as Georgia's 83rd Governor, Kemp has enacted laws that now allow residents to carry handguns without a permit. According to NPR, he also managed to get legislation passed that “prohibits so-called 'divisive concepts' from being taught in classrooms” and even sent out state budget surplus money to taxpayers.”
Kemp has been recognized for his ability to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic. If elected, Kemp plans to “continue putting hard-working Georgians first, and ensure Georgia remains the best state to live, work, and raise a family.”
Abrams has also been hard at work trying to make Georgia a better place to live. After she lost the election in 2018, she continued supporting her state by helping 68,00 Georgians pay off their medical debt, according to her campaign website.
Not only does Abrams intend to help residents get more money in their pockets, but she's also pledging to “strengthen [the] state’s health care delivery system and increase access to meaningful health coverage.”
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Keno" game were:
02-13-15-17-18-19-21-23-32-34-38-41-45-49-52-55-61-65-67-70-72-76
(two, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-three, thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-eight, forty-one, forty-five, forty-nine, fifty-two, fifty-five, sixty-one, sixty-five, sixty-seven, seventy, seventy-two, seventy-six) | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17199354.php | 2022-05-26T01:32:30Z | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17199354.php | true | null |
Summary
- Patrick Vieira makes one change from the Leeds clash - starting Jeffrey Schlupp, with Wilfried Zaha on the bench
- Southampton take the lead after 10 minutes when Oriol Romeu heads in from a corner
- The game remains well-matched, with Palace enjoying the greater chances after conceding
- The south Londoners push high and in numbers when attacking, and enter half-time as the dominant team despite the scoreline
- Half-time: Southampton 1-0 Crystal Palace
- Palace emerge well for the second-half, with Schlupp denied a goal from close range by Jan Bednarek
- Eze pulls Palace level on the hour-mark, striking a half-volley past Fraser Forster with precision
- Zaha takes to the field in the 64th-minute, with Southampton making a double attacking change as both teams pursue victory; Michael Olise comes on 10 minutes later
- The game settles somewhat after 80 minutes of high-intensity play
- With moments left Zaha strikes from the edge of the box to seal a memorable Palace win
- Full-time: Southampton 1-2 Crystal Palace | https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/match-reports/match-report-southampton-v-crystal-palace-in-premier-league/2022-04-30/ | 2022-05-26T01:35:58Z | https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/match-reports/match-report-southampton-v-crystal-palace-in-premier-league/2022-04-30/ | false | 1 |
Which purple mascaras are best?
Purple mascara is an easy way to incorporate more color into your makeup looks. Purple pigments make every eye color pop but are especially bright on brown eyes. If you want to draw more attention to your irises on even your low-effort makeup days, consider L’Oreal Paris Volume Building Mascara in Deep Violet. You can easily match it to your eyeliner and eye shadow or contrast it for a two-tone look, or wear it on its own for a fun and simple look.
What to know before you buy purple mascara
How to wear
Applying colored mascara is a delicate balance between a subtle but noticeable pop of color and cartoony, over-the-top pigments. There are several ways you can achieve this. Don’t apply so much that it’s clumpy and caky. You can start by using the purple shade on all of your lashes or ease into it by using a neutral on the inside and fading out into color. You can also apply the neutral on the bottom lashes and color on the top ones for a two-toned look. You can match it to colored liners and shadows or contrast it with stark neutrals.
Your eye makeup
The makeup you already own will help you determine the shade of purple mascara to go with. Think about the palettes you have and what type of looks you want to create. If you prefer lighter shades when it comes to eye shadow, you can match it with a light lavender mascara or contrast it with dark burgundy. The liner you pair it with will either make it appear brighter, especially if you’re wearing white eyeliner, or darker if paired with classic black.
Prevent smudging
The risk with colored mascara is it smears and makes a mess around your eyes. It can quickly take your look from fun and flattering to cartoony. This is especially true with purple, which can make your eyes look bruised and baggy. You can prevent this with precise application and by removing any excess mascara from the wand beforehand. You can also use an under-eye primer or clean it up with a concealer, especially if you have oily eyes. Consider using an eyelash primer as well, this will keep the pigment on your lashes and help prevent flaking.
What to look for in a quality purple mascara
Shade
There are a wide variety of purple shades of mascara available. You can go with a bright and bold violet, or a subtle lavender or lilac. Burgundy and plum are slightly more neutral and a good start if you’re nervous approaching bright pigments. It all depends on your style, your eye color and the makeup you have to pair it with. If you want to branch out, go with a shade outside of your usual color scheme.
Waterproof
If you cry frequently or have oily eyes, you should look for a purple mascara that’s waterproof. This can save you a lot of mess in the long run, because as bad as running mascara is, it’s even worse when it’s colored. Primer will help with this as well, but it’s better to be safe than sorry if moisture is a frequent issue for you.
Buildability
Some mascaras are more buildable than others, which means you can add more product without experiencing flakes. To get the right shade for you, you may only want to apply just a little bit or more for a dramatic look. You may want to go with thick and bold lashes and need several coats to achieve this. Either way, you should be able to apply multiple layers without experiencing clumps or flakes.
How much you can expect to spend on purple mascara
Most purple mascaras are relatively inexpensive, between $5-$10.
Purple mascara FAQ
What should you do if your mascara clumps?
A. First, try using less mascara or try applying a primer first. If this doesn’t change anything, you may be using the wrong formula for your lashes. You can also try soaking the wand in hot water to remove old excess pigment or adding eye drops to the mascara formula to slightly thin it out.
How can you get the most length and volume?
A. Apply your mascara from the root to the top while gently pulling upward and outward.
What are the best purple mascaras to buy?
Top purple mascara
L’Oreal Paris Volume Building Mascara in Deep Violet
What you need to know: This is a deep and beautiful purple mascara for maximum volume.
What you’ll love: This mascara is easy to build for a full and dramatic look. It goes on evenly and smoothly with no flakes. It’s clump resistant and allergy free with no fragrances. It’s also waterproof and long-lasting.
What you should consider: It’s really thick, so be sure to wipe off the excess before applying. It smudges easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top purple mascara for the money
Maybelline New York Ultra Violet Snapscara
What you need to know: This wax-free and clump-free mascara gives your eyes a vibrant touch.
What you’ll love: This mascara is smooth and easy to remove. It’s quality and affordable. It offers a smooth and clump-free application. It’s designed to be bright and is made without pigment-dulling waxes.
What you should consider: It’s flaky and doesn’t last as long as some customers expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
NYX Worth the Hype Colored Mascara
What you need to know: This bright mascara has a unique tip for precise application.
What you’ll love: It’s buildable and cruelty free. It’s also comfortable to wear and easy to apply. It offers intense volume and length for full, lovely lashes. The brush tapers at the tip so you can get even the smallest lashes on your inner corners.
What you should consider: This mascara is clumpy and doesn’t show up as brightly on lashes as it appears on the wand.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta
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By ACACIA CORONADO, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still massed outside the building.
Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said. “More could have been done.”
“They were unprepared,” he added.
Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured.
He then exchanged fire with a school district security officer, ran inside and fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were outside the building, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. All the law enforcement officers were injured, he said.
Hours later, Considine said authorities did not know for sure whether the school officer exchanged gunfire with Ramos. Law enforcement officials have also issued sometimes-contradictory statements about the length of Ramos’ rampage.
After entering the school, Ramos charged into one classroom and began to kill, a law enforcement official said.
He “barricaded himself by locking the door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside that classroom,” Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Department of Public Safety told CNN. “It just shows you the complete evil of the shooter.”
All those killed were in the same classroom, he said.
Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said “40 minutes or so” elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer and when the SWAT-like Border Patrol team shot him.
A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.
Carranza felt the officers should have entered the school sooner.
“There were more of them, there was just one of him,” he said.
Uvalde is a largely Latino town of some 16,000 people about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the Mexican border. Robb Elementary, which has nearly 600 students in second, third and fourth grades, is a single-story brick structure in a mostly residential neighborhood of modest homes.
Before attacking the school, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother at her home. Neighbors called police when she staggered outside and they saw she had been shot in the face, Considine said.
Ramos had legally bought the rifle and a second one like it last week, just after his birthday, authorities said.
Investigators shed no light on the motive for the attack, which also left at least 17 people wounded. Abbott said Ramos, a resident of the small town about 85 miles (135 kilometers) west of San Antonio, had no known criminal or mental health history.
“Evil swept across Uvalde yesterday,” Abbott said.
About a half-hour before the mass shooting, Ramos sent the first of three online messages, Abbott said. Ramos wrote that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman. In the last note, sent about 15 minutes before he reached Robb Elementary, he said he was going to shoot up an elementary school, according to Abbott. Investigators said Ramos did not specify which school.
Ramos sent the private, one-to-one text messages via Facebook, and they were “discovered after the terrible tragedy,” company spokesman Andy Stone said. He said Facebook is cooperating with investigators.
Grief engulfed Uvalde as details emerged of the latest mass killing to rock the U.S.
The dead included Eliahna Garcia, an outgoing 10-year-old who loved to sing, dance and play basketball; a fellow fourth-grader, Xavier Javier Lopez, who had been eagerly awaiting a summer of swimming; and a teacher, Eva Mireles, with 17 years’ experience whose husband is an officer with the school district’s police department.
“You can just tell by their angelic smiles that they were loved,” Uvalde Schools Superintendent Hal Harrell said, fighting back tears as he recalled the children and teachers killed.
Amid calls around the U.S. for tighter restrictions on firearms, the Republican governor repeatedly talked about mental health struggles among Texas young people and argued that tougher gun laws in Chicago, New York and California are ineffective.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is running against Abbott for governor, interrupted Wednesday’s news conference, calling the tragedy “predictable.” Pointing his finger at Abbott, he said: “This is on you until you choose to do something different. This will continue to happen.” O’Rourke was escorted out as some in the room yelled at him. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin yelled that O’Rourke was a “sick son of a bitch.”
Texas has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation and has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years.
“I just don’t know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old,” Siria Arizmendi, the aunt of victim Eliahna Garcia, said angrily through tears. “What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?”
The attack was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
The Uvalde tragedy was the latest in a seemingly unending wave of mass shootings across the U.S. in recent years. Just 10 days earlier, 10 Black people were shot to death in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” as he called for new limitations on guns in the wake of the massacre.
But the prospects for reform of the nation’s gun regulations appeared dim. Repeated attempts over the years to expand background checks and enact other curbs have run into Republican opposition in Congress.
The shooting came days before the National Rifle Association annual convention was set to begin in Houston, with the Texas governor and both of the state’s Republican U.S. senators scheduled to speak.
Investigators do not yet know why Ramos targeted the school, said McCraw of the Department of Public Safety.
“We don’t see a motive or catalyst right now,” he said.
Officers found one of the rifles in Ramos’ truck, the other in the school, according to the briefing given to lawmakers. Ramos was wearing a tactical vest, but it had no hardened body-armor plates inside, lawmakers were told. He also dropped a backpack containing several magazines full of ammunition near the school entrance.
Dillon Silva, whose nephew was in a classroom, said students were watching the Disney movie “Moana” when they heard several loud pops and a bullet shattered a window. Moments later, their teacher saw the attacker stride past the door.
“Oh, my God, he has a gun!” the teacher shouted twice, according to Silva. “The teacher didn’t even have time to lock the door,” he said.
Three children and an adult remained at a San Antonio hospital, where two of them — a 66-year-old woman and 10-year-old girl — were listed in serious condition.
The close-knit community, built around a shaded central square, includes many families who have lived there for generations. It sits amid fields of cabbage, onions, carrots and other vegetables.
Residents are knitted together by family and friendship, said Joe Ruiz, a pastor born and raised in Uvalde with children and grandchildren there.
“Everybody knows everybody or is connected to everybody,” said Ruiz.
His cousin’s wife, he said, was one of the teachers killed in the attack.
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Eugene Garcia and Dario Lopez-Mills in Uvalde; Jake Bleiberg in Dallas; Ben Fox, Michael Balsamo, Amanda Seitz and Eric Tucker in Washington; Paul J. Weber in Austin; Juan Lozano in Houston; Gene Johnson in Seattle and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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By ACACIA CORONADO, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still massed outside the building.
Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said. “More could have been done.”
“They were unprepared,” he added.
Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured.
He then exchanged fire with a school district security officer, ran inside and fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were outside the building, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. All the law enforcement officers were injured, he said.
Hours later, Considine said authorities did not know for sure whether the school officer exchanged gunfire with Ramos. Law enforcement officials have also issued sometimes-contradictory statements about the length of Ramos’ rampage.
After entering the school, Ramos charged into one classroom and began to kill, a law enforcement official said.
He “barricaded himself by locking the door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside that classroom,” Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Department of Public Safety told CNN. “It just shows you the complete evil of the shooter.”
All those killed were in the same classroom, he said.
Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said “40 minutes or so” elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer and when the SWAT-like Border Patrol team shot him.
A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.
Carranza felt the officers should have entered the school sooner.
“There were more of them, there was just one of him,” he said.
Uvalde is a largely Latino town of some 16,000 people about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the Mexican border. Robb Elementary, which has nearly 600 students in second, third and fourth grades, is a single-story brick structure in a mostly residential neighborhood of modest homes.
Before attacking the school, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother at her home. Neighbors called police when she staggered outside and they saw she had been shot in the face, Considine said.
Ramos had legally bought the rifle and a second one like it last week, just after his birthday, authorities said.
Investigators shed no light on the motive for the attack, which also left at least 17 people wounded. Abbott said Ramos, a resident of the small town about 85 miles (135 kilometers) west of San Antonio, had no known criminal or mental health history.
“Evil swept across Uvalde yesterday,” Abbott said.
About a half-hour before the mass shooting, Ramos sent the first of three online messages, Abbott said. Ramos wrote that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman. In the last note, sent about 15 minutes before he reached Robb Elementary, he said he was going to shoot up an elementary school, according to Abbott. Investigators said Ramos did not specify which school.
Ramos sent the private, one-to-one text messages via Facebook, and they were “discovered after the terrible tragedy,” company spokesman Andy Stone said. He said Facebook is cooperating with investigators.
Grief engulfed Uvalde as details emerged of the latest mass killing to rock the U.S.
The dead included Eliahna Garcia, an outgoing 10-year-old who loved to sing, dance and play basketball; a fellow fourth-grader, Xavier Javier Lopez, who had been eagerly awaiting a summer of swimming; and a teacher, Eva Mireles, with 17 years’ experience whose husband is an officer with the school district’s police department.
“You can just tell by their angelic smiles that they were loved,” Uvalde Schools Superintendent Hal Harrell said, fighting back tears as he recalled the children and teachers killed.
Amid calls around the U.S. for tighter restrictions on firearms, the Republican governor repeatedly talked about mental health struggles among Texas young people and argued that tougher gun laws in Chicago, New York and California are ineffective.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is running against Abbott for governor, interrupted Wednesday’s news conference, calling the tragedy “predictable.” Pointing his finger at Abbott, he said: “This is on you until you choose to do something different. This will continue to happen.” O’Rourke was escorted out as some in the room yelled at him. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin yelled that O’Rourke was a “sick son of a bitch.”
Texas has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation and has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years.
“I just don’t know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old,” Siria Arizmendi, the aunt of victim Eliahna Garcia, said angrily through tears. “What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?”
The attack was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
The Uvalde tragedy was the latest in a seemingly unending wave of mass shootings across the U.S. in recent years. Just 10 days earlier, 10 Black people were shot to death in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” as he called for new limitations on guns in the wake of the massacre.
But the prospects for reform of the nation’s gun regulations appeared dim. Repeated attempts over the years to expand background checks and enact other curbs have run into Republican opposition in Congress.
The shooting came days before the National Rifle Association annual convention was set to begin in Houston, with the Texas governor and both of the state’s Republican U.S. senators scheduled to speak.
Investigators do not yet know why Ramos targeted the school, said McCraw of the Department of Public Safety.
“We don’t see a motive or catalyst right now,” he said.
Officers found one of the rifles in Ramos’ truck, the other in the school, according to the briefing given to lawmakers. Ramos was wearing a tactical vest, but it had no hardened body-armor plates inside, lawmakers were told. He also dropped a backpack containing several magazines full of ammunition near the school entrance.
Dillon Silva, whose nephew was in a classroom, said students were watching the Disney movie “Moana” when they heard several loud pops and a bullet shattered a window. Moments later, their teacher saw the attacker stride past the door.
“Oh, my God, he has a gun!” the teacher shouted twice, according to Silva. “The teacher didn’t even have time to lock the door,” he said.
Three children and an adult remained at a San Antonio hospital, where two of them — a 66-year-old woman and 10-year-old girl — were listed in serious condition.
The close-knit community, built around a shaded central square, includes many families who have lived there for generations. It sits amid fields of cabbage, onions, carrots and other vegetables.
Residents are knitted together by family and friendship, said Joe Ruiz, a pastor born and raised in Uvalde with children and grandchildren there.
“Everybody knows everybody or is connected to everybody,” said Ruiz.
His cousin’s wife, he said, was one of the teachers killed in the attack.
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Eugene Garcia and Dario Lopez-Mills in Uvalde; Jake Bleiberg in Dallas; Ben Fox, Michael Balsamo, Amanda Seitz and Eric Tucker in Washington; Paul J. Weber in Austin; Juan Lozano in Houston; Gene Johnson in Seattle and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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EA Release - 0.3.7 Notes
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VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW – Get Rating) EVP Amy Fliegelman Olli sold 18,338 shares of VMware stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $125.00, for a total transaction of $2,292,250.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 77,034 shares in the company, valued at $9,629,250. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink.
Shares of VMware stock traded up $4.60 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $120.54. 5,342,395 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,860,957. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.90, a current ratio of 0.83 and a quick ratio of 0.83. VMware, Inc. has a 1-year low of $91.53 and a 1-year high of $167.83. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $109.84 and a 200-day moving average price of $116.78. The firm has a market capitalization of $50.75 billion, a PE ratio of 27.97, a P/E/G ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 0.68.
VMware (NYSE:VMW – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 24th. The virtualization software provider reported $1.40 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.44 by ($0.04). VMware had a return on equity of 30.03% and a net margin of 14.16%. The business had revenue of $3.53 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.52 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.61 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 7.2% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts expect that VMware, Inc. will post 4.83 earnings per share for the current year.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in VMW. Counterpoint Mutual Funds LLC acquired a new position in VMware during the fourth quarter worth $25,000. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. purchased a new stake in shares of VMware in the fourth quarter valued at about $26,000. Zions Bancorporation N.A. raised its holdings in shares of VMware by 140.2% in the first quarter. Zions Bancorporation N.A. now owns 233 shares of the virtualization software provider’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 136 shares during the last quarter. Hudock Inc. raised its holdings in shares of VMware by 158.1% in the fourth quarter. Hudock Inc. now owns 271 shares of the virtualization software provider’s stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 166 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Tompkins Financial Corp purchased a new stake in shares of VMware in the fourth quarter valued at about $31,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 47.04% of the company’s stock.
VMware Company Profile (Get Rating)
VMware, Inc provides software solutions in the areas of modern applications, cloud management and infrastructure, networking, security, and digital workspaces in the United States and internationally. It offers VMware multi-cloud solutions, including VMware vSphere, a data center infrastructure that provides the fundamental compute layer; vSAN and VxRail, which offers holistic data storage and protection options to applications running on vSphere; and vRealize Cloud Management solutions that manages hybrid and multi-cloud environments running in virtual machines and containers, as well as VMware Cloud Foundation, a cloud platform that combines its vSphere, vSAN, and NSX with vRealize Cloud Management into an integrated stack and delivers enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure for private and public clouds.
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Now, that's pitching: Molina takes no-hitter into 7th and Tech tops KSU
ARLINGTON — The Texas Tech coaching staff moved Mason Molina from the starting rotation to the bullpen in early April, after the first two series of the Big 12 schedule.
Given the chance to start his team's opener Wednesday in the Big 12 tournament, Molina rose to the occasion with his best performance of the season.
The freshman lefthander carried a no-hitter through 6 1/3 innings and finished with a season-high nine strikeouts, leading No. 2 seed Tech to a 5-3 victory against No. 7 seed Kansas State at Globe Life Field.
"Everything was kind of working and clicking," Molina said. "We were just able to get ahead of guys early in the count and kind of just went from there."
Kurt Wilson, playing about 10 miles from where he spent his last two high-school seasons at Arlington Martin, had three hits and Dillon Carter delivered a two-run double as Tech (37-18) advanced to Thursday's 7:30 p.m. winners' bracket final against No. 3 seed Oklahoma or No. 6 seed West Virginia.
Molina (2-5) struck out six of the first of the first seven K-State batters and had his nine after five innings. Nine-hole hitter Cameron Uselton, who walked in the third, was the only batter to reach off Molina until he walked Cash Rugely to start the seventh.
Two batters later, cleanup hitter Nick Goodwin broke up the no-hitter with a one-out double to left field.
Cole Johnson followed with an RBI single, and then with two outs, Kaelen Culpepper finished Molina's day with a two-run double that made it 5-3.
Andrew Devine got the Red Raiders out of the jam, and Austin Becker pitched a three-up, three-down ninth for his second save.
He saved a gem by Molina (2-5), who threw 65 of 94 pitches for strikes.
"He pitched ahead in the count," Tech coach Tim Tadlock said. "I mean, really it was strike one most of the day. He was ahead of most hitters and commanded the fastball and both off-speed pitches. He's always had mound presence, but when he pitches ahead in the count, it makes it tough on guys."
While the Red Raiders were beating Kansas State (27-28) for the fourth consecutive time this season, their thoughts were elsewhere. Ray Hayward, in his 10th year as a charter member of Tadlock's staff, went into heart-transplant surgery in Dallas shortly after the game started.
Hayward has been hospitalized since March 21, when he underwent heart surgery. Red Raider Dugout, citing information from Hayward's family, reported that Hayward is to undergo a kidney transplant on Thursday.
Asked how much the Red Raiders were thinking of Hayward during and immediately after the game, Tadlock took a breath and exhaled heavily.
"Every minute of the day," he said. "I kind of have the luxury of doing that, but it's been that way since he's been in there. There's not a whole lot of moments where he's not in the back of your mind. I told him yesterday, every day when we get up, we pray for him."
Hayward was the Red Raiders' pitching coach his first five years and, in his role as special assistant the past five seasons, still works with the pitchers. He's a former Major League lefthander who turned 61 on April 27.
"He was a huge part of me doing what I did throughout the whole season," said Molina, a freshman from Rancho Santa Margarita, California. "During the fall, he was back there every bullpen (throwing session). He was having 30-minute conversations with me.
"It really is a bummer that he's not able to be here with us, but we're all rooting for him and praying for him every day."
Tech scored three runs in the second with the help of three errors. Wilson doubled with one out and moved to third on Hudson White's infield hit with two outs. Wilson dashed home when Connor McCullough made an off-target pickoff throw to first, and White took second.
Parker Kelly singled home White. Then Kelly stole second and came all the way around when the catcher's throw glanced into shallow left-center.
It stayed 3-0 until the sixth when Carter came to the plate with two outs, White and Kelly aboard, and drove a shot to the 410-foot sign in center field.
That turned out to be the difference for Molina, who gave the Red Raiders his longest outing of the season. Molina made seven starts in the first seven weeks, but he was moved to the bullpen after failing to get through five innings in his first two Big 12 starts. His earned-run average at that point was 4.71.
His only start since came May 3 against Abilene Christian. He's made nine relief appearance since April 6.
"We had to go with some other guys in the last couple of weeks, and Chase Hampton has thrown fantastic," Molina said. "And so we needed some arms in the bullpen, and I was glad to go fill that role wherever I'm needed. But it felt pretty good to get out there again, back to being on the mound to start the game."
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McCullough, Corsentino (7) and Mitchell; Molina, Devine (7), Bridges (8), Becker (9) and White. W—Molina (2-5). L—McCullough (3-4). Sv—Becker (2). 2B—Kansas State, Goodwin (17), Culpepper (8); Texas Tech, Wilson (15). 3B—Texas Tech, Carter (2). Records: Kansas State 27-28, Texas Tech 37-18. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/2022/05/25/college-baseball-now-thats-pitching-mason-molina-gem-carries-tech-over-ksu/9929427002/ | 2022-05-26T02:02:02Z | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/sports/2022/05/25/college-baseball-now-thats-pitching-mason-molina-gem-carries-tech-over-ksu/9929427002/ | true | 1 |
Crape myrtles: Flowers don’t tell, they show
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NFTs have been called everything from fads to outright scams, but early adopters see a future for them as uniquely useful tools for business, health and the arts that goes beyond mere digital collecting.
The non-fungible token (NFT) craze, just over a year old, has given the world works that have sold for millions and includes collections from the Bored Ape Yacht Club to an image of a naked Donald Trump following his 2020 election defeat.
This booming world of digital assets has opened up a new market into which tens of billions of dollars have been poured, while also provoking discussions about how they could be useful in the real world.
Photo: Reuters
“NFTs are very rudimentary right now,” said Sandy Khaund, founder of start-up Credenza, which helps companies adopt new technologies based on blockchain, which underlies cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Beyond the art world, “they don’t have a lot of functionality. They don’t have a lot of utility,” Khaund added.
“Most of them are just monkeys or apes or whatever that do nothing,” agreed Juan Otero, CEO of Travala, an online travel site, in reference to the famous Bored Apes. Yet there is a class of the digital assets bridging the real and virtual worlds.
Starbucks, which will soon launch its own NFTs, sees them as a “programmable, brandable digital asset, that also doubles as an access pass.”
Photo: Bloomberg
Owning one of the coffee giant’s NFTs, will open access to “unique experiences,” as well as to a “community,” a new vision of a loyalty program, based on the blockchain. This technology, on which cryptocurrencies and NFTs are based, allows the same token to be used for different applications.
On the institutional side, the tiny republic of San Marino, nestled within Italy, launched a coronavirus vaccine passport in July that incorporates NFT technology. While the European digital COVID-19 certificate was designed for the EU, this passport was intended to be able to be verified anywhere, without requiring a dedicated mobile application.
‘GUARANTEED INSANITY’
Credenza, for its part, is in discussions with sports teams and leagues to set a multi-purpose vision for NFTs. NFTs and blockchain are “accessible by multiple worlds whether you are physically at the arena ready to go see a New York Knicks game, or you’re ready to go to the metaverse and you want to see a concert there,” said Khaund.
Jenn McMillen of marketing firm Incendio cited rock band Kings of Leon, which have integrated the technology into their work.
As part of the NFT release of their album When You See Yourself, the group issued eight “golden tickets,” each of which guaranteed four front-row seats on all of the band’s future tours.
“If you were a brand, think of the most desirable experiences, the most insider-y access, or something that was guaranteed to go viral and just start working backwards from there,” McMillen said.
“(It’s) guaranteed insanity because of the scarcity,” she added.
Among the most successful examples is the travel booking platform Travala, which claims more than 300,000 monthly active users.
The site, which was already accepting cryptocurrency payments, launched the Travel Tiger loyalty program in January.
On the surface, each of the NFTs distributed to existing customers of the platform is a digital drawing of a tiger, reminiscent of the Bored Apes designs.
But associated with it is a series of privileges, from entry to exclusive events, in the real world and the metaverse, discounts or loyalty points.
“It’s about retaining these users, making sure that these users continue to use the platform,” said Juan Otero, CEO of Travala. “For these to really push to mainstream and more traditional corporate players and so on, we’ll probably have to wait another two to three years,” he added.
Regardless, NFTs, in conjunction with growing interest in the metaverse and a decentralized vision for the Internet’s future, dubbed web3, are part of building wave of growth.
“The next wave, when it comes, I think is going to be unprecedented,” Otero said.
May 23 to May 29 After holding out for seven years, more than 250 Yunlin-based resistance fighters were finally persuaded to surrender in six separate ceremonies on May 25, 1902. The Japanese had subdued most of the Han Taiwanese within six months of their arrival in 1895, but intermittent unrest continued — in Yunlin, the Tieguoshan (鐵國山) guerillas caused the new regime much headache through at least 1901. These surrender ceremonies were common and usually conducted peacefully, but the Japanese had different plans for these troublemakers. Once the event concluded, they gunned down every single attendee with machine guns. Only Chien Shui-shou
The toll rolls on. A gunman walks into a place where humans are peacefully gathering and slaughters them for a militantly-avowed racially-based nationalism, presented in a long manifesto. We are quickly told that the gunman was mentally ill. Obviously — who but a madman could do such a thing? The newspapers dust off one of their “education of a killer” pieces, change the names and run another 1,200 words useful only to those cultivating such killers. The latest of these attacks, on Taiwanese churchgoers in Laguna, California, has spurred much discussion of the long record of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) violence
In one of the most remote parts of Chiayi County, a hamlet shares the exact same name as a well-known center of tea production in New Taipei City. Pinglin (坪林) in Dapu Township (大埔) is around 550m above sea level. The road to it is good enough for any car or motorcycle, and so few people live there that it’s an ideal place for the virus-afraid to go sightseeing. I rode in from Yujing District (玉井) in Tainan, taking Provincial Highway 3 through Nansi (楠西) and above Zengwen Reservoir (曾文水庫). At the entrance to Chiayi Farm (嘉義農場), I halted briefly, curious if
I usually get lost in long documentaries that stitch together numerous storylines, characters and artistic elements without much of a direct plot, but Chen Hui-ling (陳慧齡) does it just right in Letter to A’ma (給阿媽的一封信), which took her 10 years to make. The editing is superb, melding everything into a poignant and layered composition that’s enjoyable and illuminating to watch without having to fully follow every subject and catch every bit of information. In place of a gripping narrative is a powerful emotional buildup that slowly draws the viewer in and hits hard later. It’s not difficult to see why | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/05/26/2003778817 | 2022-05-26T02:06:22Z | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/05/26/2003778817 | false | 1 |
ENID, Okla. — In light of Tuesday's massacre at an elementary school in Texas, local school and law enforcement officials expressed dismay and said they work on safety issues on a regular basis.
In total, 19 children and two adults were killed after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.
“Immediately, your heart sinks,” Enid Police Department Chief Bryan Skaggs said. “So many families’ lives have changed … and you just feel for the people in that community.”
Skaggs said with EPD’s new virtual shooting simulation system, officers can be trained on how to better handle different situations, including active shooter scenarios.
He added that he always looks for ways EPD can improve in case any similar situation occurs locally.
“I watch the accounts of what happened because we can learn from that,” Skaggs said. “I look at the details — what did they do? How do we, maybe, prevent this in Enid, Oklahoma?”
Garfield County Sheriff Cory Rink, who said his heart sank when he heard about the tragedy, said he is training deputies at Garfield County Sheriff’s Office for situations like this, “just in case.”
“I pray it never does,” he said. “We’ve been working with schools around here, and I plan on … getting a deputy into our schools and working with them when they have intruder alert drills so that we can see what they’re doing throughout the county and get everybody on the same page.”
Enid Public Schools Superintendent Darrell Floyd said the tragedy reminds school personnel to be conscious of the district's safety procedures.
“Our hearts and prayers go out to the parents, families, school employees and community members in Uvalde, Texas," Floyd said in a statement Wednesday. "That horrific incident gives us pause to reflect on how precious life is. It also gives us an opportunity to remind everyone to be vigilant in all of our safety and security procedures and protocols on a daily basis.”
Autry Technology Center had scheduled an active shooter course for early May but it was rescheduled to 6-8 p.m. June 6 due to weather.
“Active Shooter Reality” will discuss what to do in an active shooter situation, including techniques on how to protect yourself and other individuals in the area, the hide/fight/run tactics and what to expect from law enforcement personnel.
The overview course is limited to personnel who work in an educational environment, child care center, church, nonprofit or other high-risk organizations and is not intended for children, as sensitive content will be shown during the session.
The course will be taught by Department of Homeland Security with assistance from Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
There is no charge for the course. To enroll, visit www.autrytech.edu.
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Indiana coronavirus updates for Friday, May 20, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS — Here are Friday's latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic, including the latest news on COVID-19 vaccinations and testing in Indiana. Registrations for the vaccine are now open for Hoosiers 5 and older through the Indiana State Department of Health. This story will be updated over the course of the...
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PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – The Palm Springs Art Museum announced today it
has created a new chief education and community engagement officer role and
appointed a Coachella Valley native to the position.
Luisa Heredia will assume the role on May 31 with the mission to
develop an inclusive, dynamic and involving institution for the community,
according to a statement from the museum.
“She has all the strengths we were looking for as someone who can
create opportunities for a diverse range of audiences to engage with the
museum,” said museum Executive Director and CEO Adam Lerner.
“Her appointment accelerates our efforts to break down the elitism
that can be inherent in so many museum structures. She’s a rare find.”
Heredia earned a master’s degree and Ph.D in sociology from Harvard
University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in
anthropology and sociology.
“Over my career I have been driven by a commitment to reflect,
represent and open institutional space for Latinx, migrant and BIPOC and queer
communities,” said Heredia.
“I look forward to designing and implementing far reaching programs
that will create an inclusive space that is representative of the community.”
Heradia currently is the Joanne Woodward chair in public policy at
Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
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Raiders Set to Play Four Primetime Games During 2022 Campaign
By Hikaru Kudo
Yardbarker
5 days ago
It’s going to be an exciting yet busy season for the Las Vegas Raiders. Part of that will have to do with the fact that the Raiders are receiving four primetime games this season. The Silver and Black receive their first primetime game in Week 5 at the Kansas City Chiefs...
The Green Bay Packers had one of their best drafts in recent memory. That is, at least on paper. All 11 of their draft picks have excellent shots of making the roster. The flipside to this, though, is that several veteran members of the Packers may be in danger of not making the roster. Here, I highlight three of those players.
San Francisco 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel apparently still wants to be traded. And instead of showing up at his team’s OTAs, he just showed up in Dallas…. Hanging out, at least for a moment, with Cowboys QB Dak Prescott. Samuel is entering the final year of his rookie...
The Baker Mayfield rumors to Carolina won't be dying down anytime soon. Actually, as long as he is still rostered with the Cleveland Browns, he will continue to be linked with the Panthers. For months, the Panthers had very little to no interest but after missing out on Deshaun Watson...
The Green Bay Packers added three wide receivers in the 2022 NFL Draft. Christian Watson out of NDSU in the second round, Romeo Doubs out of Nevada in the fourth round, and Samouri Toure out of Nebraska in the seventh round. There seems to be pretty high expectations for Watson and Doubs even going into year one. Many fans just hope to see Toure make an impact on special teams. However even with all those assets added, acquiring one more veteran wide receiver could be the missing piece for a Super Bowl run.
Aaron Rodgers has dominated the NFC North throughout his career. Since becoming the Packers starting quarterback, he has led Green Bay to a 56-21-1 record against their fierce rivals. For no team is this more true than the Chicago Bears, against whom Rodgers owns a 22-5 record. His dominance against Chicago has been so complete, even he taunted that he owned them during a game in Chicago last season. Despite this, Rodgers recognizes talent when he sees it, and he went on The Pat McAfee Show with some high praise for Justin Fields.
The Green Bay Packers have an offense and defense that have already ranked in the top ten of some preseason rankings. However, most educated fans and analysts knew this would happen. After all, the Packers spent significant resources on defense this offseason and return four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. It stands to reason that they would be highly ranked. The biggest question mark, though, is special teams, which has been the bane of the Packers’ existence for over two decades. When the Packers hired Rich Bisaccia as their new special teams coordinator, many began to have high hopes that special teams will turn around. Bisaccia has a long-standing reputation around the league as a special teams guru, and perhaps should have been the new Las Vegas Raiders head coach. In any case, he is in Green Bay now, and is very excited about backup tight end Tyler Davis.
“I can’t give you a timeline. I think we’re nearing the end of the investigative period. Then it will be handled by our disciplinary officer,” Goodell said. Watson is facing allegations of improper conduct during massages/while seeking massages from over 20 women. He was investigated by two separate grand juries in Texas but not criminally charged. The NFL is conducting a separate investigation.
The rumors surrounding Jessie Bates and the Eagles have been swirling over the weekend, but does a trade make any logistical sense? It’s time to take a deeper dive into the situation. The initial trade. If we take a look back at recent DB needle-movers, it becomes clear that...
Dwayne Haskins’ widow issued a new statement on Monday, hours after the autopsy and toxicology report for the late quarterback were released. Haskins was killed after being hit by a truck in Florida on April 9. The autopsy and toxicology reports revealed Haskins had drugs in his sytem and his blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit.
The New Orleans Saints have signed TE Kahale Warring on Tuesday afternoon, according to a team report. In a corresponding move, the team also released defensive back Jack Koerner. Warring, 25, finished last season with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Koerner is the third undrafted rookie to be released by the Saints...
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is working out Wednesday with the Las Vegas Raiders, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Kaepernick, 34, hasn't played in the NFL since 2016 when he became the center of political debate by kneeling during the playing of the national anthem as a means to protest racial inequality and police violence. At the end of the 2016 season, Kaepernick became a free agent and hasn't been on an NFL roster since.
Cedrick Wilson shouldn't be forgotten when talking about the Miami Dolphins' new offensive weapons. He recently was named Miami’s “best kept secret” on their 2022 roster by Bleacher Report, but his impact on Miami’s offense won't be a secret for a long. Wilson was one of...
There's a reason that St. Louis Cardinals infielder Tommy Edman won his first Gold Glove Award last season, most likely the first of many. He routinely makes Top 10-esque plays for St. Louis and his career .981 fielding percentage is a testament to just that. On Monday night, Edman added...
The 2022 season may be over for St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Alex Reyes before it began. According to Katie Woo of The Athletic, Reyes is scheduled to have shoulder surgery later this month and will likely miss the remainder of the year. Reyes, 27, hasn't pitched this season after...
Needless to say, the pessimism built into offseason predictions about Bears chances for 2022 success is not shared by players or the coaching staff. They have to be optimistic even as ESPN and Sports Illustrated both have ranked them last in the NFL. While it's true they tried to use...
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell made the team more lovable. His witty press conference responses gained the squad more followers. But take away his charm and the team regressed from 2020 to last season. The Lions finished 5-11 in Matt Patricia’s final year as head coach. Campbell took...
Sometimes, for a ball to move super fast, it doesn’t have to be a pitch thrown by one of the hardest throwing pitchers in the league. Who’s to say it can’t come on an outfield assist?. That’s what happened yesterday during a game between the Philadelphia Phillies...
The Eagles go into OTA’s with a talent-filled roster. Superb starters are mixed with dependable backups; hungry young prospects mixed with veteran savvy. With a team as loaded as the Eagles, there are always bound to be exciting positional battles throughout the roster. But one in particular is flying under the radar.
Shortly after the NFL Draft, Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim said he would "try to get something done" regarding two-time Pro Bowl quarterback Kyler Murray and his well-known desire to sign a contract extension this offseason. It was later reported that Murray "won't be too eager to play this...
If San Francisco 49ers veteran quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo plans on having any future with the team beyond whenever he can resume throwing coming off the shoulder surgery he had in March, he may want to pick up his phone and make one call, in particular, ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2609703256487/raiders-set-to-play-four-primetime-games-during-2022-campaign | 2022-05-26T02:22:19Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2609703256487/raiders-set-to-play-four-primetime-games-during-2022-campaign | false | 1 |
The all-new PlayStation Plus just launched in Asia, which has been giving users around the world a bit more insight into individual aspects of the service.
First, it was PS Plus’ inferior emulation, and now, it’s some extra clarity on how game trials work. Essentially, those subscribed to PS Plus Premium ($21.99 CAD/month, $59.99/three months, $139.99/12 months) can get full-game, timed-limited trials for select games, which vary depending on the title.
Interestingly, PlayStation and its partners have given consideration to the fact that some games are bigger than others and are offering longer demos accordingly. For example, as spotted by Twitter user PSVortex, Horizon Forbidden West and Cyberpunk 2077 have five-hour trials, versus the two-hour demos offered for Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection and WWE 2K22.
This makes sense considering Horizon and Cyberpunk are both open-world games that take dozens of hours to complete. It’s currently unclear, though, if five hours is the max amount of time PS Plus trials will ever offer. On the flip side, all games over a certain price point (going forward, not retroactively) are reportedly required by Sony to offer a demo.
To further entice players, PlayStation is also allowing you retain all trophy and save game progress from the trial, so you can pick up where you left off should you buy the game.
The new PlayStation Plus is set to launch on June 13th in North America. More information can be found here.
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Charlie Meglio hit a pair of doubles with two RBI and a run scored to lead top-seeded Jackson Memorial, No. 20 in the NJ.com Top 20, to a victory at home over fourth-seeded Toms River South, 7-3, in the semifinal round of the Ocean County Tournament.
Chris Cartnick hit a single and drew a pair of walks with an RBI and two runs scored while Tom Kendrick went 1-for-3 with a single, a walk, a stolen base and a run scored for Jackson Memorial (19-7), which will face second-seeded Central Regional in the championship round on Tuesday at Toms River North.
Jackson Memorial won for the sixth time in a row and for the 12th time in its last 13 games.
Jackson Memorial defeated TRS for the third time this season, winning 5-4 and 14-7 in April. Jackson finished 5-1 against the three Toms River high schools this season.
Aidan Folsom singled twice with an RBI and a run scored while MIkey Erli hit a double and scored a run for Toms River South, which falls to 12-10 with the loss.
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It’s graduation season, and this is truly a special time for many students and families. Congrats to all high school and college students graduating this year.
These years are spent learning, discovering, failing, and succeeding. It’s the close of one chapter before the next one begins. As Christians, we are indeed called to celebrate these moments and victories. The years of hard work are something to be proud of that deserves a celebratory moment.
As we prepare for these celebrations, schools have been busy finding the ideal commencement speaker to deliver the perfect commencement speech to the graduating class. Usually, our grads will enjoy some thoughtful and memorable quotes to tuck away as they go out into the world: Stay true to yourself, follow your dreams, don’t be afraid to fail, be bold, and be courageous.
These are well-intentioned messages, even if not from a faith perspective. Such messages can encourage, motivate and perhaps help strengthen one’s character.
But, have you noticed that these messages of encouragement start to give way as they are replaced by the highly pressurized messages that the world churns out? One message that I see under Satan’s grip is our society’s unrelenting desire for worldly success. One dangerous message about success comes from a well-known and “successful” individual who stated it this way:
“Working 24 hours a day just isn’t enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it’s any less, they’re wrong, and they will fail.”
This is the messaging our graduates will face out in the world. And this is far from the only misleading message out there. Such messages attempt to shake the foundation of our graduates, pull at their character and lead our graduates to chase after the hollow tree.
Look online, and you can quickly learn why this messaging harms rather than helps. And if our graduates want real success, this messaging must fall flat on its face. Real success begins in the heart. Real success begins when God’s desires become our desires and when we realize that our life is no longer about us. Instead, we become transformed to bear fruit that is visible to the world through our relationship with Christ. And isn’t that ultimately what our years of learning and study have been about?
I think Rev Billy Graham put it best when he said,
“People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time … the best of all investments you can make is to help people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. You can make a commitment right here and now … I’m asking you today not to graduate but commence a new life for God every step of the way.”
Therefore, the most powerful way we can encourage our graduates is by pointing them to Jesus Christ. To be successful is to be in Christ. Along the way, we can pray for their endeavors and successes. We can pray for their endurance when they fail and meet struggles face to face. We can pray that their pursuit of success means that their eyes are fixed on Jesus so that they can one day hear the most pleasing words from our Lord, as the servants heard from their master:
‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ – Matthew 25:21
Congratulations to all of our graduates.
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Ciena Co. (NYSE:CIEN – Get Rating) CEO Gary B. Smith sold 3,542 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $50.19, for a total transaction of $177,772.98. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 443,924 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $22,280,545.56. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.
CIEN stock traded up $0.71 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $49.58. 1,402,113 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,571,341. Ciena Co. has a twelve month low of $48.16 and a twelve month high of $78.28. The company has a market capitalization of $7.54 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.84, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.33 and a beta of 0.86. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $56.33 and a 200-day simple moving average of $63.20. The company has a current ratio of 4.16, a quick ratio of 3.56 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.38.
Ciena (NYSE:CIEN – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Monday, March 7th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.35 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.36 by ($0.01). The firm had revenue of $844.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $845.14 million. Ciena had a return on equity of 13.17% and a net margin of 13.23%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 11.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.42 earnings per share. Equities analysts predict that Ciena Co. will post 2.49 EPS for the current year.
CIEN has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Raymond James reduced their price target on Ciena from $80.00 to $75.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, March 8th. Rosenblatt Securities lowered their target price on shares of Ciena from $80.00 to $70.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday. UBS Group began coverage on Ciena in a research report on Tuesday, April 5th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $66.00 price target on the stock. StockNews.com began coverage on Ciena in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They set a “hold” rating for the company. Finally, Loop Capital boosted their price objective on Ciena from $87.00 to $92.00 in a report on Wednesday, February 16th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and twelve have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $77.44.
About Ciena (Get Rating)
Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching.
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Richard Shaw's men twice fell behind but managed to pull themselves level on each occassion firstly through Luke Dreher and then through a wonderful Kian Flanagan strike.
By earning a point, the Eagles have maintained their ability to reach the play-offs this year, but must beat Watford by at least four goals in a home clash this Thursday to do so.
You can watch how they fared at Selhurst today now for free by heading to Palace TV either by clicking here or 'Palace TV' on the official Palace app.
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Friday temperatures spike into the high 80s with morning showers possible
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
3-5-3
(three, five, three)
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:12 Lucky Charms-2nd:4 Big Ben-3rd:3 Hot Shot, Race Time: 1:45.34
(1st: 12 Lucky Charms, 2nd: 4 Big Ben, 3rd: 3 Hot Shot; Race Time: one: 45.34)
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Government puts GST rate revisions on hold till inflation eases
The planned rate rationalization of the goods and services tax to boost revenue of the Centre and states has been put on hold due to a spike in inflation, and the central government is examining ways to tame prices, including by improving logistics for commodities such as cement.
Why it’s important: Even if the GST Council accepts the recommendations of a ministerial panel for rate revision, the federal body might not take a decision because the current inflation situation leaves them with practically no elbow room.
No change in government’s 2022-23 borrowing target despite revenue hit
The central government will stick to its gross borrowing target of Rs 14.31 trillion for the current financial year despite a hit on revenues due to reduction in excise duty on petroleum products and higher subsidy burden owing to food and fertilizer.
Why it’s important: The government might pull out money from the Consolidated Fund of India to ensure its capital expenditure commitments are met. Meeting the fiscal deficit target of 6.4 percent of gross domestic product will be difficult in 2022-23.
Sale of residual stake in Hindustan Zinc to fetch Rs 38,000 crore
The government has decided to sell its residual stake in Hindustan Zinc and monetize the assets of defunct Bharat Gold Mines. The two decisions were cleared at a meeting of the cabinet committee on economic affairs. After its sale to Vedanta, the government continues to hold a 29.5 percent stake in Hindustan Zinc.
Why it’s important: It will sell its stake through the open market in a staggered format. The government is looking to raise resources for further economic and social infrastructure investments.
Top corporate executives earned 184 times their employees wages in 2020-21
Managing directors, chief executive officers, and other top earners in India’s largest companies saw a faster rise in compensation after the Covid pandemic although median employee salary declined. The median CEO salary in India’s top listed companies rose 2.6 percent in the past two years but the median employee salary in these companies was still down 0.5 percent from its pre-pandemic levels.
Why it’s important: The analysis based on a sample of 76 companies from the Nifty 100 index showed that income inequality widened in the corporate sector during the pandemic.
Singtel to sell part of its stake in Bharti Telecom to Mittal family
Singapore Telecommunications has initiated talks with Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal to sell a small part of its holding in the Indian telco to the Mittal family. Singtel and the Mittal family are shareholders in Bharti Telecom, a promoter company of Bharti Airtel. It could sell stake worth $1-2 billion to the Indian promoter through a mix of Bharti Telecom and Bharti Airtel share sales.
Why it’s important: Singtel is keen to book some profit by selling Bharti shares as part of its portfolio management strategy and redeploy some capital in new investment opportunities.
Huawei India CEO moves high court against lookout notice
Huawei Telecommunications India chief executive officer Li Xiongwei has challenged a look out circular that prevented him from flying out of India earlier this month for a business meeting. The Delhi High Court has asked the income-tax department why the circular shouldn’t be quashed.
Why it’s important: Many Chinese companies operating in India, including Huawei, have been under the tax scanner for evasion and financial irregularities. The income-tax department has, however, not disclosed why it does not want Li Xiongwei, a Chinese national, to leave the country.
Economy might have grown just 3.5-5.5% in fiscal fourth quarter
India’s economy is likely to have grown 3.5-5.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2021-22 as higher commodity prices hit margins and the third Covid-19 wave disrupted the recovery, an Economic Times poll of 11 economists showed. The estimated median growth in the fourth quarter was 4.4 percent. The economy had grown 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter of the preceding financial year.
Why it’s important: The final three months of 2021-22 was a challenging quarter as commodity prices rose significantly after Russia invaded Ukraine. The widespread Omicron wave also disrupted economic activity.
The long decline of the Nifty index might not be over yet
The Nifty’s 14 percent decline from the lifetime highs hit in October last year may not qualify as a bear market, but it is one of its longest corrections. The index could decline another 10 percent, going by historical trends. The Nifty ended down 0.6 percent at 16,025.80 points on Wednesday.
Why it’s important: The dream rally of Indian equities for the past two years has ended due to concerns over inflation, rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve, and recession fears, resulting in overseas investors pulling out of stocks. They are likely to decline even further.
India’s banks are staring at bad loans worth Rs 18,500 crore
Banks are facing a fresh spike in bad loans, with close to 9 percent of the debt restructured under the Reserve Bank of India’s pandemic relief plan turning sour in the past six months of 2021-22, according to data compiled by Mint. Over Rs 18,500 crore of such loans has slipped into the non-performing asset category after borrowers were unable to repay despite extension of repayment periods and easier payment terms.
Why it’s important: A significant growth in retail loans and exposure to small businesses and vulnerable corporate sectors have created risks that remain masked by regulatory forbearance.
Startup unicorn Good Glamm plans to raise funds worth $250 million
Good Glamm Group, previously known as MyGlamm, is in talks with new and existing investors to raise as much as $250 million at a valuation of nearly $2 billion. Good Glamm became a unicorn when it raised $150 million in November last year.
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What is Irish moss?
Health and beauty trends can be wacky, but some of them stick. Sea moss gel is one of them. It’s used for skin care and consumed for its health benefits. While there isn’t much research into its benefits, it’s an all-natural product worth trying out.
Learning more about sea moss gel will help you use it correctly and decide if it’s a good product for you. Whether you slather it onto your face or spoon it into your morning smoothie, it’s a product worth noting.
What is sea moss gel?
Sea moss gel is made from a type of seaweed commonly known as sea moss, Irish moss or Irish sea moss. Its scientific name is Chondrus crispus, but it gets the nickname Irish moss because it’s commonly found growing in rocky areas of the Atlantic coast of Ireland. However, it also grows in North America.
The gel made from this seaweed is rich in a range of nutrients. It contains a whopping 92 of the 102 minerals that make up the human body, including calcium, iodine, iron and zinc. It also contains many vitamins, including vitamins A, K, C, D and B12, plus essential fatty acids.
What are the benefits of sea moss gel?
Sea moss has a range of potential health and skin care benefits. However, it’s worth noting that research in the area is limited, so any potential benefits should be taken with a healthy dose of cynicism.
Moisturizing properties
Humectants are moisturizers that can draw water from deeper inside the skin to nourish the outer layer. Sea moss gel is a highly effective humectant, but it creates a non-occlusive barrier over the skin to lock moisture in. This makes it an incredible moisturizer, whether used alone or mixed with another moisturizer or serum.
Protects the skin barrier
Sea moss creates a film over your skin that reinforces the skin barrier. Damage to the skin barrier is fairly common and can lead to itchy skin, eczema, rosacea and dull or dehydrated skin. Because the mixture of proteins in the sea moss film is similar to those of our skin barrier, it increases protection and can help reduce issues caused by its damage.
Anti-inflammatory
Its anti-inflammatory properties could help soothe skin suffering from inflammation, which can appear as redness, dryness or pimples. It could also play a part in reducing inflammation in other parts of the body when taken orally. That said, it’s unlikely that consuming just one type of anti-inflammatory food will make a huge difference overall.
Balances oil production
The high levels of sulfur in Irish moss gel can decrease sebum production in the skin. Sebum is the natural oil that moisturizes our skin but is commonly produced in excess quantities, leading to oily skin, blackheads and pimples. It’s great for balancing oily skin because although it reduces sebum production, it also has moisturizing properties and won’t result in dryness.
Antimicrobial properties
Thanks to its natural antimicrobial properties, sea moss can help to balance the skin’s microbiome. This can help with a range of skin issues, including acne, rosacea and seborrhea.
Thyroid health
When taken orally, the high iodine levels in sea moss can help keep your thyroid functioning as it should. This is particularly beneficial for vegetarians and vegans, as they’re less likely to get enough iodine from their diet.
How to take sea moss gel orally
Sea moss gel can be eaten straight out of the jar, but since its taste is quite strong and not necessarily pleasant, most people like to mix it with other ingredients.
- Smoothies: One simple way of consuming sea moss gel is to add it to smoothies. It’s fairly easy to disguise the taste by using strong-flavored produce, such as ginger and lime.
- Juice: Blend sea moss into fruit juice to help it go down more smoothly. This will give your juice a thicker texture, which some people like and others don’t.
- Soups and stews: Simply mix sea moss gel into soup or stew before serving. Don’t add it while the other ingredients are still cooking, as too much heat over a prolonged period could destroy some of the nutrients.
However you choose to consume your Irish moss gel, you should take around 1 to 2 tablespoons a day. You can also buy sea moss supplements, which some people prefer to take over sea moss in its gel form.
How to use sea moss gel for skin care
Sea moss gel moisturizes skin and forms a protective barrier, so it’s best applied on its own or mixed with a leave-on product. Don’t use it as a mask or with a product that you rinse off your skin because you won’t get its full benefits.
It’s best to apply the gel at night as part of your pre-bed skin care routine. It has a thick texture and can leave a sheen on the face that you may not appreciate when you’re just about to leave the house. Start by washing your face as usual, then use any toners or serums that are part of your routine. You can then use sea moss gel in place of a moisturizer.
An alternative method is to mix it with your usual moisturizer or serum at a ratio of one part gel to three parts moisturizer or serum.
How often should you use it?
Daily application is too much for some when using sea moss gel alone. Instead, apply it just two to three times a week, and use your usual moisturizer on your off-days. However, if you mix it with your moisturizer or serum, it’s fine to use every day.
Who should use it?
Due to its balancing properties, sea moss gel works well for people of all skin types. It hydrates dry skin, reduces sebum production in oily skin and does a bit of both for combination skin. That said, it’s especially beneficial for people with oily or acne-prone skin.
Best sea moss gel
Infinite Age Organic Irish Sea Moss Gel
Made from nothing but sea moss and water, this gel is suitable for skin care or consumption. It’s organic and non-GMO.
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TrueSeaMoss Wildcrafted Irish Sea Moss Gel
You can buy two versions of this gel: plain and unflavored or elderberry flavored. It’s free from preservatives and made in the USA.
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Get Wavy Organics Organic Irish Sea Moss Gel
There’s nothing in this gel but Irish sea moss and spring water, making it a great choice for purists. You can eat it or use it topically.
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Karibbean Flavors Store Premium Sea Moss Gel
This gel offers great value for the money, but it isn’t for everyone because it contains sugar and preservatives. The added sugar makes it an excellent choice as a gelatin substitute in desserts.
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The plain version of this gel is great for skin care or consumption. Those who intend to eat the gel might prefer one of the four flavored options: coconut, mango, mango-pineapple or strawberry.
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Covid accelerates drive to digitise African business
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The growing importance of technology in Africa is evident from the first FT-Statista ranking of the continent’s fastest growing companies: the sector is second only to financial services for the number of businesses listed.
Of the 75 companies ranked, 12 per cent are in the technology sector, just behind financial services, on 13 per cent, and ahead of traditionally strong business areas such as precious metals, on 9 per cent, and agricultural commodities, on 8 per cent.
Africa’s digital drive was already under way before coronavirus emerged in late 2019 and the ranking captures this, as it lists companies by compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2017 and 2020. But it also captures the start of the pandemic, and the accelerated digitisation that it brought about.
In the south of the continent, the shift to digital is epitomised by the success of companies such as Entelect, an enterprise software and app provider that offers “end-to-end technology services” to businesses.
It was founded in 2001 out of the Electrical Engineering School at Wits University in Johannesburg by Charles Pritchard, a lecturer there. From its headquarters in the city, the company has grown to serve clients around the world, with offices in the Netherlands, the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
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Entelect is 31st in the ranking with a CAGR of 35.5 per cent and revenues of $52mn in 2020.
In the past five to 10 years, its staff have seen a shift in the way businesses, and particularly large organisations, view technology delivery. For many companies, technology is now not only an enabler of business processes but is also the product itself.
According to Shashi Hansjee, Entelect’s chief executive, digital technology can create both problems and opportunities. “This means the way we structure teams, projects and budgets needs to change to be competitive in this way of thinking, as the market, and so requirements, continue to change,” he says.
“A high-functioning tech capability [requires] motivated and capable problem solvers and specialists in technology disciplines, along with engaged stakeholders from business and product areas. Great products and systems come from great teams, not only from great ideas.”
Hansjee adds that the move towards digital servicing and operations accelerated during the pandemic, which has resulted in a significant increase in demand for technology services.
“Nearly all organisations now require a digital way of interacting with customers, which they may not have needed two years ago,” he says. “Competition in spaces such as ecommerce has ballooned, along with the interest in leveraging enterprise data for analytics, reporting and product development.”
Like other businesses, Entelect also had to adjust to the rapid transition
to a work-from-home environment during the pandemic, while both maintaining its support culture for staff — especially new recruits — and remaining engaged with customers.
Nigeria’s Kawai Technologies is another company that has benefited from the drive to digital in Africa. The support services business, which was founded in 2007, is eighth in the FT-Statista ranking, with a CAGR of 85.2 per cent.
Kawai started out providing bespoke software solutions, says co-founder Akinbo Akin-Olugbade, but found that it had more to offer.
“Very quickly, we realised that it made sense to focus on the core skill sets available . . . internally, which revolved around planning, flexibility, and understanding the local nuances of doing business in Nigeria,” says Akin-Olugbade, who trained as an engineer and previously worked in venture capital and as director of operations for a fertiliser company.
In recent years, Kawai’s projects have included providing an all-Nigerian engineering team for a Turkish company that set up in the country’s south-west, and developing an international order management system for a Nigerian oil and gas business.
Technology has remained central to Kawai’s approach throughout its growth and the company prides itself on its capacity for innovation.
Today, it focuses strongly on supply chain management, covering everything from materials to production oversight, shipping, and the logistics of delivery.
“We built upon the experience we had and pretty quickly started deploying some novel solutions, which of course led to more orders, and then we had a fully fledged business,” Akin-Olugbade says.
This year’s Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies is the first Africa companies ranking report. The rankings are compiled with data produced by the FT’s research partner Statista. A total of 75 companies were ranked in the inaugural edition.
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India’s monetary boss is so certain he will be raising interest rates again soon, he called it a “no-brainer.” The only things missing from the forecast were the dates and magnitude. That’s how specific the prescriptions from policy makers around the world have become. Long caricatured as dour mandarins who like to hedge their bets, central bankers have discovered the power of declarative statements. They would do well to consider the pitfalls.
As frank as he sounds, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das is on the opaque end of rapidly evolving central bank communications. The urgency of the battle against inflation has propelled usually taciturn policy makers to startling degrees of candor. While more information is generally better than less, such openness brings risks. If a course correction is required in response to, say, mounting evidence of a recession, it will make the shift very jarring. The more policy intents are flagged in advance, the harder and more abrupt the turn.
If forthrightness is crafted to shut down debate, that's a troubling development. Most central banks are required by statute to come to decisions via regularly scheduled meetings of policy committees. When the stakes are so high, solo acts can be problematic. Prior to the flaring of inflation, banks were critiqued as too insular and fatally attracted to their models and forecasts. Officials acknowledged they were surprised by the strength and staying power of inflation. How do pre-announcements in blog posts, testimony to lawmakers and interviews foster the healthy debate that might mitigate groupthink?
Central bank chiefs appear to have concluded that's a problem for another day. Just hours after Das made his remarks in an interview with CNBC TV18, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde dropped a bombshell in a blog post. The ECB will start lifting rates in July and be done with negative rates by the end of September, she wrote. Her preemption miffed some colleagues who desired more robust first steps. Inflation in the euro zone is now running at 7.4%, miles above the target of about 2%.
While Lagarde's edict was unusual in the context of the ECB, which has been strafed in the past for cumbersome decision-making, the content of her message was par for the course on a broader stage. Sitting with Lagarde at a panel in Washington last month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell fired a broadside of his own. “I would say 50 basis points will be on the table for the May meeting,” he told the forum.
Of course, Powell knew that by putting his prestige on the line, a 50 basis-point increase was more than merely an option. Low and behold, the Federal Open Market Committee lifted the benchmark rate by that amount on May 4. Powell said at his press conference that day that moves of a similar magnitude were in the works for the June and July meetings of the FOMC. He reiterated that call the following week in an interview with the Marketplace public radio program. If the outlook changes materially, does he pre-announce smaller increments?
It's entirely reasonable that someone display leadership in tough times. The last thing the public needs is chaos. Fed speakers are on the circuit a lot, but not all of the views expressed are consequential. The group to watch is composed of the chair, vice chair and head of the New York Fed. But there has always been a process, discussion and, at least, the pretense that decisions are taken by committee with a published vote.
This shift is remarkable when you consider that, not so long ago, there was a case for retiring or scaling back forward guidance. This level of communication, which was elevated to an art form after the 2008 catastrophe, was designed to assure the public about the path of borrowing costs months or years in advance. It was only possible because the horizon looked clear: The era of lowflation was upon us. Price increases hadn't surged despite the massive easing during the global financial crisis.
Covid was, initially, a demand shock. That made policy makers even more confident about emphasizing job gains from easy money rather than vigilance against inflation. “The forward guidance, I think overall, on the margin, slowed the response of the Fed to the inflation problem,” Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke told CNBC recently. “In retrospect, yes, it was a mistake and I think they agree.”
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe was on to something when he announced this month a thorough review of forward guidance. He wants to scrutinize how it has been used and the manner of its future deployment. It's the least Lowe can do, given how quickly inflation caught up with him and how dramatically he had to alter course. For much of last year, Lowe was waving off a move before 2024.
In recent times, central bankers have stressed the need to be nimble, humble even. That's fine. Recent mistakes warrant some humility. It's hard to square that with pre-announcing decisions as far off as late September. A damning remark uttered by the first ECB president, Wim Duisenberg, in 2001 comes to mind: “I hear, but I do not listen.” | https://www.business-standard.com/article/finance/should-central-bankers-consider-pitfalls-of-making-declarative-statements-122052600121_1.html | 2022-05-26T03:09:17Z | https://www.business-standard.com/article/finance/should-central-bankers-consider-pitfalls-of-making-declarative-statements-122052600121_1.html | false | 2 |
Contrary to popular belief, rabbits aren’t dirty animals at all. Our much-maligned, cotton-tailed friends are fantastic pets partially because they can be trained to use a litter box. As rabbits tend to use the same area of their enclosure as a potty, mostly sticking to corners, potty training your bunny is a relatively simple process.
Older rabbits are easier to potty train than younger rabbits, as their ability to learn — and their attention span — increases with age. Babies are the hardest to train, but with persistence and patience, you’ll be able to make the training stick. Curious about how to litter train a rabbit? We’ll walk you through what you’ll need, and we’ll share six useful training tips.
Supplies you need to litter train a rabbit
Figuring out how to potty train your rabbit doesn’t have to be difficult. Before you begin, make sure you have the right supplies:
- Cage: First, you’ll need a cage of some kind to limit your rabbit’s ability to roam during litter training. You can let your bunny roam freely once she’s properly trained, but keeping your rabbit confined during the early stages of training helps her learn faster, and it drastically cuts down on messes you’ll have to clean up if you leave your furry friend unchecked.
- Litter box: While you can buy litter boxes specially made for rabbits, they’re often too small for your furry friend to use comfortably, especially if you’re training an older rabbit. Your bunny should have plenty of room to move around, but the sides of the container shouldn’t be too tall for her to hop over. (You can always cut out a doorway if needed.)
- Litter: Avoid using wood shavings, clay-based litter, and clumping litter. They can harm your rabbit’s respiratory tract. Recycled newspaper litter is a wonderful option for bunnies, and it helps cut down on odor. Unlike cats, bunnies don’t bury their poop under the litter, so you’ll need to fill the box with only a thin layer of shredded newspaper to absorb urine. (You’ll have to empty the litter box fully each time you clean it, so using a thin layer stops you from going through it so quickly, saving you money in the long run.)
How to potty train a rabbit
Step 1: Line the floor beneath the box, because even the best-trained rabbit can have accidents.
This makes cleanup easier, not to mention, it protects your flooring from stains.
Step 2: Use food to encourage your rabbit to use the litter box.
Rabbits are funny little creatures in that they prefer to eat while they poop. If you’d like your rabbit to stop using the bathroom in the corner of her cage, place a bundle of hay inside the litter box on top of the litter. The scent of one of their favorite noshes will be irresistible, and your bunny will be much more likely to use the litter box. You can also put hay in a separate box near the litter box as long as your bunny can reach the hay from her box.
Step 3: Teach your rabbit to use the box.
If your bunny insists on going potty outside her litter box, absorb the urine with a paper towel, pick up the poop, and place both items in the litter box. This helps your bunny accept the idea that the box is where she should potty from now on.
Step 4: Move the box to your rabbit’s favorite place.
Does your rabbit insist on going potty in the same corner? Try setting the litter box there. Sometimes it’s better to let your rabbit tell you where she wants to go rather than try to force the issue.
Step 5: If your rabbit urinates and leaves droppings throughout your home, have her spayed.
This is the best way to stop it. Spraying is a territorial behavior, and spaying (or neutering) rabbits curbs the instinctive desire to mark their territory.
Step 6: Learn your rabbit’s "I’m about to use the bathroom" body language.
If she lifts her tail or shifts into a seated position before going potty, scoop her up and put her in the litter box. Accidents may happen, but it’s one of the fastest ways to train any animal to use its designated potty space.
Tips to consider when litter training a bunny
Step 1: Prepare for trial and error.
Bunnies can be more finicky than cats when it comes to their litter, so you may have to try out a few combinations before getting the litter box just right. Start with around 1 inch of your chosen litter and cover it with rabbit-safe hay.
Step 2: Protect the area.
Rabbits aren’t as precise as cats, so invest in a tough rubber or plastic mat to go underneath the box. Ensure it’s tough enough so your rabbit can’t chew through it. You’ll have an easier time mopping up small accidents, and you’ll also keep excess hay or litter out of your carpet.
Frequently asked questions about litter training rabbits
Why do I need to use hay?
Rabbits love to nibble on hay and poop at the same time. Placing hay on the litter or in a hay feeder directly beside the litter box will encourage pooping in the right place.
How much litter should I use?
Since you dump the box each time, you don’t need much litter. Cover the bottom of the box up to an inch to absorb wetness as your bunny urinates.
My bunny was litter trained but is forgetting good habits. What do I do?
Needing to retrain your domestic rabbit throughout its life span isn’t uncommon. Simply limit your bunny’s space until good habits return. Go through the steps again if you need to.
My bunny is going to the bathroom on my furniture. What do I do?
It’s best to place your litter box where your bunny likes to go to the bathroom, but if that place is on your furniture, it’s a different story. Your rabbit is showing you who’s boss. That’s an entirely different training question than litter box training. Keep up with your litter box training even while you address this second issue.
Litter training rabbits can take time, especially if you’ve adopted an older rabbit who was never trained to use a designated space to go to the bathroom. Fortunately, rabbits are clever creatures, and with time, patience, and effort, they can be taught to use a litter box.
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Langley Minor Hockey Association is looking for new players for the upcoming season.
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Players born in 2017 or earlier, who reside within the LMHA residential boundaries, are eligible.
Boundaries are: north, Fraser River, South, O Avenue, east, 232nd Street (on the west side) and west, 196th Street (on the east side).
“Why join a minor hockey team?” asked LMHA Administrator Jennifer Kingwell.
“If you ask our graduating players, they would tell you it’s a ton of fun, and it’s the beginning of great friendships and life-long memories. Showing up at the rink and learning the game while building both hockey and life skills is what it’s all about.”
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The season runs from mid-September through to mid-March and depending on their age, players can expect to be on the ice two to three times per week, “with a nice break over Christmas,” Kingwell explained.
“We encourage players to have some skating experience so they are confident to take the ice, but it’s not required.”
Pre-registration for new players opens June 1 at https://www.langleyminorhockey.ca/registration2022.
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HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) Regional Centre and Government Hub in India Buildings was formally opened by Myrtle Lloyd, HMRC Director General for Customer Services on 24 May 2022.
The award-winning Grade II* listed building, which is home to around 5,000 HMRC employees, has been restored to provide a modern and inclusive working environment.
The building has been open since August 2021, but the official opening has been delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Myrtle Lloyd, HMRC’s Director General for Customer Services, said:
“I am pleased to declare HMRC’s Liverpool Regional Centre open.
“It is the only regional centre within a heritage building and is the result of a four-year programme of restoration and refurbishment which has resulted in a stunning workplace that honours the past but is fit for the future.
“India Buildings is a welcoming, light-filled space which enables collaborative working for all of our employees in the heart of wonderfully vibrant Liverpool city centre.”
Lady Massie, the wife of the late Liverpudlian disability rights campaigner Sir Bert Massie, who has a meeting room named after him in India Buildings, attended the opening ceremony.
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U.S. President Joe Biden says his country will come to the aid of Taiwan if China invades the island nation.
President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. would send troops to defend Taiwan if China were to invade, saying the burden to protect Taiwan is “even stronger’ after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was one of the most forceful presidential statements in support of self-governing in decades.
Biden, at a news conference in Tokyo, said “yes” when asked if he was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China invaded. “That’s the commitment we made,” he added.
The U.S. traditionally has avoided making such an explicit security guarantee to Taiwan, with which it no longer has a mutual defense treaty, instead maintaining a policy of “strategic ambiguity” about how far it would be willing to go if China invaded. The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which has governed U.S. relations with the island, does not require the U.S. to step in militarily to defend Taiwan if China invades, but makes it American policy to ensure Taiwan has the resources to defend itself and to prevent any unilateral change of status in Taiwan by Beijing.
Biden’s comments drew a sharp response from the mainland, which has claimed Taiwan to be a rogue province.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to Biden’s comments. “China has no room for compromise or concessions on issues involving China’s core interests such as sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
U.S. President Joe Biden attends a joint news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishid (not pictured) after their bilateral meeting at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan.
He added, “China will take firm action to safeguard its sovereignty and security interests, and we will do what we say.”
A White House official said Biden’s comments did not reflect a policy shift.
Speaking alongside Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Biden said any effort by China to use force against Taiwan would “just not be appropriate,” adding that it “will dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine.”
China has stepped up its military provocations against democratic Taiwan in recent years aimed at intimidating it into accepting Beijing’s demands to unify with the communist mainland.
“They’re already flirting with danger right now by flying so close and all the maneuvers that are undertaken,” Biden said of China.
Under the “one China” policy, the U.S. recognizes Beijing as the government of China and doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. However, the U.S. maintains unofficial contacts including a de facto embassy in Taipei, the capital, and supplies military equipment for the island’s defense.
Biden said it is his “expectation” that China would not try to seize Taiwan by force, but he said that assessment “depends upon just how strong the world makes clear that that kind of action is going to result in long-term disapprobation by the rest of the community.”
He added that deterring China from attacking Taiwan was one reason why it’s important that Russian President Vladimir Putin “pay a dear price for his barbarism in Ukraine,” lest China and other nations get the idea that such action is acceptable.
Fearing escalation with nuclear-armed Russia, Biden quickly ruled out putting U.S. forces into direct conflict with Russia, but he has shipped billions of dollars in U.S. military assistance that has helped Ukraine put up a stiffer-than-expected resistance to Russia’s onslaught.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a joint news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after their bilateral meeting at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, May 23, 2022.
Taipei cheered Biden’s remarks, with Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Joanne Ou expressing “sincere welcome and gratitude” for the comments.
“The challenge posed by China to the security of the Taiwan Strait has drawn great concern in the international community,” said Ou. “Taiwan will continue to improve its self-defense capabilities, and deepen cooperation with the United States and Japan and other like-minded countries to jointly defend the security of the Taiwan Strait and the rules-based international order, while promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.”
It’s not the first time Biden has pledged to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack, only for administration officials to later claim there had been no change to American policy. In a CNN town hall in October, Biden was asked about using the U.S. military to defend Taiwan and replied, “Yes, we have a commitment to do that.”
Biden’s comments came just before he formally launched a long-anticipated Indo-Pacific trade pact that excludes Taiwan.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed Sunday that Taiwan isn’t among the governments signed up for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, which is meant to allow the U.S. to work more closely with key Asian economies on issues like supply chains, digital trade, clean energy and anticorruption.
Inclusion of Taiwan would have irked China.
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The mob calling for former Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged during the attack on the U.S. Capitol reportedly prompted Donald Trump to remark that “maybe” Pence should be hanged, according to testimony provided to the House Select Committee.
According to a report from The New York Times published on Wednesday, at least one witness has told the panel investigating the attack that it was Mark Meadows, Trump’s then-chief of staff, who divulged Trump’s remark about Pence made to colleagues at the White House on January6.
Meadows reportedly left Trump sitting in the dining room of the Oval Office where the 45th president was watching the melee unfold on television.
He was irritated that Pence had been moved to safety, the witness said.
Once away from Trump, “Mr. Meadows… then told the colleagues that Mr. Trump had said something to the effect of, maybe Mr. Pence should be hung,” the Times reported.
The “tone” Trump used is unknown.
Trump’s alleged comment appears to have been corroborated, at least in part, by some of the testimony delivered to the committee by Cassidy Hutchinson, a onetime legislative aide to Trump.
“It was not immediately clear how much detailed information Ms. Hutchinson provided. She has cooperated with the committee in three separate interviews after receiving a subpoena,” the Times noted.
According to the Times, a lawyer for Meadows responded to the report and said he had “every reason to believe” that the claim was untrue. Separately, a spokesman for Trump, Taylor Budowich, only responded by railing about the Jan. 6 committee running a “smear campaign.”
Seems like a good time to re-up this. https://t.co/30F89bXkxZ
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) May 25, 2022
Hutchinson was first subpoenaed in November. In March, when the committee pursued records from Meadows in court, it revealed a partial transcript of her deposition.
She told investigators that during one planning call before Congress met to certify the electoral votes on Jan. 6, lawmakers like Reps. Scott Perry, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert (among others) were fervently calling for Congress to stop the count and suggested that Pence had the authority to do so.
He did not.
Hutchinson went on to say that Rep. Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, supported the idea of “sending people to the Capitol” on January 6.
Perry was one of many Republican lawmakers hit with a request for cooperation over the course of the insurrection probe’s investigation. But after stonewalling the committee for weeks, a round of formal subpoenas were sent to him and others including Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, and Kevin McCarthy, leader of the House GOP.
The Jan. 6 committee begins its hearings on June 9 and according to a draft schedule first obtained by The Guardian, the first hearing will air during primetime at 8PM ET.
There will be six hearings—for now. Investigators like Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, have indicated there could be more later.
After the first hearing on June 9, the next hearings will be held on June 15, June 16, June 21, and June 23. Like the first hearing, the last scheduled meeting on June 23 will air at 8PM. All of the other dates will feature testimony that starts at 10 AM.
The morning hearings are expected to last between two and three hours and for primetime slots, about an hour and-a-half to two hours is being allocated.
Raskin told Daily Kos recently that the committee hearings would offer unique, new, and chilling insights into the attack. He said he hopes the information they will present will arm the nation with “intellectual self-defense” against aspiring and existing authoritarians still in the midst.
The committee may also draw attention to another detail tacked onto the end of the Times report Wednesday: Meadows, witnesses have testified, used a fireplace in his office to burn documents.
Though the public hearings are fast approaching, the committee is still seeking cooperation from witnesses and conducting interviews. Just last week, the committee hit Rep. Barry Loudermilk with a request for his voluntary cooperation.
The panel asked the Georgia Republican last week to share information about a tour that he gave through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5.
Loudermilk balked, saying on May 19 that he gave a “constituent family with young children” the tour because they were meeting with him in House office buildings.
“The family never entered the Capitol building,” Loudermilk said. “No place that the family went on the 5th was breached on the 6th, the family did not enter the Capitol grounds on the 6th, and no one in that family has been investigated or charged in connection to January 6th.”
A day later on May 20, however, Loudermilk said that he “took a family with young children and their guests who were visiting Washington to lunch in a cafeteria in one of the House office buildings” and he noted that “some were actually wearing red baseball caps.”
There was “nothing unusual or nefarious about this family’s visit to see their congressman,” he said.
His account from that day doesn’t exactly line up with his remarks in the past week.
On Jan. 6, Loudermilk told WBHF:
“We had them in our office. They were definitely peaceful people. People that we’ve met at church. They were supporters of the president. They just wanted to be up here as if it were another rally.”
Loudermilk did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.
Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos.
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Addressing a press briefing on the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, 25 May, divulged that the attack weapon used by the assailant was an AR-15 assault rifle.
He added that the gunman also shared that he was "going to shoot an elementary school" around 15 minutes before the massacre started, through private messages on Facebook, AFP reported.
Abbott said,
"The first post was to the point of, he said 'I'm going to shoot my grandmother'...The second post was 'I shot my grandmother.' The third post, maybe less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school, was 'I'm going to shoot an elementary school.'"
Following the announcements, social media giant Facebook rushed to indicate that the 'posts' were one-to-one text messages, which were tracked after the tragedy.
"We are closely cooperating with law enforcement in their ongoing investigation," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone stated, AFP quoted.
'You Are Doing Nothing': Democrat Beto O'Rourke Interrupts Conference
Amid the briefing, Abbott's Democratic opponent for Governor, Beto O'Rourke, publicly confronted him, slamming him for the inaction on gun control.
"You are doing nothing," O’Rourke stated as he stood in front of the stage, facing state officials.
He continued, "You said this is not predictable. This is totally predictable...This is on you until you choose to do something different! This will continue to happen."
Shouting back, the mayor of Uvalde Don McLaughlin said, "Sir, you are out of line," and called the democrat a "sick son of a b****."
In one of the deadliest grade school shootings in a decade, an 18-year-old gunman killed at least 19 students and two adults in an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, 24 May.
(With inputs from AFP.)
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IPAN @ipannigeria
For those asking, this is the State of Anambra within the last 48 hours:
• A headless body on Nnobi-Alor-Nkpor road — 21st May, 2022 (7.00AM)
• Three heads (including that of a sitting legislator) at Chisco Park, Amichi — 21st May, 2022 (6.00pm)
2) • Attack at Onitsha Tollgate, Ogbunike/Nkwelle Junction — 22nd May, 2022 (2.00pm)
• Attack around Eke Adazi Nnukwu — 22nd May, 2022 (3.00pm)
• Attack at Ogidi — 22nd May, 2022 (3.30pm)
• Attack at Aforigwe, Umunnachi — 22nd May, 2022 (4.00pm)
3) • Attack around Oraukwu-Abatete — 22nd May, 2022 (5.00pm)
• Attack on Agulu — 22nd May, 2022
• Attack on Nanka — 22nd May, 2022
And I’m making this post at 7.30pm on 22nd May 2022 (who knows what could be happening somewhere else now).
@CCSoludo
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Chukwuemeka not Emeka @Odumegwu_
An Hausa man,wife and killed chased down to Isulo ọrụmba south and killed in Cold blood
Genevieve Udeh @Cliff_colette
Just the woman and her 4 girls.. Her husband wasn’t among
Ayodeji Gasby @Gasbytweet
“Just” abi? No problem since their lives means nothing to you and don’t tell its a wrong choice of words
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Telus announced on May 24 that it will be investing $11 billion into developing Quebec’s networking infrastructure, operations, and spectrum over the next four years.
This announcement came on the heels of two separate investments the company committed to on May 17 in BC and Alberta, for C$17.5 billion and C$17 billion respectively. Together, the company is looking to invest $70 billion in Canada’s national network development by 2026.
In the press release, the company said that the investment will create 7,000 jobs in Quebec through Telus’ partner ecosystem. New roles will be created in construction, engineering, emerging technologies and supporting industries.
“Our broadband technology is supporting critical, transformational change in respect of enabling online healthcare, education and teleworking flexibility, and accelerating Canada’s digital economy and society for heightened productivity, competitiveness and human welfare outcomes in the post-pandemic period,” said Darren Entwistle, chief executive officer of Telus. “Importantly, through our investment, we are supporting the social and economic vibrancy of Quebec and ensuring that every member of our society has access to the technology that yields the opportunity to realize their full potential.”
Telus noted that 99 per cent of its business and residential customers have access to its PureFibre fibre optic network. The company says that by working with the Federal and Quebec provincial governments, it aims to connect all 350,000 homes and businesses to its fibre optic networks. The company will also deploy a 5G cellular network using its newly acquired 3.5GHz spectrum later this year. Further, the company plans on introducing its full standalone 5G network later this year, enabling multi-access edge computing capabilities for latency-sensitive enterprise applications. | https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/telus-to-invest-c11-billion-in-quebec-in-the-next-four-years/485427 | 2022-05-26T03:40:10Z | https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/telus-to-invest-c11-billion-in-quebec-in-the-next-four-years/485427 | false | 1 |
Capricorn Fund Managers Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of NOV Inc. (NYSE:NOV – Get Rating) in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor acquired 724,182 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock, valued at approximately $9,813,000. NOV accounts for approximately 2.8% of Capricorn Fund Managers Ltd’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 9th largest holding. Capricorn Fund Managers Ltd owned 0.19% of NOV as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. boosted its holdings in shares of NOV by 29.2% in the fourth quarter. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. now owns 3,793 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $51,000 after acquiring an additional 857 shares during the period. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of NOV in the fourth quarter worth $52,000. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale bought a new position in shares of NOV in the fourth quarter worth $68,000. Neuberger Berman Group LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NOV by 36.6% in the third quarter. Neuberger Berman Group LLC now owns 13,961 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock worth $114,000 after acquiring an additional 3,739 shares during the period. Finally, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp bought a new position in shares of NOV in the third quarter worth $132,000. 93.94% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on the company. StockNews.com assumed coverage on NOV in a research report on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating on the stock. TheStreet upgraded NOV from a “d” rating to a “c-” rating in a research report on Friday, February 4th. Citigroup downgraded NOV from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and lowered their price objective for the stock from $22.00 to $21.00 in a research report on Monday, March 14th. COKER & PALMER downgraded NOV from a “sector perform” rating to a “sector underperform” rating in a research report on Monday, February 7th. Finally, Bank of America downgraded NOV from a “buy” rating to an “underperform” rating in a research report on Friday, March 11th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have assigned a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $19.33.
NOV (NYSE:NOV – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 28th. The oil and gas exploration company reported ($0.13) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.06) by ($0.07). NOV had a negative net margin of 3.18% and a negative return on equity of 2.54%. The company had revenue of $1.55 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.53 billion. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that NOV Inc. will post 0.32 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, June 24th. Investors of record on Friday, June 10th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.04%. NOV’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently -41.67%.
NOV Company Profile (Get Rating)
NOV Inc designs, constructs, manufactures, and sells systems, components, and products for oil and gas drilling and production, and industrial and renewable energy sectors worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Wellbore Technologies, Completion & Production Solutions, and Rig Technologies.
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‘Ang galing ng Pilipino’
Let’s take a step away from the politics, shall we?
According to the World Population Review, the average height in the Philippines is pegged at 63.7 inches. That’s about 5’3”.
Now, despite that minute detail, the world would be little surprised to learn that the Filipino’s favorite pastime is the one sport where height advantage matters most: Basketball. One of life’s cruel ironies, no doubt.
I’ve often joked that there are three things anyone could find in just about anywhere from Aparri to Jolo: a church, a karaoke machine, and a basketball court. And on the most special of occasions, something magical happens: The holy trinity of Philippine mainstays converge! The roofed basketball court doubles as a “multipurpose hall” for all sorts of festivities, from Masses to sing-along merrymakings. A moment cherished by the neighborhood, albeit to the chagrin of the neighbor next door desperately trying to get some much-deserved shut-eye.
Yet, despite our basketball fanaticism, the recent 31st Southeast Asian Games shows that Filipino talent—that is, “ang galing ng Pilipino”—is not isolated to any single sport. Indeed, while I have always rooted for Team Gilas Pilipinas, which finished second place in this year’s games, my heart also swells for all other Filipino athletes through whom we have bagged an impressive 52 golds, 70 silvers, and 104 bronzes more; totaling up to a whopping 226 medal tally.
In the coming three years, we will have a very real chance to not only continue on the champion’s path but to call on our government to give even greater support for our Filipino athletes and to redefine Philippine athletic culture writ large. Keep in mind: The 32nd SEA Games will take place in Cambodia in May 2023, just one year from the 2022 presidential elections. The 2025 SEA Games will be hosted by Thailand in December 2025—halfway through the presidential term. In the next three years, the Filipino people will twice have the chance to measure the success of our government, not only in GDPs or credit ratings, but in terms of the quality of athletes we breed. Among them will be dancers and duathletes, wrestlers and runners, gymnasts and judokas—all of whom, mind you, clinched the gold in this year’s SEA Games. We are so much more than just a “basketball nation.” Surely, all of our “atletang Pinoy” deserve so much more too.
But the reformation project does not simply end there.
Before becoming a lawyer, I myself was a student-athlete. I entered college on a varsity scholarship to the University of the Philippines judo team. I look back on those days in awe. I trained on the mats from 5:30 to 8:30 in the morning and then in the gym from 6:00 to 9:00 in the evening, with classes sandwiched somewhere in between. I ended each day with a shadowed bruise and a fiery mat burn, and woke up the following morning to do it all again.
Now slowly sliding deeper into my thirties, I can’t help but smile and think to myself how youth is, indeed, wasted on the young. I don’t quite know how I managed.
But of course, like all good things, that too came to an end. In 2012, I graduated with a BA in Philosophy cum laude and retired as the team captain of the UP Fighting Maroons. And it was there that two dreams met at a crossroad: I could either take my training to the next step with the national judo team, or pursue legal studies with no less than the nation’s premier law school—the UP College of Law.
I vividly recall my older brother, Gabriel—likewise a black belt judoka and himself a UAAP gold medalist—telling me that this is what being an adult was about. It’s not so much giving up on our ambitions. Rather, it’s about choosing which ones will be made real and which ones will be left as nothing more than dreams.
Suffice it to say, 10 years later, I now write not as sensei but as Attorney Pangalangan. It was a difficult choice largely defined by pragmatics, and in many ways the right one. But I regret that we live in a system where we need to make these choices at all.
Perhaps, we should make space for new dreams. One where success will be equally celebrated in whatever shape or form, whether in a barong, a suit, or a judogi.
But until then, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to the “atletang Pinoy” for many a dream come true. You do your country proud!
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Campaigns season resurrects gangs of brutal goons for hire
On November 16, 2019, the lives of six men in their prime were cut short in 10 minutes, more than 80 kilometres from their homes by angry mourners who bludgeoned them to death.
The ‘Ahero Six’, as they came to be known — Phillip Kwach (Kwach), William Omondi (Sisqo), Evans Onyango Ochieng (Toto), Richard Odera (Nick), David Okeyo (Ouma) and Mr Odoyo Otieno popularly known as Chief — left not only young families, but devastated dependants.
Their bodies had dry blood stains, bruises and cuts that were inflicted by sharp objects by a mob that descended on them at the burial of businessman Johannes Okoth, who was shot dead some two weeks before by unknown assailants.
From political rallies to the church and various organisations, you will always see young heavily built men running around with walkie talkies, either giving directives, guarding VIPs or engaging in crowd control.
Common sight
And, in an election season such as this, the usually mean-looking men, dressed in suits or camouflage gear and dark glasses, are a common sight in these events.
As opposed to trained and armed police officers who are bodyguards for various leaders, these men are usually deployed in funerals, political rallies, meetings or even celebrations such as weddings. The energetic and agile young men will always make a grand entrance with their clients, providing security.
In villages, they are dreaded for who they are and who they protect, with some claiming they are usually hired to “discipline” people. It later emerged that what befell the Ahero Six was a VIP guarding event gone awry, and the crowd turned against them.
The existence of the groups harks back to the advent of multiparty politics, that had the likes of the dreaded Baghdad Boys, whose face at the time was the current chairperson of the Kisumu City Residents’ Voice, Mr Audi Ogada.
The group members have since reformed and run various associations such as Baghdad for Peace, which advocates non-violent means of solving disputes.
As we approach the elections, we have seen the re-emergence of these youth groups, that for as little as Sh500 per person, are hired for political reasons. In Homa Bay, security agencies are investigating an incident where supporters of two gubernatorial aspirants fought on Sunday afternoon, resulting in the injury of at least seven people and damage to property.
Supporters clash
Supporters of Homa Bay Woman Representative Gladys Wanga and those of former Nairobi governor Evans Kidero clashed when they met at Wagwe in Karachuonyo constituency.
Those injured were rushed to hospital and have been summoned to record statements with police. Kisii County is a political hotbeds during elections and, as campaigns for the August 9 polls hot up, the situation is increasingly becoming volatile.
There have been bloody incidents recently in some parts of the county where some candidates faced hostile crowds and were pelted with stones, especially if the politicians left without giving money after addressing the people. Several factors are fuelling the violence.
Demand for cash
If a politician does not give money, the crowds unleash violence to send a message that aspirants cannot address meetings and leave without offering them cash and other goodies as handouts. They have a slogan: “Ntobwate enda…omogambi tokogenda otaratobwata enda” (Sir, hold our stomach…you can’t leave without holding our stomach).
Then there is general impunity resulting from failure by law enforcement to punish offenders in the past, leading to the general perception that political activities that involve violence are not violations of the law.
This misbehaviour has been taken a notch higher by mischievous politicians who exploit the situation to instigate violence so that it can be blamed on their opponents. The county security committee recently hosted aspirants to discuss the way forward.
"We held a security meeting with governorship, Senate and woman rep aspirants from the county on Thursday," said County Commissioner Allan Machari, who chairs the committee. The culture of political violence started back in 1992, when politicians created what became infamously known as "Amachuma" (metal), a euphemism for political hooligans for hire. The goons became a law unto themselves and came from Nyaribari before spreading out to other constituencies. They unleashed violence against perceived enemies of their benefactors, spreading fear among the people. This forced the government to ban the gang. No less than Deputy President William Ruto has come face to face with political violence in Kisii on three different occasions.
Roughed up
In Migori, Suna West MP Peter Masara was last month roughed up at a political event by supporters of his rival, former MP Joseph Ndiege. Mr Masara, who graced Migori gubernatorial aspirant Philip Mwabe’s campaign launch at Migori Primary School, was forced to leave the event midway after rowdy youths heckled and hurled projectiles at him.
The county security team has singled out and is closely monitoring 10 gangs involved in political violence ahead of the elections as tension has started rising between politicians. They package themselves as loyalists to politicians as they unleash violence at the slightest provocation.
Popularly referred to as Sangwenya, the group comprises notorious criminal gangs of both genders, often hired to offer protection, quell aggression and sometimes silence perceived opponents in exchange for tokens and other favours.
The gang operates like the county government’s departments of defence and interior at the same time.
Funding group
Senior county government officials have been accused of funding and using the group to fuel violence and suppress opponents.
Allies of Governor Okoth Obado say the gang is neither part of his security detail nor on his payroll. The groups have since changed tack, following uproar, choosing to go digital.
“Of late, they are well coordinated and openly discuss their planned activities on social media where they issue threats and even insult their opponents,” said a source privy with their modus operandi. These groups in Nyanza usually get hired as afar as Western region counties.
County police boss Meru Mwangi said “despite the county being relatively calm, security agents had profiled a few cases whose movements were being closely monitored.”
“The illegal groupings were banned by the government but there are isolated cases of criminals taking on the names of the illegal outfits and they are on our radar,” Mr Mwangi noted.
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Friday, June 3, is the last day to apply for voter registration to cast ballots in the June 28 primary election, according to Tiffany Rozell, secretary of the Cherokee County Election Board.
Rozell said anyone who is a U.S. citizen, resident of Oklahoma, and at least 17-1-2 years old is eligible to apply, but the person must be at least 18 to vote.
Applications must be received by the County Election Board or postmarked no later than midnight, June 3. Applications postmarked afterward will be accepted, but will not be processed until after the election. Applications may also be submitted to any motor vehicle agency that is also an official voter registration agency.
Applicants will be notified in writing when their applications have been processed. Approved voters will receive voter identification cards in the mail. Some may receive a letter explaining why the application was not approved. Rozell said those who do not receive a response within 30 days of submitting their application should contact the Election Board office immediately.
Registered voters who have moved to Cherokee County from a different county or state will need to complete a new voter registration application to be eligible for elections in Cherokee County. Those who have moved within the county and need to update their addresses can make changes online using the OK Voter Portal at oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp or complete a Voter Registration Application. These can be downloaded from the State Election Board website at oklahoma.gov/elections or picked up at the County Election Board. Most post offices, tag agencies, and public libraries have applications.
The Cherokee County Election Board is at 914 S. College Ave. and is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,Monday through Friday. For questions, contact the Election Board at918-456-2261 or at cherokeecounty@elections.ok.gov. The Election Board is also on Facebook at cherokeecountyokelectionboard. | https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/voter-registration-deadline-hearing/article_b5bc5b16-1fff-515e-9398-cd04728c6563.html | 2022-05-26T03:51:33Z | https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/voter-registration-deadline-hearing/article_b5bc5b16-1fff-515e-9398-cd04728c6563.html | false | 1 |
Oppo Realme GT2 Pro vs Realme 9 Pro Plus
Here we compared two smartphones: the 6.7-inch Oppo Realme GT2 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) that was released on January 4, 2022, against the Oppo Realme 9 Pro Plus, which is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 920 and came out 2 months after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the gadgets.
Key differences
An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Oppo Realme GT2 Pro
- 2.1x better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (1033K versus 503K)
- Higher display refresh rate – 120 Hz
- Shows 8% longer battery life (35:40 vs 33:03 hours)
- Delivers 27% higher maximum brightness (773 against 610 nits)
- Has a 0.3 inch larger screen size
- Comes with 500 mAh larger battery capacity: 5000 vs 4500 mAh
- Uses a faster type of memory: LPDDR5 3200 MHz
- 24% higher pixel density (509 vs 411 PPI)
Reasons to consider the Oppo Realme 9 Pro Plus
- Slow-motion recording at 960FPS
- Reverse charging feature
- Includes a 3.5 mm headphone audio jack port
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Performance
CPU/GPU performance in apps and games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
NanoReview score
Final comparison evaluation
You can enter your local price of these phones (in USD or any other currency) and click on the "Calculate" button to see which one has a better value for money.
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and tests
Sources:
NotebookCheck
[3], [4]
Performance
Tests of Oppo Realme GT2 Pro and Oppo Realme 9 Pro Plus in the benchmarks
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Camera
Specs and camera test of smartphones
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
After analyzing all the data, we think that the Oppo Realme GT2 Pro is definitely a better buy.
Cast your vote
So, which phone would you choose?
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building.
Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said. “More could have been done.”
“They were unprepared,” he added.
Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as Salvador Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured.
Officials say he “encountered” a school district security officer outside the school, though there were conflicting reports from authorities on whether the men exchanged gunfire. After running inside, he fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were outside the building, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. The police officers were injured.
After entering the school, Ramos charged into one classroom and began to kill.
He “barricaded himself by locking the door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside that classroom,” Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Department of Public Safety told CNN. “It just shows you the complete evil of the shooter.”
All those killed were in the same classroom, he said.
Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told reporters that 40 minutes to an hour elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer to when the tactical team shot him, though a department spokesman said later that they could not give a solid estimate of how long the gunman was in the school or when he was killed.
“The bottom line is law enforcement was there,” McCraw said. “They did engage immediately. They did contain (Ramos) in the classroom.”
Meanwhile, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.
Carranza said the officers should have entered the school sooner.
“There were more of them. There was just one of him,” he said.
Uvalde is a largely Latino town of some 16,000 people about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the Mexican border. Robb Elementary, which has nearly 600 students in second, third and fourth grades, is a single-story brick structure in a mostly residential neighborhood of modest homes.
Before attacking the school, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother at the home they shared, authorities said.
Neighbor Gilbert Gallegos, 82, who lives across the street and has known the family for decades, said he was puttering in his yard when he heard the shots.
Ramos ran out the front door and across the small yard to the truck parked in front of the house. He seemed panicked, Gallegos said, and had trouble getting the truck out of park.
Then he raced away: “He spun out, I mean fast,” spraying gravel in the air.
His grandmother emerged covered in blood: “She says, ‘Berto, this is what he did. He shot me.’” She was hospitalized.
Gallegos, whose wife called 911, said he had heard no arguments before or after the shots, and knew of no history of bullying or abuse of Ramos, who he rarely saw.
Investigators also shed no light on Ramos’ motive for the attack, which also left at least 17 people wounded. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Ramos, a resident of the small town about 85 miles (135 kilometers) west of San Antonio, had no known criminal or mental health history.
“We don’t see a motive or catalyst right now,” said McCraw of the Department of Public Safety.
Ramos legally bought the rifle and a second one like it last week, just after his birthday, authorities said.
About a half-hour before the mass shooting, Ramos sent the first of three online messages warning about his plans, Abbott said.
Ramos wrote that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman. In the last note, sent about 15 minutes before he reached Robb Elementary, he said he was going to shoot up an elementary school, according to Abbott. Investigators said Ramos did not specify which school.
Ramos sent the private, one-to-one text messages via Facebook, said company spokesman Andy Stone.
Grief engulfed Uvalde as the details emerged.
The dead included Eliahna Garcia, an outgoing 10-year-old who loved to sing, dance and play basketball; a fellow fourth-grader, Xavier Javier Lopez, who had been eagerly awaiting a summer of swimming; and a teacher, Eva Mireles, whose husband is an officer with the school district’s police department.
“You can just tell by their angelic smiles that they were loved,” Uvalde Schools Superintendent Hal Harrell said, fighting back tears as he recalled the children and teachers killed.
The tragedy was the latest in a seemingly unending wave of mass shootings across the U.S. in recent years. Just 10 days earlier, 10 Black people were shot to death in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
The attack was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
Amid calls for tighter restrictions on firearms, the Republican governor repeatedly talked about mental health struggles among Texas young people and argued that tougher gun laws in Chicago, New York and California are ineffective.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is running against Abbott for governor, interrupted Wednesday’s news conference, calling the tragedy “predictable.” Pointing his finger at Abbott, he said: “This is on you until you choose to do something different. This will continue to happen.” O’Rourke was escorted out as some in the room yelled at him. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin yelled that O’Rourke was a “sick son of a bitch.”
Texas has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation and has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years.
“I just don’t know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old,” Siria Arizmendi, the aunt of victim Eliahna Garcia, said angrily through tears. “What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?”
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” as he called for new limitations on guns in the wake of the massacre.
But the prospects for reform of the nation’s gun regulations appeared dim. Repeated attempts over the years to expand background checks and enact other curbs have run into Republican opposition in Congress.
The shooting came days before the National Rifle Association annual convention was set to begin in Houston, with the Texas governor and both of the state’s Republican U.S. senators scheduled to speak.
Dillon Silva, whose nephew was in a classroom, said students were watching the Disney movie “Moana” when they heard several loud pops and a bullet shattered a window. Moments later, their teacher saw the attacker stride past.
“Oh, my God, he has a gun!” the teacher shouted twice, according to Silva. “The teacher didn’t even have time to lock the door,” he said.
The close-knit community, built around a shaded central square, includes many families who have lived there for generations.
Lorena Auguste was substitute teaching at Uvalde High School when she heard about the shooting and began frantically texting her niece, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary. Eventually she found out the girl was OK.
But that night, her niece had a question.
“Why did they do this to us?” the girl asked. “We’re good kids. We didn’t do anything wrong.” | https://www.khon2.com/news/national/onlookers-urged-police-to-charge-into-texas-school/ | 2022-05-26T03:53:00Z | https://www.khon2.com/news/national/onlookers-urged-police-to-charge-into-texas-school/ | true | 88 |
The Avalanche was one minute from its first Western Conference finals in 20 years.
Instead, it’s back to St. Louis for Game 6 of the conference semifinals.
The Blues rallied from a 3-0 deficit to stun the Avalanche 5-4 in overtime in Game 5 on Wednesday night at Ball Arena.
“We got tight in the third, and obviously, they ramped up their desperation level, which is to expected,” Avs captain Gabe Landeskog said. “They’re playing for their season, and we just didn’t get it done.”
Former University of Denver standout Tyler Bozak scored the winner at 3:39 into the extra period in a gut-punch loss for Colorado. The Avs were 56 seconds away from the series-clinching victory capped by an epic performance from superstar center Nathan MacKinnon.
MacKinnon scored three goals in a rare playoff hat trick, the last one a spectacular end-to-end unassisted tally to give the Avs a 4-3 lead with 2:46 remaining in regulation. He had a hand in all four goals.
“It’s over with. We lost,” MacKinnon said. “The playoffs aren’t for points and attention or whatever. It’s just to get wins and that’s how everyone feels in our room. We’re all tugging on the same rope.”
Game 6 is Friday night in St. Louis with Colorado leading the series, 3-2. Game 7, if necessary, is at Ball Arena on Sunday.
“We got to go get this done,” MacKinnon said. “But it should make our team a little harder, a little more grittier in these situations. Can’t win every series in four and five (games). They have a great team, and we’re excited to go have a huge challenge in St. Louis and try to close out a series.”
MacKinnon scored twice and assisted on Gabe Landeskog’s goal to give the Avs a 3-0 lead early in the second period. But the Blues rallied for three consecutive scores, the last one by defenseman Justin Faulk at 15:14 of the third period.
Exactly two minutes later, MacKinnon completed an incredible end-to-end rush with the puck by lifting a shot over the shoulder of goalie Ville Husso as the Avs retook the lead with less than three minutes to play.
The crowd went crazy and hundreds of hats were thrown onto the ice. The Western Conference finals were near.
The Blues, however, pulled Husso for a sixth attacker and Robert Thomas scored his second goal of the game on a rebound off goalie Darcy Kuemper with 56 seconds to go.
“They played with more desperation than us in the second half of the game,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said. “We stopped playing. They’re a desperate team, facing elimination. … We had a pretty good first half of the game and built a nice lead and we’re doing everything right. And to me, it just kind of disappeared.”
MacKinnon, who had zero goals and only three assists in the first four games of the series, had two goals in the first period before assisting on the third one for a comfortable 3-0 lead.
The Blues got within 3-1 to begin the third period. Thomas scored at 9:57 before Faulk tied it.
The Avs had a flawless opening frame, taking total control.
MacKinnon scored at 3:51 and 18:23, the latter on the power play, as Colorado outshot the Blues 18-9. That dominance continued early in the second period and Landeskog got the third goal, a redirection off Devon Toews’ shot from the point at 4:03. MacKinnon gave the puck to Toews, who blasted the puck toward bodies in front of the net, where Landeskog got a stick on it.
St. Louis got within 3-1 late in the second period, shortly after the Avs improved to 3-of-3 on the penalty kill. There was a loose puck between the circles and Vladimir Trarsenko turned and fired, beating Kuemper high above his glove side.
Footnotes. The Avs used the same lineup from Game 4. The healthy scratches were again forward Andre Burakovsky and Nico Sturm and defensemen Ryan Murray and Kurtis MacDermid. Defenseman Sam Girard suffered a season-ending broken sternum in Game 3 but the Avs have no other injuries. … Blues defenseman Marco Scandella came off the injured list to make his debut in the series, replacing Calle Rosen. | https://www.denverpost.com/2022/05/25/blues-down-avalanche-overtime-game-5/ | 2022-05-26T03:59:55Z | https://www.denverpost.com/2022/05/25/blues-down-avalanche-overtime-game-5/ | true | 4 |
Stacey Abrams Decries 'Voter Suppression' as Georgia Sees Record Turnout
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed during an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid that her state is experiencing voter suppression despite the record primary elections turnout.
Abrams was an outspoken opponent of voter reform legislation passed last year in Georgia that, among other changes, required those applying for mail-in ballots to provide a driver’s license or voter ID number, WXIA-TV reported.
Additionally, ballot drop boxes were moved inside polling locations and only made available during voting hours. Georgia also now prevents local governments from accepting grants from the private sector to aid in conducting elections.
These funds have been dubbed “Zuck bucks” by conservatives, a reference to the over $400 million donated by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to the Center for Tech and Civic Life in the name of assisting voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Most of that money in Georgia and beyond went to counties President Joe Biden won in the 2020 election.
Under its new rules, the Peach State has also increased the minimum number of days of early voting to 17 and allows no-excuse mail-in voting as long as a voter provides an ID number.
In her Monday interview with Abrams, Reid said Georgia had “become ground zero for voter suppression” because of its new election law, Senate Bill 202, which she characterized as “Jim Crow version 2.0.”
“Republicans, with the help from some in the political press, are now using the huge turnout in the primaries so far to push a new big lie: That the record turnout, which is mainly from Republican primary voters, means that Georgia’s suppressive voting law is not suppressive at all,” Reid added.
Headlines from news outlets including The New York Times and The Washington Post noting the high voter turnout appeared on a screen behind the host.
According to a Saturday news release from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, the number of early ballots cast was 857,401, a 168 percent increase from the 2018 gubernatorial primary and a 212 percent increase from the presidential primary in 2020.
That total included 483,149 Republicans and 368,949 Democrats. The GOP had more tightly contested statewide primary races, particularly for governor, U.S. Senate and secretary of state.
As of Thursday, Abrams had received 166,000 more votes running unopposed than both she and her opponent garnered together in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor: approximately 719,000 total ballots compared to 553,000 in 2018.
On the Republican side, about 1.2 million ballots were cast this year versus 608,000 during the last governor’s race.
Reid asked Abrams to comment on what the high voter turnout means in terms of her claims of voter suppression.
“The equivalent of saying that more people voting means there is no suppression is like telling people that if you get in the water there are no sharks. If more people get in the water, there are fewer sharks,” Abrams answered.
“There’s no correlation there,” the Democrat continued. “Voter suppression is about blocking or impeding certain types of voters from participating in elections.”
“Right now, Republicans have the most competitive elections, but what we also don’t know is what is the mail-in ballot rejection rate? What are the difficulties people are having?” Abrams asked.
The candidate argued that her supporters could still overwhelm the system and overcome what she characterized as impediments to voting put in place by Republicans.
“But to let them off of the hook for what they’ve done simply because they didn’t do it as well as they thought is, I think, nonsensical,” Abrams said.
On Tuesday, Abrams repeated her charge that voter suppression is occurring even amid the high voter turnout on Election Day.
“It is correlation without causation,” she contended. “We know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppression.”
In other words, SB 202 — even with more early voting days and no-excuse mail-in voting — has not helped voter turnout.
Democrat Stacey Abrams on Georgia’s skyrocketing turnout: “We know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppression” pic.twitter.com/MzTnwNY7KK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 24, 2022
The Republicans’ counterargument is that the legislation clearly has not prevented record numbers from casting ballots.
“The incredible turnout we have seen demonstrates once and for all that Georgia’s Election Integrity Act struck a good balance between the guardrails of access and security,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp agreed, saying Democrats’ talk of suppression is meant to get their base riled up to vote, the Times reported.
“They don’t want to know what the truth is,” he told supporters at a Saturday campaign event in Watkinsville. “They don’t care what the truth is. They want to talk about the narrative that drives their base and helps their political polling.”
The Post, which was very critical of Georgia’s new voting law when it passed last year, seemed to concede that it does not appear to be suppressing turnout.
The paper quoted a 70-year-old black woman named Patsy Reid, who said, “I had heard that they were going to try to deter us in any way possible because of the fact that we didn’t go Republican on the last election when [Donald] Trump didn’t win.
“To go in there and vote as easily as I did and to be treated with the respect that I knew I deserved as an American citizen — I was really thrown back.”
A version of this article originally appeared on Patriot Project.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-8-3-9
(five, eight, three, nine)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-8-3-9
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Routt County Democrats: Thank you Rep. Dylan Roberts and Colorado Dems
Wow! 2022 is a year of historic investments for Colorado in education, behavioral health and housing — plus wildfire mitigation, public safety and protecting our water and environment — then add on saving Coloradans money, ensuring fair and transparent elections and codifying reproductive rights.
Thank you Rep. Dylan Roberts and Colorado Democrats for your leadership and inclusiveness in responding to the most pressing needs of Coloradans and for continuing to move our state forward.
There are a lot of bills and action for Routt County to be excited about.
Housing
2022 has been a truly transformational year for affordable housing. Colorado had a once-in-a-generation opportunity to direct federal resources from the American Rescue Plan and passed legislation investing $428 million dollars to make housing affordable:
• $178 million State Grants Investments in Local Affordable Housing (HB22-1304) — Grants throughout the state to develop affordable housing. These funds will be an amazing opportunity for our local Brown Ranch housing.
• $150 million Revolving Loan Fund Investment in Affordable Housing (SB22-159) — Finances affordable workforce housing, senior housing and housing designed for people living with disabilities and more.
• $40 million Innovative Housing Incentive Program (HB22-1282) — Boosts the affordable housing supply and increases homeownership rates by attracting and supporting the construction of innovative forms of affordable housing.
• $35 million Loan Program for Resident-Owned Communities (SB22-160) — Ensures the long-term affordability of mobile home parks by helping residents buy their land and create resident-owned communities.
• $25 million Middle Income Access Program (SB22-146) — Expands critical workforce housing so that middle-income families can access affordable housing in the communities they work in.
Super thanks to Rep. Dylan Roberts and Colorado Democrats for working with stakeholders throughout the state, including our local Yampa Valley Housing Authority, to craft legislation that will help all parts of Colorado — especially our rural and mountain resort communities.
Saving Coloradans Money
With Coloradans still recovering from the disruption of the pandemic, including rising inflation and supply chain challenges, Colorado Democrats prioritized saving Coloradans money. From tax relief and refunds, to ensuring Coloradans don’t face surprise medical bills, to funding universal free Pre-K, Colorado Democrats were leaders in supporting Colorado families.
There are too many bills to list, but we wanted to send special thanks to the Democrats prime sponsors for their great work in getting the Sales Tax Exemption for Essential Hygiene Products across the finish line:
• Sales Tax Exemption for Essential Hygiene Products (HB 22-1055) — This bill creates a state sales tax exemption for incontinence products, diapers and period products. It also gives cities and counties the legal option to add this exemption to local sales tax.
This is an example of a not-so-flashy bill that will have a big impact. Diapers, incontinence and menstrual products are essential hygiene products, and this bill will increase affordability for millions of Coloradans.
Protecting Reproductive Rights
In April 2022 Colorado Democrats passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act, making Colorado a leader in protecting reproductive rights nationwide:
• Reproductive Health Equity Act (HB22-1279) — This bill codifies a person’s fundamental right to make reproductive health-care decisions free from government interference.
Supreme Court Justice Alito’s draft opinion reversing almost 50 years of Roe v. Wade sent a shockwave through our country. For those who started their social activism with reproductive rights, to a generation who grew up with these freedoms, Justice Alito’s wide-reaching opinion is terrifying. At the national and state level, GOP leadership has stated that if they regain the majority, they will work to pass legislation criminalizing reproductive rights. In Colorado, state Republicans introduced extreme legislation defining “personhood” as starting at fertilization, which if passed, would have criminalized even emergency contraception. And zero — yes zero — Republicans voted for the Reproductive Health Equity Act. Thank you Colorado Democrats for protecting reproductive rights!
Under Democratic legislative leadership, 2022 has been a year of action targeted to help Colorado communities, families and neighbors as we transition through the pandemic challenges. We are energized and inspired both by this leadership and the many community stakeholders who shared their expertise and insight throughout the session. Thanks to this community and statewide teamwork, 2022 is a year of action — meaningful action that will help all Coloradans!
This monthly column is being provided by the Routt County Democrats. For more, RouttDems.org.
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Which purple mascaras are best?
Purple mascara is an easy way to incorporate more color into your makeup looks. Purple pigments make every eye color pop but are especially bright on brown eyes. If you want to draw more attention to your irises on even your low-effort makeup days, consider L’Oreal Paris Volume Building Mascara in Deep Violet. You can easily match it to your eyeliner and eye shadow or contrast it for a two-tone look, or wear it on its own for a fun and simple look.
What to know before you buy purple mascara
How to wear
Applying colored mascara is a delicate balance between a subtle but noticeable pop of color and cartoony, over-the-top pigments. There are several ways you can achieve this. Don’t apply so much that it’s clumpy and caky. You can start by using the purple shade on all of your lashes or ease into it by using a neutral on the inside and fading out into color. You can also apply the neutral on the bottom lashes and color on the top ones for a two-toned look. You can match it to colored liners and shadows or contrast it with stark neutrals.
Your eye makeup
The makeup you already own will help you determine the shade of purple mascara to go with. Think about the palettes you have and what type of looks you want to create. If you prefer lighter shades when it comes to eye shadow, you can match it with a light lavender mascara or contrast it with dark burgundy. The liner you pair it with will either make it appear brighter, especially if you’re wearing white eyeliner, or darker if paired with classic black.
Prevent smudging
The risk with colored mascara is it smears and makes a mess around your eyes. It can quickly take your look from fun and flattering to cartoony. This is especially true with purple, which can make your eyes look bruised and baggy. You can prevent this with precise application and by removing any excess mascara from the wand beforehand. You can also use an under-eye primer or clean it up with a concealer, especially if you have oily eyes. Consider using an eyelash primer as well, this will keep the pigment on your lashes and help prevent flaking.
What to look for in a quality purple mascara
Shade
There are a wide variety of purple shades of mascara available. You can go with a bright and bold violet, or a subtle lavender or lilac. Burgundy and plum are slightly more neutral and a good start if you’re nervous approaching bright pigments. It all depends on your style, your eye color and the makeup you have to pair it with. If you want to branch out, go with a shade outside of your usual color scheme.
Waterproof
If you cry frequently or have oily eyes, you should look for a purple mascara that’s waterproof. This can save you a lot of mess in the long run, because as bad as running mascara is, it’s even worse when it’s colored. Primer will help with this as well, but it’s better to be safe than sorry if moisture is a frequent issue for you.
Buildability
Some mascaras are more buildable than others, which means you can add more product without experiencing flakes. To get the right shade for you, you may only want to apply just a little bit or more for a dramatic look. You may want to go with thick and bold lashes and need several coats to achieve this. Either way, you should be able to apply multiple layers without experiencing clumps or flakes.
How much you can expect to spend on purple mascara
Most purple mascaras are relatively inexpensive, between $5-$10.
Purple mascara FAQ
What should you do if your mascara clumps?
A. First, try using less mascara or try applying a primer first. If this doesn’t change anything, you may be using the wrong formula for your lashes. You can also try soaking the wand in hot water to remove old excess pigment or adding eye drops to the mascara formula to slightly thin it out.
How can you get the most length and volume?
A. Apply your mascara from the root to the top while gently pulling upward and outward.
What are the best purple mascaras to buy?
Top purple mascara
L’Oreal Paris Volume Building Mascara in Deep Violet
What you need to know: This is a deep and beautiful purple mascara for maximum volume.
What you’ll love: This mascara is easy to build for a full and dramatic look. It goes on evenly and smoothly with no flakes. It’s clump resistant and allergy free with no fragrances. It’s also waterproof and long-lasting.
What you should consider: It’s really thick, so be sure to wipe off the excess before applying. It smudges easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top purple mascara for the money
Maybelline New York Ultra Violet Snapscara
What you need to know: This wax-free and clump-free mascara gives your eyes a vibrant touch.
What you’ll love: This mascara is smooth and easy to remove. It’s quality and affordable. It offers a smooth and clump-free application. It’s designed to be bright and is made without pigment-dulling waxes.
What you should consider: It’s flaky and doesn’t last as long as some customers expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
NYX Worth the Hype Colored Mascara
What you need to know: This bright mascara has a unique tip for precise application.
What you’ll love: It’s buildable and cruelty free. It’s also comfortable to wear and easy to apply. It offers intense volume and length for full, lovely lashes. The brush tapers at the tip so you can get even the smallest lashes on your inner corners.
What you should consider: This mascara is clumpy and doesn’t show up as brightly on lashes as it appears on the wand.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta
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WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and Boeing safely landed the company's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft Wednesday in the desert of the western United States, completing the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station to help prove the system is ready to fly astronauts.
About four hours after departing the space station, Starliner touched down onto its airbags at 4:49 p.m. MDT, wrapping up the six-day flight, which tested the end-to-end capabilities of the crew-capable spacecraft. The landing followed a deorbit burn at 4:05 p.m., separation of the spacecraft's service module, and successful deployment of its three main parachutes and six airbags.
"NASA's Commercial Crew Program and our industry partner, Boeing, today took a major and successful step on the journey to enabling more human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station on American spacecraft from American soil," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "The OFT-2 mission represents the power of collaboration, which allows us to innovate for the benefit of humanity and inspire the world through discovery. This golden era of spaceflight wouldn't be possible without the thousands of individuals who persevered and poured their passion into this great achievement."
As part of the flight test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, Boeing accomplished planned test objectives, including:
- Starliner launch and normal trajectory to orbital insertion
- Launch of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas V and dual-engine Centaur second stage
- Ascent abort emergency detection system validation
- Starliner separation from the Atlas V rocket
- Approach, rendezvous, and docking with International Space Station
- Starliner hatch opening and closing, astronaut ingress, and quiescent mode
- Crew habitability and internal interface evaluation
- Starliner undocking and departure from space station
- Starliner deorbit, and crew module separation from service module
- Starliner descent and atmospheric entry with aero-deceleration system
- Precision targeted landing and recovery
"I am incredibly proud of the dedication and perseverance shown by the NASA, Boeing and ULA team culminating in the successful completion of Starliner's second Orbital Flight Test from start to finish," said Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program. "Throughout this process, Starliner has provided a tremendous amount of valuable data, which we're continuing to assess in our effort to bring the spacecraft online and fully operational for crew flights to the space station as soon as it is safe to do so."
The flight test began Thursday, May 19, when Starliner launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Following liftoff, Starliner successfully entered Earth's orbit, performed a series of demonstrations of its capabilities, and docked with the orbital outpost 26 hours after launch. The Expedition 67 crew aboard the station opened hatches and entered the capsule for the first time, inspecting the spacecraft and verifying integration with power and communications station systems for longer stays in the future. The station crew also unloaded 500 pounds of cargo delivered by Starliner and sent 600 pounds of cargo back to Earth.
"Congratulations to the NASA and Boeing teams," said Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA's International Space Station Program. "I am excited to see the completion of a critical step in bringing another system online to transport long-duration crew members to and from the International Space Station. Soon, we hope to see crews arrive to the space station on Starliner to continue the important microgravity scientific research and discovery made possible by the orbiting laboratory."
A critical step in validating the performance of Boeing's systems, OFT-2 brings the nation a significant step closer to having two unique human transportation systems to carry astronauts to and from the space station from U.S. soil.
"We have had an excellent flight test of a complex system that we expected to learn from along the way and we have," said Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Boeing Commercial Crew Program. "With the completion of OFT-2, we will incorporate lessons learned and continue working to prepare for the crewed flight test and NASA certification. Thank you to the NASA and Boeing teammates who have put so much of themselves into Starliner."
Starliner carried a "passenger" on this flight test – a lifelike test device named Rosie. During OFT-1, Rosie was outfitted with 15 sensors to collect data on what astronauts will experience during flights on Starliner. For OFT-2, spacecraft data capture ports previously connected to Rosie's 15 sensors were used to collect data from sensors placed along the seat pallet, which is the infrastructure that holds all the crew seats in place. Among the cargo returned were three Nitrogen Oxygen Recharge System reusable tanks that provide breathable air to station crew members. The tanks will be refurbished on Earth and sent back to station on a future flight.
Boeing retrieved the spacecraft from the desert and will transport it back to the company's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for processing.
After NASA and Boeing review processes data from this test flight, teams will continue plans for Starliner and its next mission, the Crew Flight Test to the space station.
Learn more about NASA's Commercial Crew program at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
09-38-42-43-47, Mega Ball: 17
(nine, thirty-eight, forty-two, forty-three, forty-seven; Mega Ball: seventeen)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
09-38-42-43-47, Mega Ball: 17
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DENVER (AP) — Tyler Bozak scored 3:38 into overtime and the St. Louis Blues fended off elimination in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals, overcoming a three-goal deficit in a 5-4 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night.
Bozak unleashed a shot from near the blueline that got past Darcy Kuemper, capping a remarkable comeback for St. Louis.
Robert Thomas had two goals, including the tying tally with 56 seconds left in regulation, for a resilient Blues team. It's the latest game-tying goal for the Blues when facing elimination, according to NHL Stats. Vladimir Tarasenko and Justin Faulk also scored, Nick Leddy had four assists and Pavel Buchnevich had two.
The comeback offset a hat trick from Nathan MacKinnon, who looked like he might have just turned in a signature moment with goal No. 3. He went end-to-end, working his way around Blues defenseman Leddy with nifty stick work and lifting a shot over goaltender Ville Husso for a 4-3 lead. It was his second career postseason hat trick.
Hats hit the ice. It wouldn’t be enough.
Thomas tied it up with Husso on the bench for an extra skater, setting the stage for Bozak.
Game 6 is Friday in St. Louis.
The Blues have rallied from a 3-1 deficit to take a playoff series twice in their history — 1999 against Phoenix and 1991 versus Detroit.
Captain Gabriel Landeskog also scored and Bowen Byram had two assists for the Avalanche, who were on the verge of advancing to the Western Conference final for the first time since 2002.
Instead, they have to wait — and wonder. The second-round has proven to be a big hurdle for the Avalanche. They’ve been eliminated at this stage in each of the last three postseasons.
Husso made 30 saves for St. Louis. He took over in Game 3 when Jordan Binnington was injured following a collision between Nazem Kadri and Blues defenseman Calle Rosen that caused Kadri to crash into Binnington.
Afterward, Kadri received racist death threats on social media, which led to increased security to protect him. He responded in Game 4 with a hat trick. On Wednesday, fans along the boards held up signs that read “Stand with Naz.”
Kuemper stopped 25 shots.
MacKinnon came out flying in the first period, taking five shots and scoring twice to give the Colorado an early 2-0 lead. Those were the first two goals of the series for MacKinnon, who has seven in the postseason.
The speedy MacKinnon also had an assist to give him 82 career playoff points. He became the fourth player in franchise history with 80 or more postseason points, joining the company of Sakic (188), Peter Forsberg (159) and Peter Stastny (81).
Even more, he tied his friend and training partner Sidney Crosby for the fourth-fewest games (59) to reach the 80-point plateau, according to NHL Stats. The only ones to accomplish the feat faster were Wayne Gretzky (37), Mario Lemieux (40) and Jari Kurri (57).
After Landeskog made it 3-0 just over 4 minutes into the second period, Tarasenko knocked in his first goal of the series 10 1/2 minutes later to jumpstart the Blues.
BERUBE’S TAKE
Blues coach Craig Berube opened his pregame talk with reporters Wednesday by condemning the racist threats made toward Kadri.
“In no way is it acceptable by the St. Louis Blues or anybody else, for him to go through that," Berube said. "Being a Native American myself, I’ve heard it all. I’ve been around it. It’s not a good thing.”
MARCO’S RETURN
Blues defenseman Marco Scandella returned to the lineup after leaving the Minnesota series with an injury.
“You work all year to get to this point, get to the playoffs, earn a spot in the playoffs and to not be a part of that, obviously, it’s not easy,” Scandella said.
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Netenrich disrupts legacy security ops with a major shift focused on data, taking an AI-driven approach to security operations. The company introduced its Resolution Intelligence platform to analyze real-time security data to determine which high business impact resources are most vulnerable, at critical risk, and need immediate response.
The Netenrich platform is the first to prioritize and rank the most critical issues and behaviors for immediate investigation. The platform aggregates and correlates security and operations data across networks, clouds, and applications. Data analysis and AI/ML rapidly determine the top actions (ActOns) to immediately take, scored by risk ranking and data-driven contextual intelligence.
“Any organization that needs to operate at service-provider scale must drive towards business resilience across all their digital operations, without compromise. Service providers (MSSPs, MSPs, GSIs, and others), in addition to building high quality recurring revenues, must also innovate and transform their clients’ operational efficiencies. Our Resolution Intelligence platform allows all service providers to achieve both these goals,” said Raju Chekuri, Netenrich CEO.
Netenrich is the first to provide service provider scale leveraging Google Chronicle. The platform brings valuable volumes of security data into its ActOn Data Lake as well as other data assets for analysis. The purpose-built ops platform applies correlation, rules management and threat analysis to deliver prioritized actionable insights and situational awareness.
“For many MSSPs, plugging into Resolution Intelligence is the fastest and simplest way to build services and transform their business with analytics enabled by Chronicle. The Netenrich platform operationalizes Chronicle around multitenancy to drive scale and equip providers to realize value on day one and add their own IP at any time,” said Jonas Kelley, Head of Americas MSSP Partnerships, at Google Cloud.
Unique to the platform and essential to managed service providers is the multi-level multitenant interface that streamlines and automates customer management workflows and enables scale. This is made possible using cloud scale distributed computing offered by the platform’s SaaS model.
- Multitenant interface enables analysts to view operations and security status of critical assets across your entire customer base, within a defined group, or by individual customer.
- The platform’s unified UI, across all security and digital operations, streamlines rule-building, threat analytics, and tracking across the provider’s entire customer base.
“The platform is huge for us. We no longer look at our technology infrastructure from a point solution perspective. Automation and real-time notification are key to actually detecting and responding to problems before systems crash. We’re able to divert disruptions better and focus 100% on patient care,” said Bradd Busick, CIO, MultiCare Health.
“Our purpose-built platform with years of operational experience, drives resiliency into all digital operations. With a riskops and an operational data analytics approach, we want our partners and clients to transform towards secure digital operations. We are extremely confident that our partners and their customers will reach new levels of operational excellence at scale and speed to keep up with their digital transformation mandates,” said Raju Chekuri, Netenrich CEO.
Optimize your digital ops for business resilience
With the Netenrich platform, security ops becomes proactive using a predict and prevent approach in anticipating risky behaviors, disrupting threats and insuring business resilience. Organizations improve their overall security posture while focusing on business growth.
- Security organizations are no longer overwhelmed with volumes of alerts and false positives.
- Time to investigate and respond shortens.
- The need for additional security experts disappears as the platform uses AI and automation to speed analysis and remove tedious and time-consuming basic tasks.
- Once siloed and fragmented, ops teams and business units consolidate and collaborate across ops.
- Security becomes pervasive across all operations. | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/05/26/netenrich-resolution-intelligence-platform/ | 2022-05-26T04:19:05Z | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/05/26/netenrich-resolution-intelligence-platform/ | true | 1 |
LEAD — Lords, ladies, jesters, dragons, and all sorts of character types and visitors are invited to attend the spectacle of a Renaissance Festival in Lead this weekend. In its inaugural year of 2021, the Black Hills Renaissance Festival was a grand success, drawing a crowd of about 1,500 attendees to Lead for the single-day event. This year organizers plan to increase and extend the activities for a two-day celebration, with an additional half-day preview open to those most loyal followers who purchase tickets in advance or who pay admission for the full weekend.
“It’s a lot of fun,” event coordinator Shareece Tatum said about the event that the Lead Area Chamber of Commerce is bringing to town. “I knew that a lot of people wanted something like this. I wasn’t terribly surprised with the amount of people who showed up (last year). I’m really excited to bring it back and expand it.”
This year’s event will feature aerial circus acts, fire dancers, roaming performers in costume, mermaids, fairies, dancers, the Society of Creative Anachronism, bellydancing, and more. More than 50 vendors will also feature Renaissance-themed items and food. Tatum said this year’s estimated attendance is expected to be at least 1,500 per day, but there is a good chance there be even more than that.
The events will be held at Manuel Brothers Park and will extend up to the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor’s Center parking lot and up to Aspire Boutique. Attendees will need to purchase tickets to attend all parts of the event. After expenses, ticket proceeds go to the Lead Area Chamber of Commerce, to pay for events such as the Gold Camp Jubilee Celebration during the Fourth of July, Winterfest, and more.
Leigha Patterson, executive director of the Lead Area Chamber of Commerce, said the organization raised about $7,500 last year. This year, she said they hope to bring in much more than that and draw an estimated 4,000 people in to Lead. Overall, Patterson said she has great expectations that this year’s event will be good for Lead.
“Last year blew us away with the amount of people who came to Lead and who got to come to our businesses and explore the town,” she said. “They didn’t know we were here because we are shadowed by Deadwood. They just thought we were an old, deserted mining town.”
For more information about the Black Hills Renaissance Festival, including ticket prices, visit www.blackhillsrenfest.com.
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Erik Spoelstra On Game 2 Loss: ‘This Only Counts As One’
Despite 29 points and six rebounds from Jimmy Butler, the Miami Heat lost to the Boston Celtics, 127-102, losing home-court advantage as the series shifts to Boston tied up at 1-1. Gabe Vincent and Victor Oladipo scored 14 each, and Tyler Herro followed up with 11 points of his...
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Fronteras: ‘We’re the people of corn’ — San Antonio celebrates corn as a heritage ingredient during Pueblos del Maíz
Corn guisado taco made by Chef Paul Morales as part of Pueblos de Maíz. The month-long celebration highlights corn as a heritage ingredient. Twelve of the participating San Antonio restaurants will feature unique dishes with corn as an ingredient. Chef Morales’ corn guisado taco features roasted corn, bell peppers, onions and...
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The ED on Thursday raided multiple locations in Maharashtra as part of a money laundering probe against state transport minister Anil Parab and others linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal in coastal Dapoli area of Ratnagiri district and other charges, officials said.
As per reports, Parab's official and private residence have been raided.
Locations in Dapoli, Mumbai and Pune are being searched after the federal agency filed a fresh case under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Parab (57), is a three-time Shiv Sena legislator in the Maharashtra legislative council and is the state transport minister.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) action pertains to the allegations of purchase of a parcel of land at Dapoli by Parab in 2017 for a consideration of Rs 1 crore but it was registered in 2019. Some other charges are also being probed by the agency.
It is alleged that the land was subsequently sold to a Mumbai-based cable operator Sadanand Kadam in 2020 for a consideration of Rs 1.10 crore. In between, a resort was built on the same land from 2017 to 2020.
An Income Tax Department investigation earlier had alleged that the construction of the resort started in 2017 and over Rs 6 crore was spent in cash on construction of the resort.
Parab has been questioned by the ED in the past in an another money laundering case linked to former minister Anil Deshmukh.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Black Knights and Lady Knights respectively placed second and third last week at the 2022 WVSSAC Class AA track and field championships at Laidley Field.
Both squads, particularly the defending champion boys team, had aspirations of finishing higher in the double-A standings. In all fairness, however, it wasn’t for a lack of trying.
The Point Pleasant track and field program set a school record with a combined 11 state championships last Wednesday and Thursday, with five of those coming on the girls side and another half-dozen coming from the boys squad.
Some were repeat champions, some were multi-event champions, and others were first-time champions. Most came in individual events, while others evolved from being part of a winning relay team.
All of them enjoyed the privilege of being recognized as a state champion.
In what proved to be a memorable two days, both programs started strong on Day 1 as the Black Knights and Lady Knights came away with a pair of state crowns.
Seniors Addy Cottrill and Elicia Wood repeated as state champions in the shot put and high jump events, respectively. Junior Cody Schultz also earned a repeat crown in the boys discus, the last of the repeat titles on opening night.
Those three spoke about their accomplishments in a previous story that ran last weekend and highlighted the opening night of the double-A meet. The remaining eight championship stories will be told in this piece.
A fourth state champion came at the very end of the first session Wednesday night as senior Jonathan Griffin won the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.95 seconds.
It was the first and only state championship for Griffin, who was also part of a pair of top-3 finishes in relays and a 200m runner-up as well in his final state meet.
Getting to go out on top during your final two days of prep competition, even if it was just once, was the thing that Griffin was most proud of at the end of the competition.
“It’s a great feeling to be a state champion, but a lot of this comes from my teammates. They’ve really pushed me in practice over the years, but it’s made all of us better as a team the last four years,” Griffin said. “It’s been a good environment to grow in and become better people. It’s a family, and knowing we’ve done the things we’ve done this weekend makes for some great memories to take with us. I’m proud of the title, but I’m more proud of the memories with these guys.”
Senior Preston Taylor also secured his first career state title after pulling off a bit of a shocker in the 100m dash. Taylor defeated the favorite — Jacorian Green of Bluefield — and the rest of the 8-man final with a time of 11.29 seconds.
“It’s definitely an amazing feeling. I didn’t go into it thinking I was the underdog even though I wasn’t ranked first and I wasn’t predicted to win this race. It’s a nice feeling to prove everyone wrong and be the fastest guy in Class AA this year,” Taylor said. “This is a big accomplishment for me because I’ve worked really hard for this. There’s been a lot of winters, a lot of indoor meets and a lot of offseason work that has gone into this moment. It feels great to see it pay off in my senior year.”
The remaining three championships on the boys side involved junior Ian Wood in some form or fashion. Wood claimed the first two state crowns of his career in the 110m hurdles (15.51) and 300m hurdles (41.30), then was part of the winning 4x110m shuttle hurdles relay near the end of Thursday’s competition.
“It’s an amazing feeling to win that first one, and then win another a few hours later. However, this last one, this was fun,” Wood said. “It’s cool to be running with your friends and end up winning a state title together. It’s just a family thing, I guess. It’s just been an amazing day.”
Wood was joined by seniors Luke Derenberger and Trey Peck, as well as freshman Reece Hunt, on the winning 4x110m shuttle hurdles relay squad. The quartet posted a winning mark of 1:01.15.
“We were third in this event last year, so we’ve worked really hard to get back here because we wanted to win this event,” Peck said. “It’s a great feeling to be able to do that and go out as state champs in our final race together. As a senior, it’s an amazing feeling to win your first state championship that way.”
Derenberger agreed with his fellow classmate, and step-brother, on leaving PPHS as a state champion.
“I’ve been at state in a handful of events, so it feels really good to leave as a state champ in my final competition,” Derenberger said. “You just can’t beat this feeling. It’s with family and it’s with friends. It’s just a good day.”
Hunt — who is also cousins with Derenberger and Peck — was a little bit more giddy about the title than the others, but none of his other three teammates understand what it’s like to be a state champion as a freshman in their very first meet event.
“This is unreal. It means so much to me to be part of a state championship as a freshman,” Hunt said before sending brief shout-outs to his parents. “It’s an incredible feeling and I’m so proud to have been part of this with these guys.”
The Lady Knights, just moments before the boys won, managed to claim their version of the state crown in the 4×102.5m shuttle hurdles. The quartet of Wood, senior Katelynn Smith, and the sophomore duo of Gabriella Hunt and McKenna Young posted a winning time of 1:07.99.
Smith, a multi-time qualifier in the long jump, shed some tears of pride as she ended her prep career as a state champion.
“This team has really started to come together and become a threat in the last few weeks, so to see where we have ended up is something truly special to experience with these girls. We peaked at just the right time,” Smith said. “This is something that I will always carry with me. It’s a good way to go out.”
Young also noted the work that went into making this group a state champion, which is the first of her career.
“We’ve shuffled the order of people in this event. We’ve moved other people in and out of this event. Then, we found the group and we just started clicking,” Young said. “I didn’t know if we’d be standing where we are right now a month ago, but it sure does feel good to see the work pay off the way it did.”
Hunt was proudest of the fact that she could be part of something greater than herself.
“To be state champs with your best friends is a pretty unique feeling. It’s pretty special to be part of this,” Hunt said. “We’ve worked hard for this and it’s still hard to fully comprehend, but this is a proud moment for all of us.”
As for Wood, it was the fourth and final title of her illustrious career — and one that allowed her to become the only PPHS female to ever win three state championships at one meet. Wood also claimed the 100m hurdles title earlier on Thursday with a winning mark of 15.95 seconds.
“I’m at a loss for words about the ways things have gone the last two days,” Wood said. “It’s just awesome. It’s a great way to complete my high school career.”
The final state crown to bring up was actually the first of the day, which went to Cottrill in the discus final. Cottrill won her second straight discus championship with a heave of 124 feet, 10 inches.
Cottrill ends her career with a half-dozen titles between the shot put and discus events over the last four years. Cottrill also owns the school mark for state championships by a Lady Knight.
“I’m very happy with the way the results have gone today and over the years,” Cottrill said. “I’m excited to start the next chapter of my life and my track career, but in a way I’m sad to see all of this come to an end at Point Pleasant. It’s been four really good years to be part of, except for that COVID season. Outside of that, there isn’t much I’d want to change. I’m proud to be going out as a state champion.”
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Xiaomi 12 Pro vs Apple iPhone 8
Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.73-inch Xiaomi 12 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) that was released on December 28, 2021, against the Apple iPhone 8, which is powered by Apple A11 Bionic and came out 52 months before. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the gadgets.
Key differences
An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Xiaomi 12 Pro
- Comes with 2779 mAh larger battery capacity: 4600 vs 1821 mAh
- 2.8x better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (995K versus 355K)
- Thinner bezels – 24.2% more screen real estate
- Has a 2.03 inches larger screen size
- Higher display refresh rate – 120 Hz
- Better camera quality (According to DxOMark rating)
- 60% higher pixel density (521 vs 326 PPI)
- The rear camera has a 2x optical zoom
- Modern USB Type-C port
- Delivers 64% higher maximum brightness (1046 against 636 nits)
- Shows 12% longer battery life (25:27 vs 22:48 hours)
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.2)
Reasons to consider the Apple iPhone 8
- Waterproof body (IP67 classification)
- Apple releases software updates and supports their phones a few years longer than Xiaomi
- Better grip in hands – the body is 7.3 mm narrower
- Weighs 56 grams less
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Performance
CPU/GPU performance in apps and games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
NanoReview score
Final comparison evaluation
You can enter your local price of these phones (in USD or any other currency) and click on the "Calculate" button to see which one has a better value for money.
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and tests
Sources:
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Performance
Tests of Xiaomi 12 Pro and Apple iPhone 8 in the benchmarks
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Camera
Specs and camera test of smartphones
DxOMark camera tests
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
After analyzing all the data, we think that the Xiaomi 12 Pro is definitely a better buy.
Cast your vote
So, which phone would you choose?
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Liberty Capital Management Inc. lifted its position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF (NYSEARCA:VPL – Get Rating) by 2.0% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 18,918 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 362 shares during the period. Liberty Capital Management Inc.’s holdings in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF were worth $1,476,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. CVA Family Office LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $35,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. raised its stake in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF by 47.6% in the fourth quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 552 shares of the company’s stock worth $43,000 after buying an additional 178 shares in the last quarter. Eaton Vance Management raised its stake in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF by 275.2% in the third quarter. Eaton Vance Management now owns 589 shares of the company’s stock worth $48,000 after buying an additional 432 shares in the last quarter. Life Planning Partners Inc bought a new position in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF in the fourth quarter worth approximately $53,000. Finally, Capital Asset Advisory Services LLC raised its stake in Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF by 34.6% in the fourth quarter. Capital Asset Advisory Services LLC now owns 993 shares of the company’s stock worth $77,000 after buying an additional 255 shares in the last quarter.
NYSEARCA:VPL traded up $0.06 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $69.02. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 838,167 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,318,305. Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF has a 12 month low of $65.52 and a 12 month high of $85.70. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $70.86 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $74.72.
Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF, formerly Vanguard MSCI Pacific ETF, is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment performance of the MSCI Pacific Index that consists of common stocks of companies located in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore.
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ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – It was a busy day in local sports around the Twin Tiers for championships.
Horseheads baseball is back on top of the mountain after sweeping the Elmira Express in the Section IV Class AA series. Both Corning and Horseheads girls lacrosse captured their respective Section IV crowns in Class A and B. Plus, Corning Community College softball had a perfect day with a no-hitter from Jayden Hill at nationals in Syracuse.
Full championship scoreboard and who’s advancing to the next step below.
High School Baseball
Horseheads 13, Elmira 7 – Class AA Championship
Elmira ND 9, Trumansburg 5 – Class C Semis
Haverling 16, Attica 3 – Class B Quarters
High School Softball
Horseheads 3, Elmira 0 – Class AA Semis
High School Girls Lacrosse
Corning 13, Ithaca 10 – Class A Championship
Horseheads 16, Vestal 7 – Class B Championship
NJCAA Softball – National Championships in Syracuse
Corning CC 5, St. Cloud Tech 0
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China on Wednesday announced military drills around Taiwan, days after United States President Joe Biden said Washington would intervene militarily if Beijing tried to reunify with the island by force.
China continues to regard Taiwan as its province even after decades of separate governance.
Chinese President Xi Jinping even threatened to take the island, if needed.
"The recent patrol and training exercises by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) around the Taiwan Island were necessary actions against the collusion between Taiwan and the United States," a Chinese defence spokesperson was quoted as saying by Xinhua on Wednesday.
Tan Kefei, the spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence, said that the PLA Eastern Theater Command had recently organised a joint war-preparedness alert patrol and combat training exercises involving troops of multiple services and arms in the waters and airspace around the Taiwan Island.
"These are necessary actions taken targeting the collusion between Taiwan and the United States, and conforming to the need of safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity," Tan said.
Seeking 'Taiwan independence' is doomed to fail, and so is supporting such actions, Tan said, adding that by playing the 'Taiwan card' to contain China, the United States is putting the situation in jeopardy.
The PLA is on high alert and ready to take all necessary measures to resolutely thwart any external forces' interference and secessionist attempts for 'Taiwan independence', he added.
This strong reaction from China comes after Biden on Monday said that Washington is ready to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan in the event of invasion.
Biden met with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan on Monday to advance cooperation on a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues.
During a joint press conference with the Japanese PM, Biden reaffirmed Washington's commitment to ensuring the security of the Taiwan Strait and preventing any change in the status quo unilaterally.
When asked whether the US is ready to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan, he replied in the affirmative, adding that this is the commitment that the US has taken on.
"We remain committed to supporting peace and stability in Taiwan Strait. The US stands firmly with Japan and other nations not to let that happen (China taking over Taiwan)," he said. | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/china-responds-to-biden-with-military-drills-near-taiwan/20220526.htm | 2022-05-26T04:34:33Z | https://www.rediff.com/news/report/china-responds-to-biden-with-military-drills-near-taiwan/20220526.htm | false | 4 |
Jose Mourinho said that he and Roma had made history after winning the Europa Conference League on Wednesday, the club’s first ever major European trophy.
Portuguese coaching icon Mourinho tried and failed to hold back the tears after Roma beat Feyenoord in their first continental final in over three decades and he was still emotional by the time he hailed his team after the trophy ceremony.
Roma fans have taken Mourinho into their hearts during an up and down season which culminated in Wednesday’s 1-0 win in Tirana which ended a 14-year trophy drought for the capital club.
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“I’ve been at Roma for 11 months, I knew the moment I arrived what it meant to the people. They had been waiting for something like this," Mourinho told Sky.
“This was not work tonight, this was history. We had to write history. We wrote it."
Wednesday’s triumph was his fifth European title and made him the first coach to win all current UEFA competitions.
And he confirmed that he would be staying at Roma next season to build on the solid work done in his debut season.
“I am staying, there’s no doubt about that," he said.
“We need to see what our owners, who are fantastic people, want to do next season because this is history, but we can build a special project.
“Now I’m going to go on holiday, sit on the beach and think about it all for a while."
Read all the Latest News , Breaking News and IPL 2022 Live Updates here. | https://www.news18.com/amp/news/sports/tearful-jose-mourinho-hails-uefa-europa-conference-league-history-for-roma-5247685.html | 2022-05-26T04:36:09Z | https://www.news18.com/amp/news/sports/tearful-jose-mourinho-hails-uefa-europa-conference-league-history-for-roma-5247685.html | true | 7 |
PM Narendra Modi at ISB: PM Modi to address ISB Hyderabad Graduation ceremony today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad today for the Graduation Ceremony. He will also address the Class of 2022 during the ceremony. He would also take part in the celebrations for ISB’s 20th anniversary. Details here
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Sensex rises 303 pts in early trade; Nifty jumps 80 pts to 16,106 points | https://www.timesnownews.com/education/pm-narendra-modi-at-isb-pm-modi-to-address-isb-hyderabad-graduation-ceremony-today-article-91802473 | 2022-05-26T04:42:54Z | https://www.timesnownews.com/education/pm-narendra-modi-at-isb-pm-modi-to-address-isb-hyderabad-graduation-ceremony-today-article-91802473 | true | 1 |
5 Channel Partner Program and MSP Market Updates: 24 May 2022
Here are five (actually more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. Executive Leadership – MSP Organization: The 20, a business development group for MSPs, has hired Michael Bone as chief revenue officer. Bone previously was CRO at ESW Capital and CompassMSP.
2. Partnership – Closing Talent Gaps: EY and IBM have expanded their alliance, this time to “help businesses around the world address some of the most pressing workforce challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including employee recruiting, retention, upskilling and the need to transform HR systems technology at speed and scale,” the two companies said.
3. Partnership – Secure File Services: CTERA and Wasabi Technologies have partnered to provide integrated file and object data service for mid-sized companies. The service will be delivered by channel partners.
4. GitLab Partner Program: GitLab has updated its partner program to include such components as the GitLab Certified Training Partner Program. Moreover, it also features a “reimagined” Alliance Partner Program that attracted more than 50 technology companies in the past year. The latest partners include ARM, CyberArk, D2iQ, Dynatrace, Kontra, Rezilion, Secure Code Warrior & Tabnine.
5. PayPal & FinTech Layoffs: Details surfaced here. Meanwhile, Swedish payment giant Klarna is cutting 10% of its staff, TechCrunch reported.
6. Government Cybersecurity: Check Point Software Technologies has completed a new Common Criteria (CC) certification — which reinforces Check Point’s ability to “meet or exceed the security requirements of the 31 Nations who are members of the Common Criteria Recognition Agreement (CCRA),” the company noted.
B. Channel Partner Summits, MSP Conferences and Virtual Events Calendar
- Microsoft Build 2022 Developer Conference (May 24-26, Virtual)
- ServiceNow Knowledge Live 2022 (May 25-56, Las Vegas and Australia)
- ConnectWise IT Nation Secure 2022 (June 6-8, Orlando, Florida)
- RSA Conference 2022 (June 6-9, San Francisco)
- Extreme Networks Connect 2022 (June 6-9, Nashville, Tennessee)
- Our Conference: MSSP Alert Live 2022 (September 19-21, Washington, D.C.)
- All Tech Conferences: Listed Here
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Tata Altroz EV is expected to go on sale before the end of this year, likely with a driving range of around 300 km and a lot of premium equipment
Tata Motors is planning to launch a bunch of new EVs in the Indian market in the next few years. The manufacturer recently unveiled two new concept EVs – Curvv EV and Avinya – which are expected to arrive in 2024-2025. Previously, the carmaker also showcased the Sierra concept, which will also launch in the coming years.
Before these, we expect the manufacturer to introduce the electric version of the Altroz hatchback in India, likely before the end of this year. Tata Altroz EV was showcased in pre-production form at the 2020 Auto Expo, and it was initially expected to go on sale before the end of that year. However, the pandemic played spoilsport to those plans, and the electric hatchback was put on the back-burner.
Now that the Indian car market is on the road to recovery, all the pending car launches are steadily happening. The EV market is much smaller, so electric vehicle launches are significantly slower in comparison. However, electric mobility is steadily growing in our country, and Tata Motors wishes to maintain its lead in this space.
The pre-production model of Tata Altroz EV showcased at the last Auto Expo had a target range of 250 km to 300 km on a single charge. The technical specifications were not revealed back then. The manufacturer is expected to offer Altroz EV with range and performance comparable to Nexon EV.
We expect Tata Altroz EV to offer the same level of equipment as the ICE Altroz. This would include a 7-inch touchscreen infotainment system (with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay), a semi-digital instrument console (with a 7-inch MID), automatic climate control, Zconnect connected car tech, etc.
The onboard safety will be impressive as well, with six airbags, ISOFIX child seat anchors, rear parking camera, TPMS, ABS with EBD, etc., on offer. The regular ICE version will also get six airbags soon, as the government of India will make that mandatory starting September this year.
Tata Altroz EV will be positioned between Tigor EV and Nexon EV in the carmaker’s range, with an expected starting price of around Rs. 12-13 lakh (ex-showroom). It won’t have any direct competition in the Indian market upon launch. | https://gaadiwaadi.com/tata-motors-to-likely-launch-altroz-ev-next-in-the-indian-market/ | 2022-05-26T04:45:00Z | https://gaadiwaadi.com/tata-motors-to-likely-launch-altroz-ev-next-in-the-indian-market/ | true | 1 |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Freshman Tommy White hit three home runs — the last of which broke N.C. State's program record — and the Wolfpack beat sixth-ranked Miami 9-6 Wednesday night to advance to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
No. 10 seed N.C. State (35-20) plays No. 11 seed Pittsburgh on Saturday for a berth in Sunday's championship game.
White opened the scoring with a two-out solo home run in the bottom of the first inning, tied the school record with his 25th homer of the season when he hit a two-run shot in the third before setting the mark with a two-run home run in the six that gave N.C. State a 9-5 lead. He finished 3-for-4 with a walk and five RBIs.
LuJames Groover III hit a two-out double to the right-field wall that drove in Noah Soles and Devonte Brown in the fourth inning and later scored on a throwing error to give the Wolfpack the lead for good at 6-4.
Miami starter Carson Palmquist (9-4), who had allowed just five earned runs in 29 1/3 innings over his previous five starts, allowed six hits and six runs — five earned — with four walks and three strikeouts over 3 2/3 innings.
Gaby Gutierrez and Dominic Pitelli opened the third inning with back-to-back walks, CJ Kayfus followed with a single to center that scored Gutierrez and Yohandy Morales crushed a three-run homer to give the No. 3 seed Hurricanes (39-17) a 4-1 lead.
Maxwell Romero Jr. hit a towering homer to right that cut Miami's deficit to a run in the top of the fifth, but Soles answered with a solo shot in the bottom for N.C. State.
Groover went 3-for-5 with two doubles and three runs.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
4-7-0, FIREBALL: 3
(four, seven, zero; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
4-7-0, FIREBALL: 3
(four, seven, zero; FIREBALL: three) | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17199706.php | 2022-05-26T04:51:41Z | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17199706.php | true | null |
The Indian market is likely to open higher today as SGX Nifty rose 84 points to 16,105. On Wednesday, Sensex extended its decline for the third straight session, falling over 300 points amid a sell-off in IT stocks. Sensex tanked 303.35 points or 0.56 per cent to end at 53,749.26. Nifty declined 99.35 points or 0.62 per cent to close at 16,025.80.
9:50 am: IndiGo stock zooms 10% despite widening of losses in Q4
Shares of InterGlobe Aviation (IndiGo) gained nearly 10 per cent today despite the budget carrier reporting widening of its losses in the fourth quarter of the previous fiscal. Stock of InterGlobe Aviation climbed 9.93 percent to Rs 1808.50 against the previous close of Rs 1645.05 on BSE.
Total of 0.31 lakh shares of the firm changed hands amounting to a turnover of Rs 5.47 crore. Interglobe Aviation stock is trading lower than 5-day, 20-day, 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages. READ MORE
9:15 am: Market opens higher
Sensex rises 335 points to 54,084 and Nifty gains 68 points to 16,094.
8:41 am: Expert quote
Prashanth Tapse, Vice President (Research), Mehta Equities said, "Markets are likely to open on a positive note on the back of firm global cues. Overnight, the Fed minutes were released where all participants agreed for 50 basis point interest rate hike and laid out plans for aggressive Quantitative Tightening to begin in June. Our call of the day suggests that any intraday bull ride is likely to last only for a brief period and probably, gradually pave the path for the bear to a sleepover. Nifty is likely to witness mostly downward fluctuation owing to growth and inflation bets which continue to dominate investors' sentiment negatively. The line in the sand is at Nifty's support at 15971 mark and below the same, the index could swiftly slide to 15671 mark. Nifty is likely to gain strength only above 16411 mark on a closing basis with 200 - DMA at 17261 mark."
8:35 am: Here's what to expect on Dalal Street today
Osho Krishan, Sr. Analyst - Technical & Derivative Research, Angel One said, "The index is currently placed at the critical support zone of the 16000 mark, and any breach below the same could dampen the sentiments once again. As far as levels are concerned, the 15700-15750 zone is expected to cushion the downside of any near-term breakdown. While on the contrary, 16200-16250 is the immediate resistance for the index, followed by the 16400 level in the near term." READ MORE
8:30 am: SGX Nifty
The Indian market is likely to open higher today as SGX Nifty rose 84 points to 16,105. The Singapore Stock Exchange is considered to be the first indication of the opening of the Indian market.
8:15 am: Market on Wednesday
Sensex extended its decline for the third straight day, falling over 300 points amid a sell-off in IT stocks. Sensex tanked 303.35 points or 0.56 per cent to end at 53,749.26. Nifty declined 99.35 points or 0.62 per cent to close at 16,025.80.
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Opinion: Financial education needed now in CT
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U.S.' Pelosi Warns Britain: No Trade Deal Unless You Respect N.Irish Peace Deal
LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Britain there could be no U.S.-UK trade deal if it proceeds with plans to unilaterally scrap some of the rules governing trade with Northern Ireland. Britain warned European Union authorities this week that it could discard post-Brexit regulations painstakingly...
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