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First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund (NYSE:FPF – Get Rating) saw a large decrease in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 21,600 shares, a decrease of 69.1% from the April 30th total of 69,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 143,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.2 days.
Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Albion Financial Group UT bought a new position in shares of First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund during the fourth quarter worth about $30,000. CWM LLC bought a new position in shares of First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $52,000. FSB Premier Wealth Management Inc. bought a new stake in First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund during the fourth quarter worth $86,000. Massmutual Trust Co. FSB ADV bought a new stake in First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund during the third quarter worth $88,000. Finally, Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC bought a new stake in First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund during the fourth quarter worth $99,000.
Shares of FPF traded up $0.25 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $19.43. 3,795 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 147,009. First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund has a fifty-two week low of $18.50 and a fifty-two week high of $26.26. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $20.35 and its 200 day moving average is $22.36.
About First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund (Get Rating)
First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund is a closed end fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by First Trust Advisors L.P. The fund is co-managed by Stonebridge Advisors, LLC. It invests in fixed income markets. The fund will also invest in below investment-grade securities like junk or high-yield securities.
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Gurugram’s Vipul Lavanya residents finally get back their road after authorities intervene
After almost six months, residents of Vipul Lavanya in Sector 81 finally got access to the 24m internal sector road, which was blocked by a developer to construct an affordable housing project.
An enforcement team of the department of town and country planning (DTCP) on Thursday demolished the barricades set up by the developer in December last year to block access to the road.
DTCP officials said according to the directions of the local court and deputy commissioner, Gurugram, the road was cleared and levelled to ensure people could use it without any hindrance. District town planner (enforcement) R S Bhath said, “We had given enough time to the developer to remove the barricades but that did not happen. We deployed two earth-moving machines and removed the obstacles. The developer was asked to remove the material alongside the road.”
Bhath further said that both the developer and RWA have been asked to work together and ensure the safety of commuters during construction. “The road should be made accessible with adequate safety measures and precautions. The side of the road, on which construction is underway, can be barricaded,” said Bhath.
The enforcement department conducted an inspection of the road on April 5 and sent its recommendations to the headquarters in Chandigarh, after which the decision was taken.
Vipul Lavanya condominium has around 500 families. Residents here alleged that despite having access from three sides, they were still facing problems in commuting as the main 24m was blocked. The road was barricaded by SRV Developers, which is constructing an affordable housing project on the land adjacent to the road.
Shibashis Rudra, a resident of Vipul Lavanya, said residents were delighted by the action taken by the department. “People suffered for almost half a year but we finally got relief. The school buses will finally be able to reach the society,” he said.
An official of SRV Developers, when asked about the opening of road, said he was not aware of the matter as he was not present at the site. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugram-news/gurugrams-vipul-lavanya-residents-finally-get-back-their-road-after-authorities-intervene-101653589840602-amp.html | 2022-05-26T20:21:07Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugram-news/gurugrams-vipul-lavanya-residents-finally-get-back-their-road-after-authorities-intervene-101653589840602-amp.html | true | 1 |
Which sweater drying rack is best?
Save on your dry-cleaning bill by hand-washing your sweaters and woolens. Many sweaters require that you lay them flat to dry. However, air-drying them on a towel can take days, not to mention space.
A mesh rack speeds up the drying process by allowing air to circulate around the sweater. These drying racks come in space-saving designs, such as hanging and pop-up models. To air-dry multiple sweaters at once, select a rack with tiers such as the durable Storage Maniac Sweater Drying Rack.
What to know before you buy a sweater drying rack
Uses
Sweater drying racks are designed to air-dry sweaters after hand-washing or machine-washing them. They feature one or more mesh surfaces to lay the sweater flat. Mesh drying racks are also great for air-drying delicates — such as bathing suits, lingerie or wool socks — that also require a flat surface to dry. They can also be used for drying pillows or toys.
Flat drying rack
The simplest type of sweater drying rack is flat. These freestanding structures feature four short legs that can be placed on the floor, countertop or on top of a washing machine. Their mesh surface is completely flat and either square or rectangular. They are designed to dry one sweater at a time.
Stackable drying rack
For higher capacity drying, select stackable flat racks. These are designed to be stacked on top of each other to create a multi-tier drying structure with plenty of airflow between levels.
Pop-up drying rack
Pop-up racks provide a curved mesh surface on which to lay your wet sweater. This design offers ample surface area for a sweater’s long sleeves to fit, unlike flat racks which often require that you fold the sweater’s arms to fit. Pop-up racks fold down easily for storage or travel. The downside is that they typically fit only one sweater or two smaller articles of clothing.
Hanging
For the ultimate space-saver, a hanging rack doesn’t require floor or countertop space. It features a hook (or two) for hanging from a shower rod. The flat mesh surface comes in an oblong oval shape and features two to four tiers. This shape provides plenty of surface area for a sweater to fit without having to fold the arms. A hanging model is ideal if you’re drying multiple items at once and have a shower rod or some type of hanger rod.
Size
If you’re placing your rack on the ground, be sure you have enough floor space. Check the dimensions of the rack. On average, stackable racks have a footprint of 26-28 square inches. Pop-up racks are often adjustable (for more or less of a curve), which changes how much floor or counter space they take up. You also want to check that the surface area of the mesh will fit your garment.
What to look for in a quality sweater drying rack
Straps
If you’re air-drying your sweaters outdoors in the sunshine, consider a model that features mesh straps to secure your items and keep them from blowing away in the wind. This feature is typical for hanging models, which can be hung outside on a clothesline.
Tiers
For high-capacity drying, select a mesh drying rack with tiers. Stackable racks can feature up to six layers for drying. If you have a larger household, select a rack with more than one tier. However, be sure you have room for storing the rack.
Foldable
Most people want to store their rack when not in use. If you’re choosing a stackable rack, be sure its feet fold. Hanging and pop-up racks are generally collapsible and can be stored flat. Not all stackable racks are easy to store and may require disassembly to do so.
How much you can expect to spend on a sweater drying rack
Depending on the quality and size, sweater drying racks can cost $14-$45.
Sweater drying rack FAQ
Why should I lay my sweaters flat to dry?
A. As your sweater dries, it’ll take the shape of whatever it is hanging on, either a rod from a regular clothes drying rack or a hanger. This means that it can dry with bumps or bends that you’ll then need a steamer to remove. Hanging a sweater to dry on a hanger can also stretch it out. Using a flat drying rack will maintain the sweater’s shape.
How can I speed up the drying process for my hand-washed sweater?
A. After you wash your sweater, gently squeeze excess water from the garment (don’t wring it). Then lay the sweater on a clean, dry towel and roll it up as you would a yoga mat. Gently squeeze the roll and then remove the sweater. Place the sweater on a mesh drying rack.
What’s the best sweater drying rack to buy?
Top sweater drying rack
Storage Maniac Sweater Drying Rack
What you need to know: This multi-layer drying rack offers customizable levels.
What you’ll love: You can use one tier or stack all four, depending on your drying needs. Each level is large enough to hold an XL sweater without it hanging over. The rack is large and sturdy and is very easy to assemble.
What you should consider: It’s not foldable. You must disassemble the structure to collapse it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top sweater drying rack for the money
Smart Design Pop-Up Adjustable Sweater Dryer
What you need to know: For limited space, this affordable pop-up rack folds down to a small size for storage.
What you’ll love: Though it’s compact, it can fit various sizes of sweaters. The curved design doesn’t leave lines on your garment as a regular drying rack does. It fits on top of a washing machine.
What you should consider: The pop-up structure can tip over under heavier sweaters and needs to be propped up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Oxo Good Grips Folding Sweater Drying Rack
What you need to know: This well-designed drying rack is stable and significantly speeds up the air-drying process.
What you’ll love: The legs are foldable and the structure folds in half for storage. The rack is designed to be stackable. The mesh surface is sturdy and doesn’t sag under weight.
What you should consider: For a multi-tier rack, you’ll have to buy each level separately.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ATHEX: Corporate results buoy stock market
The flow of first-quarter corporate results from companies listed on the Greek stock market boosted the benchmark at Athinon Avenue on Thursday, sending it fairly close to the 900-point mark on improved turnover too. With rising stocks outnumbering losers at a three-to-one ratio, the price growth is expected to continue given that positive news is anticipated from the Q1 reports.
The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at 887.32 points, adding 1.60% to Wednesday’s 873.37 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 index expanded 1.82%, ending at 2,144.75 points.
The banks index jumped 3.06%, as Eurobank soared 5.15%, Piraeus jumped 3.24%, Alpha climbed 3.16% and National edged up 0.26%. GEK Terna improved 4.21%, ADMIE Holdings advanced 3.93%, Aegean Air rose 2.37%, Titan Cement grew 2.11% and Lamda Development collected 2.01%.
In total 70 stocks posted gains, 23 endured losses and 22 remained unchanged.
Turnover amounted to 80 million euros, up from Wednesday’s €68.1 million.
In Nicosia, the general index of the Cyprus Stock Exchange increased 1.46% to close at 68.32 points. | https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1185347/athex-corporate-results-buoy-stock-market/ | 2022-05-26T20:26:28Z | https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1185347/athex-corporate-results-buoy-stock-market/ | true | 1 |
When violent acts befall our country, it’s easy to feel helpless. Right now the entire nation is collectively asking: What can I do? There are the big things, of course, like taking to the streets and calling representatives and working to effect change via legislation. But there’s plenty to consider changing in our small day-to-day actions that could amount to a huge difference. You might be unknowingly putting money right into the pocket of the National Rifle Association when you pick up your groceries or hit the drive-thru. Use Business Must Act’s Gun Safety Report Card to make sure your spending habits are making things better, not worse.
What is the Gun Safety Report Card?
Business Must Act is a campaign calling on big business to commit to gun safety. In order to hold these businesses accountable, the organization has pulled a handful of major companies and assigned them a score out of 100 to grade them on gun safety. Here are some categories on which the companies are assessed:
- Actions taken to reduce gun violence in their stores (such as banning open carry)
- Donations made to the top 25 NRA-backed lawmakers and politicians
- Public statements issued by the companies calling for gun reform
The metric is somewhat flawed. For example, a company with an “A” on the report card might still be making donations to politicians who support, or are supported by, the NRA. Still, the report card provides a transparent explanation of why each company received a given grade, and it’s a good jumping-off point for deciding where to spend your dollars.
Companies that scored highest on the Gun Safety Report Card
These are the businesses that have earned the Business Must Act stamp of approval as “Gun-Safety Certified,” scoring an A or B on the organization’s scale. Although, as is evident, there’s still room for improvement with some of these companies.
- Costco: Guns are banned at Costco stores; no donations to the top 25 Congressional recipients of NRA dollars.
- Kroger: Prohibits customers from bringing guns in store; demanded action on gun reform; ended gun sales. Nevertheless, Kroger gave $40,000 to the top Congressional recipients of NRA dollars.
- Starbucks: Requests that customers do not bring firearms into stores; no donations to the top 25 Congressional recipients of NRA dollars.
- Target: Requests that customers do not bring firearms into stores; investing in violence prevention initiatives. Conversely, Target gave $9,000 to the top 25 recipients of NRA dollars in Congress.
- Trader Joe’s: Requests that customers do not bring firearms into stores; no donations to the top 25 Congressional recipients of NRA dollars.
- Walmart: Banned open carry in its stores; publicly supports gun reform measures; significantly limits its gun and ammunition sales. Walmart gave $181,000 in donations to the top 25 Congressional recipients of NRA dollars.
- Whole Foods: Guns are banned at Costco stores; no donations to the top 25 Congressional recipients of NRA dollars.
Companies whose approach to gun control could be better
These businesses didn’t totally fail, but have a long way to go, scoring a C or D on the Gun Safety Report Card.
- Buffalo Wild Wings: $12,500 in donations to the top 25 Congressional recipients of NRA dollars; guns banned in company-owned restaurants but not franchises; has not demanded action on gun reform.
- Waffle House: Guns banned in company-owned restaurants but not franchises; has not demanded action on gun reform.
Companies that are failing at gun control
As is evident by this list, one of the main indicators of a failing company is one that has yet to even ban guns within its stores. And if it’s donating a ton of money to pro-NRA Congress people on top of that, well, consider that a big, fat F.
- 7-Eleven: No in-store gun policy; has not demanded action on gun reform.
- Applebee’s: No in-store gun policy; has not demanded action on gun reform.
- Chick-fil-A: Requires franchises to follow local laws but has not implemented a nationwide no in-store gun policy; has not demanded action on gun reform.
- Dunkin’: Requires franchises to follow local laws but has not implemented a nationwide no in-store gun policy; has not demanded action on gun reform.
- Home Depot: $469,500 in political giving to the top Congressional recipients of NRA dollars; no in-store gun policy; has not demanded action on gun reform.
- McDonald’s: $64,000 in donations to the top 25 Congressional recipients of NRA dollars; requires franchises to follow local laws but has not implemented a nationwide no in-store gun policy; has not demanded action on gun reform.
- Old Chicago Pizza: No in-store gun policy; has not demanded action on gun reform.
Pay attention to these reports when they come out and take notice of which businesses might be sponsoring your area’s local NRA events. Most popular restaurants and grocery stores won’t exactly advertise that they’re donating to divisive causes, so as not to jeopardize its customer base. And if your favorite spots are failing at gun reform, don’t be afraid to demand that they do better. Take to social media, call corporate HQ, write emails—every little bit helps when it comes to gun reform, and maybe one day you’ll be able to enjoy your Big Mac with greater peace of mind. | https://thetakeout.com/restaurants-grocery-stores-fast-food-fail-at-gun-safe-1848981471 | 2022-05-26T20:30:32Z | https://thetakeout.com/restaurants-grocery-stores-fast-food-fail-at-gun-safe-1848981471 | false | 1 |
The mom of 19-year-old Richie Todd, victim of a homicide in Williams Lake on May 5, 2022, is appealing to anyone with information about his death to contact the RCMP.
“It’s really hard. I’m trying to be strong,” said Lenny Billy. “If anyone has information I hope they will come forward. I’m hoping for justice.”
On the evening of Thursday, May 5, after 11 p.m. Todd was found laying on the road in the 300 block of Midnight Drive suffering from stab wounds.
People driving by stopped and blocked off the area with vehicles while they waited for emergency crews to arrive.
Todd was transferred to the hospital, but died as a result of his injuries.
Billy said Todd turned 19 on March 10 and was “really kind-hearted, always happy and outgoing.”
As a child he lived at Tl’entiqox First Nation with his mom, but later went into the care of the Ministry of Children and Family development.
He loved camping and fishing with his foster parents and was an ‘outdoors’ person, she said.
“He never liked being inside. He was always outside walking and visiting friends.”
Billy moved to Kamloops and said her son, who also went by Richie Billyboy, had returned to live in Williams Lake and was trying to go back and finish high school.
The last time she saw him was when he helped her move to a new place in Kamloops.
A few days before she found out he had been killed, she became worried about his whereabouts. She had received a text message from him asking to borrow some money and when she responded a few days later did he did not reply.
“I started asking my daughter who lives in Williams Lake if she had seen him, and started asking other people, and no one had seen him. I even posted in on Facebook.”
Billy is staying with her sisters at Tl’etinqox while she waits to hear back from the B.C. Coroners Service and the RCMP with information about her son’s death. Todd leaves behind two brothers and three sisters and was predeceased by his father.
Friends and family have been fundraising for the family and once his body was released she planned to bring him to Tl’etinqox.
RCMP have released no new details on the homicide since the initial news release on May 7. They have canvassed the neighbourhood and asked anyone with dashcam or video surveillance footage from that evening to please contact the police.
Members of the RCMP North District Major Crime Unit continue to lead the investigation working with the Williams Lake detachment.
READ MORE: Vigil held to honour young homicide victim in Williams Lake neighbourhood
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New York police save visually impaired man who fell onto subway tracks
(CNN) - This week, authorities in New York honored two New York City police officers who rescued a man from an oncoming train on the subway.
Last Wednesday, Officer Jason Macaluso and Detective Henry Greco saw Suleiman Rifai, 61, struggling after falling onto the tracks.
They pulled the visually impaired man to safety just in time as a train was pulling into the station.
According to a Metropolitan Transit Authority press release, Rifai told the officers, “You are my friends for life for saving my life.”
The MTA gave Macaluso and Greco “Hero-of-the-Subway” commendations. It is the highest honor for a non-employee.
The officers were reunited with Rifai for the first time since the incident at the MTA’s monthly board meeting.
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Bank of Cyprus Holdings issues dividends to shareholders from excess cash Bank of Cyprus Holdings generates. Most companies pay dividends on a quarterly basis, but dividends may also be paid monthly, annually or at irregular intervals.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court will redraw the state’s congressional map after the Legislature's latest, last-ditch effort failed Thursday to win over Republican Gov. Chris Sununu.
New Hampshire is one few states yet to finalize new U.S. House districts as required every 10 years to reflect population changes. Democrats currently hold both seats, and while Republicans control the Legislature, they have struggled to pass what Sununu has referred to a fairness “smell test.”
Both the House and Senate passed a plan in March that would have given the GOP a strong advantage in the 1st District, but Sununu promised to veto it. A House-passed plan that would have clumped together communities along the I-93 corridor later failed in the Senate, leading to a third plan that was approved Thursday in both chambers.
“I believe it is the compromise New Hampshire needs going forward for the next 10 years,” said Sen. James Gray, R-Rochester.
Sununu quickly said he will veto the bill, however, in part because it puts both U.S. Reps. Chris Pappas and Annie Kuster into the 2nd District.
“The citizens of New Hampshire will not accept this map,” he said. “Our races have to be fair, which is why I will veto this map.”
Under the latest plan, the 1st District would have covered the southeast corner of the state and be tilted slightly toward Republicans, while the 2nd District would have covered the western half of the state and the north country and become slightly more Democratic. More than two dozen towns and cities comprising nearly a third of the state’s population would have switched districts, including Manchester.
Instead, the state Supreme Court will step in. In a ruling this month, the court said it will use the existing districts as a benchmark and employ a “least change” approach. That could mean adopting a map favored by Democrats that would move a single town — Hampstead — from the 1st District to the 2nd.
Senate Minority Leader Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, called the GOP plan one of the majority’s most blatant examples of extremism.
“Once again, they’re out of step with their own governor, out of step with the people of New Hampshire,” she said at a news conference ahead of the votes. “It’s probably one of the best reflections of their tin ear to the folks they’ve been elected to serve.”
The plan passed the House by only five votes. By the same slim margin, the House on Thursday also killed another bill Sununu had promised to veto.
That bill, modeled after legislation filed in multiple states, would have given parents greater oversight over their child’s curriculum, participation in clubs and conversations with staff.
The bill had passed the Senate 14-10 along party lines. Sen. Jay Kahn, D-Keene, argued against it, saying teachers already are “looking over their shoulders” thanks to a new law regulating classroom discussion of race and other topics.
“Now, we’re going to impose another requirement that questions whether educators can have a discussion with a student without reporting on it to parents,” he said. “It is one more ice cube being added to the chilling effect of our actions on New Hampshire educators.”
Rep. Melissa Blasek, R-Merrimack, pushed back against criticism that the bill would force teachers to “out” LGBTQ students to potentially abusive parents and said she equates parental rights to gun rights.
“There are criminals, yes. And one of the primary purposes of government is to punish wrongdoing,” she said. “But restricting rights from law-abiding parents and gun owners does not prevent criminals from participating in criminal activities.”
As for guns, the House also rejected an effort to reintroduce failed legislation would have required criminal background checks prior to commercial firearms sales.
Rep. Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, said there have been dozens of mass shootings nationwide since the bill was defeated in March, including the recent shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, a church in Southern California and a school in Uvalde, Texas.
“It is imperative that we act, and act now to curb the flow of blood running toward us,” she said. “We can do hard things. We can make a change so we don’t have to live like this.”
Her remarks were met with booing from some of her colleagues. The jeering turned to applause for Rep. Terry Roy, a Deerfield Republican who argued that voters don’t want further gun control.
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The biggest hurdle that the new government faces? Shrinkflation
Of all the challenges faced by the new government, could shrinkflation be added to the list? Not inflation you understand, in which companies charge more for the same product, but the alternative technique: shrinking the size of the product while leaving the price unchanged.
A new survey by Choice has identified multiple examples, particularly in product lines such as breakfast cereals, chocolates and pet food. What’s most galling is the notion that the manufacturers think we won’t notice. We always do.
If nothing else, that family recipe involving the can of condensed milk no longer works. And the can of salmon for lunch now leaves you hungry.
All sorts of surreptitious methods are used to disguise the shrinkage. Next time you are in the supermarket, check out the packaging.
There are cans of tuna with tapered sides, so they look unchanged when viewed from above, but hold less tuna. There are chocolate bars shaped like a series of mountains, in which the valleys have become a little wider.
Or there are jam jars designed with the sort of punt you might find in a champagne bottle. Is the jam really under that much pressure that the jar needs this sort of reinforcing? Could it be, rather, they’ve decided that selling air is more fun than selling jam?
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Speaking of which, many products are already pretty much nothing but air. You might recall the trick once performed on television by Graham Kennedy in the glory days of In Melbourne Tonight. He was supposedly advertising a local brand called Colvan Chips but instead used a rubber mallet to pulverise a packet – proving the large bag consisted, mostly, of air.
So little was left once Kennedy had finished, you could have fitted the powered contents into a matchbox. Strangely enough, sales rose.
Chips are not the only product that offers such airy delights.
Popular breakfast cereals are currently reducing the quantities in each box, and that’s off a low base. Open the towering and impressive cardboard box, and the tide line of cereal has rarely gone much higher than the halfway point.
“Contents,” they explain on the packet, “may settle during transit”.
Yeah, sure. They’d settle even more, if Graham Kennedy style, you approached them with a rubber mallet.
Then there are the chocolate biscuits, each cradled in its own slot in a plastic tray. So, how come there are now only nine biscuits in some varieties, but the packet is the same size?
Ah, they’ve increased the space between the slots. This “selling air” idea is becoming very popular.
Very clever and all that, but for those who don’t notice the subterfuge, this can lead to declining self-esteem. A packet of Tim Tams normally lasts longer, they might think, labelling themselves a sad greedy gut who should know better.
Well arise, fine person, you’ve merely fallen foul of shrinkflation.
Most of the time, though, people do notice. My favourite example is when the brewers of VB thought they’d reduce the alcohol content from 4.8 per cent to 4.6 per cent, having already got away with a shift from 4.9 to 4.8. No one would notice the further change, they reasoned, and the company would again pocket millions in saved government taxes.
This time around everyone noticed and the brewer was eventually forced to backtrack. As the company put it: “The Vic Bitter drinkers have spoken and told us we should not have tinkered with their beer.”
Of course, you do wonder how people noticed. “I’ve had three beers and I still don’t find myself funny. Something must be wrong.”
They’d then check the label and instantly identify the problem.
Weirdest of all, some brands of soap are now offering a scooped-out base “for added grip” – no doubt in response to the thousands of flying soap injuries caused by conventionally shaped bars.
Again the compelling logic for manufacturers: who wants to sell soap, when it’s so much more lucrative to be selling air.
When quantities go down by, say, 20 per cent, it’s equivalent to a price rise of 25 per cent. So, paper towels are narrower; toilet paper has fewer squares, and even baby wipes are shorter. Reach for what you imagine is a pack of a dozen eggs, and occasionally, you’ll find it’s a pack of 10.
To be fair to the manufacturers, it’s all disclosed in the tiny print on the side of the packet: the diminishing weight of the tuna; the nine biscuits to the pack; the redefinition of “dozen” to mean “ten”.
Consumers understand that input costs are rising. We’re across the invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 shutdown in China. We have personal knowledge about the rising price of fuel. We understand that, per kilo, things will cost more.
We just want the manufacturers to know that we’ve noticed their subterfuge. The products might be shrinking, but not, as yet, the brains of their consumers.
Meanwhile, when it comes to the chocolate biscuits, maybe I should accept this kindly assistance with my diet.
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Jacque Hawkins (far left), President-Elect of the Coffee County Master Gardener Association, recently attended the 2022 Alabama Master Gardener Association Annual Conference and Business Meeting held at the Embassy Suites, Montgomery.
One of the workshops given by Master Gardener's Rhona Watson and Jane Mobley was on "How to Air Layer Camellias." Hawkins spoke on the techniques they used for air layering and Ed Speigner (fifth from left), President of CCMGA, assisted members in hands-on of stripping a horizontal branch and then demonstrated how to use root hormone, how to wrap the moss around the stripped limb, and how to wrap the moss to ensure air layering occurs.
Air layering is a method of propagation, which results in the clone of a plant. Plants that are hard to propagate by seed starting or taking cuttings may be successfully propagated by air layering, which gives you a much larger plant.
Shown in photo (from left) are Hawkins; Dawn Stirling-Smith; Vanessa Allen; Janine Coles, Speigner; Wanda Maddox; Jim Coles, Maggie Sickler; Georgia Fleming; and Coffee County Regional Extension Agent Megan Jones. | https://dothaneagle.com/news/local/ccmga-practices-air-layering-technique/article_26eac738-dd23-11ec-94a7-273d7903129b.html | 2022-05-26T20:38:29Z | https://dothaneagle.com/news/local/ccmga-practices-air-layering-technique/article_26eac738-dd23-11ec-94a7-273d7903129b.html | false | 1 |
Nicolas Nkoulou: Ex-Cameroon international released by Watford
Championship side Watford have confirmed the departure of former Cameroon international Nicolas Nkoulou.
The centre defender was asked to leave following the Vicarage Road giants’ demotion to the English second-tier.
In the just-concluded season, the Hornets finished in the 19th position having garnered 23 points from 38 league outings.
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Nkoulou featured in just three league appearances and he is now expected to look elsewhere to continue his professional career alongside Andre Gray, Juraj Kucka, and goalkeeper Ben Foster.
“Following the conclusion of the 2021/22 Premier League season, Watford FC can confirm that five first-team players have left the club,” a statement from the club website read.
“Defender Nicolas Nkoulou – who made three league appearances after signing in October 2021 – and forward Andre Gray – who spent the last campaign on loan at Queens Park Rangers – have also departed upon the expiration of their deals.
“We thank the departing players for their contributions and wish them the best of luck for the next steps in their careers.”
The African defender moved to England to become Claudio Ranieri's first signing after leaving Serie A side Torino.
Prior to his spell in the Italian top-flight, Nkoulou played for AS Monaco, Olympique Marseille and Olympique Lyon.
On the international scene, Nkoulou was part of Cameroon’s squad for the 2008 Olympic Games. There, he helped the squad reach the knockout phase before they were shown the exit door by Brazil.
He made his senior team debut on November 19, 2008, in a 3-2 friendly defeat against South Africa.
Coach Paul Le Guen picked him in his squad for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and then the 2010 Fifa World Cup hosted by South Africa.
Following the suspension of Samuel Eto'o and Eyong Enoh from the Indomitable Lions squad for five and two matches respectively by the Cameroon Football Federation for boycotting a friendly match against Algeria, the defender was appointed as captain of Cameroon on a temporary basis and captained his first national match, in a 1–0 win over Guinea-Bissau.
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Health Care Sector Update for 05/26/2022: APYX,NVCR,MRK,EXAI
Health care stocks were narrowly higher this afternoon, with the NYSE Health Care Index rising 0.2% and the SPDR Health Care Select Sector ETF (XLV) up 0.3%.
The Nasdaq Biotechnology index was climbing 0.7%.
In company news, Apyx Medical (APYX) soared over 43% after Thursday saying it received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Renuvion dermal handpiece to treat moderate to severe wrinkles and rhytides in patients with Fitzpatrick skin types 1, 2, or 3.
NovoCure (NVCR) rose 6.2% after the medical device company Thursday announced plans to collaborate on a clinical trial of a combination of NovoCure's tumor treating fields technology with Merck's Keytruda chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma.
Exscientia (EXAI) climbed 4.8% after the precision medicines company overnight reported a 31.4% increase in its Q1 revenue compared with year-ago levels, rising to $9.2 million during the three months ended March 30.
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UVALDE, Texas — The husband of one of the teachers who died in the elementary school shooting in Texas has also died.
Irma Garcia’s husband Joe died just two days after the tragic shooting.
Their family said Joe suffered a heart attack and “passed away due to grief.”
The couple was married for 24 years and leave behind four children.
The couple’s youngest child was in 7th grade.
According to her teacher profile, this was Irma’s 23rd year of teaching. Her entire career in education was at Robb Elementary.
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New Study from Seraphina Therapeutics Finds that a Good Saturated Fat, C15:0, is Better, Broader and Safer than Omega-3
C15:0, a recently discovered essential fatty acid, demonstrates better and broader clinically-relevant cell-repairing benefits than the leading omega-3.
SAN DIEGO, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly published peer-reviewed study in PLOS ONE demonstrated that a beneficial odd-chain saturated fat, called C15:0, is safer and more effective at repairing our body's cells than the purest and highest performing omega-3 fatty acid, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).
In a head-to-head study, 12 different human cell systems mimicking various disease states were treated with either C15:0 (pentadecanoic acid) or omega-3. These cell systems included 148 biomarkers relevant to whole body health. This study found that C15:0 and omega-3 shared 10 beneficial effects, primarily around lowered inflammation. However, C15:0 had an additional 26 beneficial effects compared to omega-3 that were relevant to immune, gut, heart, joint, skin, red blood cell and lung health. Further, while omega-3 was toxic to four human cell systems at the highest concentration tested, C15:0 was safe to all cell systems at all concentrations.
"Given our growing understanding of C15:0 as an essential fatty acid, which is required by our bodies to maintain good physiologic health, we were not surprised to see that C15:0 and omega-3 had shared benefits," said Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson, the study's lead author. "Interestingly, the many additional beneficial effects that were present with C15:0 but not omega-3, suggests that C15:0 may be the essential, essential fatty acid."
Venn-Watson's team had previously discovered C15:0 as the first essential fatty acid to be found since omega-3, 90 years ago. This discovery was published during May 2020 in Nature's Scientific Reports. Since then, over 30 peer-reviewed studies have been published from prestigious institutions around the world linking higher C15:0 to lower risks of multiple chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart failure, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Two of these studies associated higher circulating C15:0 to longer lifespan, while a second team corroborated odd-chain saturated fatty acids, including C15:0, as essential fatty acids. The current study supports that C15:0 is not just associated with better health, but is indeed the cause.
Despite the growing body of science supporting that there are both healthy and unhealthy saturated fats, dietary guidelines continue to recommend reduced intake of all saturated fats.
"A growing body of evidence supports that odd-chain saturated fats, like C15:0, are beneficial for our health. On the other hand, even-chain saturated fats, like C16:0, continue to be associated with poor health," shared Dr. Venn-Watson. "Now we are learning that C15:0 may have a leg up on omega-3s, from skin health to heart health, as well as safety."
The mystery behind these differences is likely solved by a well known Achilles heel of omega-3s. Specifically, omega-3s have multiple double bonds in their chemical structure, which make them particularly susceptible to oxidation. This helps explain why as many as 1 in 2 bottles of omega-3 fish oil supplements may be rancid, as well as why higher levels of omega-3 were toxic to human cells in the current study. In contrast, C15:0 has no double bonds and is not susceptible to oxidation - which gives C15:0 a particular advantage of stability.
Venn-Watson et al. points out that while C15:0 and omega-3 target similar receptors and pathways relevant to supporting immune, metabolic and heart health, previous literature has shown one key difference. Specifically, C15:0 appears to inhibit a key pathway that uses oxidative stress to induce inflammation. In contrast, polyunsaturated fatty acids, including omega-3s, activate this pathway. This may be why, in the current study, C15:0 was better and broader at reducing inflammation compared to omega-3.
"Better, broader and safer cell-repairing properties of C15:0 compared to omega-3s may be due to C15:0's natural resistance to oxidation, especially as we age," said Venn-Watson. "In addition to our ongoing studies, we are excited to see the greater scientific community turn its attention to C15:0. Through this global effort, we are learning more about this good fat and its role in supporting our long-term health and wellness."
Seraphina Therapeutics continues to lead a science-driven movement to increase awareness of C15:0 as a healthy, odd-chain saturated fat and the urgent need to revisit global dietary guidelines around saturated fats. This movement was recently featured as a TEDx San Diego talk. "The current hypothesis is that population-wide decreased intake of all saturated fats has led to nutritional C15:0 deficiencies, which may be driving the global rise in multiple chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and liver disease," said Venn-Watson. "Our goal is to help get C15:0 back into people's lives and global health back on track."
About Seraphina Therapeutics. Inc.
Seraphina Therapeutics, Inc. is a health and wellness company dedicated to advancing global health through the discovery of essential fatty acids and micronutrient therapeutics. Through rigorous breakthrough science, the company develops fatty acid supplements, food fortifiers, and nutritional interventions to strengthen cells, keep mitochondria working and advance cellular homeostasis to counter age-related breakdown. With its team of industry-leading scientists, Seraphina Therapeutics challenges long-held approaches to nutrition, enabling the creation of novel health products designed to support quality of life. For more information, please visit seraphinatherapeutics.com and fatty15.com.
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The Circle is an addictive Netflix reality show set inside a social media network, and the casting directors have a way of finding people audiences will fall in love with. In Season 4, now streaming in full, one of those people is Yu Ling Wu, a 26-year-old from San Francisco with a bubbly and engaging personality, highlighter-orange hair, and makeup looks so good they would intimidate the cast of Euphoria.
Wu calls herself a “first-and-a-half-gen Chinese American,” since she was born in China but “raised by the Bay.” She started doing makeup later than you might expect, considering her massive talent. “I didn’t actually get into beauty or makeup until my first year of college,” Wu tells BAZAAR.com. “I have an older sister—she’s nine years older than me—she was always wearing makeup, and I just swore to myself, like, ‘I’m never gonna put on makeup.’”
But that all changed after she bought her first foundation. And her relationship to beauty has been evolving ever since. “Once I bought my first Urban Decay palette, I was like, ‘It’s game over.’”
Game over, indeed. Today, Wu’s Instagram and TikTok feeds show a range of skills that would be impressive for a makeup artists of any background—let alone someone self-taught. From detailed peacock feathers to Yayoi Kusama–inspired graphic dots to the swirly eye she often wears on The Circle, Wu can do it all.
In this (spoiler-free) Circle Chat, Wu talks about her deep connection to beauty, how much product she really brought with her on the show, and a few of the staples she can’t live without.
How did you develop your relationship with style and beauty?
I grew up first gen, so I had a lot of hand-me-downs. It was hard to wear what I wanted to wear—within the limitations, I had to get really creative. So my personal style started to develop first. And also, as a tiny person, I felt like I needed to overcompensate for being small, so I wanted my fashion to be super loud. It ended up being a mix-matched, sort of eclectic style, because I was working with knockoff hand-me-downs from the ’90s. And then, [I had] this rebellion, like, “I don’t want to wear what my mom puts on me, and I want to be loud and proud, and not conform to a stereotype.”
I didn’t want to get into makeup, but one day in college, I just woke up and I was like, “You know what would be so fun? If I just put on foundation. Like, I just want to give it a go.” I walked to my nearest Walgreens or Duane Reade—I was in New York at the time. I picked the wrong shade of foundation, this Maybelline foundation. I walked to class and somebody said, “Wow, you look different today. You look good.”
Since then, I obviously started collecting makeup, I got really into beauty, but my relationship to it sort of shifted. Instead of feeling like something I had to do, I felt like it gave me this power, sort of being able to reclaim—I know this sounds dramatic—but my body, my image. I didn’t have to have one style; I could transform whenever I wanted.
How did you learn to do such incredible, intricate looks?
Oh, thank you! I am self-taught. I was huge into YouTube and YouTubers, so, like, NikkieTutorials, Desi Perkins, KathleenLights, Michelle Phan—they were all the people that raised me on the Internet. No matter what, I had a tutorial playing in the background. And at some point, when Instagram started to really develop as a makeup community, I think I moved into a more avant-garde kind of style, mixed with sort of an everyday-glam kind of style. Seeing inspiration online and meeting new friends just inspired me to make something every day. It felt like a vehicle for self-expression, where every day I had this meditative practice.
How much makeup did you bring with you to film The Circle?
You know those bigger suitcases, not like the carry-on sizes, but one you actually have to check in? One solid one was probably just makeup. Because I didn’t know what kind of looks I wanted to create. I had rhinestones, I had colorful palettes, pastel palettes, tons of neutral palettes, a bunch of shimmers, all of my liners. It was actually a little bit ridiculous. I had four suitcases in total, and one of them was just makeup.
Do you normally wear makeup like this when you’re not on the show, or did it just help pass the time?
I would say it’s kind of a mix of both. Obviously, I love doing my makeup. If you were going to give me four hours to just do whatever, I would probably do my makeup while watching Grey’s Anatomy in the background, because it feels so meditative. I can spend probably half an hour blending out a single shadow. But at the same time, for TV, I had to make sure I wasn’t sleeping on any of these looks I had in mind. You can’t catch me slacking!
Even during the pandemic, I was putting on a full face every single day. It gave me a sense of normalcy; it gave me routine. I have a background in theater. I couldn’t meet with people. So makeup became my one vehicle of creative expression. When I didn’t have a physical community, I had a digital community.
It’s really just for the other girlies. It’s not like, “Oh, I need to look presentable, otherwise people are going to think I’m ugly.” This is a practice that brings me so much joy, and I know that there are other people out there who are going to put on a full face even if no one sees it, even if no one takes a picture of it, it just feels good.
I feel like your vibe is very ’90s, Y2K. Was it crazy to actually do The Circle with the Spice Girls?
I kind of forget that that even happened, because it feels like such a fever dream. When I say out loud that I was talking to the Spice Girls…imagine saying that to your friends. It was ridiculous. It was 100 percent the top highlight of being on The Circle. I mean, aside from the fact that the whole experience was so fun.
I grew up with a sister who was nine years older than me. I wasn't fully conscious of the reign of the Spice Girls, but I grew up watching The Nanny and listening to whatever music my sister had on her CDs or her Walkman, and the Spice Girls just mean the world to me. I actually listen to the Spice Girls every single day.
What are the products you can’t live without?
My Milk Hydro Grip Primer, my Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation—that gives me flawless skin, always and forever. Any Pat McGrath palette. If I don’t have that, don’t even bother waking me up. And then, in terms of beauty tools, I have to have a Beautyblender.
What makeup remover or face wash do you use?
I always have to a double cleanse, because anybody who does a full face knows that double cleansing is the way to go. I usually use the Farmacy Green Clean. I love the fact that it’s a balm. It melts everything off and you don’t have to use a cotton pad—you don’t have to be wasteful. I always follow up with my Youth to the People [Superfood] Cleanser. It leaves my skin so hydrated. And then I go in with my skincare.
How did you keep your hair bright while filming?
I was touching up my own hair within The Circle. So if you’re like, “Wait, why does her hair look more vibrant than it did the other day?” I was fully re-dyeing it. I was using Good Dye Young by Hayley Williams of the iconic Paramore. It was their bright orange color. That’s what I used in tandem with a blue shampoo by Fanola, because that’s what my stylist recommended. So that’s how I kept the icy, sort of silvery gray color along with the orange.
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“Siesta Key” will air the 24th episode of season 4 on Thursday, May 26 at 9 p.m. Previous seasons of the series can be found on Philo, if you need to quickly catch up.
“Siesta Key” stars Kelsey Owens, Madisson Hausburg, Juliette Porter, Garrett Miller, Alex Kompothecras, Brandon Gomes, and Chloe Trautman.
Here’s the information you’ll need to watch a free live stream of “Siesta Key” online without cable.
Where to watch ‘Siesta Key’ without cable
If you’re a cord-cutter or don’t have cable, you can live stream “Siesta Key” on DIRECTV Stream (free trial), Fubo TV (free trial), or Philo (free trial). Each service will allow subscribers to watch the series, and other MTV programming, live as it airs.
When is ‘Siesta Key’ on?
“Siesta Key” will continue with the 24th episode of its 4th season on Thursday, May 26 at 9 p.m. on MTV. The series will follow after a new episode of “Ex on the Beach” at 8 p.m., and will precede a rerun of “Teen Mom 2.”
What channel is MTV?
You can use the channel finder on your provider’s website to locate it: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV, Dish.
How to watch ‘Siesta Key’ online on-demand
If you missed an episode of “Siesta Key” or want to binge watch previous seasons online as they become available, check out DIRECTV Stream (free trial), Fubo TV (free trial), or Philo (free trial).
Philo features all 3 previous seasons of “Siesta Key” online on-demand, available to binge-watch at your leisure. Fubo offers the first season and the third, but is missing the second.
What is ‘Siesta Key’ about?
According to the official MTV website of the 4th season: This season is about growing up, finding yourself and deciding who you want to hold close... and who you’ve outgrown. With so much change in their lives, will these friends sink or swim?
Here’s a look at “Siesta Key,” courtesy of MTV Reality’s official YouTube channel:
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Phore (PHR) traded 5.8% lower against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 15:00 PM E.T. on May 26th. One Phore coin can currently be purchased for $0.0082 or 0.00000028 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Phore has a total market cap of $221,832.42 and $8.00 worth of Phore was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, Phore has traded down 11.6% against the dollar.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- WINk (WIN) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0013 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- CoinField Coin (CFC) traded down 3.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.39 or 0.00001313 BTC.
- holoride (RIDE) traded down 13.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.39 or 0.00001338 BTC.
- Volt Inu V2 (VOLT) traded down 7.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Kleros (PNK) traded down 6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0379 or 0.00000129 BTC.
- Global Coin Research (GCR) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $2.22 or 0.00007442 BTC.
- Validity (VAL) traded 4.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.72 or 0.00005837 BTC.
- Particl (PART) traded 0.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.57 or 0.00001919 BTC.
- Wagerr (WGR) traded 4.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0145 or 0.00000049 BTC.
- Ratio Finance (RATIO) traded 1.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.83 or 0.00002820 BTC.
Phore Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Phreak is a PoS cryptocurrency themed after Phone Phreaking, a term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. The coin wallet features direct YouTube video, audio and video codec with settings and more. “
Buying and Selling Phore
It is usually not presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Phore directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Phore should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Gemini, Coinbase or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Phore using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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OXFORD, Mich. — Hundreds of students at Oxford High School, the Michigan school where four were killed in November, walked out Thursday and formed a 'U' on the football field to show support for students and families in Uvalde, Texas.
"We went through the same thing. I lost a lot of friends. I thought it would be respectful to help other people through it," sophomore Andrew Sholtz told The Detroit News.
A gunman killed 19 children and two teachers this week at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
Oxford school officials knew a walkout was planned and worked to ensure students would be safe, spokeswoman Danielle Stublensky said.
She said it was part of a national effort by Students Demand Action, a group calling for changes in gun laws.
"As a community, our hearts are with Uvalde and we understand why some of our students chose to participate in the national walkout," Stublensky said.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the Oxford school shooting. His parents have been charged with involuntary manslaughter under a theory that they made a gun accessible to Ethan Crumbley and failed to respond to signs of mental distress.
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LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A mother was charged after she went missing with her three children early Wednesday morning in Laurens County.
According to the Lauren County Sheriff’s Office, Leslie Heather Burns, 4-year-old William, 2-year-old Justin, and 5-month-old Lily were last seen at their home around 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. on Fairview Road near the Hickory Tavern community.
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Burns and her three children were found safe shortly before 7:00 p.m. Wednesday evening, according to the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office.
Burns was arrested and charged with three counts of unlawfully placing a child at risk.
She is currently being held in the Laurens County Detention Center. | https://www.fox46.com/news/u-s/south-carolina/mom-charged-after-going-missing-with-her-3-children-in-south-carolina/ | 2022-05-26T20:53:50Z | https://www.fox46.com/news/u-s/south-carolina/mom-charged-after-going-missing-with-her-3-children-in-south-carolina/ | false | null |
Top Gun: Maverick's Lewis Pullman, Monica Barbaro, And Jay Ellis Have A Need For Speed [Interview]
"Top Gun: Maverick" is hitting theaters later this month, and I got a chance to chat with the cast and crew in San Diego, California. I sat down with Lewis Pullman, who plays Lieutenant Bob Floyd (call sign "Bob"), Monica Barbaro, who plays Lieutenant Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, and Jay Ellis, who plays Lieutenant Reuben "Payback" Fitch.
In the film, these three are among the top pilots in the country, and after graduating from the Top Gun school –something Tom Cruise's Maverick did decades before — they're called back into action for a special mission. This group has the same camaraderie, the same bravado (with the skills to back it up, the same friendly rivalries, and even the same ways of relaxing at a bar over pool and piano singing that the original cast had.
In a separate interview, actor Greg Tarzan Davis, who plays Coyote, mentioned to me that Lewis Pullman almost killed him during training, but Pullman humorously explained it didn't quite go down that way. Check out what they had to say about the "incident," the insane training they had to do, what it means to Barbaro to play a female fighter pilot when women couldn't fly in combat when the first film came out, and what they learned from Tom Cruise while making this anticipated sequel.
Ellis told me that not only were they up in the planes shooting their own footage, but they were creating a bond with the pilots flying them, getting used to different maneuvers, and capturing the right moments. "Being in the jet was pretty wild," he said. It certainly sounds that way.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
Underwater head-kicking
I'd love to hear about the training because I hear, Lewis, that you might have almost killed someone.
[group laughter]
Barbaro: Who said that?
Might have been Greg.
Pullman: I know exactly what he is referring to. He's referring to the "swim fizz" moment where we were put in a dunker, and you're all in line and you're blindfolded and you get dunked underwater, and you flip upside down — you have to train for this, in case you have to do a crash landing or eject over seas. And Tarzan was right next to me. So, my role was, blindfolded, I'm upside down, I have to knock out this window, and then swim out.
You hear the buzzer go off. Immediately upon the buzzer going off, Tarzan swims to the side, I'm about to go knock the window open, he kicks me in the face.
Ellis: Oh, he kicked me, too!
Pullman: Yeah! Yeah, right in the jaw.
Ellis: He kicked me in the head — like in the back of the head!
Pullman: He claims that I was taking too long, but he kicked me almost a split second after the buzzer went off. So, I'd just like to clear the air ... Yeah, no ...
Barbaro: He almost killed you. [laughs]
Pullman: He almost actually killed me, yeah. [laughs]
Ellis: He's a real kicker! [laughs]
The flight training looks terrifying, and you guys are also shooting your own footage up there. What was that like?
Ellis: It was amazing. I mean, I think parts of it were a bit intimidating at first, but then you realize you have Claudio [Miranda], who's like one of the most amazing DPs walking the Earth. You have Tom, who's obviously walking us through the performance stuff. And then Joe [Kosinski] is walking us through performance stuff, as well as making sure we get certain moments.
There's so many hands and so many people around you to make you great. So by the time you get into the jet and you flip the camera for the first time ... the first flight, everybody's like, "Wait. Am I doing this right? Okay. Clap. Roll. Okay." Everybody's nervous on the first one, but after your first flight and you kind of get the mechanics of it, after that, you kind of cruise a little bit. Because like, certain things just become second nature because we've rehearsed it so much, or the training was so specific that we were so well prepared for it.
Barbaro: It's funny, because this film was so intense on the ground. It's a follow-up to an incredible film that people love and cherish and feel a lot of ownership over, both in the world and the aviation community, especially. So there's so much pressure on this going well on the ground. And then all of that, just triples in size, or quadruples, in the plane. It was wildly intense, but we kind of just had to take it one step at a time.
Pullman: Just one flight at a time. That's all you could do.
Barbaro: One note at a time, one line at a time.
Women in the air
Speaking of the original film, it made me want to be a fighter pilot, but women couldn't do that back then. [Note: Women were first allowed to fly combat missions beginning in 1993, years after the first film.] How does it feel to kind of rep little girls?
Barbaro: It's really exciting. I mean, it was a huge honor. I met incredible aviators who actually flew me in the movie and [Lewis] as well. And they're so cool. We know every woman is a completely different entity, so it was hard to figure out with this one character all of their qualities that we knew and loved and wanted to include in this one person. But, I think everyone who made this movie, it was very important to them to have her be strong and capable and smart and talented, and I think they achieved that. And that's a great feeling as an actor, to know that everyone is rooting for your character in that way.
What did you learn from Tom?
Pullman: Lean into fear. That's where the gold lies: Just beyond the horizon of fear. I think he really, really — he kind of sniffs out fear and whatever may seem terrifying or impossible, and then he goes, "Okay, now this is where I start to get to work, because I'm going to make the unexpected happen." He saw that all in us. And I think he saw something that even I didn't see in myself. He was like, "You can do this, and you're capable of this." And when you have Tom Cruise looking you in the eyes and telling you that, you're like, "Okay. Yeah. I f****** can!" [laughs]
Barbaro: Yeah, if you make a lot of — I mean, I make a lot of self-effacing jokes, and he catches that right away and he's like –
Pullman: "No."
Ellis: Yeah.
Barbaro: And you're like, "Honestly, you're right."
Pullman: It's cool. It's cool.
Ellis: For me, it was the thing of just, never stop learning, and never stop — Monica talks about this all the time — but he was still watching a film every single night as we were filming. So he's still studying film while making a film at the exact same time. If someone like Tom Cruise, at this stage in his career, is still doing that, then we should still be doing that as well. I think we all took that away as like, "Oh, this is like super inspirational." You can continue to grow and learn and become better as an actor and a filmmaker and a co-star in so many ways.
See it on the biggest screen you can
I have to say, this sequel hit all the right notes for me, where it could have gone so wrong. See it on the biggest screen you can (if it's safe for you to do so). Here is the film's official synopsis:
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: "Rooster," the son of Maverick's late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka "Goose."
Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
"Top Gun: Maverick" will hit theaters on May 27, 2022. | https://www.slashfilm.com/862355/top-gun-mavericks-lewis-pullman-monica-barbaro-and-jay-ellis-have-a-need-for-speed-interview/ | 2022-05-26T20:54:12Z | https://www.slashfilm.com/862355/top-gun-mavericks-lewis-pullman-monica-barbaro-and-jay-ellis-have-a-need-for-speed-interview/ | true | 1 |
Willow Series Takes Place 20 Years After The Movie, Will Feature The Return Of Sorsha
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In 1988, five years after the conclusion of the "Star Wars" original trilogy, George Lucas tried his hand at another original fantasy saga. Despite months of hype that began with a tantalizingly opaque teaser, "Willow" fell far short of Lucas's box office expectations (according to John Baxter's "Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas," the producer had hoped it would do business on par with "E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial"). But over the years, the Ron Howard-directed film gradually found a fervent following. People fell in love with Warwick Davis' plucky, would-be wizard Willow Ufgood, and his quest to safely deliver infant Elora Danan, the future Princess of Tir Asleen, to sorceress Fin Raziel, who must defeat the evil Queen Bavmorda of Nockmaar.
While the plot was tied up pretty neatly at the end of the movie, fans have long clamored for a sequel. Their prayers were answered when Lucasfilm announced plans for a "Willow" series to be aired on Disney+. Today, at the 2022 Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, the Ufgood faithful got their first look at the teaser, and also heard from series executive producers Howard and Jonathan Kasdan (who co-developed the series with Wendy Mericle).
The return of the sorceror
Kasdan told the Celebration crowd that he was a mere seven years old when he saw the teaser for "Willow." At the time, he was convinced it would be "bigger than 'Star Wars'." "It wasn't," said Howard. Nevertheless, when Kasdan and his legendary screenwriter father Lawrence Kasdan co-wrote "Solo: A Star Wars" for Howard, he approached the director about making a "Willow" sequel series for Disney+.
"Jon and I would talk about 'Willow' all the time between setups on 'Solo,'" said Howard. "I always thought we could do 'Willow' as a series, because George believed in that format." Kasdan concurred, but maintained that his involvement was contingent on the return of Davis as Willow. Per Kasdan, "You don't have 'Willow' without Warwick Davis."
Davis was then brought out on stage to raucous applause. He confessed to feeling a bit "old" in reviving one of his best-known roles, but averred that a "Willow" series "is something I've always wanted to do." Davis was joined onstage by Joanne Whalley, who's also back as the fierce warrior Sorsha. "It's incredible to be here," she said. "And I still can't quite — I'm back with the sword. I've got Sorsha's sword in my hand."
A new generation of warriors
The new series takes place 20 years after the movie, or about 250 moons in Willow speak. Ruby Cruz joins the saga as Kit, the (what else?) warrior daughter of Sorsha and Madmartigan (Val Kilmer) who sets out to rescue her twin brother. Ellie Bramber plays Dove, a maid who falls for Kit's brother, while Erin Kellyman co-stars as Jade, a servant who dreams of becoming a warrior like Kit. Their quest leads them to seek the aid of Willow, who is now a powerful sorcerer.
"Willow" hits Disney+ on November 30, 2022.
An epic period fantasy series with a modern sensibility set in an enchanted land of breathtaking beauty, "Willow" features a diverse international cast with Jonathan Kasdan, Ron Howard, Wendy Mericle, Kathleen Kennedy, and Michelle Rejwan serving as executive producers. The story began with an aspiring magician from a Nelwyn village and an infant girl destined to unite the realms, who together helped destroy an evil queen and banish the forces of darkness. Now, in a magical world where brownies, sorcerers, trolls, and other mystical creatures flourish, the adventure continues, as an unlikely group of heroes set off on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world. | https://www.slashfilm.com/876387/willow-series-takes-place-20-years-after-the-movie-will-feature-the-return-of-sorsha/ | 2022-05-26T20:54:42Z | https://www.slashfilm.com/876387/willow-series-takes-place-20-years-after-the-movie-will-feature-the-return-of-sorsha/ | true | 1 |
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He was in the Sunshine state as part of his engagement with delegates ahead of the party presidential primary election of our party.
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VILLA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United States in a boat but ended up in Cuba said Thursday that they fled violence in their country and were charged thousands of dollars by smugglers who ushered them onto a dilapidated boat and later abandoned them at sea.
It is the largest single arrival of people from Haiti on the Cuban coast amid an increasing exodus caused by gang violence and other problems there.
“They deceived us. In my case (a trafficker) told me that the boat was going to have 200 or 300 people, and on a big boat it is normal. But when you’re on board, you don’t know how many people are going to appear,” said Maximaud Cherizard, a 34-year-old engineer who traveled with a 7-year-old son, his wife and his sister.
“We were ashamed when we arrived″ in Cuba, Cherizard said. The boat was so packed that some people were on the vessel's roof, he said.
The 842 people were rescued Tuesday by the Cuban coast guard and other government services in the vicinity of Caibarien in Villa Clara province, about 300 kilometers (185 miles) east of the capital, Havana. They were taken to a temporary center in a former summer camp and were in isolation as a health precaution.
According to the account of at least three migrants with whom the AP spoke, the group left Tortuga Island in northern Haiti after waiting there for almost two months for the trip. News of the supposed opportunity to go to Florida had spread spread by word of mouth and some people said they paid $4,000 each for a spot on the boat.
They were taken in a small boat to the larger one early Saturday morning and their phones were taken away by smugglers, who alleged the signal would make them detectable by the U.S. Coast Guard, according to the migrants.
Cherizard said he had been shown a picture of a cruise liner that was going to take the migrants, a promise that he realized was false when he saw the dilapidated boat. He and other migrants said they did not see a name on the vessel.
Cherizard said he and his family were placed in a cabin with others with little access to the rest of the vessel. When the captain abandoned ship at sea early Tuesday morning, they learned that some migrants had tried to take control of the boat in an attempt to reach their destination.
Another migrant, 19-year-old Joyce Paul, said the captain had left in a smaller vessel and the one the migrants were on began to lean. The Haitians signaled with flashlights towards the Cuban coast to be rescued.
In the days at sea, 15 people threw themselves into the water as conditions grew more desperate, according to Paul.
There were 70 children, including infants, among the migrants, Cuban authorities reported.
“In Haiti, there is no future for babies,” said Loverie Horat, the 30-year-old mother of a 24-day-old infant. She told The Associated Press that she and her husband boarded the boat after leaving Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. Her comments in Creole were translated into Spanish by Cherizard.
Migrants said that insecurity and poverty in Haiti forced them to flee. Paul, the 19-year-old, said that gang members had killed his two sisters.
“You can’t go out on the street″ because of the violence, Cherizard said.
Due to sea currents and winds, some smugglers’ vessels aiming to reach the United States end up on Cuban coasts. Not all arrivals are officially reported, although in recent months authorities in Havana have acknowledged an increase in arrivals. Migrants are usually returned to their home countries in accordance with binational agreements.
The Haitians arrived in Cuba at a time when the island itself is suffering from a severe economic crisis with food, medicine and fuel shortages and high emigration to the United States.
“Humanitarian aid has been a real challenge,” said Andy Borges, a member of the Civil Protection office of the municipality of Corralillo, where the Haitian camp is based.
U.S. Coast Guard crews have intercepted some 4,500 Haitian migrants since October last year. Many tried to land on the Florida coast in overloaded boats. More than 3,000 of those migrants have been intercepted since mid-March, indicating the pace has quickened this spring.
‘’We don’t want to go back to Haiti,” said 30-year-old Leverie Horat one of the Haitian migrants who hoped to reach the United States but ended up in Cuba.
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Rodríguez reported from Havana. | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/No-future-for-babies-842-US-bound-Haitians-end-17201432.php | 2022-05-26T21:00:54Z | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/No-future-for-babies-842-US-bound-Haitians-end-17201432.php | true | 31 |
Twitter investors sue Elon Musk over acquisition shenanigans
The world's richest man isn't above trying to get a discount, apparently.
In a new lawsuit, Twitter shareholders are suing Elon Musk, alleging that he manipulated the price of the company's stock for his own benefit in the course of agreeing to buy the company. The lawsuit represents a group of Twitter investors but would allow any shareholders to receive financial compensation.
The suit was filed Wednesday in federal district court for Northern California and argues that Musk intentionally drove down the company's stock to secure a better deal. "The fair market value of Twitter securities has been adversely affected by Musk’s false statements and wrongful conduct," the complaint states.
The lawsuit cites Musk's decision to waive due diligence as a condition of the acquisition and his subsequent suspiciously timed claim that Twitter had misrepresented the number of bots on its platform.
"At the time, Musk was well aware that Twitter had a certain amount of 'fake accounts' and accounts controlled by 'bots' and had in fact settled a lawsuit based on the fake accounts for millions of dollars," the complaint states. "Musk had tweeted about that issue at Twitter several times in the past, prior to making his offer to acquire Twitter with full knowledge of the bots."
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
The suit alleges, as many people observed at the time, that Musk was likely trying to secure a discount by casting doubt on his commitment and disparaging the company. Since Musk's initial commitment to purchase the company was announced, tech stocks — including Tesla, which accounts for the vast majority of Musk's wealth — took a dive.
Following Musk's comments, Twitter shares also dipped significantly, a phenomenon that the suit alleges is "highly unusual" given the company's agreed-upon buyout price.
While Musk claimed the deal was on hold, there was no formal mechanism in place that would back up that claim. Even within Twitter, company leaders encouraged employees to proceed as though nothing had changed, noting that there was "no such thing" as casually pausing a binding agreement to buy the company.
The suit also alleges that Musk deliberately delayed filing a disclosure form when his stake in the company exceeded 5%, allowing him to continue to buy shares at a discount. After the form was filed and Musk's purchases became public knowledge, Twitter stock soared by nearly a third.
"Musk’s disregard for securities laws demonstrates how one can flaunt the law and the tax code to build their wealth at the expense of the other Americans," the complaint states. | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-investors-sue-elon-musk-191238603.html | 2022-05-26T21:01:06Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-investors-sue-elon-musk-191238603.html | true | 2 |
Alan White, longtime drummer for Yes, dead at 72
SEATTLE (AP) — Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects with John Lennon and George Harrison, has died. He was 72.
White’s death was announced on his Facebook page by his family. The post said he died at his Seattle-area home Thursday after a brief illness. Just days earlier Yes had announced that due to health issues White would not take part in the band’s upcoming tour of the United Kingdom to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic album “Close to the Edge.”
White joined Yes in 1972, replacing original drummer Bill Bruford. In a band noted for frequent lineup changes, White was a constant and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017.
Though he didn’t play on “Close to the Edge,” he performed on every subsequent Yes studio album over nearly five decades, including the band’s latest release, “The Quest,” which came out last year.
White stayed with the band through its many iterations. A trailblazing act in the progressive rock scene in England that grew in popularly in the early 1970s alongside bands like Genesis, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull, Yes was especially know for its intricate arrangements and the musical skill of its individual members.
When progressive rock fell out of fashion in the late 1970s many of the bands associated with the genre struggled.
Following another lineup change, Yes, with White still behind the drum kit, reinvented itself in the 1980s as a harder edged band that appealed to younger listeners more attuned to heavy metal and the visual cues of music videos. In 1983 Yes released the smash hit album “90125.”
A longtime Seattle-area resident, White was born in Pelton, County Durham, England, in 1949. His family said he began piano lessons at age 6 and playing the drums when he was 12.
White played with bands in England throughout the 1960s. In 1969, he was asked by John Lennon to join his Plastic Ono Band. In an interview with The Seattle Times in 2021, White said he thought the call from the famous Beatle was a prank.
“A voice announced, ‘Hello, this is John Lennon,’” White said. “I thought it was a mate pulling my leg, put the receiver down, and went back to the kitchen.”
White played a 1969 concert in Toronto with Lennon’s band, which also included guitarist Eric Clapton. White also played with another Beatle, contributing drums to George Harrison’s 1970 solo album “All Things Must Pass.”
In the statement announcing his death, his family wrote: “Alan was many things to many people: a certified rock star to fans around the world; band mate to a select few, and gentleman and friend to all who met him.”
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‘Like them, we’re fragile’: how Randall Poster assembled his star-packed birdsong project
In the early days of Covid, when lockdowns held tight, even the loudest cities fell into silence. With all that clamor cleared away, other sounds filled the air. For New York City native Randall Poster, the most enchanting of them came from the hawks, cuckoos and warblers that could finally be heard above the din. “Amid the quiet, I became more aware of all the birdsong around us,” Poster told the Guardian. “Also, during a time when so much was unknown and dark, looking out the window and watching nature’s creatures continuing to thrive was comforting.”
It was also inspiring. For Poster, one of the film world’s most prominent music supervisors who has worked with directors like Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes, the hoots and caws of birds inspired him, and the project’s executive producer Rebecca Reagan, to ask their wide range of musical contacts if they’d be interested in creating their own odes to aviary life.
The question struck a deep and immediate chord. More than 200 artists enthusiastically agreed to create new pieces to salute birdsong. They ranged from Elvis Costello and Beck and Jarvis Cocker to Nick Cave, the Flaming Lips, and Kamasi Washington. The result is a 242-track behemoth titled For the Birds, that, starting today, will arrive in five installments released over as many months. All proceeds will go to the Audubon Society.
For Poster, the project has as much to do with the activist movement to protect birds as it does with an appreciation for the sounds they make. “I see this project as a great way to draw attention to the crisis around bird life,” he said from his office overlooking New York’s Gramercy Park. “Birds are under tremendous threat from the overdevelopment of the planet. It’s destroying their habitats and disrupting their migratory patterns. There’s also a problem with all the glass buildings that keep their lights on at night. Millions of birds get killed smashing into them.”
Urgent as those issues may be, much of the music for the project luxuriates in calm. Many tracks strike a meditative tone and their arrangements tend toward the spare, the better to leave room for the birdsong to alight on the music. Some of the aviary contributions come from samples, others from field recordings the players made to capture the gulls, wrens and cockatoos around them. Interestingly, few of the mixes of human sounds and birdsong feel imposed or ornamental, despite the fact that the birds had no say in the matter. To musical contributor Jonathan Meiburg, whose group Shearwater took its name from a long-winged sea bird, the connection between the species couldn’t be clearer. “Birds make music for the same reasons we do,” he said. “They do it to communicate. Sometimes they do it just for the joy of it. Other times for the sensation of it. The more attuned you become to the natural world, the more you understand that it’s not alien to your own experience.”
Poster goes further, declaring that “we are birds. Like them, we’re fragile and we’re threatened,” he said. “We’re beautiful and we don’t want to be alone. We go from place to place and we want to take care of our children. The connections are profound.”
The For the Birds project is far from the first musical venture to employ birdsong. According to composer Nico Muhly, who contributed a track to the project, “you can hear it as far back as pre-baroque music, where stringed instruments were used to imitate natural sounds”.
In a more literal way, the 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen incorporated the sound of winged creatures into many pieces he wrote. Likewise, the contemporary musician Paul Winter has used nature sounds in his music for decades. In a new song by Shearwater, Meiberg let a toucan take a solo. For Poster, role models for the project were the tweets and coos in classic rock songs like Layla, by Derek and the Dominoes and Blackbird, by the Beatles. He began reaching out to musicians for their contributions in the fall of 2020, knowing he had to act fast, before Covid restrictions loosened and the stars were able to get back on the road. The first artist he contacted was Nick Cave who, along with Warren Ellis, created a piece featuring the sounds of mourning doves. From there, artists spread the word, paving the way for a wide wake of contributors. On some tracks, artists collaborated with each other remotely. For one piece, Mark Ronson kicked things off by creating a beat. Then he invited Damon Albarn to add a chorus before bringing in Wale to layer on a rap. Some pieces have firm structures; others go for an ambient feel, such as Muhly’s track May Birds. “There’s no clear beginning, middle or end to it,” he said. “It’s like a garden of sound you sit with.”
The artists on the project cover a broad landscape of genres, from modern alternative stars like Devandra Banhart, to vintage folkies like Loudon Wainwright, to avant-gardists like Terry Riley to jazz artists like Rudresh Mahanthapp. While many of the pieces maintain a quiet and enraptured mood, those by Riley and Mahanthappa capture nature’s racket. “Birds don’t just sing,” Meiburg said. “They screech and scream, and some make sounds so deep, they’ll rattle your breast bone if you stand right next to them. The sheer variety of sounds birds can make is staggering. Some can even make multiple sounds at once. Compared to them, human music is pretty primitive.”
Meiburg’s track on the set, Kwitaro Backbone, includes birds from a field recording he made some time ago while standing on a sandbank overlooking a river in Guyana. “To hear bird voices – all of them present and equally loud – is a beautifully democratic experience,” he said. “It can become a spiritual experience when you marinate in it.”
All of the set’s tracks were newly recorded, though a few pre-existing pieces were remixed to feature birdsong, including those by Yoko Ono, Philip Glass and Alice Coltrane. Similarly, Elvis Costello created a fresh medley out of vintage songs, linking his rapturous 1993 piece The Birds Will Still Be Singing to the Beatles’ This Bird Has Flown.
The contributors don’t all come from the world of music. There’s also a visual component to the package, with architects like Nina Cooke John and artists like Andy Holden offering their innovative renderings of bird houses. Actors took part, too, by reading related poems. Sean Penn voiced Jim Harrison’s Counting Birds, while Tilda Swinton delivered a wry ode titled Sparrow, written in 1968 by Norman MacCaig. In biting verse, the poem describes this dark creature as a “proletarian bird” with taste “in clothes more dowdy than gaudy”.
Another witty piece came from Jarvis Cocker, whose Cuckoo Song includes the lines: “I try to love you/but I guess I’m out of practice/and practicing is strictly for the birds.”
One of the sparest tracks came from the Native American artist Ray Young Bear whose piece consists entirely of Indigenous chants and a stark drum to create a fleet, sonic pas de deux. Another piece translates the movement of birds into sound: the harmonies of the Haden Triplets swoop and sail, as if wafting through air. In Karen O’s piece, Hum Hum Hum, she connects onomatopoetic human language to the hypnotic thrum of birds.
Poster plans to use the project to connect, and amplify, the educational efforts of various ornithological groups, including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the American Bird Conservancy. To help with that, the eyeglass company Warby Parker will manufacture 20,000 binoculars (or, what they call, “bird-noculars”), to encourage kids to get into spotting, and appreciating, these creatures. The goal is to achieve a community of concern for birds that Poster likens to a Buddhist sangha. Beyond that, Poster hopes the project will encourage everyday people to become more aware of all the flying life around us. “Put a bird feeder outside your window,” he said. “You’ll be amazed by what comes your way.” | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2612154171664/like-them-we-re-fragile-how-randall-poster-assembled-his-star-packed-birdsong-project | 2022-05-26T21:09:13Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2612154171664/like-them-we-re-fragile-how-randall-poster-assembled-his-star-packed-birdsong-project | true | 2 |
West mulls having Russian oligarchs buy way out of sanctions
By ROB GILLIES and FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — Government officials say Western allies are considering whether to allow Russian oligarchs buy their way out of Western sanctions and use the money to rebuild Ukraine. Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland proposed the idea at a G-7 finance ministers’ meeting in Germany last week. One official said Freeland raised the issue after oligarchs spoke to her about it. The Canadian minister knows some Russian oligarchs from her time as a journalist in Moscow. One official says the Ukrainian leadership is aware of the discussions and have “some comfort” with the idea since Ukraine badly needs the additional liquidity. | https://keyt.com/news/2022/05/26/west-mulls-having-russian-oligarchs-buy-way-out-of-sanctions/ | 2022-05-26T21:13:14Z | https://keyt.com/news/2022/05/26/west-mulls-having-russian-oligarchs-buy-way-out-of-sanctions/ | false | null |
(WGHP) — Laverne Cox is a four-time Emmy-nominated actress, an Emmy-winning producer, an activist and, now, a Barbie doll.
Mattel Creations has released what it describes as a “Barbie Tribute Collection Laverne Cox Doll.” The doll, released Wednesday, is selling for $40 and is available on Amazon, Walmart, Target and MattelCreations.com.
Mattel highlights Cox as “the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role on a scripted TV show” and released the doll ahead of the actress’s 50th birthday. The company is also donating to TransFamilySOS, a nonprofit that works to create “a more gender-affirming and accepting community,” according to Mattel.
“We couldn’t be more excited to celebrate award-winning actress, producer, writer and LGBTQ+ rights trailblazer Laverne Cox with a doll,” said Lisa McKnight, executive vice president and global head of Barbie and Dolls at Mattel. “We are proud to highlight the importance of inclusion and acceptance at every age and to recognize Laverne’s significant impact on culture with a Tribute Collection Barbie.”
Laverne Cox issued her own statement and said, “It’s been a dream for years to work with Barbie to create my own doll. I can’t wait for fans to find my doll on shelves and have the opportunity to add a Barbie doll modeled after a transgender person to their collection. I hope that people can look at this Barbie and dream big like I have in my career. The space of dreaming and manifesting is such a powerful source and leads you to achieve more than what you originally thought was possible.”
The doll is wearing what Mattel describes as a “triple-threat original design, featuring a deep red tulle gown gracefully draped over a dazzling, silver metallic bodysuit.”
The doll was designed by Barbie Signature Lead Designer Carlyle Nuera. Nuera’s past work includes Barbie dolls of Vera Wang, Eleanor Roosevelt and Maya Angelou, among others. | https://www.ksnt.com/news/national/first-transgender-barbie-doll-released-in-tribute-to-actress-laverne-cox/ | 2022-05-26T21:16:36Z | https://www.ksnt.com/news/national/first-transgender-barbie-doll-released-in-tribute-to-actress-laverne-cox/ | false | 15 |
Note: I received this box free of charge from Perdue Farms. I am not being paid directly by Perdue Farms to review these products and my thoughts and opinions stated below are my own.
Perdue Farms is a fourth-generation, family-owned food and agriculture business that has been producing quality foods for over 100 years. The company prides itself on raising animals thoughtfully on 100% vegetarian diets with no hormones or antibiotics.
While Perdue Farms is best known for tender, juicy and delicious chicken, its brands work with small family farmers and ranchers across the country to produce premium beef, pork and lamb products as well.
The Meal Delivery Market
In 2019, Perdue Farms got into the meat delivery game, shipping premium proteins directly to your doorstep via online order. The e-tailer started with staples like chicken, beef, pork and lamb and then added appetizers, sides and even desserts to create a complete meal ready to order with a simple click of your mouse. Most recently, seafood was added to the menu, with tantalizing options like salmon and jumbo shrimp available for convenient home delivery.
Perdue Farms' online interface is easy to navigate, with simple on-screen instructions that allow you to pick the kind of products you'd like, and order online without any subscription or sign-up required. This means you can sample without the worry or hassle of being charged for additional products at a later date.
Perdue Farms sent us a meal sampler box to taste and here's what it had inside:
The Food
With that all out of the way, it's time to discuss the juicy details...
Being Perdue Farms' bread and butter, the poultry in our order did not disappoint. We received two packs of diced chicken breasts; for the first batch we simply seasoned and pan-fried the chicken, and then served with the included twice baked potatoes and the green beans almondine. For the second, we breaded and fried the chicken and served it with the included white cheddar mac and cheese and some store-bought broccoli.
Both dinners turned out excellent, with the chicken being flavorful and juicy. I will detail more information about the sides below, but suffice it to say both meals were quick and easy to prepare, the importance of which cannot be overstated by this pair of working parents. By ordering from Perdue Farms, you'll skip a trip to the grocery store and spend less time in the kitchen.
A quick side note: As someone familiar with trimming meats, I was impressed by the quality of the diced cuts we were sent. The chicken was not stringy and had no signs of gristle.
Rating: 9/10
Perdue Farms really surprised me with its seafood game. The Jumbo Shrimp lived up to its name and offered plump sections that boasted great flavor and texture. Each bite was clean and juicy, a healthy portion, with great shrimp flavor and none of the rubberiness that often results from cooking frozen seafood.
We served ours on top of a bed of spicy Cajun-style rice, with tomatoes, peas, and onions scattered in. The whole meal came together in a cast iron pan and was fairly simple to execute, with the shrimp cooking up to perfection in less than 10 minutes. This quick yet delicious one-pot meal is sure to become part of our weeknight repertoire.
Rating: 9/10
As a seafood lover who’s picky about fish, I have to say that the Salmon Filets won me over on the first bite. They had a bold salmon flavor, but without any overbearing fishy overtones. Our filets cooked up nicely in the oven with some lemon, butter, and garlic to complement the entrée.
The filets had a warm, pink color, and while being thick and hearty, were still easy enough to cut through with a fork. This may be a point of contention for some, but our filets came without the skin attached. Some purists may see this as a drawback, but we did not notice any lack of flavor in the finished product. Overall, these salmon filets were very good, and would fare well against anything you may find at the supermarket. We look forward to trying this sushi-grade fish again — an opportunity to level up our cooking skills.
Rating: 8/10
Both my wife and I were seriously impressed with the twice baked potatoes. They were very easy to prepare (just remove from packaging and place in the oven), and had a delicious flavor that rivals that of scratch made.
The beautifully scalloped tops, sprinkled with salty seasoning and bacon bits, crisp up nicely in the oven for not only an attractive presentation, but also some added crunch and flavor in each bite. Our only complaint? More bacon bits, please!
Rating: 9/10
The green beans were maybe the least exciting part of the delivery, but far from disappointing. This healthy side had a fresh crispness, and as someone who gets hung up on food texture, I am pleased to report that the beans were de-stringed and had a nice consistent bite.
The almond topping added visual flair and a nice crunchy layer to the already delicious beans. While not necessarily exciting, the beans were simple to make and a great second side to any meal. Next time, we may add some shredded Parmesan and squeeze a lemon wedge on top to add some zing.
Rating: 8/10
The White Cheddar Mac and Cheese was every bit as good as it sounds. Savory, creamy, and extra cheesy, this is the kind of comfort food I look forward to enjoying at the end of a long work day.
While it takes a little time to bake (ours sat for 50 to 55 minutes in the oven), this side dish takes little to no time to prepare and is ready to serve once cooked. Unless you are really under the gun to get dinner served quickly, this delicious side is more than worth the wait.
Rating: 8/10
We were sent a dessert box that contained two chocolate, two New York-style, and two strawberry-flavored single-serve cheesecakes. These small (but thick) individually packaged discs of cheesecake make for an excellent follow-up to dinner, or perhaps a late-night indulgence for those of us who enjoy breaking the rules from time to time.
While I was initially worried about having enough room for dessert after our meals, my first bite of cheesecake erased any doubts. A top layer of bold and rich chocolate cheesecake followed by a crumbly, crunchy, chocolate cookie crust left me second guessing my decision to share some bites with my wife.
The New York style was almost as delicious as the chocolate. The creamy, robust cheesecake flavor and sweet graham cracker crust complement each other nicely. A classic recipe, this cheesecake is the perfect choice if you like to experiment with toppings. We went for a pecan turtle-inspired concoction, drizzling caramel and hot fudge over the cheesecake and topping with just the right amount of pecans. Our toddler wasn’t the only one who wanted to lick the plate.
While I am not typically a fan of fruity desserts, I was very surprised at how much I liked the Strawberry Cheesecake. The sweet tartness of the fruit worked in tandem with the rich cream flavors, and again, biting into the cookie crunch at the end wraps it all up so nicely.
While these desserts look small, they are very rich, thick, and dense, making for a larger serving than the eyes may think. All joking aside, one cake is perfect for two people who love each other enough to share a little of their sweets. The only complaint here is that I may have wanted 12 cheesecakes instead of 6.
Rating: 9/10
The Packaging
All of the above items came to our door in a single reasonably sized box. The box was delivered in good condition, and upon opening, everything was frozen and preserved well in a biodegradable lining that insulated the products effectively. The packaging was simple, but nice. The Perdue Farms farmhouse logo on the box front conveys the company’s focus on family and supporting small family-owned farms across the country.
Rating: 8/10
OVERALL
Overall, I was very impressed with the doorstep delivery from Perdue Farms. Like many families getting by over the pandemic, we experimented with several meal delivery services and I can say without a doubt that Perdue Farms' products surpass them in quality.
With the long lines at the grocery store, and gas prices rising, it's a great time to experiment with home-delivered groceries. With Perdue Farms' selection, you'll get quality foods that are easy to order and prepare. It is a win-win scenario. That, and there's cheesecakes, delicious mini cheesecakes; win-win…win!
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City of Charleston water and street department workers on Monday afternoon tackled a water leak that reared its ugly head almost smack dab in the center of west Main Street.
The leak had first appeared Friday, causing a large puddle of water near the curb on the north side of the street, one worker at the scene noted.
Workers began pecking away at the asphalt in an attempt to find the source, eventually tracing it to the middle of the busy thoroughfare, which doubles as the roadbed for Mississippi Highway 32.
Heavy machinery was brought in to dig an access hole so that workers could repair the leak.
Due to the ongoing work, a one-block-long section of west Main between Waverly and Franklin streets was closed to most thru traffic for several hours.
The roadway was freshly paved as part of a Mississippi Department of Transportation project in late 2019, but breaks in city water lines have forced the street to be dug up in several locations to facilitate repairs. | https://www.tallahatchienews.ms/top-stories-local-content/pesky-water-leak-addressed | 2022-05-26T21:22:05Z | https://www.tallahatchienews.ms/top-stories-local-content/pesky-water-leak-addressed | true | 1 |
Tonight's weather conditions in Madison: Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers. Low 54F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Temperatures will be warm Friday in Madison. It should reach a mild 70 degrees. We'll see a low temperature of 51 degrees tomorrow. We'll see sunshine tomorrow, but also cloud cover at times. The Madison area should see a light breeze, with forecast showing winds from the north, clocking in at 11 mph. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Visit madison.com for more weather updates.
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In just four days, Madison has broken eight different temperature records. It's the city's earliest ever three-day stretch of 90-degree days. | https://madison.com/weather/may-26-2022-evening-weather-update-for-southern-wisconsin/article_55242987-41bc-542a-b81c-e3aaddc8fbe1.html | 2022-05-26T21:25:33Z | https://madison.com/weather/may-26-2022-evening-weather-update-for-southern-wisconsin/article_55242987-41bc-542a-b81c-e3aaddc8fbe1.html | false | 1 |
Five New Communities Situated near Spokane and Coeur d'Alene
SEATTLE, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced today plans to establish a new market serving the Inland Northwest region. Lennar has five new communities planned in the Greater Spokane and Coeur d' Alene area offering townhome and single-family home designs. The new communities of Corbin Meadows in Post Falls, ID, Hayden Canyon in Hayden, ID, Woodridge and Grandview in Spokane, WA, and Stonehill in Liberty Lake, WA will feature open floorplans with thoughtful design details intended for today's lifestyle. The homes will also feature Lennar's signature Everything's Included® program.
A groundbreaking ceremony took place May 25 at Lennar's Stonehill community. Sales in the Inland Northwest will commence end of Summer 2022 with model homes anticipated for completion in Fall 2022.
"The Inland Northwest is a unique market known for its quality of life, rich history, great outdoors and highly ranked schools – all things that create strong demand in the area," said Bill Salvesen, Division President for Lennar Inland Northwest. "We are delighted to bring our beautiful Lennar home designs and customer-centric approach to this new market to help meet a growing demand among home shoppers."
Corbin Meadows, Hayden Canyon, Woodridge, Grandview, and Stonehill are Lennar's first communities in this market, with active communities already selling in nearby Seattle, Boise and the Portland-Vancouver areas.
- Corbin Meadows is situated close to parks and golf courses in the area. Residents will have the opportunity to enjoy water sports on the lake, parks, and the Museum of North Idaho - while urban amenities and employment opportunities in downtown Spokane are just 25 miles away. This community will offer single-story and two-story homes ranging from 1,669 to 2,786 square feet and contain three to four bedrooms and two to three baths.
- Hayden Canyon offers easy access to the Coeur d'Alene Airport, golf courses, parks and Lake Hayden, where locals enjoy activities such as boating, fishing and camping. Hayden Canyon features three home collections. The Townhome Collection will range from 1,682 to 1,811 square feet. The Cottage Collection homes will range from 1,849 to 2,213 square feet. The Manor Collection homes will feature 1,669 to 2,705 square feet.
- Woodridge will bring multiple collections of homes over the life of the community, starting with The Classic Collection, ranging from 1,671 to 2,438 square feet, as well as homes in The Platinum Collection ranging from 2,704 to 4,122 square feet. The Platinum Collection will also boast sweeping views of the Spokane Valley.
- Grandview will provide three of Lennar Seattle's most popular floorplan designs, ranging from 2,311 to 2,825 square feet. Located in Spokane, residents will have ease of access to commuting options, shopping, and recreation the area is known for.
- Stonehill will hold three home collections. In the ever-growing Liberty Lake community, homeowners will enjoy close proximity to countless amenities including golf courses, trails, parks, and walkable streets. The Townhome Collection will range from 1,450 to 1,751 square feet. The Cottage Collection will range from 1,849 to 2,213 square feet. The Haven Collection will hold four floorplans ranging from 1,836 to 2,786 square feet.
Each home will feature open-concept floorplans, the majority with oversized center-island kitchens and spa-inspired owner's suites. All homes will also offer Lennar's Everything's Included® program, where the homebuilder's most popular options and upgrades are built into the base price of the home.
For more information, call (855) 569-0448 or visit https://www.lennar.com/idaho/inland-northwest.
About Lennar Corporation
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit www.lennar.com.
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3Phase expands into Colorado and Wyoming, adding Mile High Elevator to its family of IUEC independents
SHERIDAN, Colo. and CANTON, Mass., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Phase Elevator, a leading independent elevator and escalator services provider, today announced that it has merged with Mile High Elevator, a provider of elevator maintenance, repair, and modernization services in the Denver and Cheyenne markets. The merger enables 3Phase to establish a strong presence in the Mountain States as it continues to expand nationally.
Mile High Elevator, a family-owned and operated company, uses non-proprietary elevator components and elevator equipment to service commercial buildings in the surrounding areas of Denver CO and Cheyenne WY. The company has achieved its growth by creating long-term value through its commitment to customers. The existing Mile High Elevator team, led by Bill Blevins and Terri Gray, will remain in place and the company will continue to serve customers under the Mile High Elevator brand.
"What we at Mile High like about 3Phase is the similar approach to serving customers. The customer is important to us, and our goal is to exceed expectations on every service call," said Bill Blevins, owner and operator of Mile High Elevator. "We are excited about the future with 3Phase because, as a small independent, we can only take on so much opportunity. This partnership gives us the ability to grow faster and expand beyond the Denver and Cheyenne markets throughout the West."
"Expansion into Colorado has been a strategic priority for 3Phase, and Mile High is the most respected independent in its market. When we first met Bill and Terri, we knew they were like-minded partners," said Mike Strachan, CEO of 3Phase Elevator. "This partnership gives us an opportunity to continue our path of growth throughout the West."
About 3Phase Elevator
Founded in 1997, and headquartered in Canton, Mass., 3Phase Elevator is a leading independent provider of elevator and escalator maintenance, repair, modernization and new installation services in 20 states across the United States and the District of Columbia. The company has grown in part through 17 acquisitions of other independent elevator and escalator providers. 3Phase maintains more than 22,500 units for building owners and property managers. The company is built on a foundation of exceptional customer service. For additional information, visit www.3phaseelevator.com.
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Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL – Get Rating) announced its earnings results on Tuesday. The textile maker reported $0.49 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.36 by $0.13, MarketWatch Earnings reports. The business had revenue of $1.53 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.46 billion. Ralph Lauren had a return on equity of 22.59% and a net margin of 8.38%. The business’s revenue was up 18.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.38 earnings per share. Ralph Lauren updated its FY 2023 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2023 guidance to EPS.
Shares of NYSE RL traded up $4.72 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $98.41. The company had a trading volume of 48,477 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,103,483. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.00 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.05 and a beta of 1.38. Ralph Lauren has a twelve month low of $86.55 and a twelve month high of $135.99. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $106.71 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $114.57. The company has a quick ratio of 1.50, a current ratio of 1.88 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 15th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 1st will be given a dividend of $0.75 per share. This is a boost from Ralph Lauren’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.69. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 30th. This represents a $3.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.05%. Ralph Lauren’s payout ratio is presently 41.23%.
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Morgan Stanley boosted its stake in shares of Ralph Lauren by 58.3% during the second quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 202,492 shares of the textile maker’s stock valued at $23,855,000 after acquiring an additional 74,615 shares during the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC raised its position in shares of Ralph Lauren by 40.5% in the third quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 9,204 shares of the textile maker’s stock valued at $1,022,000 after buying an additional 2,655 shares during the last quarter. Legal & General Group Plc lifted its stake in shares of Ralph Lauren by 0.9% during the fourth quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 124,811 shares of the textile maker’s stock valued at $14,835,000 after buying an additional 1,116 shares during the period. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY boosted its position in Ralph Lauren by 16.8% during the fourth quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co NY now owns 5,549 shares of the textile maker’s stock worth $660,000 after acquiring an additional 799 shares during the last quarter. Finally, William Blair Investment Management LLC grew its stake in Ralph Lauren by 24.9% in the 4th quarter. William Blair Investment Management LLC now owns 3,941 shares of the textile maker’s stock worth $468,000 after acquiring an additional 785 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.89% of the company’s stock.
Ralph Lauren announced that its board has approved a share repurchase plan on Thursday, February 3rd that allows the company to repurchase $1.50 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization allows the textile maker to buy up to 17.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.
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Ralph Lauren Corporation designs, markets, and distributes lifestyle products in North America, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company offers apparel, including a range of men's, women's, and children's clothing and accessories, which comprise casual shoes, dress shoes, boots, sneakers, sandals, eyewear, watches, fashion and fine jewelry, scarves, hats, gloves, umbrellas, and belts, as well as leather goods, such as handbags, luggage, small leather goods, and belts; home products consisting of bed and bath lines, furniture, fabric and wallcoverings, lighting, tabletop, floor coverings, and giftware; and fragrances.
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The B.C. environment ministry has identified more than 300 debris sites in southern B.C. since the torrential rain in November 2021, clearing most of them of vehicles, bridges, buildings and other materials washed away by flooding.
Five months of work has cleared three quarters of the sites, identified by crowd-sourced photos as well as drones and GPS imaging, the ministry reported Thursday. A second phase of cleanup will resume after the spring runoff, focused on the Tulameen, Similkameen, Nicola, Thompson, Coldwater, Coquihalla, Fraser and Chilliwack Rivers.
Phase one cleanup, using helicopters and boats in some remote areas, has removed 72 vehicles, four bridges and 11 building structures, for a total of nearly 2,000 cubic metres of human-made and natural debris from rivers and banks. The flooding devastated Princeton, Merritt and the Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley, with extensive damage to Highway 1, Highway 7, the Coquihalla Highway and Highway 8 along the Nicola River south of Merritt.
“The majority of debris sites identified have now been cleared through this first debris recovery phase,” Environment Minister George Heyman said May 26. “This collaborative effort will continue as we prepare for spring freshet and the possibility of more debris surfacing.”
The province budgeted $140 million for the cleanup, hiring nearly 500 people in local communities and first nations, with training provided for first aid, spill response, swift water rescue and equipment and chainsaw operation.
The province set up a crowd-sourcing and debris tracking website to guide the cleanup. It reports each finding with an interactive map, including a bus, trucks, a mobile home and a section of railway track removed from the Tulameen River.
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Closing arguments in hazing trial of former BGSU frat brothers in Stone Foltz's death
If you wanted to be a member of Pi Kappa Alpha – the fraternity better known as PIKE – you were expected to do PIKE things.
Stone Foltz wanted to be a PIKE, so he did whatever active members asked of him to reach that goal, Assistant Wood County Prosecutor Pamela Gross told jurors during her closing arguments Thursday afternoon.
Foltz and the other PIKE pledges cleaned active members' houses, acted as designated drivers, and licked the floors of campus bars and urinals in order to gain membership in PIKE, Gross said.
The culmination of all those activities, she said, created bonds of tradition and brotherhood that made it feel difficult to walk away.
Foltz told his girlfriend that the "Big Little Night" – an initiation event where pledges were paired with actives to mentor them in a Big Brother/Little Brother relationship – was the last thing he had to do to become a PIKE.
It was at that event on March 4, 2021, planned by pledge educator Troy Henricksen, that Foltz was given a liter of Evan Williams bourbon by his Big Brother, Jacob Krinn.
Foltz drank the bottle in about 20 minutes. He was taken to a local hospital hours later after his roommate found him unconscious.
Foltz died two days later of fatal alcohol intoxication.
"Stone Foltz is dead because he did PIKE things," Gross said.
Krinn, 21, of Delaware, and Henricksen, 24, of Grove City, both face multiple charges related to Foltz's death.
Krinn is charged with first-degree felony involuntary manslaughter, third-degree felony involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, felonious assault, hazing, failure to comply with underage alcohol laws, and obstructing official business.
Henricksen is charged with first-degree felony involuntary manslaughter, tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, eight counts of hazing, and seven counts of failure to comply with underage alcohol laws.
Each of the hazing counts Henricksen faces corresponds to a PIKE pledge he allegedly hazed, and each of the underage alcohol charges correspond to a PIKE pledge he allegedly provided alcohol to who were under 21 years old.
Prosecutors called nearly two dozen witnesses in presenting their week-long case before Wood County Common Pleas Judge Joel Kuhlman. Jurors heard from Foltz's former fraternity brothers, his fellow PIKE pledges, his mother, roommate and girlfriend. They also heard testimony from medical professionals and law enforcement, as well as a fraternity and hazing expert from Wake Forest University.
The trial was originally scheduled to last three weeks, but both defense teams rested their cases without calling any witnesses, including Krinn and Henricksen taking the stand themselves.
Sam Shamansky, Krinn's attorney, and Eric Long, Henricksen's attorney, were both scheduled to give closing arguments after Gross.
In their opening statements last Tuesday, both defense teams told jurors that Foltz's death was a tragedy in search of a crime.
“You won’t hear a shred of evidence that Jacob Krinn did anything to force or haze Stone Foltz into drinking that bottle of liquor," said Shamansky in his opening statement. “Not one shred of evidence he encouraged or in any way under the sun pushed or cajoled him to drink that bottle. It’s not felonious assault to give someone a bottle of alcohol.”
Long told the jury last week that Henricksen was at home sleeping the night Foltz died and is not responsible for the tragic death. Rather, it was Foltz’s choice to drink the full bottle of bourbon, he said.
“It was Stone’s choice, his free will. This wasn’t the pressure of a used car lot,” Long said. “You are going to hear about generalized pressure or an atmosphere, but Troy was not there as part of that atmosphere. They (the new pledges) were told explicitly during the new member process that, ‘You do not have to do anything you don’t want to do.’ ‘You do not have to do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.’”
Closing arguments were originally anticipated to begin Thursday morning. Long cross-examined the state's final witness, Bowling Green police officer Sgt. Scott Frank, for more than an hour to begin proceedings Thursday. During a two-and-a-half-hour break between Frank's testimony and closing arguments, attorneys completed final jury instructions and submitted exhibits. Prior to closing arguments, Kuhlman read the jury their final instructions for deliberation.
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Questions have emerged about the response to the attack at a Uvalde school. Parents want to know how the gunman was in the building for so long – and question whether officers entered early enough.
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– Encouraging Initial Data Observed in Phase 1/2 Study of Selinexor in Combination with Ruxolitinib in Treatment-Naïve Myelofibrosis, Including Favorable Tolerability with No Dose Limiting Toxicities and 75% of Evaluable Patients Demonstrating ≥35% Spleen Volume Reduction (SVR 35) at Week 12 –
– FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation for Selinexor for the Treatment of Myelofibrosis –
– Exploratory Subgroup Analyses from SIENDO Trial in Patients with Endometrial Cancer Treated with Selinexor as Maintenance Therapy Identified p53 Wild-type as a Potentially Important Predictor of Efficacy, with 10-month PFS Improvement over Placebo; No Benefit Was Seen in Patients with p53 Mutant Tumors –
NEWTON, Mass., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, today announced promising initial data from a Phase 1/2 study evaluating selinexor in combination with ruxolitinib in patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis and subgroup analyses and molecular classification data from the SIENDO study evaluating selinexor in endometrial cancer. These data, and four additional abstracts, will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO 2022), being held in Chicago from June 3-7, 2022.
The initial data to be presented at ASCO 2022 were based on the Phase 1 portion of the Phase 1/2 study evaluating the safety and preliminary efficacy of once-weekly selinexor in combination with standard dose ruxolitinib in patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis. As of May 1, 2022, 15 patients had been dosed with one of two dose levels of selinexor, 40 mg (n=3) and 60 mg (n=12), in combination with ruxolitinib 15/20 mg BID.
Seventy-five percent of evaluable patients (6 out of 8) demonstrated ≥35% reduction in spleen volume (SVR35) at week 12. Five out of 10 transfusion independent patients who had at least eight weeks of treatment maintained stable hemoglobin (± 2g/dL) or improved hemoglobin level (>2g/dL increase) at last follow up. In addition, all of the evaluable 7 patients, who had been at least 12 weeks on treatment and had complete data, experienced rapid reductions in their symptom scores with 3 of 7 patients having ≥50% reduction (TSS50) at week 12.
There were two patients who discontinued therapy in the trial: One patient discontinued after 5 months of therapy due to unrelated AEs (dizziness, atrial fibrillation, and pulmonary hypertension) and another patient discontinued after 8 weeks of therapy due to progression to AML.
The combination of selinexor and ruxolitinib was generally well-tolerated and manageable. No dose-limiting toxicities were reported at either dose level of selinexor, and the most common adverse event (AE) was nausea (40%), the majority of which were grade 1/2. Both the 40 mg and 60 mg dose levels were generally well tolerated, with the most common reported Grade 3-4 treatment-emergent AEs being thrombocytopenia (27%), anemia (20%), neutropenia (20%) and atrial fibrillation (20%). Hematologic adverse events were reversible with dose interruptions and reductions.
The trial is currently enrolling patients in the Phase 1b dose expansion part of the study.
"Despite tremendous improvements in the lives of patients with myelofibrosis with the introduction of the JAK inhibitors, there remains a significant unmet need. We are excited to develop a novel combination that may further improve outcomes for these patients," said Reshma Rangwala, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer of Karyopharm. "Following the promising initial results of selinexor in relapsed and refractory myelofibrosis, we are very excited with these preliminary data in treatment-naïve myelofibrosis patients in combination with ruxolitinib, with encouraging results seen across multiple measures including spleen volume reductions, improvements in symptom scores and management of anemia. We look forward to sharing these promising initial data with the broader medical and scientific community at ASCO 2022."
A preliminary analysis of exploratory subgroups of the SIENDO study assessed four distinct molecular subtypes in endometrial cancer using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), one of the accepted gynecologic oncology algorithms that is used to calculate prognostic risk scores. This analysis indicated that patients with p53 wild-type endometrial cancer treated with selinexor showed a median progression-free survival of 13.7 months compared to 3.7 months for patients on placebo.
"These data suggest that selinexor may provide meaningful benefit to patients with p53 wild-type endometrial cancer and reinforce the need to further evaluate selinexor's potential in a registration-enabling Phase 3 study, that we are planning to initiate in the second half of this year," added Dr. Rangwala.
Oral Presentation
Title: Randomized phase III study of maintenance selinexor versus placebo in endometrial cancer (ENGOT - EN5/GOG-3055/SIENDO): Impact of subgroup analysis and molecular classification
Presenter: Vicky Makker, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Abstract #: 5511
Date and time: Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 9:48 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EDT
Session: Clinical Science Symposium/Molecular-Based Treatment for Endometrial Cancer
Poster Presentations
Title: A phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation study of selinexor plus ruxolitinib in patients with treatment-naïve myelofibrosis
Presenter: Haris Ali, City of Hope
Abstract #: 7060
Date and time: Saturday, June 4, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Session: Hematologic Malignancies—Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, and Allotransplant
Title: Phase Ib trial of selinexor (SEL) in combination with nivolumab (NIVO) alone or nivolumab plus ipilimumab (NIVO+IPI) in patients (pts) with advanced malignancies: The renal cell carcinoma (RCC) experience.
Presenter: Omar Alhalabi, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Abstract #: 4551
Date and time: Saturday, June 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. EDT
Session: Genitourinary Cancer–Kidney and Bladder
Title: Phase 1b study of weekly split-dose selinexor in soft tissue sarcoma (STS)
Presenter: Abdulazeez Salawu, University Health Network
Abstract #: 11563
Date and time: Sunday, June 5, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Session: Sarcoma
Title: Digital monitoring and assessments in patients with glioblastoma
Presenter: Yasaman Damestani, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Inc.
Abstract #: 2045
Date and time: Sunday, June 5, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Session: Central Nervous System Tumors
Title: Phase Ib study of selinexor and eribulin combination in advanced solid tumors and triple-negative breast cancer
Presenter: Blessie Elizabeth Nelson, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Abstract #: 3108
Date and time: Sunday, June 5, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Session: Developmental Therapeutics–Molecularly Targeted Agents and Tumor Biology
The Phase 3 SIENDO study (ENGOT-EN5/GOG-3055) is a multicenter, blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized study evaluating the efficacy and safety of selinexor as a maintenance therapy following chemotherapy in patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. The study enrolled 263 patients with primary stage IV or recurrent disease who had a partial or complete response after at least 12 weeks of standard taxane-platinum combination chemotherapy. Patients were randomized 2:1 to receive either maintenance therapy of 80mg of selinexor taken once weekly, or placebo, until disease progression. The primary endpoint of the study was statistically significant improvement of progression-free survival compared to placebo. The goal of the study was to demonstrate a hazard ratio of 0.6 or better. In partnership with Karyopharm, the study was initiated by the European Network for Gynaecological Oncological Trial (ENGOT) group. In the U.S., the collaboration includes the GOG Foundation, Inc. (GOG-F).
XPOVIO is a first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor and the first of Karyopharm's Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compounds to be approved for the treatment of cancer. XPOVIO functions by selectively binding to and inhibiting the nuclear export protein XPO1. XPOVIO is approved in the U.S. and marketed by Karyopharm in multiple oncology indications, including: (i) in combination with Velcade® (bortezomib) and dexamethasone (XVd) in patients with multiple myeloma after at least one prior therapy; (ii) in combination with dexamethasone in patients with heavily pre-treated multiple myeloma; and (iii) in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), including DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma, after at least two lines of systemic therapy. XPOVIO (also known as NEXPOVIO® in certain countries) has received regulatory approvals in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including Europe, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Singapore and Israel, and is marketed in those areas by Karyopharm's global partners. Selinexor is also being investigated in several other mid- and late-stage clinical trials across multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including multiple myeloma, endometrial cancer and myelofibrosis. For more information about Karyopharm's products or clinical trials, please contact the Medical Information department at:
Tel: +1 (888) 209-9326
Email: medicalinformation@karyopharm.com
XPOVIO® (selinexor) is a prescription medicine approved:
- In combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior therapy (XVd).
- In combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least four prior therapies and whose disease is refractory to at least two proteasome inhibitors, at least two immunomodulatory agents, and an anti–CD38 monoclonal antibody (Xd).
- For the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B–cell lymphoma (DLBCL), not otherwise specified, including DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma, after at least 2 lines of systemic therapy. This indication is approved under accelerated approval based on response rate. Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trial(s).
Warnings and Precautions
- Thrombocytopenia: Monitor platelet counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and supportive care.
- Neutropenia: Monitor neutrophil counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and granulocyte colony–stimulating factors.
- Gastrointestinal Toxicity: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, and weight loss may occur. Provide antiemetic prophylaxis. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction, antiemetics, and supportive care.
- Hyponatremia: Monitor serum sodium levels throughout treatment. Correct for concurrent hyperglycemia and high serum paraprotein levels. Manage with dose interruption, reduction, or discontinuation, and supportive care.
- Serious Infection: Monitor for infection and treat promptly.
- Neurological Toxicity: Advise patients to refrain from driving and engaging in hazardous occupations or activities until neurological toxicity resolves. Optimize hydration status and concomitant medications to avoid dizziness or mental status changes.
- Embryo–Fetal Toxicity: Can cause fetal harm. Advise females of reproductive potential and males with a female partner of reproductive potential, of the potential risk to a fetus and use of effective contraception.
- Cataract: Cataracts may develop or progress. Treatment of cataracts usually requires surgical removal of the cataract.
Adverse Reactions
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive XVd are fatigue, nausea, decreased appetite, diarrhea, peripheral neuropathy, upper respiratory tract infection, decreased weight, cataract and vomiting. Grade 3–4 laboratory abnormalities (≥10%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, hypophosphatemia, anemia, hyponatremia and neutropenia. In the BOSTON trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 6% of patients within 30 days of last treatment. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 52% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 19%.
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive Xd are thrombocytopenia, fatigue, nausea, anemia, decreased appetite, decreased weight, diarrhea, vomiting, hyponatremia, neutropenia, leukopenia, constipation, dyspnea and upper respiratory tract infection. In the STORM trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 9% of patients. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 58% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 27%.
- The most common adverse reactions (incidence ≥20%) in patients with DLBCL, excluding laboratory abnormalities, are fatigue, nausea, diarrhea, appetite decrease, weight decrease, constipation, vomiting, and pyrexia. Grade 3–4 laboratory abnormalities (≥15%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, neutropenia, anemia, and hyponatremia. In the SADAL trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 3.7% of patients within 30 days, and 5% of patients within 60 days of last treatment; the most frequent fatal adverse reactions were infection (4.5% of patients). Serious adverse reactions occurred in 46% of patients; the most frequent serious adverse reaction was infection (21% of patients). Discontinuation due to adverse reactions occurred in 17% of patients.
Use In Specific Populations
Lactation: Advise not to breastfeed.
For additional product information, including full prescribing information, please visit www.XPOVIO.com.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. at 1–888–209–9326 or FDA at 1–800–FDA–1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI) is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies. Since its founding, Karyopharm has been the industry leader in oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compound technology, which was developed to address a fundamental mechanism of oncogenesis: nuclear export dysregulation. Karyopharm's lead SINE compound and first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor, XPOVIO® (selinexor), is approved in the U.S. and marketed by the Company in three oncology indications and has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including Europe and the United Kingdom (as NEXPOVIO®) and China. Karyopharm has a focused pipeline targeting multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in multiple myeloma, endometrial cancer, myelodysplastic syndromes and myelofibrosis. For more information about our people, science and pipeline, please visit www.karyopharm.com, and follow us on Twitter at @Karyopharm and LinkedIn.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include those regarding the ability of selinexor or eltanexor to treat patients with multiple myeloma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, solid tumors and other diseases; and expectations related to future clinical development and potential regulatory submissions of selinexor or eltanexor. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Karyopharm's control, that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from Karyopharm's current expectations. For example, there can be no guarantee that Karyopharm will successfully commercialize XPOVIO or that any of Karyopharm's drug candidates, including selinexor and eltanexor, will successfully complete necessary clinical development phases or that development of any of Karyopharm's drug candidates will continue. Further, there can be no guarantee that any positive developments in the development or commercialization of Karyopharm's drug candidate portfolio will result in stock price appreciation. Management's expectations and, therefore, any forward-looking statements in this press release could also be affected by risks and uncertainties relating to a number of other factors, including the following: the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt Karyopharm's business more severely than it currently anticipates, including by negatively impacting sales of XPOVIO, interrupting or delaying research and development efforts, impacting the ability to procure sufficient supply for the development and commercialization of selinexor or other product candidates, delaying ongoing or planned clinical trials, impeding the execution of business plans, planned regulatory milestones and timelines, or inconveniencing patients; the adoption of XPOVIO in the commercial marketplace, the timing and costs involved in commercializing XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; the ability to obtain and retain regulatory approval of XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; Karyopharm's results of clinical trials and preclinical studies, including subsequent analysis of existing data and new data received from ongoing and future studies; the content and timing of decisions made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities, investigational review boards at clinical trial sites and publication review bodies, including with respect to the need for additional clinical studies; the ability of Karyopharm or its third party collaborators or successors in interest to fully perform their respective obligations under the applicable agreement and the potential future financial implications of such agreement; Karyopharm's ability to enroll patients in its clinical trials; unplanned cash requirements and expenditures; development or regulatory approval of drug candidates by Karyopharm's competitors for products or product candidates in which Karyopharm is currently commercializing or developing; and Karyopharm's ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for any of its products or product candidates. These and other risks are described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Karyopharm's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 5, 2022, and in other filings that Karyopharm may make with the SEC in the future. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Karyopharm expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
XPOVIO® and NEXPOVIO® are registered trademarks of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. Any other trademarks referred to in this release are the property of their respective owners.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Chile’s president publicly apologized to a woman who was sterilized without her consent at a public hospital two decades ago because she was HIV-positive, ending a years-long legal process that included taking her case to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights in Washington.
“It hurts to think that the state that I have the honor of representing today is responsible for these cases,” President Gabriel Boric said Thursday.
The woman has been identified only as Francisca, which is not her real name. She was 20 years old when she became pregnant in 2002 and found out during a routine checkup that she was HIV-positive.
Francisca says she was repeatedly criticized by healthcare workers for getting pregnant while living with HIV and, while she underwent a cesarean, doctors sterilized her without her consent, which the new mother only learned about when she came out of anesthesia.
Francisca, whose son was born HIV-negative, insists she never agreed to the sterilization procedure claiming her dream had long been to have several children.
Despite her claims, courts in Chile dismissed her case as the doctor said she obtained verbal consent for the procedure, which Francisca denies.
“I receive the apology that the state is offering as a commitment with myself and all the people who went through a similar story,” Francisca said in a written statement. “It must be clear that I was not the only one and we still face discrimination in the healthcare system.”
The apology, which was part of the negotiated settlement that Chile sealed at the Inter American Commission on Human Rights in August, is not just about Francisca.
“This was not an isolated case,” said Catalina Martínez Coral, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Center for Reproductive Rights, one of two NGOs that took Francisca’s case to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. “It was a systematic practice in the healthcare system.”
In a 2009 report, the Center for Reproductive Rights said many women living with HIV in Chile faced discrimination from healthcare workers, who often pushed them not to get pregnant. Many also said they were pressured to undergo a sterilization procedure.
“The forced sterilization of women living with HIV in Chile will no longer be able to be denied,” said Sara Araya Leyton, the head of Vivo Positivo, the other NGO that took Francisca’s case to Washington.
Francisca was not at the ceremony on Thursday, saying in a letter that was read aloud that she would suffer discrimination if she publicly revealed her identity, but officials said she was watching.
“This is a day of mixed feelings for Francisca,” Martínez said. “She feels honored and happy but it’s also difficult for her to understand that so much time had to pass for this to happen.”
Boric addressed Francisca directly during his speech.
“I want to start by apologizing to Francisca, as I understand you’re on the other side of the camera, for the clear violation of your rights, and also for the denial of justice and for all the time you had to wait for this,” Boric said.
Chile recognized its responsibility for the violation of human rights before the Inter American Human Rights Commission in 2017 and agreed to pursue a negotiated settlement.
In addition to economic compensation for Francisca, Chile also committed to carry out a series of actions, including education campaigns with healthcare workers, to ensure “that the case of Francisca will never again be repeated,” Boric said.
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AP journalist Eva Vergara contributed reporting from Santiago, Chile. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Chile-apologizes-to-woman-forcibly-sterilized-for-17201732.php | 2022-05-26T21:31:59Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Chile-apologizes-to-woman-forcibly-sterilized-for-17201732.php | true | 30 |
Mercer International Inc. (MERC) CEO David Gandossi on Q4 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Mercer International Inc. (NASDAQ:MERC) Q4 2021 Results Conference Call February 18, 2022 10:00 AM ET
Company Participants
David Gandossi - President and CEO
David Ure - SVP, Finance, CFO and Secretary
Conference Call Participants
Sean Steuart - TD Securities
Hamir Patel - CIBC Capital Markets
Andrew Shapiro - Lawndale Capital Management
DeForest Hinman - Walthausen & Company
Andrew Kuske - Credit Suisse
Paul Quinn - RBC Capital Markets
Cole Hathorn - Jefferies
Operator
Good morning and welcome to Mercer International’s Fourth Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call.
On the call today is David Gandossi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercer International; and David Ure, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary.
I will now hand the call over to David Ure.
David Ure
Good morning, everyone. I would like to remind you that in this morning’s conference call, we will make forward-looking statements. And according to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, I’d like to call your attention to the risks related to these statements, which are more fully described in our press release and in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We achieved record EBITDA in Q4 on strong pulp and lumber sales volumes, high energy sales prices, a much lighter scheduled maintenance program when compared to Q3, and the settlement of the business interruption insurance claim associated with the repair our Peace River recovery boiler amidst 2021. These positive impacts were partially offset by lower pulp realizations in all markets.
Our Rosenthal pulp mill ran the entire quarter without the benefits of its turbine generator, which had the impact of lowering our EBITDA by about $30 million at today’s electricity prices. However, I’m happy to report that the turbine is being repaired and has returned to service in mid-January. We also experienced modestly higher fiber prices in both Canada and Germany. In addition, our freight costs were up at our Canadian operations due to the an increased use of trucking and higher warehousing costs due to extreme weather and COVID-related supply chain slowdowns.
Our Peace River mill recovery boiler damage insurance claim was settled in late December, which allowed us to record it in Q4. The total Q4 EBITDA impact was about $32 million. We are pleased to have this claim behind us and that our 2021 fiscal year includes both the loss associated with the downtime needed to repair the boiler and the insurance proceeds meant to compensate us for that lost income.
We regenerated record EBITDA in the fourth quarter of almost $165 million compared to EBITDA of about $148 million in Q3.
Our pulp segment contributed record quarterly EBITDA of roughly $143 million and our wood products segment contributed total quarterly EBITDA of almost $24 million. You can find additional segment disclosures in our Form 10-K, which can be found on our website and that of the SEC.
For the full year, we also generated record EBITDA totaling almost $479 million, exceeding our previous record by well over $100 million. And this was achieved despite our Rosenthal turbine being down for almost six months, which negatively impacted EBITDA by over $40 million. On average, softwood and hardwood pulp prices in Q4 were lower than Q3 in all of our major markets. In China, the Q4 average NBSK net price was $723 per ton, down $109 from Q3.
European list prices average $1,302 per ton in the current quarter, compared to $1,345 per ton in Q3. NBSK remains at a considerable premium to hardwood with the average Q4 net eucalyptus hardwood price in China at $562 per ton, down $61 from Q3. In total average pulp sales realization movements negatively impacted EBITDA by just over $30 million compared to the prior quarter.
Pulp demand was strong in the quarter, and our modestly higher overall production led to higher sales volumes compared to the previous quarter. Our Q4 sales totaled almost 516,000 tons which is up about 68,000 tons from Q3. We did not take any planned downtime in Q4 while our Q3 -- in Q3, our mills were down a combined 44 days for capital and annual maintenance work. This is roughly the equivalent of 43,000 tons of production. The impact of no planned downtime in Q4 compared to Q3’s maintenance downtime included higher production and lower direct costs benefited Q4 EBITDA by almost $15 million.
Our lumber realizations were also mixed this quarter compared to Q3. The Random Lengths U.S. benchmark for Western SPF 2 and better, averaged $711 per 1,000 board feet in Q4, which was up $217 per 1,000 from the last quarter. Our average European sales realizations were down approximately $44 per 1,000 board feet compared to Q3. The benchmark lumber price in the U.S. is currently $1,275 per 1,000.
Our wood products business continues to perform well. We sold about 104 million board feet of lumber the quarter, which is up slightly compared to our Q3 sales volumes. Our electricity sales totaled roughly 207 gigawatt hours in the quarter, which was up relative to Q3 due to less planned downtime. However, our sales volumes were held back due to the absence of generation at Rosenthal for the entire quarter.
Our Cariboo pulp mill joint venture, which is accounted for using the equity method, contributed another 16-gigawatt hours to this total. We reported net income of $74.5 million for the quarter for $1.13 per basic share, compared to net income of $69 million, or $1.05 per share in Q3.
For the full year 2021, we reported record net income of $171 million, or $2.59 per basic share, compared to a net loss of $17.2 million, or $0.26 per share in 2020.
Cash generated in the quarter totaled approximately $7 million, compared to cash used of $46 million in Q3. Our cash generation in Q4 was primarily the result of strong EBITDA being offset by working capital movements, primarily in the form of higher accounts receivable and to a lesser extent, higher inventory balances.
Our higher accounts receivable balance is principally the result of timing of sales late in the quarter, along with the recommendation of the Peace River insurance claim, receipt of which did not occur until January. Higher inventory was due to finished goods increases in North America due to logistics restrictions, and higher priced raw materials, combined with relatively high seasonal inventory levels. We expect the majority of this working capital build to reserve -- reverse itself in Q1.
We invested almost $34 million of capital in our mills this quarter, which put our total capital investment in 2021 at $159 million. In addition, in 2021, we completed the $51 million acquisition of Mercer Mass Timber, our cross-laminated timber production facility located in Spokane, Washington. David will provide updates on this business and our CapEx program shortly.
At the end of the quarter, our liquidity position totaled about $631 million comprised of $346 million of cash and $285 million of undrawn revolvers. Our strong liquidity position will support our planned working capital movements along with our ambitious 2022 high-return capital spending programs.
In January, we entered into a new C$160 million revolving credit facility for our Canadian operations. This new syndicated facility has a five-year term and replaces the two C$60 million Canadian facilities for our Celgar and Peace River mills. This will be a lower cost facility, secured by working capital and gives our Canadian operations significantly more financial flexibility.
In addition, we have commenced discussions with our property insurer on a business interruption claim for our Rosenthal turbine downtime and expect settlement sometime in the second half of 2020.
And we are pleased to highlight that our Board has approved a 15% quarterly dividend increase, which will increase it to $0.075 per share for shareholders of record on March 30, 2022 for which payment will be made on April 6, 2022.
That ends my overview of the financial results and I’ll now turn the call over to David.
David Gandossi
Thanks, Dave.
Good morning, everyone.
Let me begin by saying how pleased I am with our overall operating results this quarter. We benefited from our global operating footprint. The strong European pulp market conditions helped mitigate the impact of supply chain restrictions that we experienced at our Canadian operations. And while our strategic core focus to maintain world class assets keeps your costs and carbon impact low in normal times, in times of high energy prices like we are experiencing at the moment in Europe, our net energy export position is a tremendous differentiator for us.
In Q4, our operations generally ran well and the year ends with a number of operating records, including record quarterly EBITDA. You will also remember, 2021 has been a year of considerable evolution as a company with the addition of Mass Timber and engineered wood products, and steady expansions of lumber capacity. And while we continue to diversify our products, we also remain committed to our legacy as our standout pulp expansion will attest. These results reflect the hard work of our team during the period under often challenging operating conditions, along with the benefits of our recent investments.
Again, our mills generally ran well this quarter, and strong production, combined with steady -- overall steady demand for products were key drivers behind our record Q4 results. In fact, our results would have been even better but for the complete absence of power generation at the Rosenthal to conduct turbine repairs.
While the lengthy downtime was unfortunate, we took the opportunity to pull 84 days of plant turbine maintenance from 2022 into 2021, and this decision will reduce our insurance claim for the period but we also expect it will result in a net benefit to the mill, given that electricity prices in Germany are much higher today than they were back in 2021.
While still relatively strong, average pulp prices fell modestly in Q4 as negative sentiment in parts of the market caused by fears of new eucalyptus hardwood capacity, a general negative economic outlook and logistics restrictions for paper products made it challenging to ship product economically, all started to weigh on the markets. However, the sentiment seems to have shifted in the early days of Q1 due to supply chain restrictions for pulp producers in Western Canada, along with the labor dispute affecting NBSK production in Finland. These supply side restrictions have created upward pricing pressure, and most pulp makers have been able to implement some modest price increases.
In addition, we believe that low consumer inventory levels, heavy pulp producer maintenance levels and new hardwood supply coming to market more slowly than anticipated will create average pricing conditions that are sequentially higher in Q1 and possibly Q2.
Lumber markets, like pulp, are relatively strong but variable. Average lumber pricing in both Europe and the U.S. weakened modestly during the quarter. For U.S., pricing has shown considerable strength since late in Q4. While the midterm backdrop for U.S. pricing conditions remains solid with relatively low housing inventory, low borrowing costs as well as strong homeowner demographics, the dimension in lumber market is currently characterized by short-term weather events, inflexible supply chains, along with labor and home construction supply shortages. Add to this, the sometimes inconsistent supply from Canada and you have the market we are currently witnessing, which is long-term growth with intermittent volatility.
Looking ahead, positive homebuilder sentiment remains, despite the expectation that mortgage rates will rise in 2022, which is consistent with our view that we will continue to see strong lumber demand, based on expected steady U.S. home construction.
The variability of European pricing is much less pronounced. As expected, prices in the European market have moderated, following the trend that is developed over the past few years of European market changes, generally lagging those of the U.S. Consistent with that trend, after reaching a modest trough in Q4, we are seeing pricing in Europe now recovering to early -- in early ‘22, as European producers, despite the small numbers begin to direct some production to the strength in the U.S. market.
We will continue to optimize our mix of lumber products and customers to achieve the strongest sustainable realizations that we can. In Q4, 46% of our lumber sales volumes were in the U.S. market with the majority of the remainder of our sales in the European market. Although we feel our logistics strategies put us at a competitive advantage to many of our competitors, we experienced some freight costs increases in Q4. This primarily came in the form of increased use of trucking and higher warehousing costs in North America caused by extreme weather and pandemic-related shipping delays, which has reduced the availability of railcars. These delays forced us to take our Cariboo mill down for three weeks in December and at times, slow production modestly at Celgar and the Peace River mills in December and into early 2022. We expect the situation to begin to ease once temperatures begin to moderate.
Looking forward, our turbine generator Rosenthal was put back into service in mid-January, we are pleased to once again have our mill producing its own electricity and selling surplus production into a very strong German electricity market. Having the turbine down from almost six months negatively impacted our annual operating results by approximately $41 million. And having a world class energy balance has never been more important.
I’m sure that most of our listeners are aware of the steep rise in European energy prices over the last few quarters. This affects our business in a few ways. First, we’re net electricity sellers. In the last year, the gray market energy price has on average more than tripled in price. As a result, you can expect our revenues to grow in Q1 relative to Q4, now that the Rosenthal turbine is back on line.
Further, we believe that the conditions that are giving rise to the current power prices are not likely to abate in the near-term. Germany remains on pace to decommission its remaining nuclear power plants and the perceived natural gas supply threat amidst tension between Russia and the West bound [ph] do not seem to offer an opportunity for a quick retreat of power prices. And while fossil fuels to become relatively small source of energy for us, limited to our lime kilns, we are impacted by higher gas prices, which increased dramatically.
And we are expecting a knock-on effect of high gas prices in the coming months as we expect the many central European households will turn to alternative supplies to heat their homes such as wood pellets, which will put some upward pricing pressure on our main raw material, low cost pulpwood. However, we believe the benefit of higher electricity prices will more than offset the impact of higher gas and potentially higher wood costs.
Our wood product segment achieved another solid production result, producing 111 million board feet of lumber, which was up 9 million board feet compared to Q3. We’re pleased with the rate that our wood product segment investment is developing, particularly as we’ve been forced to regularly interrupt production during our ongoing construction project.
As I mentioned, we believe that we have the conditions in place to see improving pricing for all of our products, power, lumber and pulp, and we are aware of inflationary pressure on the cost side at the moment. Inflation is limited to natural gas, some elements of our delivery channels and more recently to fiber costs.
In Germany, we are seeing strong demand for both pulpwood and sawlogs, which is driving increased fiber costs. Demand for pulp logs is being driven by pellet producers, as I mentioned, as high European energy prices are creating more demand for wood-based heating solutions. While sawlog demand and pricing appears to be peaking, we’re expecting increases in the prices we pay for lower value pulpwood drives over the next two quarters.
In Western Canada, reduced harvesting due to extreme winter weather combined with COVID related hauling limitations, pushed pulpwood prices up modestly in the quarter. However, we’re beginning to see incremental harvesting activities and we’re optimistic COVID restrictions will begin to ease, hence we believe the net Canadian fiber costs increases in the near-term.
Despite not having any annual major maintenance in Q4, we did continue to invest in our operations. In Q4, capital expenditures totaled $34 million, mostly in high return projects, like upgrading the woodrooms at our Peace River and Celgar mills. We’re excited about the benefits these projects bring, including improved fiber resource utilization, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and lower fiber costs.
We’re using our liquidity and strong balance sheet to continue to pursue the growth aspect of our strategic plan in areas where we have core competencies. Specifically as we focus to our growth in building products, green energy, market pulp and chemical extractors, and we will continue to do so in 2022.
And we have another ambitious capital expenditure plan in 2022. We expect to invest approximately $175 million in our mills this year. The majority of that is on high-return projects that will drive new product development, ESG advances, productivity improvements and input cost reductions. Our two woodrooms at Celgar and Peace River will be completed late this year and we will be making additional investments in our German wood procurement infrastructure that will add to our competitive advantage.
We have one more sorter to add to our Friesau mill to maximize the benefits of our new planar by allowing for even greater grade differentiation. And while most of the Stendal740 pulp expansion project is complete and running as expected, we will complete the final element with some modifications to the pulp machine wrapping line in 2022.
You can also look to us to take steps on our carbon strategy in 2022 as we expect to commence construction of a lignin extraction plant, a leading edge technology that will allow us to look at commercializing derivatives of lignin products that have historically been limited to biomass fuels. And, of course, we remain committed but cautious in our approach to solid wood expansion. We continue to develop our Stendal sawmill project, but we need more stable equipment supply conditions to emerge before launching this project, conditions that we expect to return when the pandemic wanes.
We have long recognized the importance of sustainable operations and planning for the long-term. We are proud of our sustainable performance, and we’re applying a lot of resources to ensuring that our ESG performance continues to improve and that our performance and objectives are transparent. We’re looking forward to the publication of our sustainability report in early 2022, which will further support our messaging regarding our sustainability reports and values.
Our 2022 annual maintenance schedule will be significantly less intensive than 2021 due to the Peace River recovery boiler rebuild being completed and we will be running through Q1 without any planned maintenance downtime. The timing of our scheduled downtime for the remainder of the year is as follows. In Q2, Stendhal will take a three-day mini shut; Celgar will have its regular 15-day shut; Peace River will have a 16-day shut; and Cariboo has a 16-day maintenance shut. In Q3, Rosenthal has its regular 14-day shut planned; and in Q4, Stendal has a 14-day maintenance shut scheduled. In total, we are planning for about 67 days of major maintenance in 2022.
The 2021 highlight of our growth strategy was our acquisition of Mercer Mass Timber. We remain very excited about the potential of this business, and it fits well with our value add, carbon focus, solid wood strategy. We continue to build up the order book for the plant’s core product, cross-laminated timber panels. We’re already producing long-length finger-jointed lumber, and we’re studying the plant’s ability to produce other complementary engineered wood products. This facility has an annual production capacity of approximately 140,000 cubic meters of CLT, which represents about 30% of the current CLT manufacturing capacity in North America. We feel that the environmental and construction flexibility benefits compared to traditional steel and concrete construction methods make this product right for future growth.
Looking forward, our record 2021 operating results, liquidity position and strong balance sheet leave Mercer well-positioned to use that financial flexibility to add shareholder value by continuing to execute on our growth strategy.
Finally, as Dave mentioned, our Board has approved a 15% dividend increase this year. I believe this emphasizes the confidence we have in our ability of our world class assets to generate strong cash flow throughout the cycle.
The term we’re using a lot within Mercer these days is fit for the future, a commitment to being on the right side of the climate change challenge. Given our role in managing forests and producing physical goods and green power from renewable resources, along with our focus on human talent and our strategy to operate only top performing modern mills, we believe and expect Mercer will be a welcomed industrial player for the future. This will not be the case for everyone operating in our space and therein lies the opportunity.
Now, let me conclude by remarking that the safety of our people continues to be our focus as COVID-19 variants spread globally. We are committed to our safety protocols to ensure the safety of our employees, contractors and the ongoing operation of our mills. And in keeping with one of our core values, I encourage everyone to get COVID-19 vaccine to keep your families, friends, colleagues, and neighbors safe.
Thanks for listening. Be safe. And I’ll now turn the call back to the operator for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. And we will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Sean Steuart from TD Securities. Please go ahead.
Sean Steuart
Two questions. You gave a lot of detail on cost trends, freight and fiber. And I might have missed it. But, can you give us some context on what you’re seeing with chemical costs to your pulp mills right now, quantify the pressure you might be seeing for that element?
David Gandossi
Hey, Sean. Yes. Go ahead, Dave.
David Ure
Yes. I’d say, at this point, Sean, in 2021, we haven’t experienced material changes in our chemical costs. But as you might imagine, we have some chemicals that are derivatives of petrochemicals, particularly natural gas and electricity. So, we are expecting some inflationary pressure in 2022, probably as early as Q1 and Q2. But at the moment, 2022, the increases are not material, but we’re expecting some in the future for sure.
Sean Steuart
And on the Rosenthal generator, couple of questions. The business interruption insurance claim that you expect to receive compensation for in the second half, can you quantify that? And I think the context you gave was, if that generator was running in the fourth quarter that would have been an incremental 30 million. Can you clarify that as well?
David Ure
Yes. So, maybe start with the latter part of your question there, Sean. So, yes, 30 million in the third quarter, another 10 million in the second quarter. So, hence, the 40 million or 41 million in total for the year. And there’s really two elements of that, as you might imagine. One, we’re not selling to the grid at the moment when the prices are particularly high. And in fact, we’re actually buying. We have been buying some power from the grid. So, it’s sort of a -- it’s been a bit of a double whammy. And those -- both of those conditions will be gone here in Q1.
In terms of the business interruption, this is definitely an insurable loss and we’ll be working with our insurer to develop a claim and -- but it is a fairly complex claim. There are elements there. As David had mentioned, we had planned on doing a maintenance check on this particular turbine in 2022. So, that’ll roll into the size of the claim. It’s a fairly complex claim, and one that we’re just beginning discussions with the insurer. So, I think it’s a little bit too early to estimate the total value of the claim, but possibly in the next quarter, I’ll be a little bit more-clear.
Sean Steuart
Okay. One last one on shipping logistics. Do you have any sense that things are starting to improve on that front at all? Do you have any clarity on suppose getting back to normal is ways off potentially, but any sense that things are improving at the margin on that front at this point?
David Gandossi
Well, CP’s improved a lot for the Celgar mill. And CN is the company that’s still struggling. It’s just wind their way out. And for Peace River, we’ve been using more trucks, and we’ve been redirecting tons east out of Edmonton, that kind of thing. So, yes, it’s kind of -- it’s costing us roughly on average about 12,000 tons a month -- yes, a month at Peace River mill now, in terms of slowing the mill down and we can’t get logistics sorted out. So, it’s annoying but it’s not catastrophic. So, we have described it. And yes, it is expected to unwind itself over the next one or two months I would guess.
Operator
Your next question comes from Hamir Patel with CIBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Hamir Patel
David, can you maybe help us just understand maybe the magnitude of how energy prices that you receive in Europe, how they may have changed -- or how they’re tracking in Q1 versus Q4?
David Gandossi
Sure. Yes. Maybe just some metrics here. In the middle of the pandemic, the gray market, which is the rate you can sell at as a generator, not green, just normal, was about €40 per megawatt hour. The green rate, the tariffs that we’ve had, at both Rosenthal and Stendal are roughly €90 a megawatt hour. And remember Rosenthal came off its 20-year tariffs last year. Today, the gray rate is about €180. And we -- in December, we saw at times above €200. So, it’s a very dramatic increase. So, both Rosenthal and Stendal are selling today at the gray rate. We have the right to clip off the green rate tariffs on to the gray market at our discretion. So, it’s double what the green rates were, on average.
Hamir Patel
I just wanted to ask about the acquisition pipeline. And just given where we are in the cycle, I want to get your thoughts on what do you see more attractive opportunities in pulp or lumber. And then, within the lumber side, is the focus on Europe or is North America of interest as well?
David Gandossi
Yes. I don’t think you should plan us chasing pulp mills right now. Our strategy is to operate world class, modern mills fit for the future, and there just aren’t many like that, and those that exist are not for sale. But on the lumber side and the mass timber side, we definitely see a bright future and it’s all about being disciplined and picking the right lane and some of that has to do with synergies with pulp assets as well.
So, we’re open for lumber in Europe and in North America, and we’re also very focused on mass timber engineered wood products. We’ve got quite a bit of work to do at our Spokane plant. We’re making long-length finger-joint today. We’re getting a tremendous amount of interest on CLT, but there’s other engineered wood products that can come out of that plant as well. So, similar to what we did with Friesau, when we bought it, as we build our team up and we get going here, I think we’re going to have some pretty exciting projects we can implement at that facility. And it’s going to take a little while, but I’m really super excited about that whole mass timber space. So, I think that’s a place for us in the future, for sure. So, mostly lumber and mass timber would be the focus right now.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Andrew Shapiro with Lawndale Capital Management. Please go ahead.
Andrew Shapiro
Hi. Thank you. A few follow-ups to Mr. Patel’s and Mr. Steuart’s questions regarding Mercer Mass Timber. Have you said or updated if at all, what the burn rate of the operation is at present? And did you expect that to increase before starting its move towards profitability? And when might that be? What’s your expectation for operations to be geared up to be adding -- being additive versus small grade?
David Gandossi
From a burn perspective, I’d say it’s immaterial to the Mercer scale. We’re selling -- basically, we’re buying boxcars of lumber and converting it into a value added product, called long-length finger joint lumber. And there’s a margin on that that’s really helping to cover the cost as we ramp up the facility. When we bought the facility, really we didn’t have any employees. So, this will be extensive ramp-up period, building the team to be able to successfully execute on CLT and other associated products. But, I think what investors should expect is the internal rate of return for the investment in the facility -- as soon as we got through ramp up, which is probably six to nine months is okay. It’s a good internal rate of return. But, with the additions and the strategy that we’re developing, for reasonably modest investments, we’re going to really knock it out of the park. We’re really excited about it. That’ll take -- that’ll be something that’ll progressively happen over the next couple of years, similar to -- very similar to how it occurred at the Friesau facility.
So, it’s something we look forward to, Andrew. It is not a burden on the Company at all today. And really, what we’re doing is building a team that can execute on these high value or high return capital projects that are coming and also help us develop our strategy for growth in that area, so that we can be really smart about it. And turn this into a platform.
Andrew Shapiro
And the follow-up to Mr. Steuart’s line of questioning and just trying to make sure if it’s -- if I’m dealing with apples to oranges. Your press release spoke about a logistical delay of about 35,000 tons of pulp from Canada to Asia, and you spoke of about 12,000 tons of months of pulp, I think was eastbound instead of westbound perhaps. Are these one on the same?
David Gandossi
No. They’re different. And I think I might have mischaracterized 12,000 tons, correct that. There is sort of three things going on. We had a vessel slip from December to January. And that’s just going to push -- you can’t record the revenue until the vessel leaves the berth. And so, that’s pushed from Q4 into Q1. We also have an inventory unsold pulp that’s higher than normal because it’s taking longer to get it to the ports and to customers at the Canadian mills and I’d say, both the Canadian mills are running with finished goods inventory in and around the 60,000 ton range, they should be closer to 40,000 tons kind of under normal conditions maybe 35,000 to 40,000 each, and they’re both at 60ish.
And then the 12,000 tons I was referring to was because it’s winter and it’s very cold, where these mills are located, we would never dream of allowing them to -- you can’t shut them, but they have to run, to stay warm, to keep things from freezing. So, when we’re short at boxcars, and where you have nowhere left to put the pulp, to say, we slow the mills down a bit and just produce less than their normal operating rate. And that’s the [$12,000] a month for Peace River. Celgar is running flat out again. We had some modest curtailments during this last couple of months, nothing really significant. But, maybe for a few days there are times we slow down. But at Peace River, we’re losing about 12,000 tons a month on average, December and January. I expect the same February because of the shortage...
Andrew Shapiro
So, then, as you’re describing this, it’s fair to assume then that this shifting into Q1 doesn’t impact or force the shifting of Q1 into Q2. This is something that can get made up in Q1 or gradually between Q1 and Q2, be made up, is that right?
David Gandossi
That’s right. Yes. I mean the -- for sure, that’ll be -- that’s happened already, shipped and recorded in the first quarter. And there’s no challenge selling pulp right now. At least we can sell every time two to three times. So, we just need the logistics to work through what’s sitting in our warehouses. And I think we’ll get through most of that this quarter, maybe some into the second quarter.
Andrew Shapiro
So, then, call it Q1 and Q2, there’s a little bit of a kind of a surge and carryover from the Q4. When that happens, are we dealing with the higher Q1 net prices? Are these already contracted out at the Q4 price level?
David Gandossi
That’s a mix of both. Nothing at -- the vessel that slipped would have been Q4 pricing and that’s going to Asia. And then, yes, you’re right, there’s a -- there was a price increase in January and February and in March for China. So there’s also some that is unsold today that will connect when we know we’ve got a logistics path to get it to the customer.
Andrew Shapiro
So, are we dealing -- we’re dealing with perhaps a $20 million or more revenue surge opportunity?
David Gandossi
I haven’t done the math. But no, we got a nice tailwind coming, I think, existing prices and we got lots of inventory to sell, so.
Andrew Shapiro
Okay. Moving on to my final two here. It’s been about half a year since I last asked. So, I do want to ask if you might give us update on the status of the BioFilaments and joint venture, and the status, progress and the timing of cash flows that are in that emerging business?
David Gandossi
The BioFilaments continues to be a research and development project. There -- we still see lots of potential in it. It’s not -- we don’t have any customer opportunities today. But it’s a small amount of money. But I think, there is something in it. So, we’re going to stick with it for a little longer and see what we can make of it. On the Sentinel side of things, the other small sort of on the -- smaller on the side, biochemicals project where -- when we come out of winter, get into harvest season, this is going to be the year that we start that bigger harvest. And as we go towards the end of this year and into next year, and as I signaled before, this is when we’ll really start to notice the benefits of that operation on the sale of higher volumes of sandalwood oil. So, that’s the update there.
Andrew Shapiro
Yes. I wasn’t going to ask about that one until next quarter and I’ll hold this one off for a half year. And lastly, I’ve been here for years, and you’re doing a great job with all this. And lastly, what are your upcoming plans for virtual or in-person IR activities in the upcoming quarter or two?
David Gandossi
Yes. Well, I’ll let Dave speak to that in a second. But one of the things we’re recognizing is that we think, we can do a lot more on the whole ESG story. And we need to get out more in Europe and look for more of the -- try to get more of the retail and the family office -- get on some of these more social media type promotion methodologies. So, that’s going to be a real focus for the next couple years. So, frankly quite struggle with the multiples that the analysts give us. And to all the analysts on the call and I apologize for calling you out like that, but I just think you got it wrong. Mercer should have a much higher multiple based on the quality of its assets and the energy story, biochemical situation, and what’s going to happen to all the high cost mills in our space. So, we’re really going to put a kind of whole refreshed IR move on. Maybe we need to get out to a slightly different audience, audiences that have more understanding of how important particularly the future really is.
So, that’s in the works. We’re doing a lot of thinking and planning for that, looking for some consulting support to help us. And Dave, maybe you can jump in and just a little bit of more traditional investor relations activity you got.
David Ure
Yes. And it’ll be -- Andrew, it’ll be fairly quiet over the next couple of months. We don’t have any large formal conferences booked over the next couple of months. But we are taking a lot of calls right now. So, just a reminder to folks, if you’ve wanted to talk to us, we’re always available, David, and I, and be happy to take calls from investors and folks wanting to learn more about the Company. So, please reach out to us and we’ll make sure that happens.
Andrew Shapiro
Great. Thank you, guys. And ESG stuff, call me offline and I obviously have some ideas, given the governance and ESG is a very important part of Lawndale’s mission for the last three decades.
David Gandossi
Great. Thanks, Andrew. Yes. We’ll do that for sure.
Operator
Your next question comes from the DeForest Hinman with Walthausen & Company. Please go ahead.
DeForest Hinman
As we look at the power situation in Europe, I know you talked about selling into the gray market. There’s a lot of uncertainty out there. Is there any opportunity to enter into a power purchase agreement, either in the short term or long term?
David Gandossi
Yes. There may be some room there. And we’re looking at it, DeForest, but we’re at spot today for a bunch of reasons. So, more to come in the future I would guess.
DeForest Hinman
Okay. That’s helpful. And then, just I was checking my notes, on last fourth quarter call, we discussed the woodroom projects, your prepared comments made it sound like there was some amount of woodroom spending done in the 2021 period. Can you tell us the amount that was spent in 2021 on those projects, the amount planned for 2022? And then, I believe there was a previous discussion about plant realization of some of those projects. Can you give us an update there, and if those will be earned in 2022?
David Gandossi
Yes. Well, I’d say for Celgar, most of the capital spending will be 2022. I mean, there was engineering and ramp-up and orders made with a big chunk of the civils, and the installations will be this year. Similarly -- but for Peace River, it’s a little bit -- got more done in 2021. I think they got close to 10 million into the ground and 2022 will be the remainder. Yes, the guidance we gave for both of those was getting better resource utilization, which is with a centralized chipping versus remote chipping, you get a wood recovery of -- could be 8%, so for every log process, you keep the bark for fuel, when you do it in a central location, and you get about 8% more wood from the chipping exercise.
And then, it’s also the -- on Celgar, what we’re doing is we’re bringing in waste wood that used to be left behind. So, that’s all reasonably cheap wood. The only thing you’re paying for really is the logistics and the processing. And then Peace River, rather than bringing in tree length logs to satellite yards and shipping them there and shipping the chips to the mill, we’re putting cut to length on 10 axle trucks, which carry 100 tons a payload all the way to the mill and shipping it the mill. So both projects, coincidentally are expected to reduce our wood input costs by about $20 million each per year, including all that greenhouse gas reductions and resource utilization efficiencies. And it’s also -- in the Peace River situation, it’s also a much more attractive type of job driving a truck, where you’re coming back to the mill all the time, because it means they can go home at night. And so, it’d be easier to develop our own fleet and for contract partners to develop their drivers -- when it’s a circular traffic group where they can be at home at night, which is a big deal for a lot of them. I guess, it makes us more competitive for the trucking market as well.
DeForest Hinman
And then just on the grant realizations. Is that still feasible?
David Gandossi
Yes. All of that’s been committed or will be collected in due course, as part of the project. Yes.
DeForest Hinman
And that’s just upon completion, and they’re up and running? Is that how it’s going to work, or is there some sort of monitoring…
David Gandossi
Each one has a contribution agreement, each one is slightly different. And we’ll disclose them as they come. Some of the money already -- each contribution agreement has milestones that need to be reached for funding. But it’s all on track.
DeForest Hinman
And then, on the Stendal sawmill project, I know there was a discussion at the Board level. And you did touch on it in the prepared remarks. But, can you just give us an update in terms of what you’re thinking now? What you think the pricing number is potentially to do that project? And you did talk about equipment availability as well. What are some of the things that in your mind need to get better before we’re looking to do this project?
David Gandossi
We’ll even go up -- right up to 100,000 feet for it. The Stendal project is really attractive components of having sawmilling capacity at the Stendal region. So, a lot of that for us is becoming nice mature timber and will be for some extended period of time. So, it’s an underutilized sawlog timber basket that we want to take advantage of. And we want to make sure nobody else does. So, we’re ready to go with the Stendal sawmill. So, engineered -- the land is -- we own the land and it’s -- everything’s ready to go. It’s just, it’s a slow return on investment, because of these long delays with equipment suppliers. So, there’s no rush to do it today. Like, we don’t need to rush at it. There are also some M&A opportunities in Northern Germany that with our logistics we could take advantage of and we have strategic opportunities that existing owners might not have. So, we focus on those kinds of opportunities as well.
And we also have Friesau, which we’re currently on track to produce about 550 million board feet of lumber this year. As we get our sorter completed, that’ll creep up again. But we could also put a third shift on. And if we had a third shift at that facility, we could take it up to the 700 million board feet of lumber. And so, we’re also focused on that. That’s really a human resource issue, like it’s making -- when you’re running a sawmill on three shifts, you’ve got to have all your operators really well trained. You don’t want to have anybody making mistakes. You’ve got to have some excess capacity to deal with illnesses and make sure you can cover every shift and you’ve got to have a pretty robust maintenance team and strategy because you’re running the mill harder, so you’ve got to really be on top of your maintenance.
So, that’s where we’re heading. We’re working towards. That’s 200 million board feet of lumber by putting a third shift on, think of that compared to building up a whole greenfield sawmill. So, we’re going to do the right thing at the right time and take it in steps. I’m really pleased that we know what the Stendal situation is. Nobody’s going to be able to come in and start planning something and beat us. They all know that. They know we’re ready to go. So, we kind of protected the timber resource there. And we just have so many really great strategic opportunities as a company, we just have to evaluate them and do them all at the rate -- in the right order and timeframe and be clever about it. So hope that helps.
Operator
Your next question is from Andrew Kuske with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Andrew Kuske
You talked a little bit about fiber cost and a bit of attention there. And I guess on the positive side, you see Canada cost going down a little bit, because COVID restrictions coming off. And then, may be some issues from a German standpoint. But, maybe if we could just dive into that a little bit more, because if I go back, I don’t know, it’s seven, eight years ago, when fiber costs got out of control because of the pellet market in Germany. It doesn’t seem like those incentives are in place right now for people to consume the pellets to the same degree as they were back then. And your business is -- not being patronizing about it, but your business is just better positioned. If you could just give us some thoughts on fiber costs, both North America and then Europe, it would be great.
David Gandossi
Yes. Well, I think the -- Germany sawlog prices have moved up quite a bit from, say, the early part of 2021 to what you’re seeing in Q4. It’s quite different from what it was in Q2, when we had all the beetle wood. And now what we’re really -- what the market is seeing is primarily fresh green wood. So, it’s back up to what I would say would be more normal sawlog pricing.
We don’t see a huge amount of further inflation in 2022, maybe 10% at the most, something like that. On the pulpwood side, we’ve been enjoying really cheap pulpwood for a couple of years now with the beetle situation. That’s unwound itself. There’s not a lot of calamity wood at the moment. And there’s pretty strong demand in the winter anyway from the pellet side. So, we didn’t have a ton of inflation in 2021 from maybe Q2, Q3 up to Q4, might have been 7% rise. And then, in 2022 it’s going to be more significant. I’m thinking hopefully could get up to maybe as much as $60 a cubic meter, which could be roughly 30% increase from what the calamity level was. But that’s more normal from pre-calamity levels. And that’s kind of a peak that we’d see. And then, if we get dry summer, we get some beetle kills coming back where things will obviously soften up a bit as well as the pellet demand is more seasonal thing. So that pressure will come off as things warm up as well. So that gives you the kind of goalpost there, I hope.
Andrew Kuske
It does. That’s very helpful. And then, maybe for the second question, if we could talk a little bit about the potential in the higher multiple and just the positioning on the CLT facility. And it’s a great position. And once again, not being patronizing about it, but you’ve got a great market share in North American market. Is this something that you really see yourselves as a little bit of -- maybe the wedge on where you can grow this business, not just in CLT, but in some other areas, and be more exposed to higher multiple, more stable market positions without the volatility?
David Gandossi
Yes. The mass timber definitely deserves a much higher multiple. It’s a value added product. Our facility -- I mean the amount of sorting and trying and scanning capacity in this facility is enormous. We’ve got very large CLT press, with -- which gives side press as well. So, I was actually at a building yesterday that was under construction from panels that were produced in the Spokane facility. And the owner of that project was telling me, this is the best CLT he’s ever seen, and he’s building an office for his engineering group that provide engineering services to mass timber owners. And what’s unique about our press is that it’s got a side press on it, like it squeezes sideways without -- it’s not a side glue, it’s a side press with bottom...
So, that’s one thing. So, very high quality, excellent -- big, big operation already, 30% of the capacity of North America. But it also -- the sawmilling -- not with the sawmilling, but the grade -- the in-feed gradings, drying, sorting, trimming and all of that kind of cleaning, there’s enough capacity there. We can add a second press. So, you don’t have to build the whole facility. You can put a second press here. So, we’ve got this huge upside in terms of capacity and what our thinking is we put a smaller press in that’s more flexible. So we can do the full spectrum from the big four place, the bigger panels that can be cut into all sorts of different products, but we can also custom smaller panels for the more of the catalog things for like row housing and smaller applications. And we’ve also got the space and the capacity we put in glulam and make other engineered wood products on the site.
So, I see this as a really big deal. And within a couple of years, we’re going to be fully up and really making people notice. And I also think that with our pulp mills and our sawmill and just -- and our logistics and compared to who we’re competing with, like we just -- we’re in the wrong ZIP code, like we’ve got to find a different audience because we’re not getting recognized for the quality of our assets right now. And that’s what I was trying to say.
Andrew Kuske
I appreciate the thoughts and the detail on the CLT. I think that you’re well positioned there.
David Gandossi
Great. Yes. Thanks, Andrew.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Your next question is from the line of Paul Quinn with RBC Capital Markets.
Paul Quinn
Just a question, a little confused on these global pulp markets. Yesterday, we had World-20 pulp stats, softwoods at 43 days, hardwoods at 40 days. I don’t see any particularly low. But, we’re seeing all kinds of price increases for January, February and now March. How do you make -- what do you make of the market and how sustainable is it?
David Gandossi
Well, I think in China, it’s -- they’re concerned about supply, like I think it’s really a supply story. I mean, demand is off quite a bit in China right now, as everybody knows. If we can get through COVID and get back to anything close to normal, I think there’s a huge pent-up opportunity there. But just at the moment, I think what’s impacting paper producers over there is for those who are running, they’re worried about whether they can get pulp. And there’s a bit of speculation in the market from that perspective. The Shanghai Futures is something they’ll look at, and it’s popped up. So, you’re right. It’s been 800, 850, 880 type of thing.
In Europe, it’s a really strong market. And I think that has a lot to do with the absence of competition on the paper side caused by logistics challenges. So, it was -- and I think the finished situation is also kind of all those paper machines are down up in Finland. So, they’re -- those pan-European accounts that have operations in Germany as well, we’ll be running those very hard.
And the U.S. market, yes, spot has moved up there as well. So, it tells us something. I’m not sure I fully understand it. I think it’s mostly supply and logistics driven. And as things -- as we come out of COVID, I think on the demand side, we’re going to see quite a tick up because there’s been some pretty significant curtailments that have had to happen on a lot of -- for a lot of the paper guys.
I think I worry a little bit about the cost side for some producers in these energy costs in Europe. They’re tough on paper guys. Obviously, great for us, but tough on them. And I think one of the things to watch going forward is to see how successful the paper guys are on getting the prices up because they really need to -- I know they’re working on it, but it takes a little bit of time. I’ll stop there. Paul, see if you want to drill into anything else on that.
Paul Quinn
No. That’s good there. And just it sounds like you’re equally confused. And just maybe on the European energy side. Just what are you guys generating on an annual basis in Europe? And thanks for the color on the increased prices. I’m just trying to see what the incremental revenue or EBITDA could be.
David Gandossi
Well, maybe the way I could answer that is in a way that’s helpful to the audience is, in the past, you would always have thought of Mercer is having this $100 million of revenue that was flat. It was -- 80 of it was -- 80ish of it was energy and 20 of it was biochemicals, right? And that was at a time when the EEG rates were averaging around 19. So, at today’s rates, like just today, that 80 becomes 160. Right? Like it’s a double, on average. That’s how significant it is.
Operator
Your last question is from Cole Hathorn with Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Cole Hathorn
Just a follow-up on the European pulpwood costs, and then, kind of a longer-term demand question. On the pulpwood, you talked about there being less calamity wood available and demand for the pellet producers. That 30% number kind of off the lows, how should we think about German pulpwood costs relative to other regions? I mean, if I look at Sweden and Finland pulpwood, it’s going up, but the increase is a little bit more muted because there’s a lot of sawmill demand, and there is that pulpwood available. So, I’d just like to kind of put that pulpwood increases into context. And then, I’ll follow on with the demand question.
David Gandossi
Yes. I’d say, the German wood cost is going to be a little bit higher than Scandinavia, but our energy side of the business and the proximity of our customers to our mills are both significant advantages relative to them. In Canada, wood cost will be -- gosh, maybe think about it on a per ton of pulp basis, we’d be $70 or $80 lower at Canada compared to Germany. So, we’ve got a very distinct wood advantage, but we’re a little further away from our markets, and we don’t get as much for power.
Cole Hathorn
And then, if I think about wooden construction demand in Europe, we’ve got EU commentary, the EU forest strategy, various other documents coming out of the EU talking and prioritizing kind of the CO2 sink and the benefits of wood construction really trying to promote that as kind of the first use of wood. How do you see this playing out? When do you expect to start getting legislation that really supports demand, or are you involved in any kind of discussions of how you’d like to see regulation to support demand of wood-based construction in Europe? And do you think this is going to be a kind of underappreciated multiyear, kind of demand boost for wood-based construction? Thank you.
David Gandossi
Yes, I do. And I think it’s going to really help the engineered wood side of things. As we move further and further into the future, I think system building, factory-built components going into buildings is going to become more and more how it’s done, like a lot like Japan is miles ahead of us, right? Everything gets built in a factory and it gets taken out and it goes up like Lego, very little waste. I think that’s got to be the future in all of the developed economies. I mean, that’s why we’re seeing such high growth rates in North America around mass timber.
Yes, I think, we have to be involved in the policy development to make sure the governments all get it right, but a forest -- I’m not talking about wood growth here, but a typical forest like a Central European forest or the boreal forest where we operate or a Southern British Columbia forest. These forests need to be managed. Like, if you leave the forest alone too long, the trees just get to an age where they become susceptible to droughts, to pests, to forest fires, and you have huge problems. So, I think society is going to figure out if it’s properly managed, and it’s planted and looked after. It’s a tremendous renewable resource. And, of course, the most important thing is to get the maximum value out of the resource that you can.
So, we’re rewarded for resource efficiency for making high value-added products versus commodity products, utilizing the waste to make heat and steam and electricity. And in the future, we’ll be making biochemicals out of our black liquor and all these other sorts of things. So we’re really, I believe, on the right side of this whole kind of thing. I think our operations will evolve to really participate well in both, looking after the forest and producing as much high value materials we can from it. And I think the pure conservation argument is not going to win. People are going to see forest fires. They’re going to see calamity wood. You got to deal with the forest. You can’t just leave and sit there.
And really good examples are all over the place. Like in Canada, when they left our national parks, like Jasper and Banff, and so you can’t -- nobody can harvest anything in here. We just got to a -- be a natural forest. Well, when you get into fire season, you can’t even visit the parks anymore because it’s so dangerous. So, I think there’s a whole movement towards ecosystem-based management doing the right thing, promoting more vibrant, healthy biodiverse forest and creating value from those renewable products. And I think those products are going to be more and more in demand in the future for all these different reasons.
Cole Hathorn
I suppose, I mean, not just focusing on the CO2 sink benefits of the forest, but the substitution effect, which is, I think, often underappreciated. But if we think about cross-laminated timber, your competitors like Stora Enso and Sodra and the U.S., they really talk up the benefits and the blue skies there and the CO2 reduction in buildings. I’d love to get some color of how you perceive it in North America. Are you getting similar traction from kind of your architects and support there to build in cross-laminated timber? Thank you.
David Gandossi
Yes. I think so. As I was saying earlier, I was visiting a building yesterday that’s still under construction. And I said, "So, what’s the heating source in here?" And the owner said, "We don’t need a heating source. Humans and laptops are our heating source." I think out like R48 or whatever it is in the walls is cross-laminated walls and ceiling and the other components come with the installation and the rain screen already applied. The whole building, four stories went up in 10 days, and it’s incredible. It’s -- so he’s all about demonstrating the environmental benefits of building this way. So, he’s got all kinds of pretty cool features in there.
And more and more, all these organizations where the conscience are going to want to be thinking about having passive buildings like this and homes that are energy and carbon efficient and -- both in terms of their construction and CLT sequesters a lot of carbon, right? That is a renewable carbon sink that’s turned into a row building, and it sits there for 100 years. It could usually be potentially repurposed whenever the building like this needs to be renovated or whatever. So, what I think? I think society is going to grow a conscience more and more, and that’s a big part of the story.
Operator
As there are no further questions in the queue, this concludes today’s question-and-answer session. I will now hand the conference over back to David Gandossi, President and CEO, for any closing remarks.
David Gandossi
Yes. Great. Thanks, Paula, and thanks, everyone, for joining the call. And as usual, and as always, if you have any further questions or you want to connect with us, don’t hesitate to give us a call. And otherwise, we look forward to speaking to you again on our next call in April. Thanks very much. Bye, bye.
Operator
That concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect. Stay safe and well. Have a great day. | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4488484-mercer-international-inc-merc-ceo-david-gandossi-on-q4-2021-results-earnings-call-transcript | 2022-05-26T21:32:12Z | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4488484-mercer-international-inc-merc-ceo-david-gandossi-on-q4-2021-results-earnings-call-transcript | true | 1 |
Ludhiana man booked for pouring hot oil on wife
A Sarabha Nagar man has been booked for allegedly pouring hot oil on his wife. The accused has been identified as Ajaypal Singh.
The complainant, Simranpreet Kaur, 31, of Vikas Nagar, Pakhowal Road, said that she had married Ajaypal four years ago and they have a three-year-old daughter.
The woman alleged that soon after the marriage, her husband had started harassing her for dowry and she had left the house and started living in a house belonging to her in-laws in Vikas Nagar with her daughter.
She added that when she was cooking on May 23,her husband turned up there and poured hot oil on her straight from the frying pan. When she raised the alarm, he fled from the spot.
The woman had lodged a complaint on the women’s helpline (1091) on May 24 and was thereafter admitted to hospital. She has suffered minor burn injuries.
In-charge of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar police post, assistant sub-inspector Dharminder Kumar, said that Simarpreet had earlier filed an FIR for domestic violence against Ajaypal and their divorce is also pending in court.
A case under Section 498-A (dowry harassment) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of Indian Penal Code has been registered against the accused and a hunt is on for his arrest.
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Ludhiana: Building inspector in dock for ‘facilitating’ illegal construction
Senior Town Planner SS Bindra has recommended strict action against a building inspector for allegedly facilitating illegal construction and misguiding senior officials by submitting incorrect data in a report. The matter pertains to a complaint received by MC against an illegal construction in Paramjit Colony on Chandigarh Road. Bindra stated that apart from supporting illegal construction, the inspector has also caused loss to the state exchequer, due to which strict action is being recommended.
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Ludhiana: 38-yr-old man held for kidnapping bid on 10-yr-old girl
A 38-year-old was arrested on Thursday for attempting to kidnap a 10-year-old girl when she was on her way to school. Dev Raj has been identified as Dev Raj of Dhandra village, a salesman at a paint shop. The FIR was lodged based on the statement of the victim's father. The accused confessed to police that he tried to abduct the girl with the intention of sexually assaulting her. He was sent to judicial remand.
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Ludhiana: 2 held with 750-gram opium, ₹1 lakh
The CIA staff 1 of Ludhiana police arrested two men with 750-gram opium on Thursday. The accused have been identified as Praveen Sharma, 44, of New Lakshmi Colony on Kailash Nagar Road in Basti Jodhewal, who is a realtor, and a farmer, 31, of Payal, Charanpreet Singh. Police also seized a Hyundai Verna car and ₹1 lakh from them. In-charge of CIA-1 staff, Inspector Rajesh Kumar said the during interrogation, the accused revealed that they had procured the opium from Jharkhand.
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Ludhiana MC demands action against Punjab Dyers Association over dumping of untreated waste
Five days after snapping illegal sewer connections of around three dozen dyeing units in Focal Point area, Kakka Dhola Road and Tajpur Road, the municipal corporation wrote to the Punjab Pollution Control Board on Thursday seeking action against the Punjab Dyers Association.
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Seven arrested with 6 pistols in Tarn Taran
TARN TARAN: Seven persons have been arrested with six firearms in three cases in Tarn Taran, police said on Thursday. The accused have been identified as Boby, Rajan, Charanjit Singh and Gurmukh Singh of Patti, Akashdeep of Sursingh village, Harpal Singh of Sangatpura village, Satpal Singh of Thathi Jaimal Singh village and Bakshish Singh of Sakattra village. Rajan's questioning led the police to arrest Charanjit and Gurmukh. | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/ludhiana-man-booked-for-pouring-hot-oil-on-wife-101653596076841.html | 2022-05-26T21:44:12Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/ludhiana-man-booked-for-pouring-hot-oil-on-wife-101653596076841.html | true | 1 |
PM Pashinyan highlights clear position of United States in NK conflict settlement
YEREVAN, MAY 26, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a meeting with United States Ambassador to Armenia Lynne Tracy.
During the meeting the Prime Minister underscored the intensification of the Armenia-United States cooperation and strategic dialogue and attached importance to the clear position of the United States as an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairing country in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement issue, which contributes to regional stability, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
PM Pashinyan said that the Armenian Government is guided by the agenda of establishing peace and highly values the continuous support to this process by international partners, including the United States.
Ambassador Tracy thanked the Prime Minister for the appreciation and reiterated the readiness of the United States to continue supporting the democratic reforms in Armenia, the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and establishing regional stability. In this context Ambassador Tracy mentioned the recent call between the Armenian PM and the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and praised the Armenian Ambassador to United States Lilit Makunts’ efforts for intensifying the bilateral relations.
The sides also exchanged views over the Armenia-United States relations agenda. | https://www.armenpress.am/eng/news/1084285/ | 2022-05-26T21:44:34Z | https://www.armenpress.am/eng/news/1084285/ | true | 3 |
(JTA) — Two Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized in Germany this month as both the country’s interior ministry and a prominent watchdog group have published statistics suggesting an increase in antisemitic crimes.
On Monday, swastikas were found spray-painted on a wall in Hamburg’s centuries-old Altona cemetery, German news site t-online reported Tuesday.
Earlier this month, unidentified individuals knocked down 16 headstones at a Jewish cemetery and four others at a Catholic one nearby in Köthen, a town about 80 miles southwest of Berlin.
In a third incident, Nazi symbols were scrawled on a plaque commemorating Jewish victims of a concentration camp in Dresden, DNN reported on Tuesday.
A report published on May 10 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community recorded 3,027 antisemitic incidents in Germany in 2021 — a 28% increase over the 2020 tally.
The report recorded a drop in the number of other types of hate crimes, including anti-Muslim crimes (a decrease of 28% to 732 incidents); anti-Christian crimes (down 22% to 101 cases) and anti-foreigner hate crimes (down 10% to 4,735 cases).
The RIAS anti-discrimination watchdog group, which writes independently annual report about antisemitic incidents in Berlin, on Tuesday published its annual report on 2021, which counted 1,052 incidents. It was a slight increase over 2020, the the Jüdische Allgemeine Jewish newspaper reported.
Separately, the IKG Jewish community group in neighboring Austria documented nearly 1,000 incidents in that country in 2021 for its annual report. That is a record-high, but only a dozen or so cases were physical assaults. Many of the other incidents occurred online.
At the Köthen cemetery, the damage done to the Jewish section is estimated at about $10,000 of damage, the Jüdische Allgemeine reported. Police are looking for the culprits.
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For a world weary of fighting the coronavirus, the monkeypox outbreak poses a key question: Am I at risk?
The answer is reassuring. Most children and adults with healthy immune systems are likely to dodge severe illness, experts said in interviews. But there are two high-risk groups.
One comprises infants younger than six months. But they are not yet affected by the current outbreak. And many older adults, the group most likely to succumb to the monkeypox virus, are at least somewhat protected by decades-old smallpox vaccinations, studies suggest.
Vaccinated older adults might become infected but are likely to escape with only mild symptoms.
“The bottom line is that even those that were vaccinated many decades before maintain a very, very high level of antibodies and the ability to neutralize the virus,” said Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, scientific director of the National Institute on Aging.
Read | WHO says monkeypox 'containable', convening research meeting to support members
“Even if they were vaccinated 50 years ago, that protection should still be there,” he said.
In the United States, routine immunization for smallpox ceased in 1972. The military continued its vaccination program until 1991 as a precaution against a bioterrorism attack.
Questions about the smallpox vaccine’s durability rose after an anthrax attack in 2001, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration’s top adviser on infectious diseases. It was reasonable to assume that most vaccinated people were still protected, he said, “but durability of protection varies from person to person.”
“We can’t guarantee that a person who was vaccinated against smallpox is still going to be protected against monkeypox,” Fauci said.
The monkeypox outbreak has grown to include about 260 confirmed cases and scores more under investigation in 21 countries.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking nine cases in seven states, not all of which have a history of travel to countries where monkeypox is endemic. That suggests that there may already be some level of community transmission, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director, told reporters on Thursday.
Also Read | Monkeypox isn’t looking like a Covid-19-sized threat
Walensky said that 74 laboratories in 46 states have access to a test that can detect monkeypox, and together they can screen up to 7,000 samples a week. The agency is working to expand that capacity, she said, adding: “We’ve been preparing for this type of outbreak for decades.”
The monkeypox infection begins with respiratory symptoms but blooms into a distinct rash, first in the mouth, then the palms of the hand and soles of the feet, and gradually the rest of the body. The rash eventually becomes raised, growing into pus-filled blisters.
Each pustule contains live virus, and a ruptured blister can contaminate bed linens and other items, putting close contacts at risk. Infected people should also be very careful about rubbing their eyes because the virus can destroy sight.
“Before Jenner had developed the smallpox vaccine, the number one cause of blindness in the world was smallpox,” said Mark Slifka, an immunologist at Oregon Health and Science University. Infected people are contagious until the pustules scab over and slough off, he said.
Also Read | UN denounces racist, homophobic monkeypox reporting
Slifka and other experts emphasized that while monkeypox can be severe and even fatal, the current outbreak is unlikely to swell into a large epidemic.
“We’re lucky to have vaccines and therapeutics — things that can mitigate all that,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied monkeypox in Africa. “We do have the ability to stop this virus.”
Monkeypox takes up to 12 days to cause symptoms, giving doctors a window of at least five days after exposure to vaccinate and forestall disease. (The approach, called post-exposure prophylaxis, is not an option for COVID patients because the coronavirus can start to ravage the body just a couple days after exposure.)
The monkeypox virus does not spread in the absence of symptoms. Careful surveillance, isolation of infected people, contact tracing and quarantine of contacts should contain the outbreak, Rimoin said.
A majority of those infected currently are men under 50, and many identify as gay or bisexual, which may reflect the outbreak’s possible origins at a Gay Pride event in the Canary Islands. (The outbreak could just as easily have started among heterosexual people at a large event, experts said.)
“The risk of exposure is not limited to any one particular group,” Walensky said on Thursday. “Our priority is to help everyone make informed decisions to protect their health and the health of their community, and that starts with building awareness guided by science, not by stigma.”
No deaths have been reported. But experts are particularly concerned about close contacts who are children, older adults or who have weak immune systems for other reasons.
There are conflicting opinions on how long immunity from a smallpox vaccination lasts.
Also Read | Belgium becomes first country to introduce compulsory monkeypox quarantine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends boosters of smallpox vaccines every three years but only “for persons at risk of occupation exposure,” David Daigle, a spokesman for the agency, said in a statement.
“Until we know more, we will be using available vaccine stocks for people who’ve had close contact with known cases, and people at highest risk for exposure through their jobs, like health care workers treating monkeypox patients,” he said.
The United States and several European countries have begun immunizing close contacts of infected patients, an approach called ring vaccination.
Many of the most vulnerable groups might already be protected. In one study, Slifka and his colleagues drew blood from 306 vaccinated volunteers, some of whom had been immunized decades earlier, including one who had been immunized 75 years before. Most of them maintained high levels of antibodies to smallpox.
In another study, Slifka and his colleagues showed that antibodies produced by even a single dose of the smallpox vaccine decline very slowly in the body, dropping to half after about 92 years.
Ferrucci and his colleagues at the NIH, as well as other teams, have also found that antibody levels persist for decades after vaccination. Some studies have found that other branches of the immune system also wane slowly, but antibodies produced from smallpox vaccination may be enough on their own to protect against monkeypox.
If smallpox were to start spreading, it would make sense to immunize anyone who is exposed because of its high mortality rate, regardless of a previous vaccination, said Gigi Gronvall, a biosecurity expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
“We wouldn’t want to take the chance that somebody was left unprotected,” she said.
Also Read | Biden: Monkeypox threat doesn't rise to level of Covid-19
But that is not necessary now, she added: “This is monkeypox.”
Laboratory evidence of antibodies does not prove that smallpox vaccination can protect against monkeypox. But answering that question would require that study participants be deliberately infected with smallpox or a related virus, an obviously unethical experiment.
For the same reason, newer smallpox vaccines and drugs have been tested only in animals.
Still, one way to study the vaccine’s effectiveness in people is to gather evidence during an outbreak. Slifka’s team did just that in 2003, when dozens of Americans became infected with monkeypox after being exposed to infected prairie dogs.
The researchers flew into Milwaukee and drew blood from 28 people who had been exposed to the infected prairie dogs. Of the eight people who had previously been vaccinated, five developed an average of three pus-filled blisters, compared with an average of 33 in those who were unvaccinated.
The other three vaccinated individuals had no symptoms at all. “They didn’t even know they had been infected,” Slifka said.
Another study of that outbreak found that in a family of three, the previously vaccinated father developed just two monkeypox lesions compared with 200 in the unvaccinated mother. Their unvaccinated 6-year-old daughter had about 90 lesions and was in a coma for 12 days.
Questions about the durability of vaccine protection against monkeypox have taken on particular significance as the number of cases worldwide has risen. Monkeypox reemerged among people in Nigeria in 2017, and there have since been about 200 confirmed cases and 500 suspected cases.
Congo has recorded 58 deaths and nearly 1,300 suspected cases since the beginning of this year.
People in African villages used to contract monkeypox from animals while hunting but rarely infected others. “It’s only very recently, like, just the last few years, when we started to see this,” Rimoin said of bigger outbreaks.
The eradication of smallpox, while one of the greatest achievements in public health, has left populations vulnerable to the virus and to its cousins.
Diminishing immunity, coupled with a rise in population and increased proximity to wild animals, could result in more frequent monkeypox outbreaks, Rimoin and her colleagues warned in 2010.
Unrestrained outbreaks, particularly among immunocompromised people, would give the virus more opportunity to acquire mutations that make it more resilient — in people and in animals.
“If monkeypox were to establish itself in a wildlife reservoir outside of Africa, the public health setback would be enormous,” Rimoin said. “That, I think, is a legitimate concern.”
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SmallHD releases lightweight, bright 5-inch monitor
SmallHD has launched a lightweight, 5-inch video monitor with 2000 nits of brightness.
The Action 5 Monitor is available today for $329 and features a lightweight 5.5” LCD touchscreen with 2000nits brightness, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 1080p resolution, 440 PPI, Rec. 709 color and advanced software tools that have been simplified for one-touch functionality.
- Display: 5.5” LCD
- Resolution: 1080p
- Brightness: 2000nits
- I/O: 2x HDMI 2.0
- Software: ActionOS
“The Action 5 is the perfect on-ramp into the SmallHD ecosystem of monitors; it offers a simplified user interface, daylight-viewable display, and a lightweight form factor that you would expect from SmallHD–all without breaking the bank,” said Dave Bredbury, Product Manager for CS Cine.
“Whether you’re a newcomer looking for your first monitor or a professional who needs a secondary or backup solution, the Action 5 offers one-touch functionality and the most user-friendly OS on the market, based on the same SmallHD UX and UI found on the biggest Hollywood film sets.”
SmallHD’s Action 5 Monitor weighs in at 10 oz, attaches via HDMI to almost any camera setup and comes with a combination battery plate supporting Sony L-Series or Canon LP-E6 batteries right out of the box. The HDMI I/O is adjacent to the power input on the left side of the monitor while the bottom, back, and right sides all provide 1/4”–20 mounting points. The SmallHD Action 5 Monitor comes with a mini-to-full-size HDMI cable, a micro-to-full-size HDMI cable and a custom mounting solution for the camera’s shoe mount.
The included ActionOS toolset, a scaled-down version of Page OS4—is designed to be mastered in 60 seconds or less. ActionOS allows for one-touch adjustment and selection of tool attributes and characteristics, including Focus Assist, Expose Tool, Look Tool, and Frame. Focus Assist accentuates in-focus areas of the image for at-a-glance adjustments; the Expose Tool incorporates false-color and an exposure scale to ensure proper lighting; the Look Tool offers contrast adjustment for Log-based footage and the Frame Tool provides various frame lines to ensure there is no loss of key data when capturing video.
“Our goal at SmallHD is to help content creators capture their vision with excellence in the most efficient way possible. The Action 5 is another tool in the filmmaker’s arsenal that will help them reach the highest of heights,” adds Bredbury. “The drive to create exists equally at both ends of the professional spectrum, and we’re proud to make our product line more accessible, intuitive, and affordable for new filmmakers on a budget or seasoned professionals looking for a reliable backup solution.”
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After recent news events like the war in Ukraine and last year’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have released statements expressing their condolences for the victims. But after the mass shooting in Uvalde that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, Meghan opted for an in-person tribute at Robb Elementary School. According to a spokesperson for the couple, Meghan traveled to Uvalde on Thursday in a personal capacity “as a mother” to express her condolences and provide support for the community.
Meghan was photographed at Robb wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and a pair of sneakers and carrying a bouquet of white roses. She laid the roses down in front of a cross, one of 19 erected on the elementary school’s grounds to honor the victims. According to BuzzFeed News, she also visited a community center hosting a blood drive to donate packages of “sandwiches, beverages, and desserts.”
“She was just really sweet,” volunteer Georjean Burnell told the outlet. “She just kind of walked in with her crew and started putting ice waters in the bucket with us and laying out chips for the people who were needing snacks before and after donating.... It’s funny, we didn't even know it was her until after she left and now we're so sad. I mean, to be honest, we thought she was our neighbor.”
White roses became one of the symbols of mourning after Princess Diana’s death in 1997. In 2017 gardeners at Kensington Palace redesigned the Sunken Garden in her honor and the design featured rows of white rose bushes. When Meghan and Harry were wed in May 2018, she carried a bouquet of white roses and forget-me-nots, which were said to be Diana’s favorite flower. St. George’s Chapel, where the ceremony took place, was also decorated with an array of white flowers.
Mental health is central to the couple’s work with the Archewell Foundation, and Harry has spoken about the effects of grief throughout his time as a royal. Meghan isn’t the first royal to make a quiet visit to a public memorial in the aftermath of tragedy. In March 2021, Kate Middleton visited a makeshift memorial in London’s Clapham Commons to pay her respects to Sarah Everard, a woman who was abducted from the park and later found dead. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/meghan-markle-traveled-to-uvalde-robb-elementary-shooting | 2022-05-26T21:50:31Z | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/meghan-markle-traveled-to-uvalde-robb-elementary-shooting | false | 1 |
CHICAGO (AP) — Another Illinois resident has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after being arrested this week.
Matthew Bokoski, 31, was arrested Wednesday on a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington charging him with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and unlawfully entering a restricted government building.
During a hearing in federal court in Chicago, Magistrate Judge Heather McShain ordered him released on his own recognizance.
Bokoski and his father, Bradley James Bokoski, 58, of Utah, traveled to Washington to hear President Donald Trump speak at a rally on Jan. 6 and then followed the crowd to the Capitol, which they entered through a breached Senate door, the complaint said. The elder Bokoski was arrested Wednesday near his home in Utah.
After the crowd was met by 10 to 15 police officers, both men turned around and left, the complaint said. They were in the building for about five minutes.
A tip to the FBI provide screenshots of Matthew Bokoski’s Facebook page, including one post depicting a group of people inside the Capitol and a caption reading, “I was with my dad and walked right up the capital steps and inside with others,” the complaint said.
A defense attorney listed for Matthew Bokoski declined to comment.
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Brokerages expect Transcat, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRNS – Get Rating) to post earnings of $0.36 per share for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks reports. Two analysts have provided estimates for Transcat’s earnings, with the lowest EPS estimate coming in at $0.31 and the highest estimate coming in at $0.41. Transcat posted earnings per share of $0.49 during the same quarter last year, which suggests a negative year-over-year growth rate of 26.5%. The business is scheduled to report its next quarterly earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Transcat will report full year earnings of $1.75 per share for the current year, with EPS estimates ranging from $1.63 to $1.87. Zacks Investment Research’s EPS averages are a mean average based on a survey of analysts that that provide coverage for Transcat.
Several equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Transcat from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 5th. Craig Hallum reduced their target price on shares of Transcat from $94.00 to $81.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. Roth Capital reduced their target price on shares of Transcat from $97.00 to $80.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday. Finally, StockNews.com started coverage on Transcat in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a “hold” rating for the company. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has assigned a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Transcat currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $90.50.
In related news, CEO Lee D. Rudow sold 5,210 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Saturday, March 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $74.21, for a total value of $386,634.10. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. 6.60% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in TRNS. US Bancorp DE increased its stake in Transcat by 137.9% in the first quarter. US Bancorp DE now owns 345 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 200 shares during the period. Marshall Wace North America L.P. increased its stake in Transcat by 157.5% in the first quarter. Marshall Wace North America L.P. now owns 1,545 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 945 shares during the period. Royal Bank of Canada increased its stake in Transcat by 30.4% in the third quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 631 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $40,000 after purchasing an additional 147 shares during the period. Covestor Ltd purchased a new stake in Transcat in the fourth quarter worth $44,000. Finally, Denali Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Transcat in the fourth quarter worth $46,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 75.11% of the company’s stock.
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Transcat, Inc provides calibration and laboratory instrument services in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Service and Distribution. The Service segment offers calibration, repair, inspection, analytical qualification, preventative maintenance, consulting, and other related services.
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What happened
Shares of Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) were up 13.9% as of 1:07 p.m. ET on Thursday after the company delivered better-than-expected earnings results. Comparable store-sales growth was strong, coming in at 9.5%. That represents an increase of 49.5% on a two-year basis.
Even more important was a slight improvement in gross margin, which shows the company handling the supply chain issues and inflationary environment well. The stock is down 22% year to date but has more than doubled over the last five years.
So what
Williams-Sonoma is delivering balanced top- and bottom-line growth, which is not easy in this challenging economic environment for a retail stock. Even the company's two store brands, Pottery Barn and West Elm, reported balanced comp store-sales growth in the low double digits.
During the earnings call, CEO Laura Alber credited the company's e-commerce business for driving strong operating results:
Understanding our industry is key to putting our outstanding results in perspective. We operate in a large and fragmented industry that generates more than half of its sales from smaller brick-and-mortar retailers that do not have sophisticated e-commerce capabilities.
Alber said the company can capture more of this $830 billion addressable market.
Now what
Alber noted that while the near-term economic environment is "challenging," the housing market remains strong. Management believes the hybrid work trend with more people working at home will continue to drive momentum in home spending.
It should be noted that not all companies in the home goods market are reporting such strong numbers. Wayfair has reported falling revenue in recent quarters as more people return to in-store shopping. Offering customers both an in-store and online shopping experience certainly is a win-win strategy in 2022.
Management expects full-year revenue to be in the mid-to-high single digits. By fiscal 2024, revenue is expected to reach $10 billion, up from $8.2 billion last year.
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Rudy Giuliani Flips Out On Heckler In Profanity-Laced Parade Tirade
Rudy Giuliani , the former New York mayor and henchman to Donald Trump , lost his cool at a heckler during the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York on Sunday.
It’s not clear what the heckler said, but it caught Giuliani’s attention as he made a beeline to the barricades where onlookers were gathered.
“I reduced crime, you jackass,” Giuliani fired back. “You are a brainwashed asshole.”
“Very classy,” someone ― possibly the initial heckler ― said sarcastically. “Class act.”
“I am a class act,” Giuliani declared. “You’re probably as demented as Biden!”
The “Borat 2” star then stormed off, furiously waving a tiny Israeli flag.
The moment was caught on video by journalist Jacob Kornbluh of The Forward, a news website aimed at a Jewish audience:
Giuliani, as he does in this video, has often claimed credit for a drop in crime rates in New York during his administration.
However, analysts say the reality is much more complicated: PolitiFact notes the decline in crime rates actually began several years before Giuliani took office. And while the trend continued under his mayorship, it was also part of a nationwide decline in crime and the impact of his policies is debatable.
His latest incident comes days after he reportedly was questioned for nine hours by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, carried out by Trump supporters attempting to block the certification of the election.
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Downtown Minneapolis is doubling down on Prince iconography this summer as the Minneapolis City Council voted Friday to add the commemorative street name of "Prince Rogers Nelson Way" to the block outside First Avenue.
Crown Our Prince Mural organizers Sharon Smith-Akinsanya and Joan Vorderbruggen applied for the street name in partnership with the Minneapolis Downtown Council. They have scheduled an unveiling for June 7, Prince's birthday. The cult musician would have been 64
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The new sign will follow an enormous 100-foot Prince mural coming to Ramp A on June 2. Ramp A is public parking ramp that looms over visitors entering downtown from I-394, so no one should ever be confused about Minneapolis' manic love for its most famous cultural figure.
A block party is scheduled from 7-10 p.m., June 2.
"It's bittersweet, really," said Smith-Akinsanya, CEO of Rae Mackenzie Group. "It's the seventh year of our efforts to get Prince recognized, and it's only now finally happening. While I think it's great how we are coming together to get this done — corporations, organizations, community leaders, city and state officials, and Prince's family — Joan and I wish Prince was here to see it and smell his flowers."
"It was important for Sharon and me to honor Prince in a way that would last for years to come," said Vorderbruggen, a public art consultant. "When we started on our journey to create the mural it just made sense for us to add the street naming, it truly is the icing on top."
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After an extensive audit during the Covid-19 pandemic, EULEN America is certified for IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO), aiming to ensure continuation of Ground Services Registrations and Station Accreditations
MIAMI , May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EULEN America, a leader in providing services and innovative solutions to companies, including aviation services, has announced that the company has been credited with the ISAGO certification. This International certification authenticates the compliance of operation safety standards for organization and management (ORM), load control (LOD), passenger and baggage handling (PAB), aircraft handling and loading (HDL), aircraft ground movement (AGM) as well as cargo and mail handling (CGM). The certification is valid for two years, due for renewal in November 2023.
"We are committed to providing the highest level of quality of service and safety standards to our clients," said Larry Massaro, Senior Vice President of Aviation at EULEN America. "This new certification covers all our stations and provides a high standard in terms of safety for our organization."
EULEN America received the Head-Office license, which covers all stations where the company operates. Additionally, they are certified for the Miami International Airport license. Although the company has been certified since 2010, the Miami-Dade Aviation Department requires compliance with this certification, and periodic renewals to operate in Miami.
The audit streamlines procedures by establishing a uniform set of standards. Also, it assesses the management and oversight systems in place at the Ground Service Provider's Corporate Headquarters, as well as the consistency at the station level.
"Receiving this ISAGO certification is tremendously important to our organization, particularly during the challenging times the Covid-19 pandemic presented to our industry," said Mr. Massaro." This allows us to guarantee the highest standard of safety in the services we provide at airports."
As part of EULEN America's renewed management, Massaro is responsible for contract negotiation and resolving issues to ensure processes, systems, products, regulations, and data are delivered seamlessly to all aviation customers. He is also in charge of day-to-day oversight of the EULEN Aviation operations, strategic planning, leadership development, and employee engagement.
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Low-cost Vaccine Clinic for Animals Being Offered in Skiatook
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A low-cost vaccine clinic for dogs and cats will be available on Saturday, June 4th in Skiatook. While supplies last, microchips will cost $20, while heart worm testing and rabies shots will cost $6. Other services will be offered at the clinic.
The event is set to last from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Skiatook's Paws and Claws, located at 4605 W C Rogers Blvd.
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HOUSTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Former President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans are scheduled to address the three-day firearms industry marketing event, which is expected to draw protesters fed up with gun violence.
Some scheduled speakers and performers have backed out, including two Texas lawmakers and “American Pie” singer Don McLean, who said “it would be disrespectful” to go ahead with his act in the aftermath of the country’s latest mass shooting.
While President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws, NRA board member Phil Journey said the focus should be on better mental health care and trying to prevent gun violence. He said he wouldn't support banning or limiting access to firearms.
The NRA said in an online statement that meeting attendees will “reflect on” the Uvalde school shooting, “pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members, and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure.”
People planning to attend picked up registration badges Thursday and shopped for NRA souvenirs, such as T-shirts that say “Suns Out Guns Out.” Police already had set up metal barriers across the street from the convention center, at a park where protesters are expected to gather Friday.
Texas has experienced a series of mass shootings in recent years. During that time, the Republican-led Legislature and governor have relaxed gun laws.
There is precedent for the NRA to gather amid local mourning and controversy. The organization went ahead with a shortened version of its 1999 meeting in Denver roughly a week after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. Actor Charlton Heston, the NRA president at that time, told attendees that “horrible acts” shouldn’t become opportunities to limit constitutional rights and he denounced critics for casting NRA members as “villains.”
Rocky Marshall, a former NRA board member, said that although the tragedy in Uvalde “does put the meeting in a bad light,” that's not a reason to cancel it. Marshall said gun-rights advocates and opponents can perhaps reduce gun violence if they focus on factors such as mental illness or school security.
“Throwing rocks at the NRA, that doesn’t solve the next mass shooting,” he said. “Throwing rocks at the people that hate guns, that doesn’t solve the next mass shooting.”
But country music singer Larry Gatlin, who pulled out of planned appearance at the event, said he hopes “the NRA will rethink some of its outdated and ill-thought-out positions.”
“While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction,” Gatlin said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the NRA's leaders “are contributing to the problem of gun violence and not trying to solve it.” She accused them of representing the interests of gun manufacturers, “who are marketing weapons of war to young adults.”
Two Republican Texas lawmakers who had been scheduled speak Friday — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw — are no longer attending due to what their staffs said were changes in their schedules.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, both Republicans, were listed as speakers, and Trump said Wednesday that he still intends to attend. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, also is sticking to her plans to speak Friday at the NRA event.
Though personal firearms are allowed at the convention, the NRA said guns would not be permitted during the session featuring Trump because of Secret Service security protocols.
Several groups have said they planned to stage protests outside of the convention center.
“This is not the time or the place to have this convention," said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of FIEL, a Houston-based civil rights group that plans to participate in protests. "We must not just have thoughts and prayers from legislators, but rather we need action to address this public health crisis that is affecting our communities.”
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, said the city is obligated to host the NRA event, which has been under contract for more than two years. But he urged politicians to skip it.
"You can’t pray and send condolences on one day and then be going and championing guns on the next. That’s wrong,” Turner said.
Shannon Watts, the founder of gun-control group Moms Demand Action, said she was not surprised the NRA is not canceling its meeting.
“The real question now is which elected officials will choose to side with violence and go kiss the ring in Houston this weekend instead of siding with communities crying out for public safety,” Watts said.
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Kathryn Redmond remembers Mona Fort, who died from COVID at age 67, with the song My Way by Frank Sinatra. The song accompanied the photo tribute at her funeral.
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Kathryn Redmond remembers Mona Fort, who died from COVID at age 67, with the song My Way by Frank Sinatra. The song accompanied the photo tribute at her funeral.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with one of the creators of a "mass shooting checklist" designed to help mayors and city managers in the first 24 hours after one of these attacks.
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PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE:PBF – Get Rating)’s share price hit a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Thursday . The company traded as high as $32.49 and last traded at $31.35, with a volume of 1519325 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $31.62.
A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on PBF. Credit Suisse Group lifted their price objective on shares of PBF Energy from $16.50 to $20.50 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, March 22nd. TheStreet upgraded shares of PBF Energy from a “d+” rating to a “c” rating in a research note on Thursday, February 10th. Piper Sandler lifted their price objective on shares of PBF Energy to $43.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday. Scotiabank upgraded shares of PBF Energy from an “underperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and boosted their target price for the company from $15.00 to $27.00 in a research note on Monday, April 18th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company raised shares of PBF Energy from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and upped their target price for the stock from $20.00 to $30.00 in a report on Thursday, April 21st. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have given a hold rating, three have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, PBF Energy has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $24.65.
The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.71, a current ratio of 1.25 and a quick ratio of 0.69. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.79 billion, a PE ratio of 15.05 and a beta of 2.25. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $27.20 and its 200-day moving average price is $19.91.
In other PBF Energy news, insider Control Empresarial De Capital sold 15,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $31.09, for a total value of $466,350.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 14,528,183 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $451,681,209.47. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CFO C Erik Young sold 60,296 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $30.30, for a total value of $1,826,968.80. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 66,893 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,026,857.90. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 5,189,363 shares of company stock valued at $149,741,533. Corporate insiders own 5.60% of the company’s stock.
A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Nelson Van Denburg & Campbell Wealth Management Group LLC purchased a new position in shares of PBF Energy in the first quarter valued at $48,000. Quadrant Capital Group LLC increased its position in shares of PBF Energy by 93.3% in the fourth quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC now owns 2,391 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 1,154 shares in the last quarter. Meeder Asset Management Inc. increased its position in shares of PBF Energy by 354.0% in the first quarter. Meeder Asset Management Inc. now owns 2,792 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $68,000 after buying an additional 2,177 shares in the last quarter. Point72 Hong Kong Ltd purchased a new position in shares of PBF Energy in the first quarter valued at $76,000. Finally, US Bancorp DE increased its position in shares of PBF Energy by 18.9% in the third quarter. US Bancorp DE now owns 6,018 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $78,000 after buying an additional 956 shares in the last quarter. 69.95% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
About PBF Energy (NYSE:PBF)
PBF Energy Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in refining and supplying petroleum products. The company operates in two segments, Refining and Logistics. It produces gasoline, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, heating oil, diesel fuel, jet fuel, lubricants, petrochemicals, and asphalt, as well as unbranded transportation fuels, petrochemical feedstocks, blending components, and other petroleum products.
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Wall Street brokerages predict that Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNS – Get Rating) will announce $2.25 million in sales for the current quarter, Zacks reports. Five analysts have made estimates for Marinus Pharmaceuticals’ earnings, with the lowest sales estimate coming in at $2.00 million and the highest estimate coming in at $2.63 million. Marinus Pharmaceuticals posted sales of $1.91 million during the same quarter last year, which suggests a positive year over year growth rate of 17.8%. The business is expected to announce its next earnings results on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Marinus Pharmaceuticals will report full-year sales of $44.83 million for the current fiscal year, with estimates ranging from $22.64 million to $127.70 million. For the next fiscal year, analysts anticipate that the business will report sales of $29.63 million, with estimates ranging from $16.90 million to $49.18 million. Zacks’ sales calculations are a mean average based on a survey of analysts that cover Marinus Pharmaceuticals.
Marinus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MRNS – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, March 21st. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.77) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.81) by $0.04. Marinus Pharmaceuticals had a negative return on equity of 145.46% and a negative net margin of 328.21%. The firm had revenue of $1.52 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.64 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.55) EPS.
Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Virtu Financial LLC purchased a new position in shares of Marinus Pharmaceuticals in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $221,000. Quantbot Technologies LP purchased a new position in shares of Marinus Pharmaceuticals in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $40,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its stake in Marinus Pharmaceuticals by 3.5% during the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 156,949 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $1,468,000 after buying an additional 5,380 shares during the last quarter. Suvretta Capital Management LLC raised its stake in Marinus Pharmaceuticals by 4.8% during the first quarter. Suvretta Capital Management LLC now owns 2,766,000 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $25,862,000 after buying an additional 127,225 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Maven Securities LTD raised its stake in Marinus Pharmaceuticals by 40.0% during the first quarter. Maven Securities LTD now owns 35,000 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $327,000 after buying an additional 10,000 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 80.89% of the company’s stock.
NASDAQ:MRNS traded up $0.11 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $5.01. 6,731 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 304,669. The company has a quick ratio of 3.25, a current ratio of 6.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.94. Marinus Pharmaceuticals has a 12 month low of $4.19 and a 12 month high of $19.83. The stock has a market cap of $186.07 million, a PE ratio of -1.98 and a beta of 1.49. The company has a fifty day moving average of $7.53 and a 200 day moving average of $9.56.
Marinus Pharmaceuticals Company Profile (Get Rating)
Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a pharmaceutical company, focuses on development and commercialization of products for patients suffering from rare genetic epilepsies and other seizure disorders. It offers ZTALMY, an oral suspension for the treatment of seizures associated with cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 deficiency disorder for adult and pediatric patient populations in acute and chronic care, and in-patient and self-administered settings.
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Equity Trustees has found that the most popular recent fund launches are in global equities, but there is also strong growth in retail and ESG themed funds.
The 100 body of research developed by Equity Trustees has shown that 34% of funds brought to market over the past 24 months were global equity funds. This was followed by global and domestic fixed income (17%), Australian equities (16%) and multi-asset funds (12%).
The analysis found 83% of funds had no primary theme but of those that did most had an environment, social and governance (ESG) theme.
On the rise of ESG funds, Equity Trustees managing director Mick O'Brien said: "This was a significant jump compared to previous years and today we are seeing a large variety of ESG-orientated investment strategies being developed."
"We expect to see this theme to continue as we push towards a carbon neutral world by 2050.
"The key focus of these funds is the environment and reducing environmental impact through investing. The range of strategies is very wide, from having some exclusions to actively looking to invest in a positive manner to improve the environment - and everything in between."
O'Brien added that an increasing number of managers are signatories to the UNPRI directory and are now committed to incorporating ESG into their investment strategies.
As an example, many Australian super funds have signed up to be tobacco free. As dozens of funds including Australian Ethical, CareSuper, Cbus and HESTA having signed up to be tobacco free, this has triggered fund managers to follow suit, O'Brien said.
Of the 100 newest funds, just over half were launched by domestic fund managers but Equity Trustees executive general manager of corporate trustee services Russell Beasley foresees a shifting trend.
Beasley said: "We expect to see more global fund managers entering the Australian market as borders reopen after two years without being able to travel."
"Of the global managers setting up funds in Australia, 18% were head-quartered in the US, 6% in the UK, 5% in New Zealand, 3% in Switzerland and 3% in Hong Kong.
"When establishing master feeder structures, the majority of master funds were Luxembourg SICAVs (29%), followed by Cayman-registered funds (18%) and Delaware LLCs (11%).
Beasley continued: "The majority of funds (81%) were developed for the direct retail or platform market, with just one in five funds now being developed purely for the wholesale market alone."
"There was strong demand for investment funds from retail investors during COVID; funds that they could understand and relate to. Increased regulation and investor protection is certainly driving this interest in retail products."
The 100 analysis found retail funds flows over the year to April 2022 had increased from $4.3 billion to almost $6 billion. Likewise, wholesale fund flows increased from $800 million to just over $1 billion.
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(Bloomberg) — US mortgage rates posted the biggest drop in more than two years, offering homebuyers a slight reprieve from this year’s massive surge in borrowing costs.
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The average for a 30-year loan declined to 5.10% from 5.25% last week, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday. That was the biggest decline since April 2020, but rates are still well above the 3.11% level at the end of last year.
While rates slipped for the second week in a row, their rapid rise over the past four months has started to take a toll on demand. New home sales, measuring signed contracts, dropped to the lowest level since the start of the pandemic lockdowns, according to government data released this week. A gauge of US pending home sales also decreased in April for a sixth straight month, data showed Thursday.
“Mortgage rates leveling off is a lifeline for prospective homebuyers already dealing with inflation and record-high listing prices, and welcome news for the housing market at large,” Joel Berner, Realtor.com’s senior economic research analyst, said in an email. “Dark and stormy is the current mood, but a period of steadier rates below recent highs will give buyers, sellers, and builders alike the time to adjust to the new financial environment.”
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates to combat inflation, raising affordability concerns for buyers who are struggling to find properties. The median mortgage payment for new purchase applications in April was up 8.8% from a month earlier due to higher rates and rising home prices, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data released Thursday.
At the current 30-year average, a borrower with a $300,000 mortgage would pay $1,628 a month, roughly $346 more than at the end of last year.
The dip in rates will offer lower borrowing costs, but home prices have been on the rise for two years with a shortage of listings making it hard for potential buyers to crack the market. Economic uncertainty and the worsening affordability situation has raised questions about whether the housing boom will run out of steam.
“Mortgage rates decreased for the second week in a row due to multiple headwinds that the economy is facing,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement. “Despite the recent moderation in rates, the housing market has clearly slowed, and the deceleration is spreading to other segments of the economy, such as consumer spending on durable goods.”
(Updates with pending home sales in third paragraph and analyst comment in fourth paragraph.)
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GOFFS: A 28-year-old Waverley man has been charged with a plethora of firearm-related offences following a single-vehicle collision on Old Guysburough Road in Goffs on May 23.
Police say that at approximately 9 p.m., Halifax District RCMP responded to a vehicle crash on Old Guysborough RD. in Goffs.
“Officers learned that an Audi A3 left the roadway and came to rest in the ditch,” said Const. Guillaume Tremblay, with N.S. RCMP.
He said a witness rendered assistance to the uninjured driver, 28-year-old Aaron Matthew Poole of Waverley.
“While exiting the vehicle, Poole placed a firearm in a bag and asked the witness to drive him within cell phone range to make a call,” said Const. Tremblay. “The witness complied and then returned to the scene of the crash with the man.
“At that time, Poole retrieved a second bag from the Audi.”
He said when police searched the bags, which resulted in the seizure of over $2,000 cash, cannabis, hash, a 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition.
Poole was safely arrested at the scene and has been charged with the following offences:
- Careless Use of a Firearm (two counts)
- Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose
- Carrying Concealed Weapon
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm
- Possession of a Firearm while Knowing Its Possession is Unauthorized
- Unauthorized Possession in Motor Vehicle
- Possession of Prohibited or Restricted Firearm with Ammunition
- Possession Contrary to Order (two counts)
Poole was held in custody and was scheduled to appear appeared in Dartmouth Provincial Court on May 24.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Dear Abby: Abuse victim can’t get mother to see truth
Dear Abby: One of my siblings was abused as a child. In turn, he abused me when he was a pre-teen and into his teens. It stopped when he got a girlfriend at the age of 14. This was news to my parents.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, I have tried to explain to my mom that I don’t like being around him. She has heard me, but she pretends like it didn’t happen and still tries to get everyone together for holidays, etc. The idea of seeing him makes me sick, and I’m terrified for his children.
I went to therapy as a young adult to work out my issues with him and what happened. The abuse has affected my ability to hold on to relationships, and I fight depression often, which I am good at hiding. She keeps saying, “but you were so close as kids.” I don’t think she understands what “grooming” is. Can you PLEASE explain it in a manner that doesn’t make me feel like it was all my fault?
— Getting Beyond It
Dear Getting: Your fault? NONE of what happened was your fault! Predators groom victims by first establishing a close relationship with them, telling them they are “special,” that their bond is special, that the usual rules of behavior do not apply to them, bestowing time, attention and gifts, and pledging them to secrecy. Please show this to your mother. I hope it will help her understand that getting the family together is not in the cards now or ever.
I am concerned by your statement that the abuse has caused you to be depressed, which you are “good at hiding,” and which prevents you from forming relationships. Those issues might be resolved if, as an adult, you consult another licensed psychotherapist. While it may not be something you wish to revisit, I hope you will consider it. | https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/dear-abby-abuse-victim-cant-get-mother-to-see-truth/ | 2022-05-26T22:32:39Z | https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/dear-abby-abuse-victim-cant-get-mother-to-see-truth/ | false | 17 |
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(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s Faith & Reason, the panel discussed Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone banning Nancy Pelosi from Holy Communion, the globalist machinations of the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization, and the latest news about the monkeypox virus.
Liz Yore found it interesting Pelosi took a few days to react to her bishop’s announcement.
“I was waiting immediately for Nancy to jump off at the podium in Congress, where she always sits at her press conference, and just wag her finger and be very pouncing on the podium. But instead, it was three or four days before she responded,” Yore said.
“She didn’t go to the podium … she went to sit down in her pink outfit and talk to Mika Brzezinski, another liberal Catholic, and frankly I thought Nancy was incoherent, rambling, made absolutely no sense … She’s clearly slipping cognitively, and so she’s overstayed her welcome in politics. She’s now on the wrong side of history.”
Father James Altman’s reaction to Pelosi is about what you’d expect it to be, adding that Archbishop Cordileone “did the right thing” but could’ve and should’ve banned her from Holy Communion much sooner.
“So Cordileone did not do what he was supposed to do 10 years ago, and every year since,” he said. “So now he’s finally doing something. I don’t think Jesus is pleased. And then when you see only … a couple dozen bishops came out to help him, to support him … The vast majority chickened out. They didn’t know what they were supposed to do. They are unprofitable servants.”
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DOWS CITY-- One of the last remaining U.S. Navy W.A.V.E.S., a group of women who served in World War II, has died.
Estelle J. Leinen died at home on May 17 at the age of 100.
Graduating from high school in 1940, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (or W.A.V.E.S. for short) in 1943, after being recruited by Genevieve Sullivan, sister of the five Waterloo, Iowa-born Sullivan Brothers, who were all killed in action on the light cruiser USS Juneau in 1942.
The women's branch of the U.S. Naval Reserves W.A.V.E.S was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This law authorized the Navy to accept women into the Naval Reserve as commissioned officers and, at the enlisted level, effective for the duration of World War II, plus six months.
Although the branch was only around from July 1942 to Sept. 1946, an estimated 87,000 W.A.V.E.S. served at that time.
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This included Leinen, who completed U.S. Naval Training School at Hunter College, in the Bronx, New York, where she receive the rating of a storekeeper. She subsequently completed Storekeeper Specialist Training School from the University of Indiana, in Bloomington, Indiana.
For her W.A.V.E.S. service, Leinen received her Honorable Service Lapel in Aug. 1946. She married her husband Lavern P. "Spider" Leinen, a sailor from Earling, Iowa, the very next month.
Eventually, the Leinens settled in Dow City, where they had a large family farm as well as Leinen's Produce, which bought and sold agricultural products from farmers in four counties in Iowa.
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NOW Token (NOW) traded flat against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on May 26th. One NOW Token coin can currently be purchased for $0.0258 or 0.00000068 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. NOW Token has a market capitalization of $2.15 million and $1,803.00 worth of NOW Token was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, NOW Token has traded flat against the dollar.
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- Bitsubishi (BITSU) traded up 211.3% against the dollar and now trades at $47,283.38 or 1.59675036 BTC.
- JUMPN (JST) traded 52.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.86 or 0.00019785 BTC.
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Carbon Market: Results of May 18th Auction held between Québec and California Français
May 26, 2022, 17:35 ET
QUÉBEC, May 26, 2022 /CNW Telbec/ - The results of the 31st auction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission units held on May 18 jointly with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) were released today.
During the sale, 58,331,300 current vintage emission units were sold at $39.59 CA ($30.85 US), and 7,942,750 2025 vintage emission units went for $36.10 CA ($28.13 US). The sale generated in the order of 374 million Canadian dollars in revenue for Québec. This entire amount will be paid into the Electrification and Climate Change Fund to finance the measures contained in the 2030 Plan for a green economy.
- Until now, the carbon market has generated revenue of over 6 billion dollars for Québec, all of which is used to support Québec companies, municipalities, institutions and citizens in their transition to a low carbon world.
- The next auction will take place on Wednesday August 17, 2022. An official notice will be published on the MELCC website 60 days before the auction, as stipulated in the regulation. The registration period will begin on the day the notice is published.
- Québec adopted GHG emission reduction target below 1990 levels of 37,5% by 2030. As announced in the 2030 Plan for a Green Economy the government intends to make a longer-term commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
- The summary of the May 18, 2022 auction results is available on the Ministry website at:
- www.environnement.gouv.qc.ca/changements/carbone/ventes-encheres/avis-resultats-en.htm
SOURCE Ministère de l'Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques
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- Initial Data to be Presented from GSK-Sponsored Phase 1/2 Study Evaluating Nirogacestat in Combination with Low-Dose BLENREP in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma -
- Long-Term Follow-up Data from NCI-Sponsored Phase 2 Study of Nirogacestat in Patients with Progressing Desmoid Tumors Also to be Presented -
STAMFORD, Conn., May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SpringWorks Therapeutics, Inc. ( SWTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing life-changing medicines for patients with severe rare diseases and cancer, today announced initial clinical data from the Phase 1/2 study evaluating nirogacestat, SpringWorks’ investigational gamma secretase inhibitor, in combination with BLENREP (belantamab mafodotin-blmf), GSK plc’s (LSE/: GSK) antibody drug conjugate targeting B-cell maturation agent (BCMA), in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). In addition, SpringWorks also highlighted long-term follow-up data from a Phase 2 study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) evaluating nirogacestat in patients with progressing desmoid tumors, which included follow-up on progression-free survival and long-term safety data.2 These data sets will be shared in poster sessions at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, June 3-7, 2022 in Chicago.
“We are encouraged by the emerging clinical profile of nirogacestat with low-dose BLENREP given the promising efficacy and safety profile that we have seen to date, and we look forward to the maturation of the Phase 2 portion of the study in parallel with the initiation of new sub-studies to evaluate this combination with standard of care treatments in multiple myeloma,” said Saqib Islam, Chief Executive Officer of SpringWorks. “I would also like to thank the NCI for their commitment to evaluating nirogacestat in patients with progressing desmoid tumors. We were very pleased to recently report positive topline data from our Phase 3 DeFi trial and these follow-up data from the NCI-sponsored Phase 2 study provide valuable information on the long-term safety and efficacy profile of nirogacestat in desmoid tumor patients.”
Synergistic Effects of Low-Dose Belantamab Mafodotin in Combination with a Gamma-Secretase Inhibitor (Nirogacestat) in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM): DREAMM-5 Study (Poster # 443)
The objective of this sub-study of GSK’s DREAMM-5 platform trial (NCT04126200) is to determine if low-dose BLENREP in combination with nirogacestat results in similar efficacy with an improved ocular toxicity profile compared to single-agent BLENREP at its approved dose and schedule. The study opened with a dose-exploration (DE) arm evaluating 0.95 mg/kg BLENREP Q3W combined with 100 mg BID nirogacestat dosed continuously, and subsequently moved into a cohort expansion (CE) arm. The target enrollment for the CE arm of the study is 70 patients randomized either to BLENREP 2.5mg/kg Q3W monotherapy (control arm) or low-dose BLENREP plus nirogacestat combination using the same dose as the DE arm cohort.
The following results of the pre-planned interim analysis will be presented at ASCO:
- The study enrolled patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 3 prior lines of therapy (median: 4.5), including an immunomodulatory agent, proteasome inhibitor, and anti-CD38 antibody. The poster being presented at ASCO includes data from a total of 24 patients treated with low-dose BLENREP + nirogacestat across the DE and CE cohorts (N=10 and N=14, respectively) and 14 patients treated with monotherapy BLENREP in the CE cohort.
- At the time of the March 4, 2022 data cut-off, the median (range) of follow-up in the low-dose BLENREP plus nirogacestat DE cohort was 34.5 weeks (5-88 weeks), with durations of response exceeding one year in some patients. Data from the CE cohorts are not yet mature with a median duration of follow-up of 12 weeks available at the time of data cut-off.
- The CE cohorts utilized the KVA ocular toxicity grading scale; Grade 3 ocular adverse events occurred in 1/14 (7%) patients in the low-dose BLENREP plus nirogacestat combination compared to 7/14 patients (50%) in the BLENREP monotherapy arm. The DE cohort utilized the CTCAE-5 ocular toxicity grading scale; the low-dose BLENREP plus nirogacestat combination demonstrated Grade 3 ocular adverse events in 2/10 (20%) patients.
- At the time of data cut-off, the objective response rate (ORR) of low-dose BLENREP plus nirogacestat across the DE and CE cohorts was 38%, with 17% of patients achieving a VGPR or better (N=24). The ORR of the BLENREP monotherapy control arm was 50%, with no patients achieving a VGPR or better (N=14).
These data will be presented in a poster discussion session at ASCO on June 4, 2022 from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EDT by Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP, Professor and Chair Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University.
Extended Progression-Free Survival and Long-Term Safety of Nirogacestat in Patients with Desmoid Tumors (Poster #449)
The primary objective of this open-label, NCI-sponsored Phase 2 study (NCT01981551) was to assess the RECIST 1.1-determined objective response rate of nirogacestat in patients with progressing desmoid tumors. Seventeen adult patients received 150 mg BID of nirogacestat dosed continuously.
The following results will be presented at ASCO:
- Of the 16 evaluable patients, no disease progression has been observed for any patient while on study.
- The median time on treatment for all evaluable patients was 4.4 years (range 0.17-7.99 years) with 4/16 patients remaining on treatment over 7 years. At the time of the Kummar, et. al publication,3 the median time on treatment was >25 months (range: 3-30 months), with 10/16 patients remaining on treatment as of the publication.
- The adverse event profile was generally consistent with what was previously reported by Kummar, et. al. Long-term follow-up data reported one new Grade 3 adverse event of diarrhea and one new Grade 3 adverse event of fatigue.
These data will be presented in a poster session on June 5, 2022 from 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m. EDT by Geraldine Helen O'Sullivan Coyne, MD, PhD, Developmental Therapeutics Clinic/Early Clinical Trials Development Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute.
About Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer in the U.S. and is generally considered treatable, but not curable.4,5 It originates in the bone marrow and is characterized by abnormalities in plasma cells that reproduce uncontrollably in the bone marrow and other disease sites. In the U.S., more than 34,000 people are estimated to be diagnosed with multiple myeloma this year and nearly 13,000 people will die from the disease.6 New therapies are needed as multiple myeloma commonly becomes refractory to available treatments.7
About Desmoid Tumors
Desmoid tumors are rare, aggressive, locally invasive, potentially morbid tumors of the soft tissues.8,9 While they do not metastasize, desmoid tumors are associated with a high rate of recurrence.9,10,11 Sometimes referred to as aggressive fibromatosis, or desmoid fibromatosis, these soft tissue tumors can be serious, debilitating, and in rare cases when vital organs are impacted, they can be life-threatening.9,12
Desmoid tumors are most commonly diagnosed in patients between the ages of 20 to 44 years, with a two-to-three times higher prevalence in females.11,13,14 It is estimated that there are 1,000-1,650 new cases diagnosed per year in the United States.14,15
Historically, desmoid tumors were treated with surgical resection, but this approach has become less favored due to a high recurrence rate after surgery.8,11,16 There are currently no FDA-approved therapies for the treatment of desmoid tumors.
About Nirogacestat
Nirogacestat is an investigational, oral, selective, small molecule gamma-secretase inhibitor in Phase 3 clinical development for desmoid tumors, which are rare and often debilitating and disfiguring soft-tissue tumors. Gamma secretase cleaves multiple transmembrane protein complexes, including Notch, which is believed to play a role in activating pathways that contribute to desmoid tumor growth.
In addition, gamma secretase has been shown to directly cleave membrane-bound BCMA, resulting in the release of the BCMA extracellular domain, or ECD, from the cell surface. By inhibiting gamma secretase, membrane-bound BCMA can be preserved, increasing target density while reducing levels of soluble BCMA ECD, which may serve as decoy receptors for BCMA-directed therapies. Nirogacestat’s ability to enhance the activity of BCMA-directed therapies has been observed in preclinical models of multiple myeloma. SpringWorks is evaluating nirogacestat as a BCMA potentiator and has eight collaborations with industry-leading BCMA developers to evaluate nirogacestat in combinations across modalities, including with an antibody-drug conjugate, two CAR T cell therapies, four bispecific antibodies and a monoclonal antibody. SpringWorks has also formed research collaborations with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to further characterize the ability of nirogacestat to modulate BCMA and potentiate BCMA-directed therapies using a variety of preclinical multiple myeloma models.
Nirogacestat has received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of desmoid tumors and from the European Commission for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma. The FDA also granted Fast Track and Breakthrough Therapy Designations for the treatment of adult patients with progressive, unresectable, recurrent or refractory desmoid tumors or deep fibromatosis.
About SpringWorks Therapeutics
SpringWorks is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company applying a precision medicine approach to acquiring, developing and commercializing life-changing medicines for patients living with severe rare diseases and cancer. SpringWorks has a differentiated targeted oncology portfolio of small molecule product candidates and is advancing 18 development programs, including two potentially registrational clinical trials in rare tumor types as well as several programs addressing highly prevalent, genetically defined cancers. SpringWorks’ strategic approach and operational excellence in clinical development have enabled it to rapidly advance its two lead product candidates into late-stage clinical trials while simultaneously entering into multiple shared-value partnerships with innovators in industry and academia to expand its portfolio and create more solutions for patients with cancer. For more information, visit www.springworkstx.com and follow @SpringWorksTx on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Except as required by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
For further information regarding the risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause differences between SpringWorks’ expectations and actual results, you should review the “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of Part I of SpringWorks’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties and other important factors in SpringWorks’ subsequent filings.
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2 O’Sullivan Coyne, G, Kummar, S, Steinberg, S, et al. Extended progression free survival and long-term safety of nirogacestat (γ-secretase inhibitor, PF-03084014) in patients with desmoid tumors. Developmental Therapeutics Clinic/Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis/ National Cancer Institute. Poster presented at: 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting; June 3-7, 2022; Chicago, IL and online.
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16 The Desmoid Tumor Working Group. The management of desmoid tumors: a joint global evidence-based consensus guideline approach for adult and pediatric patients. Accessed April 10, 2022. https://dtrf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Desmoid_Paper_2018_A4_RL_Web300-1.pdf. | https://www.gurufocus.com/news/1729462/springworks-therapeutics-highlights-nirogacestat-clinical-data-at-the-2022-asco-annual-meeting | 2022-05-26T22:51:22Z | https://www.gurufocus.com/news/1729462/springworks-therapeutics-highlights-nirogacestat-clinical-data-at-the-2022-asco-annual-meeting | false | 7 |
North Idaho is different.
The vast majority of my years in Idaho have been spent in the state’s Pacific time zone. Why do we operate an hour different? Obviously, because we are north of the earlier Mountain Time folks down south, and time knows latitude, doesn’t it?
I’ve heard our Governor insists we up here be called “Northern Idaho”, not “North Idaho”, lest we start getting ideas of independence. I’m sorry, but that ship has sailed.
The Salmon River is the border for our special craziness. Come on up. But pack your colander or tin foil hat and put it on your head as you cross Time Zone Bridge. You’ll fit right in.
We had a strong antigovernment streak before statehood. Florence (north of the Salmon River) was a booming mining town in 1862. A Federal judge ventured over from Walla Walla to offer justice. He convened a grand jury and asked for indictments. The miners obliged, calling President Lincoln, cabinet members, Union generals and the judge up for trial. The judge rode his horse back to Walla Walla post haste and resigned. We can discourage authority.
We proudly know our history. I’m not sure the 1890’s miners insurrection in the Silver Valley was crazy. The wealthy mine bosses lived in lavish Spokane mansions while miners starved and slaved. But the strikers crossed the government line when they blew up a mill. The means of production cannot be damaged. That got US government troops called in from Denver.
Some have argued lily white North Idaho’s racism was founded on the fact that it was black US Army “Buffalo Soldiers” who rounded up strikers and stood guard with rifles over them in open pens.
The coda to this episode didn’t end with the former governor’s assassination or the famous trial of the Union mine bosses who might have ordered the hit, nor with their acquittal. Our special crazy up here might have grown out of that convoluted spectacle of injustice.
I have no idea if Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations knew this history when they came to Hayden, Idaho near Coeur d Alene. But they added to the aura we exude. We are still known for their wacko ideas, even though they are long gone. We’ve moved on to prepping for the apocalypse and wrapping ourselves in Confederate flags.
The 1990’s Ruby Ridge standoff put us back on the crazy map. Randy Weaver died this month. He survived the siege of federal gunmen on his isolated North Idaho compound, though his wife and son were killed. He too was acquitted of all charges except “failing to appear in court”. Government hasn’t learned how to handle us. Maybe we just don’t like authority.
My home, Moscow, Idaho has its own crazy streak. Indeed, one State Senator we elected to represent us called us a “cesspool of liberalism”. It wasn’t me.
I like the crazy creative twist some of our residents can exhibit.
One day over coffee at the Co-op, one of these artistic types told me of an old State Patrol car he had purchased at auction back in the day. It still had the spotlights and the black and white paint, but all the fun sirens and bubble gum lights had been stripped and it wouldn’t do 120 mph anymore.
But it sure looked official. He sported a bushy head of hair and a big scruffy beard. He appreciated the odd looks he got pulling up next to a fellow citizen at an intersection.
But apparently, he went too far when he designed and installed insignia badges on the front doors. They looked too official. A real state trooper pulled him over and told him to take them off.
They were a gold shield with black lettering: “North Idaho” on top; underneath “A State of Mind”. | http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2022/05/26/a-state-of-mind/ | 2022-05-26T22:52:51Z | http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2022/05/26/a-state-of-mind/ | false | 2 |
By Tracy Neal, Open Justice multimedia journalist, Nelson-Marlborough
A former meat works employee who claimed a co-worker sexually harassed her when he tapped her on the backside with a bucket has been awarded $8000 compensation to help restore her sense of dignity.
Kawaa Te Wiki said in a written complaint following the incident in 2019, that "applying a bucket to my bottom" made her feel violated, robbed of her dignity and unsafe.
The Employment Relations Authority awarded compensation in relation to a personal grievance raised by Te Wiki over how aspects of the complaint were handled.
Te Wiki, who declined the offer of name suppression, was a seasonal worker at Blue Sky Meats near Invercargill from January 2018 until the end of the 2019 season.
She had complained about the co-worker's conduct for several weeks leading up to the May 10 incident which triggered a formal complaint over alleged sexual harassment.
Te Wiki stated she was making the complaint for herself and for all the women employed at the meat works.
An external investigation later found the incident did not amount to misconduct or sexual harassment, and that there was insufficient evidence to corroborate an earlier allegation that the co-worker had "pushed a sheep carcass" into her breast.
When Te Wiki was on a cleaning task her co-worker, who cannot be named, walked past behind her. She felt what she thought was his hand touching her bottom. She described being shocked, confused and perplexed about his behaviour, but said nothing to him.
She then told her supervisor, who after viewing CCTV footage, said it was a bucket and not the co-worker's hand which had touched her.
Te Wiki said in evidence it was relayed to her in a dismissive manner "like it didn't matter", but that it did matter.
Notes made by the company's HR manager during his exchanges with Te Wiki record her saying the co-worker had "shoved the bucket up her arse" and "rammed the bucket into her behind", in a manner that was deliberate and with a measure of force that was sexual in manner.
After she had told her supervisor what happened, he said he would speak with the co-worker, but later told Te Wiki he could not find him and would follow up after the weekend.
On the Monday, Te Wiki was called into the supervisor's office. The operations manager and a union delegate were present, and Te Wiki was asked if she wanted to proceed with her complaint. She confirmed she did but was told the video evidence showed there was "nothing in it".
Te Wiki repeated that she would never accept that anyone could do that to her and insisted that her complaint be continued.
She was told to provide a detailed letter of complaint, and was then sent back to work on the slaughter board, with the co-worker she had complained about.
The company disputed it was dismissive of her complaint, or that it tried to persuade her not to proceed with it.
As the process continued, Te Wiki was moved from the slaughter board into the work's offal section. She felt she was being punished for having made the complaint as it was she who was moved and not the co-worker.
It was during this time that the company appointed an independent investigator to look into her complaint. It was found that the co-worker had "tapped her on the backside" with a bucket in an attempt to notify her that he wanted to get past in a narrow walkway, but it was not of a sexual nature.
The investigation concluded that the conduct was not capable of being characterised as misconduct or serious misconduct, as it happened in circumstances where it was accepted that "staff needed to physically touch one another when in close proximity, to prevent potential accidents".
The result was reported to Te Wiki in June 2019, by which time the season had ended. She did not return to work in November that year when the season resumed.
In deciding on remedies, ERA member Philip Cheyne said Te Wiki's evidence showed she was very upset by the whole process she described as "a nightmare".
She felt pressured, disbelieved and powerless, and considered that the employer had tried to make light of the incident and to minimise it "as a joke".
She said incident that triggered the formal complaint made her feel "sick to her stomach" and brought back the pain of the earlier incident. She described feeling "let down" by Blue Sky Meats, and that she had come up against a "brick wall of managers" who had already made up their minds.
Cheyne did not find this to be the case, nor was there discrimination around Te Wiki being reassigned to another section, where co-workers were women.
"The assignment was a material factor in Ms Te Wiki's distress, to some extent.
"There is no professional or medical evidence of significant or long-lasting harm. I conclude that Ms Te Wiki can establish a low level of loss or harm attributable to her personal grievance against BSM," said Cheyne in awarding $8000 compensation in recognition of what she had been through. | https://www.teaomaori.news/8000-employee-after-nono-hit-bucket | 2022-05-26T22:53:03Z | https://www.teaomaori.news/8000-employee-after-nono-hit-bucket | false | 6 |
SYDNEY • China and Australia launched competing Pacific visits yesterday, with China's foreign minister expressing hope that ties with the Solomon Islands can be a regional model, while his counterpart said Canberra will be a partner that does not come with strings attached.
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong told the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) secretariat in Fiji that Canberra will listen to Pacific islands, which had "led the global debate" on climate change.
She spoke as China's foreign minister arrived in the region seeking a sweeping 10-nation deal on security and trade that has further unnerved the United States and its Pacific allies.
In pointed remarks, Ms Wong said the 50-year-old regional forum, of which Australia was a member, was the "heart of Pacific regionalism". She said Australia had previously not respected Pacific nations' struggle with climate change and rising sea levels, and the new Labor government would do more, including financing climate infrastructure and offering migration and work pathways to Australia for Pacific citizens.
"The triple challenges of climate, Covid-19 and strategic contest will challenge us in new ways. We understand that the security of any one Pacific family member rests on security for all," she said.
PIF secretary-general Henry Puna welcomed the new Australian government's commitments, especially on climate change, saying it had "shaken the foundation" of Canberra's foreign policy direction for the Pacific.
"Australia will be a partner that won't come with strings attached, nor imposing unsustainable financial burdens," Ms Wong added, a thinly veiled reference to China, which has been criticised over its aggressive lending to poorer countries.
Meanwhile, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Solomon Islands Acting Governor General Patteson Oti in Honiara at the start of an eight-nation tour. Mr Wang will host a meeting of Pacific foreign ministers in Fiji next week to seek agreement on a five-year Pacific islands action plan.
"We hope the relationship between China and Solomon Islands will later become a high ground of mutually beneficial cooperation and a model of mutual trust between China and the island countries," Mr Wang said, according to China's Foreign Ministry.
A draft communique circulated by China to Pacific islands ahead of the foreign ministers meeting in Fiji has prompted opposition from at least one of the invited nations, which says it showed China's intent to control the region and "threatens regional stability".
The Solomon Islands government said in a statement that Mr Wang would sign a number of cooperation agreements between the two countries in a two-day visit.
The Chinese delegation of 44 includes vice-ministers in foreign affairs, commerce and environment, and information officials.
The Solomon Islands recently signed a security pact with China despite objections from Australia, the United States, Japan and New Zealand, which fear it could give China a military foothold in the region. China rejects this, saying the pact is focused on domestic policing and criticism by Western countries was interference in the Solomon Island's sovereign decision-making.
"China will, as always, firmly support the Solomon Islands in safeguarding national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity and safeguarding domestic unity," Mr Wang said during a meeting with his Solomon Islands counterpart.
The Chinese delegation travels to Kiribati today, where Mr Wang will stay for only four hours for meetings and to sign agreements.
Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said he would meet Ms Wong today, and Mr Wang on Monday.
"I have been asked about Fiji's agenda. At all tables, what matters most is our people and our planet, as well as respect for international law," he wrote on Twitter yesterday.
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CHICAGO, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSXV: VENZ) (OTCQB: VENZF) ("Venzee'' or the "Company"), the artificial intelligence platform for product data, announced that it will file 2022 first-quarter results on Monday, May 30 and hold a conference call to discuss these financial results Tuesday, May 31, 2022.
John Sexton Abrams, Chief Executive Officer, and Darren Battersby, Chief Financial Officer of Venzee Technologies, will discuss the results in a conference call and live audio webcast on May 31 at 10:00 AM CST (8:00 AM PST) followed by a Q&A. The presentation will be recorded and available for viewing after the live conference call.
According to Venzee CEO, John Sexton Abrams, "The Company has made changes to its release schedule to accommodate additional market activity."
Details for Quarterly Conference Call on May 31, 2022
Date: May 31, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM CST (8:00 AM PST)
Conference ID: 33759728
Dial-in Number: (+1) 888 396 8049
Register to view the live audio webcast at: https://app.webinar.net/D5qRlqzAk0a
With more than 500 major retail Mesh Connectors™ now available to brand clients, Venzee has become an important tool in the simplification and automation of syndication processes for brands globally.
Venzee (TSXV: VENZ) (OTCQB: VENZF) is the leading artificial intelligence platform for product data used by global brands to speed time to market and create competitive supply chain advantages. Venzee's intelligent platform automates inefficient last-mile retail processes with a frictionless, machine-driven solution for sending and receiving product data.
Venzee believes intelligent supply chain functionality is inevitable and will significantly benefit growers, makers, brands, sellers, regulators, and consumers. Venzee is building the foundation for a future where seamless, accurate, automated data flow simplifies processes, removes friction, and creates value for all those who rely on the myriad of data and information surrounding any product, anywhere.
Venzee unlocks shareholder value by carrying out its mission to create intelligent technology that removes friction from the global supply chain. Its Mesh Connector™ product disrupts and displaces inefficient manual processes in favor of integrated, machine-driven solutions.
To learn more about the Venzee platform, visit venzee.com
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BTX-1188 Showed Deep and Durable Dual Degradation of GSPT1 and IKZF1/3 In Vitro Along with Beneficial Immunomodulatory Properties
Data Support Ongoing Phase 1 Development for the Treatment of Hematologic and Solid Tumor Malignancies
SAN DIEGO, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Biotheryx, Inc., a clinical stage company discovering and developing a portfolio of innovative small molecule targeted protein degraders (TPDs) in areas of high unmet medical need, today announced that its abstract highlighting supportive preclinical data for its lead asset BTX-1188, a potentially first-in-class, dual protein degrader of GSPT1 and IKZF1/3, will be presented in a poster at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting taking place June 3-7, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois and virtually.
"Our distinctive PRODEGY platform is designed to enable the discovery and development of a broad range of targeted protein degrader molecules and BTX-1188 is the first of our pipeline to enter the clinic," said Leah Fung, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Biotheryx. "BTX-1188 is a molecular glue that was rationally designed to degrade GSPT1 and IKZF1/3. The data being presented at ASCO 2022 support the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating BTX-1188 in patients with hematologic and solid tumor cancers and demonstrate what we believe to be our ability to design first-in-class molecular glues with the potential to improve clinical outcomes for patients with cancer and other serious diseases."
"We are leveraging our deep expertise with the modulation of Cereblon, the only clinically and commercially validated E3 ligase, to design innovative targeted protein degraders with the potential to address significant unmet medical need," said Philippe Drouet, President and Chief Executive Officer of Biotheryx. "We look forward to presenting these pre-clinical data from our lead program, BTX-1188, at ASCO 2022."
Key Highlights from BTX-1188 Preclinical Results
- BTX-1188 has shown deep and durable degradation of GSPT1 and IKZF1/3 and inhibition of MYC in several types of hematologic and solid tumor cell lines, including lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, non-small cell lung cancer and glioma.
- BTX-1188 has shown inhibition of pro-inflammatory cytokines and enhancement of immune stimulatory cytokines, owing to IKZF1/3 degradation, which may prevent the known systemic inflammatory dose-limiting toxicities associated with pure GSPT1 degradation (Uy 2019)[1].
- BTX-1188 potently inhibits tumor cell proliferation and tumor growth in ex vivo and in vivo models of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and in in vitro and in vivo models of lung, breast and ovarian cancer.
- These preclinical results support the ongoing Phase 1 clinical evaluation of BTX-1188 in patients with AML and certain solid tumors, especially in MYC-dependent cancers.
Details for the BTX-1188 ASCO 2022 poster presentation are as follows:
Title: BTX-1188, a first-in-class dual degrader of GSPT1 and IKZF1/3, for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and solid tumors
Presenter: Aparajita Hoskote Chourasia, Ph.D.
Abstract Number: 7025
Poster Number: 256
Session: Hematologic Malignancies—Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, and Allotransplant
Date and Time: Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. CT (10:00 a.m. ET)
This poster presentation will be available on the ASCO Meeting website. Following the presentation at the meeting, a PDF copy of the poster will be available in the "Publications and Presentations" section of Biotheryx's website.
About BTX-1188
Biotheryx's lead molecular glue drug candidate BTX-1188 is a dual protein degrader which was designed to degrade GSPT1, a promising cancer target, and IKZF1/3 (also known as Ikaros/Aiolos), both clinically validated anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory targets. Prior literature has demonstrated that degradation of GSPT1 can result in antitumor activity in difficult-to-treat tumors such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and in solid tumors, including those that overexpress oncogenic transcription factors, such as MYC, however, prior clinical research by others has shown that administration of a GSPT1-only degrader was associated with dose-limiting toxicities related to the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. BTX-1188 was specifically designed as a potent degrader of GSPT1 that can also directly block inflammation by degrading IKZF1/3. In preclinical studies conducted by Biotheryx, administration of BTX-1188 led to complete eradication of tumors and extended survival in xenograft models of AML. BTX-1188 also led to potent cell killing in a number of cell lines derived from solid tumors. BTX-1188 is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 dose-escalation trial in patients with hematologic and solid tumor malignancies.
About Biotheryx, Inc.
Biotheryx is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing a portfolio of innovative small molecule targeted protein degraders (TPDs) in areas of high unmet medical need, with an initial focus on cancer. Members of our founding and scientific teams previously developed the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved modulators of Cereblon, the most widely validated E3 ligase involved in protein degradation, and have applied their expertise in Cereblon binding to build our proprietary PRODEGY platform. Our lead product candidate, BTX-1188, is a rationally designed dual-targeting molecular glue degrader of GSPT1 and IKZF1/3, which we are currently developing in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial in acute myeloid leukemia and solid tumor patients. Our broad and growing pipeline includes degraders of SOS1 for KRAS mutant cancers and CDK2/4/6 for solid tumors, with a goal of submitting three additional investigational new drug (IND) applications to the FDA over the next three years. For more information, please visit www.biotheryx.com and engage with us on LinkedIn.
1 Uy, G.L., et al. Blood 134 (Supplement_1): 232 (2019)
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Zion Williamson Cleared to Play Without Restriction
The Pelicans were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs to the Suns and played that series, as well as the entire regular season, without star forward Zion Williamson.
Williamson broke the fifth metatarsal in his right foot during summer workouts in advance of the NBA season, but has now been cleared to play according to a team release, paving the way for his return to the lineup next season.
The 2021-22 season was Williamson’s third as a pro, but he has only played in 85 NBA games since being selected with the top pick in the 2019 NBA draft.
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When Williamson has played, he’s been productive. Over his 85 games, he has averaged 25.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game on 60.4% shooting from the floor.
He is eligible for a five-year $186 million max rookie extension this summer, which Williamson has previously said that he “wouldn’t be able to sign fast enough.”
Williamson will be a major piece to add back into the fold with a core that now includes C.J. McCollum, who was acquired at the trade deadline from Portland.
With McCollum, Brandon Ingram and Williamson, the Pelicans have potential to take a major leap in the West next season. | https://www.si.com/nba/2022/05/26/zion-williamson-cleared-to-play-without-restriction-pelicans-announce | 2022-05-26T23:02:41Z | https://www.si.com/nba/2022/05/26/zion-williamson-cleared-to-play-without-restriction-pelicans-announce | false | 1 |
Irina-Camelia Begu Throws Racket at French Open, Causes Stoppage
During her second-round match on Thursday, Romanian tennis player Irina-Camelia Begu spiked her racket in frustration and accidentally bounced it into the stands, causing a child to burst into tears.
Begu was down 2–0 in the third set and had just lost the first point of the third game. She walked over to her bench, clearly upset with her play, and threw the racket to the ground, when it bounced up near the child. The umpire checked on the child, while a supervisor came onto the court and handed Begu a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct.
The child appeared to not be hurt.
Begu’s opponent, Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, was not happy with what occurred, especially since it paused their match. When Begu eventually won that game, Alexandrova angrily hit a ball into the stands saying “So, I can do that, too?” She was also given a code violation for this action. Begu ended up winning the match.
After the match, Begu apologized to the child and took photos with the family. The Romanian apologized to fans in her post-match press conference for what happened on the court.
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“Well, it’s an embarrassing moment for me. I just want to apologize,” Begu said. “My whole career I didn’t do something like this, and I feel really bad and sorry. So I’m just going to say again, sorry for the incident and, yeah, it was just an embarrassing moment for me. ... It was a difficult moment because I didn’t want to hit that racket, you know. It was—you know, you hit the clay with the racket, but you never expect [it] to fly that much. It was, as I said, embarrassing moment for me, and I just want to end it and not talk about it.”
However, her opponent Alexandrova wants to continue talking about it, especially about how Begu did not receive a fault for her actions.
“So disappointed to leave RG [Roland Garros] like that, I was trying to do my best, but seems like the rules were against me today,” Alexandrova said, via her Instagram. “This shouldn’t be happening. I hope after today’s match rules will be improved for everyone’s safety. We are responsible for our racket.”
Technically, Begu only received a warning for her code violation because it was her first known violation of this sort. If it were to happen again, she would lose a point for her actions.
There has been no indication yet that Begu will receive additional punishment for the incident.
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FLORIDA STATE — Head coach Mike Norvell and FSU’s staff have been in contact with legacy defensive end Lamont Green Jr. from day one. Green is Florida State’s earliest commit as of now, and their second highest commit in the class of 2023. The 6’5 DE is currently the No.24 Edge in the nation and No.240 overall player.
Green has been known for his quick feet and aggressive finishing since he first put on the pads in Pop Warner. He’s headed into his senior season with the Gulliver Prep Raiders, with hopes on getting double digits sacks and a state championship so he can be “remembered.” Green has been in contact with the class of 2023 quite frequently and talks to defensive ends coach John Papuchis and defensive line coach Odell Haggins almost every week to prepare their game plan for 2023.
Florida State has been recognized by recruits and coaches around the nation as a powerhouse on the defensive line, building prospects and transfer into NFL draftees and many believe that Green is going down that path. The South Florida product seems to be growing every day, putting on over 20 pounds of muscle since December. His high IQ and instincts on the line should excel his growth within the field and show that he’ll be an absolute force as soon as he hits campus.
4⭐️ 2023 Edge Lamont Green Jr. practice notes and pictures:
— MAX (@maxescarpio) May 20, 2022
- High IQ
- Quick feet
- Physical off the line
- Big hands
- Growing every day
- Finishes every tackle
- Great teammate pic.twitter.com/0hh5EoLihU
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Kaiser, St John’s baseball player, coach, AD, dies at 95
NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Kaiser, a former St. John’s baseball player and coach who later guided the New York City university through a changing landscape in 22 years as athletic director, has died. He was 95. St. John’s said Thursday that Kaiser died Wednesday. The school didn’t provide a cause of death. Considered the patriarch of the Red Storm athletic department, Kaiser dedicated parts of nine decades to his alma mater, serving as the department’s athletic director emeritus from 1995 until his death. Kaiser was one of the seven athletic directors who banded together to create the Big East Conference in 1979, forever changing the history of college basketball. | https://kyma.com/sports/ap-sports/2022/05/26/kaiser-st-johns-baseball-player-coach-ad-dies-at-95/ | 2022-05-26T23:05:52Z | https://kyma.com/sports/ap-sports/2022/05/26/kaiser-st-johns-baseball-player-coach-ad-dies-at-95/ | true | null |
Instacart: Baby formula searches surging as store shelves remain empty
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business
Instacart said searches for baby formula hit a record high in mid-May but the on-demand grocery delivery site is struggling to fulfill orders because stores remain severely understocked amid the ongoing national formula shortage.
The company said searches for formula surged 245% week-over-week as of May 16.
At the same time, Instacart said its personal shoppers, who pick, pack and deliver orders, continue to encounter widespread shortages and that the rate at which they are able to find formula on store shelves has plummeted 52% since the beginning of May.
Instacart said it has seen an 80% jump in refunds during that period as a result. In most instances, its personal shoppers have not been able to fulfill requests for specific brands or acceptable replacements for them.
Enacting purchase limits
Although Instacart doesn’t hold any products in inventory itself, the company said that as of next week it will implement a purchase limit on formula to help more families get access to it.
Many of its retail partners already have similar or even stricter limits in place in stores, the company said.
In a single Instacart transaction, a customer would be able to purchase four containers of a specific formula and, if they need to, they can also purchase an additional four containers of a different formula product.
Instacart said its purchase limit is on top of any individual retailer’s imposed limits. If a retailer limit is stricter than Instacart’s, it will honor the retailer’s limit.
More baby formula is expected to arrive on store shelves as soon as this weekend through a variety of government efforts.
On Wednesday, 60 tons of formula landed at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC from Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the second shipment from Europe as part of the Biden administration’s Operation Fly Formula.
That effort was initiated to address the nationwide shortage that was exacerbated by the closure of formula maker Abbott Nutrition’s Michigan plant in February after several inspections by the US Food and Drug Administration found “insanitary conditions.”
According to digital intelligence platform Similarweb, retailers started to see surges in demand for baby formula in the fall of 2021.
Similarweb Shopper Intelligence, which collects and synthesizes e-commerce datasets for leading retailers, tracked the pace of formula purchases at Amazon, Walmart and Target going back to last October. The pace of buying, it said, reached its highest level in April 2022, with Amazon, Walmart, and Target selling 110%, 134%, and 37% more units, respectively, compared to April 2021.
Abbott said Tuesday that it plans to restart work at its Sturgis, Mich., plant on June 4, with the first batches of new formula expected to be available to consumers on or around June 20. When the plant is up and running, the company will be able to increase capacity by 40%, according to Chris Calamari, who leads Abbott’s nutrition division.
–CNN’s Jen Christensen contributed to this report.
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SALEM, VA (WTKR)- The final leg of Christopher Newport softball's quest for a national championship is off to a great start.
The Captains used big bats and timely hitting to top Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 8-6, in their Women's College World Series opener on Thursday in Salem. CNU improved its record to 43-1 and extended its winning streak to 20 games.
The two teams remained scoreless until the third inning, but that's when both offenses got going. After WPI took a 1-0 lead, Christopher Newport responded in their half of the frame. Back-to-back solo home runs by Caitlin Abernathy and Bailey Roberts put the Captains in front. The eighth seeded Engineers tied it on a home run of their own in the fourth, but once again, CNU had an answer, taking the lead back with two runs in the bottom of the inning. A Kaitlyn Hasty two-run single swelled the Captains' advantage to 6-2, with Meredith Brickner added two more runs on a single of her own to cap off the Christopher Newport scoring.
WPI made it interesting with four runs on two homers in the top of the sixth, but CNU held on to earn the win.
Roberts paced the Captain offense, going 3-for-4 with the home run. Kate Alger grabbed the win on the mound, throwing four innings, giving up two hits and two runs while striking out six and walking one. She improved to 14-0 on the season, while Jamie Martin came on to record her second save of 2022.
Christopher Newport is back in action on Friday, taking on Berry College at 4:30 PM. | https://www.wtkr.com/sports/christopher-newport-opens-womens-college-world-series-with-win | 2022-05-26T23:07:42Z | https://www.wtkr.com/sports/christopher-newport-opens-womens-college-world-series-with-win | true | 1 |
When you have trust issues with the political leaders, you have the power to dethrone them in the next election but when bureaucracy shows their autocracy, it becomes an ultimate concern.
While the IAS or officers in their league are accountable for fostering the system with their authority, when the same power climbs to their heads, they abuse it. Some of those real-life instances are listed below.
1. When athletes were forced to finish training early so an IAS officer could walk his dog in an empty stadium.
Recently Athletes and coaches had complained that they were pushed to finish training before 7 pm so that an IAS officer could walk his dog on the ground, disrupting their training routine.
Unbelievable. For the last few months, athletes, coaches at Delhi’s Thyagraj Stadium have complained about being forced to wrap up training earlier than usual. Reason: Delhi’s Principal Secretary Sanjeev Khirwar needs the stadium to walk his dog, reports @AndrewAmsan. pic.twitter.com/Q97oOpTUtr
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) May 26, 2022
2. When Rs. 19 crore in cash was seized from aides of IAS officer in Jharkhand
3. When Chhattisgarh IAS Officer was caught slapping a cam on camera.
Chattisgarh people have made a right choice to have you as CM @bhupeshbaghel
— Me Against Hate!✊ (@sharmaswapnil80) May 23, 2021
And your team @INCChhattisgarh is awesome to voice correct things.
Congrats & more power to you both. Great!
IAS Officer, Caught On Camera Slapping Man In Chhattisgarh, Removedhttps://t.co/K1QHLzwGUF
4. When IAS Shishir Singh said a hoarding that showed how 'Uttar Pradesh is number one in the country' didn't exist in Karnataka when people could literally spot it in Bangalore.
5. When former IAS officer Babulal Agrawal from Chhattisgarh was arrested in a money laundering case.
6. When Maharashtra's senior IAS officer's chat with a Real Estate agent on taking a bribe was leaked.
Nobody will take less than a crore: Leaked chat costs Maharashtra officer https://t.co/3nAN4Ke8hJ pic.twitter.com/RppavqRSFJ
— NDTV (@ndtv) August 3, 2017
7. When a young IAS officer was suspended by the government for violating quarantine orders and rushing to his hometown, Kanpur after he had travelled from Singapore.
Somebody tell them... with great power comes great responsibilty. | https://www.scoopwhoop.com/topic/7-times-ias-officers-misused-power/ | 2022-05-26T23:09:12Z | https://www.scoopwhoop.com/topic/7-times-ias-officers-misused-power/ | false | 1 |
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Aftershock festival with four jam packed days at the west coast’s biggest rock festival October 6-9th!
Aftershock 2022 will feature four stages with headlining performances by My Chemical Romance, Slipnot, Kiss, Rob Zombie, Judas Priest, Papa Roach, Shinedown, along with Evanescence, Lamb of God, A Day to Remember, Bring Me to Horizon and 75+ more of your favorite artists. You won’t want to miss this festival! | https://fox40.com/studio-40/aftershock/ | 2022-05-26T23:10:13Z | https://fox40.com/studio-40/aftershock/ | true | null |
Last of its kind? Subaru's all-new WRX tested on Kiwi terrain
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Subaru WRX
5.2 sec
0-100 kmph
350Nm
Torque
8.5L
Fuel Economy
202kW
Power
Pros
Manual gearbox and turbo power
Auto gearbox/paddle shift is quite good
No bad models in the whole range
Cons
Flat-four lacks character of old
Tyres on wagon not as good as sedan
Tuned by STI badge doesn’t mean much
In 1994, when Subaru launched the WRX locally, it fueled a new era. Instead of V8 Commodores and Falcons as the only recognised fast cars, here was a legitimate, compact, fuel injected, turbocharged, all-wheel drive pocket rocket that helped promote and push the new generation of 1980s and 1990s Japanese performance cars that didn’t have to live in the shadows of their bigger brothers, and picked up where Nissan’s cancelled Skyline GT-R arguably broke ground.
Fast forward almost 30 years, and the longer, wider and lower 2022 Subaru WRX is incredibly, thankfully still with us: with its iconic bonnet scoop, in largely similar form to the launch model, but on the verge of extinction, at least as we know it. This isn’t the death of the WRX, far from it, but this internal combustion engine model looks very likely like being the last iteration, before some form of electrification/hybrid power arrives.
There’s plenty of evolution of WRX, of course, and this fifth-generation is in equal parts totally different to the first. In 1994, a manual five-speed gearbox was the only way to fly, in sedan (or an slightly ungainly wagon). Now, Subaru NZ MD Wal Dumper says, 99 per cent of all WRX sales are automatic, or “Lineartronic” in Subaru CVT speak. That is an incredible number, but there is hope within, as Sales Manager Wayne McClennan reports of the first 1000 online registrations of interest,
and from the 50 WRXs pre-sold sight unseen, 5-6 of them are manuals: 10 per cent! Hopefully (maybe even), a touch of wishful influencing ordering…
Said Subaru NZ National Marketing Manager, Daile Stephens, on the day of the global reveal in October 2021, Subaru saw its most traffic in one day, for over two years. And since the price and specs and models were announced on April 5, buyers just want it - sight unseen.
A top-spec tS model in wagon is also expected to be the most popular, a spiritual/actual Levorg successor.
So the days of McRae, Burns, Sainz and Possum Bourne powering a 555 blue and gold-wheeled WRX around the rally stages of NZ, Catalunya or Corsica may be gone, but there is a strong lasting memory and legacy (pun not included) with the WRX that is inter-generational.
And as the years have grown, WRX’s needs and abilities have also evolved with the times. There will be no STI model, we’re assured, with the current model (previous-gen Saigo STI owners can breathe easy and watch their values increase), instead the top WRX models are badged tS, for tuned by STI. What this actually means, is the performance brand has waved its engineering magic over some engineering aspects, but the visibility is it’s little more than an STI speedo and badge on the steering wheel. #sad.
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However, Subaru NZ has stated it will likely offer a specialized local model with STI parts such as interior, body kit and strut brace offerings… no performance upgrades, sorry. And that’s how the next model electrified factory STI might also be. #alsosad
But as WRX has narrowed the gap to STI over the years, it’s stepped up its game. Previously, STI started with 206kW, up to 221kW. Now, even the humble WRX, once a 2.0, then up to 2.5, has settled at 2.4-litres, still a horizontally opposed four-cylinder boxer. It lost its soulful barking character in the mid-2000s, but WRX has managed to now offer almost 40 per cent more power than its first gen, with 202kW and 350Nm, at a relaxed 0.6 bar/9psi boost (tuners will know that’s good news).
There’s a neat division in pairs for the WRX range: two body styles (2.4T sedan and GT wagon), two variants of each: (sedan in Premium and tS; GT wagon in Premium and tS) and a mix of bespoke offerings in specific models (manual in Premium sedan only, there’s a track mode, and only automatics get auto reverse braking, to avoid silly carpark damage).
A revised 11.6in touchscreen infotainment system is also a huge step up, with smartphone integration for CarPlay/Android and it’s a huge step up from the smaller screens dotted around the cabin.
Prices start from $59,990. Most popular will be the wagon, auto tS, says Subaru. Personally, I like the sedan, Premium auto which does a great job of masking its CVTness, but others on our launch drive program - from Antarctica (Christchurch) to Mt Cook, to Arrowtown, over two days - preferred the manual, despite it missing out on some tech like radar cruise and EyeSight safety tech and its higher fuel use. Few chose the wagon, due to its softer suspension tune, and slightly narrower, less assured Yokohama tyres… there was however universal love for the Dunlop tyres on the sedan that help sharpen the package.
There are also other ways to sharpen it, with the auto models offering a Mode button on the wheel for four presets, or a personalised custom setting, for things like steering feel, throttle response and suspension damping. And torque bias, to the rear, to also help steering response.
Either way, get in quick, because the prices are due to rise on January 1 2023, 2024, and 2025, for various government penalties against cars like this. And, admits Dumper, getting stock will be a problem. “We’ve got hundreds on the waiting list, lots pre-sold, and a real challenge ahead of us.
“We’re a top 12, they’ve [Subaru factory] tried to support us, and we’ve asked for another 20-30 WRXs… we’ll have the cars, but they’ll get dearer every year.”
On those feebates, WRX will be penalized around $1400 for the auto, and $3k for an oddly thirstier manual (9.9l/100km vs 8.5). And come January, brands will be charged more via the Clean Car Scheme, adding another $3-4k - another reason to get in quick.
This is a market shifting, and cars like the WRX are being financially penalised, as will the likes of Forester and the looming Outback 2.4T due later this year, come 2023. The BEV Solterra, confirmed for 2023 but with models due in NZ very soon, will be Subaru’s first full electric vehicle that help financially offset all this ICE fun and excitement.
Currently, ICE cars still represent 82 per cent of new cars sales, though the number is gradually shrinking.
On our drive program, we sampled all models of WRX, from Christchurch to Arrowtown, and into the (auto only) wagon GT and tS models first, it’s a great, practical tourer. The engine and gearbox work really well together, and the ride quality is on the comfort side. There are options to firm up steering and suspension (in tS), but it prefers the softer approach, showcasing WRX’s 2022 abilities as an all-rounder. Sporty, but comfortable, it can wallow a little and lack some precision, but this is the softest of the WRX bunch.
On day two, we slipped into the sedan, and with the option of manual, a short-ratio box from the previous WRX (not STI) with some mild upgrades, and here’s where it all comes together: with split decisions between manual or auto, the WRX sedan is a remarkably sharper, better driver’s car, and with the auto slicing through the eight gears, rev-matching downshifts (or the manual offering the short-ratio engagement - 2nd gear tops out at a low 82km/h), it’s a superbly involving drive, with the safety and luxury of now technology; at 2600rpm it’s at full boost, swings to 6000rpm, and retains that turbocharged nothing-then-all nature. Sadly, its iconic flat-four bark is even more distant.
There are some WRX elements whose days are numbered: manual gearbox is on the chopping block, the pure petrol engine is next, and the sedan variant could even be third in line.
For now, appreciate and love what we’ve got, while we’ve got it: a pure, rally-bred Subaru WRX with a turbocharged flat-four cylinder, all-wheel drive and a manual gearbox. Just like it was 30 years ago. #hooray. | https://www.driven.co.nz/reviews/last-of-its-kind-subaru-s-all-new-wrx-tested-on-kiwi-terrain/?utm_source=nzh&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=topbox | 2022-05-26T23:11:35Z | https://www.driven.co.nz/reviews/last-of-its-kind-subaru-s-all-new-wrx-tested-on-kiwi-terrain/?utm_source=nzh&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=topbox | true | 1 |
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) — PanCare Health and Gulf Coast State College officials are counting down the days until Tuesday.
They said they can hardly wait to open a new healthcare facility at the college’s Panama City location.
“Any way you view it, this partnership is a win-win for our college and our community,” College President Dr. John Holdnak said.
The clinic will be very convenient for Gulf Coast students and staff needing healthcare.
“We already have a good relationship with Gulf Coast with their dental program but now this will expand on that and allow their medical staff an opportunity to come work in a medical clinic, get some hands-on clinical experience, and get to see patients on a day-to-day basis and get to see what a clinic flow looks like,” Pancare Chief Operating Officer Robert Thompson said.
This partnership also gives PanCare a facility on the west side of Bay County to treat the general public.
“We’re going to be providing primary care services as well as walk-in services,” Thompson said.
They’ll also have a full-time medical provider, as well as a nurse and some front office staff to treat patients in the community.
The clinic is located in the Rosenwald Building.
It’s the same space PanCare used for Covid-19 testing and vaccinations.
“Towards last year when the testing demands kind of started winding down, Dr. Holdnak reached back out to us and said, ‘Now that we’re kind of winding that program down, what do you think about maybe opening a clinic in that site,” Thompson said.
$500,000 later, the facility has four exam rooms, a procedure room, and a basic pharmacy.
It will be open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. every weekday starting Tuesday | https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-news/gcsc-and-pancare-officials-partner-to-open-a-clinic/ | 2022-05-26T23:16:08Z | https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-news/gcsc-and-pancare-officials-partner-to-open-a-clinic/ | false | 1 |
WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, May 27, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
248 PM PDT Thu May 26 2022
...Cool, Showery, and Breezy Memorial Day Weekend...
While the entire weekend will not be a washout, if do you have
travel or outdoor plans, it's not a bad idea to prepare for wet,
windy, and potentially snowy conditions occurring at times.
WINDY THROUGH THE WEEKEND: Gusty southwest to west winds will
continue into the holiday weekend, with gusts roughly 30 to 40 mph
the rest of today and again Friday. The strongest winds will
occur on Saturday, where widespread gusts of 35-50 mph are
possible that may produce areas of blowing dust. Boating
recreation will be impacted on all area lakes, along with travel
difficulties for high profile vehicles and rough air for aviation
interests. Winds will remain gusty Sunday into Monday but not
nearly as strong.
COOL AND SHOWERY FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: There's high
confidence in a pronounced cooling trend into the weekend with
highs falling 15-25 degrees below normal by Sunday-Monday.
Scattered showers are looking likely as well, with the best
chances Saturday afternoon into Saturday night, and again Sunday
afternoon into early Monday. Rainfall amounts are still uncertain,
but some localized wetting rains are possible. With cooling
temperatures, light snowfall is also feasible in mountain areas
particularly with any showers Sunday into Monday. Patchy near
freezing temperatures are possible Monday and Tuesday mornings.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.nhregister.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-RENO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17201887.php | 2022-05-26T23:19:03Z | https://www.nhregister.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-RENO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17201887.php | false | 13 |
Idaho Army National Guard conducts joint medevac, casualty training
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Medics from the Idaho Army National Guard’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st of the 148th Field Artillery Regiment conducted air medical evacuation and casualty treatment training alongside medical evacuation aviation assets at the Orchard Combat Training Center, May 17.
The training was supported by members of Detachment 1, Company Golf, 1st of the 168th General Support Aviation Battalion and several of its UH-60 Black Hawks, providing approximately 20 field artillery medics practice in air medevac scenarios while conducting their two-week annual training.
“I learned to stay calm and let the training I received in school take over,” said Spc. Regan Esplin, a 1-148th FAR medic. “I love being a medic, all the training that goes with it and everything about trauma medicine because it’s very immediate and the reward is you know how to save someone’s life. These kinds of experiences are crazy and not a lot of people get paid to treat casualties in a combat environment.”
For Esplin, the event was her first annual training with the battalion and a first opportunity to train with flight crews after graduating from the U.S. Army’s 68W Combat Medic Advanced Individual Training in 2021. During the event, she administered an IV and assisted other combat medics in stabilizing a patient.
During the training, combat medics had the opportunity to work with flight teams in loading patients into UH-60 Black Hawks, where they were evacuated from a point of injury to a Role 1 treatment facility. From there, medics offloaded patients from the aircraft and worked to evaluate, treat and stabilize them by administering tourniquets, IVs, ventilators and more prior to packaging them for transport to follow-on echelons of care.
“Training with medic and flight teams enable us to see how ready we are to respond to real-world situations and also make sure our newer medics get exposer to those situations in a tactical training environment first,” said Capt. David McDonald, a 1-148th FAR medical provider. “Depending on the situation, we may need to call in air medevac teams to transport our injured over long distances on the battlefield.”
In a tactical environment, the medical unit provides Role 1 care, which is the treatment a patient receives prior to surgical intervention, including self-aid, buddy-aid, tactical combat casualty care, tactical evacuation and medical evacuation, said McDonald.
When deployed in a tactical environment with the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, the battalion would coordinate the evacuation of patients to a Role 2 medical station, provided by the brigade’s Company Charlie, 145th Brigade Support Battalion. The Role 2 station offers surgeons, nurses, a pharmacy and short-term care.
1st Lt. Katherine Smith, executive officer with the medevac detachment, said its important combat medics receive training like this to become comfortable around aircraft in the likelihood they will have to work with them during a deployment. It’s equally important for members of her unit to train with combat medics so the two assets can ensure they understand each other’s operating procedures, she added.
“Different types of units that work together have to understand how the other operates,” said Smith. “In this case, the 1-148th combat medics need to understand how our pilots come into a landing zone and handoff a patient. What we need to know from them is at what point those medics need our assets to supplement that continuum of medical care.” | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/574193524/idaho-army-national-guard-conducts-joint-medevac-casualty-training | 2022-05-26T23:21:52Z | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/574193524/idaho-army-national-guard-conducts-joint-medevac-casualty-training | true | 3 |
Alex Polizzi has revealed that Yoel Romero broke his jaw at Bellator 280.
It was Polizzi (10-1 MMA) vs Romero (12-6 MMA) in the co-main light heavyweight bout on May 6, 2022 at Bellator 280. In front of a sold out crowd, referee, Mike Beltran, waived off the fight at 4:59 of Round 3, giving Yoel Romero the TKO victory.
Yoel Romero turned the tides on his four-fight losing streak against Phil Davis, Israel Adesanya, Paulo Costa and Robert Whittaker, and put himself back in the win column following the battle with Polizzi.
Polizzi entered into Bellator 280 sporting a three-fight winning streak against Jose Augusto Azevedo Barros, Grant Neal, and Gustavo Trujillo which has now come to an end.
Taking to ‘Instagram‘, Polizzi posted a picture of his broken jaw with a caption:
“Ope! We should probably just heal and drink @milk for a bit. #mma #bellator # chosencrew”
As for what is next for the two fighters, Polizzi, ‘Eazy’, will be recuperating from his jaw injury for a while, and has not yet indicated who he’d like to get in the cage with next.
Romero, ‘The Soldier of God’ has shared his desire to fight Gegard Mousasi (42-6 MMA) for the title.
Who would you like to see Yoel Romero fight next following his victory over Alex Polizzi?
This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM | https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/bellator/alex-polizzi-reveals-yoel-romero-broke-his-jaw-at-bellator-280-photo/ | 2022-05-26T23:23:19Z | https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/bellator/alex-polizzi-reveals-yoel-romero-broke-his-jaw-at-bellator-280-photo/ | false | 1 |
Kyrie Irving Rumors: Opposing Teams Believe Nets Would Be Open to Sign-And-Trade
May 26, 2022Kyrie Irving's future with the Brooklyn Nets after a disappointing season and with a $36.5 million player option for 2022-23 figures to be a major storyline this offseason, and some teams around the league reportedly believe the seven-time All-Star could be at the center of a sign-and-trade.
Ian Begley of SNY reported "opposing teams believe the club will be open to exploring trades of Irving'' should contract discussions stall.
Yet Begley explained the point guard opting out is still "most likely" to end in him returning with a new contract because he "would have to agree to a sign-and-trade and the Nets would have to feel that the return on the trade made sense for them. They’d also have to take back a significant amount of salary."
Thursday's report comes one day after Kristian Winfield of the New York Daily News reported Irving's "personal decision not to get vaccinated and unpredictable injury history have left the Nets hesitant, and now, according to a source familiar with the Nets' thought process, outright unwilling to give him a long-term extension."
This uncertainty after being swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round surely isn't where Brooklyn thought it would be when it started the 2021-22 season with Irving, Kevin Durant and James Harden forming a trio of some of the best players in the league.
Instead, Irving played just 29 games and was ineligible to play for most of the home games because he remained unvaccinated against COVID-19. Injuries limited Durant during the regular season, and the Nets eventually traded Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers.
They no longer look like surefire title contenders for years to come like they once did, and Irving's decision to not get vaccinated and the situation it created this past season reportedly has impacted the front office's mindset on his long-term future.
Earlier this month, general manager Sean Marks responded to a question about how committed the team was to the point guard by saying Brooklyn is "looking for guys that want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, play team basketball and be available."
Bleacher Report @BleacherReport"We're looking for guys that want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, play team basketball, and be available. That goes not only for Kyrie but everybody here."<br><br>Sean Marks on if the Nets are committed to Kyrie long-term.<br><br>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/SNYNets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SNYNets</a>)<a href="https://t.co/aOMnP6x6sX">pic.twitter.com/aOMnP6x6sX</a>
Yet Irving previously told reporters, "In terms of my extension, man, I don't really plan on going anywhere."
The situation seems to be bubbling for now as the team figures out how to balance one of the league's best point guards on the court with the reality he hasn't been available much of late after playing just 20 games in 2019-20 and 29 games in his third season with the Nets.
That balancing act may just end in a sign-and-trade. | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10037000-kyrie-irving-rumors-opposing-teams-believe-nets-would-be-open-to-sign-and-trade | 2022-05-26T23:24:30Z | https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10037000-kyrie-irving-rumors-opposing-teams-believe-nets-would-be-open-to-sign-and-trade | true | 1 |
Bowling Green - Rosalee Thomas, 83, of Bowling Green, formerly of Tell City, passed away on May 26, 2022.
She was born in Tennyson, Indiana on July 5, 1938 to Horace and Ola (McCoy) Davis.
Rosalee was a 1955 graduate of Tennyson High School. She was married on August 10, 1963 to Dewey Thomas, who precedes her in death in 2012. Rosalee had worked for Holland Dairy as a bookkeeper. She later stayed home full time raising her two daughters.
Rosalee was a member of Tennyson General Baptist Church and attended Living Hope Baptist Church in Bowling Green.
Surviving is her daughter, Lori Dawson (Jeremy), Bowling Green, KY and grandsons, Tanner and Carter Dawson.
Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Dewey Thomas; a daughter, Dawn Machelle Thomas and sister, Mary Ann Sergesketter.
Bowling Green visitation will be held on Sunday, May 29, 2022 from 2:00-5:00 PM CDT at Living Hope Baptist Church, 1805 Westen St., Bowling Green, KY 42104
Tell City services will be held at 1:00 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at Huber Funeral Home, Tell City Chapel. Burial will follow in New Hope Cemetery in Newtonville. Visitation will be from 10:00 AM until service time at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Southern Kentucky or Wild 4 Life Wildlife Rescue.
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RIVER RIDGE, La. — 3 months after leading the John Curtis Lady Patriots to their sixth consecutive Division I state title, the school confirms that head coach Temeka Johnson is leaving for a college coaching opportunity.
Johnson’s two years at Curtis ended with Division I state titles.
The news was confirmed in a release from John Curtis Thursday afternoon stating:
“Our head girl’s basketball coach, Temeka Johnson, has resigned her position to pursue an opportunity to coach collegiately. We want to thank Coach Johnson for guiding our program these last two seasons. Coach Johnson helped the program continue to move forward by winning the last two Division I state titles. Johnson took after after Coach Barbara Farris, who guided her Patriot teams to four straight state titles before becoming an assistant coach at Stetson University.”
The search for Johnson’s replacement is currently underway.
WGNO has confirmed that Johnson will become an assistant girl’s basketball coach at Western Kentucky. | https://wgno.com/sports/temeka-johnson-leaving-john-curtis-for-college-opportunity/ | 2022-05-26T23:25:09Z | https://wgno.com/sports/temeka-johnson-leaving-john-curtis-for-college-opportunity/ | true | 1 |
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — A former Republican Senate majority leader from Tennessee pushed for action to prevent gun violence on Wednesday. He took to social media after the school shooting that killed 19 young children and two adults in Texas.
"Firearms became the leading cause of death for American children and teenagers in 2020, surpassing car accidents for the first time in over 60 years," said Bill Frist on social media. "I can't imagine this is what the Founding Fathers hoped for or intended. We can find ways to preserve the intent of the Second Amendment while also safeguarding the lives of our children."
Frist is a doctor who formerly served as the U.S. Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007. He is a Republican who served as a U.S. senator from 1995 through 2007.
The White House shared his post on social media on Thursday, saying that it was evidence of bipartisan support for lawmakers to take action against gun violence.
"Our kids have a right to feel safe going to school," Frist said in the post. "Americans should feel safe in grocery stores, in houses of worship, in our public spaces. The time to act is now."
People and communities took to social media to share their grief after the school shooting in Uvalde. Police said the gunman walked through the front door of the school with a large rifle and was in the school for around an hour before he was shot and killed by authorities.
"I am saddened and outraged about yet another school shooting, on top of the shootings at churches, grocery stores, and shopping centers," said Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon. "This is not normal. This is not acceptable. We must demand change by our lawmakers in Nashville and in Washington, D.C."
President Joe Biden also called for action, urging lawmakers to turn "this pain into action." Just two days before the conference, he met with the families of victims who were killed in a racist shooting in Buffalo. | https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/former-republican-senate-majority-leader-from-tn-psuhes-for-gun-violence-action/51-928650b6-5da4-434d-a6ba-23e0ffecba43 | 2022-05-26T23:28:35Z | https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/former-republican-senate-majority-leader-from-tn-psuhes-for-gun-violence-action/51-928650b6-5da4-434d-a6ba-23e0ffecba43 | true | 1 |
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