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ROGERS, Ark., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvest Group has made significant expansions in the past couple years, opening an office serving Target in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and building a team to serve their clients at Amazon. Next in the lineup of retailer expansions comes Costco, and with it an important hire in Shan Case as VP of the Costco office.
Case previously worked at Continental Mills for 13 years where most recently, she led the Club Channel Sales Team through extensive growth. With a formal education in Food Science and Nutrition, Case leveraged her experience to create a 25-year career in the food industry- spanning across R&D, project management, and formulation and commercialization of food products. Among other roles, as the New Product Development manager for Club channel she led teams responsible for new item development from concept to success at Costco.
Case has experience and deep understanding of what it takes to win at Costco, both at a corporate level and regionally. With Harvest Group's teams of functional experts, technology driven insights and low client to account manager ratio, Case immediately recognized the value for clients and how this will resonate with Costco buyers. She is most excited about partnering with Harvest Group clients in bringing the right item, at the right time and in the right place to grow their business at Costco.
"At Harvest, the others centric culture really drew me in to want to be part of this team. We exist to serve something greater than ourselves and live out our values in service to our clients. You can feel this at every level in the Harvest Group organization. Culture is not just a thing… it's everything!" -Shan Case
Harvest Group is thrilled to welcome Case and leverage her experience and passion on behalf of our client's business at Costco.
Harvest Group is excited for the opportunity to serve their clients in their omnichannel business at Costco. Interested in learning more about Harvest Group? Visit harvestgroup.com or email hello@harvestgroup.com with any questions or inquiries.
About Harvest Group:
We exist to grow our clients' business. We are the trusted partner for CPG brands looking to grow their omnichannel business at Walmart, Sam's Club, Kroger, Target, Amazon and now Costco. Our multi-functional team of retail experts leverages first class systems and technology to fight for clients along every step of the retail journey. With the industry currently split into traditional brick and mortar brokerages and eCommerce only tech companies, we are proud to provide a rare omnichannel solution serving in-store, online, AND advertising for companies at all life stages. From Shark Tank funded start-ups to Top 50 CPG companies and everyone in between, we help our clients put more products in shoppers' baskets, both in store and online. Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 2018 Top Company Cultures, Forbes 2019 Small Giants, and Inc.'s Best Workplaces of 2022 and 2020, our culture is at the heart of everything we do. We prioritize our values in every area of our business—in our people, relationships, processes, and ultimately how we serve our clients. Learn more at harvestgroup.com.
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Industry leaders push for end to COVID-19 testing requirements for vaccinated international travelers
CNN– Travel industry leaders pressed the Biden administration to end COVID-19 testing requirements for vaccinated international travelers entering the U.S.
Airlines for America and the U.S Travel Association say the requirement is harming the economy and doesn’t match the current threat from COVID-19. They also say other countries have removed their pre-departure testing requirements and reopened their tourism economies. | https://www.abccolumbia.com/2022/06/01/industry-leaders-push-for-end-to-covid-19-testing-requirements-for-vaccinated-international-travelers/ | 2022-06-01T17:07:28Z | https://www.abccolumbia.com/2022/06/01/industry-leaders-push-for-end-to-covid-19-testing-requirements-for-vaccinated-international-travelers/ | true | null |
RIGGINS — Quote of the week, seems most fitting following Memorial Day 2022: “In Flanders Fields - In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields. We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields.” — John McCrae, 1872-1918.
“The main themes of the poem In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae, are life and death, and war and duty. Set against the background of World War I, the poem explores the juxtaposition between the realities of warfare and death with natural rebirth. From 1914 to 1918, Flanders Fields was a major battle theatre on the Western Front during the First World War. A million soldiers from more than 50 different countries were wounded, missing or killed in action here. Entire cities and villages were destroyed, their population scattered across Europe and beyond. — found on Google.
Just a reminder to each of us to remember those soldiers did not die in vain. We need to hold our patriotic banners for all military men and women and their families who gave the ultimate sacrifice. This generation should know the sacrifice given for them today.
The last day of school for preschool is today, Wednesday, June 1, and for Riggins Elementary School and Salmon River High School the last day is tomorrow, Thursday, June 2.
Riggins Annual Big Water Blowout River Festival is Saturday, June 4. There will be a discounted whitewater rafting trip with a local guide from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. to experience some of the best rapids of your life. Then it’s down to the Riggins City Park for a Dutch Oven cookoff followed by the incredible sounds of Scott Pemberton O Theory where you can dance or listen or both.
Paula Tucker’s basketball camp is June 7-9 from 9 a.m.-noon. ASK’s outdoor camp is June 13-16 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Paula Tucker’s volleyball camp is June 21-23 from 9 a.m.-noon. Call ASK at 208-628-2770 for details and to sign up.
Riggins Senior Citizens’ group has a cook’s position open for Tuesday lunches, even if you can devote only once a month. This is a paid position; contact Pamela Nightfeather Bogan at 208-628-2394.
A celebration of life for Tom Travis will be Saturday, June 11, from 1-3 p.m. at the Rapid River Fish Hatchery, followed by a light lunch of cold cuts and salads with lemonade and water. Bring a side dish, your chair, and whatever beverage you would like to drink. This will be a casual affair, a time to visit, share favorite memories, and say farewell. Tracy, “Please, come and join us.”
Salmon River summer 2022 softball registration is through June 3; sign up at Main Street Hair Co., 103 North Main, with a $25 registration fee due by June 8 for T-shirt/equipment costs. Season dates are Wednesday nights at 7 p.m., June 8-Aug. 24. Wednesday, June 8 is information and team announcement night; the first game is June 15 at Salmon River High School baseball field. Coed recreational type league players must be 18 or older and must supply their own gloves; family and fans of all ages are welcome to watch.
Shiloh Bible Summer Camps are coming soon. Register at shilohbibleconference.com. Camps: Explorer Camp 1 – June 20-24, ages 10-12; Adventure Camp – June 27-July 1, ages 8-10; Pathfinder Camp – July 11-16, ages 12-14; Trailblazer Camp – July 18-23, ages 14-18; and Explorer Camp 2 – July 25-29, ages 10-12. Salmon River area kiddos who need information or would like to apply for a camp scholarship, available from the Salmon River Community Church, contact Jeannie Fitch.
Culpepper & Merriweather Circus “Under the Big Top,” sponsored by the Grangeville Chamber of Commerce, will be in Grangeville Saturday, June 11, behind the Senior Center. Showtimes are 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Tesslynn Beeson is Riggins Rodeo Queen for the 2022-2023 year. She is the 15-year-old daughter of Chad and Brady Beeson. She will be promoting Riggins Rodeo 2023 at parades and rodeos in Idaho County and the surrounding area. Congratulations Tesslynn.
The annual White Bird Rodeo, honoring Richard and Terry Eller as 2022 grand marshals, will be held on the banks of the Salmon River at the twin bridges Friday, June 17, and Saturday, 18, at 5 p.m. each day with mini bulls both days and mini ponies on Saturday only. “Roaring 20s” is the theme for the 11 a.m. parade on Saturday, with lots of activities downtown White Bird including music before and after the parade.
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‘You Cannot Be Here!’ NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell Confronts South Korean Press Crowding Aisle Before BTS Briefing in Now-Deleted Video
NBC News White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell confronted South Korean journalists prior to a briefing room appearance by global pop sensation BTS over their placement of cameras in the room in a video that was tweeted by a C-SPAN staffer — and later deleted.
The members of the group were guests of White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at Tuesday’s White House briefing, where they each marked the end of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by speaking about anti-Asian hate crimes.
But before that briefing, C-SPAN cameras captured a confrontation between O’Donnell and journalists who said they were part of the South Korean press pool. In the clip, O’Donnell — who is a member of the Board of the White House Correspondents Association — wades into a dispute over the placement of equipment.
The South Korean journalist tells a man that she believes her crew has permission from the White House to set up in the stage-right aisle of the briefing room, but he explains that only pool cameras and tripods are permitted.
“You cannot be here! Cannot be here!” O’Donnell says, crossing into the frame and across to where the discussion is happening.
The South Korean woman again says she believes that she’s been given permission by the White House.
“They don’t, they don’t control this room, actually,” O’Donnell interrupted.
The woman says something inaudible, and O’Donnell says “Uh, no. We have for more than a year been working with Covid restrictions, fire standards, and so forth. And this room is only pool, and there are no tripods in the aisles. We know there’s enormous interest today, but you’re breaking the rules we’ve all lived under for more than a year.”
The woman asks O’Donnell if she could please check again if her team can be there, and O’Donnell says “Journalists here is fine. We’re saying you can’t have tripods in the aisles, and we are pool only. These are the restrictions we work with every day. This is where we work every day.
“Yeah, but just can you check one more time?” the woman asks, and her colleague says “Thank you.”
“They don’t control the room. We control the room,” O’Donnell says, adding “So it’s not their decision.”
The video was tweeted by C-SPAN Specialist for Digital and Social Media Jeremy Art, but was deleted about an hour later without explanation. The tweet had collected only a small handful of replies, several of which were critical of O’Donnell.
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Powered by Purlin, a New Valley Ventures PropTech Investment, AdPro Enhances Agents' Ability to Promote Listings, Target Buyers, Grow Reach and Boost Lead Gen
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Douglas Elliman Realty, one of the largest independent residential real estate brokerages in the United States, announced today the launch of AdPro, a new custom-built digital ad publishing solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help agents more effectively promote properties, target potential buyers, expand their reach and generate more leads. AdPro is powered by Purlin, one of the first companies to receive funding from New Valley Ventures, the PropTech investment arm of Douglas Elliman Inc.
"As a business built on empowering agents to grow their businesses, we are continuously looking for new tools and technologies to give them an edge," said Scott Durkin, Chief Executive Officer, Douglas Elliman Realty. "We can't wait to see what opportunities and possibilities AdPro will unlock for them."
Featuring a simple and intuitive interface, AdPro enables agents to quickly and easily produce and publish ads on-the-go for Facebook, Instagram and Google.
"So much of sales and marketing is about telling powerful stories, and our agents are some of the best storytellers around," said Stephanie Garbarini, Chief Marketing Officer, Douglas Elliman Realty. "AdPro will help them to share their stories more efficiently and ensure they are seen by the right people."
AdPro's propriety AI models track lookalike high-intent audiences, as well as engagement with similar listings and related interests, in order to target likely buyers in the market for real estate. Agents can select from a menu of packages preset with finely tuned targeting and optimal duration to maximize the impact of a promoted listing.
"AI is profoundly transforming the way we do business and with AI enhanced AdPro, we are delivering our agents a more qualified and intentional pool of buyers for of their exclusive listings," said Connie Mui-Reilly, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Douglas Elliman Realty.
"Our commitment to developing and investing in AI-powered PropTech like AdPro will ensure we stay at the leading edge of innovation," added Dan Sachar, Managing Director of New Valley Ventures LLC and Vice President of Enterprise Innovation at Douglas Elliman Inc. "We are excited to see our investment in Purlin come to life via this exciting platform."
AdPro also fosters greater collaboration and transparency with sellers by sharing real-time performance and traffic reports for the ads promoting their properties.
Douglas Elliman will begin rolling out AdPro to agents on a regional basis in the coming weeks.
Douglas Elliman Inc. (NYSE: DOUG, "Douglas Elliman") owns Douglas Elliman Realty, LLC, which is one of the largest residential brokerage companies in the New York metropolitan area, which includes New York City, Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut, New Jersey and the Hamptons, and the sixth largest in the U.S., with operations in California, Colorado, Texas, Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts. In addition, Douglas Elliman sources, uses and invests in early-stage, disruptive property technology ("PropTech") solutions and companies and provides other real estate services, including development marketing, property management and settlement and escrow services in select markets. Additional information concerning Douglas Elliman is available on its website, www.elliman.com.
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A report examining social work workloads and caseloads in Scotland illustrates the perfect storm that is enveloping the profession, according to the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW).
Setting the Bar was commissioned by Social Work Scotland to look at the profession’s capacity across Scotland and consider how an evidence-based indicative caseload limit might be established.
Just over 1,500 social work professionals, more than a quarter of the public sector workforce, responded to the survey.
Some of the findings include:
· 78% said high administrative workload was the least satisfying part of their work, followed by lack of time for preventative work (65%) and high caseloads (47%).
· More than 70% worked additional hours most of the time, of which 90% did not ever get paid for them
· 81% reported that they spent less than 10% of their time on training, learning and development
· 59% highlighted unmanageable workload as a reason for leaving the profession.
The report also concluded that social workers are proud of their profession and strongly committed to its values and the people they work with. However, it adds that “the values to which they are deeply committed are compromised, with wellbeing impacts, making the job no longer tenable.”
SASW National Director, Alison Bavidge, said: “Setting the Bar has outlined the wide-ranging and deep-seated problems facing social workers in Scotland. Unmanageable caseloads are just the tip of the iceberg, with little career progression and structured personal development, lack of preventative work, unpaid overtime and excessive paperwork also prevalent.
“It all combines to create a perfect storm which is putting social workers under severe pressure, is damaging their mental health and risks crippling the profession as more people leave.
“The report shows that we must effectively and swiftly increase the workforce to meet demand. Social workers are driven by a belief in social justice and a deep desire to help those in need. They need the resources, time and support to do the job they came to the profession to do.
“Having an indicative caseload limit is the first step, but wider systematic change is required to improve working lives of social workers and better help all of us who need support from services.
“SASW will continue to work for a cohesive social work profession that is accessible, trusted and supported. With a National Care Service on the horizon, the opportunity to make this a reality has never been greater and we stand ready and willing to work with the Scottish Government to achieve it.”
The Setting the Bar report can be read in full here.
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In-Person Tech Conference Features Networking, Learning Aug. 2-4 in Chicago
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, announced today that ChannelCon 2022 will feature Scott Galloway, best-selling author and professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business, as keynote speaker.
ChannelCon 2022, which will take place Tuesday, Aug. 2, through Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk in Chicago, is the technology industry's premier annual conference for vendor-neutral collaboration, learning and partnership, stimulating the innovative ideas and actionable advice to help grow and protect businesses around the world.
"We're incredibly excited to bring Scott Galloway to the ChannelCon audience this year," said M.J. Shoer, chief community officer at CompTIA. "Few thought leaders can cut through the noise and help us all make sense of the ever-changing business world these days. The professor and entrepreneur will share his unique takes on creative solutions in health tech, higher education, transportation, financial technology, and related fields that will shape the next decade and beyond."
Galloway, who has nearly 500,000 followers on Twitter, has founded nine companies including Prophet, Red Envelope, L2 and Section4. Along with his Webby Award-winning No Mercy/No Malice newsletter, he is The New York Times bestselling author of "The Four," "The Algebra of Happiness" and "Post Corona." He also has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Panera Bread and Ledger.
In addition to the keynote, ChannelCon will feature a specialized mix of education and collaborative sessions from leading technology experts offering insight into key trends, business challenges and growth opportunities in today's market. Set against the backdrop of CompTIA's hometown of Chicago and embracing the city's rich music tradition, ChannelCon will celebrate bringing the industry back together in person throughout the program.
ChannelCon 2022 Programming Tracks
Cybersecurity: Today's cyber strategies must be multi-faceted, collaborative, and resolute. Learn from security leaders about how to identify the latest threats and respond proactively to stay safe.
New Solutions: Managed services providers (MSPs) and other solution providers are always on the lookout for new, innovative solutions. Learn how to engage in meaningful discussions with partners and get valuable insights to help you keep making beautiful music together.
Education: For MSPs to stay competitive, they need to learn and incorporate the latest sales and marketing strategies to help keep their customers in perfect harmony. Hear from industry experts about the latest trends and best practices to help take your business straight to No. 1.
New Tech, Workforce Strategies: Adopting new technologies and keeping tech talent happy can help differentiate a business. CompTIA Communities and Industry Advisory Council leaders will discuss business-building tactics and IT workforce strategies that will keep employees and customers coming back for an encore.
ChannelCon is co-located with the CompTIA Partner Summit, which includes academic educators, commercial trainers, government agencies, corporate learning and development leaders, and instructors looking to improve training solutions and measurably enhance the skillset of the tech workforce. The Summit, which will take place Aug. 3 and Aug. 4., includes general sessions along with the Galloway keynote.
Registration is currently open for ChannelCon 2022 and Partner Summit. To register for ChannelCon, go here. To register for Partner Summit, go here.
About CompTIA
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is a leading voice and advocate for the $5 trillion global information technology ecosystem; and the estimated 75 million industry and tech professionals who design, implement, manage, and safeguard the technology that powers the world's economy. Through education, training, certifications, advocacy, philanthropy, and market research, CompTIA is the hub for unlocking the potential of the technology industry and workforce. Visit https://connect.comptia.org/.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraBox, a cloud storage service, introduced a referral program encouraging global users to invite friends and family to join the platform.
TeraBox users can redeem up to 2,000GB in free cloud storage, valid for 180 days, in addition to the 1,024GB (1TB) of free cloud storage everyone receives.
Existing TeraBox users can activate the referral program by:
- Within the app, click on the activity banner and 'Collect Now' button to receive a unique shareable link
- Send to a friend or family member
- Once the friend or family member signs up and logs into the TeraBox app, the sender will see a 'To Collect' button on their program/activity page within the app
- Once activated, the referring TeraBox user can enjoy 200GB of extra storage per referral
Beloved worldwide, TeraBox recently announced its 35M download milestone.
"Our referral program allows users to share the joy of convenient, reliable cloud storage with their friends and family," said Olivia Tian, product lead at TeraBox. "We see it as growing the TeraBox family!"
TeraBox is also offering a "check-in" program, where users can receive bonus storage by visiting the app every day, earning up to 293GB after seven days. Once users complete a week of check-ins, they are encouraged to begin the process again. If a user misses a day, the program will start over. All storage gained from this program is valid for 180 days.
Users can find both programs in the app's welfare center, accessed via the main menu.
TeraBox automatically syncs files across devices, backs up photos and videos, and saves files to the local storage on users' devices.
Please note: TeraBox reserves the right to deny the referral program reward(s) in the event of fraud or other excluded circumstances. For questions about the referral program, please contact activity@terabox.com.
Available for download on Android, iOS, and Windows devices, data can also be accessed online at www.terabox.com.
About TeraBox
TeraBox is an innovative cloud storage app that protects and organizes all the files on a user's device, helping them to quickly back up and navigate photos, important documents, and files with the aid of powerful AI technology. TeraBox enables worldwide users to experience the future of data backup and cloud storage solutions.
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Texas officials had said a teacher propped a door open at Robb Elementary in Uvalde just before the gunman entered and carried out a mass shooting — but they now acknowledge that the woman closed the door, after the teacher's attorney spoke out.
It's the latest shift in a narrative that has continued to change since last Tuesday — an extraordinary process that has seen officials repeatedly correcting earlier statements, after they're contradicted by new information.
A teacher didn't leave the school door propped open
The most detailed official timeline of the shooting emerged on Friday, when Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw told journalists that the gunman entered Robb Elementary through a back door that a teacher had left propped open. Moments earlier, he said, the teacher had been using the door to get her cellphone.
But that version of events was clarified on Tuesday. The teacher's lawyer told the San Antonio Express-News that the teacher had kicked a rock away from the push-bar door and pulled it shut after recognizing the danger of the situation. She thought it would automatically lock — but it didn't, her lawyer said.
Attorney Don Flanary told the Express-News that the teacher, who hasn't been named publicly, used a rock to prop open the door while she briefly left the building to bring food from the parking lot to the school just before lunch last Tuesday. She then saw Salvador Ramos crash his truck in a ditch near the school, Flanary said, and went inside to get her phone and call 911.
The teacher was on the phone with the emergency service when she emerged again from the school and was confronted with a frightening shift in the circumstances, as the truck's driver approached the school with a rifle.
"She saw him jump the fence, and he had a gun, so she ran back inside," Flanary said. "She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was shooting. She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked."
Texas officials confirm that the teacher shut the door
After the teacher's account emerged, the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed the essential details in her lawyer's statement.
"We did verify she closed the door," Travis Considine, chief communications officer for Texas DPS, told The Associated Press. He added that the door should have locked when it closed, but it didn't: "The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock."
The method the gunman used to bring a powerful rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition into the school is a key detail that reverberates far beyond Uvalde, as other schools look at how they can prevent similar attacks. For the same reason, the police response is also being closely scrutinized.
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Mourners say goodbye to Uvalde teacher and her husband
Mourners gathered Wednesday at a Catholic church to say goodbye to Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia — who died in the shooting at the Uvalde, Texas, grade school — and her husband, Joe — who died two days later from a heart attack.
Nineteen children and two teachers — Garcia and her co-teacher, 44-year-old Eva Mireles — were killed May 24 when an 18-year-old gunman burst into their classroom. The litany of visitations, funerals and burials began Monday and will continue into mid-June.
At Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Wednesday, twin black hearses carrying the coffins of the Garcias arrived in a procession led by police and civilian motorcycle riders. Covered by flowers and white cloths, the two closed caskets were borne by pallbearers past a phalanx of police in uniforms and priests in white robes.
Some sobbed throughout the service in which Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller offered thanks for Irma Garcia’s dedication. He listed the names of the slain schoolchildren several times throughout the homily.
“Because you were there with them,” he said. “You did what you would have done with your own children. You took care of them until your last breath.”
Irma, 48, was finishing up her 23rd year as a teacher at Robb Elementary. In a letter posted on the school’s website at the beginning of the school year, Garcia told her students that she and Joe had four children — a Marine, a college student, a high school student and a seventh grader.
Most of the readings during Wednesday’s service and the homily were in English, with García-Siller offering some words in Spanish.
“We are all hurting,” he said. “In the midst of so much, please, please people need comfort, people need you. … Let us all foster a culture of peace.”
Joe, 50, collapsed and died after dropping off flowers at his wife’s memorial. The couple would have been married 25 years on June 28 His obituary noted that he and Irma “began their relationship in high school and it flourished into a love that was beautiful and kind.”
On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds turned out to remember Amerie Jo Garza, a smiling fourth-grader whose funeral Mass was the first since the massacre. The funeral for 10-year-old Maite Rodriguez was Tuesday night.
At Amerie’s funeral, mourner Erika Santiago, her husband and their two children wore purple shirts adorned with images of the victims. She described Amerie as “a nice little girl who smiled a lot,” and who was “so humble and charismatic but full of life.”
Investigators continue to seek answers about how police responded to the shooting, and the U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing law enforcement actions.
The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman — even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside — was placed on the school district’s police chief, Pete Arredondo. The director of state police last week said Arredondo made the “wrong decision” not to breach the classroom, believing the gunman was barricaded inside and children weren’t at risk.
On Wednesday, Arredondo told CNN that he’s talking regularly with investigators from the Texas Department of Public Safety, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he’s stopped cooperating.
Authorities have said the gunman, Salvador Ramos, legally purchased two guns not long before the school attack: an AR-15-style rifle on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. He had just turned 18, permitting him to buy the weapons under federal law. Ramos was killed by law enforcement.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraBox, a cloud storage service, introduced a referral program encouraging global users to invite friends and family to join the platform.
TeraBox users can redeem up to 2,000GB in free cloud storage, valid for 180 days, in addition to the 1,024GB (1TB) of free cloud storage everyone receives.
Existing TeraBox users can activate the referral program by:
- Within the app, click on the activity banner and 'Collect Now' button to receive a unique shareable link
- Send to a friend or family member
- Once the friend or family member signs up and logs into the TeraBox app, the sender will see a 'To Collect' button on their program/activity page within the app
- Once activated, the referring TeraBox user can enjoy 200GB of extra storage per referral
Beloved worldwide, TeraBox recently announced its 35M download milestone.
"Our referral program allows users to share the joy of convenient, reliable cloud storage with their friends and family," said Olivia Tian, product lead at TeraBox. "We see it as growing the TeraBox family!"
TeraBox is also offering a "check-in" program, where users can receive bonus storage by visiting the app every day, earning up to 293GB after seven days. Once users complete a week of check-ins, they are encouraged to begin the process again. If a user misses a day, the program will start over. All storage gained from this program is valid for 180 days.
Users can find both programs in the app's welfare center, accessed via the main menu.
TeraBox automatically syncs files across devices, backs up photos and videos, and saves files to the local storage on users' devices.
Please note: TeraBox reserves the right to deny the referral program reward(s) in the event of fraud or other excluded circumstances. For questions about the referral program, please contact activity@terabox.com.
Available for download on Android, iOS, and Windows devices, data can also be accessed online at www.terabox.com.
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TeraBox is an innovative cloud storage app that protects and organizes all the files on a user's device, helping them to quickly back up and navigate photos, important documents, and files with the aid of powerful AI technology. TeraBox enables worldwide users to experience the future of data backup and cloud storage solutions.
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Intuitive home inspection technology infused with industry-leading data analytics gives U.S. insurers comprehensive risk insights for underwriting and claims workflows, and consumers easy-to-navigate experience
ATLANTA, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, part of RELX, today announced it has acquired Flyreel, a Denver-based property insurtech that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable self-service property inspections, which provide additional visibility into a property's interior and exterior to improve and automate new business and renewal underwriting and claims processes. Flyreel will become part of the insurance business within LexisNexis Risk Solutions, complementing the insurance data and analytics leader's existing breadth of data assets and models that help assess risk for a structure's inhabitants and location.
Flyreel uses proprietary computer vision technology to guide a home or business owner through a comprehensive property scan via the policyholder's smartphone. Using the Flyreel app, consumers effortlessly capture interior and exterior property features. The insights are digitized, verified and delivered into insurance carriers' workflows, eliminating the need for an onsite visit.
"Insurers need a modern solution for the home inspection process that reduces costs, gives them the insight they need to underwrite and improve loss ratios, and offers a convenient, intelligent customer experience," said Bill Madison, CEO, Insurance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "By combining Flyreel's innovative capabilities with our vast data analytics assets, we will create a transformative platform for property risk assessment that offers insurers comprehensive underwriting insights and more effectively identifies the properties that need inspections at renewal. The benefits are game-changing."
Among the benefits, insurers can more effectively determine the appropriate premium for each property scanned, improve loss ratios by identifying critical hazards upfront, reduce premium leakage by capturing details about insurable assets and simplify the inspection process for improved property owner satisfaction.
Flyreel's technology also benefits consumers with a better customer experience by alleviating their scheduling headaches, improving a consumer's understanding of their home or business risks and creating a record of their possessions in the event of a future claim.
Cole Winans, CEO of Flyreel, added, "We're incredibly proud of the innovation we've brought to the insurance industry. Comprehensive interior and exterior property analytics and consumer-grade experiences are foundational to the present and future of insurance. With its strong history of delivering transformative insurance solutions, LexisNexis Risk Solutions accelerates our path while amplifying our ability to deliver new solutions and value to the market. We look forward to applying our combined capabilities to continue solving industry challenges and doing even more together across lines of business."
Morgan Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor to Flyreel.
Flyreel is the leading provider of insurance-specific AI solutions to residential and commercial property insurers. Flyreel provides insurers Total Property Understanding™ through the delivery of comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date interior and exterior property analytics. Powered by proprietary machine learning and computer vision technology, Flyreel's mobile "Property Assistant" guides consumers through property inspections and claim surveys without requiring an onsite visit and while automatically capturing business-critical data and analytics to expedite and improve insurance outcomes across underwriting and claims. Flyreel is based in Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit https://www.Flyreel.co/.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide range of industries including insurance, financial services, healthcare and government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com and www.relx.com.
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 33,000 people over 40% of whom are in North America. The shares of RELX PLC, the parent company, are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York stock exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX. The market capitalization is approximately £44bn/€51bn/$55bn.
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Simplifies EV Charging Implementation at Workplace, Multifamily & Hospitality Properties
IRVINE, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qmerit, the leading provider of implementation solutions for EV charging and other electrification technologies, today launched turnkey EV charging solutions for commercial properties. From start to finish, these solutions simplify EV charging implementation at commercial sites including workplaces, multifamily residential facilities and hospitality venues.
Qmerit's commercial charging solution starts with a streamlined assessment process that makes it easier for property owners to get proposals and pricing estimates for EV charging projects. First, property owners use Qmerit's proprietary online portal to complete a Digital Commercial Assessment, providing information about their sites as it relates to EV readiness. Qmerit then conducts a tailored and highly efficient on-site evaluation thanks to the foundational information from the Commercial Assessment. From there, Qmerit develops and implements an end-to-end solution that enables the property to meet the unique demands of its customers, employees, tenants or other stakeholders.
"Commercial real estate, with its scale and influence, can play a tremendous role in helping EVs go mainstream by adding critical capacity to the nation's charging infrastructure," said Tracy K. Price, Qmerit CEO and Founder. "But they need a turnkey solution that brings all of the moving parts together. By bridging this gap, Qmerit hopes to spark a significant uptick in charging installations at commercial properties across North America."
Besides a streamlined assessment process, Qmerit's turnkey charging solutions include technology applicability, scope development and expert installation by Qmerit-certified electricians. Additionally, Qmerit helps commercial property owners offset the cost of their charging investment by generating revenue from their charging stations and securing carbon credits and utility company incentives. Competitive financing solutions are also available through Qmerit's lending partners.
According to Tom Bowen, president of Qmerit Solutions, commercial property owners must currently navigate the broader EV ecosystem to piece together the elements of a complete charging solution—a daunting task as it requires a range of highly specialized knowledge and connections.
"Today's leading commercial sites are looking for ways to express their values around sustainability and decarbonization," said Bowen. "Our approach gives them a viable way to explore the role that EV charging can play in their commitment to customers and other stakeholders."
To learn more about Qmerit's comprehensive charging solutions for commercial properties, visit qmerit.com/commercial-services.
Qmerit is North America's leading provider of implementation solutions for EV charging and other energy transition technologies, simplifying the adoption of electrification for residential and business markets. Qmerit's value-driven services are delivered through a network of company-owned contractors, independent Certified Solutions Partners, and Certified Installers skilled in system implementation and integration. For more information, visit https://qmerit.com/, and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
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--Seize the Bay--
MONTEREY, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One of Monterey's most memorable, awe-inspiring experiences is a Whale Watching tour of Monterey Bay. These trips allow guests to have an unrivaled view to observe the spectacular diversity and abundance of whales and dolphins that inhabit the bay. Casa Munras Garden Hotel & Spa offers its popular Whale Watching Package throughout the summer, including deluxe accommodations for two, access to fitness room, complimentary Wi-Fi, and the boat tour for two. The package price starts at $331 per night on select dates.
Monterey Bay is home to a wide variety of marine mammals and seabirds. Guests will cruise the waters of Monterey Bay to encounter majestic grey, blue, and humpback whales, orcas, and playful dolphins. Throughout the 4-hour tour, a marine biologist shares information about the whales, their habitat, mating rituals, and migration paths. The whale watching tour visits the Monterey Submarine Canyon, where guests will see the whales migrate and feed just offshore throughout the year.
Trips are provided by Monterey Bay Whale Watch and depart from Monterey's Fisherman's Wharf #1. Arrive at departure location 1/2 hr. before board time. A 24-hour cancellation is required.
The Casa Munras Garden Hotel & Spa is in the heart of Monterey's Heritage District, just a short walk to downtown shops and restaurants. It is also close to the city's museums, historic government buildings, Monterey's Fisherman's Wharf, and Cannery Row. With gorgeous gardens and hacienda-style buildings, guests enjoy a tranquil setting with easy access to the area's attractions. The Spanish-style décor creates an inviting, vibrant ambiance. Guests appreciate modern comforts and signature amenities, streaming wi-fi, and access to the outdoor pool and fitness room. Casa Munras is dog friendly.
Adjacent to Casa Munras, Estéban Restaurant is where locals and visitors enjoy Executive Chef Mario Garcia's California-inspired Spanish cuisine made with the finest and freshest local ingredients. Indoor or outdoor patio seating is available.
On-site parking makes getting out and about effortless. Casa Munras is just a 10-minute drive to Carmel-by-the Sea, 12 minutes to Pebble Beach, 15 minutes to Monterey Airport, and a 40-minute drive to Big Sur, making it the ideal place to call home base. Casa Munras is located at 700 Munras Avenue, Monterey, CA 93940. www.hotelcasamunras.com
For reservations and rates: Casa Munras Garden Hotel & Spa toll-free at 1-800-222-2446. Book online at reservations@innsofmonterey.com
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MSI Unleashes Intel Alder Lake-HX CPU Powered Titan GT77, Raider GE77/67, Vector GP76/66, CreatorPro X17 Enthusiast Gaming Laptops
MSI has unleashed its high-end Titan GT77, Raider GE77/67, Vector GP76/66 & CreatorPro X17 laptops, powered by the Intel Alder Lake-HX enthusiast-class CPUs.
MSI Titan GT77, Raider GE77/67, Vector GP76/66, CreatorPro X17 Push Laptop Gaming To The Extreme With Intel's Alder Lake-HX CPUs
Press Release: Today, MSI - the innovative computing manufacturer in gaming and creator laptops - proudly unveils a new lineup of laptops equipped with the latest 12th Gen Intel HX series processors.
The new premium laptop lineup delivers not just extreme performances but an innovative set of features including the built-in mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, an exclusive built-in color calibration report, and the world’s first QHD 240Hz OLED display. The new lineup promises premium gameplay and super-efficient content creation for the most performance-addicted enthusiasts and top-notch creators.
The new gaming laptop lineup features a significant performance improvement over previous models, including up to a 100% increase in CPU performance. And thanks to the robust cooling system, the new gaming laptops can push the latest Intel HX processors to their limits with a whopping 150W maximum turbo power. The exclusive MSI OverBoost technology also pushes the envelope with a combined 250W power delivery to CPU plus GPU, promising the most immersive and premium gameplay.
MSI is including the world’s first Samsung Display QHD 240Hz OLED display on its new gaming laptop. It balances high resolution and refresh rate, and delivers all the advantages of OLED, including super-low response time, super-wide color gamut, and super-high contrast ratio.
"The World 1st mass-produced QHD 240Hz OLED by Samsung Display will provide the best gaming experience with rich color expressions, true blacks, and exceptional seamless motion speed. In addition, OLED promises eye protection with flicker-free and less blue light. Leveraging extraordinary performances including eye-friendly characteristics, Samsung OLED is expected to be the new standard of a gaming laptop display." - By Bobby Su, the GM & Vice President of Samsung Taiwan.
The premium and the accurate display are important for professionals and creators alike. The exclusive True Pixel technology assures that each laptop display will be calibrated in the factory, promising the most accurate color reproduction. MSI is now including an exclusive color calibration report with each laptop, detailing all the parameters of the display, including Delta-E or Gamma value.
Having precise control is critical for any gaming laptop, so the new MSI gaming laptop rearms the mechanical keyboard with class-leading Cherry MX switches, delivering a top-notch keypress feel. Combined with the per-key RGB lighting and exclusive SteelSeries GG control software, the new gaming laptop has raised the bar for modern laptop keyboards.
The new MSI gaming laptops also come with Meta-Ready certification, promising smooth exploration or construction of Metaverse. The exclusively-bundled Animaze software provides the sweet taste of Metaverse with animated avatars available for the top-rated meeting apps like Zoom or Teams.
The Ultimate Desktop Replacement – Titan GT77
The Titan GT series has always been appreciated for its desktop-grade performance and strong cooling system. It has also won the heart of authority and been awarded the Gold Choice of the Best of COMPUTEX Award. The brand-new Titan GT77 triumphantly returns with not just that next level of performance and cooling, but a series of premium features including an RGB lightbar and mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Ultra-Low Switch. The Cooler Boost Titan technology consists of 4 fans, 7 heat pipes, and a phase-change thermal pad, which unleashes the true potential of the latest 16-core Intel HX series processor.
Thanks to its cooling, the Titan GT77 sports up to 150W MTP (Maximum Turbo Power) of processing power, which delivers doubled performance compared with the last-gen CPU. The Titan GT77 doesn’t stop there and pushes the performance further with the exclusive OverBoost technology, reaching a whopping 250W1 of combined power delivery to CPU and GPU, promising desktop-caliber performance. The new Titan GT77 also comes with desktop-level expandability with 4 memory slots and 4 M.2 slots, supporting up to 128G of memory and 32TB of storage2 for tons of AAA game installations or multiple browsing tabs opened.
The new Titan GT77 doesn’t just have a dominant performance and expandability, it also raises the bar for laptop keyboards through its mechanical keyboard with class-leading Cherry MX Ultra-Low Switch, delivering the tactile and crispy keypress feel. It’s also per-key RGB backlighted and able to be managed by the renowned SteelSeries GG software, promising a fancy backlight with personal style. There’s even more RGB with the light bar located at the rear of the laptop, which is also manageable by the GG software.
The brand-new Titan GT77 has packed desktop-caliber performance and expandability and reshaped the way of desktop replacement with its 23mm-thin chassis. It’s the ultimate “Desktop Replacement” presented for those who are looking for a gaming laptop without any compromise.
Seeing Is Believing – Raider GE77 HX/67 HX
Raider GE series has always been the raw performance leader of modern gaming laptops and now gamers can experience its newly equipped 16-core Intel® HX processor, promising up to 150W MTP (Maximum Turbo Power) of processing power. Gamers are favored by the combined 250W1 power of CPU and GPU, thanks to the exclusive OverBoost technology.
These mighty performance upgrades are perfectly presented with the world’s first QHD 240Hz OLED display on the latest Raider GE67 which balances resolution and refresh rate and delivers a visual feast with super-low 0.2ms response time, super-wide DCI-P3 100% color gamut, and super-high 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. These eye-watering specs translate into the most immersive gameplay for gamers.
Born for Performance – Vector GP76 HX/66 HX
The Vector GP Series was born with a new concept; the name “Vector” represents MSI’s expectation for the GP series to have all the power needed to move forward with a satisfying experience in gaming, engineering, or scientific computing. With Cooler Boost 5 Technology, the Vector’s performance can reach up to 250W1 via MSI OverBoost. These features create smooth and stunning gameplay for gamers.
Built For Professionals – CreatorPro X17
The brand new CreatorPro X17 is built for professionals. It packs all the essential elements that professionals will need including powerful performance, accurate display, ISV certifications, and reliable security. The powerful performance comes from the latest 16-core Intel® HX processor and NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU. Thanks to the exclusive per-unit display color calibration and the world’s first built-in color calibration report which contains all the critical parameters of display like Delta-E or Gamma value, creation has never been more efficient and accurate with CreatorPro X17.
Both efficiency and stability are critical for professionals. The new CreatorPro X17 has been certified by leading ISVs like Adobe, Autodesk, and Ansys, promising reassuring system stability. The built-in TPM module also secures confidential data. The Creator Pro is the ultimate mobile workstation built for professionals.
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AMITYVILLE, N.Y., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSSC), one of the leading designers and manufacturers of high-tech electronic security devices, wireless subscription communication services for intrusion, fire alarm, access control and locking systems as well as a leading provider of school safety solutions, today announced that its products have once again been selected for use in a school security project at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. Pepperdine has approximately 9,500 students enrolled at its Malibu, CA. campus
The project includes the installation of NAPCO's Alarm Lock division ArchiTech locks in the university's classrooms. ArchiTech Series Networx Locks are an ideal access control solution, elegantly blending advanced wireless access control convenience within any décor, in an attractive, infinitely customizable designer locking form factor, in choice of trims and finishes. Ideal for educational, commercial office or multi-dwelling residential settings, these stylish, durable locks, leveraging proven Trilogy Networx™ access control technology, offer a choice of ID credential technology, and can be used to control access, a door at a time, across a wireless network, or as an integral part of a new or existing enterprise security system—spanning a few, or thousands of doors, in one building, a campus or multiple sites around the world. The Architech locks combined with NAPCO's Continental Access division CA4K software, controls all of the doors for an enterprise class access control solution.
Richard Soloway, CEO of NAPCO commented, "We are pleased to report this school security project at Pepperdine University, which has used NAPCO products in multiple projects over the years. The security of our schools remains a very important issue, as we continue to witness horrific events around the country. NAPCO continues to be a leader in school security products and solutions, and we would like to thank Pepperdine for continuing to choose our products and being a highly valued customer."
About NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc.
NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., is one of the world's leading manufacturers and service providers of high-tech electronic security devices as well as a leading provider of school safety solutions. The Company consists of four Divisions: NAPCO, plus three wholly-owned subsidiaries: Alarm Lock, Continental Instruments, and Marks USA. Headquartered in Amityville, New York, its products are installed by tens of thousands of security professionals worldwide in commercial, industrial, institutional, residential and government applications. NAPCO products have earned a reputation for innovation, technical excellence and reliability, positioning the Company for growth in the multi-billion dollar and rapidly expanding electronic security market. For additional information on NAPCO, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.napcosecurity.com.
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Tesla’s controversial boss has sent an e-mail to all the executive staff asking them to come into the office 40 hours per week because “remote work is no longer acceptable.” The message has been confirmed as being genuine.
Tesla executives just got a pretty clear heads-up. They must come into the office for at least 40 hours per week. Elon Musk sent out an e-mail that informed everyone they need to give up the comfort of their own home and work from relevant offices just as factory workers do every day.
The CEO, however, didn’t forbid remote work entirely. He just made it optional for those that want to work more than the minimum the company is accepting. Whoever wants to put in the extra hours can do it from the comfort of their own space. But executives must give at least 40 hours of weekly office activity before being able to charge the company some overtime.
Elon Musk also made it clear the company he’s leading is going to accept only minor exceptions that’ll be personally approved by the CEO himself. The e-mail says this will be available only for “exceptional contributors.”
Furthermore, the executive staff must do their minimum of weekly hours at one of Tesla’s relevant offices. The activity can’t take place in spaces unrelated to the job description and responsibilities.
Elon Musk confirmed the e-mail sent to Tesla’s top employees was real. He answered one of his followers on Twitter that asked if a screenshot published on the social network is true. Musk added later that executives “should pretend to work somewhere else,” underlining once again he’s not a believer in the efficiency and efficacy of remote work.
Tesla’s CEO has been involved in a number of controversies lately. His Twitter buying saga, various political statements, and the way he decided to treat workers in China made some people think twice about what Elon Musk really wants to achieve. But despite the public scandals, Tesla continues to make ends meet even in an unforgiving market.
But with the major health crisis almost gone, many companies are asking their employees to come back to the office as well. It's not just Tesla. That’s not very popular with high-skilled workers. The shift to jobs that don’t require a 40-hour workweek in only one designated place might still happen until the end of this year.
The CEO, however, didn’t forbid remote work entirely. He just made it optional for those that want to work more than the minimum the company is accepting. Whoever wants to put in the extra hours can do it from the comfort of their own space. But executives must give at least 40 hours of weekly office activity before being able to charge the company some overtime.
Elon Musk also made it clear the company he’s leading is going to accept only minor exceptions that’ll be personally approved by the CEO himself. The e-mail says this will be available only for “exceptional contributors.”
Furthermore, the executive staff must do their minimum of weekly hours at one of Tesla’s relevant offices. The activity can’t take place in spaces unrelated to the job description and responsibilities.
Elon Musk confirmed the e-mail sent to Tesla’s top employees was real. He answered one of his followers on Twitter that asked if a screenshot published on the social network is true. Musk added later that executives “should pretend to work somewhere else,” underlining once again he’s not a believer in the efficiency and efficacy of remote work.
Tesla’s CEO has been involved in a number of controversies lately. His Twitter buying saga, various political statements, and the way he decided to treat workers in China made some people think twice about what Elon Musk really wants to achieve. But despite the public scandals, Tesla continues to make ends meet even in an unforgiving market.
But with the major health crisis almost gone, many companies are asking their employees to come back to the office as well. It's not just Tesla. That’s not very popular with high-skilled workers. The shift to jobs that don’t require a 40-hour workweek in only one designated place might still happen until the end of this year.
They should pretend to work somewhere else
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hailed Adm. Linda Fagan as new Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the armed forces' first female service chief, declaring during a change of command ceremony on Wednesday, “It's about time.”
“The trailblazing career of Admiral Fagan shows young people entering the services, we mean what we say: There are no doors — no doors — closed to women,” Biden told around 2,000 cheering guests at Coast Guard headquarters. Those attending included service chiefs from other military branches and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The president added, “This is what an admiral and service chief in the United States armed forces looks like” and thanked Fagan for “all that you've done throughout your career to open the doors of opportunity just a little bit wider" allowing "those following behind you a way through.”
“Now we need to keep working to make sure Admiral Fagan may be the first but not the only,” Biden said. “We need to see more women at the highest levels of command in the Coast Guard and across every service."
Fagan relieved Adm. Karl L. Schultz. In a brief address, Biden didn't mention Russia's war with Ukraine but said “the choices the world makes today will "shape the direction of the world throughout the 21st century."
The president said his administration is “going to be calling on the Coast Guard more frequently” to combat the threats of climate change, given that Wednesday marked the first day of hurricane season that is anticipated to be ”the seventh straight year of above-average hurricane activity in the Atlantic.”
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MASERU – ALL is not well in the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP).
Barely three months after its launch, the party is in the throes of bitter internal squabbles triggered by fights over the election of constituency committees.
Sam Matekane’s leadership is accused of imposing its preferred candidates as members of constituency committees.
Yesterday, a group of RFP supporters from Matsieng constituency marched to the party headquarters in Maseru West.
They wanted Matekane to explain why the leadership is imposing constituency committee members.
Picketing outside the party’s offices, the group said members of their constituency committee were handpicked instead of being democratically elected. They said their preferred candidates were side-lined.
The group blocked the party office gates and demanded to meet Matekane.
They however met fierce resistance from security guards who stopped them from entering the premises.
Two eventually went in but came back to tell their group that there were no leaders to address them.
The dispute in Matsieng started last Sunday when party members almost came to blows during the election of the constituency committee members.
Some disgruntled members then wrote to the leadership, pleading for intervention.
In the letter the members demanded a re-run of all the elections in the constituency committee.
But the members allege that the two people they sent to deliver the letter to the leadership were quickly ‘bribed’ with positions in the committee.
They complained that two constituency committee members, Teboho Motšepe and Palesa Ntšinyi, come from the same branch and are also neighbours, which is against the party policy.
They alleged that seven of the committee members come from the same faction.
“The issue of continuing with the committee that was not elected does not have transparency,” they say in their letter.
The members who the other members claim were handpicked include the chairman, Vanroy Mokeke, his deputy Maile Malefane, secretary general Maria Phinda and her deputy Limao Majoro. Others include treasurer, Moshe Makotoko, spokesman Phoba Shea and his deputy ’Masenate Ramarothole.
“If not the handpicked committee should be mixed with the members from other skeletons (candidates from other factions),” the letter said.
They also reminded their party leadership that political power is derived from the members of the party, not the executive or the leader.
They warned that some supporters were now defecting back to their initial political parties because the RFP insists on imposing leaders.
One of the protesters, Tanki Chato, told thepost that they decided to come to their office to table their grievances physically since their letters were never answered.
“We sent Teboho Motšepe, Palesa Ntšinyi, Telekoa Tlhako, but they came back to us as new members of the constituency committee,” Chato said, adding that they were appointed by the head office.
“There is no transparency in the party as the leadership seems eager to suppress democracy and handpick people as they wish,” he said.
He said they were disappointed during last weekend’s election when they discovered that some branches handpicked their representatives.
Chato said they then blocked those branches from entering the voting station.
“But one man went to the door to open it forcefully, throwing punches and pushing the man at the door,” he said.
He said after the incident there was chaos as people barged in and disrupted the elections.
Chato said the national executive committee “should resolve the problem before it goes too far”.
“They should stop making decisions on our behalf.”
Motšepe, a successful businessman, told thepost that “it is true we were sent to our head office to present the members’ grievances”.
“However, I understand why the members are surprised that I have been chosen,” Motšepe said.
He said in the meeting they were instructed to nominate people who would fill the vacant positions.
“I did not know who to nominate so, I told them to write my name, and they did,” he said.
The party spokesman, Mokhethi Shelile, said that the Matsieng constituency grievances are being handled by the relevant committee.
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Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) went down by -1.68% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $133.08. The company’s stock price has collected 4.55% of gains in the last five trading sessions. The Wall Street Journal reported on 10/07/21 that Twitter, IAC, Nvidia, Conagra: What to Watch in the Stock Market Today
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Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) scored a price-to-earnings ratio above its average ratio, recording 20.87 x from its present earnings ratio. Plus, the 36-month beta value for VLO is at 1.74. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 14 analysts out of 18 who provided ratings for Valero Energy Corporation declared the stock was a “buy,” while 1 rated the stock as “overweight,” 2 rated it as “hold,” and 1 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $129.47, which is -$4.23 below the current price. VLO currently public float of 406.53M and currently shorts hold a 2.49% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of VLO was 4.99M shares.
VLO’s Market Performance
VLO stocks went up by 4.55% for the week, with a monthly jump of 16.25% and a quarterly performance of 60.73%, while its annual performance rate touched 57.70%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 4.01% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 4.43% for Valero Energy Corporation. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is 4.12% for VLO stocks with a simple moving average of 52.84% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of VLO
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for VLO stocks, with Morgan Stanley repeating the rating for VLO by listing it as a “Overweight.” The predicted price for VLO in the upcoming period, according to Morgan Stanley is $80 based on the research report published on September 07th of the previous year 2021.
Citigroup, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see VLO reach a price target of $121, previously predicting the price at $95. The rating they have provided for VLO stocks is “Buy” according to the report published on May 03rd, 2021.
Raymond James gave a rating of “Strong Buy” to VLO, setting the target price at $96 in the report published on April 16th of the previous year.
VLO Trading at 16.71% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought VLO to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -2.61% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 4.43%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 4.01%, as shares surge +11.15% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading +43.32% upper at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, VLO rose by +4.55%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by +95.62% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $125.12. In addition, Valero Energy Corporation saw 72.55% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further gains.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at VLO starting from Riggs R. Lane, who sale 17,767 shares at the price of $131.53 back on May 27. After this action, Riggs R. Lane now owns 254,905 shares of Valero Energy Corporation, valued at $2,336,933 using the latest closing price.
Gorder Joseph W, the COB & CEO of Valero Energy Corporation, sale 26,750 shares at $82.33 during a trade that took place back on Oct 25, which means that Gorder Joseph W is holding 511,213 shares at $2,202,394 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for VLO
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- +2.00 for the present operating margin
- +2.83 for the gross margin
The net margin for Valero Energy Corporation stands at +0.81. Equity return is now at value 14.00, with 4.40 for asset returns.
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Assemblyman unveils new additions to Veterans Memorial
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) – On Saturday, Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara honors local veterans and families during a Memorial Day weekend event. During the event ceremony at the VIAPORT Rotterdam Mall, the Assemblyman unveiled five new additions to the Veterans Memorial.
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- Edward Villano joined the U.S. Army on October 22nd, 1953 at the age of 17, as an Infantry Communications Specialist, 10th Special Forces Group. Villano was a decorated soldier, recognized with a number of military awards and decorations, including a National Defense Service Medal and Army of Occupation Medal. He was honorably discharged on July, 26th 1956.
- Dominick Edward Coppola enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to the northwestern part of America where he was trained and became a “Timberwolf” in the 104th Division. Coppola worked as an electrician for the General Electric Company. He recently celebrated his 100th birthday.
- Robert Becker honorably served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a supply chief and platoon sergeant in the Second Marine Division from 1960 until 1966. He then joined the USMC Reserve in 1966 and retired as a first sergeant in 1982. He served as the Grand Marshal of the Rotterdam Memorial Day Parade this year.
- Raymond Sarnacki was drafted into the Navy during World War II and was assigned to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where the USS Enright was undergoing construction. He became one of the ship’s “plank owners” and served aboard the ship throughout the war and throughout his time in the Navy on the USS Enright. Sarnacki was on convoy duty, serving in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, including on Okinawa. He recently celebrated his 100th birthday. Sarnacki worked at both the American Locomotive Company and General Electric Company.
- Joseph Pierce was a US Army scout in the Philippines during World War II. After surviving the 70-mile Battan Death March, Pierce was a prisoner of war for 38 months and received numerous commendations for his service to our country.
“Memorial Day is a time for us to come together and honor the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the principles that unite us as Americans. Having served in the nation’s armed services and a member of the Assembly Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, I’m proud to host this ceremony that honors all of those, past and present, who have served our great nation,” said Assemblyman Santabarbara.
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IAG Wealth Partners LLC increased its stake in Costco Wholesale Co. (NASDAQ:COST – Get Rating) by 377.4% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 253 shares of the retailer’s stock after acquiring an additional 200 shares during the period. IAG Wealth Partners LLC’s holdings in Costco Wholesale were worth $144,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of COST. Evolution Advisers Inc. purchased a new stake in Costco Wholesale in the 4th quarter worth approximately $28,000. Consolidated Planning Corp acquired a new position in shares of Costco Wholesale during the 3rd quarter worth $41,000. AHL Investment Management Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Costco Wholesale during the 4th quarter worth $43,000. Cranbrook Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Costco Wholesale by 24.4% during the 3rd quarter. Cranbrook Wealth Management LLC now owns 102 shares of the retailer’s stock worth $46,000 after purchasing an additional 20 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Cordasco Financial Network increased its stake in shares of Costco Wholesale by 23.8% during the 3rd quarter. Cordasco Financial Network now owns 104 shares of the retailer’s stock worth $47,000 after purchasing an additional 20 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 67.52% of the company’s stock.
In other news, VP Timothy L. Rose sold 4,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $566.29, for a total value of $2,265,160.00. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director Kenneth D. Denman sold 250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $554.67, for a total transaction of $138,667.50. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 9,248 shares of company stock worth $5,417,137. Insiders own 0.22% of the company’s stock.
Shares of NASDAQ:COST traded down $6.74 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $459.48. 50,612 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,652,296. Costco Wholesale Co. has a 1-year low of $375.50 and a 1-year high of $612.27. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $533.08 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $530.68. The company has a current ratio of 1.03, a quick ratio of 0.51 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The firm has a market cap of $203.65 billion, a P/E ratio of 37.65, a PEG ratio of 4.01 and a beta of 0.70.
Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST – Get Rating) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 26th. The retailer reported $3.04 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.03 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $52.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $51.49 billion. Costco Wholesale had a net margin of 2.62% and a return on equity of 30.10%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 18.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $2.75 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts predict that Costco Wholesale Co. will post 12.93 EPS for the current year.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, May 13th. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 29th were paid a $0.90 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, April 28th. This represents a $3.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.78%. This is a positive change from Costco Wholesale’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.79. Costco Wholesale’s payout ratio is presently 29.01%.
Costco Wholesale Profile (Get Rating)
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, Iceland, China, and Taiwan. It offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.
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Fox Contributor Savages Bush DHS Secretary for Joining Biden Disinfo Board, Blames Him for Katrina
Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo and anchor Harris Faulkner lit into former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff on Tuesday – a one-time popular figure in Republican circles.
“The mess around that now paused disinformation board is not going away, controversy now over Michael Chertoff, the former homeland security chief who the administration has tapped to review the board,” Faulkner began, introducing the topic on the Faulkner Focus.
“You said it, Raymond. They aren’t going to do anything like pause this permanently? They are putting it on hold and keeping it warm. So, this is the guy that will heat things up apparently and he is,” Faulkner said of Chertoff, who served as George W. Bush’s second Secretary of Homeland Security.
“Critics say he has a history of falling for or ignoring national security risks or political hoaxes. Most recently he cast doubt on a bombshell report that turned out to be true,” Faulkner continued.
“The Federalist headlining a story on Chertoff this way: ‘Hunter Biden Laptop Hoaxer Tapped to Lead Disinformation Board,’” Faulkner continued, citing a May 28th article by Beth Whitehead, an intern at the Federalist. Whitehead connects Chertoff to the Biden laptop, writing that not only did Chertoff endorse Hillary Clinton in 2016, “Chertoff also cast doubt on reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop right before the 2020 election, calling the idea that Biden abandoned the laptop at a repair shop ‘preposterous’ and blaming the Russians.”
Faulkner continued, but playing a clip from Karine Jean-Pierre. “The White House said the disinformation board never even met and denied any role in putting it on pause. Watch,” she said, before playing the clip:
It was never about censorship or removing content from anywhere. The function was to keep Homeland Security officials aware of how bad actors including human smugglers, transnational criminal organizations, and foreign adversaries could use disinformation to advance their goals. It will pause. There has been a mischaracterization from outside forces and so we’re going to pause it and do an assessment. The work doesn’t stop.
“Raymond. She started with you can’t pause something because it never started and she ended with so we’re putting it on pause,” Faulkner said before going to Arroyo.
“Right. The work never stops. That’s the big takeaway. This is the establishment strikes back, they are trying to grab control of the narrative on all platforms. That’s what this disinformation board was designed to do, patrol free speech,” said Arroyo, ignoring Jean-Pierre’s explanation of the board as a tool to fight misinformation that leads to illegal immigration.
“You heard Joe Biden the other day saying the Second Amendment is not absolute. Apparently, he thinks the first amendment is not absolute, either. This review board is a doozy. If you are going to choose people to lead this thing, Harris, you better find more reputable sources than Michael Chertoff and Jamie Gorelick,” Arroyo continued.
“This is back to the future big time. Chernoff was the guy who dropped the ball on hurricane Katrina in my city of New Orleans, they didn’t see it coming. They had no plans when he was homeland security czar and also he is the guy who drafted the Patriot Act, let’s not forget,” continued Arroyo.
Former President Bush and officials like Chertoff, while they certainly have their fair share of critics, were once praised in conservative circles for the national security response post-9/11 that prevented any further terrorist attacks on U.S. soil during the Bush administration.
“Jamie Gorelick oversaw Fanny Mae’s demise and that big accounting scandal, she only made $26 million by the way. If you are looking for people who know how to allow the government to fail while they succeed, these are two great candidates. Biden once again has chosen winners,” Arroyo continued.
“Oh my gosh, your words just then are exactly what’s happening. The whole tie that you make between Chertoff and Katrina. What do you mean you didn’t see it coming, it was on the maps for a week,” Faulkner added.
“It would be like making George W. Bush the federal speech czar or Hillary Clinton the email and health consultant for the federal government,” jested Arroyo, taking a shot at the former Republican president.
“This is a bad choice. This is the establishment wanting to control the narrative and control information and it has to be resisted. The First Amendment doesn’t need patrolling,” Arroyo concluded.
Watch the full clip above, via Fox News
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Authorities in Iraq announce that an arrest warrant has been issued for Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in connection with the murder of a rival cleric last spring. Attacks by Sadr's followers left at least eight coalition soldiers dead in Najaf and Baghdad Sunday. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves, NPR's Michele Norris and professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan.
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American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE:AMH – Get Rating) updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Monday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.53-$1.59 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of -.
Several research firms recently issued reports on AMH. B. Riley reduced their price target on American Homes 4 Rent from $47.00 to $43.00 in a research note on Wednesday, May 11th. Morgan Stanley reduced their price target on American Homes 4 Rent from $41.00 to $39.00 and set an equal weight rating for the company in a research note on Friday, May 27th. StockNews.com began coverage on American Homes 4 Rent in a research note on Thursday, March 31st. They issued a hold rating for the company. KeyCorp initiated coverage on American Homes 4 Rent in a research note on Tuesday, February 1st. They issued a sector weight rating for the company. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group initiated coverage on American Homes 4 Rent in a research report on Wednesday, April 20th. They set a buy rating and a $48.00 target price for the company. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twelve have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of Buy and an average price target of $44.94.
AMH traded down $0.16 on Wednesday, reaching $36.80. The stock had a trading volume of 89,419 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,147,027. American Homes 4 Rent has a fifty-two week low of $34.79 and a fifty-two week high of $44.07. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $39.22 and a 200-day moving average of $39.82. The company has a current ratio of 0.64, a quick ratio of 0.64 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.55. The company has a market capitalization of $12.82 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 78.64, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.14 and a beta of 0.58.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, June 15th will be issued a $0.18 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, June 14th. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.96%. American Homes 4 Rent’s payout ratio is presently 153.19%.
In related news, Director Douglas N. Benham purchased 1,275 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 15th. The stock was bought at an average price of $25.41 per share, with a total value of $32,397.75. The acquisition was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Tamara Hughes Gustavson purchased 200,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 12th. The stock was bought at an average cost of $35.71 per share, with a total value of $7,142,000.00. Following the purchase, the director now owns 8,830,956 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $315,353,438.76. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders acquired 201,981 shares of company stock valued at $7,194,098. Insiders own 6.03% of the company’s stock.
Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Neuberger Berman Group LLC boosted its position in shares of American Homes 4 Rent by 1.2% during the 1st quarter. Neuberger Berman Group LLC now owns 1,194,127 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $47,801,000 after purchasing an additional 14,300 shares in the last quarter. Toroso Investments LLC bought a new stake in shares of American Homes 4 Rent during the 1st quarter valued at about $241,000. Gamco Investors INC. ET AL boosted its position in shares of American Homes 4 Rent by 18.3% during the 1st quarter. Gamco Investors INC. ET AL now owns 157,033 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $6,286,000 after purchasing an additional 24,303 shares in the last quarter. Weiss Multi Strategy Advisers LLC boosted its holdings in American Homes 4 Rent by 76.3% in the first quarter. Weiss Multi Strategy Advisers LLC now owns 466,418 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $18,671,000 after acquiring an additional 201,816 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Advisors Asset Management Inc. boosted its holdings in American Homes 4 Rent by 23.4% in the first quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. now owns 17,196 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $688,000 after acquiring an additional 3,264 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 88.49% of the company’s stock.
American Homes 4 Rent Company Profile (Get Rating)
American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) is a leader in the single-family home rental industry and "American Homes 4 Rent" is fast becoming a nationally recognized brand for rental homes, known for high-quality, good value and tenant satisfaction. We are an internally managed Maryland real estate investment trust, or REIT, focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing, and operating attractive, single-family homes as rental properties.
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Alistair Overeem is set to make his professional wrestling debut in the United Kingdom next month, marking a new career journey for the former UFC heavyweight.
Although 'The Demolition Man' has made it clear in the past that wrestling is "lame," he will soon compete in a match. The 42-year-old fighter is set to face Adam Scherr, who is best known for his time in the WWE, where he performed under the ring name Braun Strowman.
The pair will meet at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England. Originally, the match was set for June 4, but it was recently pushed back to July 9.
Some fans are confused by Overeem's decision to venture into professional wrestling given the fact that he previously ridiculed the sport. During an appearance on The MMA Hour, the Dutchman said:
“And just recently, I started looking again on YouTube, and oh my God, this stuff is lame. It’s just lame what these guys are doing. It’s fake, it’s lame, it’s stupid. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s lame. It’s not even a sport. It’s just lame. It’s bad acting. It’s just lame. Sorry for all the fans of WWE, but I’m just being honest. I’m just giving my opinion. Free country, right?” [h/t News 18]
Catch the full interview below:
Regardless of his feelings towards wrestling, Overeem's debut against Scherr is bound to be a big part of what's set to be an amazing show in July.
Alistair Overeem before and after the UFC
UFC fans know Alistair Overeem as an outstanding knockout artist who fought against some of the best in the game during his time in the octagon.
Before his UFC debut in 2011, he was the Strikeforce heavyweight champion. Additionally, he nabbed the same title in DREAM. Overeem was a fierce competitor, but failed to gain a title during his lengthy tenure in the UFC.
His last fight in the promotion ended in defeat, with a TKO loss to Alexander Volkov at UFC Fight Night 184 marking the end of the road for the Dutch star inside the octagon.
Since his departure from the UFC, Overeem has once again trained for kickboxing. His return to the sport was set for last October against Rico Verhoeven, but the bout was unfortunately canceled. Overeem will now face Badr Hari at Glory Collision 4 on October 8.
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Prolific Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores for such films as The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven and To Kill a Mockingbird, died Wednesday at age 82. Nominated for an Oscar 14 times, Bernstein won once for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Pat Dowell has an appreciation.
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Two people were killed and three are missing after a boating accident in coastal Georgia county
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has invited NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to appear at a hearing later this month as part of the Congressional investigation into the team’s workplace conduct.
Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney and Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi said Wednesday they sent letters to the league and team requesting the presence of Goodell and Snyder on June 22.
It was not immediately clear if the committee expected either to make an appearance. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league had received the invitation “and will respond directly in a timely manner.”
McCarthy added, “The NFL has cooperated extensively throughout the Committee’s lengthy investigation of the Washington Commanders, including by producing more than 460,000 pages of documents and responding to numerous questions in writing and in conversations with the committee’s staff.”
Messages sent to representatives for Snyder and the Commanders were not immediately returned.
Congress launched an investigation into the organization’s workplace culture in October after the league declined to release a report last year about an independent review it oversaw, which led to a $10 million fine. The committee described the upcoming hearing as the next step in the investigation and said it will examine how the NFL handles allegations of workplace misconduct and how it sets and enforces standards for all teams.
“We must have transparency and accountability, which is why we are calling on Mr. Goodell and Mr. Snyder to answer the questions they have dodged for the last seven months,” Maloney, a Democrat from New York, said in a statement. “The hearing will explore how Congress can act to prevent employers from silencing victims of workplace misconduct and ensure that what happened at the Commanders organization does not happen again.”
Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, said the committee has been stonewalled for seven months by nondisclosure agreements for former employees and other tools “to evade accountability."
Snyder in the summer of 2020 hired attorney Beth Wilkinson to investigate allegations of workplace misconduct after several former employees made assertions about the work environment. The league took over control of that investigation, which concluded last summer.
Congress has urged Goodell to release a written report of the investigation. The league has said repeatedly it has no plans to do so.
Lawyers Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, who represent more than 40 former team employees, said in a statement Wednesday they were pleased to see the committee invite Goodell and Snyder to appear.
“We hope they will demonstrate the same courage as our clients and agree to testify,” they said. “Dan Snyder and Roger Goodell have a lot to answer for.”
When asked about the situation after the latest Commanders offseason workout, coach Ron Rivera declined comment.
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BOSTON (AP)Joey Votto spiked a long fly ball off the top edge of the short right-field wall in front of the Red Sox bullpen in the fifth inning. It popped into the air and back into play for a double.
Then, in the eighth, he did the same thing, only to the 37-foot high Green Monster in left.
Two hits, two doubles – and perhaps a total of two inches from being a pair of home runs.
”I don’t think I have (seen that), to come that close to two home runs in really almost identical plays to different parts of the ballpark,” Reds manager David Bell said after Cincinnati held on to beat Boston 2-1 on Tuesday night.
”We went over the ground rules before the game and they talked about that,” he added. ”You listen, but you don’t actually think it’s going to happen.”
Luis Castillo struck out 10 while pitching six innings of one-hit ball, and the Reds held off a ninth-inning Boston rally to snap a nine-game losing streak against the Red Sox and win at Fenway Park for the first time since Game 7 of the 1975 World Series.
”Haven’t played here a lot, but still, it’s a big deal,” Bell said.
Cincinnati scored both runs on Red Sox throwing errors. Castillo (2-2) walked three before leaving with a 1-0 lead after six and two relievers delivered a one-hit shutout to closer Tony Santillan.
Kike Hernandez singled to lead off the ninth and Rafael Devers doubled to put runners at second and third. After Santillan retired J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts, Alex Verdugo hit a chopper that Votto couldn’t handle at first, allowing one run to score on the single.
Santillan then struck out Trevor Story on three pitches to earn his fourth save.
Michael Wacha (3-1) retired the first 12 batters of the game before Votto’s first double. Wacha started in a Boston loss for the first time since opening week despite allowing zero earned runs on three hits and striking out three.
The Red Sox have scored a total of one run in back-to-back games against a pair of last-place teams that enter June a combined 22 games below .500.
SO CLOSE
Votto’s double in the eighth bounced off the red line on the front corner of the top of the Green Monster and back into play. To be a homer, it would need to clear the line, which runs along the edge of a small shelf that keeps fans from reaching over the wall and interfering with live balls.
It’s not uncommon for home runs to clear the line and still bounce back onto the field, which is misleading to umpires and a frequent source of replay reviews at Fenway.
The Reds did challenge, but replays showed conclusively the ball remained in play.
”I’ve never seen that in my life,” Castillo said. ”Of course it would happen to one of the veteran guys like Joey Votto, who has gone through everything.”
Votto said he was more concerned about putting a good swing on the ball than on the results. He went 1 for 9 in his only other trip to Fenway, in 2014.
”The last time I was here I was hurt, and I felt like I got bullied by the fans,” he said. ”Normally I do answer back, but I wasn’t at my very best, whereas now, I feel healthy, I feel strong and I feel like I’m in a good place. And when they start giving it to me, I feel like I can answer back.”
OLD FRIENDS
The Red Sox are 12-2 against the Reds in interleague play, winning each of the previous nine games, and the first five at Fenway Park. The teams also met in the 1975 World Series, which Cincinnati won in seven games one day after Carlton Fisk’s arm-waving, 12th-inning homer in Game 6. (The teams split the four games at Fenway.)
In all, the Reds are 6-17-1 at the ballpark, including a 3-10-1 record against the Boston Braves when they played at Fenway for parts of the 1914-15 season.
The Reds hadn’t visited Boston in 2014, which is perhaps why no one noticed that their plaque on the Green Monster’s manual scoreboard misspelled their hometown as ”CINN.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: OF Tommy Pham was scratched from the lineup about two hours before the first pitch with a sore left calf. He had just finished a three-game suspension for slapping Giants outfielder Joc Pederson over a fantasy football dispute. … RF and leadoff hitter Tyler Naquin left the game with a left quad strain. Aristides Aquino replaced him.
Red Sox: Devers was in the on-deck circle when he was hit in the chest by Hernandez’s checked swing foul ball. After Hernandez made the last out of the third, Devers took his position at third base.
UP NEXT
Boston RHP Garrett Whitlock (1-1) faces Cincinnati RHP Hunter Greene (2-6) in the finale of the two-game series.
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June 1, 2022
Salina — Tonganoxie High baseball took fans on quite a ride last week at the Class 4A state tournament at Dean Evans Stadium in Salina.
THS got down early against Abilene in the quarterfinals and Paola in the semifinals.
But the Chieftains erased an early 3-0 lead against Abilene and then chipped away at a Paola lead before pulling ahead and holding off the Panthers, 7-5, in the semifinals.
Playing in the program’s first-ever state championship, Tonganoxie, the No. 2 seed, again fell behind early, this time against No. 1 seed McPherson. Unfortunately for the Chieftains, late-inning heroics wouldn’t be enough.
Trailing, 5-0, Tonganoxie was able to chase McPherson’s starting pitcher in the seventh and final inning. THS scored two runs and threatened to score more, but the Bullpups got their final out and then celebrated on the mound in a team pile for that program’s first state title in baseball.
A dejected Tonganoxie dugout looked on as the dog pile of McPherson players grew higher on the mound.
A state championship was the ultimate goal, but Tonganoxie’s accomplishments in 2022 were tremendously noteworthy.
• THS finished the year at 20-4, the program’s best record in school history.
• Tonganoxie placed second at state, marking the highest finish of any Chieftain baseball team. The previous best was third place in 1992 when Chris Herron was coach.
• The Chieftains won their first league title since 1995 after THS clinched the Frontier League championship this spring.
Asked about the season overall and the string of milestones, THS coach Mitch Loomis said it was an amazing year.
“It’s surreal when you lay it all out like that,” Loomis said. “We knew we had a chance to be pretty good … I don’t know whether anyone every fathomed were going to be as good as we were.”
Early in the season Loomis thought the team might be better than its record due to a rugged schedule of top teams in 5A and 4A.
THS was at 2-2 following a blowout loss to Ottawa at Adam LaRoche Tournament in Fort Scott.
“We really challenged them after that game,” Loomis said. “We were pretty blunt with our expectations.
“They responded really well.”
The response? Tonganoxie finished the regular season 16-3, which means the Chieftains won 14 of 15 games after that 2-2 start. The team went on an 8-game winning streak after those first four games and then, after a rematch loss to Basehor-Linwood, won 10 straight before losing to McPherson in the state championship.
Tonganoxie competed in the championship without the fielding services of Gabe Bailey. The first baseman got injured late in the Paola game stretching for an infield throw to first.
THS was a batter away from a potential Hollywood moment, but the script ended just short of that storyline.
Bailey was in the on-deck circle when McPherson recorded the final out.
Rocco Gehring hit a line drive deep to center field, but the MHS outfielder snagged it for the out.
“Obviously losing Gabe was a killer,” Loomis said. “His talent offers us a lot. His energy is what kids feed off, too.
“We had him pinch-hitting. We needed one more hit. Let him crawl to first and let him go from there.”
In the end, Tonganoxie finished as one of the top teams in the state, even if polls and rankings didn’t include THS as it kept piling up victories. But, as Loomis noted, the team kind of likes it that way under the radar.
“Credit goes to some of our seniors,” Loomis said about the unprecedented success this year. “They established standards of work ethic, putting in extra work and were focused every day.”
One of those seniors was Gehrig Goldbeck, who was an intricate part of the team behind-the-scenes as well.
“He’s one of the biggest reasons we got to where we did,” the coach said.
The accolades went beyond the second-place trophy at state.
Senior pitcher Owen Welsh was named all-state first team pitcher by the Kansas Baseball Coaches Association. He also was a unanimous pick for 4A state pitcher of the year.
Fellow senior standout pitcher Mason Davenport also was a first-team all-state pitcher for the Chieftains. He became the first player in school history to be a two-time first-team all-state selection. Goldbeck was 4A first-team all-state middle infielder, while junior Logan Wake was second team all-state catcher. Sophomore Trevor McGraw was named honorable mention all-state 4A as an outfielder.
As for Frontier League accolades, Godlbeck, Welsh and Wake were first-team all-league, Davenport and McGraw second team and Bailey, Mason Khanthaboury, Sam Kleidosty and Gehring honorable mention.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — During an afternoon rehearsal of John Leguizamo's “Kiss My Aztec!,” actor Joel Perez bursts into laughter during a raunchy scene with co-star Krystina Alabado. They have probably done it hundreds of times. They know it by heart. But the scene is still so funny that Perez loses it for a minute, making the whole cast and crew laugh.
“Keep going,” directs Tony Taccone from his seat. And after a couple deep breaths, things move on.
With a book by Leguizamo and Taccone, “Kiss My Aztec!” begins previews on Wednesday at Hartford Stage before opening on June 10. This is its third stop after previous engagements at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse in California, and Broadway-veteran Leguizamo hopes it soon takes “the B way” and makes it home to New York.
“I think it’s so funny," Leguizamo tells The Associated Press right before rehearsal. “You’re gonna laugh your ass off and, at the same time, you’re going to be educated.”
The show travels back to the 16th century, as a group of Aztecs lead the resistance against Spanish invaders. With a fierce female warrior at the helm and a not-so-fierce clown in tow, they mount a scrappy attack, and get entangled with royalty, colonizers, pop stars, even puppets.
The music and lyrics — by Benjamin Velez and David Kamp — fuse salsa, gospel, hip-hop, funk and merengue, as well as some flamenco and paso doble for the Spaniards. The choreography is by Maija García.
Like “Latin History for Morons,” Leguizamo's last one-man play on Broadway, “Kiss My Aztec!” is a hilarious celebration of Hispanic and Latin culture. But unlike the others, it is his first full-scale musical and the comedian stays behind the scenes this time around.
“I can’t sing like that, or dance like that,” the Tony Award-winner explains, noting that he's managed to do some musical work — including Disney's animated film “Encanto,” where he voiced Bruno — with a lot of help, patience and auto-tune. “I mean, like, for ‘Encanto’, poor (song-writer) Lin-Manuel (Miranda) had to spend hours trying to get me in that pocket. He got me, though, he got me in the pocket,” he adds with a laugh.
Besides Perez and Alabado, the cast includes Chad Carstarphen, Eddie Cooper, Richard Ruiz Henry, Z Infante, Jesús E. Martínez, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Desireé Rodriguez, Matt Saldivar and Brittany Williams. Angelica Beliard, KC Dela Cruz, Nicholas Caycedo and Geena Quintos.
“These actors are ridiculously talented,” says Leguizamo, calling them a “quadruple threat" who can act, sing, dance and are funny.
The Colombian American actor and playwright, whose Broadway credits include “Freak” and “Ghetto Klown,” says he started working on the musical years ago, when he was doing research for “Latin History for Morons.”
“It’s interesting because obviously, ‘Latin History for Morons’ opened up the world of our great, incredible contributions to the world — there wouldn’t be an Industrial Revolution without our corn, without our potatoes," says Leguizamo. "Our gold that was stolen from us created the Enlightenment era, and the Renaissance was helped by the wealth that was stolen from us. So I learned so much, and I wanted to go back and start telling our history. This musical is the birth of Latin man, which is the conquest.”
Going from doing monologues to a full-blown musical was a “big challenge,” Leguizamo admits. "All I had to do before is check with myself: ‘What’s your schedule?’ ‘Oh, I am available.’ ‘Oh, great. Let’s start tomorrow!’” he laughs. “This is different, this is a lot of moving parts.”
With its bawdy humor, adult themes and some salty language, the show may not be suited for all audiences. But Leguizamo hopes it to be the next big thing in musical comedies.
“I want it to be like ‘The Book of Mormon,’ like ‘Spamalot,’" he says. "I want it to be one of the funniest shows ever written.”
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LUDINGTON -- A small business owner or anyone with an entrepreneurial idea can compete for a $5,000 cash prize.
Both nonprofit and for-profit Mason County organizations are encouraged to enter the 2022 Momentum 5x5 Competition, which opened June 1. A complete, written business plan is not required to submit an entrepreneurial idea.
“This competition is a great way to showcase your business and get some seed money for your idea,” said Brandy Miller, president/CEO of the Ludington & Scottville Area Chamber of Commerce, in a news release. “Meeting with a SCORE mentor has also proven to be a wonderful asset for our past competitors. We encourage any small business to enter.”
Five chosen finalists will present their ideas to a panel of judges on Aug. 16 at Epworth Heights.
The Ludington & Scottville Area Chamber of Commerce administers the Momentum 5x5 program to encourage new businesses in Mason County, for participants who may need start-up funds to get their business ideas moving forward, according to a news release. Prize money is sponsored jointly by the Epworth Assembly and the Epworth Church Association.
As part of the contest, applicants will receive free, confidential counsel from a SCORE business mentor. In addition, each entrant will have five minutes to pitch an idea. The winner is eligible to move on to a larger momentum competition in 2023.
“The 5x5 is one of the ways we highlight Epworth’s connection to the community,” said Kim Hamm, Epworth’s general manager, in a news release. “We are grateful to our local entrepreneurs for creating businesses our cottagers need and support. It’s pretty awesome to see how all of the previous winners are thriving."
This will be the fourth Momentum 5x5 in Mason County hosted by the chamber and Epworth.
The 2018 winner, Sister Bees, won $5,000 and went on to a larger competition, the Momentum Business Plan Competition, in which the Ludington skin-care company won $50,000.
In 2019, My Inspired Studio was awarded $5,000 in the 5x5 contest. Entrepreneur and artist, Sarah Stechschulte, used the funds for her subscriber-based, monthly creative kit which included art supplies plus online instruction. Stechschulte won another $14,000 in the larger Momentum competition with her Inspired Parties business.
House and Harbor, a local candle company, was the winner in 2021 and has plans to open a downtown Ludington storefront soon.
This year’s winner will be eligible to participate in the larger Momentum competition planned for 2023.
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Company Increases Share Repurchase Program by $200 Million
OAKS, Pa., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of SEI Investments Company (NASDAQ: SEIC) on June 1, 2022 declared a regular semi-annual dividend of $0.40 (forty cents) per share. The cash dividend will be payable to shareholders of record on June 13, 2022, with a payment date of June 22, 2022.
The Board of Directors of SEI Investments Company also approved an increase in its stock repurchase program by an additional $200 million, increasing the available authorization under the program to approximately $264 million.
About SEI®
SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) delivers technology and investment solutions that connect the financial services industry. With capabilities across investment processing, operations, and asset management, SEI works with corporations, financial institutions and professionals, and ultra-high-net-worth families to solve problems, manage change and help protect assets—for growth today and in the future. As of March 31, 2022, SEI manages, advises, or administers approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. For more information, visit seic.com.
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Editor's note: All candidates in the June 28 Cache County primary election were offered 700 words to state their positions. Today's submissions are for the County Council's Southeast District election race.
I am a proud 6th generation South Cache Valley resident. My family was among the first settlers in the valley. I admire their values of hard work, resiliency, self-sufficiency, faith, sense of community and resourcefulness. My parents raised me with these values. I grew up on a farm in Nibley and have lived here my whole life. After graduating from Utah State University, I began a career in banking and am currently a vice president at Cache Valley Bank helping local businesses succeed. My husband, Danny, and I are the proud parents of three girls.
I became involved in local planning by serving on the Nibley Planning and Zoning Commission for two years before being elected to the City Council where I have been serving for the last nine years.
During my 11 years of service for Nibley City, I have been an ardent advocate for Nibley’s residents. My objective has always been to listen to the people and study issues without having any other agenda than making the best choices for our residents. Even in the face of mounting pressures, I have advocated for our residents and their interests. As a guardian of public funds, I take the time to understand the budget and allocate funds to adequately and responsibly provide needed services.
Rather than fearing growth that is happening in Cache Valley, I choose to be a part of the discussion and be a proponent of open space and good planning. Our daughters would be blessed to also be able to raise their families here and we need to plan for sustainable growth to make that an option for all our children. In my service with Nibley City, I have listened to the concerns of our residents about growth as well as balanced property owners’ rights. This has been reflected in the choices I’ve made.
The county would benefit from my experience and leadership. As I have listened to you, the residents of the Southeast District, you have shared with me your concerns for the county: waste management, water, growth, emergency services, affordable housing, adequately paid law enforcement, open space, and community parks and recreation. I have worked to create strong relationships with our community leaders with whom I serve. They recognize my ability to identify issues and work collaboratively for mutually beneficial results.
With a broad understanding of county matters such as land use, legislation and concerns, water conservation and use, garbage removal and disposal, agricultural concerns, economic development, and transportation connectivity, I am ready to hit the ground running. Having years of experience creating public budgets, trimming costs and prioritizing goals based on budget projections, my objective is to draft balanced budgets and eliminate wasteful spending.
As a lifelong Republican, I am committed to the ideals of conservatism and self reliance. My parents raised me with a love for God, respect for freedom, to serve my fellow man and the importance of frugality and hard work. These principles guide how I lead in our community.
Cache County is at a critical point of defining how we want to move forward. With unprecedented growth and the concerns that accompany it, we need leaders who are ready and experienced to listen to the residents, do the homework, work collaboratively and possess the leadership to make hard decisions and plan for a sustainable future. My experience and skills will make me an effective leader to navigate how the county will move forward.
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Warner Music Group (NASDAQ:WMG – Get Rating) is one of 33 publicly-traded companies in the “Amusement & recreation services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Warner Music Group to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Volatility & Risk
Warner Music Group has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warner Music Group’s competitors have a beta of -0.54, indicating that their average share price is 154% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Warner Music Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Warner Music Group pays out 84.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Amusement & recreation services” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.9% and pay out -373.9% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Warner Music Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
22.3% of Warner Music Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.1% of shares of all “Amusement & recreation services” companies are held by institutional investors. 76.6% of Warner Music Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.2% of shares of all “Amusement & recreation services” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Warner Music Group and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
Warner Music Group currently has a consensus target price of $44.00, indicating a potential upside of 51.57%. As a group, “Amusement & recreation services” companies have a potential upside of 62.16%. Given Warner Music Group’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Warner Music Group has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Warner Music Group and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Warner Music Group has higher revenue and earnings than its competitors. Warner Music Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.
Profitability
This table compares Warner Music Group and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Summary
Warner Music Group beats its competitors on 10 of the 15 factors compared.
Warner Music Group Company Profile (Get Rating)
Warner Music Group Corp. operates as a music entertainment company in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. The company operates through Recorded Music and Music Publishing segments. The Recorded Music segment is involved in the discovery and development of recording artists, as well as related marketing, promotion, distribution, sale, and licensing of music created by such recording artists; markets its music catalog through compilations and reissuances of previously released music and video titles, as well as previously unreleased materials; and conducts its operation primarily through a collection of record labels, such as Warner Records and Atlantic Records, as well as Asylum, Big Beat, Canvasback, East West, Erato, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin' Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Music Nashville. This segment markets, distributes, and sells music and video products to retailers and wholesale distributors; independent labels to retail and wholesale distributors; and various distribution centers and ventures, as well as retail outlets, online physical retailers, streaming services, and download services. The Music Publishing segment owns and acquires rights to approximately one million musical compositions comprising pop hits, American standards, folk songs, and motion picture and theatrical compositions. Its catalog includes approximately 100,000 songwriters and composers; and various genres, including pop, rock, jazz, classical, country, R&B, hip-hop, rap, reggae, Latin, folk, blues, symphonic, soul, Broadway, electronic, alternative, and gospel. This segment also administers the music and soundtracks of various third-party television and film producers and studios. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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MILWAUKEE, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Herzing University today announced the launch of a new Master of Social Work (MSW) program beginning in the fall semester of 2022. The online MSW program is designed for non-social work bachelor's degree holders and will prepare students to provide clinical social work service through hands-on experiences and education, addressing the increasing demand within the field.
The demand for social workers is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030[i], faster than the average for all occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Approximately 78,300 openings for social workers are projected each year, on average, over the decade.
"This new Master of Social Work program will meet the demands of students who are passionate about social work by pushing them to critically examine systems, develop and change policies, advocate for social justice, and increase access to services in their specialization areas," said Herzing University's Regional Campus President Jeff Hill. "Students can enjoy the flexibility of an online program which promotes clinical social work excellence through emphasizing lifelong learning, professional development, service, networking, and adherence to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics."
The MSW program's field education curriculum is created to allow students to work on their field practicum hours while simultaneously completing their MSW coursework. Students participating in these programs will have access to fully online clinical programs, virtual simulated experiences, and the opportunity to learn from experienced and licensed clinical social workers. Students will spend time shadowing a social worker on-site, participating in weekly MSW supervision and developing field learnings.
The program has three specialization options - Mental Health, Medical Social Work, and Children, Families and Aging Services. Upon completion of their program, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior
- Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice
- Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
- Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice
- Engage in Policy Practice
- Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
- Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
Throughout the comprehensive curriculum, students will learn how to apply social work knowledge, values, skills and cognitive affective processes in practice settings. These practice settings could include any location where prospective clients receive social work services, such as hospitals, schools, nursing homes, counseling centers, and criminal justice organizations.
Among the careers that can follow from successful completion of these programs are, but not limited to: Behavioral Health Therapist, Child Protective Services Supervisor, Clinical Social Worker, Disaster Response Social Worker, Domestic Violence Advocate, Foster Care Social Worker, Home Health & Hospice Social Worker, Mental Health Social Worker, Oncology Social Worker, School Social Worker, Substance Use Disorder Clinician, and Victim Advocate.
Herzing University has more than 50 online programs in technology, business, healthcare and public safety, as well as 10 campus locations across the country.
For more information on the new MSW program available at Herzing University, visit www.herzing.edu/behavorial-health/social-work.
Herzing University is an accredited, private nonprofit institution with 10 campuses across seven states, a continuing education division and an online division. Founded in Milwaukee in 1965, more than 40,000 students have graduated from the University's career-focused and flexible master's, bachelor's, and associate degree, diploma and continuing education programs. Fields of study span nursing, healthcare, technology, business and public safety. From 2013 through 2022, U.S. News & World Report has continually recognized Herzing University as having some of the best online programs nationally. Herzing University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. More information about Herzing University is available at www.herzing.edu.
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Two days after hurricane Frances plowed through West Palm Beach, Fla., basic items such as food, ice and gasoline remain in short supply. Officials say thousands of utility wires and poles need repair, and warn the inconveniences will persist for several more days. Hear NPR's Adam Hochberg.
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The White House has made arrangements with United Airlines to transport the third shipment of infant formula to the U.S.
This round of formula shipments from overseas will begin next week, this time from producer Kendamil.
United Airlines will transport the formula free of charge from Heathrow Airport in London over the course of a three-week period, according to a White House statement.
The latest shipment will contain about 3.2 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of Kendamil Classic Stage 1 and 540,000 8-ounce bottle equivalents of Kendamil Organic.
Families will be able to buy the formula in stores and online.
This is the first time an airline carrier donates a flight as part of Operation Fly Formula.
Just last week, the U.S. received its second shipment of infant formula.
During that week, the country received what’s equivalent to about 1 million 8-ounce bottles of formula.
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The World's First and Only 755nm Picosecond Laser FDA-cleared to Treat Melasma Pigment, nevus of Ota and Hori's nevus
WESTFORD, Mass. , June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Cynosure announced the launch of the PicoSure® Pro device, the latest upgrade to the company's best-in-class PicoSure system. The first and only FDA-cleared 755nm picosecond laser on the market, the PicoSure Pro device uniquely delivers energy in a trillionth of a second, utilizing pressure instead of heat to provide safe and effective treatments for unwanted pigmentation and skin revitalization for all skin types.
"As inventors of picosecond aesthetic laser technology, we are constantly challenging ourselves to continually drive innovation forward. Whether we're developing new devices or improving upon our trusted flagship products, we're focused on addressing the unmet needs of our practitioners to ensure the best possible outcomes for their patients and practice," said Todd Tillemans, Chief Executive Officer of Cynosure. "From a 50% increase in energy to new handpieces and an adjustable fluence, the performance enhancements made to the PicoSure Pro device provide practitioners with more versatility than ever before, allowing them to efficiently treat more patients per day and provide better outcomes in less time."
Named the "Best Multitasking Laser" in the 2021 NewBeauty Awards and "Best Beauty Buy" in the 2022 InStyle awards, the PicoSure Pro device is now equipped with two lenses that work to safely and effectively address a variety of concerns across all skin types. The PicoSure Pro device's advanced Platinum Focus™ lens array is used to increase collagen and elastin to help combat wrinkles, acne scars and pores. With the addition of the flat lens, the PicoSure Pro device is now also the first and only picosecond laser FDA-cleared for the treatment of pigment in melasma and other hyperpigmentation issues such as nevus of Ota and Hori's nevus. Additional enhancements include a sleek, modern design, intuitive graphic user interface and new 5MM handpiece that is ideal for treating discrete lesions, lighter Fitzpatrick skin types and smaller treatment areas.
"The updates seen in the PicoSure Pro device further solidify Cynosure's stance as a trusted pioneer in the field of laser technology," said Sandi Peterson, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Operating Partner and Chairman of the Board of Cynosure. "With the PicoSure Pro device, providers can achieve comparable treatment results to more aggressive lasers with less pain and no downtime, making it a true one-and-done device for a myriad of patient needs."
The PicoSure Pro device is commercially available in the U.S. To learn more about the PicoSure Pro device, please visit www.cynosure.com/picosure.
About Cynosure
Cynosure is the global leader in medical aesthetics and develops, manufactures, and markets aesthetic treatment systems that enable plastic surgeons, dermatologists, and other medical practitioners to perform non-invasive and minimally invasive procedures for skin revitalization, hair removal, body contouring, women's health, treat vascular and benign pigmented lesions, remove multi-colored tattoos, reduce fat through laser lipolysis, reduce cellulite, clear nails infected by toe fungus and ablate sweat glands. Cynosure's product portfolio is composed of a broad range of energy sources including Alexandrite, diode, Nd: YAG, picosecond, pulse dye, Q-switched lasers, intense pulsed light, and RF technology. Cynosure sells its products globally under the Cynosure, Palomar, ConBio, and Ellman brand names through a direct sales force in the United States, Canada, France, Morocco, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Thailand, Japan, and Korea, and through international distributors in approximately 130 other countries. For corporate or product information, visit Cynosure's website at www.cynosure.com.
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Like all medical procedures, not all patients are suitable for the treatment. Talk to your medical provider about the risks and benefits of this procedure. A qualified practitioner is solely responsible for evaluating each subject's suitability to undergo treatment and for informing those being treated about any risks involved with the treatment, pre-and postoperative care, and any other relevant information. Individual results may vary and are not guaranteed.
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Leading Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry outlines his stance on gay marriage and answers allegations of special-interest connections. Kerry is campaigning in Virginia and Tennessee in preparation for Tuesday's primaries. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Sen. Kerry.
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UVALDE, Texas — In a news release from the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, Superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell announced students and staff will not be returning to the Robb Elementary campus after a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers.
"We are heartbroken over the loss of our teachers and students and hold each of their family members close to our hearts," Harrell said.
The district says it is working through plans on how to serve students on other campuses and will provide more information at a later date. Uvalde CISD is also working with agencies to identify improvements at other schools.
"We know that our lives will never be the same, but we also know that we will join together to honor the lives we lose and build a stronger Uvalde for those who remain," Harrell said in a statement.
The district also says it plans to continue providing counseling and support to families and staff for the foreseeable future.
"The outpouring of love and offers of help from the local community and across the nation has been extraordinary. We want to express our sincere gratitude for the remarkable support of the community, state, and nation," Harrel said.
"We will forever be thankful for the many volunteers who continue to provide counseling support, food, and financial resources to our school district and community."
Uvalde CISD adds it will continue to work with law enforcement through the investigation. Because the investigation is ongoing and information is evolving, the school district will not comment on the review from state and federal agencies until it is complete.
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LOS ANGELES, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kim Kardashian introduces SKKN BY KIM, an efficacious nine-product skincare collection sitting at the intersection of elevated simplicity and innovative science. SKKN BY KIM was born out of Kim's dream to bridge the gap between the world's most renowned dermatological experts and people at home seeking high-performance skincare.
Combining Kim's visionary approach with her knowledge from years of working with global skincare specialists and leading experts at Coty (NYSE: COTY), each product was thoughtfully formulated to care for all skin types, tones, and textures at every stage of maturity. Through active ingredients and technical formulas, SKKN BY KIM offers clinically proven skincare solutions to support the skin's natural abilities and revitalize the complexion.
"In all of my business endeavors, I've been fueled by my passion to fill gaps in the market with expertly-crafted and universally-loved products that are performance driven – and I have carried this same drive and approach with me into creating a legacy skincare brand," says brand founder and CEO, Kim Kardashian. "What began as a psoriasis diagnosis became the catalyst for my journey of skincare discoveries, inspiring me to learn more about my skin and how to care for it. Working with some of the top dermatologists and estheticians over the years has given me the incredible opportunity to learn from their expertise — and I knew I had to share my learnings. Fueled by years of gathered insights, SKKN BY KIM's science-backed formulas work together to reactivate skin's inner potential and inspire confidence. I'm proud to finally be able to share this collection with everyone."
Together with Coty Inc., one of the world's largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care, Kim Kardashian is launching SKKN BY KIM on June 21, 2022 through a new U.S. direct-to-consumer website. The site will be the go-to destination for all new product launches and will also feature tutorials and special collections.
The SKKN BY KIM collection features nine core products, developed to deliver effective results through clean and uncompromising high-performance formulas:
- Cleanser ($43/$37 refill): A lightly-foaming cleanser developed to gently dissolve any makeup, water-resistant residues, unwanted oils, and impurities without stripping skin.
- Toner ($45/$38 refill): A skin-renewing toner using double acidic and enzymatic exfoliation to help reduce the appearance of pores and enhance skin's texture.
- Exfoliator ($55/$47 refill): A double mechanical and enzymatic exfoliator that helps promote skin resurfacing, leaving skin renewed, refreshed and retexturized.
- Hyaluronic Acid Serum ($90/$77 refill): A multi-molecular weight hyaluronic acid serum that delivers long-lasting, 72-hour moisture, and helps reduce dehydration and the appearance of fine lines.
- Vitamin C8 Serum ($90/$77 refill): Featured with a powerful dose of vitamin C8 to help boost collagen synthesis, this serum is clinically proven to diminish the appearance of pigmentations, wrinkles, and fine lines.
- Face Cream ($85/$72 refill): A luxuriously indulgent firming moisturizer that works to nourish and revive skin. Formulated with postbiotics and enriched with a natural alternative to retinol, this cream visibly improves firmness, elasticity, and radiance.
- Eye Cream ($75/$64 refill): A moisturizing eye cream that preserves elasticity while acting to reduce puffiness and fine lines around the eye. Formulated with hyaluronic acid for added hydration and peptides to help stimulate collagen production, this product promotes a visibly firm, rested, and illuminated eye contour.
- Oil Drops ($95/$81 refill): Developed with a highly stable, active form of Vitamin C, this supercharged oil evens out the complexion, helps reduce the appearance of pores, and immediately promotes radiant and glowy looking skin.
- Night Oil ($95/$81 refill): A nourishing recovery treatment developed to help reenergize skin overnight for supple, smooth, and glowy skin by morning that feels hydrated and plumped.
Grounded in the brand's ethos of sustainability, each product is bottled inside sleek, minimalistic, and refillable packaging. To further reduce the environmental impact, refills are packaged inside eco-friendly materials.
Photographed by Mario Sorrenti, the campaign images feature Kim amongst larger than life replicas of the collection's sculptural packaging. The creative direction and design for brand identity, product, and packaging, as well as consulting on strategy and art direction was guided by Perron—Roettinger.
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About SKKN BY KIM
SKKN BY KIM invites you to experience a new daily skincare ritual. With a focus on quality and efficacy, SKKN BY KIM's science-backed, clean, and cruelty-free formulas are meticulously crafted to support the skin's natural renewal abilities. Through a visionary nine-product ritual, SKKN BY KIM delivers rejuvenation, nourishment, and an indulgent at-home experience designed to help people feel confident in their skin.
About Coty Inc.
Founded in Paris in 1904, Coty is one of the world's largest beauty companies with a portfolio of iconic brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care. Coty serves consumers around the world, selling prestige and mass market products in more than 130 countries and territories. Coty and our brands empower people to express themselves freely, creating their own visions of beauty; and we are committed to making a positive impact on the planet. Learn more at coty.com or on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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MIAMI (AP) — Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U.S. prison, his lawyer said Wednesday.
In 2020, a judge had denied Rodríguez Orejuela, who was in his 80s, early release on compassionate grounds from a prison in Butner, North Carolina. His attorney, David O. Markus, had said at the time that the former drug kingpin was suffering a range of health problems.
“We were very sad to learn about his passing last night. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time,” Markus said Wednesday.
“God has a new chess partner,” the lawyer said, referring to Rodríguez Orejuela’s reputation for outsmarting his enemies and rivals, for which he earned the nickname “the chess player.”
Rodríguez Orejuela and his brother, Miguel, built a huge criminal enterprise that succeeded the Medellin cartel once run by drug lord Pablo Escobar. Both operations used violence and killings extensively for intimidation and enforcement.
The Rodríguez Orejuela brothers were captured in 1995 and imprisoned in Colombia. At that point, Colombian law prohibited the extradition of its nationals. But under pressure from the U.S, Colombia lifted that ban in 1997.
The brothers were found to have been continuing to traffic from prison and criminal charges were filed in Miami and New York. In 2004, Gilberto was extradited; Miguel was extradited the next year.
Under a 2006 plea deal that the brothers reached with federal prosecutors in Miami, more than two dozen family members were removed from a U.S. Treasury Department list designating them as part of the Cali cartel. That spared some of them from prosecution for obstruction of justice or money laundering and also allowed legitimate family businesses in Colombia to continue operating.
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela’s prison release date had been scheduled for Feb. 9 2030. His younger brother, is serving his sentence at a Pennsylvania prison.
Perhaps the biggest legacy of the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers was their ability to quietly corrupt Colombian politics, delivering shoeboxes of cash to Ernesto Samper’s campaign prior to his 1994 election as president and buying off much of Congress. While painted in the popular press as less violent than Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel, the Rodríguez Orejuelas brothers were later accused of paying off journalists to suppress news of Cali cartel-related killings.
New ranks of narcos quickly replaced the Cali cartel leaders after their arrest and extradition. Many of those successors became leaders of far-right military bands that the U.S. placed on its international terror group list in 2001.
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Gabby Petito family's lawsuit against Laundrie family lists potential witnesses
NORTH PORT, Fla. - Lawyers representing the family of deceased Gabby Petito in their civil lawsuit against the family of deceased Brian Laundrie have released a list of witnesses they expect to testify in the case.
While the initial witness list is procedural and not indicative of which witnesses will formally testify in the event of a trial, it does highlight the general direction in which claimants plan to take the case.
The initial list includes Petito's parents, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt; her stepparents, Tara Petito and James Schmidt; Brian Laundrie's parents, Chris and Roberta Laundrie; FBI representatives; and North Port Police Department representatives.
Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino described the expected witness list as a "wish list" told Fox News Digital that it is "not likely" the Laundries would testify.
GABBY PETITO UPDATE: PARENTS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST LAUNDRIE FAMILY
The Petito family filed the lawsuit in March, alleging that Chris and Roberta Laundrie were aware that their son killed their daughter and attempted to help him flee justice while remaining silent about the pair's respective August 2021 and September 2021 disappearances.
Petito and Laundrie were traveling cross-country over the summer in Petito's van before her parents reported her missing on Sept. 11. Laundrie had returned to their North Port, Florida, home in Petito's van without her on Sept. 1. He and his parents did not share any information with law enforcement at the time and referred officials to their attorney.
"Christopher Laundrie and Roberta Laundrie exhibited extreme and outrageous conduct which constitutes behavior, under the circumstances, which goes beyond all possible bounds of decency and is regarded as shocking, atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community," the lawsuit alleges.
GABBY PETITO'S MOTHER FILES NEW LAWSUIT AGAINST ESTATE OF BRIAN LAUNDRIE
It continues: "As a direct and proximate result of the willfulness and maliciousness of Christopher Laundrie and Roberta Laundrie, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt had been caused to suffer pain and suffering, mental anguish, inconvenience, loss of capacity for enjoyment of life experienced in the past and to be experienced in the future."
"Assuming everything the Petitos allege in their lawsuit is true, which we deny, this lawsuit does not change the fact that the Laundries had no obligation to speak to Law Enforcement or any third-party including the Petito family. This fundamental legal principle renders the Petito’s claims to be baseless under the law," the Laundrie family attorney said.
The FBI found Petito's remains at a dispersed campground area within the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming on Sept. 19. Teton County Coroner Brent Blue later announced that she had died of homicide by strangulation three to four weeks before her remains were discovered.
BRIAN LAUNDRIE NOTEBOOK: GABBY PETITO'S KILLER CONFESSED IN WRITING BEFORE SUICIDE, FBI SAYS
Laundrie was subsequently listed as a person of interest in Petito's killing. The FBI, additionally, issued a warrant for Laundrie on debit card fraud charges. The FBI and local law enforcement officials focused their search for Laundrie in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park and T. Marby Carlton Jr. Memorial Reserve in Florida, where his parents believe he went the last time they saw him on Sept. 13.
The FBI discovered Laundrie's remains and a note in Myakkahatchee Creek park in October. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and admitted to killing Petito in the note, the agency announced months later.
The FBI's investigation has not been formally closed.
Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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Andhra Pradesh: 6 arrested for robbing 'hundis' in 10 Kadapa temples
As many as six people were apprehended by the Andhra Pradesh police on Wednesday for allegedly stealing 10 temple hundis (daan patra or donation box) in Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa district.
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As many as six people were apprehended by the Andhra Pradesh police on Wednesday for allegedly stealing 10 temple hundis (daan patra or donation box) in Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa district. According to the Kadapa Deputy superintendent of police (DSP), Venkata Siva Reddy, out of the six arrested one accused has been identified as Shaik Mastan of Nagara in Kadapa, while all the other five are minors.
"The robbers stole the hundis at night with the help of auto and lorry. If the temple was near, they would carry themselves in auto, else, they would go using the lorry to rob it," Reddy said. "A special team was formed to nab these culprits, and the amount of Rs 14,000 and a rod was seized from them," he added. (ANI)
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Greenard (foot) is progressing well ahead of the Texans' upcoming July training camp, Aaron Wilson of ProFootballNetwork.com reports.
Greenard suffered a foot injury late last season and had offseason surgery, but head coach Lovie Smith said he believes that the defensive end is on the right track to be ready for training camp in late July. The 25-year-old led the Texans in sacks in 2021, recording eight while making 33 total tackles over 12 games.
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Soap Opera Digest: When you exited GENERAL HOSPITAL, was the thought of doing another daytime show — or in this case, the streaming companion series to a daytime show — anywhere on your radar?
Steve Burton: When I left GH, I literally was not auditioning for anything. I got sent a lot of auditions. My agent really doesn’t like me — no, he does, but he’s like, “Are you going to audition for anything?!” [I] didn’t really plan on [auditioning]; I was just taking that time to work on myself and grow and be with my kids and then this opportunity came, and I thought it was super-interesting because it was a limited series and it was on Peacock and it was streaming. When I met with Albert Alarr, the co-executive producer, who’s an awesome guy, months ago, he was like, “Hey, this is kind of what we’re doing. We’re not sure if it’s going. Would you be interested? What’s your feeling?” As you know, I started my career on DAYS in 1988, and Ron [Carlivati, head writer] thought it’d be a great idea to bring back that character, so there was a little bit of history on the show and that’s what they did. When they got closer [to the start of production] and they got scripts, they were like, “Hey, this is the character, it is Harris Michaels from when you were on the show, this is what you’d be doing, it’s a five-episode run on Peacock in the summer,” and I was like, “Awesome, let’s go! Sounds great! I’m ready.” That’s kind of how it went down, you know? I’ve known Marnie [Saitta], the casting director, for a long time. I’ve worked with Ron [when he head-wrote GH], and also Albert, back in the day when he was a director. I knew a lot of people going over there and I thought it was a great opportunity, great timing. It’s just been a lot of fun.
Digest: Let’s not gloss over how remarkable it is that you were on a show in 1988 and in 2022, it’s still around for you to come back to!
Burton: And I’m still around! That’s what’s crazy, right? At that point [in my career], I was a horrifying actor, but I did have great hair. The casting director back then, Fran Bascom, she hired me and it was supposed to be only for a few episodes. I don’t know what it turned into, 11 or 15 episodes or whatever it was, and then I had to go back to OUT OF THIS WORLD. That’s actually how I met Scott Reeves [ex-Jake], because he played my buddy on the show. So it was kind of surreal driving back over to the studio where I basically started my daytime career and I was like, “Man, that was 34 years ago?! That’s crazy!” It’s incredible. What a blessing. I’m so grateful to be able to even talk about that I’m still around. It really is amazing.
Digest: How would you describe your feelings about separating from your job at GH?
Burton: I mean, look, it’s always going to be my home. That’s where I’ve been my whole life, so obviously I have great feelings toward the show. I’ve always been very grateful for the opportunity there, leaving and coming back, the people there, the cast and crew. You never want to leave your home, especially when it becomes kind of unexpected. They had to do what they had to do, I had to do what I had to do. There’s no hard feelings … I will always have awesome memories of the show and the people there and all of that. I have never, ever had a bad thing to say about GENERAL HOSPITAL.
Digest: So, how did it feel to be back in the DAYS universe?
Burton: It’s been great because I’ve seen a lot of friends, Brandon Barash [Jake; ex-Johnny, GH], a lot of people that I know, and I’ve met some new people that I didn’t know, that I’ve heard of my whole career or saw at the Soap Opera Digest Awards or just in passing. Everybody was so welcoming, Drake [Hogestyn, John] and Stephen [Nichols, Steve] and everyone. Kristian Alfonso [Hope] is amazing. Mary Beth [Evans, Kayla] goes, “I remember you in the makeup chair back in 1988!” I go, “I don’t know how you remember that, because I don’t!”
Digest: Must be the hair, Steve. You don’t forget that hair.
Burton: And all the hairspray! And she had some hair, too, as did Stephen!
Digest: How did you approach revisiting Harris — to you, was he like a new character or a continuation of the character you played in 1988?
Burton: It is a new character, because obviously I wasn’t on the show long enough to establish [much about the] character. I make references in the digital series to that character a couple of times, but it’s a new character and I just let Ron figure it out and do his thing, like we always do as actors, and talked it through with him. I’d go, “Hey, what are you thinking here and here and here?” [because] I had a lot of questions about how I should respond, where I should take the character, where is he in the beginning of the arc to the end of the arc. Ron and Albert helped me with that a lot.
Digest: What did it mean to you that Ron thought of you for this project?
Burton: Just to be in the conversation, and to be having this conversation, it’s an honor, and I’m grateful. I work hard and I love what I do and if that’s a value to somebody, then that’s awesome. They thought of me and it’s really cool that they did. I think it was Ron, Albert and Marnie together going, “I think this could work.”
Digest: “We vaguely remember a man from the past with great hair, wonder what he’s doing.”
Burton: Or, “Steve’s out of work, wonder what he’s doing! Wasn’t he on DAYS and isn’t he not working? Great! Give him a call!”
Digest: When you tackled your first script, did you feel rusty at all?
Burton: Well, I didn’t have a choice! You’re always going to feel a little rusty, but that just means I put in more work at home before I get to set. For me, repetition is what lets you be free when you get on the set, it’s knowing it, knowing it, knowing it, which I was taught by Maurice Benard [Sonny, GH]; you’ve got to know your stuff backwards and forwards, and then you can be free. So, I spent a lot of time on that before. But walking on the set, seeing familiar faces the first day — one of the camera guys, I knew from GH, one of the wardrobe people, one of the boom operators — you just feel at home. It’s amazing.
Digest: What was your feeling walking out of the building after your first day of work?
Burton: I felt amazing. It was difficult stuff, I felt like I did a good job, it was a full day’s work and there was excitement about this series there in the building. It just brings kind of a new energy to the building. Everybody thought daytime was dead for so long, and now we have digital, right? And DAYS is a big draw for streaming on Peacock. So there’s a great energy around it. I felt great the first day. I felt great every day, really, but the first day, I was like, “That was cool! Awesome!”
Digest: You mentioned Kristian Alfonso; obviously, there’s a lot of excitement from DAYS fans about her and Peter Reckell (Bo) being part of BEYOND SALEM.
Burton: When I was on the show, back then, Patch and Kayla were [GH’s] Luke and Laura — that’s the equivalent that I can say, right? And they were the couple. Kristian said she wasn’t on when I was on in ’88. Obviously, I know her, I know Bo and Hope — everybody does — and look, it’s exciting! I always pay homage to guys like Drake, Stephen Nichols, Stuart Damon [ex-Alan, GH], Tony Geary [ex-Luke, GH]. I could name 50 more. Josh Taylor [Roman; ex-Chris], who’s on DAYS. All these guys who kind of pioneered it for guys like me. They literally opened the doors for guys like me to have a job! Obviously, they set a great example with their work ethic and taught me a lot of lessons and so that was so cool to see. Drake ran up on stage like, “It’s so great to have you here,” and all this stuff. It was just so cool because he’s been around for so many years.
Digest: Did your five days there make you want to do more with DAYS?
Burton: Look, in the beginning, it was enticing because it was a short run. Being there, the people are great, so I don’t know. I’m open to things, I’m open to hearing things. But that’s up to them, that’s not up to me! We’ll see what happens!
Digest: We’ve talked before about how dedicated you are to self-improvement. I’m curious if you feel like how much energy you’ve devoted to that has helped you handle some of the curveballs of this profession.
Burton: One hundred percent. I coach now, mindset and nutrition, and it’s all about mindset. Life is truly about attitude and mindset. For me, leaving GH in 2012, I believe it was, people don’t like to hear it, but it was a great thing for me because I really got to discover myself more and have a lot of personal development. [I’m] always open to learning and growing and figuring out what life is trying to teach me, because we can have this mindset of looking at things as a victim, like, “Life’s happening to me, I lost my job, all this stuff’s happening in my personal life, it sucks, poor me, poor me.” People use that as an excuse to go do stupid crap or just stay in a victim mentality. Making decisions from fear and scarcity will never get you to where you want to go and what I ask myself every day is, “Do my thoughts, behaviors and actions align with the vision I want for myself?” I’m trying, literally, to create a new version of Steve with my habits and my discipline in what I do daily. It’s gotten me through the hardest times of my life … When you’re worried about you and working on yourself, that other stuff really doesn’t matter. I’m focused on trying to be the best version of me, and how I treat others. I’ve always taken the high road with things but now, it’s like, I don’t have any animosity toward GENERAL HOSPITAL. I just don’t! I’m so grateful. I’m in a place in my life where I’m in such a grateful state and I’m just grateful for the opportunity. I was grateful for being there, I was grateful I won an Emmy for being on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS [as Dylan] and GENERAL HOSPITAL, I’m grateful for the opportunity at BEYOND SALEM. Gratitude really is everything … This has been one of the hardest stretches of my entire life and one of the best.
Digest: So what you’re telling me, Steve, is that your life didn’t end because you’re not playing Jason anymore.
Burton: No, literally, it was a new beginning for me. Again! There was a door that closed and I was like, “Okay, what’s the next door that’s going to open? But in the meantime, I’m going to keep building myself up, working on me, not sitting around, just work on me.” And I’m not getting any younger, either. I just feel like I have a new beginning now and it’s been incredible.
Digest: Anything else you feel like we should touch on?
Burton: Well, listen. This is my first job back on daytime. I’m excited about it because, again, I started my career on DAYS, and I would just love everybody to watch BEYOND SALEM, streaming on Peacock! Get it and let me know what you think! | https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/steve-burton-interview/ | 2022-06-01T18:11:57Z | https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/steve-burton-interview/ | false | 1 |
Driver survives near death collision
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — A seven car collision involving a big-rig-car-hauler stopped eastbound traffic along State Route 12 east of Jackson Slough Road on Friday, according to CHP.
According to CHP, the car hauler did not slow down for upcoming traffic and crashed into the rear of a minivan causing a chain reaction with three other vehicles also being crashed into.
The car hauler then crossed into westbound traffic where it struck two more vehicles heading west. The car hauler then drove off the north roadway edge into an embankment, according to CHP.
The driver of the minivan was taken to the hospital but was released later with a broken arm, according to CHP. The other four injured people were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries.
The incident is still under investigation and impairment due to drugs or alcohol is not believed to be a cause of the crash.
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A recent Sunday afternoon witnessed the heart of what a passionate, determined community can accomplish.
The weather was a bit chilly, but that didn’t stop enthusiastic children from tapping the button to open the spickets at the new Monon Splash pad, located in Monon’s lovely, restful, welcoming town park. Water sprang up from the ground, poured out of buckets perched tall on their posts, and whirled in circles from other surprising spots.
Monon Town Council members celebrated the dedication with a ribbon cutting, marking the official end to a several-year journey.
Your Community Foundation of White County is thrilled to have been able to support this great community project with three major grants: $12,800 in 2018 to fund the engineering study; a $5000 grant in Spring 2019 to support improvements for handicapped access at the park; and $5000 in Fall 2019 for general support of the splash pad project. All of these grants, as is true with all of our community grants, are only possible because generous people from throughout our community want to see White County become the very best it can be!
We are grateful to the Monon Town Council and Monon Parks Board members for their outstanding dedication to this and so many other community projects. It is, indeed, an honor to partner with you!
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MIAMI, Fla., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXS LAW expands its legal intern program with the additions of Rochelle Hamman and Sam Kramer.
Rochelle further expands AXS LAW's slate of foreign-trained legal professionals. She graduated in the top 15% of students from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, where she earned her LL.B. law degree. Rochelle also received an award for best student in Alternative Dispute Resolution during her legal studies. After graduating, she went on to work as a Legal Advisor and Human Resource manager for Africa Union Holdings, where she worked in their Johannesburg and Dubai offices on cross-border commercial transactions and joint ventures, and dispute resolution. Rochelle is currently working towards her J.D. and LL.M. in International Arbitration at UM Law.
Sam is a rising 3L at the University of Miami School of Law who previously interned with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and clerked with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. He has also worked with the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic. Sam was recently elected as an Articles and Comments Editor for the Inter-American Law Review and his student note was selected for publication in Volume 54 of the Review.
AXS LAW strives to disrupt the traditional law model not just in the way it handles client matters, but also in how it trains and elevates the next generation of lawyers. As Summer Associates, Rochelle and Sam will be integral parts of preparing for state and federal court jury trials. Over the next several months, our Summer Associates will get hands-on experience in drafting motions, preparing for depositions, and litigating cases in court so that they are prepared and confident as they begin their legal careers after graduation.
About AXS LAW
AXS LAW is dedicated to providing practical and comprehensive solutions to complex matters. After decades of BIG LAW, we created AXS LAW with a view to disrupting the traditional law model to better address the needs of the modern business law consumer. We do this first and foremost by bringing our own expertise as entrepreneurs. Our attorneys are encouraged to pursue entrepreneurship and this, in turn, gives us the perspective and the "guts" to help our clients navigate, not avoid, risk. And, unlike most law firms, we have personality. We are not tethered to our chairs and desks; we are out there continually forging new and strengthening existing relationships in the business and the wider community. In addition, AXS LAW is committed to giving back to the community through its philanthropic arm AXS ART which supports the local South Florida arts community through programs, events and legal representation. For more information, please visit www.axslawgroup.com.
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Research Council (FRC) today is launching a brand-new digital media outlet named The Washington Stand. Like FRC, The Washington Stand is based in Washington, D.C. and is published by FRC, whose mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. The platform will feature multiple types of content, including original reporting, news analysis, political and biblical commentary, videos, podcasts among others. The FRC-branded outlet was created to address a void in the lack of a digital news outlet to help inform Christians from a biblical worldview.
The Washington Stand will complement Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, a national daily one-hour TV and radio broadcast program that Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has hosted for the last nine years.
On the launch of The Washington Stand, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins commented:
"The institutional bias of the 'legacy media' has spawned a revolution in news not seen since the advent of cable news. As the anti-Christian, anti-moral bias of the media has reached a fevered pitch, more and more Christians are seeking out news content that is aligned with their biblical worldview rather than attacking it. They are looking for news and information that they can trust and that will enable them to better understand the times in which we live. The Washington Stand is not just something FRC wants to do, this something we have to do because America has found itself at a time when legacy media can no longer be relied upon. And social media is silencing conservative viewpoints, while at the same time claiming to be the town hall of this generation. Biblically-informed Christians need news sources they can trust, and the Washington Stand seeks to meet that need.
"God is our basis for the truth but unfortunately too many Christians have not been trained to go back to the Scripture and dig into the foundation. As a result, they go silent in the face of a world and news media that has intentionally sought to marginalize their views. The Washington Stand is a means to embolden Christians who are motivated to engage and serve the broader culture because of their Christian faith. The Washington Stand is a means to embolden Christians to boldly speak the truth and engage our culture to transform it for God's glory whether it be in their workplaces, public office or anywhere else," concluded Perkins.
The Washington Stand Editor-in-Chief Jared Bridges also commented:
"Our objective with The Washington Stand is to equip followers of Jesus with truth and wisdom so that they can rest assured that they have the truth from a source they can trust."
Visit The Washington Stand at: WashingtonStand.com
Follow the Washington Stand on Twitter @WSHStand and Facebook.
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Meta launching AMBER Alerts on Instagram to help find missing children
Updated: 12:54 PM EDT Jun 1, 2022
Related video above: Department of Justice investigates Instagram's impact on young adultsMeta, the company formally known as Facebook, is launching AMBER Alerts on Instagram, a feature that will allow people to see and share notices of missing children in their area, according to a press release."We know that the chances of finding a missing child increase when more people are on the lookout, especially in the first few hours," Emily Vacher, director of trust and safety at Meta, said. "With this update, if an AMBER Alert is activated by law enforcement and you are in the designated search area, the alert will now appear in your Instagram feed."Users will receive alerts that will include crucial details about the child such as a photo, description, location of the abduction and any other available information. Users will also be allowed to share alerts with friends to spread the word."These alerts are rare and specific to the search area. If you get one, it means there is an active search for a missing child nearby," Vacher said. "In order to know who to show these alerts to, we use a variety of signals, including the city you list on your profile, your IP address and location services (if you have it turned on)."The feature, which launches Wednesday, June 1, was created in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the U.S., the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, the National Crime Agency in the U.K., the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico, the Australian Federal Police and more.Meta says the feature should be fully available in the coming weeks in 25 countries, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Australia, Ukraine, South Africa and more.The company launched a similar feature on Facebook back in 2015, which has proved to be helpful in numerous cases around the world. One case they cited was the 2020 abduction of Charlotte Moccia, an 11-year-old Massachusetts girl. Moccia was rescued in part because of the actions of Amanda Disley and Benny Correa after the couple saw an AMBER Alert on Facebook."AMBER Alerts are an important way we can support our communities in keeping children safe, and we look forward to continuing this work," Vacher added.
Related video above: Department of Justice investigates Instagram's impact on young adults
Meta, the company formally known as Facebook, is launching AMBER Alerts on Instagram, a feature that will allow people to see and share notices of missing children in their area, according to a press release.
"We know that the chances of finding a missing child increase when more people are on the lookout, especially in the first few hours," Emily Vacher, director of trust and safety at Meta, said. "With this update, if an AMBER Alert is activated by law enforcement and you are in the designated search area, the alert will now appear in your Instagram feed."
Users will receive alerts that will include crucial details about the child such as a photo, description, location of the abduction and any other available information. Users will also be allowed to share alerts with friends to spread the word.
"These alerts are rare and specific to the search area. If you get one, it means there is an active search for a missing child nearby," Vacher said. "In order to know who to show these alerts to, we use a variety of signals, including the city you list on your profile, your IP address and location services (if you have it turned on)."
The feature, which launches Wednesday, June 1, was created in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the U.S., the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, the National Crime Agency in the U.K., the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico, the Australian Federal Police and more.
Meta says the feature should be fully available in the coming weeks in 25 countries, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Australia, Ukraine, South Africa and more.
The company launched a similar feature on Facebook back in 2015, which has proved to be helpful in numerous cases around the world.
One case they cited was the 2020 abduction of Charlotte Moccia, an 11-year-old Massachusetts girl. Moccia was rescued in part because of the actions of Amanda Disley and Benny Correa after the couple saw an AMBER Alert on Facebook.
"AMBER Alerts are an important way we can support our communities in keeping children safe, and we look forward to continuing this work," Vacher added. | https://www.mynbc5.com/article/amber-alerts-instagram-missing-children/40166958 | 2022-06-01T18:19:06Z | https://www.mynbc5.com/article/amber-alerts-instagram-missing-children/40166958 | true | 10 |
One year after the U.S.-led war in Iraq, a media-led poll of Iraqis finds many are optimistic but unclear about their future. A majority of those surveyed say they're better off than they were before the war. But many say they lack confidence in occupying forces, and only about half prefer democracy over a strong leader or Islamic state. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and Gary Langer, director of polling for ABC News.
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LOS ANGELES — Electronic Arts announced Wednesday that the late John Madden will grace the cover of the next edition of the video game named after him.
Madden 23 will have three different editions, all featuring cover art with John Madden. Madden passed away in Dec. 2021 at the age of 85.
Madden is known as the legendary coach of the Oakland Raiders, where he won Super Bowl XI in 1977, and then his long, nearly 30-year career as a sportscaster commentating NFL games.
He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
The artwork designer of the video game, Chuck Styles, called it a full circle moment for the game and Madden.
“As someone who grew up loving football, playing in the suburbs of West Philly, it’s a full circle moment to now be able to contribute to the culture of the sport by honoring an icon like John Madden, who has influenced generations of football fans through his passion for football and unmistakable energy, through my art,” Styles said in a release.
The game was first released in 1988, called "John Madden Football." Madden was on the cover of the game from 1988 until the 2000 edition of the game, released in 1999. Since then, NFL athletes have graced the cover of "Madden" games year to year.
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Electronic Arts also announced where the $5 million John Madden Legacy Commitment to Education, announced earlier this year, will be distributed.
Electronic Arts will commit $2.5 million of the John Madden Legacy Commitment to Education to support programming over the next five years for the following four nonprofit organizations focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) education: College Track, Mission Bit, StreetCode Academy and Girls Who Code.
The remaining $2.5 million of the John Madden Legacy Commitment to Education will go towards the creation of the EA Madden Scholarship in partnership with the UNCF, (United Negro College Fund), which will support students at 12 Historically Black Colleges and Universities to graduate college prepared for the next step in their career.
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— It is an up-close sight that gave astronauts a reason to pause and soon it will be one that the public can see for themselves: a space shuttle standing poised for launch. The California Science Center on Wednesday (June 1) is breaking ground for its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, which will become the permanent home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour. Unlike the science center's current display of the orbiter, which for the past 10 years has had Endeavour positioned horizontally atop its mobile transporter, the new exhibit will showcase the full space shuttle stack — including an external tank and twin solid rocket boosters — in a gallery towering 20 stories tall at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. "The California Science Center is thrilled to celebrate this milestone today,"Jeffrey Rudolph, president and chief executive officer of the California Science Center, said in a statement. "The Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will be a launchpad for creativity and innovation to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and explorers." Local and state elected officials, former NASA astronauts, students and donors were invited to join Rudolph and other science center leaders for Wednesday's private ceremony. A day long in the making — early plans for the expansion were in place when Endeavour was delivered to the science center in 2012 — it has again been made possible by a donation from the new museum's namesake. "This gift is to honor the legacy of my dear husband Samuel Oschin, who was passionate about adventure and the pursuit of knowledge, especially in the fields of science and engineering," said Lynda Oschin. "It gives me enormous pleasure to see this vision becoming a reality for the millions of young people who will be inspired to reach for the stars." Although the amount was not disclosed, the gift from the Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Oschin Family Foundation was the largest the California Science Center has ever received. Combined with the support provided by the State of California and numerous foundations, individuals and corporate donors, the science center has now raised $280 million toward its $400 million goal to cover the past, present and future of Endeavour's display. "Few institutions have seen this level of generosity and we are tremendously grateful to Mrs. Lynda Oschin for the unparalleled gift," said Rudolph. "Their early contribution was catalytic in bringing space shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center and we are forever thankful for this additional commitment that has propelled us forward to groundbreaking on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center." Other major donors include The Ahmanson Foundation, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, Weingart Foundation and Ibrahim El-Hefni Technical Training Foundation. The science center plans to raise the remaining $120 million during the construction period and is still accepting members for Team Endeavour by sponsoring one of the shuttle's thermal tiles. "On behalf of the citizens of California, thank you to the many generous supporters of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center project," said Gavin Newsom, governor of California. "We have achieved this groundbreaking milestone because of all of you, and together we will inspire the next generation." Going up The footprint for the 200,000-square-foot (19,000 square-meter) Samuel Oschin Air and Space Museum was cleared ahead of Wednesday's ceremony. "The demolition of the old buildings is done already, so the next step will be excavation and shoring to get the building going," Rudolph told collectSPACE in an interview. "Then probably the most notable next public thing will be installing Endeavour and the full stack." Roughly a year and a half from now, in the second half of 2023, Endeavour will be taken off exhibit and moved the short distance to where it will be displayed in the new air and space center. There it will joined by External Tank-94 (ET-94), NASA's last remaining shuttle fuel tank built for flight, and two solid rocket boosters assembled from segments that were used in the launch of 81 shuttle missions. The California Science Center has recruited a team of former and current space program workers with experience mating the space shuttle and Space Launch System (SLS) to stack Endeavour. At one point, the prevailing thought was to mount the full shuttle stack in the horizontal and then lift it all together, but it turned out the tried-and-true way was still the best way. "We did a lot of a lot of engineering on horizontal stack concepts because we honestly thought it was going to be easier," said Dennis Jenkins, a veteran shuttle engineer and director of the science center's project to display Endeavour. "The further we got into it, though, the more it was causing us grief. So we went back to doing it the 'old fashioned' way, just without a VAB [Vehicle Assembly Building]." Each component will be raised individually by crane, with the solid rocket boosters going up first, followed by the external tank and then Endeavour. They will be connected to each other using the same hardware that was used for launches. "It is absolutely a flight stack. We will use hold down bolts to secure the boosters to a seismic isolator, but everything from there on up will be exactly like we would have stacked it at NASA," Jenkins told collectSPACE. Once Endeavour is standing in place, the museum building will be erected around it. Scaffolding that was used to access the shuttle's attach points during mating will be reused to support a cover to protect the vehicle from damage. "Building construction will take about three years," said Rudolph. Astronaut's-eye view When it opens, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will have 150 exhibits spanning three multi-level galleries — titled "Air," "Space" and "Shuttle" — spread across four floors and 100,000 square feet (9,000 square meters) of exhibit space. In addition to Endeavour, the museum will display flown Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules, an array of engineering models of planetary probes, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft and approximately 20 aircraft ranging from a replica of the Wright Brothers' 1902 Glider to modern supersonic jet fighters. Inside the Shuttle gallery, guests will be able to view Endeavour from multiple angles. Visitors will be able to take an elevator up to glass-floor platforms to get a look inside the crew hatch, peer into the payload bay (one of the two 60-foot-long [18-meter] doors will be open) and look down at the vehicle below. They will also be able to walk up to and under the shuttle, standing in the same relative area where astronauts stood on the launchpad to gaze up at their soon-to-be ride into space. "There is that moment when pretty much everybody has cleared out of the launchpad except for the crew and a few others on the day of launch and you got to stand right below Endeavour, very close, at the bottom looking up at it," said Greg Chamitoff, a former NASA astronaut who launched on Endeavour twice, including its final mission in 2011, and now teaches aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University. "At that moment, it is not a static object; it's a living, breathing, smoking, noisy machine that seems just raring to go. It feels alive." "I don't think they're going have the sound effects — maybe that's a good idea," Chamitoff said with a laugh, "but I think standing there is going to bring back the sense of getting on this amazing machine and launching on that particular day." | http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060122a-california-science-center-endeavour-oschin-air-space-groundbreaking.html | 2022-06-01T18:27:22Z | http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060122a-california-science-center-endeavour-oschin-air-space-groundbreaking.html | true | 1 |
Legacies Series Finale Photos: It All Comes Down to This...
Paul Dailly at .Legacies fans were dealt a huge blow last month...
The CW postponed the final three episodes of Legacies Season 4...
and then the network canceled the series.
It was a shocking turn of events, and all we can do is tune into the beloved supernatural drama when it returns Thursday, June 2.
Now, the network has released three photos for Legacies Season 4 Episode 20, aka the series finale.
We see Hope at what looks to be an assembly at the school, spearheaded by Alaric.
Given that it sounds like the battle with Ken plays out on Legacies Season 4 Episode 19, it sounds like the series finale will very much be about the aftermath of it.
"Hope (Danielle Rose Russell), Lizzie (Jenny Boyd), MG (Quincy Fouse), Kaleb (Chris Lee), Jed (Ben Levin), Cleo (Omono Okojie) and Alaric (Matthew Davis) reflect on recent events and what comes next for each of them," reads the official description for "Just Don't Be A Stranger, Okay?"
"Hope and Lizzie each find solace from unexpected yet welcome sources," the logline concludes.
The episode was co-written by series creator Julie Plec and showrunner Brett Matthews, and Plec recently revealed that The CW gave the creatives a heads up that the show might not make the cut.
“One last thing re: Roswell and Legacies. (The CW CEO) Mark Pedowitz & his team at The CW had the class & grace to warn the shows that they might not survive, even if The CW wanted them," Plec tweeted following the cancellation.
"Because of that, the season finales of both shows were carefully crafted to also work as series finales."
“I can speak for #Legacies in saying that Brett and I and the writing team poured all kinds of love into it. And there are a couple surprises for long-time #TVDU fans that may just blow your mind.”
While other details are scarce about the series finale, rumors have circulated in recent weeks that Candice King would be returning as Caroline and Joseph Morgan as Klaus Mikaelson.
Morgan has been teasing fans on Twitter with coded messages and videos, seemingly teasing a return for the series finale.
However, the star has been busy shooting Titans Season 4, so it's hard to imagine he will return.
Then again, it's possible he could have filmed some audio to be played on the series finale that gives Hope a glimpse of her father's time on the other side.
If you watch Legacies online, you know Klaus has been unable to find peace following the conclusion of The Originals.
What are your thoughts on the first photos and plot details for the finale?
Hit the comments.
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell urges NATO forces to play a formal role in Iraq following the scheduled transfer of power to an interim government on June 30. Powell also says the Bush administration will seek a new U.N. Security Council resolution to support the power transfer, and also approve a U.S. military presence in Iraq after power is handed over. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.
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Ultimate on-screen motors
There have been some high octane petrol head vehicles that have graced both the big and small screen, but which one is the daddy of them all?
After much soul-searching a survey has revealed the number one motor vehicle.
Del Boy and Rodney’s iconic yellow three-wheeled Robin Reliant takes poll position in a list of the greatest on-screen vehicles, beating the high-flying Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Herbie, the 1963 Volkswagen Beetle.
The survey, conducted by Carmoola, put James Bond’s silver Aston DB5 from Goldfinger into fourth place, no doubt leaving the spy a little shaken and stirred that his car was outmaneuvered by Doc-Brown’s time-travelling DeLorean from Back to the Future.
Strangely enough, talking of Back To The Future DeLorean Motor Company has teased a brand new all-electric take on the iconic 80s sportscar from the movie.
The company — technically a new Texas outfit bought the rights to the DeLorean intellectual property after the original company went defunct in 1982.
Carmoola – a newly launched car financing service encouraging motorists to “suss out their budget first” before being dazzled by a second-hand car, calculated the monthly finance payments for the most iconic film and TV motors with eye watering results.
One of the DeLorean’s used in the hit 1985 movie, sold for close to £400,000 in 2011.
A yellow three-wheeler used in the much-loved Only Fools and Horses TV series sold for £38,000 at an auction in 2021.
Any list of best-loved screen cars wouldn’t be complete without an Aston Martin and 007’s DB5, which came fourth. Recently sold for £5.2 million following its use in promoting 1965’s Thunderball film.
In fifth place was KITT, the legendary talking car from the 1980s and 90s TV series Knight Rider featuring David ‘The Hoff’ Hasselhoff. The motor – now minus the KITT computer system - fetched £225,000 when Hasselhoff sold it last January.
Herbie, the VW Beetle from the 1963 movie Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, came sixth.
In April 2018, the 1963 Volkswagen Beetle that starred as Herbie in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) and
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) were snapped up at Barrett-Jackson’s Palm Beach auction in 2015 for $126,000 and exactly three years later at the same auction on April 14, 2018, it sold for $128,700 (£98,000).
The Ghostbusters Car sold at Barrett-Jackson’s Las Vegas 2021 auction, held from June 2021 for $220,000 (£169,000).
The Batmobile came eighth in the poll. The original model used in the 1960s – based on a 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car – sold for £3.2m ($4.2m) in June 2013.
Aidan Rushby, CEO of Carmoola app that provides drivers with budget and finance decisions, giving people the freedom to pay for a new set of wheels instantly with a virtual card, said: “As far back as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on-screen cars have stolen our hearts as much as the characters, and that is still the case today.
“But having the heart rule the head when making a car purchase isn’t a good thing. Our research shows nearly a quarter of (24 per cent) Brits have bought a car without a clear idea about what they could spend or afford.
“And over a quarter (27 per cent) have searched for cars in the past with the intention of buying, without knowing if they could afford the finance or loan.
“Rather than hunting down the perfect car only to find you can’t afford it, Carmoola gives you an approved budget in 60 seconds without sending off reams of forms and pay slips, meaning you have the freedom to shop anywhere knowing what you can spend, putting you immediately in control of your car purchase.”
Carmoola, which also provides free vehicle checking, vetting for accident history, mileage adjustments and outstanding finance, also costed up another desirable classic in less-than-desirable nick – the Inbetweeners yellow Fiat Cinquecento.
Having been sold on eBay as part of Comic Relief’s 2011 fund-raising campaign the clapped-out car went for an eye-popping £15,000 following an intense bidding war.
The stunning orange Toyota Supra which featured in The Fast and The Furious films, was driven by the late Paul Walker and was recently sold at auction for £417,000 ($550,000).
TOP TEN
1. Del Boy and Rodney’s yellow three-wheeler from Only Fools and Horses (42 per cent)
2. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (31 pc)
3. Doc-Brown’s time-travelling DeLorean from Back to the Future (31 pc)
4. Silver Aston DB5, driven by James Bond in Goldfinger (29 pc)
5. KITT from Knight Rider (28 pc)
6. Herbie – the 1963 Volkswagen Beetle (23 pc)
7. Ghostbusters Car (The Ectomobile) – from 1984 movie Ghostbusters (22 pc)
8. Batmobile Original 1960s Batmobile (20 pc)
9. The Inbetweeners yellow Fiat Cinquecento (11 pc)
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Millrock Resources (OTC:MLRKF), Short Interest Report
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STRATHAM, N.H., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioGreen360 ("BG360"), the leading innovator in distributed food waste management solutions today announced the addition of Mark Slavens, Ph.D., to its advisory board as part of its growth strategy and commercialization efforts to meet its growing demand.
BG360 has developed the only distributed closed-loop food waste solution in the market that provides 100% diversion from landfill with real time auditable sustainability metrics. The BG360 solution incorporates a robust set of proprietary technologies (mechanical and biological) that processes food waste at the source, without any input of fresh water or any grey water effluent and repurposes the residual into an array of all-natural and organic agricultural products.
Mark supported and led Scotts Miracle-Gro's research and development efforts for greater than 11 years and is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Aqua-Yield, a leading Agriculture nanoliquid technology company in Salt Lake City, UT. BG360 will leverage its existing multi-year relationship with Mark to advance its technology platform.
"BioGreen360 is a well-led company with cutting edge technology that is tackling one of the most important challenges of the 21st century – food waste. It is my privilege to join this strong group of seasoned advisory board members to further develop the BG360 technology and unlock more of its potential," said Mark.
"As BG360 continues to gain market adoption of our 100% circular solution for food waste with leading enterprise clients, Mark Slavens' experience and relationships makes him an ideal advisor to help the company optimize the value of our solution's residual material. Mark is a recognized thought-leader and visionary with great success conceptualizing and developing leading fertilizer products in the in the agricultural industry," said Justin Rosberg, BG360 President & COO. "We are very excited to welcome him on board to help us guide our efforts in the agricultural and fertilizer marketplace."
About BioGreen
BioGreen360 is the leader in distributed, on-site, digester technology and food waste solutions for institutional and consumer facing applications. The Company's solutions are environmentally responsible, economically sustainable and fully scalable. BioGreen360 is the only solution in the market that completely recycles food waste from the overall waste stream at its source. Through proprietary microbial formulae coupled with patent-pending mechanical and evaporation technologies, BioGreen360 completely eliminates food waste on-site through a fully automated, continual feed aerobic digesting system. It is the only triple-bottom line solution in the food waste management space.
For more information, follow us on social media and visit us at http://biogreen360.com/
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The next gen BLI technology now available in Europe
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gator Bio, the next gen Biolayer Interferometry solutions company, has signed an agreement with I&L Biosystems GmbH, a distributor of innovative biomedical technology and products. The agreement will allow Gator Bio to expand rapidly its product offerings into the European Union, a key region for Gator's growth strategy as it begins its global reach.
Dr. Hong Tan, CEO of Gator Bio, said, "I&L Biosystems has a history of bringing new and innovative technologies into market — as evidenced by its previous success in commercializing e.g., various multi-analyzer, protein purification devices, SPR instruments, and bioreactors, etc. We look forward to working with the I&L team to bring the Gator platform to users throughout the region, helping meet the demand for therapeutics development and manufacturing."
"Gator BLI platform and a range of innovative biosensors are an important addition to I&L's portfolio of protein characterization products, and we are very excited about the possibilities the Gator shall give our customers in characterizing antibodies, AAVs and small molecule drugs," said Mr. Alexander M. Beljaars, CEO of I&L Biosystems GmbH. "Access to this next gen technology is key to the continued enablement of our biopharma and academia research customers across our geographies. We are very excited about helping research and manufacturing community with the novel applications in gene therapy, immune therapy and lipid nano particle development."
The latest partnership of two companies builds on Gator Bio's commitment to providing high-quality BLI platforms globally, recently demonstrated through a strategic partnership with BMS Korea (Bio Medical Sciences) to provide sales and services to biotherapeutics and gene therapy companies in Republic of Korea. To learn more, please visit www.gatorbio.com.
Gator Bio is a life sciences company providing bioanalytical systems to accelerate the development of therapeutics and diagnostics. Gator Bio along with its sister company ET Healthcare are part of Access Medical Systems. The Gator instruments and biosensors enable real-time analysis of biomolecular interactions providing information on affinity, kinetics, concentration and epitope binning, etc. Most importantly, Gator Bio's analytical capabilities enable better and faster characterization of drug candidates, thus providing greater value in drug development applications where existing methods have limitations in throughput, performance, and cost. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with facilities in Shanghai and Suzhou, China. For more information, please visit www.gatorbio.com.
I&L Biosystems is a leading distributor of innovative scientific products with the headquarter in Königswinter, Germany. The company was founded in 1991 and has been growing steadily ever since. The focus of I&L is on sales and distribution of high-quality laboratory equipment to customers and researchers in the microbiology, cell biology and biotechnology markets in almost all European countries. High quality of the products, competent advice and fast service are the basis for a long-lasting relationship with our customers and partners in industry, research and development. More than 120 employees ensure that our customers throughout Europe receive excellent support for technical or application-related questions. Visit I&L Biosystems' website for more information: www.il-biosystems.com.
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Djerf Avenue: consider me influenced
Meet Matilda Djerf. The 25-year-old has amassed over 2.3 million Instagram followers and gained the admiration of fashion girlies across the globe – me included. Straight out of a Pinterest board, Matilda has cemented her signature Scandinavian look and has influenced masses to achieve her ‘it girl’ vibe. Known for her effortlessly cool-girl aesthetic and that fabulous bouncy hair, her brand Djerf Avenue has rocketed in popularity as the demand for slow fashion has been amplified by TikTok trends surrounding the ‘clean girl’ image. Characterised by minimal, glowy makeup paired with a neutral toned baggy suit, the classic Matilda look has been made easily achievable with her fashion brand, Djerf Avenue.
Scandinavian fashion and the simplicity of a well-curated capsule wardrobe are nothing new. Breezy silhouettes and comfy, chunky trainers are a fool-proof pairing for achieving the Scandi style. Brands such as Acne Studios, Ganni, Norse Projects, Eytys and CMMN SWDN are prominent names in the Scandinavian fashion scene, promoting timeless, durable pieces to add to your wardrobe. However, Djerf Avenue has brought a new accessibility to the look – the influencer angle. It’s common knowledge that influencers have played a crucial part in fast fashion and propagating microtrends over the years. On the flipside, Matilda’s signature look has stood the test of time, sustaining the Scandi style throughout her entire 7-year career. As trends come and go, the blazer, baggy pant and comfy shoe combo is evidentially undying, and a great alternative to following less sustainable fads.
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Djerf Avenue was established in 2019, with a focus on non-seasonal, chic pieces from its origins. By utilising high quality fabrics, Djerf Avenue supplies ready-to-wear garments that are built to last. With a sustainable ethos, all clothes are made with “natural, organic, regenerated, or recycled fibres” (see https://djerfavenue.com/uk/about-us/). Production of garments is based in Portugal, to ensure that the high quality is not at the sacrifice of working conditions – Portuguese factories follow European laws on labour practices.
So, what does Djerf Avenue have to offer? From the signature Rainbow Headband to the iconic Forever Blazer, an array of staple garments in a range of muted tones occupy the website. Though the price tag that comes alongside the pieces are undeniably hefty, they are great conscious investment pieces to add to your collection. Flowy shirts, simple mini skirts and basic vests are all available at Djerf Avenue, all of which are in high demand.
Image Credits: @djerfavenue on Instagram
Clean and tailored, each individual piece can be styled in numerous fashions, ensuring that the designs will never go out of style. Djerf Avenue has achieved a perfect blend of masculine and feminine silhouettes, meshing to create the faultless, proportionally balanced look that Matilda highlights on her personal Instagram time and time again. With each capsule drop, sought-after pieces are rapidly swept up, exemplified by the Breezy collection selling out time and time again.
Set to release on June 2nd, a new Breezy drop is underway, consisting of gorgeous shorts, shirts and pants just in time for the Summer. The price list has been unveiled over on @djerfavenue:
- Breezy Shirt: £99
- Breezy Shorts: £79
- Breezy Pants: £109
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White House to announce widespread relief for former Corinthian Colleges students
The Biden administration is planning to administer widespread relief for former Corinthian Colleges students on Thursday, multiple sources told The Hill exclusively, a move that progressives see as inching towards their goal of broader student loan debt forgiveness.
Vice President Harris will attend an event around the announcement during the afternoon, according to two sources directly familiar with the plans.
The impending action could touch several hundred thousand borrowers that attended the now-defunct for-profit chain and could include as much as $10 billion to $20 billion in collective debt, according to an internal estimate by an independent agency.
Corinthian Colleges shut down in 2015 after it faced multiple investigations and lawsuits for defrauding students out of millions in federally backed loans. Since then, advocates like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have called on the Education Department to provide relief to former students who faced some form of debt collection.
A second source who is aware of the forthcoming action but not authorized to speak on the record said advocates plan to use the declaration to “build momentum” for larger-scale student debt cancellation and to promote the role grassroots politics is playing to generate results during Biden’s first term in office.
“Activism did this,” the second source said.
The White House has indicated that it is nearing a decision on student loan debt forgiveness, zeroing in on canceling $10,000 per borrower, but has not said that a decision is finalized. Several sources told The Hill in late April that Biden was looking to cancel at least $10,000 per borrower, the amount the president had supported canceling in the 2020 campaign although progressives have called for $50,000 per borrower.
“Good move by the White House but need to go broader,” said a third Democratic source in touch with top progressive lawmakers in the Senate and House.
For all the excitement from outside activists, some Democrats were already expressing skepticism privately as the news traveled through progressive circles Wednesday afternoon.
“Corinthian wouldn’t be viewed as a good first step. [It] would be viewed as them doing something that should have happened years ago because they were the victims of fraud,” said a fourth Democrat working on student debt issues.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
National Economic Council Director Brian Deese on Tuesday told reporters Biden “hasn’t made any decision on that policy” when asked about the president’s potential plan to forgive $10,000 in student debt.
Biden in April extended the pandemic moratorium on federal student loans and interest accrual through August. The pause on student loan payments was first enacted in March 2020 under President Trump and has been extended multiple times since.
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Have you always wanted to ride elephants, fly in a winged suit, explore the Himalayas and actually pay for an Amazon Prime subscription anyway? Then we have good news for you: in June 2022, Amazon Prime Gaming will also have Far Cry 4, where all this is possible, even in co-op! In addition, of course, there are other additional games that you do not have to pay for again.
Amazon Prime Gaming: The gaming lineup set for June 2022
This is what it’s about: PS Plus, Xbox Games with Gold, or Amazon Prime Gaming offer you a selection of games every month that you can simply get as part of a subscription without having to pay extra for titles again. This means that you can keep the games once they are secured. The June lineup is now set for Amazon Prime Gaming.
These games will be available on Amazon Prime Gaming in June 2022
All important information about Prime Gaming can also be found here:
Amazon Prime Gaming
Free games, prices and more – all the info at a glance
The ultimate highlight of June: Far Cry 4
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Far Cry 4 – Launch Trailer: Welcome to Kyrat
- Type: First person shooter
This is what it’s about: In fact, in Far Cry 4, we just want to scatter our dead mother’s ashes in her fictional Himalayan habitat, but then get to the silly, charismatic top villain Pagan Min. Why join the fight for freedom and she must take his entire army. That means exploring beautiful open mountains, freeing tons of outposts, climbing radio towers, and generally just having a good time.
You can learn more on our website GamePro review for Far Cry 4:
Far Cry 4 in the test – high altitude
These titles are also included and that’s what it’s all about:
Escape from Monkey Island is the fourth installment in the popular “Point and Click” adventure series. And it fits perfectly with the announcement that the original Pirate game is about to make a comeback. The new game is then called Return to Monkey Island and the story continues after the second part:
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Back to Monkey Island – The cliffhanger issue is finally resolved properly
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The WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship lives up to its name: here you can reenact it in the official title of the 2019 World Rally Championship. It doesn’t get more real and authentic.
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Roland Garros 2022: Rafael Nadal DAZZLES the crowd and Auger-Aliassime!
An epic battle between two players who gave everything on the court to gain access to the quarter-finals of the Roland Garros 2022. Eventually Rafael Nadal managed to prevail after five tough sets to Canadian Felix...
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Owlcat Games has announced Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader – a roleplaying game (RPG) that follows one of the Empire’s spacefaring privateers on a quest to chart a deadly region of the universe.
Revealed during the Warhammer Skulls showcase, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a classic roleplaying game (CRPG) with turn-based combat. Players will be dropped into the shoes of a Rogue Trader, characters in the universe that are tasked with carrying out trade and expanding the borders of the Empire.
The game is being developed by Owlcat Games, creator of Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous. On what fans can expect from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, the studio shared that players will explore the Koronus Expanse – “a dangerous and unexplored region on the far frontiers of the Imperium of Man.”
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader will also include a party-based system, and players will be able to recruit “a mighty Space Marine, a mercurial Aeldari Ranger, or even a courageous Sister of Battle” during their adventures.
Owlcat Games head Oleg Shpilchevsky has shared that his team is “really excited to open a new chapter in Owlcat Games history,” and added that getting to work in the Warhammer 40,000 universe “is a great honour but also a responsibility and challenge for us as a team”. Shpilchevsky went on to explain what the game’s Warhammer 40,000 setting affords players in terms of roleplaying opportunities:
“The grim darkness of the 41st millennium is a harsh place of unbound evil, untold sacrifices and large-scale threats and challenges that perfectly transitions into an exciting roleplaying narrative that allows an exceptional freedom of in-game choice for the player […] We endeavour to bring to the game everything that fans of the cRPG genre love and expect: fateful decisions, non-linear stories, strong and diverse companions [and] complex gaming systems to master.”
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader doesn’t have a release date just yet, but Owlcat Games has shared that fans who buy a Founder’s Pack edition of the game will be given early access to alpha and beta versions ahead of launch.
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(5th LD) Ruling party wins in landslide in local elections
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By Joo Kyung-don and Kim Na-young
SEOUL, June 2 (Yonhap) -- The ruling People Power Party (PPP) clinched a resounding victory in Wednesday's local elections, giving the newly inaugurated government of President Yoon Suk-yeol an added mandate to push forward with its agenda.
The PPP was expected to win at least 12 out of 17 key races for big city mayors and provincial governors, including Seoul, while the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) won only four key races, including three in the stronghold Jeolla provinces.
The biggest battleground was Gyeonggi Province where PPP candidate Kim Eun-hye was leading her DP rival and former finance minister, Kim Dong-yeon, by less than 1 percentage point with about 62 percent of the vote counted as of 2:30 a.m.
Should she win, she will be the first female provincial governor in South Korean history.
In Seoul, current Mayor Oh Se-hoon was reelected, while PPP's Yoo Jeong-bok won the race for Incheon mayor. Should the PPP takes the Gyeonggi governorship, it would be the first time in 16 years for the conservative party to win all three key races in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon.
The PPP also took the governorships of both Chungcheong provinces, both Gyeongsang provinces, Gangwon Province, and the mayorships of the central cities of Sejong and Daejeon, as well as the southeastern cities of Daegu, Ulsan and Busan.
"I think that we have completed the real change of the government by winning the local elections after the presidential election victory," said PPP floor leader Kweon Seong-dong. "We will work harder to realize the will of the people with a humble attitude."
PPP Chairman Lee Jun-seok also expressed thanks to the people.
"We are deeply grateful for all the support the people have given us," Lee said. "More than anything else, we are grateful that we were given a chance to take over a considerable part of regional administration following the presidential election victory."
The DP won only four races -- the mayorship of Gwangju and the governorships of both Jeolla provinces and Jeju.
"I think we received our second punishment after the presidential election," said DP interim chief Park Ji-hyun. "The results were worse than we thought."
The elections took place less than a month after President Yoon Suk-yeol took office. The results, when finalized, are expected to significantly strengthen the mandate of the new government as it pushes its agenda in its first year.
Up for grabs in this year's local elections were positions for 17 metropolitan mayors and provincial governorships, 226 lower-level administrative leadership positions, as well as 872 seats in provincial and metropolitan councils, with 2,988 being in lower-level local councils.
Also at stake were seven National Assembly seats in parliamentary by-elections.
The DP's former presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung was elected to the National Assembly representing Incheon's Gyeyang-B district. Lee was also the chief of the DP's campaign for local elections.
Despite his own victory, Lee was far from celebratory.
"I will humbly accept the stern rebuke the people have given us," Lee said of the party's defeat during a TV interview at his election office. "I will do my best to regain people's confidence and receive love from people again."
In another by-election, Ahn Cheol-soo of the PPP, who withdrew from the presidential race to endorse Yoon, secured the seat representing the Bundang-A district of Seongnam, just south of Seoul, after beating Kim Byoung-gwan of the DP.
The results show that the PPP succeeded in riding the momentum from March's presidential election victory.
Yoon's successful summit with U.S. President Joe Biden and firm response to recent North Korean provocations are believed to have helped the PPP make its case with voters, especially those seeking the more stabilized operations of the Yoon administration.
The PPP's victory will also help the Yoon administration's agenda, though the DP still holds a majority in the National Assembly.
For the DP, the results dealt a big blow to recover from their presidential election defeat and expand its power across the nation to keep the Yoon government in check.
The defeat comes after the DP reeled from a recent internal feud, which was sparked by the DP co-interim chief Park Ji-hyun's call for a sweeping reform of the party, and a sexual misconduct case involving one of its lawmakers.
In the run-up to Wednesday's elections, the PPP and the DP have been wrangling over various issues, from an extra budget bill to support pandemic-hit small merchants to a proposal for merging Seoul's Gimpo International Airport with Incheon International Airport.
Voting took place from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 14,465 polling centers nationwide, all eligible voters except for COVID-19 patients and those in self-isolation were able to cast their ballots from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Vote counting began around 8:40 p.m. at 255 ballot counting stations.
Tentative turnout for this year's local elections was tallied at 50.9 percent, the second-lowest ever for local elections, as 22.5 million of 44.3 million eligible voters cast ballots, according to the National Election Commission (NEC).
Despite registering a record early voting turnout of 20.62 percent, the final turnout came in far lower than the 60.2 percent logged in the 2018 local elections.
kdon@yna.co.kr
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CHICAGO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --, May 31, 2022—The new children's picture book Remember Us with Smiles, written by award-winning author Gary Jansen and his wife, Grace, is gaining early praise from many notable authors from across the spectrum of book publishing.
"Remember Us with Smiles will spark the creativity of children of all ages and help them tell their own stories," says international bestselling author Deepak Chopra. New York Times best-selling author Kimberly Snyder describes Remember Us with Smiles as "a reminder to stay connected to what really matters—each other!" Cocreator of Blue's Clues Angela C. Santomero predicts, "Remember Us with Smiles will no doubt be a beloved book and a phrase that all parents will include in their hopes and dreams!"
Remember Us with Smiles is a tender story of a family remembering together both the fun and the challenging times of growing up. "Our book celebrates the everyday," states Jansen, "and offers the unspoken acknowledgement that life's most precious moments can come in the most ordinary circumstances."
The lively and colorful illustrations by Barbara Bongini show the family together recalling a visit to the park, bedtime stories, and car rides for ice cream. It also recalls how the family handled stormy nights, sicknesses, and scares. "We are inviting parents to imagine how they can help their children and grandchildren see yesterday through the lens of appreciation," Jansen says, "because when a family spends time together, what feels ordinary in the moment often becomes something to celebrate in the future."
Remember Us with Smiles reminds readers to savor even the humblest of moments because they provide the foundations for a lifetime of memories. This is a book for children of all ages. Young children will be introduced to the concept of seeing something extraordinary in the commonplace, while older children will be encouraged to commemorate milestones in their own lives. Families will relate to the power of remembered events that helped them grow, learn, and bond together as a unit. What readers are left with is the reassurance that when they remember everything with a smile, joy forms the bridge connecting then to now, now to the future.
Deepak Chopra, best-selling author of On My Way to a Happy Life: "Storytelling is what distinguishes our species from all others. The earlier our children participate in storytelling, the better will be the future of humanity. Remember Us with Smiles will spark the creativity of children of all ages and help them tell their own stories."
Angela C. Santomero, award-winning author, creator of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and cocreator of Blue's Clues: "Gary and Grace Jansen's warmth and beautiful spirit literally exude from each page. This is the perfect book to curl up to at the end of each day as parents and kids read, snuggle, reminisce, and, best of all, smile."
Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of You Are More than You Think You Are: "Remember Us with Smiles is about the magic of love and family, and it's a reminder to stay connected to what really matters—each other! I can't recommend it more strongly for all families to read together!"
Lisa M. Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com and author of I'm a Saint in the Making: "While we parents work to create lasting memories in our children's lives, it's often the simplest moments of everyday life that make the most lasting impressions. With gentle, engaging prose by Gary and Grace Jansen and delightful illustrations by Barbara Bongini, Remember Us with Smiles will help every family create and treasure their own magical moments. Destined to touch and impact hearts!"
Gary Jansen is a popular speaker and the author of several books, including the multi-award-winning MicroShifts, Station to Station, Life Everlasting, and the memoir Holy Ghosts. Jansen has appeared on A&E, the Sundance Channel, the Travel Channel, Coast to Coast AM, CNN.com, and NPR. His writing has been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, USA Today, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Angelus, and Religion Dispatches. Jansen worked at Penguin Random House for 25 years, where he was the editor of several New York Times best sellers. He is now the executive editor of acquisitions at Loyola Press.
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Germany asks Turkey to refrain from provoking Greece, Ankara condemns Scholz’s stance
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Turkey to refrain from provoking Greece, a statement which Ankara condemned.
A German government spokesman said on Wednesday: “The chancellor is of the opinion that, given the current situation, it is necessary for all NATO allies to stand together and refrain from provocations among themselves.”
“Invading Greek airspace and flying over Greek islands is not okay, it seems counterproductive and against the spirit of the alliance,” the spokesman added. “We cannot accept the questioning of the sovereignty of member states of the European Union.”
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Last month, Athens and Ankara traded accusations of over airspace violations with fighter jets.
Tensions between neighbours and fellow-NATO members Greece and Turkey increased since 2020 thanks to Ankara’s plans to explore for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkey’s foreign ministry condemned Scholz’s statement and said Ankara will continue to defend its sovereignty against airspace violations by Greece.
“We strongly condemn and reject baseless statements against our country by Germany's chancellor’s office. We expect Germany to invite Greece to act in accordance with international agreements, rather than making biased statements not in line with the spirit of alliance,” the ministry said in a statement.
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Advertising has experienced a revolutionary shift as consumers journey from classic television to connected TV and over-the-top (OTT) outlets. As the future of TV evolves, the traditional one-way interaction that brands had with consumers has moved to a more creative, multi-channel, multi-impression engagement approach.
To help understand viewership trends, and how marketers and advertisers are now able to zero in on their desired target audiences, here are highlights from a Campaign360 panel featuring Mitch Waters, senior vice president, The Trade Desk; Dennis Perez, integrated marketing & commerce lead, Unilever Beauty & Wellbeing Southeast Asia; and Enshe Manto, APAC consumer experience director, Johnson & Johnson, moderated by Campaign Asia-Pacific’s managing director Atifa Silk.
The rise of OTT
In the 1950s, when TVs started to take their place in living rooms across the world, each market had just a handful of channels with similar content. Compare that to the endless stream of content that video streaming provides for consumers, not to mention the improvements in quality. With OTT streaming, the days of traditional scheduled programming with mass commercials have made way for a new era of professionally-produced TV content streamed on demand.
Mitch Waters, senior vice president, The Trade Desk
Younger viewers are driving OTT’s growth, which has accelerated because of the pandemic, says The Trade Desk’s Mitch Waters. One in three viewers in Southeast Asia stream OTT monthly, according to a recent study by The Trade Desk in collaboration with Kantar, while more than 116 million of those viewers embrace ad-funded content.
Says Waters: “44 percent of OTT viewers regionally are Gen Z or Millennials, aged 16-34. What’s more, they’re not just early adopters: these young audiences are more likely to be heavy users, consuming more than four hours of OTT content daily. That makes OTT an ideal channel for brands looking to reach and build relationships with a younger audience across multiple platforms, ranging from mobile phones to Smart TVs.”
Defining moments
As viewers continue to convert to OTT — 50 percent view their favourite shows there while 22 percent of OTT viewers no longer watch traditional TV at all — smart advertisers are allocating more of their budgets and resources towards these platforms, says Johnson & Johnson’s Enshe Manto. “Consumers are in the driver’s seat, watching what they want, when and how they want to watch it,” she says. “Consequently, one of the biggest challenges for brands is to find and reach their target audiences so the messaging has a chance to gain real traction and see real results.”
As Unilever’s Dennis Perez points out, the diverse range of cultures, income levels and languages in the Asia-Pacific region present a big challenge for brands. “In OTT, people are following quality content. The big players, such as Netflix, Disney+ and HBO,” he says, “feature banner content that audiences gravitate towards, though regional content providers offer more personalised niche viewing. Marketers have to understand why consumers use a particular platform, what their interests are and what resonates with them and then take a conceptual approach — we have to move from classic storytelling to data driven contextual story making. When a brand is associated with positive content then the natural desire of consumers is to be associated with the brand.”
Perez cites the example of how Unilever works in the Philippines with video streaming service Viu, which specialises in Korean content. “We used data to target a specific moment in one Korean drama series where the main character is in a position of empowerment. We then layered that moment with a contextual ad, in this case for hair care product Sunsilk. The result was effective because our brand message is organic, not interruptive.”
Swimming upstream
Indeed, the effort marketing puts into building a narrative and where they present it is key to communicating a brand’s values. That said, optimising campaigns toward the most valuable viewers is still challenging in Asia’s fragmented markets. “The large number of traditional and OTT platforms brands can choose from,” says Manto, “makes the process of strategic media buying confusing and complex. The situation will improve and the momentum will increase only when the market begins to consolidate, as it already has in India with the Disney+ acquisition of Hotstar.”
With video streaming titans Disney+ and Netflix embracing a new model of ad-supported lower-price subscription, industry consolidation is not far away. “Given market dynamics and subscriber growth in Asia’s emerging markets,” says Waters, “where cost sensitivity is a factor coupled with a tradition of supplementing free content with ads, this shift is no surprise. It will add scale, unity and the benefits of a more granular version of contextual targeting to the OTT ecosystem.”
For marketers and advertisers, these are exciting times. “The tipping point is not far away, I’d bet that major changes will happen in next 24 months,” says Manto. “As advertisers and marketers, with our ability to see first the coming disruption in the industry, we can utilise it practically and strategically to get a better deal financially, gain untapped new entry and find new consumers.”
In this brave new world, Manto adds, “the best marketers will change their title from ‘brand manager’ to ‘brand creator’ — they’ll stop outsourcing their creativity to agencies and put themselves in the driver’s seat.” | https://www.campaignasia.com/article/full-stream-ahead-how-brands-can-capture-consumer-attention/478216 | 2022-06-01T18:47:59Z | https://www.campaignasia.com/article/full-stream-ahead-how-brands-can-capture-consumer-attention/478216 | true | 1 |
After recording one-sided wins on Monday and Tuesday, the Cleveland Guardians will pursue a three-game sweep of the visiting Kansas City Royals on Wednesday afternoon.
Cleveland took the opener 7-3 behind two homers from Jose Ramirez, then rolled to an 8-3 win on Tuesday with help from Austin Hedges’ three-run homer.
Rookie left-hander Konnor Pilkington (0-0, 3.75 ERA) will start for the Guardians on Wednesday against Kansas City right-hander Brad Keller (1-5, 3.95).
Pilkington has never faced the Royals, while Keller is 2-2 with a 1.71 ERA against Cleveland in eight career starts. Keller is 1-2 with a 1.88 ERA in six career outings at Progressive Field.
The Guardians will look to continue their run of strong starting pitching. In the past 14 games, Cleveland starters have a sterling 2.95 ERA. In that span, the rotation has recorded 12 quality starts.
The latest effective outing came Tuesday from Cal Quantrill, who pitched 6 1/3 innings and allowed six hits, three runs and no walks against Kansas City. The right-hander struck out five.
The Guardians’ bullpen is also hitting its stride, as the relief corps posted a 2.97 ERA in May after logging a 3.48 ERA in April.
The Royals, meanwhile, have lost three in a row and 10 of their past 12 games, leaving them with the worst record in the majors (16-32) at the start of June.
Right-handed reliever Jose Cuas, 27, became the 22nd pitcher to appear in a game for the Royals this season when he tossed a scoreless inning on Tuesday. He retired all three batters he faced, including a strikeout of the first hitter he opposed, Oscar Mercado.
“It was everything you dream about as a kid,” Cuas said. “When I got through the first pitch, I was able to breathe and relax. It was fun.”
Cuas, a former infielder in the Milwaukee Brewers’ organization, was converted to pitcher in 2018. He began last season with the Atlantic League’s Long Island Ducks and ended it with Kansas City’s Triple-A affiliate in Omaha.
The Royals have nine players on the injured list and several others who are day-to-day due to injuries or illness.
The Royals pitched carefully to Ramirez on Tuesday, intentionally walking him in his first two plate appearances before walking him again in the sixth. They were the first intentional walks of the season for Ramirez, the reigning AL Player of the Week. He’s having a superb season and is batting .299 with 13 home runs and a major-league-leading 51 RBIs.
“I get it, man, he’s so good,” Cleveland manager Terry Francona said of the free passes.
Rookie outfielder Oscar Gonzalez has given the Guardians a consistent lift since he was promoted from Triple-A Columbus. He has hit safely in all of his major league games, collecting two hits in four of those contests. His 2-for-5 effort on Tuesday left him with a .429 average (9-for-21).
The right fielder also made a defensive contribution on Tuesday, throwing out Andrew Benintendi at the plate in the third inning to preserve a 3-2 lead.
“If you want to get the pitcher fired up, that’s it,” Quantrill said.
Benintendi, batting .328 on the season, has reached base in 22 consecutive games. He has seven hits in his past four games.
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Dave Chapelle to screen new documentary at Dayton event center
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Dave Chappelle's newest documentary will have a special screening in Dayton this month.The screening of Chappelle’s documentary “Live In Real Life” will be held on June 12 at 7 p.m. at The Schuster Performing Arts Center.The film follows Chappelle during his socially-distanced live comedy shows in his neighbor's cornfield showing what started as one show, which grew into a summer of shows with neighbors, friends and fellow comics. Tickets for this screening go on sale starting Friday, June 3 at 10 a.m.Click here to find tickets. The event does not allow cell phones. Guests will be asked to leave phones in cars or at home. Anyone caught with a cell phone inside the venue will be immediately ejected, the venue states.
DAYTON, Ohio —
Dave Chappelle's newest documentary will have a special screening in Dayton this month.
The screening of Chappelle’s documentary “Live In Real Life” will be held on June 12 at 7 p.m. at The Schuster Performing Arts Center.
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The film follows Chappelle during his socially-distanced live comedy shows in his neighbor's cornfield showing what started as one show, which grew into a summer of shows with neighbors, friends and fellow comics.
Tickets for this screening go on sale starting Friday, June 3 at 10 a.m.
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is pleased to announce that Donald M. Yealy, MD, FACEP, is the new editor in chief for Annals of Emergency Medicine.
In this role, Dr. Yealy will oversee the largest and most frequently cited peer-reviewed journal in emergency medicine. He brings decades of expertise in research and scientific process, editing and communications.
"I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to lead this distinguished publication," said Dr. Yealy. "Trusted medical research is the foundation for innovation that can change the practice of emergency medicine and save lives. I look forward to working with authors, editors, and readers to guide the data and dialogue that will propel emergency medicine forward for years to come."
Dr. Yealy joined the Annals of Emergency Medicine editorial board in 1997 and became deputy editor in 2006. He is a distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and chief medical officer and senior vice president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a prolific scientific author and evaluator of grant and manuscript submissions.
Dr. Yealy's areas of focus have included optimal airway management, predictive risk modeling, and emergency care for patients with critical illness. He has been published more than 400 times, including as lead or senior author on National Institutes of Health (NIH) efforts in acute pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, and sepsis care.
Dr. Yealy assumes his duties following the retirement of Michael L. Callaham, MD, who held the role for 20 years and leaves an indelible impact on the journal and the specialty.
Dr. Callaham began working with the Annals editorial team in 1982. Through his tenure, he conducted and published seminal works on editorial techniques, took on the challenge of modernizing the peer-review process, and moved Annals from paper review methods to an electronic editorial process. Under Dr. Callaham's leadership, Annals became the top journal in emergency medicine.
"Emergency physicians are at the core of solutions to many of the major public health challenges of our time," said Gillian Schmitz, MD, FACEP, president of ACEP. "Dr. Yealy's experience and vision will undoubtedly serve Annals of Emergency Medicine and its readers well as the journal strengthens its position as a leader in groundbreaking research and critical analysis in emergency medicine."
Annals of Emergency Medicine is one of the peer-reviewed scientific journals for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the national medical society representing emergency medicine. Annals of Emergency Medicine is the largest and most frequently cited circulation peer-reviewed journal in emergency medicine and publishes original research, clinical reports, opinion, and educational information related to the practice, teaching, and research of emergency medicine.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Legalized sports betting in Ohio will officially begin Jan. 1, the state Casino Control Commission announced Wednesday.
A bill signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine in December set Jan. 1 as a deadline, but some groups pushed for starting earlier to allow for betting on football during the fall. The commission had previously predicted it would take months to formulate rules and regulations.
The legislation will allow people to place sports bets online, at casinos, racinos and at stand-alone betting kiosks in bars, restaurants and professional sports facilities. People will be able to place wagers on professional sports teams, motor sports, Olympic events, golf and tennis and major college sports such as football and basketball.
Ohio joins more than 30 states that have passed legislation since a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a federal ban on states legalizing sports wagering.
Operators will pay a 10% tax on net revenue to help fund K-12 education and problem gambling programs.
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It’s that time of the year again.
The Clemson Insider was on hand for Day 1 of the Dabo Swinney Camp on Wednesday, June 1. Here are our notes and observations from the morning session of Wednesday’s Swinney Camp:
— The group of quarterbacks that headlined Wednesday’s morning session was unparalleled. Providence Day (Charlotte, N.C) five-star Jadyn Davis was obviously the main attraction, but other top quarterbacks impressed as well. In addition to Davis, Calvary Day School (Savannah, Ga.) four-star Jake Merklinger, Columbus (Miami, Fla.) four-star Adrian Posse and Bellvue (Neb.) West three-star Daniel Kaelin were among the other top prospects in attendance.
— Other quarterbacks to make note of were two prospects in the class of 2025: Collins Hill’s (Suwanee, Ga.) TJ Wilcox and Houston County’s (Warner Robbins, Ga.) Antwann Hill.
— It should be noted that Davis doesn’t need to be out there. He’s the nation’s No. 1-ranked prospect and quarterback and Clemson has seen him throw in person countless times. It’s clear that he wants that offer and speaks to his character. There’s mutual interest there and Clemson could certainly still offer Davis, even after offering Willis (Texas) five-star DJ Lagway on Tuesday.
— The wide receivers were also an impressive group, highlighted by Powell (Tenn.) 2023 three-star Ayden Greene, Daniel (Central, S.C.) 2023 Jaylen Brown-Wallace, Providence Day (Charlotte, N.C.) 2024 four-star Channing Goodwin and Grimsley (N.C.) four-star Alex Taylor.
— Some tight ends that we’ve written about in the past definitely stood out. Marian Central Catholic (Woodstock, Ill.) 2024 four-star tight end Christian Bentancur and Benedictine (Richmond, Va.) 2024 three-star Luca Puccinelli are even bigger in person.
— There was one 2024 running back that we wanted to make note of in Stockbridge’s (Ga.) Jayden Scott. The fast-rising back was receiving a lot of attention from Clemson running backs coach CJ Spiller, as he worked out with the top group.
— There was definitely one offensive lineman that stood out among the rest in St. Edward’s (Lakewood, Ohio) 2024 four-star offensive tackle Ben Roebuck. The 6-foot-7, 230-pound lineman currently ranks as the No. 5 offensive tackle in the nation for the class of 2024, according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings.
— We also caught Alpharetta (Ga.) 2023 offensive tackle Obadiah Obasuyi walking in. He certainly looks the part, standing at 6-foot-7, 275 pounds. Obasuyi currently holds offers from schools like East Carolina, N.C. State and Georgia Tech.
— An athlete that made the trip was Christ School (Arden, N.C.) 2023 four-star Zack Myers. He worked out during the morning session but was a spectator for the afternoon workout.
— We learned this afternoon that Clemson told Buford (Ga.) 2024 five-star athlete KJ Bolden, not to work out. We didn’t notice Bolden out there and he informed us that he wouldn’t be participating in today’s camp. Rather, he has a meeting scheduled with Clemson coach Dabo Swinney later, which could culminate in some good news coming Bolden’s way.
— It should be noted that Bolden, the nation’s top-ranked athlete in the class of 2024, being on campus Wednesday is a big deal. Bolden has several suitors who would’ve loved to get him on campus, but the fact he chose Clemson certainly speaks to how he feels about the program and his chances of earning an offer. | https://theclemsoninsider.com/2022/06/01/swinney-camp-notebook-day-1-morning-session/ | 2022-06-01T18:54:40Z | https://theclemsoninsider.com/2022/06/01/swinney-camp-notebook-day-1-morning-session/ | true | 1 |
A jury has reached a verdict in Johnny Depp's libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who testified that Depp physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions.
The jury also has reached a verdict regarding a $100 million counterclaim Heard filed against Depp. Heard said she was defamed when Depp's lawyer called her abuse allegations a hoax.
The verdicts are expected to be read inside the Virginia court at 3pm Wednesday (7am NZT). The seven-person civil jury had to come to a unanimous decision to reach each verdict. They deliberated for about 12 hours over three days.
Depp is suing his ex-wife for US$50 million, accusing her of libeling him with a 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse". Heard filed a US$100 million counterclaim against the Pirates of the Caribbean star after his lawyer called her allegations a hoax. Each accuses the other of destroying their career.
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Advertise with NZME.Testimony during the six-week trial has included lurid details of their short and volatile marriage.
Heard testified that Depp physically or sexually assaulted her more than a dozen times.
Depp said he never struck Heard, that she concocted the abuse allegations, and that she was the one who physically attacked him, multiple times.
Jurors must decide both claims based on whether or not the statements were made with "actual malice", meaning they knew what they were saying was false, or were acting with a reckless disregard for the truth.
During closing arguments, both sides told the jury that a verdict in their favour would give their clients their lives back.
Depp hasn't been waiting in Virginia for the decision. He's spent the past few days on stage, singing and playing guitar with Jeff Beck in the United Kingdom. - AP | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/live-verdicts-reached-in-johnny-depp-amber-heard-libel-trial/DMDMVJZIDURIDPKWP3SWPFULMM/ | 2022-06-01T18:59:24Z | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/live-verdicts-reached-in-johnny-depp-amber-heard-libel-trial/DMDMVJZIDURIDPKWP3SWPFULMM/ | true | 66 |
Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana, whose film Anek is in theatres, recently opened up about his wife Tahira Kashyap’s book The 7 Sins of Being a Mother where she has written about her and Ayushmann’s s*x life.
As per a media report, the actor revealed that he hasn’t read the book and is unaware of certain details as he is a very private person and likes to keep such things to himself.
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Ayushmann Khurrana told the media that to a reader, the book might come across as entertaining, but on a personal level, he is quite shy of talking about it or skimming through its pages as he is a very private person.
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The ‘Andhadhun’ star also revealed that Tahira Kashyap is very different from him as he doesn’t like talking about his private life, but that’s how the two are different from each other. “It could be entertaining for some people, but I don’t read it”, Ayushmann Khurrana said.
When Ayushmann was asked if he felt cringed about the public disclosure his wife had made in the book, the actor stated that he doesn’t know. He further added that Tahira will do whatever she wants, however, he is not that person.
Ayushmann and Tahira are childhood sweethearts as the two have been together since their school days. They tied the knot in 2008 and have two kids together – 10-year-old son Virajveer and 8-year-old daughter Varushka.
On the work front, after Anubhav Sinha’s latest Anek, Ayushmann Khurrana will be next seen in ‘An Action Hero’ directed by Anirudh Iyer. The film will mark Ayushmann’s entry into the action genre.
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The month-long event celebrates the most influential women and moments in sports over the fifty years of Title IX
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Paley Center for Media today launched ESPN Fifty/50: Honoring the Stories of Title IX, an exploration of the rise of women in sports coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX, the law that leveled the playing field for women in sports and paved the way for a new generation of female sports leaders. ESPN Fifty/50 runs through July 10, 2022.
Featuring unforgettable moments of struggle and triumph, ESPN Fifty/50 features iconic athletic attire, photography, and video from women's sports over the last fifty years, including from tennis great Serena Williams, pioneering professional race car driver Danica Patrick, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, track star Wyomia Tyus, the trailblazing 1976 Yale women's crew team, the champion U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, the women of the WNBA, and many other women's sports stars. ESPN Fifty/50 includes examples of the actual outfits these athletes wore and the gear they used, including Serena Williams's 2018 US Open "Tutu," pioneering racecar driver Danica Patrick's fire suit, and a racket used in competition by tennis and equality icon Billie Jean King.
"We are proud to present these impactful and inspirational stories of challenge and triumph in partnership with ESPN here at The Paley Center," says The Paley Center president and CEO Maureen Reidy. "Thanks, in great measure to Title IX, women are now headliners throughout sports media and in sporting venues worldwide, avidly followed by legions of fans. We are thrilled to join with ESPN in presenting this most important exhibit."
Laura Gentile, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Disney Networks & ESPN said, "Our team has assembled an exceptional collection of artifacts, memorabilia, photography, and footage to help tell the story of the transformational impact of Title IX. The Paley Center for Media, in the heart of NYC, is the perfect venue for an exhibit celebrating the fight for equality."
ESPN has created an immersive experience that brings to life the stories of the female athletes who served as vital agents of change in the fight for equality over the last fifty years and continue to lead the way towards full equality for women in all fields.
ESPN Fifty/50 opens with a June 1 private red-carpet event featuring the world premiere of ESPN's four-part docuseries "37 Words" from acclaimed directors Dawn Porter and Nicole Newnham, which tells the inspiring story of Title IX the hard-fought battle to push for equal rights in education and athletics; the decades-spanning effort to nullify its impact; and the rippling impacts of the landmark civil rights law that continue to resonate today.
On Friday, June 24 at 5:00 pm, The Paley Center will host a recording of the ESPN podcast "Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy" in front of a live audience, on the impact of Title IX with host and soccer legend Julie Foudy in conversation with two former Women's Sports Foundation presidents, Angela Ruggiero and Phaidra Knight. Ruggiero is an Olympic ice hockey gold medalist and Knight is a Hall of Fame rugby player and current MMA fighter.
During ESPN Fifty/50, there will be daily screenings of Paley Archive content connected to key moments in women's sports.
The Paley Center invites its Members to the ESPN Fifty/50 opening cocktail reception on Thursday, June 2 at 6:00 pm.
ESPN Fifty/50: Honoring the Stories of Title IX runs from June 1 to July 10, 2022.
The Paley Center for Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms. Drawing upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the leaders of the media community, the Paley Center examines the intersections between media and society.
The Paley Center's premier programming can be viewed on the Paley Center's YouTube channel and the Paley Center's Facebook page. The public can access the Paley Center's permanent media collection, which contains over 160,000 television and radio programs and advertisements and participate in programs that explore and celebrate the creativity, the innovations, the personalities, and the leaders who are shaping media.
Through the global programs of its Media Council and International Council, the Paley Center also serves as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Previously known as The Museum of Television & Radio, the Paley Center was founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, a pioneering innovator in the industry.
For more information about the Paley Center and to learn about the Paley Center's acclaimed programming, please visit www.paleycenter.org.
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Filmmaker Aditya Chopra has invested two years on VFX to make the Akshay Kumar starrer Samrat Prithviraj into a visual extravaganza.
Akshay says, “Retelling the legend of Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan on the big screen is a huge task for any producer, director or actor like me.”
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“From the word go, we were sure that we will tell his life story in its full glory because we were honouring the courage and sacrifice of the mighty king who stood up against the merciless invader Mohammad of Ghor to protect our country,” Akshay Kumar continued.
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Akshay Kumar adds, “Elaborate war sequences were designed keeping in mind that audiences should have the biggest and the best theatrical experience when they step in to watch the life of Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan unfold before their eyes.
“Expansive sets were created and we shot in majestic locations to add as much visual appeal as possible. We want this film to be the grandest tribute to the fearless king.”
Akshay shared that the VFX adds magic to the movie-watching experience and that the makers knew they could scale up the film.
“The pandemic resulted in this team getting about 2 years to work on the footage. So, you can only imagine the scale that has been achieved through VFX. I can’t wait for people to see the film because it is truly a visual extravaganza for audiences to be thoroughly entertained!”
Samrat Prithviraj has been directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi. The film is set to release on June 3 in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure that pushes app-based companies like food delivery services to improve wages and other working conditions for gig workers.
Among other things, the legislation that was approved by a 9-0 vote would ensure app-based workers are paid minimum wage plus expenses and tips.
The rates for workers at companies such as DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub would begin when drivers accept an order, in an effort to help the drivers — who are contract workers, not employees — earn the city’s $17.27 minimum hourly wage and receive the standard mileage reimbursement set by the Internal Revenue Service.
In a statement, DoorDash criticized the council’s plans, and said the proposals would lead to higher costs for customers and reduced earnings for workers.
Councilperson Andrew Lewis, a sponsor of the legislation, said large segments of the economy are being automated with lower pay and poor benefits.
“This bill is the first step to protect and expand the rights of workers who use these apps,” Lewis said.
Future legislation being considered by the City Council would aim to regulate a series of transparency and equity issues, including the right to access restrooms, discrimination protections and protections from unfair deactivation from apps that can result in wage loss. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/seattle-passes-measures-to-address-gig-worker-pay-rights/ | 2022-06-01T19:05:40Z | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/seattle-passes-measures-to-address-gig-worker-pay-rights/ | false | 32 |
Another school shooting. Another incomprehensible loss of life. Another round of misguided “solutions.”
I don’t know where to begin, but it’s not for lack of words. Quite the opposite. There are so many aspects to mass killings which need to be addressed — but aren’t — that it could fill volumes. So that’s exactly what this column will do in an ongoing series, as we delve into areas where many aren’t willing to tread.
Let’s begin.
- In the aftermath of a mass shooting, the timeline is set in stone. Right on cue, we first hear about candlelight vigils, protests, demands for “change,” and thoughts and prayers. Next, the hardcore anti-gun crowd takes to social media to excoriate any Republican who dares offer condolences, blaming them for the killings. Soon after, the victims and their families are relegated to the back burner as the tragedy becomes ultra-politicized. Despite reports of “new bipartisan efforts” to enact meaningful reforms, such an outcome seems unlikely. Finally, the country moves on, saddened (but increasingly desensitized) at yet another senseless massacre. And then the wait is on, as the nation subconsciously prepares for the next inevitable shooting — and the cycle repeats itself.
First, those slamming “thoughts and prayers” as superficial are totally misguided. Keeping victims and the tragedy in our thoughts is the best way to chip away at why these killings are occurring, and what, if anything, can be done to help prevent them. Second, prayers are, above all, what this nation needs. America’s surge in violence and disrespect, combined with ever-waning empathy, corresponds to our drive toward secularism. These massacres almost never occurred when civility, packed churches and the lack of political correctness were the norms, yet are now commonplace as those values have all but disappeared. Coincidence? Not a chance.
But remember something about prayer. As the saying goes, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” We can pray all day, but God isn’t going to magically solve this problem. That’s up to us, as rational human beings with the unique ability to think and reason. If we choose to ignore those gifts by taking the easy road, then, without a doubt, nothing will change. But one thing is certain: Blaming anyone but the shooter is, as this column has repeatedly stated, giving the perpetrator a free pass. Yet that’s exactly what some have (again) done. Calling Republicans “pro-murder” and accusing Second Amendment advocates, firearms manufacturers, elected officials and gun-rights groups of “pulling the trigger” is disgusting. They didn’t commit the unspeakable crimes. They didn’t extinguish innocent life. And they didn’t enable the shooters. All culpability lies with the person who decided to become a mass murderer. To state otherwise is a calculated red herring that deflects from asking the tough questions and looking in the mirror. To those folks: Put up genuine solutions, or keep quiet. Constructive dialogue has no place for those absolving shooters of total responsibility.
2) How sad that we pick and choose what mass shootings deserve our focus. In Philadelphia alone, there were 14 murders over Memorial Day weekend, with at least 40 shot. (And multiple teens have been shot over the last week). In Chicago, 10 were killed and 52 shot. Ditto for other cities. And no, not all of the victims were “just criminals and drug dealers killing each other.” Some were attending a funeral, and others were mere children. Unsurprisingly, many guns in such crimes are illegally obtained.
Every life lost is one too many. But in a purely quantitative sense, why are we not talking about the thousands killed each year in America’s cities, and instead giving the majority of attention to the relatively few random mass shootings — horrendous and gut-wrenching as they are? The focus should be equally on both, because many of the reasons for such violence are the same.
3) The ongoing series will tackle guns specifically, but in brief, the call to ban any class of guns is naïve. No matter how you slice it, such a ban wouldn’t make a bit of difference, and the numbers back that up. Several points:
- The clarion call is to “ban assault weapons.” Pay no attention to the fact that it is literally a made-up term, with some pols seeking to ban guns based on how they look. That bears repeating. Some actually believe that if certain weapons are banned based on aesthetics, then all will be well and mass shootings will stop. That misguided mindset, especially from those charged with making our laws, is mindboggling.
- Ask many of those protesting America’s gun laws what should be done, and they have absolutely no answer outside of tired cliches such as “ban assault weapons.” Why do that, this author has asked. “Because they kill people.” Well, then what about handguns? Don’t they also “kill people” — especially given the indisputable fact that handguns are used in the majority of mass shootings? So should we ban those, too? At that point, you are left with either a deer-in-the-headlights stare, or the blanket “ban everything, only police should have guns” nonsense. End of rational discussion.
And for obvious reasons, the gun-ban crowd is also incapable of addressing the elephant in the room — that an assault weapon ban was in place when the first “big one” occurred: Columbine.
Here are the numbers: There are at least 20 million AR-15 style rifles in America. Take 1000th of 1 percent, and you still wouldn’t get down to the annual number of mass shootings by such a rifle. So in other words, we should penalize 19,999,995 law abiding citizens — peaceful people who have passed criminal background checks — by banning/confiscating their firearms because fewer than five people use the same type of rifle in a nefarious mass shooting? Of course, forgotten in the conversation is that the Sandy Hook killer didn’t even own an AR-15, but murdered his mother and stole her gun to commit his massacre. On top of that, there are nearly 500 million firearms in America, almost all of which are used legally. Do we ban them, too, so that only the criminals have guns?
Under that rationale, should we ban sports cars that “have a certain look” and can exceed 100 mph, since excessive speed can kill? Better yet, let’s ban trucks, since they’ve been used so effectively in mass murder that truck massacres are actually in al-Qaeda’s playbook, referred to as “The Ultimate Mowing Machine.”
Several years, back, this author stood in the exact spot in Jerusalem where, just a short time later, four Israeli soldiers were run over and killed by a terrorist. What of the attack in Manhattan (2017) where a terrorist killed eight by mowing them down in his pickup? The truck attacks in London (multiple), Berlin, Barcelona, and Edmonton? And the vehicle attacks at the University of North Carolina (2006) and Ohio State (2016)? Worst was the 86 people killed and a staggering 485 injured when a terrorist plowed a truck through a crowd in Nice, France.
And lest we forget, the worst attacks on America were executed without firing a single bullet: 9/11, Oklahoma City, the Madison bombing, etc. The bottom line, hard as it is to grasp, is that when someone turns to the dark side, content to never see another sunrise by committing himself to mass murder, he is, save for fortuitous advance intelligence and luck, virtually impossible to stop. The key is identifying these people before their killing spree. But one thing is certain: bans won’t stop people who have gone over the edge, since people determined to kill are not deterred by rules.
It’s important not to pass laws based on emotion, since legislating in haste virtually never addresses the root cause of the problem. Banning firearms is no different. Guns haven’t changed. People and our culture have.
4) The lack of a quicker police response remains a burning question. It is unimaginable to lose a child, spouse or parent in a shooting, but living with the thought that they may have survived had police acted differently is, without a doubt, a nightmare from which there is no awakening. And that is something laws and bans cannot fix.
God bless the victims and their families.
Chris Freind is an independent columnist and commentator whose column appears every Wednesday. He can be reached at CF@FFZMedia.com Follow him on Twitter @chrisfreind. | https://www.timesherald.com/2022/05/31/chris-freind-stop-mass-shootings-gun-bans-arent-the-answer/ | 2022-06-01T19:09:27Z | https://www.timesherald.com/2022/05/31/chris-freind-stop-mass-shootings-gun-bans-arent-the-answer/ | false | 6 |
After Nikhat Zareen won a historic boxing world championship gold in Istanbul last month, one of her first reactions to the media was, “Am I trending on Twitter?” A journalist, part of a group on a Zoom call with the excited boxer, hastily replied, “Yes, you are.” Actually, Nikhat wasn’t trending either on social media or Google at all.
Interestingly, the same time Nikhat was punching her way to a rare gold medal for India in women’s boxing, Gujarat Titans were batting against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. Close to four million people were watching the live streaming of the IPL 2022 league match. Nikhat’s bout was not available on TV or streaming in India. Die-hard boxing fans could see the fight only on YouTube.
This stark contrast in public awareness of a gold-winning feat by Nikhat Zareen versus viewership of a regular IPL match is a clear reflection of what an average Indian sports fan loves. The buck starts and stops with cricket and in a materialistic world, IPL is the cherry on the cake.
Gujarat Titans winning the IPL on debut has surely added competitive edge to the world’s biggest T20 cricket tournament. Gujarat Titans have not only provided Ahmedabad a new identity but it has given their captain Hardik Pandya’s injury-prone career a new lease of life.
IPL 2022 will be a watershed for BCCI. Two new teams – Lucknow Super Giants were the other – making the last-four stage of the 10-team tournament will reinforce the belief that sky is the limit for Brand IPL. It can’t do anything wrong.
Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders, who have 10 IPL titles among them, not making the playoffs is being seen as a positive sign.
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“It is good for the league as it demonstrates how competitive the IPL has become where there are no clear favourites to win the league. The two new teams (GT and LSG) might struggle to get a pan-India fan following but eventually their on-field performances will matter and consistent results might help in enhancing their pan-India appeal,” says Harsh Talikoti, director, D and P Advisory.
“Both teams have a very balanced and young cricketing team which will help engage young fans and build a Next Gen community,” observes Vinit Karnik, head of sports and entertainment, GroupM, South Asia. The success of new teams will also have a positive impact on the up for sale IPL media rights.
With more matches and advertisement slots on offer, the new cycle (2023-2027) of broadcast rights for IPL are expected to cross all records and experts feel the value could touch a staggering 50,000 Crores. BCCI has already earmarked a base price of Rs 32,890 Crores, nearly double of what STAR Sports paid BCCI five years ago.
OVERSEAS INTEREST
“A 10-team IPL has only enhanced the brand value of IPL for the kind of interest it garnered from some of the top corporate and private equity companies from India and around the world,” points out Karnik. During the bidding of the new teams, Manchester United and an NFL team from the United States had reportedly shown interest. Top NFL and NBA stars are already invested in Rajasthan Royals.
Experts believe that logic and mathematics don’t always work when it comes to bidding for IPL rights. While companies do need to look at their balance sheet, Sandeep Goyal, Managing Director of Rediffusion, says: “The wild optimism of BCCI is more tempered, I think. But bidding for the rights is as much bragging as it is business.”
Talikoti says the dip in TV viewership will not impact the rights. “The broadcast rights will be sold as a bundle (TV and digital) and given that numerous parties are already interested, it will clearly surpass its base price,” he says.
“TV is a static if not a negative audience pull medium today. Digital (OTT) is it. I do not believe this (dip in viewership) will affect bidding rates. This is a 35,000-crore property out on bid. I will not be surprised if it attracts a 50,000-bid winner,” predicts Harish Bijoor, a business and brand-strategy expert.
GAME FOR BUSINESS
But there are some apprehensions. Who will shell out big monies to IPL media rights holders, especially TV and OTT?
The doubts stem from the fact that the online gaming industry, the major spenders on Indian cricket, are a worried lot. The government is mulling a 28% GST on the overall revenue a platform gets. Currently, platforms pay 18% of GGR (gross gaming revenue - difference between the amount wagered minus the amount won).
There has been a massive rise in offshore gambling and betting sites openly advertising their wares in Indian media. The government is not amused and keeping a close eye on the activities of these companies. That leaves edu-tech and fin-tech companies to spend big bucks. But here again, the government is not a fan of NFTs or cryptocurrency.
But that’s not a problem, feels Goyal.
“It won’t soften the business of the fantasy leagues but yes it will bring in more monies into government coffers. The fantasy leagues are all half a step short of low value gambling - there is hardly any skill involved. The whole premise is that every year there will be a new sucker who wants to grab instant fame. So, some soonicorn (soon-to-be-unicorn) or unicorn will always be there willing to pay and burn monies,” said Goyal.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In the aftermath of a mass shooting on a New York City subway train, the mayor floated a high-tech idea: deploy scanners that can spot someone carrying a gun into the transit system before they have a chance to use it.
The technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons does exist, and is used now to screen people at places like sports stadiums and theme parks.
But security experts say installing such a system in the city’s sprawling, porous subway system in a way that would make a difference would be difficult, if not impossible.
The problem wouldn’t necessarily be the technology — but rather the reality that scanners need to be accompanied by human operators to confront people carrying firearms illegally.
“Logistically, it would be a nightmare. You’re going to have to tie up a lot of officers doing this,” said James Dooley, a retired New York Police Department captain who served in the department’s transit division. “We have hundreds of stations, and the fact of the matter is that putting someone at every entrance to every station is logistically impossible.”
Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain, has acknowledged the challenges but has said the system might still be worth trying at select locations as a deterrent.
“We want to be able to just pop up at a station someplace so people don’t know it’s there,” the Democrat said, “similar to what we do when we do car checkpoints.”
The push for better subway security got renewed urgency in April after a gunman set off smoke bombs and sprayed a subway compartment with shots, wounding 10 people.
Then, on May 22, another gunman killed a passenger in what authorities said appeared to be a random attack.
A day after that killing, Adams again expressed interest in weapon-screening technology. And soon, mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, intensified the debate over how to address gun violence.
In the New York City subway, the screening wouldn’t resemble airport checkpoints, an untenable solution for a system with 472 stations, all with multiple entrances. Instead, Adams referenced a technology that uses sensors to detect metal but also can determine the shape of an object, such as a gun, while people pass by uninterrupted.
Evolv, a Boston-area company, uses the technology at facilities including pro sports stadiums in Atlanta and Nashville, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta and, in a recent test, at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, though not in any mass transit systems.
The screeners can scan 3,600 people per hour, according to the company. They also can produce false positives from items such as Chromebooks, though.
In an email, Dana Loof, Evolv’s chief marketing officer, said false positives “are an order of magnitude lower” than traditional metal detectors, but acknowledged that transit systems would pose unique challenges.
“Any technology is only one piece of the solution which includes the security professionals, the operational environment, and the protocols they follow,” Loof said.
Similar screening devices made by Thruvision, an England-based company, were part of a pilot program in the Los Angeles mass transit system in 2018 and currently are used when threat levels are elevated, said Los Angeles Metro spokesperson Dave Sotero. The machines project scanning waves at passersby from a distance.
Identifying someone with a weapon is only half the challenge.
“It’s also manpower,” said Donell Harvin, a senior policy researcher at the Rand Corp. and a former security chief for the Washington, D.C., government.
Adams has not publicly discussed how much the machines, and operating them, could cost New York City, but Harvin acknowledged the price could be steep.
“If you have a determined assailant, you’re not going to just have a security guard there; you’ll have to have a police officer,” Harvin said. “It’s tough. You can harden every station, but who’s going to want to pay a $10 fare? Because the cost is going to be passed on to the rider.”
Still, because you can’t put cops on every car and in every station, Harvin said, “you have to invest in some technology.”
“It’s very complex, but people have to get together and talk about this, because what’s being done now isn’t cutting it.”
Violent attacks in New York City’s subway system remain relatively rare compared with crime above ground. And the city overall is one of the nation’s safest large cities.
But the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on people’s sense of safety, as has a string of high-profile crimes, including the fatal push of a woman in front of a train by a man later ruled too mentally ill to stand trial. In response, the MTA said it would test safety barriers at some stations.
The number of transit system crimes reported by the NYPD so far this year has been on par with years before the pandemic, but public perception has been that there is new unruliness underground.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has succeeded in getting 1,000 more police officers assigned to the system, but its chair, Janno Lieber, was candid last week when asked about the current climate.
“This week is a terrible week,” he said, referring to the May 22 shooting. “This week I cannot say to any New York City subway rider, ‘Don’t feel afraid,’ because what happened is a terrifying nightmare.”
Any workable security upgrade would probably have to encompass a combination of measures, experts said.
Dooley envisioned a limited rollout of officers using handheld metal detectors at high-traffic stations but acknowledged that would cover only a fraction of the system’s vast territory and could lead to civil liberties complaints, including the potential for racial profiling.
Police officers already do spot checks of people’s bags at some subway entrances, but those checks are so infrequent that most people ride for years without being subjected to a search.
Dorothy Moses Schulz, a retired police captain on the MTA’s MetroNorth rail system and a professor emerita at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, suggested more police in the subways and a sustained commitment to addressing homelessness could help “send a message that we’re trying to make this an orderly system, which would bring back people.”
“If more people feel the system is working, they will come back, and when more come back, that makes the system safer,” she said.
Lieber said last week that the agency is open to new approaches.
“We are serious about exploring every one of these technologies,” he said. “I think we will get there, but it’s a question of time and technology development.”
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Sam is a rising 3L at the University of Miami School of Law who previously interned with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and clerked with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. He has also worked with the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic. Sam was recently elected as an Articles and Comments Editor for the Inter-American Law Review and his student note was selected for publication in Volume 54 of the Review.
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The Coca-Cola Company (KO) CEO James Quincey Presents at Bernstein 38th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference (Transcript)
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) Bernstein 38th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference June 1, 2022 8:00 AM ET
Company Participants
James Quincey - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Conference Call Participants
Callum Elliott - Bernstein
Callum Elliott
Thank you everybody for joining us. I am delighted to welcome James Quincey, who is the CEO of Coca Cola joining me to kick off the start of our Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference. James, thank you for joining us.
James Quincey
You're welcome.
Callum Elliott
So look, as we discussed earlier this morning, one of the sort of resounding topics, I think, over the last couple of months has been around the health of the economy and the health of the consumer. And the Coca Cola Company is present globally, I think, all bar two countries. So can you give us a lens from your perspective on how the consumer is doing?
James Quincey
Yes, sure. And just to clarify, it's gone from two to three this year. And you can work those three out yourselves. Look the consumer, I think there's a lot of conflicting signals. You can find any scenario you want if you're particularly inclined to think into the future. But the consumer is today in pretty good health. I mean US consumers, European consumers, emerging market consumers, perhaps more the oil driven, oil resource economies rather than the oil consuming emerging markets. I'm leaving aside the lockdowns in China, which are obviously very specific to those cases. And you talk to colleagues in the financial sector, and they will tell you bank balances are ahead of where they were pre-COVID. Money going into the accounts is ahead of what it appears to be in wage inflation in the government numbers.
So on one hand, the consumer has money and they're getting more money. But when you look at what's happening in spending, while the consumables sectors seem to still be fine, you can look at the Nielsen numbers for any given market. There are -- there is noise around some of the more durable one-off discretionary large ticket items, depending on where you are in the world. And as interest rates change, you start to see some pressure coming through. So if you take a picture of the movie today, generally speaking, the consumer is in good shape. I think the question for everyone as we've discussed on previous earnings calls is, where is this all going? Because clearly there's a lot of inflation in the marketplace, there's a lot more money in consumers hands, there's a lot of supply chain issues, interest rates are a question mark and somehow this needs to shake itself out into a more stable scenario.
And I think there are probably more opinions about how that's going to happen, when and what the result will be, then there are people in this room. And that's the great unknown in the downhill. How will the net of the headwinds and tailwinds look by the time we get to the end of the year.
Question-and-Answer Session
Q - Callum Elliott
Okay. So let's move on to focusing on the things that we do know about. Since you took over as CEO, there has been a shift in the way Coca Cola operates and does business. Can you walk us through what's actually changed and bring it to life for us some of these changes?
James Quincey
That's going to be a long answer then, you're going to have to stop me when you don't like to -- how long it's going to take. A few things. Firstly, on the business strategy and the focus. We got very clear that we're in the beverage business, the total beverage business. So the idea of beverages for life, we know that consumers in the leading markets, whether it's New York or London, Shanghai, they're consuming more commercial beverages, yhey're spending more money on those commercial beverages, but they want more choice. So a well-designed portfolio is critical for long term growth. We also made clear over the last five -- and we implemented it over the last number of years that we're going to be a franchise business, we're going to be a brand and innovation and strategic leadership business and we're not going to be in the bottling business. Our aspiration was to be the world's smallest bottler. We're almost there, not quite, but we're getting close. So very, very focused on -- stick to what we're good at and not try and be in areas where we're not the best operators of the assets.
And then we had to obviously reform the bottling system, get the right partners. They've increased tremendously in capability over the number of years. So they are now great partners investing in the marketplace, commercial execution, RGM, the supply chain, thank goodness for the last few years. So there's a lot of effort in reforming system. And then underpinning all of that with organizational and cultural evolution, because in the end you can write as many power points as you like on what the strategy is and give great speeches and blah, blah, blah, but the organization needs to execute it. And just having an organization with boxes isn't the only answer. It's a necessary feature, but actually it's the culture that matters. And so driving the culture from being more -- which is very typical of large organizations becomes very inward looking, the bigger you get to push constantly to look out, to look at the consumer, put the consumer at the center of things. We're a brand business that needs to connect with the consumers and have a growth mindset and just drive four things very simply. Be curious about what's going on, don't think we always know the answer to be curious, be empowered. Curious is an intellectual observation, empowerment is doing something about it. Be inclusive, we have lots of people with lots of great ideas and we may well have tried that or something similar before and be quick. Don't wait for the perfect. And there's a -- we can unpack each one ultimately.
And what does that has allowed us to do? If you go back five, ten years, our revenue was growing at 3% a year and our dollar EPS was stuck at $2 or less for a very prolonged period of time and we can argue about the foreign exchange and also some other things. But in the end, the revenue was growing 3% and the EPS was stuck flat at about $2. And since then, we have elevated the revenue growth rate up to like 5% to 6% once you look through COVID and it was pre COVID, it was that bad. And obviously, we're growing faster than that now, but let's just say we're in the 5% to 6% range and the dollar EPS is starting to tick up nicely and we've cleaned up the balance sheet. So we've sorted out the house. We've got the right strategy. We've got the right organization. We're focused on driving a culture that provides a top line led growth agenda for the value of the investors in Coke.
Callum Elliott
Changing culture is notoriously difficult to do. How do you think it's going? Are we still scratching the surface or –
James Quincey
No. Scratching the surface would be dispiriting to think it was only that. I think we're making good progress. You're never going to get me to say we're 95% of the way there. That's like a philosophical, it can't be true. So -- but we're making good progress. Culture change, as you rightly point out, is very hard. And the simple example I use is, for every time you reinforce the culture you want, let's say that scores one point, every time you do something that's consistent with the old culture or the opposite of what you're saying, that's minus ten. Because there's -- we humans are very loss averse. And if you do something -- if you're going to get shot at that or tolled off or you chuck someone out of the room because they did something stupid, people are going to pay tremendous amount of attention to that and they're going to want to avoid that. So when you're in a process of culture change, the need for consistency and coherence is tremendously heightened because every time you don't comply with what you're saying, you go back ten steps. And every time you do, you only go forward one. So you really have to be tremendously consistent, which is why, of course, culture change takes a long time, because it only takes a few hours for people go, this won't last, they'll give up soon. And so, we have to keep at it forever, but for a very long time to drive it through. So I think we've made good progress. I think it is -- the changes we've made in the culture and in the organization have helped us emerge stronger from COVID, have helped us get back on the track of growth. I don't think I've ever met a CEO who says they're satisfied. So that's by definition will never arrive, but I think we're making great progress.
Callum Elliott
Okay. One of the other things that has changed, but maybe over a slightly longer period of timing, including, I think your time as COO, is the introduction of incidence based pricing and how that has changed the relationships with the bottling network. Can you talk a bit about how that impacts the system holistically and especially in today's inflationary environment?
James Quincey
Sure. Well, let me define what we mean by incident pricing. So the idea of incident pricing is rather than saying, I'm going to sell you a big tank of Coke concentrate for a certain fixed amount of dollars and you make it into lots of different bottles. I'll say, look, the price of this tank of Coke concentrate will be a percentage or whatever you sell all the bottles and cans for. And actually that was a system that was first implemented in Latin America many years ago, precisely because of the high inflation in Latin America, because if you're selling something in a fixed price and there's lots of inflation, all of a sudden the prices in the marketplace have shot up and you're not charging nearly enough for the concentrate. So the easiest way in the old days to actually keep pace towards what was happening in the marketplace and say rather than the company trying to fix the price, we'll just take a percentage of what the bottle does and the bottler will do what's needed in the marketplace. That was why it appeared.
It has a number of additional benefits. And the principal one, which is why we implemented it in places like the US which were not characterized by high inflation, because why would you do it? And the reason is, you also get a greater alignment of incentives. Because in the US marketplace it used to be the case we would charge X dollars per gallon of concentrate. Now if the bottler then put that concentrate in a large two liter bottle, or in a 600ml bottle, the amount of value to the bottler of 600ml is many times two liter. So what would happen in a year is the company people, their incentive would be to sell more two liter bottles because it sells more concentrate, and the bottlers incentive would be to sell more 600ml bottles, because it has a higher price and uses less concentrate. So basically you set up a system that during the course of the year you've got two organizations trying to go in different directions, which is self-evidently counterproductive or introduces a degree of friction into the conversation. Whereas in incidents, while our economics are not the same we are philosophically aligned. In other words, under incidence pricing, if I'm taking X percent of the bottlers price, we both make less on the two liter bottle and we both make more on the 600ml bottle. Therefore, the organizations have a directional alignment incentives as to what to try and sell. And so that's why we rolled out incidents pricing around the world, because we found actually over and above the inflationary benefits from [North America] (ph) it was the alignment of the organizations on focusing on the marketplace that became the most important benefit.
Why in the clock forward, today while now we've got the situation where we've got higher inflation. So actually, it's a model perfectly designed for the current environment of following the inflation and keeping the two organizations aligned as we go through all the twists and turns of inflation and supply chain challenges etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, the incident system keeps the organizations focused on the same ideas and the same definition of winning and that helps drive us forward. So I think we're in a great position with our bottlers around the world to use the [indiscernible] pricing methodology to address what needs to be addressed in each local marketplace.
Callum Elliott
Okay. One of the other things that's changed and you touched on, this is around your marketing and brand building. You simplified the marketing structure. I think is the way you describe it. And I think you described what are benefits of that as being reducing the time from idea to execution. Presumably that drive some element of cost saving. But I guess what I'm more interested in is, are there benefits in terms of the efficacy of the marketing itself in terms of how it connects with the consumer and helps you build the brands?
James Quincey
Yes. All the changes we’ve made in marketing, and my go to strategy is always simplification, so that's not surprising. But the benefits, yes, there is an efficiency play. We've greatly consolidated the amount of agencies, we made a much simpler structure and there are efficiencies inherent in the strategy, but that's not the overall objective. Again, going back to the original story, Coke is a great stock if we can drive top line revenue growth, because that then flows down into profit growth. So we can't cut costs to get our way out of a crisis over any substantive period of time. We have to grow our way into the future. And so, the marketing changes are about improving the effectiveness of the marketing going forward. And as we're starting to see the model being applied, whether at a big scale with the real magic campaign on Coke or the Chinese New Year program, like as we've started to have campaigns come through the model, they are getting much greater resonance with consumers all the way down to some of the smaller example, we launched a couple of -- we called them Coke Creations, a couple of strange flavors. So rather than it being your vanilla or your cherry or your lime or whatever, we launched a Coke Starlight taste of space and a Coke Byte, BYTE, pixelated Coke and with actually relatively little marketing, but done through social and through digital. And we've got a tremendous engagement with consumers. In fact, the Coke Byte was designed and launched in the Metaverse. And so it's really moving to where the consumers are engaging and it had tremendous track. And if you look at the kind of the engagement on Coke Starlight, it's like way above some of the more pedestrian flavors. And so the model has helped us both do the big things and get more bang for the buck and more contact with the consumers, but also shift the type of marketing to the things that generate more organic engagement with the consumer.
Callum Elliott
I think Coke Byte, you're engaged with Fortnite and I live in London and you've recently just launched your -- like a pop up store, like a clothing accessories that kind of thing in London. Are you finding it's connecting with the sort of the younger consumer better, some of these initiatives?
James Quincey
Absolutely. I mean, the pop up store [indiscernible] can tell you much more about the pop up. So I mean, but it's not merchandise or licensed product in the old idea where it's kind of relatively low cost baseball cap or whatever. These are designer items with top designers, one sweatshirts with the Japanese designer. So it really is about the collectability and the niche value of the thing. So whether it's the Coke Starlight or the Coke Byte or some of these merchandise items in the London store, there is a high degree of engagement with kind of collectability and limited editions. And that's kind of where the consumer has moved to in terms of some of this engagement. Is it going to be a permanent store? No. Are those lines going to disappear in the next few weeks or months? Definitely. But I think it's interesting that the way the consumer has moved and wants to engage with these kind of much more pop up type ideas and that is not -- it's not about selling the hoodie in the London store, that's not going to do anything for the numbers in of itself of the Coke Company nor is Coke Starlight or Coke Byte. But it's the reengagement with the consumers, with the brand and bringing them back to the big franchise that is the value of the initiatives. And if that's what they want to engage with to come back to the big franchise, then that's what we'll be doing more of.
Callum Elliott
I would tell you the research will show us that consumers are going to be really disappointed when Starlight or we call it [indiscernible] in the UK. When it disappears, the consumers are going to be disappointed.
James Quincey
Yeah. So I'll get some worry emails.
Callum Elliott
So maybe we can shift gears a little bit and you mentioned upfront total beverages and how that has become part of the strategy. Can you talk a little bit about how flavored alcoholic beverages fits within that? And specifically, I'd prefer to focus on the outside the US efforts on [FABs] (ph) where you're doing the bottling yourselves amongst the bottling network rather than partnering?
James Quincey
Sure. Let me use two examples. We launched a hard lemon, it's called Lemon-Dou or house of lemon would be the translation in Japan. That’s now in the Philippines. And that -- we got into that experiment for some very specific reasons in Japan. There we face a series of local competitors for all in the soft drinks industry, they are also in all the other non-alcoholic categories, they're also in the flavored alcoholic beverage categories and beer and wine and spirits. And whilst we don't necessarily need to go head to head in bars, in things like convenience stores, this is our home turf. And when you look at the favored alcoholic beverages, unlike wine or many other types of alcohol these essentially can be made relatively straightforwardly in a soft drink plant or a soft drink factory and obviously on a soft drink truck. So we're talking about we've got the same competitors, we're going to the same retailer, it can be made on the same manufacturing line and it's largely ingredients we buy anyway cans, water, lemons, we only needed to buy the alcohol. So if we basically -- look, if we could understand if there's a space with the consumer for something new, why would we not take advantage of this when everyone else can, when it's got attractive margins. So we launched it in Japan. It did very well in Japan. Got good rate of sale, got some good market share, got some good margins. We said, well, okay, if it works there, not everything will travel from Japan somewhere else, but let's try it somewhere else and we tried it in the Philippines and it's doing really well in the Philippines. So I think there's an example there, But yes, the knowledge about the consumer for these sorts of categories is close enough to what we know about and inherent business system is close enough to our hours and our bottlers that we can compete effectively. Here we're not interested in just participating somewhere, I mean, having a toe in the water in lots of different places, it makes no difference to the Coke numbers. We need to do these experiments with a view to, if they work we can then scale them and it will be relevant for the Coke company. But the experiments themselves are not relevant to the numbers of the Coke company.
But if they work and we can imagine a vision that if it's successful it can be relevant to the company, then we've got something that's worth talking about. I do say that the people say, we don't need to just have pictures on the PowerPoint to say that we're in every category, that's of no use to anyone. It makes no difference. We need stuff that's going to be relevant to our total numbers if successful. So anyway, experiment in Japan works, it appears to have gone to the Philippines relatively well. So two different marketplace. And the other one, which is in Brazil is mixed cocktails. So Schweppes, Schweppes's Ginger tonic, other different variants of premix cocktails, again, you've got a business system in Brazil, and Brazil is a place where the licensing laws are relatively soft, so there's a big overlap in the distribution footprints between the soft drink industry and the alcohol industry. And obviously, we face a competitor that sells alcohol and soft drinks. And so, yes, we have an alliance out for beer. There is clearly a space for flavored alcoholic beverages. And so we're launching there.
All of these experiments under the idea we're not doing it just because we can sell a few cans, because it not ultimately going to make any difference to us or the bottlers, they need to be experiments that generate enough learning that creates a vision that this can be something bigger that actually if we executed this with our bottlers around the world it will be relevant to us and them. We have not reached that stage yet, but the experiments are interesting.
Callum Elliott
Okay. We had a question from the audience that ties in with this. And I should have said upfront, there are QR codes around the room that you can scan and submit questions that will come to me here on the iPad. And it sort of builds upon what we were talking about, but amongst the third bucket that you didn't mentioned, around Hard Seltzer’s.
James Quincey
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Callum Elliott
But you have been doing Hard Seltzer’s outside the US. And so the question around that is, how do you go about doing that in a category that's completely new where you are outside of the US, Hard Seltzer is very nascent and you are essentially building from scratch.
James Quincey
Yeah. I think it all ultimately starts with consumer insight, we can see what's happened in Hard Seltzers in the US and the US is much more heavily -- so if I break down the flavored alcoholic beverages into three buckets, hard seltzers, which is a clear sparkling alcoholic drink with some flavor. Hard something, whether it's hard lemon, hard tea, hard whatever, which is like the Lemon-Dou thing, to hard something which -- and we've launched Simply and Fresca in the US and then there's a premix cocktails. There is three buckets, I’ve talked about two and then there's a last one. All of them require to start with consumer, right. You can’t just go -- just because I can make it I’ll launch it, it has to start with an understanding of the consumer and a deep understanding of the consumer.
We can see clearly in the US hard seltzers are -- have been very big and the other two buckets, not so big. If you look around the world that is not replicated everywhere else. You can see -- if you go to Japan, it's the hard lemons that are the biggest category, the hard seltzers is a much smaller and the premix cocktails is much smaller. So depending on where you are in the world you see very different patents. And so you have to think about the consumer and start with the consumer. So that's what we've done. And as we've launched the Topo Chico Hard Seltzer around the world, it's resonated in some countries, in some countries there is already a nascent hard seltzer category, so you don't have to just launched the brand and teach about the category, in some other countries this category doesn't really exist so you still -- you've got to try and create the category at the same time.
Frankly speaking, it's working better in some countries than others. In general, in Europe, where there is some degree of understanding of the category we are the clear number two and catching up on the number one in places like the UK or Ireland. And so, it really is -- it really is starting to work. But again, working in one country is not going to cut it, we need to learn enough to think, okay, with these three buckets is it a big enough idea that it's worth pursuing for the Coke Company.
Callum Elliott
Okay. And maybe we can shift gears again. Across all of these themes of change that we've spoken about, how much is your digital agenda, an enabler of these changes that we've seen. And I guess, I can build upon it by saying, I think at CAGNY this year and last year, you showed slides that spoke about your digital agenda on several fronts, from customer, consumer, system, enterprise, et cetera. And how much are these digital changes enabling the business to move forward?
James Quincey
Yeah. I think the first time I put digitize the enterprise in the CAGNY presentation could well have been 2016 or 2017, one of those two. And I say that because actually it keeps evolving, whatever the write-downs is today it's going to keep evolving as the kind of ecosystem, the digit ecosystems keep moving and what's possible keeps changing. Are we making progress? Absolutely, and we're making progress internally, lots of legacy companies struggle to put together all their old systems to really extract value from the digital possibilities and we've invested money, people, resources, software in really driving that forward, there is more to do, but we've made good progress, whether it's on the analytics, whether it's just on running the business, we've kind of level set ourselves internally.
Externally there are two universes that are now connected -- historically they never used to be connected really at the end of day, but now they are connected, which is really around the consumer and the customer or the retailers. In the old days the consumer watch TV and that was one universe and the retailers were physical stores and that was another universe and they didn't really connect. Now of course, they two blend together [indiscernible] they can be digital. In the end, in general terms, with the consumer we're trying to engage where the consumers are, so over the last 20 years, obviously, newspapers have disappeared and went to search, that wasn't a big thing for us because we weren't largely advertising Coke in the newspapers, we were doing it on TV. But now in the last few years and going forward, you're seeing a reinvention of what is TV and what is the screen that people are going to look at and what sort of content are they going to consume. Of course, that means we need to engage with the consumers in different ways. So we've gone from TV to social media to kind of the mobile phone, to the mobile phone with a shorter video and where the consumers are changes every few years. I mean, everyone has got teenage kids can -- will attest like in the space of a few years like the top platform changes every couple of years and so we need to follow the consumers where they are.
In some parts of the world we have deep B2C businesses. We have a lot of vending machines in Japan, we have 35 million people who use our outlets to connect with the vending machines, it's kind of a essentially a digital ecosystem or all the way to Mexico, where we have a huge home delivery business, but those are more the exceptions to the general idea. We need to engage with the consumers where they are. And of course, as time goes on, the ability and the need to connect to that universe with what's going on in the retail universe grows and the possibility to click to buy or click to add the bottles or click to have it sent to you within the consumer engagement just keeps going up. On the retailer side, divide the world -- divide the retailers into two buckets, the modern retailers, supermarkets, large convenience store, they've been electronic for a long time, they've been digitized for a long time, electronic -- lots of interchange of data. Yes, the software and the ways of doing it is getting more and more sophisticated as the processing comes up, but that world has been digitized for quite some time and optimized and people to -- optimized category management.
The bit of the universe which for us is about half the business, which is the fragmented trade, this is un-digitized largely because these retailers didn't have computers or smartphones. But that is changing, that’s changing rapidly. It has changed rapidly in the last few years, and it will change rapidly going forward. And so, what we see in that space is very clearly that we're going to have to upgrade our digital connectivity with those types of retailers and we know from where we've already implemented it, where the bottlers have already implemented it. When we complement the sales person with a digital platform, so instead of the retailer at the Mom-and-Pop store having to wait for the salesperson to turn up to be able to order the Cokes and have a conversation, they can now wait for the salesperson or do it online through the mobile phone or whatever, like add to the order, they can register that their cooler need servicing, whatever is going -- whatever is going on there is now a digital relationship with the retailer. When you combine the salesperson with the digital back up that allows them to buy product, that allows them to get service orders, request merchandising material that combination sells more Cokes, sells more of our drinks. And so, it's self-evident that digitally enhancing and enabling the sales force with the platform is going to continue to drive the business forward and make it more successful.
Callum Elliott
Okay. I want to shift gears again and you spoke earlier about how 10 years ago the business was growing top line at 3%, you accelerated to sort of 5% or north of 5% prior to the pandemic, and today you're above that. And we have another question from the audience that maybe is a good place to start this growth topic. And so the question is, your growth drivers typically generate lower margins than the legacy CSD business, how does the business balance this negative mix impact with the need to lean into growth categories?
James Quincey
Well, firstly, it over simplifies the equation. Firstly, the sparkling business is growing. I know whenever I come to an investor conference in the US over the last 10 years, no one believes me, but the sparkling category is growing, Coke is growing, Fanta and Sprite are growing. And that is an important feature of it. And even their growth when you look at it from a portfolio management point of view, whether it grows in the US or Europe or Japan it has a completely different monetary result than if it grows in Africa, India or in the Middle East, for example.
So the mix equation that we need to manage is not just sparkling versus stills, it's -- sparkling in developed versus emerging markets, it’s big bottles versus small bottles. All of that mix equation makes a huge difference just within sparkling. And then, similarly in stills, stills is not a thing, actually it's the sum of many categories. And they themselves have a number of characteristics. There are clearly a set of categories which are inherently lower percent margin, they are often very attractive in dollar terms, they tend to be the ones with high costs. If you are in high protein milk like the Fair Life business or you're in some of the chilled juice business, the input costs are very high. The price point of those categories is much higher than soft drinks, and so the dollar numbers can be good, but the percentages look ugly. And so you've got a mix effect from what business model you are in and what business are you in.
And then secondly in the stills categories what's important is your market share. I mean, I know it's business go 1-on-1, but when you compare Coke, which has got a clear leadership position with someone who is just about leader or number two, not only is the scale different but the margins are different. And they are not different because the cost structures are inherently completely different, they are different because they don't have the same quality leadership that Coke does. And the same is true in the different stills categories, where we have stills brands in specific categories that have clear leadership positions, the margins in those businesses are equal to the sparkling margins. So the mix effect is a question of geography, it's a question of category, it’s a question of business model, it's a question of package size and it's a question of relative market share. Our job is the take that whole bundle of the problem and drive it forward and manage it over time such that we continuously increase our degree of quality leadership by category for these different brands and produce a result for the company that is the same [OI] (ph) marginal or better. And so, when you look at the trajectory over the last number of years, on a like-for-like basis, the margin keeps creeping up, because we are managing the portfolio effect.
Callum Elliott
Okay. I guess, building on that, since we met last year you completed Coke’s biggest ever acquisition with Bodyarmor. Can you tell us a bit about Bodyarmor. What make sure you are excited about it? But then tying into what you were just talking about in building leadership positions, quality leadership positions, would you agree that Coke has become more acquisitive over the past few years, you've done quite a few deals now and how do you balance that M&A landscape with organic innovation?
James Quincey
Sure. Well, let me start on the Bodyarmor side. I mean Bodyarmor was great. I mean, as a brand it clearly did a company, it was -- it brought new news to the sports drinks category, particularly obviously in the US where nothing has really happened for a long period of time. And therefore, it was both able to gain share from existing sports drinks brand, but also grow the category and bring new consumers into the category. So it was very disruptive, innovative and successful and we saw greater runway here in the US for it and we see opportunities for international expansion in certain parts of the world and we had already invested a number of years ago, I don’t remember the exact year when we invested in it. And so, when we had invested in it we had a fixed period which is obviously last year to buy the rest of it or not by the rest of it or do something which is of course, what we did. And so that's continued with its momentum into this year and I think it will be an exciting addition to the portfolio.
Again, as you said, it's all about, can I find things that resonate with consumers that give me leaderships in categories that gave me scale and the margin structure that I'm looking for. And I think Bodyarmor can help us make a big step change in the sports drinks category, particularly in the US and then in some other countries.
Then to the broader question of M&A. I'm not sure I would say we will more or less acquisitive, but we are focused on the right opportunities. And perhaps what has become clearer is, where we want to invest and what sorts of things we want to invest in. Actually I would say, we've become if anything has changed in the last five, 10 years, I think we've become more focused. Historically we bought smaller brands, we were in the -- let's expand out of sparkling and try a load of stuff, so we tended to buy more smaller things and a good example of that is all the juice brands that we bought that we then have to put together and try and create a brand out off. I think we are looking now for things that have a little more scale, not that we're against small acquisitions, but buying lots of small things is a long road. So I'd say, more focused on filling gaps in the portfolio and being more targeted at consumers rather than kind of just a bigger collection.
What that will turn to and capital allocation, our capital allocation model is superclear. We are going to invest first in the organic business that will always give the highest return versus M&A and we will continue to invest strongly in the business, we continue to support the dividend, which has grown zillions of years. And then third the money you are left with and perhaps one thing has changed is, now we've got to a point where we are left with extra money. If you go back to that slightly darker period, when it was 3% revenue growth and flat EPS, the reality is, we were spending more money than we were making when you take about all the capital return together, which was unsustainable. So now we're in a different position. We've got -- we're spending all the money we need to spend on the organic investments. We're spending money returning through the dividend, which a lot of our shareholders like, and then we've got money left over. And then what we do with that, there is only three things you can do, keep the cash, give it back to the shareholders or spend it on M&A. And we do not feel the gun to our head to rush to make decisions on any one of those three. And so, on the M&A front, if things come up that we really think makes sense for the Coke company, of course, we have lots of capacity to do so.
Callum Elliott
One of the other categories where you've done M&A, maybe a little bit further back is coffee. And so you've spoken, obviously, about your desire to have those quality leadership positions. And I think you have Costa in about 40 countries now, do you see a pathway to leadership in coffee at the moment?
James Quincey
I think we still have the same vision we had when we bought it, unfortunately COVID was particularly unkind to that strategy as in the sense that most of the shops were shut for the last two years, I’m kind of simplifying it, but really we had a vision for coffee, which was about having some retail outlets, using the express machines, the digital coffee machines, about having ready to drink coffee and selling beans and machines, whether that's through the HORECA channel or at-home. And we set our strategy and simply put, we didn't have time to execute it before COVID turned up. And so the jury is still out, where we've executed parts of it, like in the ready-to-drink coffee, we've done very well. We did very well in China, when it opens, we are the clear number two. So the ready-to-drink coffee, it works. The vending machines work well, they've been quite hard to sell when everything is closed, because you're trying to put them in locations. So I think the simplest answer is, we still have basically the same hypothesis, investment thesis, if you like, but the jury is out until we execute. And the last two years didn't take us very far forward. And so we just need to execute.
Callum Elliott
Do you have a pent-up -- pipeline of innovation in Costa that -- because you haven't been able to execute on two years that you've got whole bunch of plans that you now want to throw it or is it a case of just delaying the plans that you had two years.
James Quincey
No, we have -- of course, we have learned over the last two years a whole series of things, whether it's about the stores, about the digital -- the Costa Express, what it takes, I mean, we have learned in each one of those four pillars what it's going to take to win. So we have been able to refine our plans, we have innovations in each one. Within big terms what it takes is actually just executing the strategy. Okay.
Callum Elliott
May be challenging question to ask you, so how do you balance health and wellness goals, which you've started integrating now -- sort of more integrated in your compensation metrics, I think, with a need to attract new Gen Z consumers to your categories. And do you see any friction between those two things?
James Quincey
Well, I think you have to be more specific on what you mean by health and wellness goals. We have clearly set out among our business priorities that we want to help reduce the amount of sugar, offer people more alternatives. And so, virtually all the drinks we sell have a low or no-calorie alternative. And with that, let's take Coke as the simple example, we have Coke Classic, we have Coke Zero Sugar, we have all the little innovations that kind of circling around that. But with combination Coke is growing, Coke is bringing new consumers in. So I think sometimes people over rotate -- somehow consumers want to become a seeked monks or nuns and that's not the reality of what's going on in the world, they want a bit of balance and choice in life. And by driving Coke Zero Sugar, which continues to grow at double digits globally, we are offering a portfolio that actually the consumer can engage in, whatever their motivation and needs happen to be at the time. And then, obviously you're going to expand with all the categories.
Callum Elliott
Okay. And maybe when I tie all of these growth questions together and bring it back to where you started, which was used to be 3% pre-pandemic, 5% today, and in particular Q1, you were well, well above that, even on a three year stack basis versus 2019. And investors that we speak to are really struggling to disaggregate, how much of that growth is reopening, how much of it is strengthening consumer balance sheets that we also sort of touched on the beginning and how much, if any, is due to all the structural changes that we spoke about that you've made with the business over the past few years?
James Quincey
Is that another way of saying, am I going to take the targets up.
Callum Elliott
No.
James Quincey
Okay, just checking. I think it's very difficult as we come out of COVID to know the precise disaggregation of some of those factors. I certainly I’m a proponent of looking at the three-year stacks. Last year I was a proponent of the two-year stacks, because that was comparing versus 2019, this year I’m a proponent of the three year stake, because comparing to last year or to 2020, it's going to be very messy. And so I think it's important whether on a volumetric basis or on a revenue basis that we look at some of those stacks to gauge the strength of the business. I tend to be of the bias that we are back to the sorts of growth trajectories we wanted pre-COVID. Now, does that mean five to six or a little bit more or whatever, the dust is not settled on the reopening -- the reopening of economies, reopening in certain channels, there is certainly a lot more inflation coming through this year. So, are we seeing a temporary burst of pass-through inflation that's just going to knock everything up a bit and then we're going to hit new normality, that’s impossible to call at the moment. And so, I think the simple way of looking at it, notwithstanding that we spent many, many years commencing everyone to look at revenue and value, it’s actually just to look at the volume on a three-year stack basis and say what's going on. And is that tracking at the sorts of volume growth rates that is consistent with us being in the five to six range in terms of revenue.
And then the price mix, where the price mix turns out to be slightly more for a few quarters because of all sorts of extraneous factors like reopening and inflation, but then it will be what it will be, but in the long run that's not going to continue, but what if you can see momentum in volume through everything and then make a kind of assumption that the price mix is going to normalize. Okay, things are good.
Callum Elliott
Okay. I think that makes sense. [indiscernible] to margins a little bit and maybe you could talk about -- and I'll leave it [indiscernible] purposefully, can you talk about long-term margin ambitions.
James Quincey
Good. Then I can be [indiscernible] the answer. Look, our long-term growth model essentially implies small increments of operating margin expansion. If revenue is going to grow five to six and you want profits to grow six to eight, it implies a small increment of operating [metrics] (ph). But that cannot happen at infinitum. And so, yes, we are at this stage focused on continuing to improve our operating margin, but in the long -- in the very, very long run, it's going to be by the revenue growth. The operating margin kind of go to 110% is like is not possible, but there is a long way to go from where we are now. And I think we have the opportunities, not so much just in the cost structure, but through the management of the mix, as I talked earlier about the geographies and the categories and the package sizes, they just eke out slightly more accretive in margin terms types of growth, but it is -- the first order of business is to grow the top line at the same margin. If we can get a little plus through all the levers of the business, so that we eke out small operating margin improvements that will be the plus, but the cake will be the revenue growth.
Callum Elliott
So you probably answered my next question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Is the lack of a specific margin target reflective of prioritization of top line growth over margins?
James Quincey
No, it's simply that as we've changed the structure of the business we tied ourselves and not trying to restate the operating margin target, because if you set out an OI margin target for the Coca-Cola Company, that includes the concentrate business, it include some vertically integrated businesses, it includes the coffee business and it includes the bottling businesses we own. And that is four types of fruit in one basket. If you say the margin for that basket of fruit is X and then you take one of the pieces of fruit out, well clearly is going to change. And so we got ourselves into an endless series of pointless explanations trying to say, it was X and now we have to make it Y, because we took this bit out and it was just very confusing for people. So [indiscernible] we're making everyone's lives to hard, let's just kill that. Our strategy is simple, we want to grow the revenue with the same or better operating income margin.
Callum Elliott
Okay. We've got about 2.5 minutes, so maybe time for one last question. And I know you've got [indiscernible] the audience, but she is not up here on the stage, so maybe you can start and if we want to give [indiscernible] a mic, we can do that. And so it’s an ESG question, obviously, you recently linked, as I mentioned, ESG performance measures to incentive compensation for the first time I think, which of those ESG initiatives are you most excited by? And maybe I see things like pulp bottles, you are going to have partnerships there and things like that. Do you think things like that could go mainstream? Would you highlight something else?
James Quincey
I think big things to big problems. And so the one we put in the long term or the three-year incentive program is the degree of recycling. And I think the -- if you look at our ESG, you could talk about lot of different things. There are four things that are really central to our business. Water, where we've actually got a great strategy. We said we want to be return all the water we used by 2020, we did it by 2015 and we continue to do so and we're expanding it. Please visit the website, you can read a lot about water. The other three are, waste, sugar, communities. And for me the next one is [indiscernible]. We need to make sure that we generate a circular economy around our packaging. I mean if you think of a beverage business, you can make ESG esoteric we can go actually, water and packaging are two things that are totally inherent to the business, making sure that we continue to have a vibrant social license to operate. It's super important to our business. So that's what we did on water and that's what we're starting to do on recycling. We want to make sure we collect the Model Bank for everyone we sell by 2030, make sure they are recyclable and for ourselves use at least half of material ourselves, because we actually compete with lots of industries for that material that gets collected. And so we're pushing very hard on creating a circular economy for the packaging materials, particularly PET, which is a very high 49:38** is not a shopping bag, it's not a piece of clean film which has no intrinsic value once it's been used, PET bottles are valuable if they can be collected and they can be recycled. There is a lots of different things, including Coke bottles. And so we're very focused on that all around the world, including here in the US, there is a new scheme just been launched in Colorado. So we are focused. If I have to pick one, circular economy on packaging.
Okay. Perfect. I think that's a great place to end.
James Quincey
Perfect.
Callum Elliott
James. Thank you so much for joining us. And everybody, thank you. | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4515791-coca-cola-company-ko-ceo-james-quincey-presents-bernstein-38th-annual-strategic-decisions | 2022-06-01T19:22:09Z | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4515791-coca-cola-company-ko-ceo-james-quincey-presents-bernstein-38th-annual-strategic-decisions | true | 1 |
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government and its opponents traded accusations over a bomb that exploded Tuesday in the middle of the country’s largest city, Yangon, killing one and wounding nine others.
Photos and videos of Tuesday’s bombing that circulated on social media showing the bloodied victims sprawled on the sidewalk were a sharp reminder of the violence that has engulfed the country since the military seized power last year.
A story in Wednesday’s edition of The Global New Light of Myanmar, a state-run newspaper, blamed the People’s Defense Forces, the opposition movement’s armed wing, but did not supply any evidence linking them to the blast.
It said the attack was made with a “handmade bomb planted by PDF terrorists at a bus stop” roughly one block from the Sule Pagoda, a city landmark. The blast occurred at 3:20 p.m. and a 30-year-old man died of wounds in his chest and abdomen, state media said.
A spokesperson for the self-styled National Unity Government, the main opposition body that loosely commands the PDF and its various local units, pinned the blame on the military government.
“The brutal genocidal military has been carrying out senseless bombings and killings against its own civilian population across Myanmar,” said a statement by Sasa, the NUG’s Minister of International Cooperation.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since last year’s army takeover seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking widespread nonviolent protests that were quashed with lethal force by the army and police. In turn, opponents of military rule took up arms and are now conducting an active insurgency in many parts of the country.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners says 1,876 civilians, mostly in cities and towns, have been killed by the security forces. Their figures do not generally include casualties of war in the countryside.
On Wednesday, the international human rights organization Amnesty International accused Myanmar’s military of carrying out widespread atrocities in the eastern part of the country that constitute war crimes and probably crimes against humanity.
It charges in a report that civilians from the Karen and Karenni ethnic minorities have been the targets of unlawful killing, arbitrary detention and forcible displacement.
“The world’s attention may have moved away from Myanmar since last year’s coup, but civilians continue to pay a high price,” Rawya Rageh, Amnesty’s senior crisis adviser, said in a news release.
The opposition NUG’s Defense Ministry in a Wednesday statement said the ruling military “have sought to place blame on ethnic resistance groups and revolutionary forces in similar incidents in the past.”
Urban guerrillas are part of the resistance movement, carrying out targeted killings of people associated with the military and bombings of establishments with official ties. But PDF-affiliated groups in Yangon posted statements on their Facebook pages denying involvement in Tuesday’s blast and accusing the military of staging a provocation.
The military government brands its opponents as terrorists in a bid to dent their widespread popularity. Wednesday’s newspaper report said the PDF received “financial assistance to launch bombing attacks.”
“They also committed bomb attacks using handmade bombs on public roads, streets, bus terminals and bus stops,” it added.
Another fatal bombing occurred Tuesday at an education office in Naung Cho township in Shan State in eastern Myanmar, for which state media likewise blamed the PDF and the NUG.
The Global New Light of Myanmar said a headmistress died and six educational personnel and a civil servant were injured. The blast occurred as state schools were preparing for their seasonal reopening.
The school system has been a battleground between the military government and its foes, who generally have pressed for a boycott as a sign of rejection of army rule.
The non-governmental organization Save the Children said in a statement issued Wednesday that there were at least 260 attacks on schools between May 2021 and April this year, and that explosions in and around school buildings accounted for almost three-quarters of that total.
“Attacks on schools, teachers, and students have surged over the past year due to the conflict, leaving many of them scared to return to the classroom and, in some cases, with no schools left to attend,” the group said. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/yangon-bombing-spurs-accusations-from-myanmar-govt-foes/ | 2022-06-01T19:22:25Z | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/yangon-bombing-spurs-accusations-from-myanmar-govt-foes/ | false | 32 |
With the advent of the ill-conceived Early Signing Period in December, June has transformed into the biggest recruiting month of the year. U.S. high school spring terms come to a close and rising seniors and juniors with hopes of playing college football begin camping at various colleges across the country. June 1 is also a beginning of an NCAA Quiet Period in which coaching staffs are not allowed to have off-campus contact or scouting. Thus, getting prospects on campus in that stretch is vital. The time is crunched further since this span is then followed - for absolutely NO good reason - by a Dead Period from June 27 to July 24.
In the next 25 days, Nick Saban will host ten high school camps (plus one youth camp that is already sold out). It is a time for in-person evaluating by the Bama staff, some of which will result in offers. It is also the new popular time for Official Visits. As of post, Alabama will be hosting 23 recruits on OVs for the month of June.
RBR will attempt to share all the crootin news we can muster from various sources over this span.
2022
First off, we can close the book on the Class of 2022 as the remaining newcomers have all arrived on campus and moved in.
MOVE IN DAY ✅#BamaFactor #RollTide pic.twitter.com/wHPBxNvatI
— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) May 29, 2022
By all accounts, everyone showed up and found their rooms okay. However, rolltide.com has not updated the roster as of yet.
NEW RULE
The NCAA recently announced that it has removed the 25-man limit on scholarships for football in order to combat player attrition - a crisis which was created by the NCAA. This is the NCAA in a nutshell: come up with a poorly-thought out rule, and then follow it up with MORE dumb rules to offset the original rule.
DECOMMIT?
Not exactly. What Elliot Washington II is doing is unclear but at this point he is still considered committed to Alabama. The timeline of the 4-star safety is a bit out of sorts. He camped at Alabama last June 2021 and soon after earned an offer like many others do. Whether he had the green light or not, Washington committed in January of this year. For roster management reasons, Nick Saban would prefer recruits wait to announce until after the previous class has their final Signing Day, the first Wednesday of February. That is not to say that Washington is not wanted in Tuscaloosa. Yet, his actions of late will make one wonder what his intentions are.
In April, Washington took an unofficial visit Michigan State - an act which had all the Sparty crootin’ experts all atwitter that there would be a flip forthcoming. He has scheduled an official visit to lovely East Lansing for June 17. Last Thursday, he sent out a cryptic tweet with the ironic title of “Trusting the Process”. His statement mentioned wanting to “fully evaluate and compare all my opportunities as a student-athlete”. Maybe he is looking for NIL money. Maybe he is truly interested in what Mel Tucker is building. Maybe, he likes that the Sparty uniforms look like his high school unis. Who knows? But maybe like many before, he is just “enjoying the process”.
The fact that Washington has yet to take an official visit to Alabama should not be lost on anyone. Alabama still has the opportunity to host him and seal the deal. In addition, he is the son of Elliot Washington Sr. who played basketball at the Capstone for Wimp Sanderson in the early 1990s. For these reasons and the more obvious, it would make sense that in the end he signs with the Tide.
On a related note, 5-star DB Bama commit Jahlil Hurley will be on campus this weekend for an unofficial visit. Recent rumors of a flip to Auburn have been . Getting him back in Tuscaloosa will certainly aid the Tide’s relationship with the Florence, AL native.
COMMIT
Bama got their guy!
— J.D. PicKell (@jdpickell) May 25, 2022
Eli Holstein is going to make opposing defenses pay when he gets to Tuscaloosa
Here’s why: pic.twitter.com/UiGALutPIl
Rivals of the Crimson Tide are going to say that Bama whiffed on Arch Manning, so they are settling for Eli Holstein. This notion is far from the truth. Holstein is a guy they wanted regardless of what the other guy does. The 4-star recently shattered the SPARQ scores at an Elite 11 event and has a great work ethic.
In college football recruiting, it is good to get out ahead of the “Quarterback Dominoes” and get your guy early. After zeroing in on Holstein, Manning, and Dylan Lonergan, it became clear the more they saw of Holstein, the more they liked him. In their eyes, he was dead even as a take as Arch was. That said, a second signal caller in this class is not out of the question. In a perfect world, it is highly recommended to have four scholarship quarterbacks on the roster. Alabama has had a run of field generals leave school early for the bright lights of the NFL with eligibility still remaining that left the Tide one QB short the last few years. #BamaProblems. With the high-probabilty of Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young departing after the coming season, the Tide would again be in that hole. Alabama would most likely still take Manning if he wants to commit. It just doesn’t feel like that will happen as of now.
Holstein made his pledge to Alabama on May 24. He hails from Zachary, Louisiana which is about 18 miles from the LSU campus. He had previously been committed to Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M, which endears him that much more to Tide fans.
He is rated as the No. 54 overall player and No. 8 quarterback in the nation, according to the 247Sports Composite.
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The Crimson Tide will be hosting six intriguing prospects this weekend starting June 3.
- QB Dylan Lonergan (Snellville, GA) 4-star, 6-2 / 198 - As mentioned above, Bama has their QB but could take a second one. However even if that happens, it won’t be this guy over Manning. If Alabama does accept his commitment, it won’t be until very late in the process, so that Alabama can fill other needs first and then run the numbers. We’ll see if he makes the trip at all. Most crootin experts have him pegged for South Carolina.
- TE Luke Hasz (Bixby, OK) 4-star, #66 overall, 6-3/ 220 - What is it with Alabama and tight ends? The Tide has struggled mightily when it comes to lassoing a top-shelf TE in recent years. For every Irv Smith or OJ Howard, there have been a Caden Clark, Jahleel Billingsley, Michael Parker, Major Tennison, Kedrick James, etc., etc. Hasz has a potential to be an Irv or an OJ. The problem is, he is already committed to Arkansas. He committed to the Razorbacks in January after a four-month commitment to Oklahoma. He re-opened his recruitment after Lincoln Riley departed Norman for the smoke and mirrors of South Central California. For the Crimson Tide’s part, getting him to visit is the first step. Getting him to return for a game in the fall would be another. After hearing 101,000 fans roaring “Roll Tide!” as compared to 65,000 doing that embarrassing “Soooiee Pig” thing, he may come a-runnin’... to Tuscaloosa! The nation’s No. 2 TE also has plans to OV Michigan on June 10.
- TE Riley Williams (Portland, OR) 4-star, #95 overall, 6-6 / 230 - Another top tight end will be in T-town, but the deck is stacked against the Tide for his signature. Mainly because he is from Oregon - a state that Alabama has not had any luck recruiting as far back as I can recall. He has June OVs scheduled in consecutive weekends for Bama, Miami, Ohio State, and a final one for ... wait for it ... Oregon. I’m not so sure he is not anything more than a “sight-seer” this weekend.
- WR Cole Adams (Owasso, OK) barely 4-star, #327 overall, 5-10 / 180 - Coach Holmon Wiggins has been mighty busy in the Sooner State. Along with Hasz, he has this slot receiver visiting this weekend. His first visit to Tuscaloosa was on March 5 for Junior Day. He has an offer, but it is unclear how firm it is. [4-star outside linebacker Bai Jobe from Norman, Oklahoma is expected in an unofficial capacity.]
- WR Brandon Inniss (Fort Lauderdale, FL) 5-star, 6-0 / 190 - Saving the best for last is the nation’s top-ranked receiver and No. 10 overall prospect. The blue-chipper plays at American Heritage, alma mater of Pat Surtain II and Tide freshman Earl Little. As you probably recall, Pat Surtain Sr. was the coach of that team. However, he took a position with the Miami Dolphins in February of this year. One of his longtime assistants, Mike Smith, has taken over. For much of 2021, Inniss looked like a future Oklahoma Sooner but his interest shifted west to Southern Cal along with Lincoln Riley. There has been some talk that Inniss’s family is a little concerned about him playing so far from home. He is also eyeing Ohio State and is being recruited by former Buckeyes and Dolphins wide receiver Brian Hartline. Nobody does OV hosting better than Alabama. They will need to bring out the big guns this weekend. | https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2022/6/1/23147926/alabama-crimson-tide-football-recruiting-update-june-1-5-2022 | 2022-06-01T19:24:27Z | https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2022/6/1/23147926/alabama-crimson-tide-football-recruiting-update-june-1-5-2022 | true | 1 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Legalized sports betting in Ohio will officially begin Jan. 1, the state Casino Control Commission announced Wednesday.
A bill signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine in December set Jan. 1 as a deadline, but some groups pushed for starting earlier to allow for betting on football during the fall. The commission had previously predicted it would take months to formulate rules and regulations.
The legislation will allow people to place sports bets online, at casinos, racinos and at stand-alone betting kiosks in bars, restaurants and professional sports facilities. People will be able to place wagers on professional sports teams, motor sports, Olympic events, golf and tennis and major college sports such as football and basketball.
Ohio joins more than 30 states that have passed legislation since a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a federal ban on states legalizing sports wagering.
Operators will pay a 10% tax on net revenue to help fund K-12 education and problem gambling programs.
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Leitrim's ultra runner Ricki Wynne was on top of the world, literally and figuratively, when he produced a superb performance to win the Seven Sisters Skyline 55Km event in Donegal on Saturday May 21. With over 4,000m of climbing, the Drumshanbo AC athlete smashed the course record by 30 minutes as he recorded a time of 7 hours 7 minutes and 47 seconds, coming home exactly 24 minutes ahead of the second placed athlete. Ricki's brother Alan was also in action, finishing 21st in a time of 9.21.38.
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Equities research analysts expect that Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE:XHR – Get Rating) will post sales of $242.80 million for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Six analysts have issued estimates for Xenia Hotels & Resorts’ earnings, with the highest sales estimate coming in at $266.50 million and the lowest estimate coming in at $222.66 million. Xenia Hotels & Resorts reported sales of $151.97 million during the same quarter last year, which indicates a positive year over year growth rate of 59.8%. The firm is scheduled to announce its next quarterly earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Xenia Hotels & Resorts will report full-year sales of $932.20 million for the current financial year, with estimates ranging from $872.59 million to $990.37 million. For the next fiscal year, analysts expect that the firm will post sales of $1.03 billion, with estimates ranging from $966.93 million to $1.08 billion. Zacks Investment Research’s sales averages are an average based on a survey of research firms that that provide coverage for Xenia Hotels & Resorts.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:XHR – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May 3rd. The real estate investment trust reported ($0.05) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.16 by ($0.21). The company had revenue of $210.35 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $196.58 million. Xenia Hotels & Resorts had a negative return on equity of 6.37% and a negative net margin of 12.52%. Xenia Hotels & Resorts’s quarterly revenue was up 139.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.18) earnings per share.
In related news, insider Barry A. N. Bloom sold 25,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $19.10, for a total value of $477,500.00. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 267,741 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $5,113,853.10. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 2.40% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Eaton Vance Management grew its holdings in shares of Xenia Hotels & Resorts by 5.0% during the 1st quarter. Eaton Vance Management now owns 12,480 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $241,000 after purchasing an additional 597 shares in the last quarter. Maryland State Retirement & Pension System grew its holdings in shares of Xenia Hotels & Resorts by 1.3% during the 1st quarter. Maryland State Retirement & Pension System now owns 45,798 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $883,000 after purchasing an additional 598 shares in the last quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans grew its holdings in shares of Xenia Hotels & Resorts by 0.7% during the 4th quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 92,945 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,683,000 after purchasing an additional 629 shares in the last quarter. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV grew its holdings in shares of Xenia Hotels & Resorts by 5.6% during the 4th quarter. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV now owns 12,627 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $229,000 after purchasing an additional 666 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sei Investments Co. grew its holdings in shares of Xenia Hotels & Resorts by 2.9% during the 1st quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 23,374 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $465,000 after purchasing an additional 666 shares in the last quarter. 85.53% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Shares of XHR traded up $0.41 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $18.80. 8,654 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 668,756. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.99, a current ratio of 2.75 and a quick ratio of 2.75. Xenia Hotels & Resorts has a twelve month low of $15.15 and a twelve month high of $21.04. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $18.71 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $18.14.
Xenia Hotels & Resorts Company Profile (Get Rating)
Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc is a self-advised and self-administered REIT that invests in uniquely positioned luxury and upper upscale hotels and resorts, with a focus on the top 25 U.S. lodging markets as well as key leisure destinations in the United States. The Company owns 37 hotels comprising 10,749 rooms across 16 states.
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Which New Balance golf shoes are best?
New Balance holds a reputation for creating comfortable, trusted athletic shoes and running shoes. It’s no surprise that New Balance golf shoes carry this same level of performance.
Although New Balance only began making golf shoes within the past decade, it has quite a few popular pairs of shoes already, especially for those who like to walk the course. New Balance Fresh Foam Contend golf shoes yield the best combination of comfort and style.
What to know before you buy New Balance golf shoes
Spikeless golf shoes
Most New Balance golf shoes have a spikeless design. Rather than making use of several plastic spikes that attach to the bottom of the shoes, these golf shoes have molded nubs on the bottom.
Spikeless golf shoes do not provide the same level of traction as spiked shoes, especially on wet grass or after it rains. However, they’re more comfortable to wear when you are walking the course. Additionally, golfers can wear spikeless shoes off the course, such as in the clubhouse. They aren’t as comfortable as athletic shoes, but they are close.
Spiked golf shoes
New Balance makes a few types of golf shoes with plastic spikes. These spikes provide plenty of surface area that grips the grass and helps prevent slips. And they don’t dig into the soil like the old metal spikes did, so they can’t damage the course’s greens, which is why many courses ban metal spikes.
What to look for in a quality New Balance golf shoe
Comfort
With New Balance’s roots in running shoes, it’s no surprise that it emphasizes comfort and stability in its golf shoes. If you like to walk the course most of the time, these shoes make it comfortable. Even if you ride in a golf cart much of the time, you still walk quite a bit while playing, and comfortable shoes that give you plenty of stability are still important.
Style and design
New Balance focuses on practical designs that use a lot of white, black and gray. Darker colors help hide the moisture, grass stains and mud golf shoes encounter. White is a traditional color for golf shoes, however, so some players prefer shoes that are mostly white.
You also will find a few accent colors on New Balance golf shoes, such as blues, yellows, greens and reds, adding a bit of style to their neutral colors. And they all have the slanted N logo that signifies a New Balance shoe.
How much you can expect to spend on New Balance golf shoes
Most New Balance golf shoe models cost $75-$150, with several selling for around $100.
New Balance golf shoes FAQ
If I use New Balance’s running shoes, will its golf shoes fit me well, too?
A. New Balance’s golf shoes don’t have the exact same fit and feel as its running shoes, but there are many similarities in their designs. Consequently, there’s a good chance you will like the feel of the golf shoes just as well.
Can I save money by wearing running shoes for golf?
A. Some players prefer to wear athletic shoes instead of golf shoes, especially if they are walking. And nothing in golf’s rules forces you to wear golf shoes. However, New Balance golf shoes, even spikeless shoes, give you better slip resistance than athletic shoes when you swing a club.
What are the best New Balance golf shoes to buy?
Top New Balance golf shoes
New Balance Fresh Foam Contend Golf Shoes
What you need to know: For those who enjoy walking nine or 18 holes, the level of comfort here is among the best from any golf-shoe manufacturer.
What you’ll love: These shoes offer sharp-looking designs and neutral colors that work nicely with almost any clothing you are wearing. They’re waterproof, too, keeping your feet comfortable and dry in all types of playing conditions.
What you should consider: Some players report slipping in extremely wet conditions when wearing these shoes, as the nubs on the spikeless bottom are short.
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Top New Balance golf shoes for the money
New Balance Breeze v2 Golf Shoes
What you need to know: Considering the low price for this pair, you receive a higher level of comfort and performance than you may expect.
What you’ll love: These are great for those who want to walk the course. Even with the spikeless design, the concentration of nubs on the outer edges gives you the stability you need to take a big swing.
What you should consider: It is not fully waterproof, so you may end up with damp socks and cold feet by the end of an early-morning round.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
New Balance Fresh Foam Links Spikeless V2 Golf Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes are especially good for players who like to walk the course for early-morning rounds, as the design adds extra waterproofing features.
What you’ll love: You’ll receive extra cushioning in the mid-sole to help you walk all 18 holes in comfort. The spikeless design contributes to the comfortable feel these shoes provide while walking the course.
What you should consider: Players who need sizes outside the most common options will need to look elsewhere, as New Balance offers a limited number of sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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MICT, Inc. (NASDAQ:MICT – Get Rating) was the target of a significant growth in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,920,000 shares, a growth of 30.4% from the April 30th total of 4,540,000 shares. Currently, 5.5% of the shares of the company are short sold. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,450,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days.
Shares of MICT traded down $0.02 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $0.69. 1,387 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,887,277. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $0.61 and its 200 day moving average is $0.75. MICT has a 1-year low of $0.41 and a 1-year high of $2.60.
A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of MICT. Morgan Stanley raised its position in MICT by 4.3% in the second quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 1,141,062 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,670,000 after purchasing an additional 47,453 shares in the last quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN raised its position in MICT by 3,664.7% in the second quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 25,675 shares of the company’s stock worth $61,000 after purchasing an additional 24,993 shares in the last quarter. Barclays PLC raised its position in MICT by 2,290.9% in the third quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 23,909 shares of the company’s stock worth $37,000 after purchasing an additional 22,909 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its position in MICT by 4.4% in the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 927,811 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,438,000 after purchasing an additional 38,888 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Quilter Plc acquired a new position in MICT in the fourth quarter worth about $35,000. 15.13% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
About MICT (Get Rating)
MICT, Inc, through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells mobile computing devices and software for fleet operators and field workforces. It also engages in the provision of online brokerage services for equities trading and the sale of insurance products through a proprietary trading technology platform.
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